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ABSTRACT This article examines the use of promotional interviews (“promos”) in American professional wrestling of the 1980s. I argue that promos introduced a vocal modality into a form of sports entertainment that, as Roland Barthes ([1957] 1972) showed in Mythologies, had always been dominated by visual spectacle. I then undertake a focused linguistic
Jens Kjeldgaard‐Christiansen
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Load capacity of hardened gear wheels machined with cubic boron nitride (CBN) wedges
The paper presents the results of exploitation examination of gear wheels with hardened bearing surface. The gears under investigation have been finish machined by the method elaborated by the author, with a tool possessing wedges made of CBN (cubic ...
R. Talar, A. Stoić
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Advanced gearbox technology [PDF]
An advanced 13,000 HP, counterrotating (CR) gearbox was designed and successfully tested to provide a technology base for future designs of geared propfan propulsion systems for both commercial and military aircraft.
Anderson, N. E. +3 more
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Four Dimensions of Presidential Leadership: Rethinking Nelson Mandela's Presidency
ABSTRACT This article applies a four‐dimensional analytical framework to re‐evaluate Nelson Mandela's presidency (1994–1999). The framework distinguishes tensions and synergies across four key domains of leadership: executive and symbolic, party and state, international and domestic, and formal versus informal.
Anthony Butler
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Advanced Rotorcraft Transmission (ART) program summary [PDF]
The Advanced Rotorcraft Transmission (ART) Program was initiated to advance the state of the art for rotorcraft transmissions. The goal of the ART Program was to develop and demonstrate the technologies needed to reduce transmission weight by 25 pct. and
Kish, J. G., Krantz, T. L.
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Residual stress in case hardened steel gears [PDF]
Aerospace gear components are required to demonstrate excellent load carrying and endurance characteristics. Case hardened steels are often utilised for these parts. During the manufacturing process of case hardened steel gears residual stresses are developed.
Easton, David +3 more
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Nimbus Meteorological Satellite Integration and Testing Materials Report No. 8 [PDF]
Nimbus satellite component and materials environmental investigations, failure analyses, and quality control ...
Neville, T.
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Studying the factors affecting machining accuracy, surface quality, and machining efficiency in the powerful honing machining process system, analyzing the basic law between various errors and machining quality, exploring the method of evaluating the ...
Jie Su +6 more
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Evaluation of CBS 600 carburized steel as a gear material [PDF]
Gear endurance tests were conducted with one lot of consumable-electrode vacuum-melted (CVM) AISI 9310 gears and one lot of air-melt CBS 600 gears. The gears were 8 pitch with a pitch diameter of 8.89 centimeters (3.5 in.).
Parker, R. J. +2 more
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Evaluation of a high performance, fixed-ratio, traction drive [PDF]
A test program was initiated to evaluate the key operational and performance factors associated with the Nasvytis multiroller concept. Two sets of Nasvytis drives, each of slightly geometry, were parametrically tested on a back to back test stand ...
Anderson, N. E. +2 more
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