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Alternative Fatigue Cracking Resistance Assessment Criteria Of Asphalt Mixtures With Overlay Tester, Alejandro Miramontes
Alternative Fatigue Cracking Resistance Assessment Criteria Of Asphalt Mixtures With Overlay Tester, Alejandro Miramontes
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The accumulation of damage due to cracking of hot mix asphalt (HMA) layers under repeated loading along with the climatic effects is known as fatigue cracking. The Overlay Tester (OT) has been implemented or considered by several highway agencies as an index to evaluate the cracking susceptibility and resistance to cracking of asphalt mixtures in the laboratory. The performance indicator used to measure the quality of the HMA mixes is the number of cycles that a specimen may resist during the test until the crack appears and fully propagates to the top of the specimen. The repeatability of the number …
Re-Examining Resistance: Fan-Produced Queer Readings And Teen Wolf, Joshua J. Espinoza
Re-Examining Resistance: Fan-Produced Queer Readings And Teen Wolf, Joshua J. Espinoza
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MTV's popular television series, Teen Wolf (2011), has amassed a large online following of fans that create their own queer narratives through fan-fiction, subverting the show's hegemonic heteronormativity. Through a textual thematic analysis of Teen Wolf, this case study illustrates how online fandoms can subvert hegemony through queer readings of literary characters, resisting the dominant heteronormativity on network television. This article argues that rearticulating the showâ??s narratives into queer readings functions as a form of LGBT resistance, effectively counteracting the heteronormativity and hegemony portrayed on screen. This study examines how Teen Wolf approaches queer content, including homoeroticism and LGBT themes …