Irish rioters, Latin American dictators, and desperate optimists’ Play-boy by Neal Swettenham

“…Synge humorously illustrated this in The Playboy of the Western World, in which his central character, Christy Mahon, reinvents himself through the telling and retelling of his own story. Play-boy, a much more recent performance work created by Desperate Optimists, takes as its opening gambit the riots that accompanied the first performances of this controversial Irish classic and adds a bewildering variety of other narrative materials to the mix – providing, as it does so, a tongue-in-cheek commentary on this story about stories. …”
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Characterisation of the vibration of an ultrasonic transducer for guided wave applications by Marco Zennaro, Alex Haig, Daniel O'Boy, Stephen Walsh

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Damping of flexural vibrations in circular plates with tapered central holes by Daniel O'Boy, Victor V. Krylov

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Experimental and numerical analysis of a transducer for the generation of guided waves by Marco Zennaro, Alex Haig, Daniel O'Boy, Stephen Walsh

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Damping of flexural vibrations in thin plates using one and two dimensional acoustic black hole effect by Daniel O'Boy, E.P. Bowyer, Victor V. Krylov

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Vibration of a rectangular plate with a central power-law profiled groove by the Rayleigh-Ritz method by Daniel O'Boy, Victor V. Krylov

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Ethnic and sex differences in skeletal maturation among the Birth to Twenty cohort in South Africa by Tim J. Cole, Emily Rousham, Nicola L. Hawley, Noel Cameron, Shane A. Norris, John M. Pettifor

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A cluster randomised controlled trial to investigate the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of the 'Girls Active' intervention: a study protocol by Charlotte L. Edwardson, Deirdre M. Harrington, Thomas E. Yates, Danielle H. Bodicoat, Kamlesh Khunti, Trish Gorely, Lauren Sherar, Rhiannon T. Edwards, C. Wright, K. Harrington, Melanie J. Davies

“…This is particularly evident in girls, who are less active than boys across all ages and may display a faster rate of decline in physical activity throughout adolescence. …”
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The actor's problem: performing the plays of Richard Foreman by Neal Swettenham

“…His ‘Irish Rioters, Latin American Dictators, and Desperate Optimists’ Play-boy’ appeared in NTQ83 (August 2005).…”
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Damping of flexural vibrations in rectangular plates using the acoustic black hole effect by Daniel O'Boy, Victor V. Krylov, V. Kralovic

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