Abstract This article investigates Jane Austen's network of bodily metaphors in Persuasion , re‐examining ‘bloom’ the context its pair, ‘ruin’. While novel is traditionally understood as a progress narrative that moves from Anne's self‐description being ‘in ruins’ to restoration her ‘bloom’, examines inconsistency around appearance and throughout novel, contending rather than presenting progres...

Anatomic variation of the biceps brachii muscle (BBM) is frequently observed; its pattern diverse and clinically important. During educational dissection a 78-year-old Korean male cadaver, six additional asymmetrical heads were found on both sides. On right side, two originated from humerus; musculocutaneous nerve passed between these short head BBM. Four left anterior to BBM, one which pectora...

OBJECTIVE To describe and evaluate an ear piercing and earring retention method for individuals with metal hypersensitivity. SETTING Private facial plastic surgery practice associated with a tertiary care medical center. METHODS Thirty-one patients with a history of hypersensitivity to metallic jewelry (62 ears) underwent earlobe piercing with an intravenous catheter. RESULTS None of the ...

We deduce by the monomode modal method the analytical expressions of the transmission and reflection Jones matrices of an infinitely conducting metallic screen periodically pierced by subwavelength holes. The study is restricted to normal incidence and to the case of neglected evanescent fields (far-field), which covers many common cases. When only one nondegenerate mode propagates in cavities,...

A Achilles—the legendary warrior and hero of Homer’s Th e Iliad—died as a result of an arrow that pierced the midportion of his tendon, today’s patient with a painful presentation in this region usually has a good long-term prognosis.1 Nevertheless, runners have a 15 times greater risk of Achilles tendon rupture, and 30 times greater risk of tendinopathy than do sedentary controls.2 Th is chapt...

In this paper, we consider an open tube of diameter ε > 0, on the side of which a small hole of size ε2 is pierced. The resonances of this tube correspond to the eigenvalues of the Laplacian operator with homogeneous Neumann condition on the inner surface of the tube and Dirichlet one the open parts of the tube. We show that this spectrum converges when ε goes to 0 to the spectrum of an explici...

Let`1 ; ` 2 ; : : : ; ` d be disjoint parallel lines in the plane. A d-interval is a subset of their union that intersects eachì in a closed interval. Kaiser Discr. Comput. Geom. 18(1997) 195{203] showed that any system of d-intervals containing no subsystem of k + 1 pairwise disjoint d-intervals can be pierced by at most (d 2 ? d)k points. We show that this bound is close to being optimal, by ...

We develop a theory for the quantum circuit consisting of a superconducting loop interrupted by four Josephson junctions and pierced by a magnetic flux (either static or time-dependent). In addition to the similarity with the typical three-junction flux qubit in the double-well regime, we demonstrate the difference of the four-junction circuit from its three-junction analogue, including its adv...

We study energetics of a Josephson tunnel junction connecting a superconducting loop pierced by an external magnetic flux (an rf SQUID) and coupled to two independent thermal reservoirs of different temperature. In the framework of the theory of quantum dissipative systems, we analyze energy currents in stationary states. The stationary energy flow can be periodically modulated by the external ...