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The purpose of this chapter is to promote the importance, utility and necessity of applying a sociocultural lens to the analysis of the normalized appropriation of surveillance technologies and wearables across sports settings.

The chapter synthesizes existing literature that has embraced a sociocultural lens to examine the implications of the increasingly normalized adoption of surveillance technologies in sport settings. In doing so we hope to provoke discussion regarding the contemporary effects of technologies in order that they may be better understood by not only sports scholars but those who operate within sport. To achieve this aim, we provide an exemplar of how Michel Foucault's concepts have been a useful heuristic for this endeavour.

Within the highly commercialized and spectacularized domain of corporate sport, the performing athletic body has become a commodity of vital importance. Correspondingly, sports practitioners across the globe have rallied to devise innovative ways to train, protect and improve athletes. As this chapter details, one of the main ways in which this project has occurred is through the increased appropriation of wearable (and increasingly invasive) surveillance technologies. A major finding from existing literature is that surveillance technologies can contribute to the unproblematized production of compliant athletic commodities in sports settings. Moreover, that this can have significant limiting outcomes for athletes' development and well-being and coaches' practices.

The chapter argues for three future ‘touchstone’ areas of study: Surveillance technologies and athlete retirement, unintended consequences of more technology and resisting the regulatory intentions of behavioural nudges.

This chapter provides one of the first summaries of the socioculturally informed research that has examined the implications of the increasingly normalized presence of surveillance technologies across sports settings. In doing so, it also acts as one of the first resources designed to help those who coach and develop athletes to reflect upon the significant dangers and limiting outcomes that can be associated with the unconsidered deployment of surveillance technology.

Cognitive literary criticism is introduced as a bridge between cognitive approaches to the study of persuasion, and literary traditions in consumer research. As a successor to reader-response theory, cognitive literary theory focuses on the cognitive processes of interpretation, while keeping an eye on the aesthetic properties of the text. Paradigmatically cautious researchers might shy away from attempts to marry positivist cognitive constructs to interpretivist cultural theory, but this chapter argues that these qualms also conceal missed opportunities for the study of persuasion.

Insights from cognitive literary criticism are demonstrated at the hand of a LEGO ad.

Theory of mind and conceptual blending are crucial cognitive skills involved in the interpretation of persuasive texts.

Most research to date has kept literary and cognitive approaches to persuasion separate, black-boxing the processes of persuasion. This chapter argues for a revitalization of interest in aesthetic detail, informed by insights from cognitive science.

This paper presents an efficient lossless compression method to reduce the storage requirement and transmission time for radiographic non‐destructive testing images of aircraft components. The method is based on a combination of predictive coding and the integer wavelet transform. By using the component CAD model to divide the radiographic image of aircraft components into different regions with each region having the same material structure, the parameters of the predictors and the choice of the integer wavelet transform are optimised according to the specific image features contained in each region. Using a real radiographic image of a practical aircraft component as an example, the proposed method is presented and shown to offer a significantly higher compression ratio than other lossless compression schemes currently available.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of expandable graphite (EG) plates’ incorporation on the mechanical, thermal and fire-retardant properties of an epoxy–aliphatic amine system. In addition, the optimum amount of EG in epoxy/EG composites is determined to achieve the best thermal and mechanical properties at the same time.

The epoxy/EG composites were prepared by using (1-4) phr of EG. The morphological structure of epoxy/EG composites was studied by using scanning electron microscopy. The thermal, flame-retardant and mechanical properties of epoxy/EG composites were evaluated by using thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), oxygen index test and dynamic mechanical analysis and tensile and impact test, respectively.

TGA results showed that the incorporation of EG to the epoxy resin increased the initial decomposition temperature and residue weight of the composites. It was found that, with increasing EG concentration up to 4 phr, the oxygen index, glass transition temperature and Young’s modulus of epoxy/EG composites increased up to 60 per cent, 4.1°C and 50 per cent, respectively. On the other hand, the sample with 2 phr EG provided the maximum values of tensile strength, storage modulus, cross-linking density, ultimate tensile strain and impact strength.

Prepared epoxy/EG composites can be used as halogen-free flame-retardant composites. The proposed process for the preparation of the composites is simple and can easily be implicated in the industry.

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, there is no other publication that considers mechanical, thermal and fire-retardant properties of epoxy/EG composites in one paper. In this work, the optimum concentration of EG in epoxy/EG composites was determined, considering all these properties.

BY the time these words appear the majority of those who attend Library Association Conferences will have made tentative arrangements for their visit to Margate in June. Already, we understand, adhesions are coming in as many in number as for any September conference, and, if this is so, the fact will reassure those who have doubts of the wisdom of the change from September to June. We give on other pages some outline of the programme and in Letters on Our Affairs are presented with a Study of the subjects of the papers. Here we can concentrate upon one or two important points.

GUEST editor of this South African issue of THE LIBRARY WORLD is Hendrik M. Robinson, Director of Library Services, Transvaal Provincial Administration, Pretoria.

The British Gliding Association lias rightly called attention to the need for an artificial horizon suitable for use in a sailplane. This note argues that the artificial horizon, together with the directional gyro, form the ideal pair of instruments for the accurate and safe Hying of sailplanes in clouds. A description is given of a pair developed from German instruments together with full details of their weight, size and current consumption. It is shown that for a total weight of 20 lb. a sailplane can he fitted with an electrically driven horizon and directional gyro which will run continuously for over six hours before the batteries need recharging.

SAYS the handout from the Department of Industry: “The key role played by managers in improving British industry's economic performance was emphasised by Mr. Eric Varley, Secretary of State for Industry. He said that the publication of a discussion paper on industry, education and management underlined that industry in Britain today had many first class managers who made vital contributions to the economy.