scholarly journals Logic, geometry and visualisation of the body in Acquapendente’s rediscovered Methodus anatomica (1579)

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (3) ◽  
pp. 227-246
Author(s):  
Fabrizio Bigotti
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Geometrical Method ◽  
Contemporary Debate ◽  
Sensory Data ◽  
Continuous Quantities ◽  
Circulation Of The Blood ◽  
Instrumental Role

AbstractThe article provides the first description and analysis of the recently rediscovered manuscript titled Methodus anatomica by Girolamo Fabrici da Acquapendente (1533–1619). Acquapendente was one of the most important anatomists in late sixteenth-century Europe and played an instrumental role as Harvey’s teacher in Padua towards the latter’s discovery of the circulation of the blood. The manuscript provides first-hand testimony as to how anatomy was administered in Padua in the post-Vesalian era and sheds light on a number of otherwise unknown aspects of the development of the anatomical method. Chiefly among these is the attention devoted by Acquapendente to historia, as a way to order sensory data in a consistent way, which draws widely from the geometrical method and from the contemporary debate on the discretisation of continuous quantities.

scholarly journals IoT-enabled directed acyclic graph in spark cluster

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jahwan Koo ◽  
Nawab Muhammad Faseeh Qureshi ◽  
Isma Farah Siddiqui ◽  
Asad Abbas ◽  
Ali Kashif Bashir
Keyword(s):  
Distributed Computing ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Directed Acyclic Graph ◽  
Random Access ◽  
Heterogeneous Data ◽  
The Body ◽  
Computing Environment ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Acyclic Graph ◽  
Sensory Data

Abstract Real-time data streaming fetches live sensory segments of the dataset in the heterogeneous distributed computing environment. This process assembles data chunks at a rapid encapsulation rate through a streaming technique that bundles sensor segments into multiple micro-batches and extracts into a repository, respectively. Recently, the acquisition process is enhanced with an additional feature of exchanging IoT devices’ dataset comprised of two components: (i) sensory data and (ii) metadata. The body of sensory data includes record information, and the metadata part consists of logs, heterogeneous events, and routing path tables to transmit micro-batch streams into the repository. Real-time acquisition procedure uses the Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG) to extract live query outcomes from in-place micro-batches through MapReduce stages and returns a result set. However, few bottlenecks affect the performance during the execution process, such as (i) homogeneous micro-batches formation only, (ii) complexity of dataset diversification, (iii) heterogeneous data tuples processing, and (iv) linear DAG workflow only. As a result, it produces huge processing latency and the additional cost of extracting event-enabled IoT datasets. Thus, the Spark cluster that processes Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD) in a fast-pace using Random access memory (RAM) defies expected robustness in processing IoT streams in the distributed computing environment. This paper presents an IoT-enabled Directed Acyclic Graph (I-DAG) technique that labels micro-batches at the stage of building a stream event and arranges stream elements with event labels. In the next step, heterogeneous stream events are processed through the I-DAG workflow, which has non-linear DAG operation for extracting queries’ results in a Spark cluster. The performance evaluation shows that I-DAG resolves homogeneous IoT-enabled stream event issues and provides an effective stream event heterogeneous solution for IoT-enabled datasets in spark clusters.

scholarly journals Looking Like People; Feeling Like People: The Black Body, Dress and Aesthetic Therapy in the Caribbean

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 857-872
Author(s):  
Marsha Pearce
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
New World ◽  
Black Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Therapeutic Discourse ◽  
Black Caribbean ◽  
Black Bodies ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Bodily Practice ◽  
Instrumental Role

In the Caribbean, the practice of getting dressed matters because it is a practice of attending to the body. Under a colonial regime, black bodies were ill-treated and selves were negated. Clothing played an instrumental role in the abuse of bodies and the stripping of a sense of wellbeing. Attire was one key way of demarcating master and slave and rendering some members of society null and void. Enslaved Africans, who were forcibly brought across the Atlantic to the New World, were considered chattel or commodities rather than people and clothes functioned in a way that reinforced that notion. Yet, dress became a strategy of subversion – of making chattel, property or ‘non-people’ look like people. The enslaved recognised that, through clothes, it was possible to look and feel free. Today that legacy remains. Clothing is seen not only as that which can make a people ‘look like people’ but also feel like people – clothing sets up a specific structure of feeling. This paper pivots on notions of looking and feeling like people while deploying Joanne Entwistle’s conceptual framework of dress as situated bodily practice. The article locates its investigation in the Caribbean, examining the philosophy and practice of Trinidadian clothing designer Robert Young. The article establishes him as a source of aesthetic therapeutic solutions in the Caribbean. It argues that his clothing designs produce a therapeutic discourse on the Black Caribbean body – a discourse, which facilitates a practice of getting dressed that gives a sense of agency, self-empowerment and psychic security even if that sense is embodied temporarily; lasting perhaps only as long as the garment is worn.

scholarly journals The Efficient and Tentative Model for Extenics Replications of the Moveable Robots

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Koram Samuel Sakyi ◽  
Jian-Fei Lu
Keyword(s):  
Sensory System ◽  
The Body ◽  
Elementary Level ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Mechanical Device ◽  
Muscle System ◽  
Main Structure ◽  
Sensory Data ◽  
Body Move ◽  
Tentative Model

Background: On the most elementary level, you and I (human beings) were created with five main mechanisms (or parts): • A body which is termed as the main structure of the human being. • A sensory system that takes certain information around the body and the immediate environment. • A muscle system to aid the body move easily. • A control base to trigger the muscles and sensors. • A brain system that develops sensory data and tells the muscles what to do in other words the way forward. Obviously, we likewise have some imperceptible qualities, for example, intellect and ethics, among others but on an absolute corporeal level. Robots, on the other hand, can be created with five main mechanisms or more. Objectives: This research aims at implementing robots in some tedious jobs that as supposed to be executed by human beings in various factories and industries. This study also presents the practical and tentative model for Extenics replications of the moveable mechanical device (robot) useful on VIPRO stage. Methods: Momentary antiquity and indication of the pertinent hypothetical ideas are provided. The intelligent boundary for drawn-out switch uses a novel element for synthetic intelligence which is drawn-out control (Extenics) to expand DHFPC switch rapid enactment of mobile robots. Result: Applying Extenics specific methods and application in vague interplanetary result in a novel, advanced application for the VIPRO stage which can be used to feign and device innovative switch approaches of moveable robots.

Semiosis du corps dans la littérature sexologique arabe

Semiotica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 (208) ◽  
pp. 259-284
Author(s):  
Mohamed Bernoussi
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Second Century ◽  
Muslim Society ◽  
Black And White ◽  
New Period ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Muslim Culture

AbstractAfter giving a synthesis about a possible semiotics of the body and its conditions, we will deal with the question of the semiosis of the body in sexual literature in two periods of the arabo-muslim culture. The first period concerns the second century of hegira (the eightieth century), a decisive period of young and already powerful arabo-muslim society. Through Al Jahiz’s works, a very busy and prolific writer, we will study different discourses on the body, notably on homosexuality, heterosexuality and the opposition between black and white bodies. The second example constitutes an occasion for us to grasp the evolution of the semiosis of the body in a new period and with a specific writer who is Al Soyouté, a scholar of the sixteenth century. We will focus particularly on Al Soyouté’s new ideas on the body and his original references to the Greek corpus, but also to the traditions of Coran and Hadith.

The transfusion of blood

2018 ◽  
pp. 5-18
Author(s):  
Richard M. Titmuss
Keyword(s):  
Blood Transfusion ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
The Body ◽  
Vital Part ◽  
The World ◽  
Blood Transfusion Service ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Circulation Of The Blood ◽  
Beliefs And Attitudes

This chapter discusses the transfusion of blood. Beliefs and attitudes concerning blood affect in varying degrees throughout the world the work of transfusion services in appealing for and recruiting blood donors. A deeply rooted and widely held superstition is that the blood contained in the body is an inviolable property and to take it away is sacrilege. In parts of Africa, for example, it is believed also that blood taken away cannot be reconstituted and that the individual will therefore be weakened, be made impotent, or be blinded for life. The growth of scientific knowledge about the circulation of the blood, the composition and preservation of blood, and the distribution of blood group genes throughout the human race has provided a more rational framework. However, it is only more recently that scientific advances have made a blood transfusion service an indispensable and increasingly vital part of modern medicine.

The Body Electric: GE, TV, and the Reagan Brand

2009 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Raphael
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Ronald Reagan ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
The Body ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
General Electric ◽  
Corporate Capitalism ◽  
American Nation ◽  
Instrumental Role

As host of NBC's General Electric Theater from 1954 to 1962, Ronald Reagan enacted a new relationship between popular culture, corporate capitalism, and electronic media. Through his affiliation with General Electric and the celebrity he achieved through television, Reagan played an instrumental role in promoting the re-branding of the imagined community of the American nation as a republic of consumption. This phase of Reagan's career was a crucible for the formation of his political persona and political base.

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