· 2015
"The experience of D. Gilson's I Will Say This Exactly One Time isn't like reading as you've known it, but like taking a long walk with a real person, simultaneously playful, brainy, questioning, sexy, rebellious, heartbroken, kind, and never boring. It's rare to meet a writer this open, this fully himself on the page. He's made a beautiful thing." - Paul Lisicky
Late in the Reagan years, three young men at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University formed the Christian rap group dc Talk. The trio put out a series of records that quickly secured their place at the forefront of contemporary Christian music. But, with their fourth studio album Jesus Freak (1995), dc Talk staked a powerful claim on the worldly market of alternative music, becoming an evangelical group with secular selling power. This book sets out to study this mid-90s crossover phenomenon-a moment of cultural convergence between Christian and secular music and an era of particular political importance for American evangelicalism. Written by two queer scholars with evangelical pasts, Jesus Freak explores the importance of a multifarious album with complex ideas about race, sexuality, gender, and politics-an album where dc Talk wonders, “What will people do when they hear that I'm a Jesus freak?” and evangelical fans stake a claim for Christ-like coolness in a secular musical world.
Loss of acuity for visual details in aircraft during unusual maneuvers has been documented. Recent investigations of this problem have served to define the magnitude of semicircular canal stimulation necessary to produce nystagmus of sufficient strength to degrade visual acuity. Present work extends former observations by investigating the effects of levels of illumination during semicircular canal stimulation on the performance of a task requiring vision. The illumination levels were selected to encompass the range used in aircraft cockpits. A compensatory tracking task with an aircraft instrument as the display provided an indirect measure of this loss of visual acuity and a direct practical measure of performance. (Author).
· 1998
Compiled by an international group of authors using clinical case presentations, this book covers all aspects of soft tissue surgery including perioperative patient management, and surgical preparation and technique. The cases are presented to test the reader with surgical problems and to discuss common complications and sources of error in clinica
A practical procedure was developed for obtaining reliable measures of sensation associated with semicircular canal stimulation. Theoretically these measures can be used along with measures of nystagmus to estimate several vestibular response system parameters relevant in the clinical assessment of pilot vertigo. In this experiment, responses produced by stimulation of the horizontal semicircular canals are compared with those produced by stimulation of the vertical canals. Group mean estimates of subjective angular displacement obtained from 40 naval flight students were approximately accurate for stimulation of both horizontal and vertical canals. Significant individual differences were found within the group. From the responses obtained, mean estimates of vestibular system parameters were calculated. (Author).