Semiotic Conceptualization of the Human Body and the Case Study of Russian ‘Navel’

2014 ◽  
pp. 357-372
Keyword(s):  
Human Body

scholarly journals Wearable Textile Antennas with High Body-Antenna Isolation: Design, Fabrication, and Characterization Aspects

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikolay Atanasov ◽  
Gabriela Atanasova ◽  
Blagovest Atanasov
Keyword(s):  
Resonant Frequency ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Electromagnetic Properties ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
High Body ◽  
Wearable Antennas ◽  
Low Profile ◽  
Design Requirements

This chapter provides a brief overview of the types of wearable antennas with high body-antenna isolation. The main parameters and characteristics of wearable antennas and their design requirements are discussed. Next, procedures (passive and active) to test the performance of wearable antennas are presented. The electromagnetic properties of the commercially available textiles used as antenna substrates are investigated and summarized here, followed by a more detailed examination of their effects on the performance of wearable antennas with high body-antenna isolation. A trade-off between substrate electromagnetic properties and resonant frequency, bandwidth, radiation efficiency, and maximum gain is presented. Finally, a case study is presented with detailed analyses and investigations of the low-profile all-textile wearable antennas with high body-antenna isolation and low SAR. Their interaction with a semisolid homogeneous human body phantom is discussed. The simulations and experimental results from different (in free-space and on-body) scenarios are presented.

Polysemous Features of Words of Perception in English, Chinese and Korean—A Case Study of mouth, 嘴/口 and입

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 2002
Author(s):  
Chengyu Nan
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Speech Act ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Korean Language ◽  
Physiological Phenomenon ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Physical Features

Typologically, English, Chinese and Korean belong to three different types of language. English is inflectional, Chinese is isolating and Korean is agglutinative. Therefore, words of perception in these three languages show some different semantic features. But due to similar physical features and physiological phenomenon, people speaking English, Chinese or Korean language use the same word of perception to express the same meaning or feeling. This paper makes a comparative case study of mouth, 嘴/口 and입, which have rich polysemous features. Their meanings are extended from “the part of human body” to the concrete “entrance” or “person” and then to the abstract “speech act” or “way of speaking”. The meaning extension shows semantic symmetry and asymmetry both interlingually and intralingually in the expressions not only with mouth, 嘴/口 and입 and other words of perception in three languages.

Representing the Extraordinary Body

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Straus
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
String Quartet ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Mental Capacity ◽  
Small Stature ◽  
Music Hall ◽  
Musical Modernism

Art historian Tobin Siebers has recently argued that modern visual art is centrally concerned with representing and finding new sorts of beauty in the fractured, disfigured, disabled human body. This essay asks whether the modern in music manifests itself as disability. Focusing on the Stravinskian strand of musical modernism and taking the second of his Three Pieces for String Quartet as a case study, this essay notes that the music can be understood as representing disability in its shape and appearance, its movements, and its implicit mental capacity and affect. Stravinsky’s description of this music as his effort to represent musically the appearance and “the jerky, spastic movements” of a famous music hall performer, Little Tich, whose small stature was perceived by contemporary observers as a grotesque deformation, suggests the music may be understood not only to represent disability generically and metaphorically but also to represent a particular disabled body.

A model of induced coupled movements in the human body: a case study

1999 ◽  
Vol 80 (6) ◽  
pp. 411-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Yom-Tov ◽  
S. Yom-Tov ◽  
H. Ur
Keyword(s):  
Human Body

Effects of substituting anthropometric joints with revolute joints in humanoid robots and robotic hands: a case study

Robotica ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 501-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehdi Mousavi ◽  
Aurelio Somà ◽  
Francesco Pescarmona
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Humanoid Robots ◽  
Rotational Axis ◽  
Robotic Hands ◽  
Revolute Joints ◽  
Kinematic Study ◽  
Fixed Axis ◽  
Human Joints ◽  
Multi Body

SUMMARYIn the human body there are many joints whose functions are very similar to revolute joints. To avoid the complexity of these joints, they are usually substituted by revolute joints in many humanoid robots. Revolute joints have purely rotational motion along their fixed axis, while real joints in the human body have Instantaneous Rotational Axis (IRA) due to their configuration. Substitution of this kind of human joints with revolute (hinge) joints in robots changes the kinematics of joints. Knowing the exact characteristics of the moving axis of rotation in human joints is a prerequisite for the kinematic study of a joint. Here the main geometrical difference between these kinds of joints in humans and their simplified (hinge-like) models in robots is described. Then, as a case study, the mechanism of the three joints of the index finger are compared with their hinge-like model using a multi-body code to understand when revolute joints can be substituted for anthropometric joints in hand exoskeletons and robotic hands. Furthermore, the position of IRA and its distance from the center of the condyle of the joint are presented. The concept and the results can be extended for other fingers and all similar joints, and can be used in humanoid robots, hand exoskeletons and robotic hands.

scholarly journals AYURVEDIC MANAGEMENT OF SWITRA ROGA: A CASE STUDY

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 2567-2571
Author(s):  
Megha Murali ◽  
Arunima Kumari ◽  
Sujeet Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
The Face ◽  
Destruction Of Melanocytes

Skin is the largest organ of human body. Skin complaints affect people of all ages from the neonate to the elderly and cause harm in a number of ways such as discomfort, disfigurement, disability and even death rarely. Vitiligo is the condition presenting with whitish discoloration of the skin. It is an acquired condition in which circumscribed de-pigmented patches can be seen. The destruction of melanocytes, pigment forming cells, causes lack of melanin, coloring pigment which leads to this condition. It affects 1-2% of the population worldwide. Onset is usually in the childhood and females are mostly affected. In Ayurveda, the science of life, the disease called “switra” can be correlated to vitiligo. Aim of the present study is to evaluate the action of Ayurvedic medications on switra roga. Here, am presenting a case of 5 years old girl who came to OPD with c/o white patches over left side of the face. A notable improvement in the condition has been observed in this case. Keywords: Switra roga, Vitiligo, twak vikara.

scholarly journals Analysis of physical mechanisms of human body instability for the definition of hazard zones present in emergency action plans of dams. Case study: Santa Helena Dam, Bahia

RBRH ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luan Marcos da Silva Vieira ◽  
Andrea Sousa Fontes ◽  
André Luiz Andrade Simões
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Buoyancy Force ◽  
Flood Wave ◽  
Hazard Management ◽  
Physical Mechanisms ◽  
Adaptive Ability ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Flood Waves

ABSTRACT The impacts caused by flood waves due to dam ruptures usually cause irreversible damages to the resident population, and, the loss of body equilibrium in floods contributes to aggravate this scenario. In this context, this work aimed to analyse the influence of consideration of physical mechanisms that cause instability in the human body on the definition of hazard zones. Therefore, it was developed simulation of the propagation of the flood wave due to the hypothetical rupture of Santa Helena Dam in Bahia, using the hydrodynamic model HEC-RAS. The results of flow velocities and heights were related and compared to different criteria of hazard zonings and mechanisms that cause body instability. It was verified that the consideration of instability mechanisms of the human body can contribute to hazard management, through the knowledge of areas in which different individuals may topple or slide. It was confirmed that in supercritical flow regimes is more likely for the individual to slide and that in subcritical regimes the individual will topple. Moreover, the consideration of parameters such as buoyancy force and the angle related to the human body's adaptive ability in a flooding influence on the definition of zones.

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