scholarly journals 139. An Attempt of Observing a 3-D Organic Images as if Projected within the Real Human Body

1994 ◽  
Vol 50 (8) ◽  
pp. 1058
Author(s):  
Makoto Iwahara ◽  
Yoshitsugu Nishi ◽  
Naoki Suzuki
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
The Real ◽  
As If

Bodies of Meaning: Studies on Language, Labor, and Liberation. By David McNally. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000. 277p. $72.50 cloth, $23.95 paper.

2002 ◽  
Vol 96 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-191
Author(s):  
Nicholas Xenos
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
State University ◽  
The Real

David McNally styles this book as beginning in a polemic and ending in a “materialist approach to language” much indebted to the German critic Walter Benjamin. The charge is that “postmodernist theory, whether it calls itself poststructuralism, deconstruction or post-Marxism, is constituted by a radical attempt to banish the real human body—the sensate, biocultural, laboring body—from the sphere of language and social life” (p. 1). By treating language as an abstraction, McNally argues, postmodernism constitutes a form of idealism. More than that, it succumbs to and perpetuates the fetishism of commodities disclosed by Marx insofar as it treats the products of human laboring bodies as entities independently of them. Clearly irritated by the claims to radicalism made by those he labels postmodern, McNally thinks he has found their Achilles' heel: “The extra-discursive body, the body that exceeds language and discourse, is the ‘other’ of the new idealism, the entity it seeks to efface in order to bestow absolute sovereignty on language. To acknowledge the centrality of the sensate body to language and society is thus to threaten the whole edifice of postmodernist theory” (p. 2).

scholarly journals Pesantren Dan Pendidikan Politik Di Indonesia: Sebuah Reformulasi Kepemimpinan Islam Futuristik

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 461
Author(s):  
Mukodi Mukodi
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Political Awareness ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real World Problem ◽  
Agent Of Change ◽  
As If

Abstract: There is an increasing concern as if discussing politics in pesantren (Islamic Boarding School) was uncommon. This oddity is due to the conception of a person who puts pesantren merely a decontextualised scholarly reproduction of an-sich (from the real world problem or real politics) and not as an agent of change. In fact, pesantren is a replica of life integrating various life skills, including politics. The most interesting finding was that the diverse activities of life in the boarding school had raised the seedling of students’ political sense. This article also recommends the presence of political boarding school establishment, as a political incubator for Islamic activists as the continuity of conditioning political awareness in pesantren. Its realization is believed to be able to trigger the acceleration of the Islamic ideal leader candidate in Indonesia.

scholarly journals NIKOLAI OSTROVSKY: «A PLACE IN THE IRON BATTLE FOR POWER». RUSSIA ON THE EVE AND AFTER OCTOBER. ARTICLE TWO

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 161-168
Author(s):  
Sergei A. Nikolsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Class Struggle ◽  
Constant Intensity ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The Real ◽  
Short Course ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Party Members ◽  
As If

To reveal the theme of Russia after October, 1917, Nickolai Ostrovsky's book «How steel was tempered» is one of the most significant. In it, in its purest form, there is a portrait of an ideal revolutionary – a Bolshevik, merciless not only to the enemy, but to himself and others as well, a man, from whom, according to the poet's figurative expression, there could be made the strongest nails in the world. The book was enthusiastically received by the thirteen million army of party members and Komsomol members. For some, Pavel Korchagin was an ideal to emulate, for others – an image that reinforced their own myths about past heroic deeds, allowing them to settle warmly in the present. For the authorities, the story, cleared by censorship from the Bolshevik democracy of the first years, was an artistic forerunner of the future Stalinist «Short course of the AUCP history». One of the most thoughtful Soviet literary critics, Leo Anninsky, considered the story to be a story about people «engaged to an idea». In a sense, this is true. However, the engagement prevented both Ostrovsky and his Soviet interpreter from seeing the real historical process in its tragic depth and contradictions. For the hero Pavel Korchagin, there are neither the beginnings of Stalinist totalitarianism, nor the tragedy of a collectivized, starving village. Living as if out of time, he preaches the same thing – a class struggle that never fades for a moment. It seems that the fire of struggle will be extinguished and the hero's life will be interrupted. In fact, this is not allowed to happen: the constant intensity of the class struggle, which, as Stalin said, will grow more and more as we move towards socialism, is the secret of Soviet totalitarianism, represented and justified in an artistic form by Nikolai Ostrovsky.

Detection of Human Body Motion Based on Electrostatic Measurements in the Indoor Environment

2011 ◽  
Vol 480-481 ◽  
pp. 1329-1334
Author(s):  
Wei Zheng ◽  
Zhan Zhong Cui
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Motion Detection ◽  
Average Velocity ◽  
Indoor Environment ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
Body Motion ◽  
The Real ◽  
Multiple Electrodes

An effective non-contact electrostatic detection method is used for human body motion detection. Theoretical analysis and pratical experiments are carried out to prove that this method is effective in the field of human body monitoring, in which a model for human body induced potential by stepping has been proposed. Furthermore, experiment results also prove that it’s feasible to measure the average velocity and route of human body motion by multiple electrodes array. What’s more the real-time velocity and direction of human body motion can be determined by orthogonal electrostatic detector array, and the real-time velocity and direction of human body motion can be obtained within the range of 2 meters.

HyperReality

2009 ◽  
pp. 631-640
Author(s):  
Nobuyoshi Terashima
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Cooperative Work ◽  
Virtual Human ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Real ◽  
Collaborative Environment ◽  
Communication Environment ◽  
Communication Paradigm ◽  
As If

On the Internet, a cyberspace is created where people communicate together, usually by using textual messages. Therefore, they cannot see each other in cyberspace. Whenever they communicate, it is desirable for them to see each other as if they were gathered at the same place. To achieve this, various kinds of concepts have been proposed, such as a collaborative environment, Tele-Immersion, and tele-presence (Sherman & Craig, 2003). In this article, HyperReality (HR) is introduced. HR is a communication paradigm between the real and the virtual (Terashima, 1995, 2002; Terashima & Tiffin, 2002; Terashima, Tiffin, & Ashworth, in press). The real means a real inhabitant, such as a real human or a real animal. The virtual means a virtual inhabitant, a virtual human, or a virtual animal. HR provides a communication environment where inhabitants, real or virtual, that are at different locations, meet and do cooperative work together as if they were gathered at the same place. HR can be developed based on virtual reality (VR) and telecommunications technologies.

any real doubt about the ending. Heliodoros redirected curiosity from outcome to explanation. The second problem is lack of direc­ tion and unity: romance was prone to fall apart into a series of exciting but only loosely connected adventures, at the end of which the protagonists recovered their lost happiness and simply lived out the rest of their lives as if nothing had happened. By leaving central questions unanswered Heliodoros is able to hold large spans of text together, and the most important answers, when they do arrive, involve decisive change for the protagonists. Both these strategies imply an interpretatively active reader. The opening of the novel is deservedly famous.11 A gang of bandits come across a beached ship, surrounded by twitching corpses and the wreckage of a banquet. Through their eyes, and with their ignorance of what has taken place, the reader is made to assimilate the scene in obsessive but unexplained visual detail. In the midst of the carnage sits a fabulously beautiful young woman, nursing a fabulously handsome young man. It does not take long to identify them as the hero and heroine of the novel, and learn that their names are Theagenes and Charikleia, but Heliodoros tantalizes us over further details. Thus at the very beginning of the novel two riddles are established: what has hap­ pened on the beach? and who exactly are the hero and heroine? Heliodoros prolongs the reader’s ignorance by his characteristic use of partial viewpoint. Sometimes, as with the bandits, there is a fictional audience whose specific perceptions act as a channel of partial information to the reader, but elsewhere Heliodoros as narrator simply relates what an uninformed witness of the events would have seen or heard. For example, we are only allowed to find out about the hero and heroine as they speak to others r are spoken about: Heliodoros as author knows all about them but keeps quiet in favour of his recording but not explaining narrative voice. The opening scene is eventually disambiguated by Kalasiris, an Egyptian priest. He regales Knemon, a surrogate reader within the text who shares the real reader’s curiosity about the protagonists, with a long story, beginning in Book 2, of how he met Charikleia at Delphi, witnessed the birth of her love for Theagenes and helped the lovers to elope. He chronicles their subsequent experiences, until at the end of Book 5, half-way through the novel, the story circles back to its own beginning and at last resolves the mystery of the scene on the beach.

2014 ◽  
pp. 327-327
Keyword(s):  
Young Woman ◽  
Partial Information ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Voice ◽  
The Real ◽  
Opening Scene ◽  
Visual Detail ◽  
As If

AGONIES OF THE REAL: ANTI-REALISM FROM KUHN TO FOUCAULT

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-147
Author(s):  
PETER E. GORDON
Keyword(s):  
The Real ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
As If ◽  
The Invisible

When did historians begin to put quotation marks around the wordreal? There are many examples of this habit and some of them will be set forth as evidence in what follows. But before doing so we might ask a preliminary question: What are the quotation marksthemselvessupposed to mean? Today we find them so familiar they hardly need to be written and they are more frequently consigned to the everyday repertoire of silent gesture: two fingers on either hand clutch at the air as if they meant to tickle the flanks of the invisible beast between them. The popular term is “scare-quotes,” a pun on the word “scarecrow.” Its etymology is revealing: just as a mere representation of a body in a field may scare off birds, so too scare-quotes permit someone to deploy a word without sincere commitment to what it normally means. But further reflection tells us that the effects are not so similar after all: To use a term without sincerity robs it of its original meaning and holds up its lifeless corpse to ridicule. The more knowing sort of crow can settle on the shoulder of the figure on the pole precisely because it recognizes that such a sorry excuse for a man can in fact harm no one. Similarly when one putsrealityin quotation marks (thus: “reality”) we are put in mind of the living concept but we are immediately alerted to the fact that, for the user at least, the new term enjoys no metaphysical prestige. How did this happen? When and why did the single most privileged word in the entire lexicon of metaphysics begin to lose its authority such that in certain spheres of intellectual sophistication its sincere use would only seem an embarrassment and a sign of naïveté?

Chairman’s introduction

1968 ◽  
Vol 171 (1024) ◽  
pp. 276-277 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Experimental Observation ◽  
General Problem ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
System Research ◽  
Cerebral Function ◽  
The Real ◽  
Black Boxes ◽  
The Brain ◽  
As If

The object of this discussion might be said to be to discover a strategy for study of cerebral function. An earlier title suggested for it may indicate the theme that we had in mind. We thought that to ask you to discuss ‘Principles of addressing in brains and computers’ might be a way of approaching the problem of finding that strategy. We hope that those joining in the discussion will keep this general problem in mind and try to relate their own particular findings to it. For those who are concerned directly with the physical nervous system research strategy is dictated largely by the type of experimental observation that seems to be feasible with current techniques. This leads some of us anatomists and physio­logists to adopt a rather high and mighty attitude as if we alone knew how to study the nervous system, but this attitude may be less wise than it seems. Perhaps our techniques put us in blinkers. We continue to find out what we already know can be found out. Surely what we want to discover is what must be found out if we are to understand the brain. We hope that our more logical friends, who perhaps have more time to think because they have not actually got to open the black boxes, will help us to learn what to look for when we open them : to tell us what are the real problems.

III. On the conductivity of mercury and amalgams

1860 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 14-16
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Warm Water ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Law ◽  
Theory And Experiment ◽  
As If

The object of the researches described in this paper, was to carry out with reference to amalgams the investigations relative to alloys contained in a former paper. In comparing the results of theory and experiment in the manner followed in the former paper, the conducting power of mercury itself was a constant, which it was essential to know. The figure given in the former paper was mercury = 677, on the scale silver = 1000. On adopting in the first instance this value of the conducting power of mercury, the results obtained with alloys, which consisted mainly of mercury, appeared very anomalous; it seemed as if a very small per-centage of even the best conducting metals reduced immensely the conducting power of mercury. But it was suggested to the authors, that the apparently high conducting power of mercury obtained by their method, was probably due to the transference of heat by convection; that the real conducting power of mercury for heat was low, like its conducting power for electricity; that the other metal, contained in small quantity in the amalgam, acted by rendering the amalgam viscous, and thereby interfering with the transference of heat by convection, and that the low conducting power of mercury would show itself on merely inclining the vessel used in the experiment, so that the box containing the warm water should be higher than the other. Experiment confirmed this view. As the apparent conducting power of mercury was found continually to decrease with an increase in the inclination of the vessel, it was found necessary, in order to obtain correct results, to arrange so that the bar-shaped box containing the mercury or fluid amalgam was actually vertical in the experiment. In this way the authors obtained for mercury the figure 54, on the same scale as before. It is worthy of remark, that mercury comes out the worst conductor of all the metals tried, the figure for bismuth, which had previously been the lowest, being 61. This is in analogy with water, also a fluid, the conducting power of which is known to be excessively low. The conducting power of the more fluid amalgams determined by experiment with the box vertical, proved to be in all cases nearly the same as that of pure mercury, in conformity with the law mentioned by the authors in their former paper, that alloys in which there is an excess of the number of equivalents of the worse conducting metal, over the number of equivalents of the better conductor, do not sensibly differ in conducting power from the worse conductor alone. In the case of amalgams generally, the conducting power obtained by experiment was found to agree pretty closely with the number calculated from the per-centages and conducting powers of the component metals.

scholarly journals Augmented Reality Research and Applications in Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ezgi Pelin Yildiz
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Virtual Environment ◽  
Real World ◽  
The Real ◽  
Virtual Objects ◽  
Physical Environments ◽  
Real Objects ◽  
As If

Augmented reality is defined as the technology in which virtual objects are blended with the real world and also interact with each other. Although augmented reality applications are used in many areas, the most important of these areas is the field of education. AR technology allows the combination of real objects and virtual information in order to increase students’ interaction with physical environments and facilitate their learning. Developing technology enables students to learn complex topics in a fun and easy way through virtual reality devices. Students interact with objects in the virtual environment and can learn more about it. For example; by organizing digital tours to a museum or zoo in a completely different country, lessons can be taught in the company of a teacher as if they were there at that moment. In the light of all these, this study is a compilation study. In this context, augmented reality technologies were introduced and attention was drawn to their use in different fields of education with their examples. As a suggestion at the end of the study, it was emphasized that the prepared sections should be carefully read by the educators and put into practice in their lessons. In addition it was also pointed out that it should be preferred in order to communicate effectively with students by interacting in real time, especially during the pandemic process.

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