scholarly journals Food Consumption in Ferzan Ozpetek’s Hamam and Luca Guadagnino’s Io sono l’amore: A Gender Issue

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-190
Author(s):  
Patrizia Sambuco
Keyword(s):  
Food Consumption ◽  
The Body ◽  
Sensory Level ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Gender Constructions ◽  
The Individual

Within the wide range of scholarly works on food studies, the topic of food and cinema has gained increasing attention in recent years. This article contributes to the discussion offering a gender per­spective in the analysis of Italian films. It examines cinematic represen­tations of food consumption in Ferzan Ozpetek’s Hamam and Luca Guadagnino’s Io sono l’amore. Food consumption is a means of look­ing at self-identity and the relationship of the individual to the outside world. Eating implies taking part of the outside world inside, and as such it involves not only nutrition for the body but invests the sub­ject with cultural meanings. As a result, the analysis of food consump­tion lends itself to an examination of cultural gender dynamics that influence representations. Through a gender reading of specific scenes, the article argues that in spite of the apparent representations of inde­pendent, successful female protagonists who dare to challenge social conventions, the films considered contribute to the reinforcement of traditional gender constructions. Claude Fischler’s and Pasi Falk’s theo­ries of food consumption help to uncover how the sensory and aesthetic dimensions prevail in the representations of the women protagonists of the films analysed. The female protagonists’ relationship to the outside world remains an individual one, experienced at the sensory level, that cannot express the radical and collective transformations available to the male protagonists.

Self, Indian theories of

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.S. Rukmani
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Inner Self ◽  
Spiritual Energy ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Universe ◽  
Ultimate Principle ◽  
Ultimate Nature

Hindu thought traces its different conceptions of the self to the earliest extant Vedic sources composed in the Sanskrit language. The words commonly used in Hindu thought and religion for the self are jīva (life), ātman (breath), jīvātman (life-breath), puruṣa (the essence that lies in the body), and kṣetrajña (one who knows the body). Each of these words was the culmination of a process of inquiry with the purpose of discovering the ultimate nature of the self. By the end of the ancient period, the personal self was regarded as something eternal which becomes connected to a body in order to exhaust the good and bad karma it has accumulated in its many lives. This self was supposed to be able to regain its purity by following different spiritual paths by means of which it can escape from the circle of births and deaths forever. There is one more important development in the ancient and classical period. The conception of Brahman as both immanent and transcendent led to Brahman being identified with the personal self. The habit of thought that tried to relate every aspect of the individual with its counterpart in the universe (Ṛg Veda X. 16) had already prepared the background for this identification process. When the ultimate principle in the subjective and objective spheres had arrived at their respective ends in the discovery of the ātman and Brahman, it was easy to equate the two as being the same spiritual ‘energy’ that informs both the outer world and the inner self. This equation had important implications for later philosophical growth. The above conceptions of the self-identity question find expression in the six systems of Hindu thought. These are known as āstikadarśanas or ways of seeing the self without rejecting the authority of the Vedas. Often, one system or the other may not explicitly state their allegiance to the Vedas, but unlike Buddhism or Jainism, they did not openly repudiate Vedic authority. Thus they were āstikadarśanas as opposed to the others who were nāstikadarśanas. The word darśana for philosophy is also significant if one realizes that philosophy does not end with only an intellectual knowing of one’s self-identity but also culminates in realizing it and truly becoming it.

A review of noteworthy/major innovations in wearable clothing for thermal and moisture management from material to fabric structure

2021 ◽  
pp. 004051752110277
Author(s):  
Hafiz Muhammad Kaleem Ullah ◽  
Joseph Lejeune ◽  
Aurélie Cayla ◽  
Mélanie Monceaux ◽  
Christine Campagne ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thermal Comfort ◽  
The Body ◽  
Innovative Strategies ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Thermal Range ◽  
Moisture Management ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Air Conditioning Systems ◽  
Body Heat

The human body exchanges heat through the environment by various means, such as radiation, evaporation, conduction, and convection. Thermo-physiological comfort is associated with the effective heat transfer between the body and the atmosphere, maintaining the body temperature in a tolerable thermal range (36.5–37.5ºC). In order to ensure comfort, the body heat must be preserved or emitted, depending on external conditions. If the body heat is not properly managed, it can cause hyperthermia, heatstroke, and thermal discomfort. Conventionally, heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems are used to provide comfort. However, they require a huge amount of energy, leading to an increase in global warming, and are limited to indoor applications. In recent decades, scientists across the world have been working to provide thermal comfort through wearable innovative textiles. This review article presents recent innovative strategies for moisture and/or thermal management at the material, filament/fiber, yarn, and fabric scales. It also summarizes the passive/active textile models for comfort. Integrating electrical devices in garments can rapidly control the skin temperature, and is dynamic and useful for a wide range of environmental conditions. However, their use can be limited in some situations due to their bulky design and batteries, which must be frequently recharged. Furthermore, adaptive textiles enable the wearer to maintain comfort in various temperatures and humidity without requiring batteries. Using these wearable textiles is convenient to provide thermal comfort at the individual level rather than controlling the entire building temperature.

Poor diets

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Andrews ◽  
Clare England
Keyword(s):  
Trans Fatty Acids ◽  
Nutritional Value ◽  
Saturated Fat ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cereal Grains ◽  
Added Sugar ◽  
Dairy Foods ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Individual ◽  
And Function

Apart from breast milk, no single food contains all the essential nutrients the body needs to be healthy and function efficiently. The nutritional value of a person’s diet depends on the overall balance of foods eaten over a period of time, as well as on the needs of the individual. Over the last 60 years, there has been increasing agreement about the balance of nutrients and foods that make up a ‘good’ diet. This consists primarily of wholegrains (i.e. cereal grains, or foods made from them, containing bran, germ, and endosperm, e.g. wholemeal breads, oatmeal, and dark rye); vegetables and fruit, including nuts and pulses; moderate amounts of fish and low-fat dairy foods; and limited amounts of meat. The consumption of saturated fat should be low, with saturated fat being replaced by mono- and polyunsaturated vegetable fats and fish oils. Trans-fatty acids should be minimized, and added sugar should provide no more than 10% of energy intake. However, as omnivores, humans can survive on a wide range of different foods, and many people worldwide eat diets that fall far short of this ideal.

scholarly journals A study of whole-body isotope dilution of [14C]ascorbic acid in guinea-pigs with graded ascorbate intakes

1992 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 717-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Bates ◽  
Harumi Tsuchiya ◽  
P. H. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Intake ◽  
Guinea Pigs ◽  
Specific Activity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Dietary Intakes ◽  
Radioactive Label ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Specific Activities ◽  
The Individual

The purpose of the present study was first to assess the extent to which unlabelled ascorbate in the diet of guinea-pigs can exchange with labelled ascorbate within their organs when the dietary intake is varied over a wide range, and second to determine whether the retention of label might be used to assess either the amount of ascorbate intake or its biological availability where these are not known. The retention of [14C]ascorbate in the body and in various organs of guinea-pigs were, therefore, measured following a 13 d period of graded dietary intakes of ascorbate. It was found first, that the amount of label retained in each of the organs, 13 d after the initial dose of labelled ascorbate, was much more closely related to the amount of ascorbate intake after labelling than to the intake (and tissue ascorbate levels) before and at the time of labelling. Second, most of the individual internal organs exhibited a constant relationship between the specific activity at 13 d and the dietary intake, except for brain which was flushed to a smaller extent. Third, in agreement with several previous studies a high proportion of the radioactive label in the tissues was found to be still present in ascorbate. The specific activity of column-purified ascorbate was very similar to the estimated specific activity in the crude extract, which implies that it may be possible to estimate specific activities (or stable isotope enrichments) at certain sites without rigorous isolation procedures. Fourth, the amount of radioactivity appearing in the urine 2 d before killing the animals was correlated with the amount of ascorbate intake and with tissue specific activities, suggesting that intakes (or bioavailability) might be predicted from the patterns of label-appearance in the urine

scholarly journals They Order�this Matter Better in France�. Yorick the Philosopher and Sentimental Traveller

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (21) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena V. Maksiutenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Small World ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Tristram Shandy ◽  
Social Conventions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
Individual Consciousness ◽  
The Individual

The article highlights the existing tradition of understanding Laurence Sterne�s literary texts as philosophical. Author uses such research approaches as historical and literary, sociocultural and biographical. The reception of Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey produced by the �English Rabelais� through the philosophical dominant in the poetics is a controversial theme that has its supporters and opponents. Occasionally some researchers totally negate philosophical direction of Sterne�s works, others � though do not deny his interest in the studies of contemporary philosophers, with many of whom Sterne had friendly relations (Hume, d�Holbach, D�Alembert, Diderot), nevertheless accuse the writer for inability to create a consistent system of philosophical ideas and become an original thinker (James Work). In course of time a number of literary critics convinced in inherency of philosophical themes for Sterne�s novels is widening (A. Hadfield, J. Hawley, Sh. Regan, P. Davies, Ch. Lupton). Experts declare that the attempts to distance Sterne�s texts from the intellectual climate of the century lead to the marginalization of his achievement and Sterne has become celebrated by �a coterie of enthusiasts� as �our most influential unread author� (Andrew Hadfield). On the contrary, Martin Battestin in his famous essays written in 1994 � �A Sentimental Journey�: Sterne�s �Work of Redemption� and �Sterne �mong the Philosophes: Body and Soul in �A Sentimental Journey� � insists on the inseparability of Sterne�s novels from the leading philosophical tendencies of the epoch. The first of his papers, �A Sentimental Journey�: Sterne�s �Work of Redemption�, is the subject of the analytical commentary in the present article. Battestin argues that Sterne can be considered the first philosophical novelist in English who discerns Locke�s radically subjectivist implications and demonstrates in the form of his narrative the principles of association of ideas and �durational time�. In A Sentimental Journey Sterne debates the mechanistic doctrines of La Mettrie and his followers, d�Holbach, Diderot and discovers in the passion and sympathy a way of rejecting Hume�s skepticism. Yorick�s figure in A Sentimental Journey, his ability to enjoy the moments of happiness, the restraint to the manifestation of the extremeness of passion transform the canon of travel writing and unnoticeably give it the form of personal journal and self-observation where the plunge into the description of everyday trifles predominates. Sterne�s A Sentimental Journey turns into the model of �the literature of sensibility� ensuring the author with the popularity within the wide range of reading public. The researchers view A Sentimental Journey as a variation of familiar features of Sterne�s style that correlates with the turn to the lyrical psychological form, the attention to the individual consciousness, the world of inner feelings and emotions. The text of the novel becomes refined, the author�s tone is frivolous and full of erotic hints. The narrator intrigues the reader with the insinuating intonation where the ironical, ambiguous and melancholic colors are mixed. In A Sentimental Journey Yorick�s travel notes look like an �imaginary journey� where the factual topography becomes the cause for extensive emotional reflection of the hero who is not constraint with the social conventions and the outer world turns to be the �mirror of the soul� and is reflected in the endless stream of changeable opinions. According to Battestin, Sterne�s emphasis on the liberating function of human sexuality is important. Claiming a spiritual value for eroticism Sterne turns to be the precursor of D. H. Lawrence and the famous final chapters in A Sentimental Journey, �The Grace� and �The Case of Delicacy�, can be viewed as the paradigm of the novel�s leading theme � the human yearning for relationship, the quest for union and sociability. Battestin comes to a conclusion that in A Sentimental Journey Sterne found a way to diminish the disturbing solipsistic implications of the new philosophy that had defined �the small world of Shandy Hall in terms of hobby-horsical self-enclosure�. He proposed to find in human senses, imagination and physiology the means of transcending materialist doctrines and of affirming the possibility of communion.

scholarly journals The glide of single crystals of molybdenum

1937 ◽  
Vol 163 (912) ◽  
pp. 19-28 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
High Temperature ◽  
Melting Point ◽  
The Body ◽  
High Melting ◽  
High Melting Point ◽  
Considerable Uncertainty ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Wire ◽  
The Individual ◽  
A Current

As pointed out in the paper by Andrade and Tsien, the situation as regards body-centred crystals is such that further information as to the glide element of crystals of this class is needed. In particular, there is considerable uncertainty as to the glide plane, different crystallographic planes being, apparently, operative with different metals. It is possible that with body-centred crystals the planes on which glide takes place depend upon the temperature with reference, say, to the melting point of the metal, since with certain hexagonal crystals such as magnesium, fresh planes have been found to come into operation at high temperatures. Molybdenum, which crystallizes in the body-centred system, has an extremely high melting point, about 2630° C., and so offers a wide range of temperature for experiment. In the following pages work on the glide elements in the temperature range 20 -1000° is described, and it is shown that while the glide plane at the lower temperatures is (112), at high temperature it is (110). The glide direction is in all cases [111], thus confirming the rule that the glide direction is the most closely packed direction. It is hoped later to extend the determinations to higher temperatures. 2—Preparation of the Crystals The crystals were prepared by the method devised by Professor Andrade for metals of high melting point, in which the wire is maintained at a high temperature by a current passing through it, and a local temperature gradient, which slowly travels down the wire, is obtained by a small subsidiary furnace surrounding the wire. For this method it is desirable not to use too thick a wire, and the metal used was 0∙25 mm. in diameter, supplied by the Tungsten Manufacturing Company. If such a wire be maintained by the passage of a current at a temperature some 1000° C. below its melting point, the individual crystallites grow, until the appearance shown in fig. 1, Plate 4 is obtained, where some of the crystals extend right across the wire. The crystal boundaries in this picture have been revealed by etching with dilute nitric acid.

scholarly journals EMDR and the Treatment of Complex PTSD: A Review

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 264-278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah L. Korn
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Trauma Treatment ◽  
Complex Ptsd ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Randomized Controlled Studies ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Trauma Processing

The diagnosis of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) covers a wide range of conditions, ranging from patients suffering from a one-time traumatic accident to those who have been exposed to chronic traumatization and repeated assaults beginning at an early age. While EMDR and other trauma treatments have been proven efficacious in the treatment of simpler cases of PTSD, the effectiveness of treatments for more complex cases has been less widely studied. This article examines the body of literature on the treatment of complex PTSD and chronically traumatized populations, with a focus on EMDR treatment and research. Despite a still limited number of randomized controlled studies of any treatment for complex PTSD, trauma treatment experts have come to a general consensus that work with survivors of childhood abuse and other forms of chronic traumatization should be phase-oriented, multimodal, and titrated. A phase-oriented EMDR model for working with these patients is presented, highlighting the role of resource development and installation (RDI) and other strategies that address the needs of patients with compromised affect tolerance and self-regulation. EMDR treatment goals, procedures, and adaptations for each of the various treatment phases (stabilization, trauma processing, reconnection/development of self-identity) are reviewed. Finally, reflections on the strengths and unique advantages of EMDR in treating complex PTSD are offered along with suggestions for future investigations.

scholarly journals SULT, APPETIT OG MÆTHED: Mellem biologi og kultur

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Søren Tange Kristensen
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Eating Habits ◽  
Central Research ◽  
Research Subject ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Social Rules ◽  
Physiological Level ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Social Level

Søren Tange Kristensen: Hunger, Appetite and Satiety: Between Biology and Culture The number of people developing overweight and obesity is inereasing, as is the prevalence of eating disorders and weight preoccupation. These tendencies can be considered as expressing a polarisation of eating habits in modern societies, where lack of control or exaggerated Control over eating are still more common phenomena. At the same time, the tendencies may be seen as the result of a more general ambivalence in relation to food, which influences the experience of appetite and its regulating effeet on food consumption. So far, regulation of appetite has primarily been examined by nutritional scientists on a physiological level. However, the subjective experience of hunger, appetite, and satiety can also be seen as constituted and regulated on the individual and social level. The aim of the article is to show how appetite can be seen as a central research subject, both as the locus where food consumption is bodily regulated and as the nexus where biology, social rules, and cultural meanings meet and are negotiated by the individual.

scholarly journals The concept of "Contemporary Dance": cultural, philosophical, and artistic approaches

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Fedotova
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Wide Circle ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Historical Methods

The purpose of the article is to analyze and systematize approaches to the definition of the concept of "contemporary dance". Methodology. The research methodology is based on the analysis of scientific sources related to the topic, approaches to the interpretation of the concept of "Contemporary Dance", using terminological and historical methods. Scientific novelty. For the first time, the main approaches to the definition of contemporary dance are revealed and its characteristic features are revealed. Conclusions. Contemporary dance has taken a prominent place among the directions of choreographic art, has a wide circle of admirers, is recognized as a stage phenomenon and cultural and artistic practice. Currently, there is a wide range of approaches to understanding contemporary dance, which leads to terminological differences in scientific works. Among the main positions in contemporary dance, one can single out its consideration as an avant-garde form of choreographic art that evolved from modern dance; as a dramatic virtuoso dance originating from ballet and jazz; as an intellectual dance that originated in Europe and America, based on various techniques and techniques, it is perceived as a tool for the development of the dancer's body. We adhere to the position that contemporary dance is a direction of choreographic art that arose in the late XX – early XXI centuries in Europe and America, based on techniques and techniques that act as tools for the development of the body, the formation of awareness and the individual choreographic language of the dancer. Keywords: contemporary dance, contemporary culture, choreography, contemporary dance, terminological approach.

scholarly journals Dance as a Sign: Discovering the Relation Between Dance Movement and Culture

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-74
Author(s):  
Dominika Byczkowska-Owczarek
Keyword(s):  
Social Situation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Dance Movement ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dance Movements ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

This article presents examples of the relationship between culture, dance, and the body in the fields of communication (with oneself, the community, God/deity), the social hierarchy, social values, relations between the individual and the group, and relations between genders, from the perspective of the sociology of the dance. The sociological perspective also indicates the various historical, ritual, control, and regulatory roles that traditional and modern dances play in the communities in which they arise and are performed. The second part of the text contains a case study of the Japanese ankoku butoh dance. The author presents the philosophical roots of the dance (e.g., Japanese mythology, Zen Buddhist philosophy) and the creator’s personal experiences (childhood trauma and post-war social situation) as factors that influenced the dance’s development. The example of ankoku butoh illustrates the interrelation between cultural meanings and dance movements.

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