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Representations of Hulk Hogan in the 1980s: Christianity, Masculinity, Xenophobia
No full textIn 1984, professional wrestler Hulk Hogan defeated the Iron Sheik to win the WWF Heavyweight Title. Thus marked the birth of ‘Hulkamania’, a near-decade-long period when Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bollea) crossed over into American popular culture. In the following years, Hogan battled a series of proxies for America’s enemies, from the Soviet rival in Nikolai Volkoff, Iranian sympathizer Sergeant Slaughter, and the Japanese sumo wrestler Yokozuna, among other opponents. More importantly, Hogan appeared on American talk shows, the front of magazines, had his own children’s cartoons, and marketed workout devices, toys, food, and a host of other ephemera. Existing in a liminal space between sport and entertainment, professional wrestling allows athletes/performers far more opportunities to cultivate messages and meanings through their bodies. Using film, wrestling magazines, and wrestling broadcasts, this article argues that Hogan’s body and his use of his body were paramount to his success. More than that, the use of his body embodied ideals about American masculinity. It embodied all-American strength, an ability to succeed no matter the odds, and a fierce Christian patriotism. Hogan was one of the biggest stars of the 1980s, inside and outside of sport. His body and its representation are thus worthy of study
yambo: An ab initio tool for excited state calculations
No full textyambo is an ab initio code for calculating quasiparticle energies and optical properties of electronic systems within the framework of many-body perturbation theory and time-dependent density functional theory. Quasiparticle energies are calculated within the GW approximation for the self-energy. Optical properties are evaluated either by solving the Bethe-Salpeter equation or by using the adiabatic local density approximation. yambo is a plane-wave code that, although particularly suited for calculations of periodic bulk systems, has been applied to a large variety of physical systems. yambo relies on efficient numerical techniques devised to treat systems with reduced dimensionality, or with a large number of degrees of freedom. The code has a user-friendly command-line based interface, flexible 110 procedures and is interfaced to several publicly available density functional ground-state codes.</p
Reply to Stacy Lockerbie (Review of \u3cem\u3eConception Diary: Thinking About Pregnancy and Motherhood\u3c/em\u3e by Susan Hogan)
No full textReply by the author regarding the following book review: Stacy Lockerbie, JIWS, Vol. 9. No. 1. November 2007. pp. 319-321. Review of Conception Diary: Thinking About Pregnancy and Motherhood. Susan Hogan
Ab initio energy loss spectra of Si and Ge nanowires
No full textWe report an ab initio investigation of fast electron energy-loss probability in silicon and germanium
nanowires. Computed energy loss spectra are characterized by a strong enhancement of the direct
interband transition peak at low energy, in good agreement with experimental data. Our calculations
predict an important diameter dependence of the bulk volume plasmon peak for very thin wires which is
consistent with the blue shift observed experimentally in thicker wires
Theory of dielectric screening and electron energy loss spectroscopy at surfaces
No full textWe present an overview of theoretical techniques for describing electron energy loss processes in a reflection geometry. We start from a fundamental representation of the dielectric susceptibility tensor of the semi-infinite crystal, and illustrate how the screening becomes modified by the presence of the surface. A new formalism is also presented which improves upon existing techniques for modeling energy loss, is fully q-dependent, and accounts for nonlocality. The impact of nonlocality, local field effects and other many-body effects is discussed. The theory is supported by some explicit calculations on the GaAs(001)-c(4 x 4) surface. To cite this article: C Hogan et al., C R. Physique 10 (2009). (C) 2009 Academie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved
Automatic evaluation of generation and parsing for machine translation with automatically acquired transfer rules
No full textThis paper presents a new method of evaluation for generation and parsing components of transfer-based MT systems where the transfer rules have been automatically
acquired from parsed sentence-aligned bitext corpora. The method provides a means of quantifying the upper bound imposed on the MT system by the quality of the parsing
and generation technologies for the target language. We include experiments to calculate this upper bound for both handcrafted and automatically induced parsing and generation technologies currently in use by transfer-based MT systems
138 - Matt Gregory Hogan
No full textT2K is an international particle physics experiment generating an intense beam of subatomic particles called neutrinos. T2K is designed to measure the parameters that describe a quantum mechanical process called flavor oscillation where a neutrino of definite flavor (type) is created and later observed as a different flavor. Knowledge of the background channels in T2K is critical for constraining our measurements of the oscillation parameters. A novel study on estimating a systematic uncertainty on a background channel is presented
Close-Packed Arrangements of Flat-On Free-Base Porphyrins Driven by van der Waals Epitaxy
No full textThe functionality of low dimensional phases of porphyrins in optical, chemical, electrical, and multimodal combinational devices is strictly related to the control of molecular orientation within the produced solid layers. A promising strategy to drive the growth of adlayers with predictable structural properties relies on the template effect exerted by the substrate. Tetraphenyl porphyrins, being disc-shaped objects, can be adsorbed on a crystal surface by taking on different geometries. An edge-on configuration is adopted when the interactions among molecules overtake those between molecules and substrate, whereas a flat-on configuration is adopted when molecule-substrate interaction is dominant, with the weaker intermolecular interaction driving a close-packed geometry in the adlayer. For this latter reason, square and/or hexagonal lattice symmetries of physisorbed porphyrin layers are disclosed on highly interacting metal substrates such as Au(111). Unfortunately, metal substrates modify the intrinsic properties of porphyrins by suppressing many of their functionalities. To overcome this drawback, here we report the selective growth of porphyrins in a flat-on arrangement on the chiral (110) cleavage surface of the mixed molecular organic crystal formed by 2,5-diketopiperazine and fumaric acid in a 1:1 mole ratio. The energetic advantage ensured by the interaction with the insulating substrate drives the prevalent formation of domains with a square symmetry, which is retained from monolayer to multilayers. However, rare domains with a hexagonal symmetry are revealed and analyzed by high-resolution scanning probe microscopic techniques. The experimental structural analysis performed at the nanoscale, combined with ab initio calculations, allowed us to demonstrate that the molecular architectures we found arise from the simultaneous fulfillment of site adsorption energy maximization driven by peculiar molecular motifs of the selected substrate, close-packing criteria, and epitaxial locking to the substrate surface by weak van der Waals interactions
Richard Nathaniel (R.N.) Hogan Interview - Tape 1
No full textRichard Nathaniel Hogan (1902 –1997)
R.N. Hogan was born in Monroe County, Arkansas. He was adopted by G.P. Bowser and attended the school at Silver Point for a brief time and then the Southern Practical Institute in Nashville. When the Bowser family moved to Louisville, Kentucky, he went with them and finished school there. His preaching took him to most of the fifty states and he was instrumental in starting many congregations. In the interview, he talks about his evangelistic work, particularly in Texas, Oklahoma, California, and Chicago. He was minister of the Figeroa Church of Christ in Los Angeles, California, for many years. Hogan was instrumental in the founding of Southwestern Christian College in Terrell, Texas, and served on the Board of Directors. He is the author of several books and articles, including Sermons (1940), and was editor of the Christian Echo beginning in 1953. A scholarship has been established in his name at Pepperdine University. In the interview, Hogan talks about the experience of his family with slavery, black and white relations in the beginning of some African American churches, his early memories of the Church, inter-racial relations, and disputes in the Church concerning the role of the Elders
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