The Penile Strain Gauge and Aversion Therapy: Measuring and Fixing the Sexual Body

Zusammenfassung Ziel: Überprüfung der Korrelation der photooptischen Venenfunktionstests Lichtreflexionsrheographie (LRR), digitale Photoplethysmographie (DPPG) und der Quecksilberdehnungsstreifen- Plethysmographie (Hg-strain gauge) mit der Phlebodynamometrie (PDM). Methode: Die simultane Messung von LRR, DPPG, Hg-strain gauge und PDM wurde an 34 Patienten mit chronischer venöser Insuffizienz in den klinischen Stadien I bis III nach Widmer an insgesamt 39 Unterschenkeln vorgenommen. Die Messungen erfolgten während Dorsalextension des Fußes in sitzender und während Plantarflexion des Fußes in stehender Position. Als Parameter für die Ermittlung des Korrelationskoeffizienten wurden die Wiederauffüllzeiten t0 und t1/2 sowie die venöse Abpumpleistung ermittelt. Ergebnisse: Unabhängig von Körperposition und Anlage von Tourniquets erreichten die Korrelationen für alle Messverfahren und Parameter Werte zwischen r = 0,76 (t0 LRR) und r = 0,05 (Abpumpleistung DPPG automatische Auswertung). Eine gute Korrelation von t0 wurde in stehender Körperposition unabhängig von der Anlage der Tourniquets beim Hg-strain gauge (r = 0,49) und LRR (r = 0,51) erreicht. Diese Korrelation verbesserte sich in sitzender Körperposition. Die schlechteste Korrelation wurde bei der DPPG ermittelt (r = 0,25 in stehender, r = 0,51 in sitzender Position). Eine Verbesserung der Korrelation wurde beim DPPG durch die manuelle Auswertung der Kurven erreicht. Schlussfolgerung: Sowohl die Wahl des Untersuchungsverfahrens wie auch das gewählte Belastungsprogramm können erhebliche Auswirkungen auf die Korrelation mit der PDM haben. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass bei der Bewertung der Wiederauffüllzeiten t0 und t1/2 der Hg-strain gauge und die LRR die höchste Korrelation bei Dorsalextension in sitzender Körperposition mit der PDM aufweisen.

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Diagnosis of Deep Vein Thrombosis by Combination of Doppler Ultrasound Flow Examination and Strain Gauge Plethysmography

Thrombosis and Haemostasis ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1657149 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 47 (02) ◽

pp. 141-144 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

H Bounameaux ◽

B Krähenbühl ◽

S Vukanovic

Keyword(s):

Deep Vein Thrombosis ◽

Negative Predictive Value ◽

Doppler Ultrasound ◽

Strain Gauge ◽

Predictive Value ◽

Lower Limbs ◽

Vein Thrombosis ◽

Non Invasive ◽

Strain Gauge Plethysmography ◽

Deep Vein

SummaryDoppler ultrasound flow examination, strain gauge plethysmography and contrast venography were performed in 160 lower limbs of 80 in-patients. Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) was suspected in 87 limbs. Using measurement of venous stop-flow pressure, the Doppler method had an overall sensitivity of 83%. By combined use of Doppler and Plethysmography, sensitivity was increased to 96%. Specificity was 62% and 51%, respectively. With a positive and a negative predictive value of 80% and 73%, respectively, the combination of both non-invasive methods cannot reliably replace venography in the diagnosis of DTV, although all (40/40) thromboses proximal to or involving the popliteal segment were detected by either Doppler and Plethysmography or both.After exclusion of 14 patients (18%) suffering from conditions known to alter the results of these non-invasive methods, the positive predictive value of abnormal findings in both Doppler and Plethysmography was increased to 94% for suspected limbs, whilst negative predictive value of both negative Doppler and Plethysmography was 90%, allowing the avoidance of venography in these patients.

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SEXUAL EUPHEMISM EXPRESSED IN POP AND HIP HOP LYRIC SONGS: A PRAGMATIC STUDY

English Journal Literacy UTama ◽

10.33197/ejlutama.vol3.iss2.2019.272 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 109-122

Author(s):

Cita Mustika Kusumah

Keyword(s):

Sexual Activity ◽

Hip Hop ◽

Qualitative Method ◽

Speech Act ◽

Research Data ◽

Body Parts ◽

Taboo Words ◽

Directive Speech ◽

Descriptive Method ◽

Sexual Body

This research aims to describe and give an overview of the use of sexual euphemism in pop and hip hop lyric songs to avoid taboo words which are usually unfreely to mention in public. The researcher uses qualitative method and descriptive method to analyze the data. The researcher uses forty songs consist of twenty pop songs and twenty hip hop songs to be analysed. From forty songs, the researcher finds ninety seven data. Researcher believes the data are found to contain sexual euphemism in the utterance that included in pragmatic study.Researcher describes and analyzes every single of data that are included the theory of Allan and Buridge (1991). From the research data, the researcher found that there is a differential usage of sexual euphemism in pop and hip hop which is sexual euphemism in sexual activity appears more frequently in pop songs and sexual euphemism in sexual body parts appears more frequently in hip hop songs. Both pop and hip hop songs use representative speech act more frequently than directive speech act. Euphemism was used in the lyrics to avoid words that are considered taboo in some communities.Keywords: speech act, sexual euphemismINTRODUCTIONIn

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‘I saw a knock-out’: Fatness, (In)visibility, and Desire in Shallow Hal

Somatechnics ◽

10.3366/soma.2012.0040 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 60-79 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jackie Wykes

Keyword(s):

Female Body ◽

Fat Body ◽

Western Culture ◽

Embodied Experience ◽

Knock Out ◽

Dominant Meaning ◽

Starting Point ◽

Female Bodies ◽

Fat Bodies ◽

Sexual Body

When the Farrelly brothers' movie Shallow Hal (2001) was released, one reviewer suggested that the film ‘might have been more honest if [it] had simply made Hal have a thing about fat women’ ( Kerr 2002 : 44). In this paper, I argue that Kerr hits the mark but misses the point. While the film's treatment of fat is undoubtedly problematic, I propose a ‘queer’ reading of the film, borrowing the idea of ‘double coding’ to show a text about desire for fat (female) bodies. I am not, however, seeking to position Shallow Hal as a fat-positive text; rather, I use it as a starting point to explore the legibility of the fat female body as a sexual body. In contemporary mainstream Western culture, fat is regarded as the antithesis of desire. This meaning is so deeply ingrained that representations of fat women as sexual are typically framed as a joke because desire for fat bodies is unimaginable; this is the logic by which Shallow Hal operates. The dominant meaning of fatness precludes recognition of the fat body as a sexual body. What is at issue is therefore not simply the lack of certain images, but a question of intelligibility: if the meaning of fat is antithetical to desire, how can the desire for – and of – fat bodies be intelligible as desire? This question goes beyond the realm of representation and into the embodied experience of fat sexuality.

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