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Murray, Stuart J. "Digital Flesh." Glimpse 4 (2003): 95–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/glimpse2003418.
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Roxanne, Tiara. "Digital territory, digital flesh." A Peer-Reviewed Journal About 8, no. 1 (August 15, 2019): 70–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/aprja.v8i1.115416.
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Western Indigenous cultures have been colonized, dehumanized and silenced. As AI grows and learns from colonial pre-existing biases, it also reinforces the notion that Natives no longer are but were. And since machine learning requires the input of categorical data, from which AI develops knowledge and understanding, compartmentalization is a natural behavior AI undertakes. As AI classifies Indigenous communities into a marginalized and historicized digital data set, the asterisk, the code, we fall into a cultural trap of recolonization. This necessitates an interference. A non-violent break. A different kind of rupture. One which fractures colonization and codification and opens a space for colonial recovery and survival. If we have not yetcontemporized the colonized Western Indigenous experience, how can we utilize tools of artificial intelligence such as the interface and digitality to create a space that de-codes colonial corporeality resulting in a sense of boundlessness, contemporization and survival?
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Mellier, Denis, and Charles La Via. "The New Digital Flesh of Fantastic Bodies." SubStance 47, no. 3 (2018): 93–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sub.2018.0034.
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Fuggle, Sophie. "Pixelated Flesh." Cultural Politics 11, no. 2 (July 1, 2015): 222–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/17432197-2895783.
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The pixel and the technique of pixelating faces belong to a politics of fear and a digital aesthetics of truth that shapes public perceptions of criminality and the threat of otherness. This article draws on Paul Virilio’s account of the pixel in The Lost Dimension to analyze its specific role and operation in relation to contemporary representations of incarceration. In particular, the article considers the figure of the incarcerated informant. The incarcerated criminal or informant plays a complex role as both subversive other and purveyor of truth and as such constitutes an important example of the ways pixelation functions as a visible signifier of a dangerous truth while blurring, erasing, and ultimately dehumanizing those “speaking” this truth. The discussion forms part of a larger analysis of the production, framing, and circulation of images of otherness, identifying Virilio as key to debates around the violence of the screen.
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Grimm, Eckhard, Felix Kuhnke, Anna Gajdt, Jörn Ostermann, and Moritz Knoche. "Accurate Quantification of Anthocyanin in Red Flesh Apples Using Digital Photography and Image Analysis." Horticulturae 8, no. 2 (February 9, 2022): 145. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae8020145.
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Red fleshed apples (Malus × domestica Borkh.) differ in colour intensity between cultivars, seasons and sites. The objective of this study was to develop a procedure for predicting anthocyanin content from digital images of flesh discs. Flesh cylinders of uniform colour were excised, scanned and their colours determined in the R, G and B and the L*a*b* colour spaces. Anthocyanin content was also quantified chemically. A calibration line was constructed to predict anthocyanin content of flesh discs of varying colour from a scan or a photograph in the studio or outdoors. Anthocyanin concentration was linearly related to the logarithms of G, B and L*. From these relationships, the anthocyanin content of a flesh disc was predicted, pixel by pixel. Colour corrections were applied using a reference colour chart included in all images. The Finlayson algorithm was most effective for correcting the G parameter obtained by a flatbed scanner. For variable imaging methods (scanning or photography), the Vandermonde algorithm for correcting the L* parameter and the Finlayson algorithm for correcting the G parameter were most effective in predicting anthocyanin content. The procedure allows accurate prediction of anthocyanin content of red fleshed apples from simple colour scans or photographs.
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Colletti, Marjan, and Marcos Cruz. "Convoluted Flesh: A Synthetic Approach to Analogue and Digital Architecture." Architectural Design 78, no. 4 (July 2008): 36–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ad.703.
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Giomi, Andrea. "Virtual Embodiment." Chiasmi International 22 (2020): 297–315. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/chiasmi20202229.
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Although Merleau-Ponty never directly addressed the question of technics, over the past three decades, some of the core concepts of his philosophy have profoundly informed digital media discourse, especially in the field of media arts. The problem of embodiment, in particular, represents a keystone for the understanding of the relationship between bodies and technology. This paper seeks to examine the ways in which some of the French philosopher’s key concepts– embodiment, body schema, presence, intertwining, and flesh – have been employed and re-elaborated in the context of media art theory and practice. The purpose of this study is to shed light on the main conceptual entanglements between Merleau-Pontian philosophy and digital arts and performances. Thus, four topics will be discussed: the virtual body, prosthetics, virtual presence, and digital intertwining of flesh. In the conclusion, I question these concepts and their possibility/ability to pave the way for a Merleau-Pontian philosophy of technology based on the wider paradigm of virtual embodiment.
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Vieira Filho, Paulo Silva. "Floração da Carne/Flowering of the Flesh." Revista Interinstitucional Brasileira de Terapia Ocupacional - REVISBRATO 1, no. 4 (September 25, 2017): 437. http://dx.doi.org/10.47222/2526-3544.rbto12700.
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A composição do desenho digital foi inspirada no progresso das aulas de Análise do Movimento Humano nas Atividades Cotidianas do curso de graduação em Terapia Ocupacional da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, UFRJ, lecionadas pela professora doutora Ana Paula Martins Cazeiro.A intenção foi expressar o processo de compreensão da sensibilidade nos estudos terapêuticos ocupacionais acerca da reabilitação física, na perspectiva de um aluno que não imaginava encontrar tamanho potencial de criação e produção de vida nas práticas até então ainda desconhecidas por este.
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Monti, Alessandro, and Salvatore Maria Aglioti. "Flesh and bone digital sociality: On how humans may go virtual." British Journal of Psychology 109, no. 3 (April 1, 2018): 418–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjop.12300.
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Shimizu, Taku, Kazuma Okada, Shigeki Moriya, Sadao Komori, and Kazuyuki Abe. "A High-throughput Color Measurement System for Evaluating Flesh Browning in Apples." Journal of the American Society for Horticultural Science 146, no. 4 (July 2021): 241–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/jashs05027-20.
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The development of new high-quality apple (Malus ×domestica) cultivars that are resistant to flesh browning is needed to expand the use of apples in the food service and catering industry. However, conventional methods for evaluating apple flesh browning can be both time-consuming and costly, thereby rendering such methods unsuitable for breeding programs that must characterize a large number of product samples. Therefore, it is necessary to develop new, simple, and inexpensive methods. The aim was to develop a method for simultaneously measuring the color values of 42 apple samples using a digital camera. The processing time per sample was reduced to less than one-tenth of that of the conventional method. The measurement dispersion [sd of the color difference between two colors ] of this system was less than 0.08, equivalent to the nominal value of a general colorimeter. Time-series analysis of six apple cultivars using this method showed that the calculated browning index values correlated well with the degree of browning judged by human perception. Further, the measurement data showed that the CIE L* a* b* value trends associated with browning in reddish- and watercored-flesh samples, was different from the corresponding trends in yellowish-flesh samples. This work reports the development of a high-throughput analytical system of apple browning and provides cautionary notes for evaluating reddish- and watercored-flesh browning, which should be measured on a different basis from that used for normal-flesh browning.
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Clark, Lynn Schofield, and Angel Hinzo. "Digital Survivance: Mediatization and the Sacred in the Tribal Digital Activism of the #NoDAPL Movement." Journal of Religion, Media and Digital Culture 8, no. 1 (March 20, 2019): 76–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/21659214-00801005.
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To explore the role of contestation in mediatization processes, this article utilizes digital and visual methods to analyze instances of Indigenous digital survivance. Focusing on recent examples at the heart of the #NoDAPL movement allows us to flesh out and argue for a decolonizing approach to the study of mediatization, which we define, following Clark (2011), as the process by which collective uses of communication media (1) extend the development of independent media industries and their circulation of narratives, (2) contribute to new forms of action and interaction in the social world, and (3) give shape to how we think of humanity and our place in the world. The article therefore concludes with suggestions regarding the further development of methodological approaches to studying processes of mediatization in relation to contestations over normative claims and pragmatic concerns regarding the role of media systems in our collective future.
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CHIEN, IRENE. "This Is Not a Dance." Film Quarterly 59, no. 3 (2006): 22–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fq.2006.59.3.22.
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ABSTRACT While dance has been theorized as consummately embodied, digitality has been charged with rendering flesh-bound ““meatware”” obsolete. This essay explores the body propelled into motion by the ““dance simulation”” video game Dance Dance Revolution, to show how racial and sexual identifications shape the encounter between human body and digital technology.
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Booth, Alison. "Particular Webs:Middlemarch,Typologies, and Digital Studies of Women's Lives." Victorian Literature and Culture 47, no. 1 (December 7, 2018): 5–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150318001286.
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[H]e was enamoured of that arduous invention which is the very eye of research, provisionally framing its object and correcting it to more and more exactness of relation … to pierce the obscurity of those minute processes.—George Eliot,MiddlemarchIt would be hard to discover a theoretical or aesthetic approach to George Eliot'sMiddlemarchthat is not already anticipated in some way by the novel's sagacious narrator. Possibly that persona, the quintessential Victorian polymath, does not foresee digital humanities as we know it. But critics have been struck as much by Eliot's prototyping of information systems, semiotics, and network analysis as by her humanist ethics. Casaubon does not invent the database of myths any more than Lydgate discovers DNA, or than Marian Evans Lewes rivals Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage. As I illustrate a kind of digital research that adjusts to the minute particulars of narrative, I hope to keep sight of historical distances between the 1830s, the 1870s, and the era of feminist Victorian studies that I sketch here. Lydgate's penetrative “invention,” in the epigraph, is associated elsewhere in the novel with his actual “flesh-and-blood” vitality: “He cared not only for ‘cases,’ but for John and Elizabeth, especially Elizabeth” (Middlemarch, chap. 15). He is as dedicated to evidence as the narrator, in many scientific analogies, counsels readers to be, and yet he approaches his own life story and the characters of women with a kind of prejudgment that filters out most data. Eliot's readers, seeing Lydgate's errors, are flattered into believing we miss no signals and see all analogies. Can contemporary readers appreciate both numerical cases and individual stories of women? In this article I try to outline a feminist criticism that encompasses both typological classifications and flesh-and-blood individuality, both digital research and interpretative advocacy.
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Botelho, Luciane Francisca Fernandes, Talita Matsushigue, Milvia Maria Simões e. Silva Enokihara, Maurício Mendonça do Nascimento, Mônica Ribeiro de Azevedo Vasconcellos, and Sergio Henrique Hirata. "Case for diagnosis." Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia 87, no. 3 (June 2012): 493–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0365-05962012000300028.
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Infantile digital fibromatosis or Reye's tumor is a benign fibroproliferative tumor, the etiopathogenesis of which has yet to be fully clarified. It typically presents at birth or in the first year of life and is characterized by a firm, flesh colored or erythematous nodule or nodules located on the digits. These lesions tend to regress spontaneously.
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Goldman, Sharon, Elaina Delore, Sara Flesh, Tal Mazor-Karsenty, and Danit Langer. "Digital Exclusion and COVID-19: Does Communication Technology Usage Correlate With Well-Being Among Older Adults in Israel?" American Journal of Occupational Therapy 76, Supplement_1 (July 1, 2022): 7610510153p1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2022.76s1-po153.
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Abstract Date Presented 04/01/2022 During the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, the use of communication technology has become more important than ever before, magnifying the issue of digital exclusion. In light of social distancing guidelines, technological proficiency or lack thereof can determine one’s ability to maintain social participation. We explored this troubling trend and assessed the implications of digital inequality on the well-being of the elderly population. Primary Author and Speaker: Sharon Goldman Additional Authors and Speakers: Tal Mazor-Karsenty, Danit Langer Contributing Authors: Elaina Delore, Sara Flesh
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Hankinson, Andrew, Donald Brower, Neil Jefferies, Rosalyn Metz, Julian Morley, Simeon Warner, and Andrew Woods. "The Oxford Common File Layout: A Common Approach to Digital Preservation." Publications 7, no. 2 (June 4, 2019): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/publications7020039.
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The Oxford Common File Layout describes a shared approach to filesystem layouts for institutional and preservation repositories, providing recommendations for how digital repository systems should structure and store files on disk or in object stores. The authors represent institutions where digital preservation practices have been established and proven over time or where significant work has been done to flesh out digital preservation practices. A community of practitioners is surfacing and is assessing successful preservation approaches designed to address a spectrum of use cases. With this context as a background, the Oxford Common File Layout (OCFL) will be described as the culmination of over two decades of experience with existing standards and practices.
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Boffone, Trevor. "From Heathers to Six: Stealth musicals and the TikTok Broadway archive." Studies in Musical Theatre 15, no. 3 (December 1, 2021): 175–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/smt_00070_1.
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This article explores two popular TikTok trends that use sound bites from the original cast recordings of Heathers: The Musical and Six. The ‘Martha Dumptruck in the Flesh’ challenge from Heathers: The Musical and the ‘Yeah That Didn’t Work Out’ challenge from Six were, by and large, completely detached from the musicals. TikTokers who engaged with these trends, therefore, likely did not even know that the sound bites came from musicals. These musicals became what I term ‘stealth musicals’, or undercover musicals that proliferate on TikTok in ways that are completely removed from the show’s dramaturgy. As stealth musicals, Heathers: The Musical and Six did not just go viral but stayed viral on TikTok. I argue, therefore, that these two musicals became canonical pieces of Gen Z culture. With viral canonization, Heathers: The Musical and Six demonstrate how cultural capital accrues in digital spaces and, as a result, sound bites such as ‘Martha Dumptruck in the flesh’ enter into a public life that extends beyond the musicals themselves. Indeed, as I propose, quoting ‘Martha Dumptruck in the flesh’ is as synonymous with Gen Z culture as it is with the musical Heathers.
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Ouvrard-Servanton, Marie, Lucile Salesses, and Hammadi Squalli. "Re-thinking Borders in the Digital Space." Applied Science and Innovative Research 2, no. 1 (February 25, 2018): 25. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/asir.v2n1p25.
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<p><em>On the basis of the arguments advanced by Imad Saleh, Nasreddine Bouhai, and Hakim Hachour (Saleh, Bouhai, & Hachour, 2014) concerning the impact of “digital borders” generated by the Internet on the dynamics of inter-disciplinary research, we have been led to blend disciplines in order to develop the following question: are representations in the digital space located in a borderless communication imagery? Here the humanities are called upon to look into the underpinnings of the meanings assigned to digital space, in its conception and its technological praxis. This question also provokes the following underlying reflections: how could we define the notion of borders in relation to a space that is non-territorialized at the level of human perceptions and where customs officials are not quite “in flesh and blood”? How does a border present itself? Does its representation influence conception and technological praxis? As a matter of priority we define what a border is in space for the purpose of confronting this definition with imagined borders in order to analyze the digital space in its continuum between openness and limits. </em></p>
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Ogrodowska, Dorota, Beata Roszkowska, and Małgorzata Tańska. "Geometrical Features of Seeds of New Pumpkin Forms." Agricultural Engineering 20, no. 1 (April 1, 2016): 111–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/agriceng-2016-0011.
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AbstractPlant growers are looking for new crops which would make farms and processing plants more profitable. Currently, in Poland, waste-free pumpkin processing is mainly associated with pumpkin seed production, oil extraction, pulverization of pumpkin oil cake to obtain pumpkin meal, the small-scale use of flesh in food production, but mainly the utilisation of flesh as a feed additive. During technological processes applied for the processing of pumpkin seeds it is important to be familiar with their physical characteristics. The aim of this study was to analyse the geometric characteristics of the seeds of new nine forms of the pumpkin variety Olga, which were bred by researchers from the Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences. Geometrical features were measured using the Digital Image Analysis (DIA) set, consisting of a digital camera (Nikon DXM 1200), computer and lighting (KAISER RB HF). The following geometrical features were measured: length, width, diameter, perimeter, area, circularity and elongation. Additionally, thickness of the seeds was measured by a calliper. Seeds of the studied forms of hull-less pumpkins differed from the standards in the dimensions and shape, whereas significant differences were demonstrated for the Olga variety standard. The most variable geometric characteristic of the seeds under study was area, while the least variable geometric characteristics of the pumpkin seeds turned out to be the circularity and width.
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Mendíbil Blanco, Alejandro. "El cine digital de Jess Franco (1999-2012): reciclaje y posmodernidad." Fotocinema. Revista Científica de Cine y Fotografía 23 (July 21, 2021): 227–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.24310/fotocinema.2021.v23i.12403.
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El artículo se ocupa de la última etapa de cine digital del director Jess Franco, figura de relevancia internacional en el terreno de la serie B, en la que experimenta con un cine muy marginal que no obstante se anticipa a cuestiones vigentes del cine de la posmodernidad. Desde Carne fresca (Tender Flesh, 1997) hasta su última película, rodada un año antes de su muerte, Revenge of the Alligator Ladies (2012), Franco explora las posibilidades de la grabación y posproducción en video digital para trazar un discurso que reflexiona sobre su propia obra y sus fuentes literarias, a la vez que renuncia de manera visceral a las convenciones cinematográficas clásicas. El texto se dedica a comparar las tendencias comunes en la historia y el discurso de este grupo de veinte películas con los rasgos que caracterizan el cine de la modernidad y la posmodernidad, como la fragmentación de las historias, el reciclaje de relatos e iconos de la cultura popular, la intertextualidad y la relación estrecha entre los creadores y su público.
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LeRiche, Etienne Louis, and Gefu Wang-Pruski. "Digital imaging for the evaluation of potato after-cooking darkening: correcting the effect of flesh colour." International Journal of Food Science & Technology 44, no. 12 (December 2009): 2669–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2621.2007.01665.x.
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Servitje, L. "Digital Mortification of Literary Flesh: Computational Logistics and Violences of Remediation in Visceral Games' Dante's Inferno." Games and Culture 9, no. 5 (July 22, 2014): 368–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1555412014543948.
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Androutsopoulos, Jannis. "Polymedia in interaction." Pragmatics and Society 12, no. 5 (December 31, 2021): 707–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ps.21069.int.
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Abstract This Special Issue on “Polymedia in interaction” theorizes and empirically investigates practices and ideologies of digitally mediated interaction under conditions of polymedia. We argue that the proliferation of mobile interpersonal communication in the 2010s calls for, and is reflected in, conceptual and methodological shifts in empirical research on digital language and communication in pragmatics and sociocultural linguistics. In this introduction, these shifts are crystallized in five interrelated themes: (1) a turn from ‘computer-mediated communication’ to ‘digitally mediated interaction’ as a bracket category; (2) a move beyond the on/offline divide and focus on the integration of mediated interaction in everyday communication in micro-units of social structure (e.g. transnational families, business or academic communication); (3) an empirical downscaling towards private and small-scale public data; (4) a shift from the study of single modes of digital communication to polymedia; and (5) a focus on semiotic repertoires and registers of digital mediation. Research that orients to (some or all of) these focal points is compared with other trends in digital language research, including computational methods. The papers in this issue flesh out these five dimensions with findings from qualitative research, based on multi-sited linguistic and digital ethnographies in various sociolinguistic settings.
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Scott-Stevenson, Julia. "Do as I say, not as I do: Documentary, data storytelling and digital privacy." Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies 12, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 301–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/cjcs_00034_1.
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This article explores the intersections between interactive documentary and digital rights, across notions of surveillance, privacy and data. The collection of personal and sensitive data online increases exponentially, and individuals become a series of data points, only of relevance insofar as we are part of a larger group marked by similar characteristics. Yet somewhat contradictorily, we are also scrutinized completely. How might creative media production bridge this gap – recognizing our individual complexity while respecting rights to privacy? Documentary media offers one response – individual stories and voices can serve to flesh out a complex story while retaining links to a broader narrative. Interactive documentary, furthermore, can offer a reflexive form of storytelling that uses the very forms of technology in question to highlight the potential problems. This article presents case studies of interactive documentaries, exploring how the strategies of reflexivity and responsiveness can engender an understanding of issues of digital rights.
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Colombo, Andrea, and Floriana Ferro. "Virtuality and immanence in Deleuze and Merleau-Ponty." Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico 16, no. 1 (July 22, 2023): 7–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/aisthesis-14203.
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In this paper we aim to find a definition of virtual which fits the latest developments of digital technology, but also applies to the analog world. We consider the virtual as related to immanence, taking inspiration from Deleuze’s reading of Bergson and Merleau-Ponty’s last work. We first analyze Deleuze’s idea of immanence, from which virtuality emerges, then we focus on Merleau-Ponty’s concept of flesh and its virtual center. We argue that both philosophers see immanence as a dynamic medium of virtuality, overcoming the traditional concept of substance and theorizing a deep intertwining of bodies and technology. Our analysis shows that the virtual is defined by the following features: it implies an epistemological and ontological monism, relationality, and entanglement with reality. The virtual clearly emerges in digital technologies, but also belongs to analog reality, as a general condition for our knowing and being in the world as such.
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Anderson, C. W., and Matthias Revers. "From Counter-Power to Counter-Pepe: The Vagaries of Participatory Epistemology in a Digital Age." Media and Communication 6, no. 4 (November 8, 2018): 24–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v6i4.1492.
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This article reconstructs the evolution of societal and journalistic meta-discourse about the participation of ordinary citizens in the news production process. We do so through a genealogy of what we call “participatory epistemology”, defined here as a form of journalistic knowledge in which professional expertise is modified through public interaction. It is our argument that the notion of “citizen participation in news process” has not simply functioned as a normative concept but has rather carried with it a particular understanding of what journalists could reasonably know, and how their knowledge could be enhanced by engaging with the public in order to produce journalistic work. By examining four key moments in the evolution of participatory epistemology, as well as the discursive webs that have surrounded these moments, we aim to demonstrate some of the factors which led a cherished and utopian concept to become a dark and dystopian one. In this, we supplement the work of Quandt (2018) and add some historical flesh to the conceptual arguments of his article on “dark participation”.
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De Kerckhove, Derrick. "Metal and Flesh, and: Cyborg: Digital Destiny and Human Possibility in the Age of the Wearable Computer (review)." Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 46, no. 3 (2003): 454–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/pbm.2003.0036.
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Kaisar, Marilia. "Bluetooth Orgasms." MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 37, no. 71 (January 3, 2022): 143–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/mediekultur.v37i71.125253.
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Bluetooth-operated sex toys penetrate and are penetrated by the human body, leaving code behind. This article analyzes the relationships that develop between bodies and Bluetooth-operated interactive sex toys. Resembling the pods and portals of David Cronenberg’s film eXistenZ, interactive sex toys allow us to consider how technologies relate intimately to the sexual body. I use Massumi’s work on virtuality and affect theory as a starting point from which to frame embodiment, virtuality, and the circulation of affects. Further, I consider the importance of embodiment and the translations of intensities and vibrations through digital coding among the open sexual body, the technology of the sexual machine, and the applications that foster those connections, in the context of Bluetooth-operated sex toys. This article advocates the need to consider intimate encounters between interactive sex toys and bodies as complex technological and biological assemblages, where vibrating machines and the human body’s flesh come into intimate connection through datafication.
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Tsitsovits, Ioannis. "Neoliberalism’s “official crap art”?" English Text Construction 13, no. 2 (December 10, 2020): 109–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/etc.00037.tsi.
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Abstract British writer Tom McCarthy has repeatedly taken aim at what he calls a “sentimental humanism” and the contemporary cult of the “authentic self”. This article investigates his work through the lens of that critique. Extrapolating from McCarthy’s public statements, I endeavour to delineate sentimental humanism as a mode of cultural production and flesh out his linking of it to a neoliberal political economy. I show how his antagonism manifests itself in his work, particularly his debut novel, Remainder. By contrast, his latest novel, Satin Island, marks a turning point in that trajectory. Although implicitly framed by its author as a way of thematising the challenges with which Big Data has confronted literature, Satin Island more specifically reveals that his anti-humanist agenda has also reached an impasse. Much of the logic behind the critique of sentimental humanism mounted by Remainder, I argue, is in a sense pre-empted or assimilated by the kinds of corporate digital environments described in Satin Island.
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Raposo, António, Hmidan A. Alturki, Rabab Alkutbe, and Dele Raheem. "Eating Sturgeon: An Endangered Delicacy." Sustainability 15, no. 4 (February 14, 2023): 3511. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15043511.
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Since ancient times, sturgeon species have been valued for their rich nutritional qualities, which are crucial for human health today. They are linked with gastronomic delicacy and offer economic benefits, especially for the caviar industry. Today aquaculture produces more farmed and hybrid species due to rapidly declining wild sturgeon populations. Sturgeon diversification through processing can yield fingerlings, stocking material, meat or caviar. Because of its variety, sturgeon flesh includes highly digestible proteins, lipids, vitamins and minerals. Consuming sturgeon provides essential fatty acids that play important oxidative and anti-inflammatory roles in human cells. The purpose of this study is to examine the sustainability and economic value of eating sturgeon worldwide, the technology applied in food processing, and the challenges that food quality and authenticity, nutritional content and health effects pose. The issue of counterfeiting high-quality sturgeon products by dishonest means has to be adequately addressed. Digital tools to guarantee authenticity and transparency in the sturgeon value chain should be considered in the future.
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Loza, Susana. "Sampling (hetero)sexuality: diva-ness and discipline in electronic dance music." Popular Music 20, no. 3 (October 2001): 349–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0261143001001544.
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Cyborgs, fembots and posthumans: electronic dance music and the biopolitics of fucking machinesIn the technophilic West, netizens, infomorphs and the audio digerati triumphantly-if-precociously herald this as the dawn of disembodiment. These reality hackers dream in binary code. They yearn to manufacture human-alien hybrids, ethical androids and genetically programmed clones. They already engineer digital soul divas, aural cyborgs, Nintendo's voluptuously overdrawn robo-bimbos, and the supernaturally and surgically perfect bodies purchased at Lasers R' US. They share the meat-hating philosophies of the cyber-protagonists of Neuromancer, Snow Crash and Software. They willingly computerise their passions via text sex, MUD-based gender masquerades, naughty newsgroups, techno-fetishistic video games, virtual reality-based erotic escapades, and pornosonic digital samples. Nonetheless, it seems that for the rest of us to join these intrepid cybernauts in their Age of immaterial Information, our too-solid bodies must first be anaesthetised with utopian visions and sounds of an incorporeal future. So electronic dance music, popular culture and modern science inject the flesh with fantasies of immortality, limitless pleasures, and unadulterated agency. With their tax-funded market research and their potent techno-imaginings, entertainment systems, netters, digital dance music producers, and radically hopeful scientists prepare human matter to be dematerialised and devoured byte by agonising byte. In other words, they passionately fabricate the human-machine hybrid also known as the cyborg, the fembot and the posthuman. These techno-organic entities traverse the space between desire and dread; their indeterminate forms simultaneously destabilise and reconfigure the dualistic limits of liberal humanist subjectivity. Each incarnation plots the feared consequences and perplexing possibilities of boundary transgressions between the human and the machine quite differently.
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Asadi, Torang X. "Cyberbodies." Nova Religio 25, no. 2 (November 1, 2021): 40–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/nr.2021.25.2.40.
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In addition to its metaphorical and practical influences, the internet has informed New Agers’ cosmologies and corresponding bodily practices by requiring a rethinking of the physical universe in the face of virtual ubiquity. It has allowed them to imagine new ways of making space in their ontological realities for metaphysical, energetic substances. We can see, perhaps somewhat counterintuitively, that the digital has made the spiritual ever more material and situated in the flesh for New Agers searching for the true nature of existence. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork from 2016 to 2018 and ongoing research with energy healers in the San Francisco Bay Area, this “anthropology of virtual matter”—understanding how the virtual has caused a paradigm shift in how we think about the material world—gives us fresh eyes with which to see the New Age. It even forces us to reconsider spiritualities as material ontologies, the conception of materiality that shapes how believers understand and interact with the world around them through their bodies, sensoria, and metaphysical appendages.
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Ropelewska, Ewa, Kadir Sabanci, and Muhammet Fatih Aslan. "The Changes in Bell Pepper Flesh as a Result of Lacto-Fermentation Evaluated Using Image Features and Machine Learning." Foods 11, no. 19 (September 21, 2022): 2956. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods11192956.
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Food processing allows for maintaining the quality of perishable products and extending their shelf life. Nondestructive procedures combining image analysis and machine learning can be used to control the quality of processed foods. This study was aimed at developing an innovative approach to distinguishing fresh and lacto-fermented red bell pepper samples involving selected image textures and machine learning algorithms. Before processing, the pieces of fresh pepper and samples subjected to spontaneous lacto-fermentation were imaged using a digital camera. The texture parameters were extracted from images converted to different color channels L, a, b, R, G, B, X, Y, and Z. The textures after selection were used to build models for the classification of fresh and lacto-fermented samples using algorithms from the groups of Lazy, Functions, Trees, Bayes, Meta, and Rules. The highest average accuracy of classification reached 99% for the models developed based on sets of selected textures for color space Lab using the IBk (instance-based K-nearest learner) algorithm from the group of Lazy, color space RGB using SMO (sequential minimal optimization) from Functions, and color space XYZ and color channel X using IBk (Lazy) and SMO (Functions). The results confirmed the differences in image features of fresh and lacto-fermented red bell pepper and revealed the effectiveness of models built based on textures using machine learning algorithms for the evaluation of the changes in the pepper flesh structure caused by processing.
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Wallduck, Rosalind, and Silvia M. Bello. "An Engraved Human Bone from the Mesolithic–Neolithic Site of Lepenski Vir (Serbia)." Cambridge Archaeological Journal 26, no. 2 (April 6, 2016): 329–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0959774316000020.
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Post-mortem manipulations of the body were common at Mesolithic–Neolithic sites along the Danube River. During assessment of disarticulated human remains from Lepenski Vir, an unusual set of incisions (notches) were observed on the diaphysis of a human left radius along with a few cut-marks. Very few studies have attempted to distinguish clearly the characteristics of these modifications. All incisions were examined using a Scanning Electron Microscope and a Focus Variation Microscope that generated measurable three-dimensional digital models. Our results indicate that, on the basis of their micro-morphometric features, qualitative and quantitative distinctions can be made between cut-marks and notches, a methodology which can be applied to other engraved bones. Cut-marks, accidentally produced during flesh removal, were more irregular, longer, narrower and shallower than the notches. The notches, produced by a ‘nick and slice’ motion (pressure was applied to the bone, then the tool was pulled in one direction), were deliberately engraved. This engraved human bone is a rare example within a Prehistoric European context, possibly a form of notation, marking or counting a series of (important) events.
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Van Praet, Helena. "“To Tell a Story by Not Telling It”: Toward a Networked Poetics of Delay in Anne Carson's The Beauty of the Husband." Poetics Today 43, no. 4 (December 1, 2022): 639–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/03335372-10017695.
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Abstract This article addresses the literary response to network forms in twenty-first-century print poetry. Through the case of Anne Carson's long poem The Beauty of the Husband (2001), it explores how contemporary poetry, whose textuality will be termed prosthetic, can engender a network aesthetic that evokes infinite connections among ideas that are analogically related. Firstly, taking its cue from recent developments in literary history and relational aesthetics, the article investigates how Carson's poem participates in a network aesthetic typical of the digital age. To this end, it situates this aesthetic in the context of an emergent metamodernism by relating the notion of connection, central to network aesthetics, to an ethos of affect and sincerity characteristic of metamodernism. The literary analysis, which focuses on five key hubs, then demonstrates how the poem never arrives at representation and yet evokes a disintegrating marriage by analogically relating it to other ideas and texts. The article concludes that Carson's poem operates by means of a poetics of delay by reconciling lyrical with conceptual impulses. Ultimately, the aim of this article is to flesh out a fuller picture of Carson's notoriously uncategorizable poetry against the background of a network aesthetic.
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Chinita, Fátima. "Dance and the Mediated Immersive Flux in Carlos Saura’s Musical Hybrids with Live Feed." Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Film and Media Studies 23, no. 1 (May 1, 2023): 160–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/ausfm-2023-0009.
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Abstract Carlos Saura’s “pure musicals,” as he calls them, are highly based on the formal properties of the image and the expressive use of light in a minimalist scenic space. Although, they have not been declared screendance pieces (as per Rosenberg 2012), which conjoin rhythmic body movements with screen-based, technologically mediated methods of rendering, they are full-fledged screendance examples, being hybrid, symbiotic, and integral (Richard James Allen, 2006). This article concentrates on Saura’s musicals from 2005 onwards – Flamenco (1995), Iberia (2005), Fados (2007), Flamenco Flamenco (2010), Argentina (Zonda, folclore argentino, 2015) and Jota de Saura (2016) – particularly the immersive mediation operated through the use of live video feed as an intermedial sensorial device. Saura’s silky, glossy, and lustrous images form an optical-haptic continuum. The twofold bodies, the digital doubles and the flesh-and-bone act as inducers of crystallization in Gilles Deleuze’s perception of modern cinema (1985), inasmuch as they interact and alternate in a cinematic flux, forming a circuit. Thus, an image of a recorded stage performance enters into a relationship with cinema, a medium already endowed with reflective features, producing the crystallization of these screendance films in all their Saurian immersivenness and sensoriality.
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Bandyopadhyay, Oishila, Bhabatosh Chanda, and Bhargab B. Bhattacharya. "Automatic Segmentation of Bones in X-ray Images Based on Entropy Measure." International Journal of Image and Graphics 16, no. 01 (January 2016): 1650001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219467816500017.
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In this paper, we introduce an efficient method for segmenting the bone region of an X-ray image from its surrounding muscles and tissues. Automated segmentation of the bone part in a digital X-ray image is a challenging problem because of its low contrast with the surrounding flesh. The presence of noise and spurious edges further complicates the segmentation. Most of the existing methods either suffer from noisy contour detection or need training samples for manual tuning of certain thresholding parameters. We propose a fully automated segmentation technique, which utilizes a variant of entropy measure of the image. This scheme has been shown to be useful for fast and efficient analysis of a wide class of human X-ray images including skull, chest, pelvic region and ortho-dental zones. In order to quantify the quality of segmentation, we propose a new metric called average contour distortion index (ACDI) based on certain neighborhood properties of the contour pixels. Experiments on several X-ray images reveal encouraging results compared to other approaches as evident from the ACDI metric. We also re-validate the quality of several segmented bone images using segmentation entropy quantitative assessment (SEQA), and boundary-based precision–recall profile. All three metrics establish the superiority of the proposed technique to prior art.
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Rich, Emma, and Andy Miah. "Prosthetic Surveillance: The medical governance of healthy bodies in cyberspace." Surveillance & Society 6, no. 2 (March 13, 2009): 163–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/ss.v6i2.3256.
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This paper examines how ‘surveillance medicine’ (Armstrong 1995) has expanded the realm of the medical gaze via its infiltration of cyberspace, where specific features of healthism are now present. Drawing on Foucault’s notion of biopower, we examine how digital health resources offer new ways through which to discipline individuals and regulate populations. The emergence of health regulation within and through cyberspace takes place in a context wherein the relationship between the body and technology is rendered more complex. Departing from early literature on cyberspace, which claimed that the body was absent in virtual worlds, we articulate a medicalized cyberspace within which the virtual and corporeal are enmeshed. The range of health issues articulated through surveillance discourses are many and varied, though of significance are those related to weight and health, as they provide a particularly rich example through which to study medical surveillance in cyberspace due to their moral and regulative focus. We argue that the capacity for health resources to encourage disciplinary and regulative practices defies the designation of virtual, as non-reality. Moreover, with the advent of a range of digital platforms that merge entertainment with the regulation of the body, such as Internet based nutrition games, and the use of games consoles such as Nintendo wii fit, cyberspace may be providing a forum for new forms of regulative practices concerning health. These virtual environments expand our understandings of the boundaries of the body, since much of what takes place occurs through both a virtualization of identity, such as the use of an avatar or graphic image of one’s body on screen, and a prostheticisation of the body within cyberspace. To conclude, while surveillance medicine regulates physical selves in real time, we argue that there is a growing tendency towards a prosthetic surveillance, which regulates and defines bodies that are simultaneously hyper-text and flesh.
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Kasampalis, Dimitrios S., Pavlos Tsouvaltzis, Konstantinos Ntouros, Athanasios Gertsis, Dimitrios Moshou, and Anastasios S. Siomos. "Rapid Nondestructive Postharvest Potato Freshness and Cultivar Discrimination Assessment." Applied Sciences 11, no. 6 (March 16, 2021): 2630. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app11062630.
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Background: Quality and safety of potato is both cultivar and postharvest management dependent. The precise assessment of freshness and cultivar are complex tasks requiring time-consuming, expensive, and destructive techniques. Method: Potatoes from three commercial cultivars were stored for 5 months at 5 °C. Color and chlorophyll fluorescence were recorded, Red-Green-Blue (R-G-B), Red-Green-Near infrared (R-G-NIR) and Red-Blue-Near infrared (R-B-NIR) digital images, as well as hyperspectral images were acquired both on the external periderm of the tuber and in the inner flesh part. Partial least square regression (PLSR) and discriminant analysis, combined with feature selection techniques were implemented, in order to assess the potato freshness and to classify them into the respective genotypes. Results: The PLSR analysis of visible/near infrared (Vis/NIR) spectra reflectance most reliably predicted potato freshness, with a cross-validated regression coefficient equal to 0.981 and 0.947, as determined by external or internal measurements, respectively. Variance inflation factor, variable importance scores, and genetic algorithms identified specific wavelength regions that mostly affected the accuracy of the model in terms of strongest regression and lowest collinearity and root mean cross validation error. Conclusions: Vis/NIR spectra reflectance data from the skin of the potato tubers may be reliably used in the assessment of postharvest storage life, as well as in the cultivar discrimination process.
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JIAN, Ying, Guolin WU, Donghui ZHOU, Zhiqun HU, Zhenxuan QUAN, and Biyan ZHOU. "Effects of Shading on Carbohydrates of Syzygium samarangense." Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca 47, no. 4 (November 29, 2019): 1252–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.15835/nbha47411637.
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Wax apple (Syzygium samarangense) is an important tropical fruit tree cultivated in Southeast Asian. It produces red pear-like shape fruits. The fruit flesh is considered high in antioxidants, phenolics, and flavonoids that have a potential to contribute to the human healthy diet, and was proved to have anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial characteristics. To allow year-round marketing of high quality wax apple fruit, growers always perform shading to inhibit new flushes so as to repress vegetative growth and promote reproductive growth. To investigate the effect of shading on carbohydrates, wax apple trees were shaded with sun shade nets under field conditions. The effects of shading on shoot growth were studied and leaf carbohydrate levels of the trees were determined. The results showed that shading inhibit the the growth of the terminal shoots and promoted bud dormancy. Shading also reduced total soluble sugar, sucrose, glucose, fructose, and starch levels of leaves. The results suggested that shading reduced carbohydrate accumulation and repressed vegetative growth.
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Mendelman, Lisa. "Who Are We? Feminist Ambivalence in Contemporary Literary Criticism." American Literary History 32, no. 1 (December 4, 2019): 190–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajz051.
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Abstract Feminism exists in a perpetual identity crisis—with a vexed past, an unstable present, and an uncertain future. A scholar interested in this charged identity must manage such existential conditions in order to enable their transformative ambitions. Historicizing Post-Discourses (2017), Bodies of Information (2019), and Selling Women’s History (2017) take up this cognitive and corporeal challenge and largely meet it. In these three books, feminism’s endemic ambivalence becomes a resource for literary and cultural criticism. Focused on popular, digital, and material cultures in the twentieth- and twenty-first-century US, these volumes dramatize the merits and drawbacks of irresolution and resist a definitive conclusion about what feminism, both past and present, necessarily means for contemporary scholarship. Instead, we get alternative archives and, hopefully, better practices. Analyzing mass media, data visualizations, and consumer products, these studies engage new materials to flesh out the gendered, racialized human body at their common center. They rethink feminist historiography and demonstrate the myriad ways in which the sense of an ending continually renews and unsettles feminism’s search for a useable past. These works aim to create strategic alliances: they drive at embodied, material concerns, foreground questions of pedagogy and other modes of public interchange, and embrace a style of advocacy that rejects such extreme position-taking and instead embraces ambivalence.
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Lahad, Kinneret, and Michal Kravel-Tovi. "Happily-ever after: Self-marriage, the claim of wellness, and temporal ownership." Sociological Review 68, no. 3 (November 15, 2019): 659–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038026119889479.
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The phenomenon commonly described as self-marriage is an exponentially growing trend in which individuals, mostly women, marry themselves. Drawing on a textual analysis of self-marriage accounts in online media, we argue that this concept denotes a new form of self-love and self-commitment – at the heart of which lies a wellness program, rather than a legal contract. This article explores this emergent concept, focusing on a notable, though not exclusive, segment of its practitioners: single women. We analyze the discursive formations and narrative formulas through which self-marriage travels and consolidates in the digital world. We explore this performative act in temporal terms: we introduce the concept of temporal ownership, to explain how self-marriage offers single women a venue by which they can claim to take control over their present and future, and reposition themselves vis-a-vis heteronormative timelines. Our account of temporal ownership is threefold. We analyze self-marriage as a declaration about ‘non-waiting’, and the creation of a ‘present continuous temporality’; as an act of ‘moving forward’, a meaningful milestone heralding a new beginning; and, finally, as a commitment to lifelong self-love. This threefold discussion leads us to a broader contribution to the sociological literature. In particular, we use self-marriage as a case study with which to flesh out the utility of thinking about wellness culture and certain aspects of neoliberalism through a temporal lens.
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Yovita, A., D. N. Afifah, and A. Candra. "Total lactic acid bacteria, fiber content, and physical properties of Nata de pina between various parts of honey pineapple variety (Ananas comosus [L.] Merr. Var. Queen)." Food Research 4, S3 (May 30, 2020): 24–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.26656/fr.2017.4(s3).s06.
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Fiber is one of the nutrients that are important for health. Adequate fiber intake prevents several diseases such as stroke, colorectal cancer, heart disease, and diabetes mellitus. One of the foods that have high fiber content is Nata. This study is aimed to analyze the total lactic acid bacteria, fiber content, and physical properties of Nata de pina between various parts of honey pineapple variety. This study was a one-factor randomized experimental study with variations of Nata de pina from flesh, peel, and pineapple fruit core. Analysis of total lactic acid bacteria using Total Plate Count (TPC) methods and fiber content using enzymatic-gravimetric methods. The data described the physical properties by thickness using calipers, yield using scales, texture using texture analyzer, and color analysis using digital colorimetry. There were significant differences in the total lactic acid bacteria between the treatment group of Nata fermented water 12th hour (p<0.001), 2nd day (p<0.001), 4th day (p<0.001), 6th day (p=0.007), and 8th day (p=0.047). The highest total soluble and insoluble fiber of Nata de pina from the pineapple peel (1.92% and 0.049%). There were differences in physical properties test that include thickness, yield (p<0.001), and texture. There were differences in a color analysis that include L* (p=0.005), a* (p=0.012), and b* (p=0.002). Various parts of honey pineapple affect total lactic acid bacteria, fiber content, thickness, yield, texture, and color of Nata de pina.
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McTavish, James. "Internet Pornography: Some Medical and Spiritual Perspectives." Linacre Quarterly 87, no. 4 (June 26, 2020): 451–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0024363920933114.
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The Internet has made pornography available on a massive scale. Data released by “Pornhub” the world’s most popular Internet porn site, reveal that in 2019 alone, there were over 42 billion visits to its website, which in itself is an incredible waste of time and energy, which could be more fruitfully employed. Pornography viewing is poisonous for the conscience and commodifies the human body, reducing it to an object of abusive pleasure. Its negative effects can be broadly seen in three overlapping categories: personal, psychological, and social. The antidote is a renewed call to chastity, that self-mastery that can help direct one’s passions in a more fruitful way. Without prayer, we cannot live chastely as “the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak” (Matthew 26:41). There is an urgency for the new evangelization to help recapture the dignity of the body and counter the lie of pornography, and to ensure that in the digital world, the face of Christ needs to be seen and his voice heard. Summary: The first part of this essay outlines some personal, psychological, and social dangers of pornography. Viewing of pornography is harmful, as it objectifies the human body and distorts one’s vision of sexuality. The second part of the essay gives some practical advice concerning how to ideally halt or reverse the epidemic of porn viewing, emphasizing the dignity of each person as subject, and reminding us of how a chaste gaze helps one rediscover the real beauty and value of the human body.
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Kuo, Chia-wen. "The The Digital Sublime of Feminine Spectacle in Busby Berkeley's "Footlight Parade" and Roy Lichtenstein's "Nudes with Beach Ball": Female Flesh Represented as Conceptualized Kinesthesia in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." International Journal of the Image 5, no. 2 (2014): 7–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2154-8560/cgp/v05i02/58312.
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Souza, Carina Mara de, and Maria Lígia Paseto. "Description of a Neotropical New Species of OxysarcodexiaTownsend, 1917 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)." EntomoBrasilis 8, no. 3 (December 21, 2015): 222–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.12741/ebrasilis.v8i3.524.
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Abstract. A new species of Oxysarcodexia Townsend, 1917 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) from Brazil is described based on male specimens. This is a mainly Neotropical genus of flesh flies, with few species also present in Nearctic, Australasian and Oceanian Regions. Its species have been associated with decomposing organic matter (feces of mammals or birds – dung-breeders species) and have potential forensic importance when associated with carcasses (attracted fauna and, in some cases, true carrion-breeding species). Digital photographs of the habitus in lateral view and of the terminalia in lateral, posterior and ventral views are provided. Oxysarcodexia mineirensis sp. n. is close-related to “Xarcophaga species-group” (i.e. with a postero-distal phallic enlargement) and is similar to Oxysarcodexia favorabilis (Lopes, 1935) due to the conformation of the terminalia, especially the phallus flower-like shaped.Descrição de Uma Nova Espécie Neotropical de Oxysarcodexia Townsend, 1917 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae)Resumo. Uma nova espécie de Oxysarcodexia Townsend, 1917 (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) é descrita com base em espécimes machos. As espécies deste gênero de sarcofagídeos apresentam distribuição majoritariamente Neotropical, com algumas espécies ocorrendo também nas regiões Neártica, Australásia e Oceânica. As espécies deste gênero podem ser encontradas associadas à matéria orgânica em decomposição (fezes de mamíferos ou aves – espécies coprófilas) e podem apresentar importância forense quando associadas a carcaças (fauna atraída e, em alguns casos, espécies que se criam). Fotografias digitais do hábito em vista lateral e da terminália em vistas lateral, posterior e ventral são apresentadas. Oxysarcodexia mineirensis sp. n. pertence ao “grupo Xarcophaga” (i.e. possui o falo alargado postero-distalmente) e contém similaridades com Oxysarcodexia favorabilis (Lopes, 1935) devido à conformação da terminália, especialmente o formato do falo, semelhante a uma flor.
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Radpour, Roxanne, Christian Fischer, and Ioanna Kakoulli. "New Insight into Hellenistic and Roman Cypriot Wall Paintings: An Exploration of Artists’ Materials, Production Technology, and Technical Style." Arts 8, no. 2 (June 24, 2019): 74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/arts8020074.
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A recent scientific investigation on Hellenistic and Roman wall paintings of funerary and domestic contexts from Nea (‘New’) Paphos, located in the southwest region of Cyprus, has revealed new information on the paintings’ constituent materials, their production technology and technical style of painting. Nea Paphos, founded in the late 4th century BC, became the capital of the island during the Hellenistic period (294–58 BC) and developed into a thriving economic center that continued through the Roman period (58 BC–330 AD). A systematic, analytical study of ancient Cypriot wall paintings, excavated from the wealthy residences of Nea Paphos and the surrounding necropoleis, combining complementary non-invasive, field-deployable characterization techniques, has expanded the scope of analysis, interpretation and access of these paintings. The results from in situ analyses, combining X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and fiber-optic reflectance spectroscopy (FORS), forensic imaging in reflectance and luminescence, and digital photomicrography, were informative on the raw materials selection, application technique(s) and extent of paintings beyond the visible. Data collected through the integration of these techniques were able to: (1) show an intricate and rich palette of pigments consisting of local and foreign natural minerals and synthetic coloring compounds applied pure or in mixtures, in single or multiple layers; (2) identify and map the spatial distribution of Egyptian blue across the surface of the paintings, revealing the extent of imagery and reconstructing iconography that was no longer visible to the naked eye; and (3) visualize and validate the presence of Egyptian blue to delineate facial contours and flesh tone shading. This innovation and technical characteristic in the manner of painting facial outlines and constructing chiaroscuro provides a new insight into the artistic practices, inferring artists/or workshops’ organization in Cyprus during the Roman period.
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Noutfia, Younés, and Ewa Ropelewska. "Comprehensive Characterization of Date Palm Fruit ‘Mejhoul’ (Phoenix dactylifera L.) Using Image Analysis and Quality Attribute Measurements." Agriculture 13, no. 1 (December 27, 2022): 74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agriculture13010074.
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An in-depth determination of date fruit properties belonging to a given variety can have an impact on their consumption, processing, and storage. The objective of this study was to characterize date fruits of the ‘Mejhoul’ variety using (i) objective and non-destructive image-analysis features and (ii) measurements of physicochemical parameters. Based on images acquired using a digital camera, more than 1600 texture parameters from the individual color channels L, a, b, R, G, B, X, Y, and Z, and 40 geometric characteristics (including linear dimensions and shape factors for each fruit), were determined. Additionally, pomological features, water content, water activity, color parameters (L*, a*, b*), total soluble solids (TSS), reducing sugars, and total sugars were measured. As a main result, the application of machine vision allowed for the correct detection of ‘Mejhoul’ dates and the determination of the image features. The differences in the values of the histogram’s mean (HMean texture) for individual color channels were determined. The ‘Mejhoul’ date fruit images in color channel a (aHMean equal to 145.88) and color channel b (bHMean: 145.49) were the brightest, and in channel Z they were the darkest (ZHMean: 4.23). Due to the determination of the elliptic shape factor (W1) of 1.000 and the circular shape factor (W2) of 0.110, the elliptical shape of the fruit was confirmed. On the other hand, ‘Mejhoul’ dates were characterized by a length of 47.3 mm, a diameter of 26.4 mm, flesh thickness of 6.25 mm, total soluble solids of 62.1%, water content of 28.0%, water activity of 0.652, hardness of 694 g, reducing sugars of 13.8%, and total sugars of 58.8%. Due to the determination of many image features and other parameters, this paper presents the first comprehensive characterization of ‘Mejhoul’ date fruits using a non-destructive imaging technique linked to some physicochemical quality attributes.
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Ishchenko, Nina. "Demiurge and Sophia in the world of Star Trek: gnostic ideas in the film «USS Callister»." Semiotic studies 2, no. 2 (July 5, 2022): 11–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.18287/2782-2966-2022-2-2-11-18.
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The article analyzes the plan of expression and the plan of content of the American film USS Callister (2017) using the structural-semantic method. Four levels of analysis of signs in cinema are considered: three types signs that make up the characterological trait of a personality, referring to a character understood as an individuality, which in turn is a symbolic expression of a myth. In the film text USS Callister the gnostic images of the Demiurge and Sophia are created by means of cinematography, and such gnostic ideas as the hierarchy of the worlds, the abhorrence to flesh, souls life in the material world under the reign of the evil demiurge and the salvation-destruction of the world by Sophia, have been implemented into the plot. The film also refutes the gnostic idea that the God of the Old Testament is the evil demiurge of the gnostic cosmos via semantic mimicry. The film visualizes the gnostic mythology about two Sophias, earthly and heavenly, whose reunion marks the destruction of the material world and the humiliation of the Demiurge. The protagonist of the film a genius programmer Robert Daly, who has created еру the modding of Boundlessness on his PC, in which he has reconstructed the Callister starship. The crew has been created using the Daly co-workers DNA to create sentient digital clones of them. When Nanette Cole, a genius female programmer, who has been copied into the above-mentioned modding, she is able to get in touch with her celestial incarnation, execute a break plan and, as the result, the whole artificial world is destroyed together with the demiurge. The film recreates gnostic mythology for an audience thinking in terms of 20th century American culture, and more specifically in the famous sci-fi franchise Star Trek.
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BEREGRAG, Rima, and Khedidja DJELILI. "THE ROLE OF THE INTERACTIVE NOVEL IN MAKING THE DISCOURSE ON TOURISM." RIMAK International Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences 03, no. 06 (July 1, 2021): 116–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.47832/2717-8293.6-3.11.
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Travel literature is one of the narratives that the Arabs knew in the past, as it is a historical, geographic and visionary representation of others. The trip works on education. This is what the interactive text Ibn Battuta’s Journey to Dubai Al-Mahrousa by Muhammad Snagleh evokes in intertextuality with Ibn Battuta’s Journey, a Masterpiece of Overseers in the Oddities of the Regions and the Wonders of Travel by Ibn Battuta. If the latter travelled around the countries, the interactive text goes towards anticipating the future time in 2051, to read about the economic and political aspects in Dubai only. This research paper seeks to present a reading that combines the aesthetics of the interactive text with the tourist discourse. To what extent does interactive creativity contribute to the development of tourism? What are the possibilities offered by the blue screen for developing ancient narratives according to a modernist perspective? As for the curriculum, it is the systemic approach and interactive criticism. As so, the research is divided into two sections: 1 - The journey from paper to digital: Snagleh’s digital text consists of three units: the body text and its hyperlinks of a video, including images and sounds, and a pure interactive text for the reader's creativity and interactive participation in a two-track virtual journey. These are either directed to Ibn Battuta himself as a story and paper character, or send to the author of flesh and blood (i.e: Snagleh), editing the experience of the trip to Dubai or writing a comment or opinion. This is one of the suggested images of the interaction between the recipient and the text. 2. The Unsaid in the Discourse on Tourism: Snagleh diversified between spaces by highlighting its merits, and facilitating the means of transportation by air, sea and land. These options increase the persuasive power, and although Dubai is the glass civilization, Snagleh dazzles by showing the cultural coexistence between nationalities. However, he did not realize the overwhelming foreign presence among the natives. Thus, Snagleh’s novel can be counted as a cultural text, the implications of which can be read. Snagleh didn’t use Ibn Battuta as a paper figure as in Barthes’ terms, but as a sufficience. It is a strategic tourist guide, promoting Gulf tourism in Dubai by attracting the recipient with paintings and icons. Hence, literature is no longer a marginal product, but rather an economic industry that moves the wheel of sustainable development and increases its civilization incomes.