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Phallus at play: penis customization in the videogame Conan: Exiles

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This article proposes an understanding of the video game Conan: Exiles, which, unlike most cultural artifacts of the same utility, presented a type of customization of avatars that differs from the common ones presented in electronic games. In Conan: Exiles the player could define the sexual attributes of his characters: the size of the breasts in women and the length of the penis in men. In this article, we focus on the implications that the customization of an avatar's penis can impact on players, as well as the influences of market logic and the customization of avatars can generate in a cultural artifact that is linked a character-symbol of virility that is Conan, the Barbarian. We conclude the article considering that not only market logic permeates this type of decision, but the activation of the pornographic imagination and symbolic construction of the role of genders in society also influence decisions like this.

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date_range 2020

language Portuguese

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Miorando Guilherme

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Effect of corrosion on flexural strength of reinforced concrete beams with polypropylene fibers

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An experimental study was performed to investigate the effects of polypropylene fibers on uncorroded and corroded reinforced concrete beams. Three different volume fractions of polypropylene fibers having 0, 0.5, and 1.5%, were tested at four corrosion levels of 0% and approximately 5, 7, and 9%. A full scale of an accelerated corrosion pool was used for the accelerated corrosion process. Reinforced concrete beams were used for an under monotonic bending test. The contribution of the actual corrosion levels of transverse and longitudinal reinforcement bars to the total corrosion levels were obtained from reinforcement bars fully extracted from concrete. Flexural strength, bond-slip, and moment-curvature relationships were examined for uncorroded and corroded reinforced concrete beams. A new model was developed to predict the flexural strength of corroded reinforced concrete beams. The proposed model for predicting the residual flexural strength of corroded beams was compared with test data published in previous studies. Furthermore, a novel model is presented for improved predictions between the actual and theoretically estimated corrosion mass losses, based on Faraday’s law, with the aid of fully extracted reinforcement bars. The model used to predict the flexural strength of corroded reinforced concrete beams with large sizes demonstrated good agreement with current and previously published literature data. In the case of corroded beams comprising differing amounts of polypropylene fibers, the performance of the corroded beams was limited by a fiber volume fraction of 1.5% at low corrosion levels.

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date_range 2018

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