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5 days ago · ONE OF HENRY JAMES’S MOST CELEBRATED STATEMENTS occurs in ‘The Art of Fiction’: ‘Catching the very note and trick, the strange irregular rhythm of life, that is the attempt whose strenuous force keeps Fiction upon her feet’. 1 Critics have rightly admired this urge to ‘resist form, to respond to life’s disorder’, in Millicent Bell’s terms, this conception of the novel as ...
1 day ago · Incorrect cuff size can often overestimate blood pressures in men abusing androgens, who often have a large arm circumference. 96 Although there is evidence that androgen abuse is associated with increases in blood pressure, consideration should be given to secondary causes of hypertension, especially as many of these men will be young. In the ...
2 days ago · Cuff. A cuff is a layer of fabric at the lower edge of the sleeve of a garment (shirt, coat, jacket, etc.) at the wrist, or at the ankle end of a trouser leg. The function of turned-back cuffs is to protect the cloth of the garment from fraying, and, when frayed, to allow the cuffs to be readily repaired or replaced, without changing the garment.
1 day ago · Anger is defined in Buddhism as: "being unable to bear the object, or the intention to cause harm to the object". Anger is seen as aversion with a stronger exaggeration, and is listed as one of the five hindrances.
4 days ago · About some people. And wrong about many more. And that would be so anywhere on earth. But Americans, God love ‘em, are a special case. In his fantastic 2017 book Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History, Kurt Andersen delves into the uniquely American psyche: one particularly susceptible to the power of stories and how it has led to a society where belief often trumps fact.
4 days ago · First, as the cuff electrode is axially symmetric, it rotates the order of modeled active sites, to align the active sites to the precise placement of the cuff during the surgery.
2 days ago · Privatization (rendered privatisation in British English) can mean several different things, most commonly referring to moving something from the public sector into the private sector. It is also sometimes used as a synonym for deregulation when a heavily regulated private company or industry becomes less regulated.
