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Showing 1 to 20 of 87 for “"kink"”.
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Kink in Flux: BDSM theory and sexual praxis
… bondage, discipline and sadomasochism (BDSM) and kink practices in mainstream media and American culture. Along with this, empirical researchers working in sexuality studies continue to show, contrary to the history of stigmatizing accounts in the history of clinical psychology, no evidence of …
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Sequence Dependence of the Folding of Kink-Turns in RNA
The kink-turn in RNA is a secondary structural motif which produces a tight kink in the axis of the RNA helix. It exists in a dynamic equilibrium between the folded and the unfolded state in free solution. The population of the folded kink-turn species can be increased by the addition of metal ions …
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Dynamics of the kink effect in InAlAs/InGaAs/InP HEMTs
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
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The projective to Einstein correspondence and a kink on a wormhole
… radius $a$. We show that the theory possesses a kink solution which is linearly stable, and compare its discrete spectrum to that of the $\phi^4$ kink on $\mathbb{R}^{1,1}$. We present some results on the non–linear resonant coupling between the discrete and continuous spectra in the range of a …
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MHD kink mode interaction with external boundaries and requirements for feedback stabilization.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Nuclear Engineering. Thesis. 1972. Ph.D.
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Solving the Dirac equation in a two-dimensional spacetime background with a kink
In the following paper, I study the Dirac equation in curved spacetime and solve this equation in two-dimensional spacetime backgrounds discovered by Jackiw et al[4], [5]. I will first discuss flat spacetime and introduce the Dirac equation, which describes the relativistic wavefunctions of …
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The Erotic Work of Asian American Activism: Harnessing Kink, Queer, and Sex Worker Praxis
… thesis discusses the harnessing of alternative, kink, and queer sexualities within the Asian American community towards anti-racist and sex work positive activism during the COVID-19 pandemic era of anti-Asian violence. It opens by tracing the shooting on Asian massage parlors in Atlanta, Georgia …
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“To know thyself”: A qualitative exploration of motivating factors for dominants that participate in or hold BDSM and kink identities
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Analytical perspectives on localized solutions of the phi-4 theory
… the topological and non-topological solitons—kink and breather—in the φ4 model. Our first objective is to explain the chaotic motion of the resonantly driven kink. To this end, we consider the evolution of the kink's wobbling and rocking modes and their coupling. To improve the asymptotic …
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Ratchet dynamics in nonlinear Klein-Gordon systems
… the ratchet dynamics of nonlinear Klein-Gordon kinks in a periodic and asymmetric lattice of point-like inhomogeneities in the overdamped regime. In addition, we explained the underlying rectification mechanism within a collective coordinate framework, which shows that such a system behaves as a …
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Essays on the economics of innovation
… term of existing patents in the US. Leveraging a kink in the patent term extension formula, we find no significant impact of extensions on subsequent innovation, neither locally around the kink using a sharp "Regression Kink Design" nor on average on the population of treated patents. The third …
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Multimode Structure of Resistive Wall Modes near the Ideal Wall Stability Limit
… the first systematic study of multimode external kink structure and dynamics in a tokamak using a high-resolution magnetic sensor set. Multimode effects are directly measured, rather than inferred from anomalies in single-mode behavior. In order to accomplish this, an extensive set of 216 poloidal …
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The growth of fractures in the Earth
… while an artificial cut grows by means of a kink: the reason lies in the lower friction coefficient on an artificial cut than on a natural fracture. Fracture growth under simple shear and under transtension occurs by a kink and along a smooth, slightly convex trajectory; the computed path is …
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Kinky Reading: Power, Pleasure, and Performance in Middle English Texts
… Prologue and Tale, from the perspective of kinky reading, a methodology that draws on the traditions of feminist and queer theory and the new field of kink studies. BDSM has historically been pathologized, but this study interprets kink as a form of queerness rather than an expression of …
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Kiwi Kinksters: BDSM in Auckland, New Zealand
An ethnographic inquiry into the Auckland kink scene (the term kink encompasses erotic practices that involve some form of Bondage, Discipline, Dominance/Submission and/or Sadism/Masochism, and is interchangeably used throughout this thesis with the acronym BDSM) – the first of its kind in New …
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Beating the Boundaries: An Exploration of BDSM as Religioning
… as it emerges from the complex interactions of kink activities and relationships. It argues that practices which are ostensibly not religious can be understood as contributing to personal processes of religioning. Enriching debates about living religion, I offer the idea of gestalt as a tool to …
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Host-defence peptides from frog skin secretions: identification and bioactivity evaluation and optimisation
… and haemolytic activity of peptides. The kink structure is important in antimicrobial activity against Gram-negative bacteria. A novel AMP, brevinin-1W peptide, was identified from skin secretion of Amolops wuyiensis (A. wuyiensis) with antimicrobial activity against Gram-positive …
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Rotating magnetohydrodynamic and trapped hot-ion induced internal kinks
… the tokamak literature, the linear internal MHD kink modes in finite aspect-ratio axisymmetric toroidally rotating tokamak equilibria and their kinetic modifications owing to the presence of hot ions are computationally studied herein using a bilinear form derived using a Lagrangian perturbation …
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Some two body final states of K- p interactions at 1.328 GeV/c
We studied 21,187 two-prong, two-prong-kink and zero-prong-V events at an incident kaon momentum of 1.328 GeV/c using the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory's 72-inch hydrogen bubble chamber and the Scanning- Measuring Projector (SMP). We determined the total and partial cross sections and where …
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Asymptotic behavior in spinodal decomposition
… at critical composition. Using the equilibrium kink solution of the binary alloy and binary fluid model, we study the dispersion relation, or relaxation rate, of small perturbations of the kink or wall solution. We find that the relaxation rate depends on the wavevector of the perturbation. This …
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