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Kinds of Hero Selected AbstractsEffectiveness of HERO 642 versus Hedström files for removing gutta-percha fillings in curved root canals: an ex vivo studyINTERNATIONAL ENDODONTIC JOURNAL, Issue 11 2009B. Ayd Abstract Aim, To compare the effectiveness of gutta-percha removal and the maintenance of canal anatomy when using the HERO 642 system or Hedström files (H-files) in mandibular molar teeth. Methodology, The root canals of 40 mandibular molar teeth were instrumented using H-files and filled with gutta-percha and sealer. After 1 year in storage, the roots were sectioned horizontally to provide apical, middle and coronal root thirds. Sections were photographed, and an individual muffle was produced for each tooth. Teeth were randomly divided into four groups (n = 10) and the gutta-percha removed using either the HERO 642 system or H-files, with or without solvent. Digital images of the root canals were then re-taken. Root thirds were inspected for lateral perforations, and the percentage of the residual canal filling was determined on postoperative images. Transportation and centring ratio were calculated using preoperative and postoperative images of the cross-sections of root thirds. Results, H-files groups were associated with less filling material than the HERO 642 system (H-files,HERO 642 P = 0.056, H-files,HERO 642+solvent P = 0.041, H-files + solvent,HERO 642 P = 0.018, H-files + solvent,HERO 642 + solvent P = 0.016). The percentage of residual filling material was similar in the apical thirds, and the contribution of solvent to canal debridement was not statistically significant (P > 0.05). Perforation occurred mesiobuccally in 48% of specimens in the apical sections of mesial roots. There were no significant differences for centring ratio, transportation and perforation rate between groups. Conclusions, H-files left less gutta-percha overall; however, there was no difference in the apical third. The effect of solvent was not remarkable. Both instrument systems created a large number of perforations. [source] Marlowe's Doric Music: Lust and Aggression in Hero and LeanderENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE, Issue 1 2000JOHN LEONARD First page of article [source] It Takes a Woman to Play a Real Man: Clara as Hero(ine) of Beaumont and Fletcher's Love's CureENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE, Issue 3 2000ANNE DUNCAN First page of article [source] Efficacy of various concentrations of NaOCl and instrumentation techniques in reducing Enterococcus faecalis within root canals and dentinal tubulesINTERNATIONAL ENDODONTIC JOURNAL, Issue 1 2006V. B. Berber Abstract Aim, To evaluate the efficacy of 0.5%, 2.5% and 5.25% sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl) as intracanal irrigants associated with hand and rotary instrumentation techniques against Enterococcus faecalis within root canals and dentinal tubules. Methodology, A total of 180 extracted human premolar teeth were infected for 21 days with E. faecalis. The specimens were divided into 12 groups, as follows: group 1: 5.25% NaOCl + Hybrid technique (Valdrighi et al. 1998); group 2: 5.25% NaOCl + nickel,titanium (NiTi) rotary technique 4 mm shorter than the apex (by FOP-UNICAMP); group 3: 5, 25% NaOCl + NiTi rotary technique (Hero 642); group 4: 2.5% NaOCl +Hybrid technique; group 5: 2.5% NaOCl + NiTi rotary technique 4 mm shorter than the apex; group 6: 2.5% NaOCl + NiTi rotary technique (Hero 642); group 7: 0.5% NaOCl + Hybrid technique; group 8: 0.5% NaOCl + NiTi rotary technique 4 mm shorter than the apex; group 9: 0.5% NaOCl + NiTi rotary technique (Hero 642); group 10: sterile saline solution + Hybrid technique; group 11: sterile saline solution + NiTi rotary technique 4 mm shorter than the apex; group 12: sterile saline solution + NiTi rotary technique (Hero 642). Canals were sampled before and after preparation. After serial dilution, samples were plated onto brain heart infusion (BHI) agar, and the colony forming units (CFU) that were grown were counted. The teeth were sectioned into three thirds and dentine chips were removed from the canals with conical burs. The samples obtained with each bur were immediately collected into test tubes containing BHI broth, and were incubated at 37 °C and plated onto BHI agar. The CFU were counted and analysed. Results, At all depths and thirds of the root canals and for all techniques used, 5.25% NaOCl was shown to be the most effective irrigant solution tested when dentinal tubules were analysed, followed by 2.5% NaOCl. No differences among concentrations in cleaning the canals were found. Conclusions, Especially at higher concentrations, NaOCl, was able to disinfect the dentinal tubules, independent of the canal preparation technique used. [source] Shaping ability of Hero 642 rotary nickel,titanium instruments in simulated root canals: Part 2INTERNATIONAL ENDODONTIC JOURNAL, Issue 3 2000S. A. Thompson Abstract Aim To determine the shaping ability of Hero 642 nickel,titanium rotary instruments during the preparation of simulated canals. Methodology A total of 40 simulated root canals made up of four different shapes, in terms of angle and position of curvature, were prepared by Hero 642 instruments using a crown-down preparation sequence. Pre- and postoperative images of the canals were taken using a video camera attached to a computer with image analysis software. The pre- and postoperative views were superimposed to highlight the amount and position of material removed during preparation. This report describes the efficacy of the instruments in terms of prevalence of canal aberrations, the amount and direction of canal transportation and overall postoperative shape. Results Four zips and four elbows were created during preparation, all in canals with 40°, 12 mm curves. No perforations or danger zones were created. Highly significant differences (P < 0.001) were apparent between the canal shapes in total canal width at the apex and beginning of the curve, and in the amount of resin removed from the inner and outer aspects of the curve at the orifice. Canal transportation was most frequently directed toward the outer aspect of the curve at specific points along the canal, except at the orifice, where it was apparent that canals with 20° curves transported toward the inner. Overall, mean absolute transportation was always less than 0.15 mm; however, significant differences occurred between canal shapes at the end-point (P < 0.01), apex of the curve (P < 0.01) and at the orifice (P < 0.01). Conclusions Under the conditions of this study, Hero 642 rotary nickel,titanium instruments created canals with few aberrations and no perforations. The relatively high proportion of aberrations in canals with short, acute curves may indicate that instruments with increased taper should be used with caution at or near the full working distance. Further research in real teeth is necessary to elucidate the full potential of these new rotary instruments for use in root canal preparation. [source] Narratives of ,green' consumers , the antihero, the environmental hero and the anarchistJOURNAL OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR, Issue 1 2009Minna Autio Environmental policy makers and marketers are attracted by the notion of green consumerism. Yet, green consumerism is a contested concept, allowing for a wide range of translations in everyday discursive practices. This paper examines how young consumers construct their images of green consumerism. It makes a close reading of three narratives reflecting available subject positions for young green consumers: the Antihero, the Environmental Hero and the Anarchist. It reveals problems in the prevailing fragmented, gendered and individualistic notions of green consumerism, and discusses implications for policy and marketing practitioners. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Of Heroes and Polemics: "The Policeman" in Urban EthnographyPOLAR: POLITICAL AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEW, Issue 2010Kevin G. Karpiak Cities have long been characterized as lonely, alienating places in literature and the social sciences. This article tracks the theme of urban alienation through both detective fiction and urban ethnography, demonstrating that these literatures also share a focus on two key figures: the Hero and the Policeman. Within an important variant of the genre, the Policeman performs a crucial role, becoming the mechanism through which alienation is enforced. In this regard the Policeman stands in contrast to the Hero, battling over the very soul of modernity. On the other hand, there is a variant of the genre of police fiction which is known as noir. Within this genre, the ethical stakes are configured somewhat differently. I will argue that this is the location in which we find the potential for reconceptualizing anthropology's ethical stakes vis-à-vis questions of power and violence in the contemporary world. [source] Ike: An American Hero , By Michael KordaTHE HISTORIAN, Issue 3 2009David A. Nichols No abstract is available for this article. [source] Stephen Decatur: American Naval Hero, 1779,1820 , By Robert J. AllisonTHE HISTORIAN, Issue 2 2007Kurt Hackemer No abstract is available for this article. [source] Working-Class Hero: Michael Moore's Authorial Voice and Persona1THE JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE, Issue 2 2010LOUISE SPENCE First page of article [source] Holding Out for a Hero: Reaganism, Comic Book Vigilantes, and Captain AmericaTHE JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE, Issue 6 2007MIKE S. DUBOSE First page of article [source] A Soldier's Body: GI Joe, Hasbro's Great American Hero, and the Symptoms of EmpireTHE JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE, Issue 1 2004Karen J. Hall First page of article [source] Local Heroes, Narrative Worlds and the Imagination: The Making of a Moral Curriculum Through Experiential NarrativesCURRICULUM INQUIRY, Issue 1 2008CAROLA CONLE ABSTRACT Concern about the impact of narrative worlds and their heroes offered by the media prompted research on encounters with moral models in experiential, narrative curricula. Researchers tracked the extension of a mandated Language Arts curriculum on "heroes" through the experiential narratives of four local heroes chosen collaboratively by teacher, students and researcher. They also elicited and analyzed responses from students to these narrative presentations in order to explore how students understood the narrative worlds presented to them. Instead of focusing on the personalities of the speakers, the researchers considered the experiential stories, and the moments of narrative encounter they offered, as the sources of immediate moral impact. However, this impact, it is suggested, did not adhere to a particular narrative in an undifferentiated manner. Instead, effects varied according to what a particular student brought to the encounter and how he or she was able to experience it. Material from two students' responses illustrates how they brought their own personal and socio-cultural contexts to the encounter, activating existing dispositions and reinforcing inclinations to behave in certain ways. There was some evidence that the students reconstructed the meaning of events in their lives, were able to interpret their environment in new ways, and constructed visions of possible futures based on this curricular experience. [source] Fighting Heroes, Repair,workers or Collaborators?FINANCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY & MANAGEMENT, Issue 3 2003Strategies of NPOs, Their Consequences This paper wants to contribute to two questions: Firstly, it analyses why NPOs are gaining importance today. It argues that many NPOs possess a particular integrative potential because of their specific position in society. Secondly, the question of the way in which NPOs excert influence is raised. It is argued, that the form of influence of those NPOs that are oriented towards social change are distinguished according to a typology of cooperation, confrontation, and limitation of damage. [source] What Should Historians Do With Heroes?HISTORY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 2 2007Reflections on Nineteenth-, Twentieth-Century Britain This article reviews research on modern British heroes (in particular Henry Havelock, Florence Nightingale, Amy Johnson and Robert Falcon Scott) to argue that heroes should be analysed as sites within which we can find evidence of the cultural beliefs, social practices, political structures and economic systems of the past. Much early work interpreted modern heroes as instruments of nationalist and imperialist ideologies, but instrumental interpretations have been superseded within the New Cultural History by broader analyses of the range of gendered meanings encoded in heroic reputations. Studies of heroic icons have generated important insights for historians of masculinity and femininity. More research, however, is needed on the reception rather than the representation of heroic icons, on visual and material sources, and on the changing forms and functions of national heroes after 1945. [source] Heroes in the nursery: Three case studies in resilienceJOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 3 2002Carl F. Rak This article examines the therapeutic work in three cases (child, adolescent, adult) to study the impact of a supportive and nurturing parent early in life upon the development of resilience. The close analysis of the clinical material of each client's personal narrative is the primary source. The metaphor of "heroes in the nursery" is posited as a vehicle for enhancing understandings of the development of resilience. Each case provides additive meaning to recent studies that elevate the importance of the memories of parents to the development of resilient responses of children later in life. Each case reveals specific dimensions of the impact of heroes in the nursery which extend our understandings of resiliency in children and adolescents as a proactive response to stress, trauma, and loss. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Psychol 58: 247,260, 2002. [source] Understanding Evil and Educating HeroesJOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION, Issue 1 2008AVI MINTZ Why do people do horrific things to one another? This article reviews two recent books that attempt to answer that question, Philip Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil and Barbara Coloroso's Extraordinary Evil: A Brief History of Genocide. The author discusses the educational implications of these works and raises preliminary considerations for an education for heroism. [source] On the Role of Heroes in Political and Economic ProcessesKYKLOS INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, Issue 2 2002Gebhard Kirchgässner I gratefully acknowledge helpful comments and suggestions by the participants of this conference, especially Geoffrey Brennan, Christoph Engel and Torsten Persson, as well as by Simon Gaechter. [source] PROCESSION AND SYMBOLISM AT TARA: ANALYSIS OF TECH MIDCHÚARTA (THE ,BANQUETING HALL') IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SACRAL CAMPUSOXFORD JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGY, Issue 4 2007CONOR NEWMAN Summary. New analysis explores Tech Midchúarta (the ,Banqueting Hall') from the point of view of a sacral, processional approach to the summit of the Hill of Tara, the pre-eminent cult and inauguration site of prehistoric and early medieval Ireland. It is suggested that aspects of its architectural form symbolize the liminal boundary between the human world and the Otherworld of Tara, and that in so far as Tech Midchúarta is also designed to control and manipulate how the ceremonial complex is disclosed to the observer, it assembles the existing monuments into one, integrated ceremonial campus. It is argued that Tech Midchúarta is one of the later monuments on the Hill of Tara and that it may date from the early medieval period. Using the evidence of documentary sources and extant monuments, a possible processional route from Tech Midchúarta to Ráith na Ríg is described. Immráidem fós Long na Láech frisanabar Barc Ban mbáeth. Tech na Fían, nirbo long lec, co cethri doirsib deac. Let us consider too the Hall of the Heroes which is called the Palace of Vain Women; the House of Warriors, it was no mean hall, with fourteen doors. (Gwynn 1903,35, Metrical Dindshenchas III, 18) [source] Of Heroes and Polemics: "The Policeman" in Urban EthnographyPOLAR: POLITICAL AND LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY REVIEW, Issue 2010Kevin G. Karpiak Cities have long been characterized as lonely, alienating places in literature and the social sciences. This article tracks the theme of urban alienation through both detective fiction and urban ethnography, demonstrating that these literatures also share a focus on two key figures: the Hero and the Policeman. Within an important variant of the genre, the Policeman performs a crucial role, becoming the mechanism through which alienation is enforced. In this regard the Policeman stands in contrast to the Hero, battling over the very soul of modernity. On the other hand, there is a variant of the genre of police fiction which is known as noir. Within this genre, the ethical stakes are configured somewhat differently. I will argue that this is the location in which we find the potential for reconceptualizing anthropology's ethical stakes vis-à-vis questions of power and violence in the contemporary world. [source] Heroes and Heroin: From True Romance to Pulp FictionTHE JOURNAL OF POPULAR CULTURE, Issue 4 2000Caroline Jewers First page of article [source] Heroes, Villains and Women: Representations of Latin America in The Voyage by Fernando SolanasBULLETIN OF LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH, Issue 4 2002Deborah Shaw This article provides a close study of Solanas's most ambitious film, The Voyage (El viaje). It examines the director's attempts to create a model of Latin American cinema in opposition to Hollywood aesthetics. The paper discusses the extent to which Solanas is successful in this project, and examines the ways in which he has been faithful to his political views. In addition, the paper challenges the film's representations of women, arguing that in this respect The Voyage fails in its attempts at radical filmmaking; the hero's quest is seen in patriarchal terms and the female characters are marginalized. [source] Honoring the Admiral: Boerhaave-van Wassenaer's syndromeDISEASES OF THE ESOPHAGUS, Issue 3 2006B. D. Adams SUMMARY., Dr. Herman Boerhaave (1668,1738) first described esophageal rupture and the subsequent mediastinal sepsis based upon his careful clinical and autopsy findings and hundreds of references have since been written about Boerhaave's syndrome. Several fine historical accounts of this brilliant scientist have been published over the years and he has received appropriate credit for his valuable contributions. But what about that unfortunate propositus that Dr. Boerhaave attended to, performed necropsy upon, and subsequently received acclaim with? Medical history pays inadequate regard to the Baron Jan Gerrit van Wassenaer heer van Rosenberg, Prefect of Rhineland and Grand Admiral of the Dutch Fleet. This figure was a nobleman and war hero at the peak of the Dutch Golden Age who played his role in steering the course of European history. Without this nobleman's heroic contemporaneous account, Boerhaave's celebrated impact on medical science would never have been realized. Therefore, we offer an overdue recitation of Admiral van Wassenaer's biography. Based on found precedent we propose that spontaneous rupture of the esophagus be henceforth referred to as the ,Boerhaave-van Wassenaer's syndrome'. [source] Stephen of Ripon and the Bible: allegorical and typological interpretations of the Life of St WilfridEARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPE, Issue 2 2000Mark D. Laynesmith This article attempts a re-reading of Stephen of Ripon's Life of Saint Wilfrid in the light of a biblical exegetical methodology which is contemporary to its composition, being derived chiefly from the works of Bede. Through an analysis of typology in the Life, this study argues that Stephen compared his hero with various biblical reformers. By inaccurately linking Wilfrid's main enemies with quartodecimanism Stephen could claim that Wilfrid was in conflict with enemies who could be rhetorically characterized as types of perfidious Jews. Ultimately Stephen is shown to have used a theology of Jewish,Christian supersessionism to characterize and explain his subject's turbulent career. The work includes an appendix speculatively interpreting two resurrection miracles. [source] Othello and the Geography of PersuasionENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE, Issue 1 2010Catherine Nicholson Othello is a revealing commentary on the unstable geographic underpinnings of early modern English theories of persuasion, which vacillate between affirming the authority of the commonplace and recognizing the allure of the novel and the strange. Thomas Rymer attacks the play as a tissue of improbabilities: Rymer's rigidly Aristotelian critique has been dismissed as a willfully insensitive and racist misreading, but his insistence on conflating credibility with racial identity coincides with Othello's own representation of its hero as doubly far-fetched. Othello's strangeness is both the key to his eloquence and the root of his vulnerability to Iago's skillful deployment of insider knowledge and plausible fictions. The play's racial dynamics thus play out rhetorically: Brabantio's locally-specific likelihoods may yield to Othello's exotic figures of speech, but Iago's commonplaces triumph in the end. This contest between plausibility and extravagance doesn't merely echo the play's geographic plotting, it points to the inextricability of early modern ideas about eloquence and about place. (C.N.) [source] Frontier Masculinity in the Oil Industry: The Experience of Women EngineersGENDER, WORK & ORGANISATION, Issue 1 2004Gloria E. Miller This study contributes to the empirical evidence in the area of gendered organizations (Martin and Collinson, 2002) and their effects on the women who work in them through an interpretive, ethnographic analysis of the oil industry in Canada, specifically Alberta. The study combines data from interviews with women professionals who have extensive employment experience in the industry, a historical analysis of the industry's development in the area and the personal contextual experience of the author. It is suggested that there are three primary processes which structure the masculinity of the industry: everyday interactions which exclude women; values and beliefs specific to the dominant occupation of engineering which reinforce gender divisions; and a consciousness derived from the powerful symbols of the frontier myth and the romanticized cowboy hero. In this dense cultural web of masculinities, the strategies that the women developed to survive, and, up to a point, to thrive, are double-edged in that they also reinforced the masculine system, resulting in short-term individual gains and an apparently long-term failure to change the masculine values of the industry. [source] More than a great poster: Lord Kitchener and the image of the military heroHISTORICAL RESEARCH, Issue 185 2001Keith Surridge Lord Kitchener was once a great legendary figure but the imagery and iconography used to create the legend is less well known. By using his papers and contemporary literature this article attempts to shed light on how Kitchener was regarded by his peers and the public. Instead of the wholesome English traits attributed to his predecessors, Kitchener's admirers and enemies described him as ,oriental', ,teutonic', devious, cruel, machine-like and efficient, which made him the ideal champion for a country undergoing a collective crisis of confidence before 1914. Thus Kitchener was, in many ways, a new kind of hero. [source] Narratives of ,green' consumers , the antihero, the environmental hero and the anarchistJOURNAL OF CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR, Issue 1 2009Minna Autio Environmental policy makers and marketers are attracted by the notion of green consumerism. Yet, green consumerism is a contested concept, allowing for a wide range of translations in everyday discursive practices. This paper examines how young consumers construct their images of green consumerism. It makes a close reading of three narratives reflecting available subject positions for young green consumers: the Antihero, the Environmental Hero and the Anarchist. It reveals problems in the prevailing fragmented, gendered and individualistic notions of green consumerism, and discusses implications for policy and marketing practitioners. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] The One-Winged Angel.ORBIS LITERARUM, Issue 3 2009History, Memory in the Literary Discourse of W. G. Sebald This study explores an ambiguity in W. G. Sebald's literary discourse. The author presents writing as a way to resist the fatality of the historical process and to overcome the limits of historical representation. His narratives are founded on the recognition that it is ethically necessary to speak in the name of the victims, but epistemologically impossible to do so. In order to overcome his scepticism, Sebald developed a discourse of memory largely inspired by Nabokov's and Benjamin's ideas of aesthetic redemption. The reader should be transformed through a sort of epiphany, an aesthetic illumination that works in his imagination and engages him in a ritual of mourning. This discourse, however, hides a tendency to glorify the figure of the melancholy writer, portraying him as a cultural hero. The narrator of Sebald's fictions is not just a critical witness of the catastrophic course of the world, but an image of the poet who struggles heroically against fatality and is redeemed, not because he triumphs, but precisely because he fails. It is my contention that Sebald's concept of the writer as a sublime tragic figure , what I call ,the one-winged angel', undermines the political, if not the ethical, significance of his artistic legacy. [source] An Apology for Antony.ORBIS LITERARUM, Issue 4 2008Cleopatra, Morality, Pathos in Shakespeare's Antony Taking off from a consideration of Antony and Cleopatra's intermingling of pathetic and moral tragedy, the analysis proposed in the present essay demonstrates how the play's peculiar combination of morality and pathos results in a dialectical critique of both concepts of the tragic. Shakespeare didn't write a straight-forward pathetic tragedy, in fact Antony and Cleopatra questions this very phenomenon from the perspective of the tragicomic Christian theatrum mundi. At the same time, however, the play inverts not only moral tragedy, but also the moral design , the ,exemplary' story of the great Mark Antony's downfall through moral corruption , that Shakespeare inherited from Roman historiography through Plutarch's Life of Antony, medieval historiography, and Renaissance emblematics. In contrast to the recent critical negligence of the moral aspect of the play, as well as the overemphasis on this aspect in early criticism of the play, the analysis proposed emphazises the dialectic of moralism and pathos in Shakespeare's play. The fundamental ambiguity permeating Shakespeare's characterization of Antony as a tragic hero is not only seen to affect the understanding of this particular play, but also, by implication, to question the notion of Shakespeare as a modern dramatist and the view of Renaissance drama as an unequivocal break with the medieval dramatic heritage. [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||