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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Bruises"”.
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“My Bruises Are Inward:” A Study of Mental Trauma in the American Civil War
<p>War is traumatic. Since the American Psychiatric Association first recognized post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in 1980, living veterans of combat have been diagnosed at an alarmingly high rate. However, mental trauma related diagnoses have existed for centuries, including several that were …
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Funneling chaos: Interiority in the landscapes of dystopian fiction
… strategies to my own novel-in-progress, Hidden Bruises. The document concludes with the first chapters of Hidden Bruises, which follows Lucas, a senior cadet at St. Arthur’s Military Academy in war-torn America, as he navigates life with his abusive father.
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Assessment of Falls Protocol Use on Medical-Telemetry Units
… in physical or emotional harm, including minor bruises, emotional trauma, and fractures (“Falls,” 2004). When falls occur, hospitals are generally responsible for all costs incurred from the sentinel event, and do not receive re-imbursement from insurances for services provided. In the large, …
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Becoming the flaming creature
… extends these gestures through a language that bruises and breathes—treating text as flesh, metabolizing desire, grief, and power. Across media, the work offers an aesthetic of the unfinished: a queer alchemy where nothing is stable, and everything becomes.
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Rickets with special reference to modern views on the etiology and treatment
… for obvious cruelty, shewing itself in dirt or bruises. Until the law is tightened in this respect, and while a child is not considered ill-treated who is kept in a dark, damp basement, and who seldom gets any exercise, much still remains to be done. The striking facts with regard to treatment …
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Contribution au classement des fruits par analyse d'images numériques. Application au tri en ligne des pommes Golden delicious et Jonagold.
… is drawn to various defects such as wounds, bruises, physiological diseases, fungi attack, etc. Two 3-CCD cameras mounted on a test rig were used for the image acquisition. Golden delicious apples are characterised by their uniform colour. This later was modelled by a multivariate Gaussian …
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Body Language: Pain in Victorian Literature
… prevent the physical manifestation of emotion. Bruises caused by an attack reveal more about the attacker’s state of mind than the victim. Even strongly manifested emotions that cause a rapid decline in health, indicate as much about the character’s relationships with others as his or her own …
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In vivo Knee Kinematics and Cartilage Recovery of Noncontact Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries
… for non-contact ACL injuries using bone bruises present on magnetic resonance imaging, and 2) to assess cartilage recovery time as a potential imaging biomarker of osteoarthritis in ACL injured subjects. In the first aim, two common bone bruise patterns were determined and used to …
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The quantity trade-off:Implications of expanded enrolments at two of Zambia's public Universities
… of the data revealed a number of fundamental bruises occasioned on quality in the process of quantitative expansion. It was found that due to increased workload, the lecturers increasingly failed to meet their mandatory research agendas. The study also found that expanded enrolments of …
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Detection of Physical Abuse Barriers to Nurses' Detection of Physical Abuse in Adult Female Clients
… concepts of fear, low self-esteem, anger, bruises, and sadness.<br> Characteristics as well as opinions about domestic violence were reported, revealing over one-fourth believed abuse was more likely to occur in a group different from their own - low socioeconomic and low educated groups …
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Use of Gamma Irradiation as an Intervention Treatment to Inactivate Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Freshly Extracted Apple Juice
… and attach to the flesh of the apple through bruises and wounds where surface sanitizers are not effective. The goal of this project was to determine the efficacy of gamma irradiation at the maximum allowed dose of 1000 Gy to inactivate <em>Escherichia coli </em>O157: H7 in whole apples used …
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Evaluating effects of climate variability on postharvest quality of strawberries
… anthocyanins, visual evaluation for detection of bruises and mould development were assessed. Work at the initial stages revealed a positive relationship between increased preharvest temperature and softening of fruits. Subsequent experiments took place in order to verify this finding and examine …
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The biomechanics of bruising
… Furthermore, they have aimed to establish if bruises can be detected while no longer visible to the naked eye. The latter category has shown more promise even though positive findings have been limited. This study investigates the specific RGB values produced in bruise development and healing …
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Diversity as Contingent: An Intersectional Ethnographic Interrogation of and Resistance Against Neoliberal Academia’s Exploitation of Contingent Faculty in General Education Diversity Courses
… for my upward mobility. The collective bumps and bruises between my colleagues and I implore us to form a make-shift community of care, where we talk about the difficulties of doing diversity work in the classroom. After reading this work, I hope others better grasp the impact of placing diversity …
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Pre-slaughter factors affecting mobility, blood parameters, bruising, and muscle pH of finished beef cattle in the United States
… > than the size of a deck of cards, and multiple bruises). Ultimate muscle pH was measured 32 to 36 hours postmortem. Multi-predictor models were selected for each outcome variable using Aikake Information Criterion (AIC). Continuous outcome variables were analyzed using linear mixed-effects …
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The Use of a BIM-Based Framework to Support Safe Facility Management Processes
… of electrical shock, falls, crushing, cuts, and bruises and as a result, have a much higher rate of injury and illness than the national average. Case study analysis confirms that many of the recorded accidents could have been avoided had the victim followed appropriate hazard mitigation steps to …
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Nitrogen and carbon costs of growth and antioxidant production during acclimation to environmental stress in two species of gethyllis
… disturbances,teething problems, fatigue, boils, bruises and insect bites, to being used as an aphrodisiac. Gethyllis multifolia is threatened in its natural habitat and is listed in the ‘Vulnerable’ category of the ‘Red Data List of Southern African Plants’ and the ‘IUCN-World Conservation Union …
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Fibrous Membranes in Personal Protective Applications
… clothing is a type of PPE that protects against bruises, cuts, and injuries from sharp objects or even ballistic impacts. Fibrous materials of different forms have found their uses in both respiratory protection and protective clothing. For example, when used as filters in respirators and face …
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A social community caregiving approach towards gender-based violence and femicide : the role of men in Thembisa Uniting Reformed Church
… have heard the shouting‖, we have noticed the bruises battered faces but we were too afraid to act or speak out‖. This is a sad reality that often happens in the community that include members of the Church. The researcher argues that there is a need to move beyond the shock, move to be …
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