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Performing Mock Encomia in Elizabethan and Jacobean Plays
No full textThis essay analyses the paradoxical praises which are staged in a number of Elizabethan and Jacobean plays, including Thomas Dekker’s Fortunatus (1600) and Satiromastix (1602), George Chapman’s All Fools (1604), and John Marston’s The Dutch Courtesan (c. 1604-5). Such mock encomia have often been regarded as rhetorical pieces detached from the dramatic action, mere homages to the early modern enthusiasm for paradoxes. On the contrary, this essay demonstrates that they are fully integrated into the dramatic action and that they perform a number of different functions, from creating a metaperformative moment to making the audience reconsider their own values; from better delineating the speaker’s character to setting the tone and background of a scene within the dramatic structure
Introduction
No full textThis is an introduction to the volume, articulating the general aims, context, and methodology; situating the state of the art, and providing a summary of the essays featured in it
Alterungsverhalten einer teilvernetzten Dünnfilm-Epoxidbeschichtung
No full textAuthor Stelzer Viktoria, BScAbweichender Titel laut Übersetzung der Verfasserin/des VerfassersMasterarbeit Johannes Kepler Universität Linz 2025Arbeit gesperr
Transformative Touches in Tunis: Imaginary Contact Zones in Two Early Modern English ‘Turk’ Plays
No full textThe concept of the ‘contact zone’, first articulated by Mary Louise Pratt, has not been extensively used in early modern literary studies. This essay aims to test if the framework it provides can profitably cast a light on the representation of the multicultural life in Mediterranean cities as staged in early modern English ‘Turk’ plays
Influence of BMI, gender, and sports on pain decrease and medication usage after facet–medial branch neurotomy or SI joint lateral branch cooled RF-neurotomy in case of low back pain: original research in the Austrian population
No full textWolfgang Stelzer,1 Valentin Stelzer,1 Dominik Stelzer,1 Monika Braune,1 Christine Duller2 1Medizinisches Zentrum SchmerzLOS Linz and Baden/Vienna, Vienna, 2Johannes Kepler University Linz, Linz, Austria Purpose: This retrospective original research was designed to illustrate the general outcome after radiofrequency (RF) neurotomy of lumbar medial branch (MB) and posterior ramus of the sacroiliac joint of 160 patients with chronic low back pain (LBP) 1, 6, and 12 months after treatment.Methods: Visual Analog Scale (VAS) 0–10 pain scores, quality of life, body mass index (BMI), medication usage, and frequency of physical exercise/sports participation (none, 1–3×/week, more) were collected before the procedure, at 1 month post procedure (n=160), and again at 6 (n=73) and 12 months (n=89) post procedure.Results: A VAS decrease of 4 points on a 10-point scale (from 8 to 4) in the overall group was seen after 6 months and of 4.5 after 12 months. Lower medication usage was reported, with opioids decreased by 40% and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) by 60%. Decreased pain lasted for 12 months. Significantly better outcomes were reported by patients with BMIs <30. No gender-specific differences occurred in the reported decrease in VAS. Analysis of the “no-sports” group versus the more active (1–3 times weekly sports) group showed a better pain decrease after 1 year in the active group.Conclusion: The data suggest RF treatment for chronic LBP that can lead to long-term improvement. Patients with a BMI >30 are less likely to report decreased pain. The better long-term pain relief in the sports participating group is a motivation for the authors to keep the patients in motion. Keywords: radiofrequency, low back pain, BMI, sacroiliac joint, gender, sports, cooled RF neurotom
The Great Flare of 2021 November 19 on AD Leonis: Simultaneous XMM-Newton and TESS observations
No full textWe present a detailed analysis of a superflare on the active M dwarf star AD Leonis. The event presents a rare case of a stellar flare that was simultaneously observed in X-rays (with XMM-Newton) and in the optical (with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS). The radiated energy in the 0.2 - 12 keV X-ray band (1.26 +/- 0.01 x 10(33) erg) and the bolometric value (E-F,E-bol=5.57 +/- 0.03 x 10(33) erg) place this event at the lower end of the superflare class. The exceptional photon statistics deriving from the proximity of AD Leo has enabled measurements in the 1 - 8 angstrom GOES band for the peak flux (X1445 class) and integrated energy (E-F,E-GOES=4.30 +/- 0.05 x 10(32) erg), which enables a direct comparison with data on flares from our Sun. From extrapolations of empirical relations for solar flares, we estimate that a proton flux of at least 10(5)cm(-2)s(-1)sr(-1) accompanied the radiative output. With a time lag of 300 s between the peak of the TESS white-light flare and the GOES band flare peak as well as a clear Neupert effect, this event follows the standard (solar) flare scenario very closely. Time-resolved spectroscopy during the X-ray flare reveals, in addition to the time evolution of plasma temperature and emission measure, a temporary increase in electron density and elemental abundances, and a loop that extends into the corona by 13% of the stellar radius (4 x 10(9) cm). Independent estimates of the footprint area of the flare from TESS and XMM-Newton data suggest a high temperature of the optical flare (25000 K), but we consider it more likely that the optical and X-ray flare areas represent physically distinct regions in the atmosphere of AD Leo
A Review of Privatization and Regulation Experience in the UK – Irwin M. Stelzer, Chairman’s Comments – Stephen Littlechild
No full textCultural and Genre Markers in Lucy Hutchinson's Order and Disorder
No full textOrder and Disorder, since its attribution to Lucy Hutchinson (1620-1681) at the turn of the twenty-first century, has been hailed as Eve’s version of Genesis, as the first epic poem by an English woman, even conjuring a Paradise Lost written by “Judith Milton”. More recently, scholars have questioned the genre of this unfinished poem in 20 cantos, moving it from the category of epic to that of the biblical meditation and paraphrase. Hutchinson’s work expresses what Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (2013, 197) has termed a “poetics of not knowing”: negotiating the need to remain faithful to the Biblical narrative and a desire to express the ineffable, Hutchinson promises her readers in the Preface that they will find “nothing of fancy”, “no elevations of style, no charms of language”, and yet, the author resorts to an array of techniques to sing the sublimity of the “mystic wonders” with which her “ravished soul” has been “fire[d]” (1.1-2). Such devices include gendered modesty tropes; apophasis; potentially subversive conditionals and subjunctives; a complex intertextuality with authors ranging from Virgil and Lucretius to Du Bartas, Edmund Spenser, and even Shakespeare, and a complication of the readerly experience via paratextual glosses. This essay wishes to revisit the assessment of such techniques and suggest that Hutchinson weaves in her poem different markers to voice the varying degrees of her “endless admiration” (1.15)
Supplementary materials to: Examination of the new ICD-11 prolonged grief disorder guidelines across five international samples
No full textSupplementary materials to: Killikelly, C., Merzhvynska, M., Zhou, N., Stelzer, E.-M., Hyland, P., Rocha, J., . . . Maercker, A. (2021). Examination of the new ICD-11 prolonged grief disorder guidelines across five international samples. Clinical Psychology in Europe, 3(1), Article e4159. https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.4159The supplementary information contains tables of additional demographic characteristics for each of the five samples
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