| preparing our paralympians: research and development at ossur, uk. interview by sarah a. curran. | in the last 25 years, the continuous evolution in the design of prostheses for individuals with transfemoral and transtibial amputations has been remarkable. mirroring this development is the dependency and expectancy of the prosthesis technology by the athletes, coaches and other personnel involved in creating paralympians of today and the future. össur is recognised as a leader in designing innovative prosthetic products that have contributed worldwide to developing leading paralympians. the o ... | 2012 | 22918916 |
| pm2.5 concentrations in london for 2008--a modeling analysis of contributions from road traffic. | we report on the analysis of contributions from road traffic emissions to fine particulate matter (pm2.5) concentrations within london for 2008 with the oscar air quality assessment system. a spatiotemporal evaluation of the oscar system has been conducted with measurements from the london air quality network (laqn). for the predicted and measured hourly time series of concentrations at 18 sites in london, the medians of correlation, mean absolute error, index of agreement, and factor of two (fa ... | 2014 | 24941699 |
| a theory of scandal: victorians, homosexuality, and the fall of oscar wilde. | oscar wilde is considered to be the iconic victim of 19th-century english puritanism. yet the victorian authorities rarely and only reluctantly enforced homosexuality laws. moreover, wilde's sexual predilections had long been common knowledge in london before his trial without affecting the dramatist's wide popularity. focusing on the seemingly inconsistent victorian attitudes toward homosexuality and the dynamics of the oscar wilde affair, this article develops a general theory of scandal as th ... | 2005 | 16240549 |
| oscar wilde and the scarlet woman. | in the late nineteenth century, england was embroiled in a political debate over the importation of roman catholic rituals into the anglican church, not to mention the re-establishment of the roman church itself in great britain. victorian anti-catholic rhetoric draws upon the figure of the whore of babylon to depict the roman catholic church as the scarlet woman, a femme fatale who perverts christianity and seduces englishmen with elaborate rituals and lascivious whisperings in the confessional ... | 1997 | 9378935 |
| making history: the bloomsbury group's construction of aesthetic and sexual identity. | this essay examines the way england's well-known bloomsbury group in the first decades of this century negotiated the legacy of prominent figures of the generation before in order to create its own identity. looking at the group's ideas about both aesthetics and sexuality, the author shows how the group privileged leo tolstoy over j. a. m. whistler, and oscar wilde over walter pater. the introduction and conclusion seek to set this study in the context of current issues in gay and lesbian studie ... | 1994 | 7798602 |