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BRM: The Saga of British Racing Motors: Volume 3: Monocoque V8 Cars 1963-1969
The extraordinary Saga of the BRM Formula 1 racing team has previously been related in exhaustive detail in the first two Volumes of the author’s remarkable history of this legendary marque. Volume 3, details the story of the monocoque-chassised V8 Formula 1 and Tasman cars which BRM designed, manufactured and campaigned between 1963 and 1968, and which private owners continued to run for two further seasons. These were the exquisite 'Swiss watch' BRM V8s which were only narrowly defeated in the World Championships of 1964 and 1965 when they were driven by BRM's former World Champion Driver Graham Hill and his meteoric young team-mate, protege and future triple World Champion Jackie Stewart. The entire drama is related in painstaking and enormously revealing detail - warts and all - supported by contemporary internal reports, private correspondence and often hilarious first-person recollections and anecdotes from team members, including numerous team mechanics and engineers, in addition to Tony Rudd, Graham Hill and Sir Jackie Stewart. Volume 3 also embraces BRM's involvement in Formula 2, the Tasman Championship in Australasia, Le Mans and Indy projects with Chrysler Corporation and even an experimental 'Jumping Jeep' for military assessment. .
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The Effects of Cognitive Hardiness on Stress, Health, Performance, and Cardiovascular/Neuroendocrine Function
This is a AIR FORCE INST OF TECH WRIGHT-PATTERSON AFB OH report procured by the Pentagon and made available for public release It has been reproduced in the best form available to the Pentagon. It is not spiral-bound, but rather assembled with Velobinding in a soft, white linen cover. The Storming Media report number is A799723. The abstract provided by the Pentagon follows: Cognitive hardiness is a psychological construct of stress resiliency which has been postulated to moderate stress-illness and stress-performance relationships. Hardiness has also been thought to exert main effects on health and performance outcomes. In Study 1, relationships between hardiness, perceived stress, depression, and academic performance were investigated. Hardiness was found to be positively predictive of academic performance; the effect was partially mediated by course load. Hardiness was also revealed to moderate the stress-depression relationship. The negative relationship between stress and academic performance was mediated by depression. A model explaining 30% of the variance in academic performance is presented and discussed. Study 2 was an extensive exploratory effort that investigated the relationships between hardiness, stress, performance, illness/injury, appraisal processes, and physiological reactivity to a realistic stressor in 23 helicopter pilots. Main and moderating effects for hardiness were demonstrated in stress-performance and stress-illness relationships and outcomes. Hardiness was predictive of challenge appraisals, cortisol baselines and reactivity, and performance. Mediated relationships are discussed. Relations between cortisol reactivity and performance suggest profound and disturbing adverse impact on work-related cognitive function. Higher order curvilinear relationships between hardiness, cortisol reactivity, challenge appraisals, and performance were revealed. Implications, future research initiatives, and appropriate research designs are discussed..
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