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Contreras-Vidal, Jose L., Dario Robleto, Jesus G. Cruz-Garza, José M. Azorín, and Chang S. Nam, eds. Mobile Brain-Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-24326-5.
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Kohnen, Myriam. Mobilis in mobili: Le corps en mouvement dans la littérature du XIXe siècle. Lyon: Éditions Baudelaire, 2018.
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Özgen, Aslı. The Aesthetics and Politics of Cinematic Pedestrianism. Nieuwe Prinsengracht 89 1018 VR Amsterdam Nederland: Amsterdam University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463724753.
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The Aesthetics and Politics of Cinematic Pedestrianism: Walking in Films offers a rich exploration of the cinematic aesthetics that filmmakers devised to reflect the corporeal and affective experience of walking in the city. Drawing from literature in urban studies, film theory, and aesthetic philosophy, it is the first monograph to approach the history of cinema from the perspective of walking. A series of case studies providing nuanced analyses of widely referenced figures, such as the flaneur/flâneuse, vagabond, and nomad, reveal how filmmakers articulated their objection to repressive structures through depictions of walking: a common, everyday act yet transgressive, bold, and indomitable. Through the lens of Henri Lefebvre’s theory of space, Michel de Certeau’s concept of pedestrian acts, and Jacques Rancière’s treatment of the politics of aesthetics, Walking in Films traces how cinema evolved in conversation with the mobile body and the new images, styles, and techniques that emerged with it.
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Body in Mobile Library and Other Stori: Body in the Mobile Library and Other Stories. Eye Books, 2024.
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Pehkonen, Samu, Tarja Väyrynen, Eeva Puumala, Tiina Vaittinen, and Anitta Kynsilehto. Choreographies of Resistance: Mobile Bodies and Relational Politics. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2016.
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Pehkonen, Samu, Tarja Väyrynen, Eeva Puumala, Tiina Vaittinen, and Anitta Kynsilehto. Choreographies of Resistance: Mobile Bodies and Relational Politics. Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016.
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Pehkonen, Samu, Tarja Väyrynen, Eeva Puumala, Tiina Vaittinen, and Anitta Kynsilehto. Choreographies of Resistance: Mobile Bodies and Relational Politics. Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016.
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Jajszczyk, Andrzej. Guide to the Wireless Engineering Body of Knowledge (WEBOK). Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2012.
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Jajszczyk, Andrzej. Guide to the Wireless Engineering Body of Knowledge (Webok). Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2012.
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Jajszczyk, Andrzej. Guide to the Wireless Engineering Body of Knowledge (WEBOK). Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2012.
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Jajszczyk, Andrzej. Guide to the Wireless Engineering Body of Knowledge (WEBOK). Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 2012.
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Robleto, Dario, Jose L. Contreras-Vidal, Chang S. Nam, Jesus G. Cruz-Garza, and José M. Azorín. Mobile Brain-Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity. Springer International Publishing AG, 2020.
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Robleto, Dario, Jose L. Contreras-Vidal, Chang S. Nam, Jesus G. Cruz-Garza, and José M. Azorín. Mobile Brain-Body Imaging and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity. Springer, 2019.
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A guide to the wireless engineering body of knowledge (WEBOK). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-IEEE Press, 2012.
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Mechanical vibration: Testing of mobile machinery in order to determine the whole-body vibration emission value : general. London: British Standards Institution, 1997.
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A Summary of current bureau research into the effects of whole-body vibration and shock on operators of underground mobile equipment. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, 1992.
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Mucchi, Lorenzo, and Matti Hamalainen. Academic Press Library in Biomedical Applications of Mobile and Wireless Communications : Wireless UWB Body Area Networks: Using the IEEE802. 15. 4-2011. Elsevier Science & Technology Books, 2014.
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Wilson, Catherine. 5. Material minds. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199688326.003.0005.
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‘Material minds’ considers Epicurus’ theory of perception and his views on knowledge and truth. The Epicureans maintained that the soul, like everything else, was material, composed of very small, light, mobile atoms that pervaded the entirety of the living body of an animal. Lucretius proposed that the mind grows up with the body, and that a mixture of four types of soul particles can explain the temperaments and capabilities of the various species. Sense perception, thinking, and dreaming are discussed, along with truth and error in perceptual experience. The Epicurean theory of materialism is then compared with three philosophical alternatives to materialism—dualism, panpsychism, and nescience—before considering modern-day materialism.
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Speed, Cathy, and Andrew Wallace. Injuries to the shoulder. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199533909.003.0024.
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The vast majority of shoulder complaints are due to soft tissue lesions, and rotator cuff disorders represent the largest diagnostic category of these. Many shoulder complaints are multifactorial in origin, and articular and extra-articular disorders can coexist. Instability also plays a major role; the shoulder is the most mobile joint of the body, achieving this mobility at the expense of its stability. Loss of the fine balance between optimal mobility of the joint and its stability is a common, albeit frequently subtle, feature of shoulder complaints....
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Gotman, Kélina. Mobiles, Mobs, and Monads. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190840419.003.0006.
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The emergence of crowd theory in nineteenth-century sociology provided a new language for thinking how unruly bodies gather together organically. Drawing on the first large-scale biohistories of the French Revolution, made possible through documents unveiled at the Archives Nationales, theories of crowds, revolutionary and disordered, animal, automatic and ecological, spawned a genealogy of thinking about the way individuals’ movements were rendered—it was thought—primitive in groups. From the ‘Jerks’ in Kentucky and Tennessee to episodes of falling, starting, ticking, and jumping in hospitals, factories and lumber camps, the ‘social body’ appeared to be teetering out of choreopolitical control. Bacchantic drunkenness, like childlike play, epitomized thoughtless imitation and epidemic enthusiasm according to social scientists and neurologists concerned with the political effects of social contagion. Rapidly proliferating automatic gesture provoked crowds, they wrote, to form and significantly to deform—to disorganize—the political, social, and economic spheres, revealing a demos in disarray.
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Hallett, Miranda Cady. Rooted/Uprooted. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037665.003.0007.
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This chapter asks what happens when transnational migrant families own homes, plant trees, and establish businesses in small-town America but still lack a viable path to legal residency. Based on extensive fieldwork in small, rural Arkansas communities with Salvadoran transnational migrants, the author explores the contradictory dynamics between a growing identification with local geographies and continuing legal exclusion. Most Salvadoran migrants are caught between categories of national belonging; classified as either “illegal” or “temporary,” they lack rights to political participation either in the United States or in El Salvador. These legal exclusions create a mobile space of exception around the body of the migrant, which facilitate the exploitation of migrants' labor. Legal exclusion also contributes to social exclusion through the contradictory production of both invisibility and hypervisibility. Despite this, transnational migrants continue to put down roots in their new places of settlement.
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Srinivasan, Priya. Domesticating Dance. Edited by Rebekah J. Kowal, Gerald Siegmund, and Randy Martin. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199928187.013.27.
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This chapter examines three scenes of “movement”—from the 2004 Tamil film Chandramukhi, the controversial documentary India’s Daughter that aired on BBC in March 2015, and the Star Plus Television serial of the Mahabharata focusing on the “Draupadi Vastra Haran” in 2014—to question how women’s bodies continue to be domesticated to delegitimize the upwardly mobile woman’s desire for remaking herself. The chapter suggests that neoliberalism has specific choreographies of violence perpetrated against women’s bodies. In particular, the author argues that within the choreographies of neoliberalism, neither public nor private space is safe for women in India. The chapter suggests that where women’s erotic dancing has been domesticated by institutionalized patriarchy in the service of capitalist systems, haunting and possession emerge as movement possibilities of the corporeal/incorporeal body that can negotiate the public/private space of a permeating neoliberal order.
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Apollon, Daniel, Claire Bélisle, and Philippe Régnier. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038402.003.0001.
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This introductory chapter argues that the future of the traditional forms of culture, knowledge, and scholarship appears to be at risk, as the world becomes digital and new generations consider computers, mobile appliances, and the Internet as extensions of their body that are essential for living. The book provides a survey of critical editing confronted with the digital world that is organized in three parts. The first one discusses the historical context and the main challenges that researchers, teachers, and the public readers meet with the integration of digital tools and medium in the activity of critical edition. The second one details how critical edition deals with the technical constraints it faces in order to explore new presentation modalities of heritage texts. The last one looks at critical edition practice through examining cases that range from data capture and layout to the institutional and organizational conditions for production.
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Belsher, Bradley E., Daniel P. Evatt, Michael C. Freed, and Charles C. Engel. Internet and Computer-Based Treatments for the Management of PTSD. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190205959.003.0014.
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A rapid expansion in the development of telehealth treatments has occurred during the past several decades, with a growing body of evidence supporting online therapies for behavioral health disorders. These online interventions have focused primarily on the treatment of depression, panic disorder, social phobia, and generalized anxiety disorder. More recently, and with the relative success of the previous Web-based treatments, several online treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have emerged. An overview of Internet and computer-based treatments (ICTs) for PTSD is presented, including a general discussion of computerized treatments followed by a review of specific ICTs that have been developed and tested for PTSD. Some of the critical issues surrounding ICTs are then explored, and an example of how online treatments can be incorporated into a larger care model is presented. The discussion ends with a brief description of the use of mobile health applications to augment treatment.
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Greaves, Claire D., and Mike J. Dunn. The nuclear medicine patient. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199655212.003.0018.
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Following the administration of a radiopharmaceutical, the patient is essentially a mobile source of radiation. The hazards from the patient are contamination from radioactive tissue/body fluids, and exposure to the radiation emitted from the patient. These hazards present a risk to the patient due to self-absorbed radiation, healthcare workers, other patients, members of the public, family members (including the foetus), colleagues at work, and carers. This chapter presents the methodology used for assessing the doses to patients and critical groups, and discusses its limitations. It considers the risks and protective measures for: the patient (both adults and paediatrics), the foetus and young children including reproduction, breastfeeding, and close contact, hospital and external workers who may come into contact with the patient or be at risk of contamination, and the general public (inside and outside the hospital environment). The risks are presented along with practical guidance to minimize the hazard.
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Deaville, James. The Well-Mannered Auditor. Edited by Christian Thorau and Hansjakob Ziemer. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190466961.013.12.
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The chapter explores the way English-language etiquette books from the nineteenth century prescribe accepted behavior for upwardly mobile members of the bourgeoisie. This advice extended to social events known today as “salons” that were conducted in the domestic drawing room or parlor, where guests would perform musical selections for the enjoyment of other guests. The audience for such informal music making was expected to listen attentively, in keeping with the (self-) disciplining of the bourgeois body that such regulations represented in the nineteenth century. Yet even as the modern world became noisier and aurally more confusing, so, too, did contemporary social events, which led authors to become stricter in their disciplining of the audience at these drawing room performances. Nevertheless, hosts and guests could not avoid the growing “crisis of attention” pervading this mode of entertainment, which would lead to the modern habit of inattentive listening.
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Trimmer, Barry. Soft-bodied terrestrial invertebrates and robots. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199674923.003.0041.
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Studies of animal locomotion and its control have generally focused on species with articulated, stiff skeletons, largely ignoring the contributions of soft tissues. Attempts to create animal-like performance in robots illustrate the limitations of using rigid-body mechanics alone. There is a growing appreciation that soft structures are critical for producing robust and adaptable behaviors in complex environments. Studies of predominantly soft animals could help to accelerate our understanding of the biomechanical role of deformable materials and their control. This chapter focuses on our current understanding of locomotion in terrestrial soft animals. It highlights the critical distinction between purely hydrostatic systems that control movements by pressurization and those that can remain relatively soft and exploit stiff substrates (the environmental skeleton strategy). The final section describes biomimetic devices that have been inspired by both animal strategies to show how such biological solutions might be employed to build controllable, highly deformable mobile machines.
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Gartmann, Simone. KINDERGARTEN MOBIL: EFFEKT EINER NIEDERSCHWELLIGEN PRÄVENTIONSMASsNAHME AUF DEN BODY MASS INDEX UND DIE MOTORIK VON KINDERGARTENKINDERN. GRIN Verlag GmbH, 2010.
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Chidester, David. Religion. University of California Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520297654.001.0001.
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Religion: Material Dynamics is a lively resource for thinking about religious materiality and the material study of religion. Deconstructing and reconstructing religion as material categories, social formations, and mobile circulations, the book explores the making, ordering, and circulating of religious things. Part 1 revitalizes basic categories—animism and sacred, space and time—by situating them in their material production and testing their analytical viability. Part 2 examines religious formations as configurations of power that operate in material cultures and cultural economies and are most clearly shown in the power relations of colonialism and imperialism. Part 3 explores the material dynamics of circulation through case studies of religious mobility, change, and diffusion as intimate as the body and as vast as the oceans. Each chapter offers insightful orientations and surprising possibilities for studying material religion. Exploring the material dynamics of religion from poetics to politics, the book provides an entry into the study of material religion that speaks to the interests of both students and specialists in religious studies, anthropology, history, and other fields that have made the material turn.
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Dix, Alan, Steve Gill, Devina Ramduny-Ellis, and Jo Hare. TouchIT. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198718581.001.0001.
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Abstract The physical world is increasingly filled with digital products to the extent that the boundaries of digital and physical reality become blurred. From mundane devices such as mobile phones and washing machines, to esoteric research including tangible computation and body implants, we continually bridge two worlds, literally touching buttons and dials and metaphorically touching the bits beyond. The connection between pure thought and abstract information is through solid keyboard and mouse, but likewise the material world of buildings, cars, and running shoes is suffused with computation through sensors, displays, and flashing LEDs. How do people understand this world and how can designers create usable hybrid physical–digital products? This book brings together experience from human–computer interaction and industrial design, exploring these themes under four main headings: human body and mind; objects and things; space; and computation and information. In considering each it looks at the underlying physical processes, our human understanding of them, and then the way these inform and are informed by digital design. The final part of the book draws together the theoretical and practical implications of this for design. This includes practical advice, potential tools, and philosophical underpinnings. Digital technology is fundamentally altering the world we live in but can only be truly understood in relation to the physical world we all inhabit. The most successful future products and policies will be those that take this rich digital/physical ecology seriously.
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Baker, Courtney R., ed. Emmett Till, Justice, and the Task of Recognition. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039485.003.0004.
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This chapter examines how the political ideas that would come to shape the civil rights movement in America were fomented and sometimes nearly thwarted by focusing on the many visual encounters with the dead and disfigured body of Emmett Till—some in the flesh, some mediated by photography. The chapter analyzes how the decision of Mamie Till-Mobley, Emmett Till's mother, to have an open-casket funeral for her son made possible the wide-scale circulation of photographs of his body. An examination of the courtroom in which Till's murderers were tried makes clear the paradoxical uses of his image. This use demonstrates that the political utility of seeing another's disfigured body lies in recognizing that the violence enacted upon the Other is also violence enacted upon the Self. The chapter offers a psychoanalytic and deconstructionist interpretation of recognition, which is figured as a central project in the struggle for black liberation and civil rights.
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McLaughlin, Emily. Yves Bonnefoy and Jean-Luc Nancy. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198849582.001.0001.
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This book explores how the French poet Yves Bonnefoy (1923–2016) develops a newly affirmative, tactile, and embodied practice of poetic performance in the latter half of his career. It investigates how this shift is prompted by a conceptual change that Bonnefoy undergoes in writing Dans le leurre du seuil (1975) as he comes to perceive finitude not merely as a force of dissolution but as a dynamic of opening and exposure. Analysing how this transformation convinces the poet of the generative nature of the act of relation, this study examines how Bonnefoy no longer perceives the poem as an isolated body that reaches out to the material world from a distance but presents it as an ontological performance: an exploration of the dynamics by which linguistic, corporeal, and material forces reverberate side by side and by which worldly existence opens up in and through the poem. Using Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophical writings to cast new light on this practice of poetic performance, this book explores how the poet and the philosopher both stress the immersive nature of this kind of textual experimentation. It investigates how they insist that the text does not speak about the world but experiments with its creative force from within, exploring the spacious dynamics of exposition that bring the poem into being, asking us to situate ourselves within these dynamics and to be opened up by them, to reimmerse ourselves in an endlessly mobile and relational world.
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Klein, Scott W., and Michael Valdez Moses, eds. A Modernist Cinema. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199379453.001.0001.
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In A Modernist Cinema, edited by Scott W. Klein and Michael Valdez Moses, sixteen distinguished scholars in the field of the New Modernist Studies explore the interrelationships among modernism, cinema, and modernity. Focusing on several culturally influential films from Europe, America, and Asia produced between 1914 and 1941, this collection of essays contends that cinema was always a modernist enterprise. Examining the dialectical relationship between a modernist cinema and modernity itself, these essays reveal how the movies represented and altered our notions and practices of modern life, as well as how the so-called crises of modernity shaped the evolution of filmmaking. Attending to the technical achievements and formal qualities of the works of several prominent directors—Giovanni Pastrone, D. W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, F. W. Murnau, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Dziga Vertov, Luis Buñuel, Yasujiro Ozu, John Ford, Jean Renoir, Charlie Chaplin, Leni Riefenstahl, and Orson Welles—these essays investigate several interrelated topics: how a modernist cinema represented and intervened in the political and social struggles of the era; the ambivalent relationship between cinema and the other modernist arts; the controversial interconnection between modern technology and the new art; the significance of representing the mobile human body in a new medium; the gendered history of modernity; and the transformative effects of cinema on modern conceptions of temporality, spatial relations, and political geography. The contributors are Richard Begam, Maurizia Bascagli, Enda Duffy, Laura Frost, Andrzej Gąsiorek, Scott W. Klein, Douglas Mao, Laura Marcus, Jesse Matz, Tyrus Miller, Michael Valdez Moses, Michael North, Elizabeth Otto, Carrie J. Preston, Lisa Siraganian, and Michael Wood.
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Oates, Thomas P. “We Ought to See What We’re Buying”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040948.003.0004.
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This chapter details how the mediated NFL draft emerged out of a set of contingencies produced by shifts in sport media industries during the early 1980s. The event grew in popularity by presenting the thorough, extended, and systematic assessment of NFL prospects as entertaining. But this fun has a profound political edge. By framing NFL prospects as transparent, knowable docile bodies, the discourses of the draft present them explicitly as commodities to be compared with each other. Thus positioned, prospects, the vast majority of prospects of whom are black, circulate in ways that revive looking practices that connect the male body, race, commerce, and pleasure. To unpack this process, the chapter proceeds in three parts. The first details how the draft came to be a televised spectacle. This is followed by a discussion of the process by which prospects are presented as docile bodies and explicitly imagined as useful, malleable commodities. I then consider how the dynamics of this market mobilize expressions of erotic desire for commodified black male bodies.
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Malyszko, Jolanta, and Iain C. Macdougall. Iron metabolism in chronic kidney disease. Edited by David J. Goldsmith. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199592548.003.0125.
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While whole-body (‘absolute’) iron deficiency is common and probably increased in frequency in chronic kidney disease (CKD), functional iron deficiency is a particular problem in CKD. Absolute iron deficiency is likely to be present in advanced CKD when the ferritin falls below 100 ng/mL and the TSAT falls below 20%. Functional iron deficiency is characterized by the presence of adequate iron stores (as defined by conventional criteria), but with an inability to mobilize this iron rapidly enough to adequately support erythropoiesis with the administration of erythropoietin. Among such patients, the serum ferritin level is either normal or elevated (usually between 100 and 800 ng/mL), with a TSAT typically ≤20%. Hepcidin, a novel peptide discovered at the turn of the twenty-first century, is an iron gatekeeper that plays a key role in functional iron deficiency, and the ‘anaemia of chronic disease’. The main function of hepcidin is homeostatic regulation of iron metabolism and mediation of host defence and inflammation. Hepcidin is the predominant negative regulator of iron absorption in the small intestine, iron transport across the placenta, and iron release from the macrophages. Novel strategies that modulate hepcidin and its target ferroportin for the treatment of anaemia of chronic diseases are currently undergoing extensive research.
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Masino, PHD, Susan A., ed. Ketogenic Diet and Metabolic Therapies. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190497996.001.0001.
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Ketogenic diets have been used to treat epilepsy for nearly a century. Alongside enduring clinical success with a ketogenic diet, metabolism’s critical role in health and in diseases in the central nervous system and throughout the body is increasingly appreciated. Furthermore, metabolism-based strategies have been proven equal or even superior to pharmacological treatments in specific cases and for specific diseases. Rather than causing unwanted off-target pharmacological side effects, addressing metabolic dysfunction can improve overall health simultaneously. Enduring interest in the ketogenic diet’s proven efficacy in stopping seizures and emerging efficacy in other disorders has fueled renewed efforts to determine key mechanisms and diverse applications of metabolic therapies. In parallel, multiple strategies are being developed to mobilize similar metabolic benefits without reliance on such a strict diet. Research interest in metabolic therapies has spread into laboratories and clinics of every discipline, and could yield entirely new classes of drugs and treatment regimens. This work is the first comprehensive scientific resource on the ketogenic diet, covering the latest research into the mechanisms, established and emerging applications, metabolic alternatives, and implications for health and disease. Experts in clinical and basic research share their research into mechanisms spanning from ion channels to epigenetics, their insights based on decades of experience with the ketogenic diet in epilepsy, and their evidence for emerging applications ranging from autism to Alzheimer’s disease to brain cancer.
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Gibson, Ann L., Dale R. Wagner, and Vivian H. Heyward. Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription. 8th ed. Human Kinetics, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781718220966.
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Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription, Eighth Edition With Online Video, provides a comprehensive approach to physical fitness appraisal and customized exercise prescription. The text synthesizes research and practice with concepts and theories from exercise physiology, kinesiology, measurement, psychology, and nutrition to clearly convey how assessments from physical fitness testing inform the design of individualized exercise programs. The eighth edition of Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription reflects the latest exercise testing and prescription guidelines from the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) as well as physical activity recommendations from the U.S. government and American Heart Association. It also takes into account recent ACSM guidelines for medical exam and exercise testing requirements to consider before beginning exercise programs. Additional updates to the eighth edition include the following: • Significant expansion of the online video clips, which now demonstrate nearly 75 fitness tests, including functional movement assessment and push-up and pull-up testing • New protocols and assessments for each of the five fitness components, from self-paced treadmill protocols for cardiorespiratory fitness to the Balance Error Scoring System (BESS) for assessment of balance • Updated blood pressure standards for hypertension • Expanded information on the use of technology to monitor physical activity, including wearable activity trackers and mobile apps • Updated information on the use of workspace design to promote physical activity and exercise • Extensive updates to the supporting research for the assessment and testing protocols Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription, Eighth Edition, is structured around five physical fitness components: cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular fitness (strength, endurance, and power), body composition, flexibility, and balance. The text begins with an overview of physical activity, health, and chronic disease, including a discussion of preliminary health screening and risk classification. It then leads into field and laboratory assessment and testing protocols, followed by prescription guidelines for designing exercise programs to improve each fitness component. Readers will find the latest information on maximal and submaximal graded exercise testing in healthy populations, as well as muscular fitness testing protocols and norms for children and adults. Each chapter begins with key questions to help readers focus on essential information. Sidebars lend practical insight to the content. Key points, review questions, and key terms reinforce concepts and summarize chapter content for better retention. An instructor guide, test package, chapter quizzes, and presentation package plus image bank provide tools for instructors to use for lecture preparation, creative content delivery, and class assessment. The online video clips, newly revised for the eighth edition, further aid student comprehension of the material and provide instructors an additional tool for classroom demonstration. Advanced Fitness Assessment and Exercise Prescription, Eighth Edition, truly bridges the gap between research and practice. Its unique scope, depth of coverage, and clearly outlined approach make it an invaluable resource for students and exercise science professionals who want to increase their knowledge, skill, and competence in assessing clients' fitness and designing individualized exercise programs.
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Brown, Pamela Allen. The Diva's Gift to the Shakespearean Stage. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198867838.001.0001.
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The Diva’s Gift to the Shakespearean Stage traces the transnational connections between Shakespeare’s all-male stage and the first female stars in the West. The book is the first to use Italian and English plays and other sources to explore this relationship, focusing on the gifted actress who radically altered female roles and expanded the horizons of drama just as the English were building their first paying theaters. By the time Shakespeare began to write plays, women had been acting professionally in Italian troupes for two decades, traveling across the Continent and acting in all genres, including tragicomedy and tragedy. Isabella Andreini, Vittoria Piissimi, and Barbara Flaminia became the first truly international stars, winning royal and noble patrons and literary admirers beyond Italy; their artistry enabled mixed companies to expand in foreign markets, especially in France and Spain. Elizabeth and her court caught wind of the Italians’ success, and soon troupes with actresses came to London to perform. Through contacts direct and indirect, English playwrights grew keenly aware of the mimetic revolution wrought by the skilled diva, who expanded the innamorata and made the type more engaging, outspoken, and autonomous. Some Englishmen pushed back, treating the actress as a whorish threat to the all-male stage, which had long minimized female roles. Others saw a vital new resource. Faced with rising demand for Italian-style plays, Lyly, Marlowe, Kyd, and Shakespeare used Italian models from scripted and improvised drama to turn out stellar female parts in the mode of the actress, altering them in significant ways while continuing to use boys to play them. Writers seized on the comici’s materials and methods to piece together pastoral, comic, and tragicomic plays from mobile theatergrams—plot elements, star scenes, roles, stories, and speeches, such as cross-dressing, mad scenes, and spoken and sung laments. Shakespeare and his peers gave new prominence to female characters, marked their passions as un-English, and devised plots that figured them as self-aware agents, not counters traded between men. Playing up the skills and charisma of the boy player, they produced stunning roles charged with the diva’s prodigious theatricality and alien glamour. Rightly perceived, the diva’s star persona and acclaimed performances constituted challenging and timely gifts that provoked English playwrights to break with the past in enormously generative ways.