The Aesthetics of Action and Movement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily S. Cross ◽  
Andrea Orlandi
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Research Field ◽  
The Body ◽  
Aesthetic Perception ◽  
Moving Body ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Motor Knowledge ◽  
Different Levels

The embodied simulation account proposed a pivotal role for the body of an observer in the aesthetic perception of artworks. Beginning with this consideration, this chapter briefly outlines evidence from experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience that supports this proposed relationship between the human body and motor knowledge and aesthetic appraisal of action. The chapter focuses on the cognitive processes involved in perceiving a moving body and aesthetic estimation. It also discusses the impact of visuomotor expertise in shaping different levels of action representation and relative hedonistic judgment. While this research field remains somewhat in its naissance, alternative accounts have also been proposed to account for the link between embodiment, expertise, and movement aesthetics, which are also considered here. The chapter concludes with some theoretical and methodological considerations, questions, and perspectives that warrant further attention in future studies to expand existing knowledge on the empirical aesthetics of the human body in action.

Embodying the culture of achievement: Culture between illness and perfection is a ‘thin line’ – obtaining the ideal female body as an act of achievement

2021 ◽  
pp. 1354067X2110040
Author(s):  
Josefine Dilling ◽  
Anders Petersen
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Study ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Female Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Thin Line ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
Body Ideals

In this article, we argue that certain behaviour connected to the attempt to attain contemporary female body ideals in Denmark can be understood as an act of achievement and, thus, as an embodiment of the culture of achievement, as it is characterised in Præstationssamfundet, written by the Danish sociologist Anders Petersen (2016) Hans Reitzels Forlag . Arguing from cultural psychological and sociological standpoints, this article examines how the human body functions as a mediational tool in different ways from which the individual communicates both moral and aesthetic sociocultural ideals and values. Complex processes of embodiment, we argue, can be described with different levels of internalisation, externalisation and materialisation, where the body functions as a central mediator. Analysing the findings from a qualitative experimental study on contemporary body ideals carried out by the Danish psychologists Josefine Dilling and Maja Trillingsgaard, this article seeks to anchor such theoretical claims in central empirical findings. The main conclusions from the study are used to structure the article and build arguments on how expectations and ideals expressed in an achievement society become embodied.

New Technologies, Justice, and the Body

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cécile Fabre
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Organ Transplantation ◽  
Human Body ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
The Body ◽  
Invasive Procedures ◽  
Material Resources ◽  
Medical Technologies ◽  
Theories Of Justice ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the impact of medical technologies on the concept of justice and the human body. Traditionally, theories of justice require individuals to transfer material resources to other individuals who are needier or worse off. But three technologies, organ transplantation, genetic engineering, and artificial wombs, have changed our obligations to one another. It appears that justice now requires us to subject our body to sometimes invasive procedures should others need our bodily resources, particular genes, or nutrients which we no longer want to provide through our body itself.

scholarly journals A STUDY OF RESEARCH NOTIONS IN WIRELESS BODY SENSOR NETWORK (WBSN)

2019 ◽  
Vol 01 (02) ◽  
pp. 77-86
Author(s):  
Dinesh Kumar ◽  
Kalaipriyan T ◽  
Raghav R.S.
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Critical Level ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Cooperative Networks ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Sensor Networks ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Communication Module ◽  
Body Sensors ◽  
Different Levels

The Body Sensor Networks is captivated in gathering the communication module in a more reliable manner along with efficiency in terms of energy, more secure than earlier schema’s, ands enhanced utilization of resources. Wireless BAN (WBAN) has the tendency to be placed even inside the human body. The significance of BSN has the tendency to go through all aspects such as fitness of a person, his/her health issues, caring in critical level, and so on. In 2014 [1] the elevation of body sensors has been grown upto 420 millions from 11 million units in 2009. In this research work, we addressed BAN from On-Body to Body-to-Body cooperative networks at different levels: propagation, protocols and localization applications.

scholarly journals CONSUMER ATTITUDE TOWARDS WATER PURIFY WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO DEHRADUN CITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 686-693
Author(s):  
Manisha A ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Minimum Cost ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
The Body ◽  
Consumer Attitude ◽  
Brand Preference ◽  
Color Patterns ◽  
Local Water ◽  
The Impact

One can survive without food but not without water. A human body is comprised of 70% of water which helps in other activities of the body like digestion and metabolic processes. Water is the most critical issue in todays world and its purity is the second. Currently,Watertreatmentmethodsincludefiltrationandheatathightemperaturetokillthebacteria inside it. As a result, consumer demand for water purifier has been increases. Several companies like KENT, HUL, Tata, Eureka Forbes, LG, Bajaj etc. have entered this segment and have launched various brands of water purifiers. Existing demand has also attracted to local players who have entered in the market and assembling water purifiers in minimum cost such as Aqua fres h, Aqua plus, Aqua grand, Aqua care, Aqua pearl, Aqua pure, Liv pro, etc. They vary in size, purification technology, price, color, patterns, usage etc. This study is conducted in Dehradun city a popular tourist place in Uttarakhand. The study mainly aims to analyze the impact of brand preference of respondents on various local water purifiers available in the market. The study also focuses on the consumer behavior towards water purifiers. This research is based on both Primary Survey, 2020 and secondary data. Study finds that, maximum of the respondents is influenced by design and comfortable size of water purifier.

scholarly journals TANGGAPAN PENONTON DI DAERAH KETAPANG KABUPATEN KOTAWARINGIN TIMUR KALIMANTAN TENGAH TERHADAP ACARA DOKUMENTER DUA DUNIA TRANS 7

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (9) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamdani .
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Research Field ◽  
The Body ◽  
Central Kalimantan ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Event Based

This research comes from an event titled Two World which is a show owned by Trans7. This event has a lot of religious messages through jinmelalui advice through the body of the mediator (genie penetrates into the human body) .The purpose of this study is to know the level of material understanding of the World Two Trans7 event based on existing categories of audience in Ketapang Kotawaringin East of Central Kalimantan against this Two World event. This research method is descriptive qualitative field research (field) in town in Middle Kalimantan region named Sampit and more specifically Ketapang Village area So with the data obtained, the authors conducted a questionnaire that has contained questions about the response to the World Two event in Trans7.In addition, also coupled with various manuals in theory to do this research. The results of this study can be seen that there are messages of da'wah in this event though many smells of mystic things. As for the religious message about belief (akidah), Worship (shariah) and Moral (akhlak). Also in the event Two World also, from the results of the question with the jinn is implied ban on begging to the deceased. Moreover, if to adore them. Remember that the dead only require prayer posts, not for worship. Those are some of the sage messages implied by the jinns' rantings in the Worlds Two show that aired on Trans7. Seeing some of the precious messages that have been conveyed by the Jinn, men should be ashamed for being nasehati by the people of the unseen world that is identical with the evil and sinister impression

scholarly journals Control over the Human Body Before and After Death: The Civil Law Aspect

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 104-135
Author(s):  
L. Novoselova
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Living Will ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Real Property ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

In this article, an attempt is made to determine the legal status of the human body (organs and tissue) both while a person is alive and after a person dies. The article discusses the points of view of various authors in relation to the possibility of considering the human body, its organs and tissue, after their separation from the body, as objects of a person’s property rights, and also as an object of a person’s non-property rights. The article argues the impossibility of qualifying the human body and the organs that were not separated from it during life as parts – and perhaps critical parts – of the existence of the total human being, as objects of real (property) rights including the rights of the persons themselves. The human body as a single object is a personal non-property benefit. The organs and tissue separated from the body may be considered objects of real rights, but on several conditions: if they were indeed separated from the body and if the person gave permission for this in a will. The specific characteristics of the legal status of the separated organs and tissue of a human being are analyzed as things (possessions) with limited turnover. The specific characteristics of the legal status of the organs and tissue separated from the body as possessions in limited turnover are reviewed as well as the impact of personal non-property rights on this status. The main focus of the article is on the legal status of the human body and the organs separated from it after death in view of the fact that transplantology and postmortem organ donation are becoming more and more widespread. This issue is analyzed in terms of the body as a whole and as it applies to the organs and tissue that are not used for transplantation. The proposal is to base our analysis on the status of the human body after death which as a rule cannot be the object of property rights. The human body is disposed of within the framework of the protection of the personal non-property rights of the deceased, including the right of physical inviolability that covers the organs and tissue separated from the body. The article characterizes the legal nature of living wills when people give instructions as to the procedure of their burial and other means of handling their body, including donation of their bodies to science. The article examines the possibility of the right of ownership to organs and tissue separated from the body after death. This right can exist if a complex legal construct is present, including a direct or assumed living will of the person. The specific characteristics of living acts concerning the possibility of after-death organ and tissue harvesting for further use, including for transplantation purposes, and the differences between such acts and last wills are determined.

scholarly journals Propagation of a Plastic Wave in Snow

1977 ◽  
Vol 19 (81) ◽  
pp. 175-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gorow Wakahama ◽  
Atsushi Sato
Keyword(s):  
Water Content ◽  
Wave Velocity ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Free Water ◽  
The Body ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Plastic Wave ◽  
Free Water Content ◽  
Moving Body ◽  
The Impact

AbstractWhen snow is pushed very fast by a moving body a plastic wave is generated at the head of the body. If the velocity of the moving body becomes close to that of the plastic wave, the snow may exert a great resistive force against the body as predicted by Yosida. It is, therefore, very important to study the dynamic behaviour of snow at a high rate of deformation, such as takes place when a snow plough is used on the highway, a train runs on a railroad covered with snow, or an avalanche occurs. Hence, this study is concerned with the safety and maintenance of winter traffic and transportation, and also with the generation and propagation of an avalanche. In order to clarify the detailed processes of the deformation of snow at high rates, laboratory experiments were made by compressing snow at high speed. The propagation of a plastic wave through snow was observed by using a high-speed camera and a pressure-detecting device. Analyses of the data obtained gave the velocity of the plastic wave for various kinds of snow whose density ranged from 0.17 to 0.46 Mg m-3and free-water content from o to 17%, whereby studies were made into the dependences on the density and free-water content of the velocity of the plastic wave. When the impact velocity was 4.3 ± 0.2 m s-1, the wave velocity ranged from 5 m s-1for a new snow to 12 m s-1for a fine-grained, well-settled snow. The plastic-wave velocity in wet snow was, in general, smaller than that in dry snow of the same density. Changes in density and structure of snow associated with the passage of a plastic wave were studied and discussed. The pressure at the wave front was measured; values of 0.1-0.3 bar were obtained, these are of the same order as the value estimated from theoretical formulae. The plastic-wave velocity was also observed for a confined snow, which showed a larger velocity and plastic strain than an unconfined snow.

scholarly journals Propagation of a Plastic Wave in Snow

1977 ◽  
Vol 19 (81) ◽  
pp. 175-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gorow Wakahama ◽  
Atsushi Sato
Keyword(s):  
Water Content ◽  
Wave Velocity ◽  
High Speed ◽  
Free Water ◽  
The Body ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Plastic Wave ◽  
Free Water Content ◽  
Moving Body ◽  
The Impact

AbstractWhen snow is pushed very fast by a moving body a plastic wave is generated at the head of the body. If the velocity of the moving body becomes close to that of the plastic wave, the snow may exert a great resistive force against the body as predicted by Yosida. It is, therefore, very important to study the dynamic behaviour of snow at a high rate of deformation, such as takes place when a snow plough is used on the highway, a train runs on a railroad covered with snow, or an avalanche occurs. Hence, this study is concerned with the safety and maintenance of winter traffic and transportation, and also with the generation and propagation of an avalanche. In order to clarify the detailed processes of the deformation of snow at high rates, laboratory experiments were made by compressing snow at high speed. The propagation of a plastic wave through snow was observed by using a high-speed camera and a pressure-detecting device. Analyses of the data obtained gave the velocity of the plastic wave for various kinds of snow whose density ranged from 0.17 to 0.46 Mg m-3 and free-water content from o to 17%, whereby studies were made into the dependences on the density and free-water content of the velocity of the plastic wave. When the impact velocity was 4.3 ± 0.2 m s-1, the wave velocity ranged from 5 m s-1 for a new snow to 12 m s-1 for a fine-grained, well-settled snow. The plastic-wave velocity in wet snow was, in general, smaller than that in dry snow of the same density. Changes in density and structure of snow associated with the passage of a plastic wave were studied and discussed. The pressure at the wave front was measured; values of 0.1-0.3 bar were obtained, these are of the same order as the value estimated from theoretical formulae. The plastic-wave velocity was also observed for a confined snow, which showed a larger velocity and plastic strain than an unconfined snow.

scholarly journals Dancing the digital age: a survey of the new technologies in the choreographic process

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2020.01) ◽  
pp. 37-52
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Preciado-Azanza ◽  
Dr. Adesola Akinleye
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Human Body ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
Performance Space ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Moving Body ◽  
The Impact

This article considers fifty-eight selected dance works created during the time period of 2000-2018. In doing so the work of renown artists Wayne McGregor, Garry Stewart, Dawn Stopiello and Bill T. Jones are used as case studies to highlight how the eminence of these choreographers has engaged dance as a meeting point and merging point for humanity and ‘New technology’. The article reviews the impact of new technologies as an essential tool in the creative processes of dance and exploration of the moving-body. Innovative technologies in the 21st Century have offered choreographers new capacities for the creation of movement. These explorations into the performance space advance insights into broader questions of the human body at the intersection of arts and science. The choreographers’ exploration of the dancing form cultivates questions about how the human body extends, begins, ends and is present. As the digital age proposes new ways to (re)imagine the communication and impact of the human body we suggest these artistic collaborations also offer insights into commonalities and places of exchange across notions of art vs. science. These choreographers inter-disciplinary artistic endeavors, into how the moving body transacts and is harnessed as a mode of expression reveal deeper possibilities of the ontology of the lived-experience.

scholarly journals БЕЗКОНТАКТНЕ ЕЛЕКТРОЖИВЛЕННЯ ІМПЛАНТАТІВ

2019 ◽  
pp. 30-39
Author(s):  
Володимир Петрович Олійник ◽  
Дар’я Вікторівна Теличко
Keyword(s):  
Magnetic Field ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Energy Supply ◽  
Thermal State ◽  
The Body ◽  
Alternating Magnetic Field ◽  
Artificial Organs ◽  
Depth Of Penetration ◽  
The Impact

The issues of long-term implants using in the human body are considered. Particular attention is paid to the problem of contactless supply of power to artificial organs with significant energy consumption. Using non-contact energy supply to a fully implanted technical device reduces the risk of infections getting into the patient's body as compared to the use of a power line that is output through internal tissues to the skin surface. The well-known developments of artificial heart apparatus were used as the object of analysis. Their main technical characteristics are considered. The maximum power consumption of these devices is about 20 watts, including models AbioCor. The design of the AbioCor was produced as a fully implanted contactless power unit, but the project was not completed. Although the principle of contactless power supply is undoubtedly an innovative step in the development of implant designs. As a result of the technical implementation of this principle, the following was obtained: it is advisable to use an alternating magnetic field with an inductive coupling between an external and an internal inductor for non-contact energy supply of implants; the use of frequencies of an alternating magnetic field of ~ 100 kHz makes it possible to obtain a compromise solution between the required depth of penetration into biotissues, insignificant heat formation in them and the size and mass of inductors. Under such conditions, the location in the body of the receiving inductor can be determined by medical recommendations. Evaluation experiments were carried out to determine the effective scheme of inclusion of the transmitting and receiving circuits, and the effect on the transmission coefficient of the electrophysical properties of the environment between them. It is shown that for working out of technical solutions of hardware realization of contactless power supply, implantation elements can be placed in saline solution as a model of bioenvironment. It is recommended to use serial element base and circuit solutions used for contactless power supply of radio electronic devices. Also, a quantitative assessment of the additional heat load of the implant on the human body was carried out, since part of the energy of the apparatus and its work, in accordance with the efficiency, inevitably goes into the heat eventually. A simplified calculation of the impact of implant energy losses on the thermal state of the body showed that overheating by 1 °C would be achieved provided the complete insulation of the area, on average, 8.6 hours. This proves the non-critical overheating of the body with implants, and allows the maintenance of a stable body temperature by physiological mechanisms.

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