Considerations for the Medical Management of the Circus Performance Artist and Acrobat by John Faltus, Veronique Richard

“…The purpose of this clinical commentary is to provide the reader with a greater understanding of the unique challenges associated with the medical management of performance artists and acrobats as well as recommendations for developing an integrated approach for mitigating injury risk within a highly specialized, diverse athlete population…”
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Acrobat Ant, Crematogaster ashmeadi Emery (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) by Emily V. Saarinen

“…Members of this genus are referred to as acrobat ants because of the flexible way that a worker holds its abdomen (gaster) up over the rest of its body. …”
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Acrobat Ant, Crematogaster ashmeadi Emery (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae) by Emily V. Saarinen

“…Members of this genus are referred to as acrobat ants because of the flexible way that a worker holds its abdomen (gaster) up over the rest of its body. …”
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Assessing Gender Dimorphism Indicators in Anthropometric Characteristics and Features of the Bony Pelvis of Female Representatives of Pair and Group Types in Sports Acrobatics by Nataliia Veronika Bachynska, Eduard Doroshenko, Andrii Svatiev, Victor Bohuslavskyi

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Entre prouesse et dérision by Victor A. Stoichita

“…It attempts to describe the modalities of these moments of acrobatics in bluegrass and country music in North America. …”
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Des fondements ontologiques de la crise, et de l’être qui pourrait la dépasser by Augustin Berque

“…This ontological topos makes environmental ethics an oxymoron, entailing all sorts of intellectual acrobatics in order to justify rationally the deep feeling that drives human beings to identify with their environment whereas, in such an option, this identification can only be an irrational projection of the subject onto the object. …”
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Social Circus for People with Disabilities: A Video Analysis through the Lens of the MOHO by Bianca A. D. Thompson, Kieran Broome

“…Social circus engages participants in circus activities such as juggling and acrobatics with therapeutic aims such as building confidence or developing life skills. …”
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Pest Ants by P.G. Koehler, R.M. Pereira, J.L. Castner

“…It covers species such as the acrobat ant, Argentine ant, bigheaded ant, crazy ant, Florida carpenter ant, ghost ant, imported fire ant, little fire ant, native fire ant, pharaoh ant, and white-footed ant. …”
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Spatial Measurements on USGS Topo Maps by Hartwig Hochmair, Adam Benjamin

“…Georeferencing facilitates display of geographic coordinates and measurement of distances, perimeters, and areas on PDFs using the measure tools built into Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. This 7-page fact sheet written by Hartwig H. …”
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Spatial Measurements on USGS Topo Maps by Hartwig Hochmair, Adam Benjamin

“…Georeferencing facilitates display of geographic coordinates and measurement of distances, perimeters, and areas on PDFs using the measure tools built into Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat. This 7-page fact sheet written by Hartwig H. …”
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The Inevitability of Absurdity, or Collective Trance in Boogie-woogie Rhythm: Tom Stoppard’s Play Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead on the Stage of the Old Theatre of Vilnius by Natalia Maliutina

“…The action is organized in the form of separate numbers-scenes, often almost unrelated to each other: dialogues of characters referring to Shakespeare’s Hamlet, to Samuel Beckett’s absurdist drama Waiting for Godot, vocal and dance scenes, musical fragments, acrobatic tricks, performative methods of playing with requisites. …”
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Dialetics and Structural Organization in the Ẹ̀bìbì Festival Performances of the Ẹ̀pẹ́ People in Lagos State, Nigeria by Babatunde Olanrewaju Adebua, Mobolanle Ebunoluwa Sotunsa

“…Actions include flogging, as well as acrobatic and gymnastic displays by the performers. …”
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Rehabilitation of an Upper Extremity Weight-Bearing Athlete with an Ulnar Collateral Ligament Injury: A Case Report by Annemieke D. Corbitt, William D. Bandy

“…Two weeks prior, during the performance of an acrobatic skill in which she transitioned to full upper extremity (UE) weight-bearing, she sustained an injury to her right elbow. …”
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The sport and Lithuanian national identity by Ingvaras Butautas, Rasa Čepaitienė

“…A characteristic example is the first in Europe impeached President Rolandas Paksas, who during his election campaign successfully played on his acrobatic flying qualifications, thus refreshing a strong association in historical consciousness connected with the interwar period Lithuanian heroes S. …”
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