scholarly journals Using Picus® Sonic Tomograph to assess the health state of trees of monumental sizes

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-82
Author(s):  
Wojciech Durlak ◽  
Margot Dudkiewicz ◽  
Krystyna Pudelska ◽  
Marek Dąbski
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Visual Assessment ◽  
Image Resolution ◽  
The Body ◽  
Actual State ◽  
Health State ◽  
Tilia Cordata ◽  
Sound Waves ◽  
Gingko Biloba ◽  
Ulmus Glabra

The aim of the study was to examine the usefulness of The Picus 3 Sonic Tomograph to assess the health state of trees of monumental sizes, which are an important part of the cultural landscape. In the study there were selected tree species Tilia cordata, Gingko biloba and Ulmus glabra growing in the vicinity of Lublin in different habitat conditions. Changes in the internal structure of the tree trunks were shown on the colour tomograms. Two tested specimens of Tilia cordata located in Radawiec Duży were intended to be cut down due to the construction of the ring road of Lublin. This made it possible to compare the obtained tomograms with the actual state of the inside of tree trunks after cutting down the examined trees. The results of Picus tomography Ulmus glabra and Gingko biloba growing in the historic park in Czesławice were confirmed by a visual assessment of trees. In each case the number of installed sensors influenced the image resolution and accuracy of the obtained tomograms. Diagnostics using sound waves is important in assessing the state of health of each tree, but it is especially recommended for testing of valuable trees. It allows for early diagnosis and selection of such protective actions to reduce to a minimum the destructive impact study on the body of the plant.

scholarly journals Assessment of Visual Values as a Tool Supporting the Design Decisions of the Cultural Park Protection Plan. The Case of Kazimierz and Stradom in Kraków

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 6990
Author(s):  
Urszula Forczek-Brataniec
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Visual Assessment ◽  
Original Method ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Landscape Values ◽  
Development And Management ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Spatial Identity

Krakow is a city of high landscape values, which has found confirmation in the entry onto the UNESCO heritage list. Its cultural landscape requires protection and clarification within the context of intensive tourist use and a rapid pace of urban spatial development. For preservation protection and restoration of landscape values, the city authorities undertook work on the creation of a Cultural Park in the Stradom and Kazimierz districts, providing a comprehensive, sustainable, and multidisciplinary approach to natural, cultural and visual values of the urban structure. The article presents the application of the method of research on visual values in order to protect individual scenic resources of the historical urban structure. It is one of the analytical studies of a comprehensive protection plan project. This project defines the scope, framework and methods of development and management of a Cultural Park. The task of the visual analysis was to identify, characterize and evaluate the visual resources. It created a visual framework for further development of the historical district while preserving its local spatial identity. The studies resulted in a division into zones according to their nature and intensity of activities as well as outlining protection zones and intervention zones adjusted to individual characteristics of those places. An original method combining achievements of the method of landscape and visual assessment (LVIA) as well as achievements of the Krakow School of Landscape Architecture (KSLA) in terms of cultural landscape assessment was used for the research. The applied method provided guidelines to support sustainable project decisions regarding further development of the district for the preservation of local spatial identity. Its universal character creates possibilities for its application into the plans of other Krakow districts and is intended to be applicable to both urban and rural structures.

Studying gendered embodied consumption with poststructuralist feminist hermeneutics

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carly Drake ◽  
Scott K. Radford
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Research Process ◽  
The Body ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Textual Data ◽  
Recreational Runners ◽  
Feminist Hermeneutics

Purpose This study aims to consider how research methodologies and methods can afford holistic inquiry into gendered embodied consumption. Noting the salience of gender in past and present discourse surrounding the body and building on poststructuralist feminist hermeneutic philosophy and practice, the authors introduce a novel methodological framework situated within three considerations borne of the current socio-cultural landscape: the politics of embodiment, embodied identity and intersectionality. Design/methodology/approach To assist scholars and practitioners in interpreting themes of gendered embodiment in textual data surrounding consumption topics, the authors orient the framework around three principles of listening, questioning and hospitality. This framework fosters embodied empathy by linking the researcher’s body to those of research participants. To illustrate the method, the authors interpret consumption narratives extracted from semi-structured interviews with 26 women-identified recreational runners on the topics of embodiment, sport and media. Findings The interpretations of gendered consumption narratives show that using the principles of listening, questioning and hospitality invites an understanding of consumers as multifaceted, contradictory and agentic. The authors argue that consumers’ everyday experiences are often simple and quiet but embedded in history wherein bodies are both biological and inescapably social. Originality/value The methodological framework allows both the researcher’s and research participants’ embodiment to play a role in the research process. It also illuminates the entanglement of embodiment and consumption in a fraught, politicized context. The authors show that by listening to consumers, questioning their narratives and traditional interpretations thereof and inviting consumers to feel comfortable and heard, researchers can see what other approaches may overlook.

scholarly journals SPECIAL ASPECTS OF THE EFFICIENT DAILY ROUTINE OF STUDENTS AT MODERN EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS OF DIFFERENT TYPES

2020 ◽  
Vol 73 (7) ◽  
pp. 1516-1520
Author(s):  
Oksana V. Tymoshchuk ◽  
Oksana Y. Zhurakivska ◽  
Volodymyr V. Derpak ◽  
Iryna O. Kostitska ◽  
Iryna T. Tokar
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
The State ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The Body ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Health State ◽  
Functional Capabilities ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Educational Conditions

The aim of study is special aspects of the efficient daily routine of students at modern educational institutions of different types, and its influence on psychophysical functions, adaptive abilities, the quality of life as well as the state of mental and somatic health of the youngsters. Materials and methods: While studying special aspects of the daily routine of students at modern educational institutions and their influence on the state of physical and mental health, the young people were observed in five modern educational establishments in Ivano-Frankivsk: Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, Ivano-Frankivsk Finance Commercial Cooperative College named after S.Granat, Ivano-Frankivsk music school named after Denis Sichinskiy, Ivano-Frankivsk Vocational Motor Transport and Construction Lyceum № 15, Ivano-Frankivsk boarding lyceum for gifted young people from rural areas. 300 students were observed (150 female students and 150 male students). The study analyzed their educational conditions, daily routine tension, and activities during breaks, special aspects of leisure arrangements, amount of time spent on homework, subjective assessment of the level of tension of the educational process, and their projected influence on the health state of students by using static models. Results: Received results of the assessment of sanitary and hygienic conditions under which training takes place at modern educational institutions of different types, as well as conditions of after school activities of the students, by applying common methods to evaluate illumination level, microclimate, and air quality have revealed that the youngsters’ conditions at modern educational institutions are marked by absence of significant deviations from common hygienic requirements, they are similar and easily comparable and that enables defensibly and illuminatively to identify main features of influence of the different psychohygienic methods on the development of health maintaining tools and the establishment of features of the formation of functional capabilities and the basic correlates of mental and physical health. Conclusions: The educational conditions of young people in modern educational establishments can be described as not having considerable deviations from common hygienic requirements, being easily comparable and enabling to identify main influence factors of different types of psychohygienic methods of developing and implementing of healthmaintaining tools on the course of formation of the functional capabilities of the body and the development of the main adaptation reactions in young males and females.

scholarly journals Work Flows for Cellular Epidemiology, From Conception to Translation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton D. Nathanson ◽  
Lucy Ngo ◽  
Tomasz Garbowski ◽  
Abhilash Srikantha ◽  
Christian Wojek ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Image Resolution ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Human Anatomy ◽  
Test Case ◽  
Health State ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Preparation Methods ◽  
Trade Offs

AbstractChanges in cell connectivity and morphology, observed and measured using microscopy, implicate a cellular basis of degenerative disease in tissues as diverse as bone, kidney and brain. To date, limitations inherent to sampling (biopsy sites) and/or microscopy (trade-offs between regions of interest and image resolution) have prevented early identification of cellular changes in specimen sizes of diagnostic relevance for human anatomy and physiology. This manuscript describes work flows for human tissue-based cell epidemiology studies. Using recently published sample preparation methods, developed and validated to maximize imaging quality, the largest-to-date scanning electron microscopy map was created showing cellular connections in the femoral neck of a human hip. The map, from a patient undergoing hip replacement, comprises an 11 TB dataset including over 7 million electron microscopy images. This map served as a test case to implement machine learning algorithms for automated detection of cells and identification of their health state. The test case showed a significant link between cell connectivity and health state in osteocytes of the human femur. Combining new, rapid throughput electron microscopy methods with machine learning approaches provides a basis for assessment of cell population health at nanoscopic resolution and in mesoscopic tissue and organ samples. This sets a path for next generation cellular epidemiology, tracking outbreaks of disease in populations of cells that inhabit tissues and organs within individuals.

scholarly journals Estimation of Nitrite—Nitric Oxide Derivative—In Horses with Intestinal Colic by ESR Spectroscopy

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Seid-Fatima Borunova ◽  
Nikolay Tkachev ◽  
Baylar Iolchiev ◽  
Zinaida Artyushina ◽  
Pavel Abramov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Blood Serum ◽  
Nitrogen Monoxide ◽  
Sharp Decrease ◽  
The Body ◽  
Differential Diagnostics ◽  
Health State ◽  
Intestinal Diseases ◽  
Young Horses ◽  
Oxide Derivative

Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract of horses are caused by many factors and have a complex pathogenesis. Developing effective methods of differential diagnostics is of high fundamental and applied importance. The pathogenesis of diseases of the digestive tract of horses accompanied by the development of inflammation and oxidative stress, can be associated with a lack of the nitrogen monoxide which controls many signaling pathways in the body. The level of the nitric oxide (NO) is involved in the regulation of the immune and nervous systems, the tone of all the blood vessels, and the courses of many pathological processes. The nitric oxide activates guanylate cyclase (sGC) and leads to vascular relaxation. The aim of this investigation was to study the metabolites of nitric oxide in horses suffered from intestinal diseases. The levels of nitric oxide in the blood serum of horses depending on their age and health state was studied. The concentration of nitrites in the blood serum of horses aged 6–25 years was 3.4 ± 4.2 μM, and in the young horses (1–5 years) the level of this indicator was 8.2 ± 5.4 μM. A sharp decrease in nitrite was observed in all the horses with intestinal diseases of 2 ± 0.9 μM, especially with tympanitic caecun of 0.6 ± 0.4 μM and with spasmodic colic of 1.8 ± 0.5 μM. The level of nitrosylhemoglobin HbNO in the blood of the diseased animals was higher than that in clinically healthy horses, regardless of age.

A Microwave Sensor for Contact-Free Measurement of Human Heart Rate

2012 ◽  
Vol 500 ◽  
pp. 325-329
Author(s):  
Guo Hua Lu ◽  
Fang Yang ◽  
Xi Jing Jing ◽  
Xiao Yu ◽  
Hua Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Human Heart ◽  
The Body ◽  
Health State ◽  
Rate Measurement ◽  
Remote Sense ◽  
Microwave Sensor ◽  
Contact Free ◽  
Body Comparison

Measures of heart rate are widely used to assess the health state of human in clinic. Tranditional method uses eletrodes touching the body to monitor electrocardiography (ECG) .A micorwave sensor was disscused to remote sense the heart rate without touching human body. Comparison of heart rate derived from the microwave sensor and ECG demonstrated that there were no significant differences, which suggested this sensor may prove a practical alternative to ECG for heart rate measurement.

Validation of a Rapid Visual-Assessment Technique for Categorizing the Body Condition of Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the Field

Copeia ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2009 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan A. Thomson ◽  
Derek Burkholder ◽  
Michael R. Heithaus ◽  
Lawrence M. Dill
Keyword(s):  
Body Condition ◽  
Chelonia Mydas ◽  
Visual Assessment ◽  
The Body ◽  
Assessment Technique ◽  
Green Turtles

scholarly journals Inulin-type fructans and bone health: state of the art and perspectives in the management of osteoporosis

2005 ◽  
Vol 93 (S1) ◽  
pp. S111-S123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Véronique Coxam
Keyword(s):  
Bone Health ◽  
Health Professionals ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
The Body ◽  
Health State ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Osteoporosis Prevention ◽  
Optimal Health

If the primary role of diet is to provide sufficient nutrients to meet the metabolic requirements of an individual, there is an emerging rationale to support the hypothesis that, by modulating specific target functions in the body, it can help achieve optimal health. Regarding osteoporosis prevention, since Ca is most likely to be inadequate in terms of dietary intake, every strategy targeting an improvement in Ca absorption is very interesting. Actually, this process may be susceptible to manipulation by fermentable substrates. In this light, inulin-type fructans are very interesting, even if we need to gather more data targeting bone metabolism before health professionals can actively advocate their consumption to prevent senile osteoporosis. Besides targeting the prevention of postmenopausal osteoporosis, inulin-type fructans still remain a source for putative innovative dietary health intervention. Indeed, given in combination with isoflavones, they may have a potential for maintaining or improving the bone mass of human subjects, by modulating the bioavailability of phyto-oestrogens.

A Contact-Free Monitor of Human’S Vital Signs

2011 ◽  
Vol 138-139 ◽  
pp. 1063-1066
Author(s):  
Guo Hua Lu ◽  
Fang Fang ◽  
Xi Jing Jing ◽  
Xiao Yu ◽  
Jian Qi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Vital Signs ◽  
The Body ◽  
Health State ◽  
Breathing Rate ◽  
Heart Rates ◽  
Microwave Sensor ◽  
Measure Heart Rate ◽  
Contact Free ◽  
Rate Comparison

Heart rates and breathing rates are widely used to assess the health state of human in clinic. Tranditional method uses eletrodes or sensors touching the body to measure electrocardiography (ECG) and respiratory signals.A vital signs monitor via a micorwave sensor was disscused to contact-free measurement of the heart rate and breathing rate. Comparison of vital signs derived from the microwave sensor and tranditional contact monitor demonstrated that there were no significant differences between each other, which suggested the contact-free vital signs monitor may prove a practical alternative method to measure heart rate and breathing rate.

scholarly journals Influence of primary disease incidence on the psycho-physiological adaptation of pilots in the Far North

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
V Ya Apchel ◽  
G G Zagorodnikov ◽  
G N Zagorodnikov ◽  
V A Gorichny
Keyword(s):  
Meteorological Factors ◽  
Disease Incidence ◽  
Meteorological Factor ◽  
The Body ◽  
Physiological Adaptation ◽  
Health State ◽  
Far North ◽  
Primary Disease ◽  
One Year ◽  
Average Index

The analysis of three years of primary disease incidence of flight and ground personnel in the Far North is presented as well as the analysis of the main meteorological factors, their complex characteristics and amount of respiratory diseases in flight crews on the day of observation and the subsequent 4 days. Assessment of influence of meteorological factors was carried out simultaneously in two directions: determined differential impact on the body of flight crews of each meteorological factor and simultaneous identification of their complex actions. It was found that pilots (navigators), showed a statistically significant (p0,001) increase in the average incidence of diseases compared with average index of primary morbidity from other members of the flight crews. It was revealed that flight crews serving in the area of the Far North for less than one year, shows a statistically significant (p0,01) increase in the average index of primary morbidity, compared with flight crews serving in the area of the Far North more than one year. Thus, a statistically significant increase in the average primary incidence of the pilots (navigators), compared with the average indicators of the primary morbidity from other members of the flight crews and ground troops means that physiological adaptation of pilots (navigators) to the Extreme North occurs with a larger psychoemotional stress than in soldiers of other specialties. The obtained results on the incidence of primary aircrew in the Far North allow to better understand mechanisms of influence of health state on the successful adaptation to extreme climatic conditions.

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