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Informed by coherence theory, it is contended that the narratives used in legal injury cases possess a universal set of particular characteristics & that these characteristics are found within the genre of melodrama. An overview of the melodramatic genre is presented, highlighting the various character types & motifs prevalent in such works & reviewing literary critical accounts of the function of melodrama. Similarities between melodramas & legal injury narratives are illuminated, including (1) the existence of a fundamental plot in which a benevolent & inherently good plaintiff/protagonist is wronged by a malicious & blameworthy defendant/antagonist; (2) the unilateral assertion of blame for the injury; (3) the presence of certain stock characters who fulfill stereotypical roles; (4) the attribution of certain characteristics like weakness & passivity to the plaintiff/protagonist; (5) the gendering & racializing of both principal parties/characters; (6) the articulation of the plaintiff/protagonist's virtue; & (7) the expression of positive emotions toward the plaintiff/protagonist. Future directions for research are offered. 41 References. J. W. Parker

Cyber communities have facilitated new forms of identity and self-regulation for people engaging in self-harm practices. The authors explore the online worlds of self-injurers and how they offer ways for people to develop new kinds of social order.

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This essay explores two historical subjects, Catharina, an enslaved woman living and working in eighteenth-century New Orleans, and Ruth, a free field laborer in post-emancipation Barbados. Through a careful reading of their different but overlapping legal petitions against the planters who worked to control their labor, this essay seeks to distill a shared battle around Black mothering and to reconsider what it means to mother in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Atlantic world, respectively. In so doing, this essay contributes to scholarship that analyzes reproductive racial slavery's afterlife, particularly how slavery's matrilineal principle shaped the meaning of Black motherhood in bondage and in freedom. Exploring violent confrontations with empire in moments of profound change, the stories of Catharina and Ruth each offer new definitions of labor and value and hint at how Black women theorized a world beyond racial capitalism.

ABSTRACTInjuries are the primary determinant of an individual's mobility, which affect not just their workplace productivity in intensive environments such as manufacturing, but also their decision‐making ability and quality of life. Managers typically assign workers to projects or tasks without having knowledge about their functional capabilities or current state of injury risk as injuries remain highly underreported at workplaces for fear of reprisal and other reasons. Therefore, high‐quality research on injury prevention is nearly nonexistent. Procedures that we use in this study for developing a prediction model for identification of college football players at an elevated injury risk could also be used to quantify injury risk in various occupational settings. Using a number of measurements and models, we arrive at an estimate of an individual's injury likelihood. Our measures include ratings of movement efficiency through physical performance tests, acceleration using Internet of Things (IoT) devices, functional role classifications, and recorded exposures to high‐risk conditions. Findings prescribe several approaches and decision rules for prediction of injury risk and suggest that training programs need to consider an individual's injury risk rather than offer a 'one‐size‐fits‐all' approach. The analytics models derived from a combination of injury risk screening and surveillance data can be used for making decisions about targeting employee‐centric risk‐reduction interventions, improved matching of tasks to individuals, or deciding job rotation for improved performance, all while enhancing the quality of life of individuals and reducing the escalating costs of work‐related injuries borne by employers. These models can also be developed for smartphones.

Eligibility for public benefits may require an injury investigation. The thoroughness of the investigation is a policy decision of the government. An investigative authority chooses the optimal effort to infer from a noisy signal (business plan) the quality of management and market conditions when a firm petitions for benefits. Under plausible conditions, firms will underperform to raise the probability of an affirmative verdict, and the authority will expend low investigative effort. Good and bad managers will obtain relief under adverse market conditions. This is preferred by good managers, as they do not have to separate by sending a costly signal.

Injuries in men's elite ice hockey have been studied over the past 40 years, however, there is a lack of consensus on definitions of both injury and athlete exposure. These inconsistencies compromise the reliability and comparability of the research. While many individual studies report injury rates in ice hockey, we are not aware of any literature reviews that have evaluated the definitions of injury and athlete exposure in men's elite ice hockey. The purpose of this integrative review was to investigate the literature on hockey musculoskeletal injury to determine injury rates and synthesize information about the definitions of injury and athlete exposure. Injury rates varied from 13.8/1000 game athlete exposures to 121/1000 athlete exposures as measured by player-game hours. The majority of variability between studies is explained by differences in the definitions of both injury and athlete exposure. We were unable to find a consensus injury definition in elite ice hockey. In addition, we were unable to observe a consistent athlete exposure metric. We recommend that a consistent injury definition be adopted to evaluate injury risk in elite ice hockey. We recommend that injuries should be defined by a strict list that includes facial lacerations, dental injuries, and fractures. We also recommend that athlete exposure should be quantified using player-game hours.

The war in Iraq unleashed disastrous global instability—from the strengthening of Al-Qaeda, to the creation of ISIS, and civil war in Syria accompanied by a massive exodus of refugees. The war in Afghanistan is continuing in perpetuity, with no clear goals or objectives other than the United States' commitment to its sunk cost. The so-called war on terror is a vague catch-all phrase for a military campaign against moving targets and goalposts, with no end date and no conceivable way to declare victory. The toll of these wars on civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan and elsewhere in the Middle East, on US troops, and on the US economy is staggering. But these ambiguous campaigns are also fundamentally changing US state identity—its view of itself, its role in the world, and its commitment to a liberal international order. They are producing profound anxiety in the US body politic and anxiety in US relationships with other international actors. To understand the sources and consequences of this anxiety, we adopt an ontological security perspective on state identity. We enrich ontological security scholarship by introducing the concept of moral injury and its three main consequences: loss of control, ethical anxiety, and relational harm. We demonstrate how the concept of moral injury illuminates some of the most central anxieties at the core of US identity, offering a new understanding of our global moment of crisis.

The argument of R. Nozick (Anarchy, State, and Utopia, New York: Basic Books, 1975) that only a state limited to protection against coercion is justifiable, is flawed by Nozick's failure to articulate the substantive laws which the state may enforce. In fact, it is not valid to legitimatize the state by its enforcement of law; rather, law is legitimized by being created by the state, when the state is legitimate. The state's role cannot be limited to remedying acknowledged injuries, but must include determining what is, & what is not an injury. A state which has such powers of discretion cannot be limited in that sense; what is central to legitimacy, rather, is putting control in the proper hands. The people must play a role in deciding what the state's powers will be. The proper procedure is to derive from the state's legitimacy the brakes on its power which must exist for it to remain legitimate. W. H. Stoddard.