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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Porn Studies: Proliferating Pornographies On/Scene: An Introduction -- Part 1 Contemporary Pornographies -- How to Do Things with the Starr Report: Pornography, Performance, and the President's Penis -- Sex in the Suburban: Porn, Home Movies, and the Live Action Performance of Love in Pam and Tommy Lee: Hardcore and Uncensored -- Office Sluts and Rebel Flowers: The Pleasures of Japanese Pornographic Comics for Women -- Going On-line: Consuming Pornography in the Digital Era -- Part 2 Gay, Lesbian, and Homosocial Pornographies -- Homosociality in the Classical American Stag Film: Off-Screen, On-Screen -- The Cultural-Aesthetic Specificities of All-male Moving- Image Pornography -- What Do You Call a Lesbian with Long Fingers? The Development of Lesbian and Dyke Pornography -- The Gay Sex Clerk: Chuck Vincent's Straight Pornography -- Part 3 Pornography, Race, and Class -- The Resurrection of Brandon Lee: The Making of a Gay Asian American Porn Star -- Skin Flicks on the Racial Border: Pornography, Exploitation, and Interracial Lust -- Crackers and Whackers: The White Trashing of Porn -- Part 4 Soft Core, Hard Core, and the Pornographic Sublime -- Pinup: The American Secret Weapon in World War II -- Gauging a Revolution: 16 mm Film and the Rise of the Pornographic Feature -- Video Pornography, Visual Pleasure, and the Return of the Sublime -- Part 5 Pornography and/as Avant-Garde -- Andy Warhol's Blow Job: Toward the Recognition of a Pornographic Avant-garde -- Unbracketing Motion Study: Scott Stark's NOEMA -- Suggested Reading: An Annotated Bibliography -- Pornographic Film and Video: A Select List of Archives and Commercial Sites -- List of Contributors -- Index

ImportanceNational guidelines do not agree on the role of carotid screening in asymptomatic patients (ie, patients who have not had a stroke or transient ischemic attack). Recently, several physician organizations participating in the Choosing Wisely campaign have identified carotid imaging in selected asymptomatic populations as being of low value. However, the majority of patients who are evaluated for carotid stenosis and subsequently revascularized are asymptomatic.ObjectiveTo better understand why asymptomatic patients who undergo revascularization receive initial carotid imaging.Design, setting, and participantsRetrospective cohort study of 4127 Veterans Health Administration patients 65 years and older undergoing carotid revascularization for asymptomatic carotid stenosis between 2005 and 2009.Main outcomes and measuresIndications for carotid ultrasounds were extracted using trained abstractors. Frequency of indications and appropriateness of initial carotid ultrasound imaging for patients within each rating category after the intervention were reported.ResultsThe mean (SD) age of this cohort of 4127 patients was 73.6 (5.9) years; 4014 (98.8%) were male. Overall, there were 5226 indications for 4063 carotid ultrasounds. The most common indications listed were carotid bruit (1578 [30.2% of indications]) and follow-up for carotid disease (stenosis/history of carotid disease) in patients who had previously documented carotid stenosis (1087 [20.8% of indications]). Multiple vascular risk factors were the next most common indication listed. Rates of appropriate, uncertain, and inappropriate imaging were 5.4% (227 indications), 83.4% (3387 indications), and 11.3% (458 indications), respectively. Among the most common inappropriate indications were dizziness/vertigo and syncope. Among the 4063 patients, 3373 (83.0%) received a carotid endarterectomy. Overall, 663 procedures were performed in patients 80 years and older.Conclusions and relevanceCarotid bruit and follow-up for carotid disease accounted for approximately half of all indications provided by physicians for carotid testing. Strong consideration should be given to improving the evidence base around carotid testing, especially around monitoring stenosis over long periods and evaluating carotid bruits. Targeting carotid ultrasound ordering with decision support tools may also be an important step in reducing use of low-value imaging.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Sex Seen: 1968 and Rise of "Public" Sex * -- Part I: Mainstream Media and the Sexual Revolution -- 1. Rate It X?: Hollywood Cinema and the End of the Production Code -- 2. Make Love, Not War: Jane Fonda Comes Home (1968-1978) -- 3. The New Sexual Culture of American Television in the 1970s -- Part II: Sex as Art -- 4. Prurient (Dis)Interest: The American Release and Reception of I Am Curious (Yellow) -- 5. Wet Dreams: Erotic Film Festivals of the Early 1970s and the Utopian Sexual Public Sphere -- 6. Let the Sweet Juices Flow: WR and Midnight Movie Culture -- Part III: Media at the Margins -- 7. 33 1/3 Sexual Revolutions per Minute -- 8. "I'll Take Sweden": The Shifting Discourse of the "Sexy Nation" in Sexploitation Films -- 9. Altered Sex: Satan, Acid, and the Erotic Threshold -- 10. The "Sexarama": Or Sex Education as an Environmental Multimedia Experience -- 11. San Francisco and the Politics of Hardcore -- 12. Beefcake to Hardcore: Gay Pornography and the Sexual Revolution -- Part V: Contending with the Sex Scene -- 13. Publicizing Sex through Consumer and Privacy Rights: How the American Civil Liberties Union Liberated Media in the 1960s -- 14. Critics and the Sex Scene -- 15. Porn Goes to College: American Universities, Their Students, and Pornography, 1968-1973 -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Emerging Intersections-Building Knowledge and Transforming Institutions / Hill Collins, Patricia -- Acknowledgments / Thornton Dill, Bonnie / Enid Zambrana, Ruth -- 1. Critical Thinking about Inequality: An Emerging Lens / Thornton Dill, Bonnie / Enid Zambrana, Ruth -- 2. Entering a Profession: Race, Gender, and Class in the Lives of Black Women Attorneys / Higginbotham, Elizabeth -- 3. The Intersection of Poverty Discourses: Race, Class, Culture, and Gender / Henderson, Debra / Tickamyer, Ann -- 4. Staggered Inequalities in Access to Higher Education by Gender, Race, and Ethnicity / Enid Zambrana, Ruth / MacDonald, Victoria-María -- 5. Developing Policy to Address the Lived Experiences of Working Mothers / Gatta, Mary -- 6. Exploring the Intersections of Race, Ethnicity, and Class on Maternity Leave Decisions: Implications for Public Policy / Manuel, Tiffany / Enid Zambrana, Ruth -- 7. Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in the Workforce, Education, and Training under Welfare Reform / Jones-Deweever, Avis / Thornton Dill, Bonnie / Schram, Sanford -- 8. Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Early School Leaving (Dropping Out) / Dance, L. Janelle -- 9. Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Disparities in Political Participation and Civic Engagement / Frasure, Lorrie Ann / Williams, Linda Faye -- 10. Intersections, Identities, and Inequalities in Higher Education / Thornton Dill, Bonnie -- 11. Transforming the Campus Climate through Institutions, Collaboration, and Mentoring / Thornton Dill, Bonnie / Enid Zambrana, Ruth / McLaughlin, Amy -- 12. Conclusion: Future Directions in Knowledge Building and Sustaining Institutional Change / Enid Zambrana, Ruth / Thornton Dill, Bonnie -- Contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION Pornography, Technology, Archive -- PART I Pedagogical Archives -- 1 Pornography, Porno, Porn: Thoughts on a Weedy Field -- 2 Pornography as a Utilitarian Social Structure: A Conversation with Frances Ferguson -- 3 The Opening of Kobena, Cecilia, Robert, Linda, Juana, Hoang, and the Others -- 4 Pornography in the Library -- PART II Historical Archives -- 5 "A Quantity of Offensive Matter": Private Cases in Public Places -- 6 Up from Underground -- 7 "A Few Drops of Thick, White, Viscid Sperm": Teleny and the Defense of the Phallus -- PART III Image Archives -- 8 Art and Pornography: At the Limit of Action -- 9 Big Black Beauty: Drawing and Naming the Black Male Figure in Superhero and Gay Porn Comics -- 10 Gay Sunshine, Pornopoetic Collage, and Queer Archive -- 11 This Is What Porn Can Be Like! A Conversation with Shine Louise Houston -- PART IV Rough Archives -- 12 Snuff and Nonsense: The Discursive Life of a Phantasmatic Archive -- 13 Rough Sex -- 14 "It's Not Really Porn": Insex and the Revolution in Technological Interactivity -- PART V Transnational Archives -- 15 Porno Rícans at the Borders of Empire -- 16 Butts, Bundas, Bottoms, Ends: Tracing the Legacy of the Pornochanchada in A b . . . profunda -- 17 Pornographic Faith: Two Sources of Naked Sense at the Limits of Belief and Humiliation -- 18 Parody of War: Pleasure at the Limits of Pornography -- PART VI Archives of Excess -- 19 Fantasy Uncut: Foreskin Fetishism and the Morphology of Desire -- 20 Stadler's Boys; or, The Fictions of Child Pornography -- 21 Stumped -- APPENDIX Clandestine Catalogs: A Bibliography of Porn Research Collections -- FILMOGRAPHY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

Current knowledge of yield potential and best agronomic management practices for perennial bioenergy grasses is primarily derived from small-scale and short-term studies, yet these studies inform policy at the national scale. In an effort to learn more about how bioenergy grasses perform across multiple locations and years, the U.S. Department of Energy (US DOE)/Sun Grant Initiative Regional Feedstock Partnership was initiated in 2008. The objectives of the Feedstock Partnership were to (1) provide a wide range of information for feedstock selection (species choice) and management practice options for a variety of regions and (2) develop national maps of potential feedstock yield for each of the herbaceous species evaluated. The Feedstock Partnership expands our previous understanding of the bioenergy potential of switchgrass, Miscanthus, sorghum, energycane, and prairie mixtures on Conservation Reserve Program land by conducting long-term, replicated trials of each species at diverse environments in the U.S. Trials were initiated between 2008 and 2010 and completed between 2012 and 2015 depending on species. Field-scale plots were utilized for switchgrass and Conservation Reserve Program trials to use traditional agricultural machinery. This is important as we know that the smaller scale studies often overestimated yield potential of some of these species. Insufficient vegetative propagules of energycane and Miscanthus prohibited farm-scale trials of these species. The Feedstock Partnership studies also confirmed that environmental differences across years and across sites had a large impact on biomass production. Nitrogen application had variable effects across feedstocks, but some nitrogen fertilizer generally had a positive effect. National yield potential maps were developed using PRISM-ELM for each species in the Feedstock Partnership. This manuscript, with the accompanying supplemental data, will be useful in making decisions about feedstock selection as well as agronomic practices across a wide region of the country. ; North Central Regional Sun Grant Center at South Dakota State University through US Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office [DE-FC36-05GO85041] ; This research was supported by funding from the North Central Regional Sun Grant Center at South Dakota State University through a grant provided by the US Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office under award number DE-FC36-05GO85041. The authors would also like to thank the many individuals who assisted with data collection, producers who allowed field trials to be conducted on their land, and any others who helped make the Feedstock Partnership a success. ; Public domain authored by a U.S. government employee