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Hanging kokedama : creating potless plants for the home
\"Learn all about the Japanese art of creating pot-less plants, known as kokedama, from botanical extraordinaire Coraleigh Parker, and have a go a creating your own pot-less, hanging plants. Coraleigh's breath-taking moss ball creations, featuring ferns, succulents, herbs, orchids and even small trees, are suspended in mid-air and supported by nothing more than a series of strings or fishing lines, intricately wrapped around a root ball. Decorating with indoor plants has never been more popular and hanging kokedama is the ultimate botanical trend as it offers everything through a single, versatile and inexpensive craft; you can turn any of your favorite plants into a kokedama on a (shoe)string in no time\"-- Amazon.com.
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From psychogeography to hanging-out-knowing: Situationist dérive in nonrepresentational urban research
Members of the Situationist International drifted in urban space on their dérives in the 1950s and 60s to grasp the city's \"psychogeography.\" In this paper, I revisit the Situationist practice of drifting as part of doing nonrepresentational urban research on spatial justice in the city. In contrast to aiming for any fixed representations of a city's contours, I treat the dérive as a process of \"becoming with\": a continuous invention of the city (and the self) through ephemeral encounters. This understanding implies an emergent human subject, one that is changeable and creates breaks in knowledge via dwelling with other subjects (human, technological, architectural, etc.). Here, thinking is approached as a joint participation of the knowing human subject and the city, it is always spatial-embodied. I have named this style of non-linear reflection \"hanging-out-knowing.\" Photography is connected to the dérive to direct attention to passing moments and banal details in the urban landscape: to tease out situations, or encounters, that may provoke the generative moment of enchantment. This experience can usually be detected only when it is already gone, but it forces a new perspective to the world. In doing research, this view does not open from practice alone, rather it is often inspired by theory. To illustrate the onto-epistemological argument, I discuss a sound-inspired photowalk in Vilanova i la Geltrú, a vibrant small city in the province of Barcelona.
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The invited
\"In 1924, a young mother, Hattie Breckenridge, is hanged from a tree in her yard by the town mob, accused of a crime that was actually committed by her daughter. Nearly a century later, a young married couple, Helen and Nate abandon the comforts of suburbia to begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams on the same forty-four acres of rural land where Hattie once lived. When they discover that this charming property has a dark and violent past, Helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by Hattie's story and the tragic legend of her descendants, three generations of 'Breckenridge women,' each of whom died amid suspicion, and who seem to still be seeking something elusive and dangerous in the present day\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Aggressive imaging protocol for hanging patients yields no significant findings
Despite rising rates of hanging injuries, few high-quality data and no national trauma guidelines are available to standardize the evaluation of these patients. We sought to identify the yield of imaging hanging patients at our institution.
This is a retrospective study at an urban Level I Trauma Center. Charts for patients diagnosed with “Hanging, Strangulation, or Asphyxiation” (ICD-9 E93.0) from February 2008 to March 2014 were reviewed. Frequency of imaging orders and their results were recorded. Logistic regression analyses were done to determine factors associated with increased rates of imaging.
78 patients met inclusion criteria. The average age was 34 years, 86% were male, and 65% were witnessed hangings. In total, 195 CT scans and 67 X-rays were done. Frequency of imaging in our cohort: 77% received CT of the head (CTH); 88% CT of the neck; 85% CT angiography (CTA) of the neck; 86% chest X-ray. Highest-level trauma activation occurred in 76% of patients and was associated with an increased rate of imaging, with the likelihood of CTH being increased by 31% (p < 0.01), CT of the neck without contrast by 19% (p < 0.01), CTA of the neck by 25% (p < 0.01), and chest X-ray by 25% (p < 0.01). Of the 78 patients, none had significant findings that required intervention.
In this study, the highest-level trauma activation was associated with increased rates of imaging, but did not alter patient care. A more selective approach in the evaluation of hanging injuries should be considered.
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The thirteenth turn : a history of the noose
\"The hangman's knot is a simple thing to tie, just a rope carefully coiled around itself up to thirteen times. But in those thirteen turns lie a powerful symbol, one of the most powerful in history, and particularly in America, whose relationship to the noose is all too deep and complicated. Our history with hangings is shockingly recent. The last man to be hanged in the United States was Billy Bailey, who was executed in Delaware in 1996 for committing a double murder. Hanging has since been disallowed in that state, but it is still legal, in certain situations, in New Hampshire and Washington. An incident in Jena, Louisiana, in 2006, in which nooses were used to symbolically menace black students, is a fresh reminder of just how potent this emblem of racism and savage violence still is. All that meaning, and all that history, is a lot to see in a coiled rope. But the fact is, that meaning is felt by all of us. And Jack Shuler, a professor of American literature and black studies, is the right man to explore it: from Judas Iscariot, perhaps the most infamous hanged man, to the killing of Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, the murderers at the heart of Capote's In Cold Blood, and beyond. Shuler goes era by era, tracing the evolution of this dark practice in episodes, and revealing the ways each one impacted the society around it. As he investigates the death of John Brown and the 1930 lynching that inspired the song \"Strange Fruit,\" his travels take him across America-and not just the South-uncovering our deep secrets and searching for meaning. Shuler's account is a kind of shadow history of America: for all the celebrated strides we've made towards integration and harmony, those victories are hollow without an appreciation for what they vanquished. The Thirteenth Turn is a courageous and searching book that reminds us where we come from, and what is lost if we forget. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Triggering and recovery of earthquake accelerated landslides in Central Italy revealed by satellite radar observations
Earthquake triggered landslides often pose a great threat to human life and property. Emerging research has been devoted to documenting coseismic landslides failed during or shortly after earthquakes, however, the long-term seismic effect that causes unstable landslides only to accelerate, moderately or acutely, without immediate failures is largely neglected. Here we show the activation and recovery of these earthquake accelerated landslides (EALs) in Central Italy, based on satellite radar observations. Unlike previous studies based on single or discrete landslides, we established a large inventory of 819 EALs and statistically quantified their spatial clustering features against a set of conditioning factors, thus finding that EALs did not rely on strong seismic shaking or hanging wall effects to occur and larger landslides were more likely to accelerate after earthquakes than smaller ones. We also discovered their accelerating-to-recovering sliding dynamics, and how they differed from the collapsed 759 coseismic landslides. These findings contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of the earthquake-triggering landslide mechanism and are of great significance for long-term landslide risk assessment in seismically active areas.
This study uses satellite radar observations to investigate the triggering and recovery mechanisms of landslides that are accelerated by earthquakes without immediate failures but showing a prolonged response.
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Instability Assessment of Hanging Wall Rocks during Underground Mining of Iron Ores
The paper presents the study of the deformation processes development in unstable rocks of the hanging wall during mining a thick steeply dipping ore deposit in the example of the Yuzhno-Belozerskyi deposit. In the studied field, there are problems of stability of hanging wall rocks, represented by low-resistant shale rocks that do not withstand significant outcrops in time. A decrease in stability is manifested in the form of failure of the hanging wall rocks into the stope. Based on a detailed study of the ore deposit geological structure and the performance of the stopes mining, according to the survey data, an area of the deposit has been identified where the ore failure and dilution reach 4%–8% with a maximum value of 12%. This also makes it possible to determine the most important averaged source data for performing physical modeling on equivalent materials. It has been determined that the deformation value of the hanging wall rocks with subsequent failure into the stope and ore mass deformation in the sloping bottom change exponentially with an increase in the depth of the stope location, and the dynamics of increasing rock deformations in the hanging wall is noticeably higher than in the sloping bottom of the stope. This reduces the quality of the mined ore and increases the probability of rock failure area propagation to the hanging wall drifts with their subsequent destruction. The results of physical modeling are characterised by acceptable reliability and are confirmed by a high similarity with the actual data on ore dilution with broken rocks during the stopes development. It has been found that during the formation of a steeply dipping outcrop of stopes with an area of 1200 m2, unstable rocks of the hanging wall are prone to failure of significant volumes. For successful mining and achieving stope element stability, it is recommended to optimise its parameters, the height, width and the value of a steeply dipping outcrop, as well as to preserve the ore pillar in the hanging wall until the ore is broken and drawn from the rest of the stope.
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Investigation of suicide deaths in Artvin: a retrospective analysis of autopsy findings
Aims: Suicide is defined as an act committed by an individual deciding to end their own life. It is one of the leading causes of death. The aim of this study is to reveal the multidimensional structure of suicide deaths and to contribute to the development of policies for the prevention of suicide through analyzing the data on suicide deaths in Artvin. Methods: In this retrospective descriptive study, data from suicide cases autopsied by the Artvin Forensic Medicine Branch Directorate between 2016 and 2024 were analyzed. Only cases confirmed as suicides, as determined by a non-prosecution decision from the prosecutor's office or court, were included in the analysis. Cases currently under investigation for suspected suicides were excluded. The evaluation included age, gender, marital status, body mass index (BMI), time interval, season, location of the incident, suicide method, and medical history documented in electronic health records. Results: A total of 50 suicide cases were analyzed. The mean age was 52.9[+ or -]19.6 years, and most of the participants were male (76%). The majority were married (68% of them) and in the 50-64 age group (34% of them). Based on BMI, 42% were overweight, 26% obese, and 6% morbidly obese. Firearms were the most common method (42%), followed by hanging (38%). Most suicides occurred at home or in annexes (62%), and during spring (32%) or summer (30%). Systemic disease was present in 73.5%, psychiatric disorders or medication use in 46.9%, and both in 34.7%. Significant differences were found for age, gender, marital status, oncological disease, and suicide method (p<0.05), while no associations were noted with BMI, location, season, time, or health history (p>0.05). Conclusions: This study examined suicide autopsies and showed that most cases involved middle-aged, married men. Suicides generally occurred at home during spring and summer, with firearms being the most commonly used method. Many cases had systemic or psychiatric illnesses and were overweight. Keywords: Suicide, autopsy, firearm, hanging
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Hanging droplets from liquid surfaces
Natural and man-made robotic systems use the interfacial tension between two fluids to support dense objects on liquid surfaces. In this work, we show that coacervate-encased droplets of an aqueous polymer solution can be hung from the surface of a less dense aqueous polymer solution using surface tension. The forces acting on and the shapes of the hanging droplets can be controlled. Sacs with homogeneous and heterogeneous surfaces are hung from the surface and, by capillary forces, form well-ordered arrays. Locomotion and rotation can be achieved by embedding magnetic microparticles within the assemblies. Direct contact of the droplet with air enables in situ manipulation and compartmentalized cascading chemical reactions with selective transport. Applications including functional microreactors, motors, and biomimetic robots are evident.
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Optimized input shaping for multi-mode hanging chains using a modal model approach
This work presents a study on the dynamics and control of a hanging chain suspended from an overhead crane, using modal analysis and input shaping techniques. Two standard input shaping functions, step, and polynomial, are evaluated alongside a piecewise cosine function. The effectiveness of proposed input shaping techniques is evaluated based on their impact on the hanging chain’s various mode shapes contribution. The study introduces a key innovation in solving input coefficients for flexible structures by utilizing the modal model matrix created from the Finite Difference Method in conjunction with Laplace transformations. This approach aims to achieve various solutions for the input functions depending on the number of modes considered in the system. The solution varies depending on the number of modes contributing in the response. This allows for highly precise control and provides insights into their potential applications in dynamic control systems involving flexible structures.
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