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Journal articles on the topic "Body Worlds"

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Roberts, Martha. "Body Worlds." Bulletin for the Study of Religion 43, no. 2 (April 22, 2014): 11–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/bsor.v43i2.11.

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Latimer, Joanna. "Introduction: Body, Knowledge, Worlds." Sociological Review 56, no. 2_suppl (October 2008): 1–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-954x.2009.00813.x.

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Burd, Gary. "Plastic fantastic!: Body Worlds." Biochemist 24, no. 3 (June 1, 2002): 18–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bio02403018.

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Love him or loathe him, Professor Günther von Hagens has set the scientific and art worlds alight with his controversial exhibition of plastinated humans stripped of their skins. The exhibition has made it to the unglamourous Old Truman Brewery in London's East End, and was sending shockwaves through the media, and even Parliament, before it even opened. Set in thought-provoking positions, are the pieces there for education or are they an abomination?
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Goulding, Christina, Michael Saren, and Andrew Lindridge. "Reading the body at von Hagen’s ‘body worlds’." Annals of Tourism Research 40 (January 2013): 306–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2012.08.008.

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Maienschein, Jane, and Richard Creath. "BODY WORLDS as Education and Humanism." American Journal of Bioethics 7, no. 4 (April 2, 2007): 26–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15265160701220733.

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YILMAZ, Serap, Serdar BABACAN, and Sezer ERER KAFA. "'Body Worlds' Exhibitions: Opinions of the Students of Bursa Uludağ University Faculty of Medicine." Turkiye Klinikleri Journal of Medical Ethics-Law and History 28, no. 2 (2020): 241–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.5336/mdethic.2019-66622.

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Walter, Tony. "Body Worlds: clinical detachment and anatomical awe." Sociology of Health and Illness 26, no. 4 (May 2004): 464–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0141-9889.2004.00401.x.

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BEECHEY, VERONICA. "Between the Worlds of Body and Mind." Gender & History 6, no. 1 (April 1994): 131–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0424.1994.tb00200.x.

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Moore, Charleen M., and C. Mackenzie Brown. "Experiencing Body Worlds: Voyeurism, Education, or Enlightenment?" Journal of Medical Humanities 28, no. 4 (September 18, 2007): 231–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10912-007-9042-0.

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Leiberich, Peter, Thomas Loew, Karin Tritt, Claas Lahmann, and Marius Nickel. "Body Worlds exhibition—Visitor attitudes and emotions." Annals of Anatomy - Anatomischer Anzeiger 188, no. 6 (November 2006): 567–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aanat.2006.03.005.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Body Worlds"

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Lizama, Natalia. "Afterlife, but not as we know it : medicine, technology and the body resurrected." University of Western Australia. School of Social and Cultural Studies, 2008. http://theses.library.uwa.edu.au/adt-WU2008.0186.

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This thesis contends that technologically-derived resurrections of human bodies and bodily fragments can be viewed as indicative of a 'post-biological' ontology. Drawing from examples in which human bodies are resurrected, both figuratively and actually, this thesis puts forward the term 'post-biological subject' as an ideological framework for conceptualising the reconfiguration of human ontology that results from various medical technologies that 'resurrect' the human body. In this instance, the term 'postbiological', borrowed from Hans Moravec who uses it denote a future in which human being is radically disembodied and resurrected within a digital realm, is used somewhat ironically: where Moravec imagines an afterlife in which the body is discarded as so much 'meat', the post-biological afterlife of the body in this thesis centres around a form of corporeal resurrection. Corpses, living organs and excreta may all be resurrected, some of them in digital format, yet this kind of resurrection departs radically from the disembodied spiritual bliss imagined in many conceptualisations of resurrection. The post-biological subject resists ontological delineation and problematises boundaries defining self and other, living and dead, and human and nonhuman and is fraught with a number of cultural anxieties about its unique ontological status. These concerns are analysed in the context of a number of phenomena, including melancholy, horror, monstrosity and the uncanny, all of which similarly indicate an anxious fixation with human ontology. The purpose of discussing post-biological bodies in relation to phenomena such as melancholy or the uncanny is not to reinstate as ideological frameworks the psychoanalytic models from which these concepts are derived, but rather to use them as starting points for more complex analyses of postbiological ontology. The first and second chapters of this thesis discuss instances in which the human body is posthumously modified, drawing on Gunther von Hagens's Body Worlds exhibition and the Visible Human Project. The Body Worlds plastinates are situated in a liminal and ambiguous ontological space between life and death, and it is argued that their extraordinary ontological status evokes a form of imagined melancholy, wherein the longed-for and lost melancholic object is a complete process of death. In the case of the Visible Human Project, it is argued that the gruesome and highly technologised process of creating the Visible Male, wherein the corpse is effectively dehumanised and iv rendered geometric, evokes the trope of horror, while at the same time being fraught with a nostalgic longing for a pre-technological, anatomically 'authentic' body. The third and fourth chapters of this thesis discuss instances in which the living human body is reconfigured, focusing on immortal cell lines and organ transplantation, and on medical imaging technologies such as computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. In the third chapter it is argued that organ transplantation and the creation of immortal cell lines give rise to profound anxieties about ontological contamination through their capacity to render permeable the imagined boundaries defining self, and in this way invoke the monstrous. The fourth chapter interrogates the representation of medical imaging in Don DeLillo?s novel White Noise, arguing that the medical representation of the body functions as a form of double, a digital doppelganger that elicits an uncanny anxiety through its capacity to presage death.
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Gaule, Scott G. "Meeting up with the worlds of exercise and rave at the start of the twenty-first century : a story about young people, body culture, health and identity in changing times." Thesis, Liverpool John Moores University, 2005. http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/5776/.

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Giacomet, Alessandra. "Abrindo possibilidades de expressão: como os surdos observam e interpretam o mundo?" Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/47/47131/tde-29092015-171510/.

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O objetivo deste estudo é apresentar as múltiplas experiências humanas e subjetivas das pessoas surdas, e seus modos singulares de viver, sentir e refletir a vida. Para responder à questão norteadora, como os surdos observam e interpretam o mundo?, subdividi em quatro temas as narrativas advindas das entrevistas: 1) Família; 2) Comunidade Surda; 3) Educação e 4) Representação Social da Surdez e dos Surdos. E das anotações de campo, os temas: 1) Cultura Surda; 2) Acessibilidade; e 3) Corpo que Sinaliza. Nesta composição, busquei apoio teórico em Lane (1992) por descrever e refletir a cultura surda americana, servindo de comparação à cultura surda brasileira. Participaram das entrevistas cinco interlocutores surdos. Como método, optei por usar as narrativas, Benjamin (1985) das experiências de vida dos interlocutores, cedidas por meio das entrevistas e das anotações no diário de campo. Para transcrever/traduzir as entrevistas, Brito (1995) apresentou-se como uma importante interlocutora do campo da Linguística, para fundamentar sobre o sistema de transcrição dos enunciados da Língua de Sinais. As considerações finais foram elaboradas a partir dos campos da Antropologia (Augé, 1997; 1999); Sociologia (Bauman, 2003; 2005); Psicanálise (Safra, 2006; 2009) e Estudos Surdos (Strobel, 2009; Quadros, 2007). As formações subjetivas; as heterogêneas experiências de vida; o mundo de relações com o outro; as premissas culturais que conduzem suas vidas; aspectos particulares e universais de sua historicidade; o contato com a arte, a poesia, a espiritualidade e com as diversas possibilidades de expressão humana, entre outros, são indicativos que nos levam a compreender o modo singular que cada um dos interlocutores observa e interpreta o mundo
The aim of this study is to demonstrate the multiple subjective and human\'s experiences of deaf people and their singular ways of living, feeling and reflecting life. To answer the guiding question \"how do deaf people observe and interpret the world?, I have subdivided the interviews narratives into four topics: 1) Family; 2) Deaf Community; 3) Education; 4) Social Representation of Deafness and Deaf People. And the notes taken from the field material, the following topics: 1) Deaf Culture; 2) Accessibility; 3) Body Language. In this structure I have sought theoretical support from Lane (1992) based on his description and reflection on american deaf culture, serving as comparison to the brazilian deaf culture. Five deaf interlocutors have participated in the interviews. As the chosen method, I decided to use the narratives, Benjamin (1985) from the interlocutors\' life experiences, obtained from the interviews and the notes taken from the field material. To transcribe/translate the interviews, Brito (1995) presented herself as an important interlocutor in the field of the Linguistic, in order to substantiate the transcription of the system set out in Sign Language. The final considerations have been elaborated based on the field s of A nthropology ( Augé, 1997; 1999) ; Sociology ( Bauman, 2003; 2005); Psychoanalysis ( Safra, 2006; 2009) and Deaf Studies ( Strobel, 2009; Quadros, 2007) . The subjective development ; the diverse lifes experience; the world of relationships with other s ; the different cultural precepts that lead their lives ; individual and universal aspects of their stories ; the contact with art, poetry , spirituality and with the different possibilities of human expression , among others things , are indicative that lead us to understand the singular way that each one of the interlocutors observe and interpret the world
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Vang, Jens. "Bland gröna gubbar och röda faror : En historisk studie om vanligt förekommande teman i amerikansk science-fictionskräckfilm under McCarthyeran." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-74648.

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The following study has its origin and context in the politically polarised McCarthy era of the American history. With the WWII in retrospect, politicians in Western nations quickly acknowledged the potential impact and sphere of influence of popular culture and its ability to form public opinion. During this period attempts were made to censor culture from underlying socialist messages in order to spread and awake support for the government, especially in mainstream Hollywood productions. However, how successful were these attempts and did it actually create a resistance against the censorship’s proclaimers? This study analyses four different Hollywood science fiction films from the 1950’s and argues that the underlying messages were more diverse than previously expected. Some of the productions seemed to endorse the McCarthyist values, whereas others more clearly rejected these sets of values, implicitly claiming they were a highly irrational response to an unstable international situation.
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Allen, Brett. "Learning body shape models from real-world data /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6969.

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Marrs, Jo-Ann. "Children’s Body Shop." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/7109.

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Todes, Samuel. "The human body as material subject of the world." New York : Garland Pub, 1990. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/20828551.html.

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Bunsell, Tanya. "Building body identities-exploring the world of female bodybuilders." Thesis, University of Kent, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.527572.

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Grant, Susannah. "Connecting self, body and world : a counselling psychology perspective." Thesis, City University London, 2014. http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/15158/.

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Children in England currently take part in a government-funded childhood weight surveillance and feedback initiative - the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP). Limited research has been undertaken, predominantly using a positivist framework. This study explored the maternal experience of being told one’s child is overweight or obese as part of the NCMP. Semi-structured interviews were carried out with the eight participants, and the data were analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). Three master themes emerged: ‘the Impacted Self’, ‘the Disempowered Self’ and ‘the Mother Self’. ‘The Impacted Self’ suggests that participants’ experiences changed over time: there was initial surprise and shock; subsequent uncertainty and rumination regarding whether or not the weight category ascribed to their child was appropriate and, if so, concern regarding their role in the event; and an evolving experience, where participants either were able to move on and reject the category, or move on and accept the category, or remain stuck within uncertainty. ‘The Disempowered Self’ suggests that participants felt their power, authority, or confidence was undermined or removed; being judged, blamed and shamed; being branded and reduced to a weight label; and being controlled by numerous others, such as professionals, the letter, and societal meanings. ‘The Mother Self’ suggests that being a mother was an integral part of the overall experience, specifically: being a nurturer and protector in relation to their child; experiencing a unique bond to their child both emotionally and biologically; and navigating complexity of varying motherhood ‘pulls’, both logistical and psychological. This research study provides an in-depth exploration of the lived experiences of some of those who are affected by the NCMP, which is absent from current literature. Possible implications for the future development of the NCMP and related programmes, and for future research, are discussed.
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Maxon, Wendy S. "The body disassembled : world war I and the depiction of the body in German art, 1914-1933 /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3044795.

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Books on the topic "Body Worlds"

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Whalley, Angelina. Pushing the limits: Encounters with body worlds creator Gunther von Hagens. Heidelberg: Arts and Sciences, 2005.

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Hagens, Gunther von. Prof. Gunther von Hagens' Body worlds: The anatomical exhibition of real human bodies : catalogue on the exhibition. Heidelberg: Institut für Plastination, 2002.

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Hagens, Gunther von. Gunther von Hagens' Body worlds: The anatomical exhibition of real human bodies. Heidelberg, Germany: Institute fu˜r Plastination, 2006.

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Angelina, Whalley, ed. Gunther von Hagens' Body worlds: The anatomical exhibition of real human bodies. Heidelberg, Germany: Institute für Plastination, 2006.

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Angelina, Whalley, ed. Gunther von Hagens' Body worlds: The original exhibition of real human bodies. Heidelberg, Germany: Arts & Sciences, 2009.

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1964-, Jespersen T. Christine, Rodriguez Alicita 1972-, and Starr Joseph 1969-, eds. The anatomy of "Body Worlds": Critical essays on the plastinated cadavers of Gunther von Hagens. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland & Co., Publishers, 2008.

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The Celtic shaman's pack: Exploring the inner worlds. Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element, 1995.

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1948-, Matthews John, and Matthews Caitlin 1952-, eds. Walkers between the worlds: The Western mysteries from Shaman to Magus. Rochester, Vt: Inner Traditions International, 2003.

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J, Carman Neil, ed. Cosmic cradle: Souls waiting in the wings for birth : the soul's passage from heavenly worlds to our mother's womb as told by gifted individuals, philosophers, saints and historians. Fairfield, Iowa: Sunstar, 1999.

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Samuel, Todes, ed. Body and world. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2001.

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Book chapters on the topic "Body Worlds"

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Furukawa, Takao, Jin Gu, WonSook Lee, and Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann. "3D Clothes Modeling from Photo Cloned Human Body." In Virtual Worlds, 159–70. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45016-5_15.

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Harris, Oliver J. T. "What could a dead Neolithic body do?" In Assembling Past Worlds, 111–54. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021.: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780367814786-7.

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Russell, Emily. "Corpse to Cadaver: From Body Snatching to Body Worlds." In Transplant Fictions, 31–66. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12135-8_2.

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Clark, Jodie. "The Social Body." In Selves, Bodies and the Grammar of Social Worlds, 79–92. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59843-1_6.

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J. McMichael, Steven. "The Celestial Jerusalem, the Glorified Body, and Saint Francis." In Preaching and New Worlds, 71–84. New York: Taylor and Francis, 2018. |: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315159119-6.

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Seibert, Matthew. "Tracing the Green Energy Paradox across Battery, Body, Landscape, and Cosmos." In Atlas of Material Worlds, 97–146. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003109358-3.

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Rondinelli, Elisabeth. "Body Worlds and the Social Life of the Plastinated Body: Considerations on the Biotechnology of Plastination." In Interrogating the Social, 247–68. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59948-9_9.

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Magerstädt, Sylvie. "Cyberspace — Dreams, Memory and Virtual Worlds: TRON: Legacy, Total Recall (2012), Inception." In Body, Soul and Cyberspace in Contemporary Science Fiction Cinema, 57–83. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137399410_4.

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Lambert, Erin. "New Worlds, New Images: Picturing the Resurrection of the Body in Sixteenth-Century Germany." In Anthropological Reformations - Anthropology in the Era of Reformation, 533–40. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.13109/9783666550584.533.

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Apostolakis, Konstantinos Cornelis, and Petros Daras. "Natural User Interfaces for Virtual Character Full Body and Facial Animation in Immersive Virtual Worlds." In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 371–83. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22888-4_27.

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Conference papers on the topic "Body Worlds"

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Oikonomou, Christina, Alain Lioret, Manthos Santorineos, and Stavroula Zoi. "Experimentation with the human body in virtual reality space: Body, bacteria, life-cycle." In 2017 9th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications (VS-Games). IEEE, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/vs-games.2017.8056598.

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"Biometric Worlds of the Body. Quantified-self Activities in Post-media Projects." In Oct. 16-18, 2019 Lisbon (Portugal). Excellence in Research & Innovation, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.17758/eirai7.f10194013.

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Bardis, Georgios, Yiannis Koumpouros, Nikolaos Sideris, Athanasios Voulodimos, and Nikolaos Doulamis. "Image Warping Using WebGL for a Smart Avatar Animating Body Weight Evolution." In 2018 10th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications (VS-Games). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/vs-games.2018.8493428.

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Pierce, Devin, Shulan Lu, and Derek Harter. "Enacting Actions in Simulated Environments." In ASME-AFM 2009 World Conference on Innovative Virtual Reality. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/winvr2009-726.

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The past decade has witnessed incredible advances in building highly realistic and richly detailed simulated worlds. We readily endorse the common-sense assumption that people will be better equipped for solving real-world problems if they are trained in near-life, even if virtual, scenarios. The past decade has also witnessed a significant increase in our knowledge of how the human body as both sensor and as effector relates to cognition. Evidence shows that our mental representations of the world are constrained by the bodily states present in our moment-to-moment interactions with the world. The current study investigated whether there are differences in how people enact actions in the simulated as opposed to the real world. The current study developed simple parallel task environments and asked participants to perform actions embedded in a stream of continuous events (e.g., cutting a cucumber). The results showed that participants performed actions at a faster speed and came closer to incurring injury to the fingers in the avatar enacting action environment than in the human enacting action environment.
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Rossmann, Juergen, Michael Schluse, Thomas Josef Jung, and Malte Rast. "Close to Reality Simulation of Bulk Solids Using a Kind of 3D Cellular Automaton." In ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. ASMEDC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2009-87324.

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The development of algorithms providing a close to reality simulation of dynamic virtual worlds made substantial technological progresses during the last decade — contrary to the close to reality simulation of bulk solids. Standard simulation methods like particle or rigid-body simulation are not applicable to this simulation problem because a large number of elements is needed for convincing simulation results which cannot be handled in real-time. In this paper we present a kind of 3-dimensional cellular automaton which can handle a large number of elements at the cost of a spatial discretization. This approach is combined with state of the art rigid body simulation techniques resulting in a close to reality simulation of bulk solids in real-time applications.
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Lim, Theodore, Daniil Yurchenko, Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Aparajithan Sivanathan, and James Ritchie. "Advances in Balance and Biofeedback Measurement: The Case for Health-Based, Postural Serious Games." In ASME 2016 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2016-59201.

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Health games are increasingly seen as a means to address issues from therapy and rehabilitation. Yet, as a transformative technology, rarely have such games been explored or exploited to assist research into pathologies. Serious games for research (SGR) to uncover pathologies would allow clinicians to develop new differential diagnostics while providing a positive experience for the subject. This paper is not about game design; nevertheless it presents an outlook to considerations that could be taken forward when developing health-based SGRs for pathomechanics, etiopathogenesis and biofeedback. This work relates to preliminary studies on balance challenges manifested in pathologies of the central nervous system. As technology advancements seek to augment human sensory contact between virtual and real worlds this may impact on how virtual environments are used and designed in future. As a consequence heightened sensory (or lack of thereof) may result in falls, for example users with vestibular disorder — because postural stability is a key aspect of motor ability that allows individuals to sustain and maintain the desired physical position of their body Here, our investigation is specific to functional correspondence of the incidental properties in human body sway between healthy subjects and subjects with dyslexia. Our early results suggest postural sway between healthy subjects and those with mild disorders can be distinguished.
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Rothamer, Daryl, Heath Ehlinger, Anton Jones, and Mark Jakubisin. "Developing World Class Customer Fit Objectives, Utilizing Competitive Benchmarking Techniques." In International Body Engineering Conference & Exposition. 400 Commonwealth Drive, Warrendale, PA, United States: SAE International, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/2001-01-3063.

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Bordegoni, Monica, Secil Ugur, and Marina Carulli. "When Technology Has Invisible Hands: Designing Wearable Technologies for Haptic Communication of Emotions." In ASME 2012 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2012-70374.

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In face-to-face communication, touch can establish intimacy, and therefore the presence of tactile stimulation can enhance the interpersonal relationships. While human-human interaction has been shifting from face-to-face physical conversations to electronically mediated form of communication, current technologies are not able to provide a multimodal sensorial experience that can support haptic interaction besides visual and auditory. Within the haptic research fields, affective haptics explore emotional interaction and perception mediated via touch that is simulated by technology. Besides, wearable technology and tangible interfaces can be employed as a solution to bridge the gap between the digital and physical worlds by making the body fully engaged with the interaction. This paper presents findings of a design practice that explores the avenues of affective tactile interaction through wearable technology, which can artificially produce tactile stimulations as medium for instant communication between two people. The findings are presented by the light of theoretical background, observations and analysis of the design practice.
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Gareev, F. A., G. S. Kazacha, Yu L. Ratis, and E. A. Strokovsky. "New quantization rule in the world of resonances of elementary particles." In The 14th international conference of few-body problems in physics. AIP, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.48129.

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Keller, Michael F. "Hybrid Nuclear Power: An Unexpected Small Reactor Approach." In ASME 2011 Small Modular Reactors Symposium. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/smr2011-6520.

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The world possess hundreds of years of economical coal reserves that are becoming increasingly unpopular due to climate-change concerns. The ability of renewable energy to supply the planet’s needs is limited. The once bright promise of American nuclear power has dimmed considerably due to the high cost of building new facilities, with the recent events in Japan creating even more uncertainties. Small nuclear reactors are now being proposed, but their limited size creates problematic competitiveness issues. Our energy options for the future are becoming progressively more limited. A completely unexpected solution lies with a hybrid gas turbine designed to cleanly produce large amounts of electrical power using two fuel sources. This recently proposed and unique U.S. technology employs a large combustion (gas) turbine in tandem with a small and efficient helium gas reactor. Relative to conventional methods, the hybrid greatly increases energy production, appreciably reduces costs while dramatically reducing emissions and solid wastes, particularly spent nuclear fuel which is also essentially worthless as bomb material. The commercial potential of the hybrid is unprecedented. The helium gas reactor marriage with the combustion turbine opens the door for the continued use of one of the worlds’ most abundant and low-cost fuel resources, coal. The hybrid-nuclear coal gasification configuration dramatically reduces environmental impacts while also supporting the co-production of all manner of liquid transportation fuels, substitute natural gas, hydrogen, process heat and industrial chemicals. Replacement of the aging fleet of US coal plants with hybrid-nuclear/coal gasification units would dramatically reduce air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions without resorting to the problematic sequestration (pumping into the ground) of CO2. Further, coal sludge waste and ponds would be eliminated. The unique characteristics of the hybrid also sustain the co-production of stored energy (compressed air) and solar power and move both of these expensive green resources into more competitive positions. The hybrid’s unique operational capabilities readily support the electrical grid, particularly the increasing variability caused by greater use of renewable energy. The use of hybrid-nuclear energy plants would significantly extend the life of the world’s fuel resources, to the benefit of future generations. The hybrid relies on tried-and-proven technologies as well as the large body of knowledge developed over the 50 year history of nuclear reactors and combustion turbines. The unique characteristics of the hybrid overcome the engineering, financial and regulatory obstacles that have long held back the full-scale commercial deployment of the gas reactor. The hybrid technology is considerably safer than current reactors. Melting of the nuclear fuel is not possible, the reactor can not cause explosions or burnup, and radiation releases to the environment are extremely unlikely. No operator actions are necessary to keep the public safe. Hybrid nuclear energy is a fail-safe and evolutionary new direction for nuclear power.
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Reports on the topic "Body Worlds"

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Fogel, Robert, and Nathaniel Grotte. An Overview of The Changing Body: Health, Nutrition, and Human Development in the Western World Since 1700. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, April 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w16938.

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Frykman, P. N., E. A. Harman, J. F. Patton, P. K. Opstad, and R. W. Hoyt. Effects of a World Record Unsupported Ski Trek Across Greenland (The G2 Expedition) on Physical Performance and Body Composition. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, August 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada396385.

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Yan, Huixin, Yun An, Tao Zhao, Jiangna Zhao, and Juntao Yan. Therapeutic effect and safety of Tuina on Sciatica: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis. INPLASY - International Platform of Registered Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Protocols, October 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37766/inplasy2021.10.0034.

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Review question / Objective: This study aimed to conduct a meta-analysis of Tuina in the treatment of Sciatica to clarify its efficacy and safety. Condition being studied: Sciatica is one of the common pain symptoms in the human body, also known as radiating leg pain. Sciatica is increasingly occurring due to poor posture and lack of physical exercise all over the world. At present, many studies have indicated that Tuina can improve the clinical symptoms and functional status of sciatica. However, there is currently no relevant systematic review to evaluate and report this clinical scientific issue. Consequently, this study will conduct a meta-analysis on the effectiveness and safety of Tuina therapy for sciatica.
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Bridges, Todd, Jeffrey King, Jonathan Simm, Michael Beck, Georganna Collins, Quirjin Lodder, and Ram Mohan. Overview : International Guidelines on Natural and Nature-Based Features for Flood Risk Management. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21079/11681/41945.

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The application of natural and nature‑based features (NNBF) has grown steadily over the past 20 years, supported by calls for innovation in flood risk management (FRM) and nature‑based solutions from many different perspectives and organizations. Technical advancements in support of NNBF are increasingly the subject of peer‑reviewed and other technical literature. A variety of guidance has been published by numerous organizations to inform program‑level action and technical practice for specific types of nature‑based solutions. This effort to develop international guidelines on the use of NNBF was motivated by the need for a comprehensive guide that draws directly on the growing body of knowledge and experience from around the world to inform the process of conceptualizing, planning, designing, engineering, constructing, and operating NNBF.
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S. Abdellatif, Omar, Ali Behbehani, and Mauricio Landin. Angola COVID-19 Governmental Response. UN Compliance Research Group, October 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52008/ang0501.

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The International Health Regulations (2005) are legally binding on 196 States Parties, Including all WHO Member States. The IHR aims to keep the world informed about public health risks, through committing all signatories to cooperate together in combating any future “illness or medical condition, irrespective of origin or source, that presents or could present significant harm to humans.” Under IHR, countries agreed to strengthen their public health capacities and notify the WHO of any such illness in their populations. The WHO would be the centralized body for all countries facing a health threat, with the power to declare a “public health emergency of international concern,” issue recommendations, and work with countries to tackle a crisis. Although, with the sudden and rapid spread of COVID-19 in the world, many countries varied in implementing the WHO guidelines and health recommendations. While some countries followed the WHO guidelines, others imposed travel restrictions against the WHO’s recommendations. Some refused to share their data with the organization. Others banned the export of medical equipment, even in the face of global shortages. The UN Compliance Research group will focus during the current cycle on analyzing the compliance of the WHO member states to the organizations guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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S. Abdellatif, Omar, Ali Behbehani, Mauricio Landin, and Sarah Malik. Bahrain COVID-19 Governmental Response. UN Compliance Research Group, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52008/ucrg0501.

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The International Health Regulations (2005) are legally binding on 196 States Parties, Including all WHO Member States. The IHR aims to keep the world informed about public health risks, through committing all signatories to cooperate together in combating any future “illness or medical condition, irrespective of origin or source, that presents or could present significant harm to humans.” Under IHR, countries agreed to strengthen their public health capacities and notify the WHO of any such illness in their populations. The WHO would be the centralized body for all countries facing a health threat, with the power to declare a “public health emergency of international concern,” issue recommendations, and work with countries to tackle a crisis. Although, with the sudden and rapid spread of COVID-19 in the world, many countries varied in implementing the WHO guidelines and health recommendations. While some countries followed the WHO guidelines, others imposed travel restrictions against the WHO’s recommendations. Some refused to share their data with the organization. Others banned the export of medical equipment, even in the face of global shortages. The UN Compliance Research group will focus during the current cycle on analyzing the compliance of the WHO member states to the organizations guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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S. Abdellatif, Omar, and Ali Behbehani. Italy COVID-19 Governmental Response. UN Compliance Research Group, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52008/itl0501.

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The International Health Regulations (2005) are legally binding on 196 States Parties, Including all WHO Member States. The IHR aims to keep the world informed about public health risks, through committing all signatories to cooperate together in combating any future “illness or medical condition, irrespective of origin or source, that presents or could present significant harm to humans.” Under IHR, states agreed to strengthen their public health capacities and notify the WHO of any such illness in their populations. The WHO would be the centralized body for all countries facing a health threat, with the power to declare a “public health emergency of international concern,” issue recommendations, and work with countries to tackle a crisis. Although, with the sudden and rapid spread of COVID-19 in the world, many countries varied in implementing the WHO guidelines and health recommendations. While some countries followed the WHO guidelines, others imposed travel restrictions against the WHO’s recommendations. Some states refused to share their data with the organization. Others banned the export of medical equipment, even in the face of global shortages. The UN Compliance Research group will focus during the current cycle on analyzing the compliance of the WHO member states to the organizations guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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S. Abdellatif, Omar, and Ali Behbehani. Jordan COVID-19 Governmental Response. UN Compliance Research Group, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52008/jord0501.

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The International Health Regulations (2005) are legally binding on 196 States Parties, Including all WHO Member States. The IHR aims to keep the world informed about public health risks, through committing all signatories to cooperate together in combating any future “illness or medical condition, irrespective of origin or source, that presents or could present significant harm to humans.” Under IHR, states agreed to strengthen their public health capacities and notify the WHO of any such illness in their populations. The WHO would be the centralized body for all countries facing a health threat, with the power to declare a “public health emergency of international concern,” issue recommendations, and work with countries to tackle a crisis. Although, with the sudden and rapid spread of COVID-19 in the world, many countries varied in implementing the WHO guidelines and health recommendations. While some countries followed the WHO guidelines, others imposed travel restrictions against the WHO’s recommendations. Some states refused to share their data with the organization. Others banned the export of medical equipment, even in the face of global shortages. The UN Compliance Research group will focus during the current cycle on analyzing the compliance of the WHO member states to the organizations guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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S. Abdellatif, Omar, and Ali Behbehani. Saudi Arabia COVID-19 Governmental Response. UN Compliance Research Group, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52008/ksa0501.

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The International Health Regulations (2005) are legally binding on 196 States Parties, Including all WHO Member States. The IHR aims to keep the world informed about public health risks, through committing all signatories to cooperate together in combating any future “illness or medical condition, irrespective of origin or source, that presents or could present significant harm to humans.” Under IHR, states agreed to strengthen their public health capacities and notify the WHO of any such illness in their populations. The WHO would be the centralized body for all countries facing a health threat, with the power to declare a “public health emergency of international concern,” issue recommendations, and work with countries to tackle a crisis. Although, with the sudden and rapid spread of COVID-19 in the world, many countries varied in implementing the WHO guidelines and health recommendations. While some countries followed the WHO guidelines, others imposed travel restrictions against the WHO’s recommendations. Some states refused to share their data with the organization. Others banned the export of medical equipment, even in the face of global shortages. The UN Compliance Research group will focus during the current cycle on analyzing the compliance of the WHO member states to the organizations guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Abdellatif, Omar, Ali Behbehani, and Mauricio Landin. Finland COVID-19 Governmental Response. UN Compliance Research Group, February 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.52008/fin0501.

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The International Health Regulations (2005) are legally binding on 196 States Parties, Including all WHO Member States. The IHR aims to keep the world informed about public health risks, through committing all signatories to cooperate together in combating any future “illness or medical condition, irrespective of origin or source, that presents or could present significant harm to humans.” Under IHR, countries agreed to strengthen their public health capacities and notify the WHO of any such illness in their populations. The WHO would be the centralized body for all countries facing a health threat, with the power to declare a “public health emergency of international concern,” issue recommendations, and work with countries to tackle a crisis. Although, with the sudden and rapid spread of COVID-19 in the world, many countries varied in implementing the WHO guidelines and health recommendations. While some countries followed the WHO guidelines, others imposed travel restrictions against the WHO’s recommendations. Some refused to share their data with the organization. Others banned the export of medical equipment, even in the face of global shortages. The UN Compliance Research group will focus during the current cycle on analyzing the compliance of the WHO member states to the organizations guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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