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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Body Studies"”.
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Determination of endogenous and dietary-derived nitric oxide production in exhaled air of adult humans
… oxide (NO) has been demonstrated in the human body. Studies have elucidated that NO can either be produced endogenously via enzymatic action or through exogenous factors from dietary nitrate reduction. Exhaled nitric oxide (eNO) levels were also observed to be increased in inflammatory …
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Human physiological and biomechanical responses to vibration exercise
… the underlying responses of the human body during exercise with vibration. Human neuromuscular and cardiovascular systems were investigated using 3D motion analysis, near infra-red spectroscopy (NIRS), laser Doppler blood flow analysis and electromyography (EMG). Analysis of a prototype …
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Exercise science depression studies: A cultural, interpretive, and science studies perspective
… providing a cultural interpretive and science studies perspective. I locate this work at the intersections of multiple fields including kinesiology, sport sociology, disability studies, body studies, and science and technology studies (STS). I analyzed 13 meta-analyses and systematic reviews …
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The labors of Hercules: embodied learning and male domestication in early modern culture and literature
… brings the critical orientation of early modern body studies (generated in large part by Gail Kern Paster’s seminal study The Body Embarrassed) to bear on early modern educational treatises, specifically as those treatises address the bodies of (male) children, in an as yet unexplored way. As my …
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A Passive Pure Moment Protocol for Testing Spine Segments: Development and Application
… testing of spinal devices. Published studies predominantly report range of motion and flexibility data, but information regarding the segment center of rotation is also relevant. Most current pure moment platforms are not sensitive enough to accurately calculate the instantaneous axis …
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I eat shit food and am not worthy: Negotiating the queer weight of "white trash" embodiment in Dorothy Allison's Corpus
… borrow a term from Jay Watson’s Reading for the Body: The Recalcitrant Materiality of Southern Fiction, 1893-1985 (2012)—for her “white trash” body and appetites and exulting in her queerly, defiantly “outlaw” legibility that Allison advocates for and makes visible those she calls “born poor, …
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The Man Made World: The Social Production of Health and Disablement in Construction Workers
… disability. Finally, these findings point to the body as a social process, with direct ties to the larger social structure and systems of inequality. This study extends our conceptualizations of health, disablement, and the body as processes. In addition, it illuminates the mechanisms through …
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Bodies at play: On the ludic dimensions of human embodiment
… play necessarily involves negotiating the body as a potential agency or force itself that can act of its own accord, sometimes acting or embodying meanings against us. I explore the implications of this framing of embodiment, paying particular attention to the relationship between play, …
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Sociocultural studies of biomedicine and healthcare in everyday literate lifeworlds
This dissertation uses sociocultural studies approaches to investigate the multimodal practices of reception that patients and medical professionals use in their everyday lives as they engage health-related information. People demonstrate their active uptake of professional writing through …
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Science, sex, and the foreign: Sexology and representations of sexual practices in the Spanish fin de siglo
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-11 without embargo terms
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(Re)presenting Human Population Database Projects: virtually designing and siting biomedical informatics ventures
This dissertation examines the politics of representation in biotechnosciences. Through web representations, I examine three emerging endeavors that propose to create large-scale human population genomic databases to study complex, common diseases and conditions. These projects were initiated in …