scholarly journals AN INVESTIGATION OF THE SILHOUETTES OF CHRISTIAN DIOR

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-178
Author(s):  
Krasimira Radieva
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Geometric Approach ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Form ◽  
Fashion Designers

The variety of silhouettes is one of main features of Christian Dior’s creativity. The aim of presented paper is a study and analysis of the silhouettes of Christian Dior for determination of connection between a silhouette and the body form and presentation of a silhouette with simple geometric forms. The silhouettes of Christian Dior in his couture collections in the period between 1947 and 1957 are studied, analysed and approximated with combination of well-known simple geometric forms - curved forms of ellipses, ovals, circles, full figures or their parts, and straight ones of rectangles and trapeziums. The investigation of the silhouettes with the application of approximation with well-known simple geometric forms helps the students in their studies in fashion. The approximated geometric approach helps the activity of fashion designers and pattern makers in their creations of new silhouette forms and their proportions to the human body.

scholarly journals What the Polish Mother Does Not Say. Zbylut Grzywacz Against the Myth

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (4 SELECTED PAPERS IN ENGLISH) ◽  
pp. 103-123
Author(s):  
Dorota Kudelska
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Social Position ◽  
The Body ◽  
National Museum ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
Body Form ◽  
Polish Version ◽  
The World ◽  
The Dead

The Polish version of the article was published in Roczniki Humanistyczne vol. 62, issue 4 (2014). The article presents the art of Zbylut Grzywacz in the context of his post-mortem exhibition in the Kraków National Museum in 2009. The subjects of the analysis are his paintings from the 1970s and 1980s, presenting women through a simple rough treatment of human body form, without an academic idealization. The destruction of the form conforms to the deconstruction of the myth of a Polish Mother. It is due to the change of a social position of the figures whom Grzywacz gives the roles of guardians of tradition, as well as due to their mental and moral degradation. The artist uses an irony in showing his knowledge of the tradition of showing a human body in an academic nude (what he denies), in a Flemish art of showing torn animal meat (with the Rembrandt’s reflection) and Holbein’s tradition of the post-mortem decay (The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb). One of the main themes in Grzywacz’s paintings is the loneliness, especially distinct in a representation of symbolically naked persons among insensible pedestrians. The Polish Mother—here she doesn’t belong to any society. The explicitness and the picturesque materiality covers a certain “crack” in the world presented inside the hard-to-comprehend present-day multitude of Grzywacz’s paintings. Behind the cover of the foreground tale, as one could think on the basis of the sketchbooks, there is a kind of an “unpresented world”, in which the author incessantly tells us about the pain of his existence with no anaesthetization by grotesque.

The Muon as a Tool for Scanning the Interior of the Human Body

1969 ◽  
Vol 08 (04) ◽  
pp. 311-319 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Daniel
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Analysis ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Simultaneous Recording ◽  
The Body ◽  
X Rays ◽  
Medium Energy ◽  
Pass Through ◽  
Dimensional Picture

SummaryA completely new technique for scanning the interior of the human body is proposed which is based on the following principle: muons from an accelerator pass through two spark chambers and are stopped in the body. The decay electrons leave the body and pass also two spark chambers. The trajectory co-ordinates read out from the spark chambers allow the determination of the point of decay with high precision. The truly three-dimensional picture obtained in this way is truly three-dimensionally displayed on a screen. Several modifications of the basic method are described, the most important ones being the simultaneous recording of the muonic X-rays (equivalent to a chemical analysis) or of the muon precession. The necessary dose is low. The most serious disadvantage is the need of a medium-energy accelerator. Quantitative figures on resolution, efficiency, and dose are given.

The body and religious language

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahdi Esfahani
Keyword(s):  
Direct Effect ◽  
Human Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Religious Language ◽  
Theological Debate ◽  
The Relationship

In this article, the author discusses the relationship between the human body and the emergence of religious language, starting with the thesis that the nature of the human body has a direct effect on the determination of language, and that we only understand the meaning of words in accordance with our physical disposition. In this thorough philosophical-theological treatise on Being, speech, the body and prophetology, Qur’anic textual examples and Islamic traditions are used to explain how body and language interrelate and what conclusions can be drawn from this for the centuries-old theological debate on the "anthropomorphisms" in the Qur’an.

scholarly journals Conceptual reconsideration of nominations of limbs in the paremiological fund of the Chinese language

Litera ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 97-106
Author(s):  
Mingxuan Liu
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
The Body ◽  
Linguistic Representation ◽  
Different Cultures

This article is dedicated to reconsideration of nominations of limbs reflected in the phraseological fund of the Chinese language. The goal of this work consist in determination of the conceptual attributes of nominations of human limbs in the Chinese linguistic worldview by analyzing their linguistic representation in the paremiological fund of the language. The author leans on the vast theoretical material, gradually describing the key approaches towards the analysis of “bodily concepts” and the study of phraseologisms of the Chinese language in the conceptual paradigm. The author reveals several primary and secondary meanings of words that represent limbs in the Chinese language, demonstrating the interrelation between the origin of the word and the number of its secondary conceptual meanings. For example, the hieroglyph 脚 (foot) is the “youngest” and most commonly denominates part of the body. The article also proves the possibility of actualization of cognitive meanings of particular linguistic concepts through the analysis of paremias. Namely, the concept “arm” implies the meanings of “mastery”, “distance”, “tool” and “weapon”, while the concept  “foot” – the meanings of “foundation”, “motion”, “prosperity”. The author comes to the conclusion that the ways of reconsideration of human body and its parts in descriptive and comparative terms of different cultures is one of the most effective instruments for cognizing the fundamental of the linguistic worldview.

Exposure of nano- and ultrafine Ni particles to synthetic biological solutions: predicting fate-related dissolution and accumulation

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Abzhanova ◽  
Anna Godymchuk ◽  
Alexander Gusev ◽  
Denis Kuznetsov
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Experimental Approach ◽  
Rapid Determination ◽  
The Body ◽  
Nickel Compounds ◽  
Nickel Accumulation ◽  
Biological Solutions

AbstractThe growing production and use of nickel (Ni) nanopowders with low biopersistence makes dissolution and accumulation degree in a body an important parameters needed for the risk assessment of nanoparticles. We propose an experimental approach for rapid determination of the dissolution degree of nanoscale (77 nm) and ultrafine (275 nm) Ni particles in synthetic biological solutions. It has been shown that after 2 h of exposure to simulating saliva and lysosomal liquid the dissolution degree of nanoparticles can reach 30 and 60 wt.%, respectively. With decreasing of the particle’s size, they are characterized by increased solubility in saliva and the pulmonary tract; and the particles completely dissolve in 24 h. There was an attempt to predict the potential extent of accumulation of nickel compounds in the human body with particles entering the body by saliva or with breathing: with 3.8 times size decrease the probability of nickel accumulation in a body can rise in 3.5 times.

scholarly journals The effect of ethyl alcohol on accuracy of time since death estimation using laser poliarimetric methods of cerebrospinal liquid polyristallic films investigation

2017 ◽  
pp. 33-39
Author(s):  
Marta Garazdiuk ◽  
Viktor Bachynskyi ◽  
Iryna Lebedintseva ◽  
Oleksandr Garazdiuk ◽  
Andrii Andriichuk
Keyword(s):  
Cerebrospinal Fluid ◽  
Ethyl Alcohol ◽  
Human Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Time Since Death ◽  
Polycrystalline Films ◽  
Laser Polarimetry ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Presence And Absence

The article analyzes the possibility of using laser polarimetry methods to determine the possible influence of ethyl alcohol in the body of the deceased on the change in the structure of the polycrystalline films of the cerebrospinal fluid. The efficiency of usage laser polarimetry methods (determination of complex degree of mutual polarization and autofluorescence of polycrystalline films of cerebrospinal fluid) have been proved. Relationships between the distribution of the intensity of the fluorescence of polycrystalline films of the cerebrospinal fluid of the cadavers as a result of cardiovascular pathology in the presence and absence of ethyl alcohol in the organism and the values and ranges of the change of statistical moments of the 1st - 4th orders that characterize such autofluorescence images are investigated. A good level of balanced differentiation of the presence of ethyl alcohol in the human body in the «green-yellow» and «red» sections of the spectrum has been achieved. There is a statistically significant difference between cases of death from cardiovascular disease in the presence and absence of ethyl alcohol in an organism by determining the magnitude of the statistical moment of the 4th order, which characterizes the distributions of the azimuth magnitude of the polarization of microscopic images of laser-induced fluorescence. On this basis, an excellent balanced accuracy of the differentiation of the presence of ethyl alcohol in the human body (Ac (M4) = 94%) has been achieved. Consequently, ethyl alcohol affects the structure of polycrystalline films of cerebrospinal fluid, which should be taken into account when time since death estimated using methods of laser polarimetry.

Gender determination of caucasoid hair using image analysis

1993 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 216-217
Author(s):  
T.B. Ball ◽  
W.M. Hess
Keyword(s):  
Image Analysis ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Scalp Hair ◽  
The Body ◽  
Equivalent Diameter ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Hair Samples ◽  
Length Width ◽  
Morphological Differences

It has been demonstrated that cross sections of bundles of hair can be effectively studied using image analysis. These studies can help to elucidate morphological differences of hair from one region of the body to another. The purpose of the present investigation was to use image analysis to determine whether morphological differences could be demonstrated between male and female human Caucasian terminal scalp hair.Hair samples were taken from the back of the head from 18 caucasoid males and 13 caucasoid females (Figs. 1-2). Bundles of 50 hairs were processed for cross-sectional examination and then analyzed using Prism Image Analysis software on a Macintosh llci computer. Twenty morphological parameters of size and shape were evaluated for each hair cross-section. The size parameters evaluated were area, convex area, perimeter, convex perimeter, length, breadth, fiber length, width, equivalent diameter, and inscribed radius. The shape parameters considered were formfactor, roundness, convexity, solidity, compactness, aspect ratio, elongation, curl, and fractal dimension.

Determination of Lead Content in Red Colored Lipsticks from Mandalay Market by Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-173
Keyword(s):  
Sampling Procedure ◽  
The Body ◽  
Lead Content ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Allowable Limit ◽  
Flame Atomic Absorption ◽  
Therapeutic Benefits ◽  
Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer ◽  
Exposure Levels

Red colored lipstick is the most widely used cosmetic product. Although lipstick gives a lot of social, psychological and therapeutic benefits, it may harm the consumers. Because some lipsticks contain a considerable amount of heavy metal especially lead. Lead is being used in lipstick mainly for the pigments required to obtain needed colors. Lead accumulates in the body over time and lead-containing lipstick applied several times a day, every day, combined with lead in water and other sources, could add up to significant exposure levels. Therefore, this study was aimed to determine lead content in red colored lipsticks from market. This study was laboratorybased, analytical study by using 25 lipstick samples. Red colored lipsticks were bought from Mandalay Market by random sampling procedure and they were completely coded to avoid the bias. Then, lead content in coded samples was determined by Flame AAS according to International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) guideline. Lead contents of 88% of the lipsticks samples were more than specified limit (20 ppm) of Food and Drug Administration, United States. All of them, lead content was highest in counterfeit lipsticks group. Among the tested lipstick samples, lipstick with lowest lead content was LE-RL 01 (15.74 ppm) and the lipstick with highest lead content was CF-RL 01(60.09 ppm). In conclusion, lead contents of red colored lipsticks (22 out of 25) from market samples were higher than allowable limit (20 ppm).

Correction of Posture Deviations in the Sagittal Plane Using the Pilates Method

2019 ◽  
pp. 3-13
Author(s):  
Alexandru Cîtea ◽  
George-Sebastian Iacob
Keyword(s):  
Low Back Pain ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Postural Control ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Sagittal Plane ◽  
The Body ◽  
Lower Limbs ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Pilates Method ◽  
The Relationship

Posture is commonly perceived as the relationship between the segments of the human body upright. Certain parts of the body such as the cephalic extremity, neck, torso, upper and lower limbs are involved in the final posture of the body. Musculoskeletal instabilities and reduced postural control lead to the installation of nonstructural posture deviations in all 3 anatomical planes. When we talk about the sagittal plane, it was concluded that there are 4 main types of posture deviation: hyperlordotic posture, kyphotic posture, rectitude and "sway-back" posture.Pilates method has become in the last decade a much more popular formof exercise used in rehabilitation. The Pilates method is frequently prescribed to people with low back pain due to their orientation on the stabilizing muscles of the pelvis. Pilates exercise is thus theorized to help reactivate the muscles and, by doingso, increases lumbar support, reduces pain, and improves body alignment.

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