scholarly journals Biometric Poetics: The Case of Eververse

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin Tonra ◽  
David Kelly
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Quantified Self ◽  
Electronic Literature ◽  
Biometric Data ◽  
Language Generation ◽  
Fitness Tracking ◽  
Tracking Device ◽  
Contemporary Context ◽  
Associated Data

Eververse was a yearlong conceptual poetry project which used a poet’s biometric data as the basis for generating verse. This article describes the project’s conceptual contributions to the field of electronic literature and its technical development. Eververse operated by collecting biometric data from the poet with a commercial fitness tracking device; this data was sent to a custom-built poetry generator which deployed a number of processes from the domains of Natural Language Generation and Sentiment Analysis to generate poetry; the form and content of this poetry was designed to vary according to specific changes in the biometric data, resulting in a poetry that conspicuously correlated with the poet’s daily activities; this poetry was published in real-time on the project website and the full poem and associated data have now been archived. In addition to providing details on the technical implementation of Eververse, this article includes discussion that situates the work within the tradition of electronic literature and analyses its unique inscription of biometric data. The article examines that feature in the contemporary context of the quantified self, but also in its engagement with historic poetic theories of composition, creativity, and the textualisation of the body.

Implications of Wearables, Fitness Tracking Services, and Quantified Self on Healthcare

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 1066-1070 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Chen ◽  
Mary Zdorova ◽  
Dan Nathan-Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Research Process ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
The Body ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Quantified Self ◽  
Perceived Ease Of Use ◽  
Social Communities ◽  
Fitness Tracking

Self-quantifying fitness tracking services and wearable devices have become more ubiquitous but still suffer from high abandonment rates. Wearable devices can monitor the physiological changes of the body and alert patients and physicians of immediate needed actions and facilitate in the research process of disease prevention and treatment, especially in areas that have less access to healthcare. This proceeding discusses how to bridge the gap between novice and expert users by implementing gamification techniques and social communities within fitness tracking services to increase the enjoyment, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, and long-term engagement of fitness tracking services. Additionally, retention of wearable technology can be improved by applying human factors principles to make products more user-centered and friendly.

HIPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM PADA IBU HAMIL DI KLINIK BIDAN SUPRIYATI SRIBIT BERBAH SLEMAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Pramukti Dian Setianingrum ◽  
Farah Irmania Tsani
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Hyperemesis Gravidarum ◽  
Unwanted Pregnancy ◽  
The Body ◽  
Nausea And Vomiting ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
World Health ◽  
The World

Backgroud: The World Health Organization (WHO) explained that the number of Hyperemesis Gravidarum cases reached 12.5% of the total number of pregnancies in the world and the results of the Demographic Survey conducted in 2007, stated that 26% of women with live births experienced complications. The results of the observations conducted at the Midwife Supriyati Clinic found that pregnant women with hyperemesis gravidarum, with a comparison of 10 pregnant women who examined their contents there were about 4 pregnant women who complained of excessive nausea and vomiting. Objective: to determine the hyperemesis Gravidarum of pregnant mother in clinic. Methods: This study used Qualitative research methods by using a case study approach (Case Study.) Result: The description of excessive nausea of vomiting in women with Hipermemsis Gravidarum is continuous nausea and vomiting more than 10 times in one day, no appetite or vomiting when fed, the body feels weak, blood pressure decreases until the body weight decreases and interferes with daily activities days The factors that influence the occurrence of Hyperemesis Gravidarum are Hormonal, Diet, Unwanted Pregnancy, and psychology, primigravida does not affect the occurrence of Hyperemesis Gravidarum. Conclusion: Mothers who experience Hyperemesis Gravidarum feel nausea vomiting continuously more than 10 times in one day, no appetite or vomiting when fed, the body feels weak, blood pressure decreases until the weight decreases and interferes with daily activities, it is because there are several factors, namely, hormonal actors, diet, unwanted pregnancy, and psychology.

Locating the Historical and Contemporary Context of Women’s Imprisonment

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anastasia Chamberlen
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Women's Prisons ◽  
Women's Imprisonment ◽  
Contemporary Context

This chapter sketches the broader context of the study presented in this book. It starts with a historical account of imprisonment, focusing particularly on women’s imprisonment, and attempts to trace the centrality of prisoner bodies in the delivery of punishment via the prison since the eighteenth century. Through this brief historiography, it examines how the body has been the object and subject of punishment and, since the start, has been part and parcel of the delivery of imprisonment. More specifically, the chapter argues that, since its establishment, women’s imprisonment has been gendered and embodied. The second half of the chapter looks at more contemporary research on women’s experiences in prison, and unpacks the punishment–body relation by connecting the study’s objectives to extant research on women’s prisons.

scholarly journals Effects of Five Daily Activities on Harmonic Analysis of the Radial Pulse

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Pan-Jen Chen ◽  
Han-Kuei Wu ◽  
Po-Chi Hsu ◽  
Lun-Chien Lo ◽  
Hen-Hong Chang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Radial Artery ◽  
Pulse Signal ◽  
The Body ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Radial Pulse ◽  
Pulse Diagnosis ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Pulse Waves ◽  
High Level ◽  
Fast Fourier Analysis

All daily physiological activities have some effects on the body, and traditional Chinese medicine believes that pulse diagnosis can reflect the circulation of qi and blood throughout the body. This study aimed to explore the effects of five physiological activities, namely, sleep, exercise, ingestion, defecation, and shower, on pulse waves of the radial artery. Thirty test subjects were recruited for the study, and a wearable pulse signal measurement device was used for self-measurement of radial artery pulses before and after various physiological activities. All collected data were subjected to fast Fourier analysis, which transformed each wave from its time domain to frequency domain of 10 harmonics to describe the changes in pulse waves. The results were as follows: exercise and sleep had larger but opposite effects on the pulse waves; defecation and sleep relaxed the body and had the same trend of effect on the pulse waves. Both exercise and ingestion require energy to proceed, and both exert a burden on the body, and the pulse waves showed the same trend of changes. In contrast, shower had a little effect on the pulse waves. Preliminary observation in this study showed that relaxation of the body could increase high-level harmonics, whereas stress could increase low-level harmonics. Further studies are warranted to unravel the physiological significance of this finding.

scholarly journals Presence, feeding and health status of collared doves (Streptopelia decaocto Friv. 1838) on animal breeding farms

2006 ◽  
pp. 49-54
Author(s):  
Sándor Varga ◽  
Lajos Juhász
Keyword(s):  
Newcastle Disease ◽  
Wing Length ◽  
Animal Breeding ◽  
The Body ◽  
Similar Data ◽  
Biometric Data ◽  
E Coli ◽  
Breeding Farms ◽  
Disease Analysis ◽  
Veterinary Institute

In the course of our examinations we were determining the gender of collared doves (Streptopelia decaocto) feeding at animal breeding farms by biometric data. We were estimated their nourishment and necropsies were carried out.We compared the results of the nutrition analysis with similar data of collard doves feeding at agricultural areas.We analyzed the crop and gizzard content and recorded the body proportions of collard doves that were captured between December of 2004 and August 2005. In the course of the necropsy examinations we did parasitological, bacteriological examinations as well as examinations for the detection of Newcastle disease. In the course of the gender analysis of the collard doves that were collected at animal breeding farms, both the wing length and the length of the third quill-feather has shown a significantly greater value in the case of males (p>0.05).From the orts found in the crop and gizzard it has been stated that the feed consumed the most was corn (80.77% m%). The collared doves consumed much less other cereal seeds (wheat 0.82%, barley 1.26%).In the course of the necropsy examinations done in the Veterinary Institute of Debrecen, the birds proved to be free of parasites, and the results of the Salmonella and Newcastle disease analysis were negative as well. E. coli bacteria had been detected in the liver of not more than three birds.

scholarly journals Image Fusion Based Multimodal Biometric Recognition

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 3613-3617
Keyword(s):  
Image Fusion ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
The Body ◽  
Biometric Authentication ◽  
Biometric Data ◽  
Ringing Artifacts ◽  
Fused Image ◽  
Focus Image ◽  
Multimodal Biometric Recognition ◽  
Authentic Data

Biometric Authentication is a security process that replays on the unique biological characteristics of an individual. Biometric Authentication system compare a biometric data capture to stored, confirmed authentic data in a database. It is simply the process of verifying the identity using the measurements or other unique characteristics of the body, then logging us in a service, device and so on. It is an effective way to prove identity because it can’t be replicated. Multi focus Image fusion is a process of fusing two or more images to obtain a new one. Used to reduce the problems like blocking, ringing artifacts occurs because of DCT. The low frequency sub-band coefficients are fused by selecting coefficient having maximum spatial frequency. The goal is classifying the images to classes of authorized and unauthorized using multi class SVM. The fingerprint image and iris image are fused together using SWT, the features are extracted from the fused image and labelled using GLCM algorithm. The testing image is then compared with trained samples and classified as authorized or unauthorized by using FFNN.

scholarly journals First report of a wearable fitness tracking device capturing a cardiac arrest

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruby Groome ◽  
Petra Polgarova ◽  
Jonathan Martin
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Arrest ◽  
First Report ◽  
Fitness Tracking ◽  
Tracking Device

scholarly journals Illness Narrative and Self-Help Culture – Self-Help Writing on Age-Related Infertility

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. VC19-VC41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Wohlmann
Keyword(s):  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Life Writing ◽  
Illness Narratives ◽  
The Body ◽  
Illness Narrative ◽  
Quantified Self ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Selection Of

Both self-help books and illness narratives are motivated by an impulse to overcome a crisis and, simultaneously, to help others who suffer from similar conditions. In doing so, authors of self-help and illness narratives move in between polar opposites: they have both individual and collective motives, they have a desire to overcome uncertainty and achieve control and they negotiate the authority of experience versus the authority of expertise. This paper has two objectives: (1) It describes the intersections of illness life writing and self-help culture and traces the thematic, cultural and historical similarities. (2) It analyzes a selection of four autobiographical, U.S.-American self-help books on age-related infertility published between 1987 and 2009. In juxtaposing these books with research perspectives from self-help criticism and medical humanities, the paper suggests that the authors blur the boundaries between patient and expert in their attempts to achieve control over what is ultimately uncontrollable – the body. The paper closes with a reflection on how scientific discourses and the Quantified Self-movement influence self-help narratives on illness.  This article was submitted on June 1st, 2014 and published on November 3rd 2014.

scholarly journals Usefulness of wearable fitness tracking devices in patients undergoing esophagectomy

Esophagus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junko Honke ◽  
Yoshihiro Hiramatsu ◽  
Sanshiro Kawata ◽  
Eisuke Booka ◽  
Tomohiro Matsumoto ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Esophageal Cancer ◽  
Propensity Score ◽  
Nutritional Status ◽  
Propensity Score Matching ◽  
Physical Therapists ◽  
Prognostic Nutritional Index ◽  
Postoperative Pneumonia ◽  
Perioperative Outcomes ◽  
Fitness Tracking ◽  
Tracking Device

Abstract Background Esophageal cancer surgery requires maintenance and enhancement of perioperative nutritional status and physical function to prevent postoperative complications. Therefore, awareness of the importance of preoperative patient support is increasing. This study examined the usefulness of using a diary in combination with a wearable fitness tracking device (WFT) in patients undergoing surgery for esophageal cancer. Methods Ninety-four patients who underwent esophagectomy between February 2019 and April 2021 were included. Physicians, nurses, dietitians, and physical therapists provided diary-based education for the patients. In addition, a WFT was used by some patients. The perioperative outcomes of patients who used both the diary and WFT (WFT group) and those who used the diary alone (non-WFT group) were compared. In addition, propensity score matching was performed to improve comparability between the two groups. Results After the propensity score matching, the rate of postoperative pneumonia was significantly lower in the WFT group (0% vs. 22.6%, P = 0.005). The postoperative hospital stay was shorter in the WFT group (P = 0.012). Nutritional status indices, such as the prognostic nutritional index, also improved significantly in the WFT group at 1 month after surgery (P = 0.034). The rate of diary entries was significantly higher in the WFT group (72.3% vs. 28.3%, P < 0.001). Conclusion The use of a WFT reduced the incidence of postoperative pneumonia and improved postoperative nutritional status and rates of diary entries after esophagectomy, suggesting that its use may be useful for promoting recovery after esophagectomy.

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