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Wan, Mingchao. "Form and Human Body." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/50489.
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Architectural form offers an expression and an observer receives an impression. This interaction exists at both intellectual (mind) and physical (body) levels. Through designing a sculpture pavilion in a forest, this thesis explores different means of empathetic expression in modern architectural form.Master of Architecture
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Craig, Pippa. "Which body size? : a cross-cultural study of body composition and body perception." Phd thesis, Faculty of Medicine, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/12824.
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Zhang, Xiao. "Data-driven human body morphing." Thesis, Texas A&M University, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/2655.
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This thesis presents an efficient and biologically informed 3D human body morphing technique through data-driven alteration of standardized 3D models. The anthropometric data is derived from a large empirical database and processed using principal component analysis (PCA). Although techniques using PCA are relatively commonplace in computer graphics, they are mainly used for scientific visualizations and animation. Here we focus on uncovering the underlying mathematical structure of anthropometric data and using it to build an intuitive interface that allows the interactive manipulation of body shape within the normal range of human variation. We achieve weight/gender based body morphing by using PCA. First we calculate the principal vector space of the original data. The data then are transformed into a new orthogonal multidimensional space. Next, we reduce the dimension of the data by only keeping the components of the most significant principal vectors. We then fit a curve through the original data points and are able to generate a new human body shape by inversely transforming the data from principal vector space back to the original measuring data space. Finally, we sort the original data by the body weight, calculating males and females separately. This enables us to use weight and gender as two intuitive controls for body morphing. The Deformer program is implemented using the programming language C++ with OPENGL and FLTK API. 3D and human body models are created using Alias MayaTm.
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Hakl, Henry. "Computer-controlled human body coordination." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/49756.
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Thesis (MSc) -- University of Stellenbosch, 2003.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: A need for intelligent robotic machines is identified. Research and experiments have focussed on stable, or relatively stable, dynamic simulated systems to demonstrate the feasibility of embedding advanced AI into dynamic physical systems. This thesis presents an attempt to scale the techniques to a dynamically highly unstable system - the coordination of movements in a humanoid model. Environmental simulation, articulated systems and artificial intelligence methods are identified as three essential layers for a complete and unified approach to embedding AI into robotic machinery. The history of the physics subsystem for this project is discussed, leading to the adoption of the Open Dynamics Engine as the physics simulator of choice. An approach to articulated systems is presented along with the EBNF of a hierarchical articulated system that was used to describe the model. A revised form of evolution is presented and justified. An AI model that makes use of this new evolutionary paradigm is introduced. A variety of AI variants are defined and simulated. The results of these simulations are presented and analysed. Based on these results recommendations for future work are made.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die beheer van dinamiese masjiene, soos intelligente robotte, is tans beperk tot fisies stabilie - of relatief stabiele - sisteme. In hierdie tesis word die tegnieke van kunsmatige intelligensie (KI) toegepas op die kontrole en beheer van 'n dinamies hoogs onstabiele sisteem: 'n Humanoïede model. Fisiese simulasie, geartikuleerde sisteme en kunmatige intelligensie metodes word geïdentifiseer as drie noodsaaklike vereistes vir 'n volledige en eenvormige benadering tot KI beheer in robotte. Die implementasie van 'n fisiese simulator word beskryf, en 'n motivering vir die gebruik van die sogenaamde "Open Dynamics Engine" as fisiese simulator word gegee. 'n Benadering tot geartikuleerde sisteme word beskryf, tesame met die EBNF van 'n hierargiese geartikuleerde sisteem wat gebruik is om die model te beskryf. 'n Nuwe interpretasie vir evolusie word voorgestel, wat die basis vorm van 'n KI model wat in die tesis gebruik word. 'n Verskeidenheid van KI variasies word gedefineer en gesimuleer, en die resultate word beskryf en ontleed. Voorstelle vir verdere navorsing word gemaak.
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Mufti, H. (Haseeb). "Human body communication performance simulations." Master's thesis, University of Oulu, 2016. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201606092482.
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Human Body Communication (HBC) is a novel communication method between devices which use human body as a transmission medium. This idea is mostly based on the concept of wireless biomedical monitoring system. The on-body sensor nodes can monitor vital signs of a human body and use the body as a transmission medium. This technology is convenient for long durations of clinical monitoring with the option of more mobility and freedom for the user.
In this thesis, IEEE 802.15.6-2012 physical (PHY) layer for the HBC was simulated. Simulation model is following the standard’s requirements and processes. The human body was taken as a transmission medium and simulations, which follow the HBC standard, have been carried out. For the purpose of simulations, MATLAB is used as a platform to test and run the simulations.
The constants and variables used in the simulations are taken from the IEEE 802.15 working group for wireless personal area networks (WPANs). The transmitter model and the receiver model have been taken from the standard, with changes done in it for performing the simulations on the PHY layer only. The simulations were done keeping in mind the dielectric properties of the outer layer of a human body, i.e., the dielectric values for human skin are noted and their corresponding values were used in the mathematical calculations.
The work done here presents a transmitter and receiver architecture for the human body communication. The minimum data rate being 164 kbps and the transmitter being designed around the 21 MHz center frequency has achieved some outputs which are worth looking. The channel models used in this simulator are HBC channel and AWGN (additive white Gaussian noise) channel. It was observed that when signal was passed through AWGN channel, noise was added uniformly over the signal, while in the HBC channel signal strength is directly proportional to the transceiver ground sizes. In conclusion, the size of the ground terminals plays a critical role for the signal quality in the HBC simulator.
The results in this thesis show that pathloss has certain linearity with the distance. The pathloss is calculated for different parts of the body with higher loss for structure with higher amount of bone, and vice versa. It is observed that in the HBC channel there are four factors with high impact on the system. These are the distances between the transceiver in air and on body while the other two are the sizes of the transceiver grounds. The size of the transmitter ground has been deemed very significant for the HBC from the simulations results. The four factors show high impact on the HBC channel. The signal strength is highly effected with the change in these four characteristics. From the simulation results it is evident that the HBC channel show a 15 to 20 dB deviation when compared to AWGN channel. The Eb⁄N0 for BER level at 10^(-3) for AWGN channel is 10 to 11 dB while for HBC it is around 27 dB showing a significant difference in the results.
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Suau, Cuadros Xavier. "Human body analysis using depth data." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/134801.
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Human body analysis is one of the broadest areas within the computer vision field. Researchers have put a strong effort in the human body analysis area, specially over the last decade, due to the technological improvements in both video cameras and processing power. Human body analysis covers topics such as person detection and segmentation, human motion tracking or action and behavior recognition. Even if human beings perform all these tasks naturally, they build-up a challenging problem from a computer vision point of view. Adverse situations such as viewing perspective, clutter and occlusions, lighting conditions or variability of behavior amongst persons may turn human body analysis into an arduous task.
In the computer vision field, the evolution of research works is usually tightly related to the technological progress of camera sensors and computer processing power. Traditional human body analysis methods are based on color cameras. Thus, the information is extracted from the raw color data, strongly limiting the proposals. An interesting quality leap was achieved by introducing the multiview concept. That is to say, having multiple color cameras recording a single scene at the same time. With multiview approaches, 3D information is available by means of stereo matching algorithms. The fact of having 3D information is a key aspect in human motion analysis, since the human body moves in a three-dimensional space. Thus, problems such as occlusion and clutter may be overcome with 3D information.
The appearance of commercial depth cameras has supposed a second leap in the human body analysis field. While traditional multiview approaches required a cumbersome and expensive setup, as well as a fine camera calibration; novel depth cameras directly provide 3D information with a single camera sensor. Furthermore, depth cameras may be rapidly installed in a wide range of situations, enlarging the range of applications with respect to multiview approaches. Moreover, since depth cameras are based on infra-red light, they do not suffer from illumination variations.
In this thesis, we focus on the study of depth data applied to the human body analysis problem. We propose novel ways of describing depth data through specific descriptors, so that they emphasize helpful characteristics of the scene for further body analysis. These descriptors exploit the special 3D structure of depth data to outperform generalist 3D descriptors or color based ones. We also study the problem of person detection, proposing a highly robust and fast method to detect heads. Such method is extended to a hand tracker, which is used throughout the thesis as a helpful tool to enable further research. In the remainder of this dissertation, we focus on the hand analysis problem as a subarea of human body analysis. Given the recent appearance of depth cameras, there is a lack of public datasets. We contribute with a dataset for hand gesture recognition and fingertip localization using depth data. This dataset acts as a starting point of two proposals for hand gesture recognition and fingertip localization based on classification techniques. In these methods, we also exploit the above mentioned descriptor proposals to finely adapt to the nature of depth data.%, and enhance the results in front of traditional color-based methods.L’anàlisi del cos humà és una de les àrees més àmplies del camp de la visió per computador. Els investigadors han posat un gran esforç en el camp de l’anàlisi del cos humà, sobretot durant la darrera dècada, degut als grans avenços tecnològics, tant pel que fa a les càmeres com a la potencia de càlcul. L’anàlisi del cos humà engloba varis temes com la detecció i segmentació de persones, el seguiment del moviment del cos, o el reconeixement d'accions. Tot i que els essers humans duen a terme aquestes tasques d'una manera natural, es converteixen en un difícil problema quan s'ataca des de l’òptica de la visió per computador. Situacions adverses, com poden ser la perspectiva del punt de vista, les oclusions, les condicions d’il•luminació o la variabilitat de comportament entre persones, converteixen l’anàlisi del cos humà en una tasca complicada. En el camp de la visió per computador, l’evolució de la recerca va sovint lligada al progrés tecnològic, tant dels sensors com de la potencia de càlcul dels ordinadors. Els mètodes tradicionals d’anàlisi del cos humà estan basats en càmeres de color. Això limita molt els enfocaments, ja que la informació disponible prové únicament de les dades de color. El concepte multivista va suposar salt de qualitat important. En els enfocaments multivista es tenen múltiples càmeres gravant una mateixa escena simultàniament, permetent utilitzar informació 3D gràcies a algorismes de combinació estèreo. El fet de disposar d’informació 3D es un punt clau, ja que el cos humà es mou en un espai tri-dimensional. Això doncs, problemes com les oclusions es poden apaivagar si es disposa de informació 3D. L’aparició de les càmeres de profunditat comercials ha suposat un segon salt en el camp de l’anàlisi del cos humà. Mentre els mètodes multivista tradicionals requereixen un muntatge pesat i car, i una celebració precisa de totes les càmeres; les noves càmeres de profunditat ofereixen informació 3D de forma directa amb un sol sensor. Aquestes càmeres es poden instal•lar ràpidament en una gran varietat d'entorns, ampliant enormement l'espectre d'aplicacions, que era molt reduït amb enfocaments multivista. A més a més, com que les càmeres de profunditat estan basades en llum infraroja, no pateixen problemes relacionats amb canvis d’il•luminació. En aquesta tesi, ens centrem en l'estudi de la informació que ofereixen les càmeres de profunditat, i la seva aplicació al problema d’anàlisi del cos humà. Proposem noves vies per descriure les dades de profunditat mitjançant descriptors específics, capaços d'emfatitzar característiques de l'escena que seran útils de cara a una posterior anàlisi del cos humà. Aquests descriptors exploten l'estructura 3D de les dades de profunditat per superar descriptors 3D generalistes o basats en color. També estudiem el problema de detecció de persones, proposant un mètode per detectar caps robust i ràpid. Ampliem aquest mètode per obtenir un algorisme de seguiment de mans que ha estat utilitzat al llarg de la tesi. En la part final del document, ens centrem en l’anàlisi de les mans com a subàrea de l’anàlisi del cos humà. Degut a la recent aparició de les càmeres de profunditat, hi ha una manca de bases de dades públiques. Contribuïm amb una base de dades pensada per la localització de dits i el reconeixement de gestos utilitzant dades de profunditat. Aquesta base de dades és el punt de partida de dues contribucions sobre localització de dits i reconeixement de gestos basades en tècniques de classificació. En aquests mètodes, també explotem les ja mencionades propostes de descriptors per millor adaptar-nos a la naturalesa de les dades de profunditat.
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Feng, Weinan. "Multiple Human Body Detection in Crowds." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för Industriell utveckling, IT och Samhällsbyggnad, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-12352.
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The objective of this project is to use digital imaging devices to monitor a delineated area of the public space and to register statistics about people moving across this area. A feasible detecting approach, which is based on background subtraction, has been developed and has been tested on 39 images. Individual pedestrians in images can be detected and counted. The approach is suitably used to detect and count pedestrians without overlapping. Accuracy rate of detection is higher than 80%.
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Classen, Constance 1957. "Inca cosmology and the human body." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74329.
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In the Inca Empire, the human body served as a symbol and mediator of cosmic structures and processes through its own structures and processes. The structures of the body with cosmological relevance included the duality of right and left and the integrated unity of the body as a whole, while the processes of the body included reproduction, illness and sensory perception. Inca myths and rituals both expressed and enacted this corporeal and cosmic order.With the arrival of the Spanish, the Incas were confronted with a radically different image of the body and the cosmos. The clash between the Spanish and Inca orders was experienced by the Incas as a disordering of the human and cosmic bodies. While the Spanish Conquest destroyed the Inca empire and imposed a new culture on its former inhabitants, however, many of the principles which ordered and interrelated the body and the cosmos in Inca cosmology have survived in the Andes to the present day.
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Bernhardt, D. "Emotion inference from human body motion." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.596592.
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Most efforts to recognise emotions from the human body have focused on expressive gestures which are archetypal and exaggerated expressions of emotions. The principal contribution of this dissertation is the influence of emotional states from everyday actions such as walking, knocking and throwing. The implementation of the system draws inspiration from a variety of disciplines including psychology, character animation and speech recognition. Complex actions are modelled using Hidden Markov Models and motion primitives. This dissertation describes a holistic approach which models emotional, action and personal influences in order to maximise the discriminability of different emotion classes. A pipeline is developed which incrementally removes the biases introduced by different action contexts and individual differences. The resulting signal is described in terms of posture and dynamic features and classified into one of several emotion classes using statistically trained Support Vector Machines. The system also goes beyond isolated expressions and is able to classify natural action sequences. I use Level Building to segment action sequences and combine component classifications using an incremental voting scheme which is suitable for online applications. The system is comprehensively evaluated along a number of dimensions using a corpus of motion-captured actions. For isolated actions I evaluate the generalisation performance to new subjects. For action sequences I study the effects of reusing models trained on the isolated cases vs. adapting models to connected samples. The dissertation also evaluates the role of modelling the influence of individual user differences.
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Häggmark, Anna. "Neuroproteomic profiling of human body fluids." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Proteomik och nanobioteknologi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-158944.
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This thesis provides results from affinity based studies where human body fluids were profiled to find markers for neurological diseases. Both proteins and autoantibodies were analysed using microarray technologies that can profile hundreds of analytes and hundreds of samples in parallel using small sample volumes. A central element in this work was to develop and apply new methods to study cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), which is the fluid in direct contact with the brain. CSF contains proteins reflecting the physiological state of the central nervous system and therefore offers a unique insight into proteins associated to neurological disorders. As a complement to CSF, bloodderived samples such as serum and plasma, were also investigated as these represent potential sources of disease related proteins. The work presented here summarises the development of assay protocols to study protein and autoantibodies in CSF and blood using planar and bead-based microarrays. In Paper I, an antibody-based protocol was developed to enable multiplexed protein profiling in CSF. The protocol was then applied for a first analysis within multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. In Paper II, the results were further evaluated in additional CSF as well as plasma samples. Based on the CSF analysis we found two proteins associated to MS; GAP43, a protein related to disease progression and SERPINA3, a protein involved in inflammation. In addition, four other proteins; IRF8, METTL14, IL7 and SLC30A7, were found to have altered plasma levels between the patient groups. The expression of these proteins were further investigated by immunofluorescent staining of human brain tissue, revealing differential localisation of proteins in diseased and healthy brain. In Paper III, a study on extensive protein profiling of plasma in the context of another neurodegenerative disorder, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is described. The levels of three proteins, namely NEFM, RGS18 and SCL25A20, were found to be elevated in ALS patients compared to controls. Among these, NEFM also indicated association to disease subtype as the levels were elevated in patients with definite compared to suspected diagnosis. In addition to antibodies, we also utilised antigens on microarrays to screen for the presence of autoantibodies in body fluids. In Paper IV, a strategy for this analysis was developed using protein fragments and two types of microarrays. This strategy was then applied for profiling of the autoantibody repertoire of MS patients, revealing 51 protein fragments with potential disease relevance. Interestingly, comparison of plasma and CSF samples obtained from the same patients indicated high concordance of antibodies between the two body fluids. In Paper V, a similar strategy was applied to narcolepsy, another neurological disorder. Our investigation of antibodies in serum revealed higher reactivity towards METTL22, NT5C1A and TMEM134 compared to controls in two independent sample materials. In conclusion, the presented work constitutes a framework of proteomic assays for enhanced exploration of proteins and autoantibodies in neuroscience. Moreover, we have reported identification of several potential disease markers to be further investigated within neurological disorders.QC 20150116
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Peelen, Marius Vincent. "Body selectivity in human visual cortex." Thesis, Bangor University, 2006. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/body-selectivity-in-human-visual-cortex(4091f96c-dee2-42ec-9a32-c0a8cf17b288).html.
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Perceiving other people is a seemingly effortless process. Yet within a few hundred milliseconds we are aware of who we are looking at, what this person is doing, and even what this person feels. We derive this information from the form and motion of the face and body. Faces may be particularly important for some aspects of person perception (e. g., identity recognition), whereas bodies may be more important for others (e. g., action recognition). Furthermore, information from the body is important in cases where it is not possible to perceive the details of the face, for instance when the face is occluded, or when we see someone from a distance. In most cases, however, it is likely that information from both the face and the body are perceived in parallel and are integrated at an early stage. Previous research on person perception has mostly focused on the brain mechanisms underlying face perception. Much less research has focused on the brain mechanismsu nderlying body perception,w hich is the topic of this thesis. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) I provide evidence for a previously unknown body-selective visual area that overlaps a face-selective area. By employing novel analysis techniques that take into account patterns of activation across voxels I show that body- and face-selective areas can be functionally dissociated. Finally, I show that, in contrast to frontal and parietal action-recognition areas, visual body-selective areasd o not contain a dynamic representationo f observeda ctions. Together, thesef indings increaseo ur understandingo f the brain mechanismsu nderlying body, face and action perception, by showing both similarities and dissimilarities in the brain structures involved in these processes.
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McKay, Lindsey (Lindsey Colleen) Carleton University Dissertation Political Economy. "Seeking to cure by replacement: the political economy of organ transplantation." Ottawa, 2001.
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Kubbinga, Chris. "The transient body, an investigation of the human body through design." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ26768.pdf.
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Bao, Guanqun. "On Simultaneous Localization and Mapping inside the Human Body (Body-SLAM)." Digital WPI, 2014. https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/etd-dissertations/206.
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Wireless capsule endoscopy (WCE) offers a patient-friendly, non-invasive and painless investigation of the entire small intestine, where other conventional wired endoscopic instruments can barely reach. As a critical component of the capsule endoscopic examination, physicians need to know the precise position of the endoscopic capsule in order to identify the position of intestinal disease after it is detected by the video source. To define the position of the endoscopic capsule, we need to have a map of inside the human body. However, since the shape of the small intestine is extremely complex and the RF signal propagates differently in the non-homogeneous body tissues, accurate mapping and localization inside small intestine is very challenging. In this dissertation, we present an in-body simultaneous localization and mapping technique (Body-SLAM) to enhance the positioning accuracy of the WCE inside the small intestine and reconstruct the trajectory the capsule has traveled. In this way, the positions of the intestinal diseases can be accurately located on the map of inside human body, therefore, facilitates the following up therapeutic operations. The proposed approach takes advantage of data fusion from two sources that come with the WCE: image sequences captured by the WCE's embedded camera and the RF signal emitted by the capsule. This approach estimates the speed and orientation of the endoscopic capsule by analyzing displacements of feature points between consecutive images. Then, it integrates this motion information with the RF measurements by employing a Kalman filter to smooth the localization results and generate the route that the WCE has traveled. The performance of the proposed motion tracking algorithm is validated using empirical data from the patients and this motion model is later imported into a virtual testbed to test the performance of the alternative Body-SLAM algorithms. Experimental results show that the proposed Body-SLAM technique is able to provide accurate tracking of the WCE with average error of less than 2.3cm.
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Cronjé, Thomas Frederick. "A plethysmographic device for determining human body volume and body density." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/27150.
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The measurement of total body volume (V) (excluding lung volume) together with total body mass (m) is required in order to determine body density (d = m/V). From this, and using certain simplifying assumptions, it is possible to derive body composition in terms of fat mass (FM) and fat free mass (FFM) for the two-compartment model. The standard method for determining body volume (and hence body composition) is the densitometric (underwater weighing) technique based on Archimedes' principle. Three variables, notably residual lung volume (RV), total body mass (m) and submerged body mass are measured. RV is normally determined using a gas dilution technique while total body mass is simply measured using an accurate weighing scale. The submerged body mass is measured while the subject is totally submerged in a tank of water. This method, although relatively accurate, requires substantial apparatus and is time consuming. An alternative method, based on a polytropic thermodynamic process, is described for body volume measurement and thereby for body composition assessment. Previous use of this method by Taylor, et al. (1985) and Gundlach and Visscher (1986) were successful, but complex in terms of operating system. The described system comprises of a Perspex, sealed chamber. A cycling piston communicates with the chamber and imposes a minute sinusoidal pressure variation which is then measured. With a subject situated inside the chamber an increased pressure variation, caused by the decreased chamber volume, is then measured and processed to yield the displaced, or body volume. Subject comfort, above all, is greatly enhanced, in comparison to the underwater weighing method. A substantial advantage of the method appears to be that RV need no longer be measured. Variables such as a rise of temperature and humidity caused by the subject, as well as pressure variations due to respiration, were expected and found. These were analyzed both theoretically and experimentally and where necessary the data were modified to account for these variables using a personal computer. Calibration and preliminary validation of the instrument has been carried out using underwater weighing, bioimpedance and skinfold analyses and the error of measurement assessed. It appears that the described plethysmographic method is capable of measuring body volume and thus compares favourably to the underwater weighing method. Even though other groups have succeeded in employing similar principles, a substantially simpler mechanism has been used here.
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Topcu, Hasan Huseyin. "Human Body Part Detection And Multi-human Tracking Insurveillance Videos." Master's thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614308/index.pdf.
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With the recent developments in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, surveillance applications are equipped with the capabilities of event/activity understanding and interpretation which usually require recognizing humans in real world scenes. Real world scenes such
as airports, streets and train stations are complex because they involve many people, complicated occlusions and cluttered backgrounds. Although complex real world scenes exist, human detectors have the capability to locate pedestrians accurately even in complex scenes
and visual trackers have the capability to track targets in cluttered environments. The integration of visual object detection and tracking, which are the fundamental features of available
surveillance applications, is one of the solutions for multi-human tracking problem in crowded scenes which is studied in this thesis.
In this thesis, human body part detectors, which are capable of detecting human heads and human upper body parts, are trained with Support Vector Machines (SVM) by using Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG), which is one of the state-of-the-art descriptor for human detection. The training process is elaborated by investigating the effects of the parameters of
the HOG descriptor. The human heads and upper body parts are searched in the region of interests (ROI) computed by detecting motion. In addition, these human body part detectors are integrated with a multi-human tracker which solves the data association problem with the
Multi Scan Markov Chain Monte Carlo Data Association (MCMCDA) algorithm. Associated measurements of human upper body part locations are used for state correction for each track.
State estimation is done through Kalman Filter. The performance of detectors are evaluated using MIT Pedestrian dataset and INRIA Human dataset.
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Varol, Gül. "Learning human body and human action representations from visual data." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PSLEE029.
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Le contenu visuel se concentre souvent sur les humains. L’analyse automatique des humains à partir de données visuelles revêt donc une grande importance pour de nombreuses applications. Le but de cette thèse est d’apprendre des représentations visuelles pour l’analyse des humains. Un accent particulier est mis sur deux domaines étroitement liés de la vision artificielle : l’analyse du corps humain et la reconnaissance des actions. En résumé, nos contributions sont les suivantes : (i) nous générons des données synthétiques photoréalistes de personnes permettant l’entraînement de CNNs pour l’analyse du corps humain, (ii) nous proposons une architecture multitâche permettant d’obtenir une représentation volumétrique du corps à partir d’une seule image, (iii) nous étudions les avantages des convolutions temporelles à long terme pour la reconnaissance de l’action humaine à l’aide de CNNs 3D, (iv) nous incorporons une fonction de coût de similarité des vidéos multi-vues pour concevoir des représentations invariantes au changement de vueThe focus of visual content is often people. Automatic analysis of people from visual data is therefore of great importance for numerous applications in content search, autonomous driving, surveillance, health care, and entertainment. The goal of this thesis is to learn visual representations for human understanding. Particular emphasis is given to two closely related areas of computer vision: human body analysis and human action recognition. In summary, our contributions are the following: (i) we generate photo-realistic synthetic data for people that allows training CNNs for human body analysis, (ii) we propose a multi-task architecture to recover a volumetric body shape from a single image, (iii) we study the benefits of long-term temporal convolutions for human action recognition using 3D CNNs, (iv) we incorporate similarity training in multi-view videos to design view-independent representations for action recognition
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Connor, Tenielle. "The body as a canvas : a non-permanent form of body art inspired by body adornment practices." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1439.
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Thesis (BTech (Surface Design))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2010Forms of body adornment and scarification practices have been around since the origin of mankind. Many forms of traditional body adornment have evolved overtime and still exist within our mainstream society today, however examples of recent body adornments, show that although still very much in practice, in many cases the meaning has been lost. The motivational routes of western adornments are today based on what looks good as apposed to a ritual or right of passage that marks one's body for life. Therefore, the aim of this dissertation is to share the value of representation with the viewer - as representation has played, and continues to play, such an important role within the social aspect of mankind. Bycreating a link between traditional practices of African body adornmentl scarification and connecting these with body expression and representation within my own sub-cultural context, I hope to create awareness of body adornment throughout time. Finally the practical component of this research will consist of a portfolio of different photographs and videos documenting the process and completion of adorning different female bodies. These works of art will be traditionally inspired, nonpermanent three-dimensional body art that will also undoubtedly represent selfexpression and comment on 'trendv' sub-cultural society. As Idocument my progress and work it is hoped that I portray in a conceptual framework, a life cycle that comments on the evolution of culture from rural to urban, and from traditional to Western, and how Western lifestyle is diluting our social being with trends rather than using the method of body adornment as a cultural conversation.
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Allnutt, Susann. "Learning the body voice : body memorywork with women." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0026/MQ50492.pdf.
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Hidayatulloh, Poempida Urip Priyopurnomo. "Multi-resolution modelling of human body parts." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.322738.
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Luciani, Andrea [Verfasser]. "Plutonium biokinetics in human body / Andrea Luciani." Karlsruhe : KIT-Bibliothek, 2002. http://d-nb.info/1198220759/34.
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Dekker, Laura Daye. "3D human body modelling from range data." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2000. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1363354/.
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This thesis describes the design, implementation and application of an integrated and fully automated system for interpreting whole-body range data. The system is shown to be capable of generating complete surface models of human bodies, and robustly extracting anatomical features for anthropometry, with minimal intrusion on the subject. The ability to automate this process has enormous potential for personalised digital models in medicine, ergonomics, design and manufacture and for populating virtual environments. The techniques developed within this thesis now form the basis of a commercial product. However, the technical difficulties are considerable. Human bodies are highly varied and many of the features of interest are extremely subtle. The underlying range data is typically noisy and is sparse at occluded areas. In addressing these problems this thesis makes five main research contributions. Firstly, the thesis describes the design, implementation and testing of the whole integrated and automated system from scratch, starting at the image capture hardware. At each stage the tradeoffs between performance criteria are discussed, and experiments are described to test the processes developed. Secondly, a combined data-driven and model-based approach is described and implemented, for surface reconstruction from the raw data. This method addresses the whole body surface, including areas where body segments touch, and other occluded areas. The third contribution is a library of operators, designed specifically for shape description and measurement of the human body. The library provides high-level relational attributes, an "electronic tape measure" to extract linear and curvilinear measurements,as well as low-level shape information, such as curvature. Application of the library is demonstrated by building a large set of detectors to find anthropometric features, based on the ISO 8559 specification. Output is compared against traditional manual measurements and a detailed analysis is presented. The discrepancy between these sets of data is only a few per cent on most dimensions, and the system's reproducibility is shown to be similar to that of skilled manual measurers. The final contribution is that the mesh models and anthropometric features, produced by the system, have been used as a starting point to facilitate other research, Such as registration of multiple body images,draping clothing and advanced surface modelling techniques.
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Ojerinde, Oluwaseun A. "Interaction of antenna systems with human body." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2014. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/16320.
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The research investigates the influence on the human body on a communication system. To understand this, the effect of hands free kit (HFK) on energy absorption in the body was investigated when operating a smart phone at 2G. Findings on the research are given in the thesis report. Also, the influence of the way in which a phone is held on a phone s received power was investigated. The result was compared to that obtained using a hand phantom acquired from SPEAG. This was to check if the hand phantom best represents the human hand when using it in experiments. The setup for the experiment was in an anechoic chamber at Loughborough University. The mobile phone transmitted in the 2G system. In further experiments carried out on the body, two antennas were attached to the body in six different orientations to receive power from a source creating a Single Input Multiple Output (SIMO) system. The antennas used were monopoles mounted on a circular ground plane. These antennas were designed and constructed with the influence of the body taken into consideration. The use of diversity techniques to improve transmission to an on-body system is investigated with the antennas on the body. For each alignment, the transmission to the on-body was compared with the transmission to the corresponding off-body (free space). Experiments for this work were carried out in three environments.
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Alsén, Victoria. "GNSS Aided Inertial Human Body Motion Capture." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Reglerteknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-133291.
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Human body motion capture systems based on inertial sensors (gyroscopes andaccelerometers) are able to track the relative motions in the body precisely, oftenwith the aid of supplementary sensors. The sensor measurements are combinedthrough a sensor fusion algorithm to create estimates of, among other parame-ters, position, velocity and orientation for each body segment. As this algorithmrequires integration of noisy measurements, some drift, especially in the positionestimate, is expected. Taking advantage of the knowledge about the tracked sub-ject, a human body, models have been developed that improve the estimates, butposition still displays drift over time.In this thesis, a GNSS receiver is added to the motion capture system to givea drift-free measurement of the position as well as a velocity measurement. Theinertial data and the GNSS data complements each other well, particularly interms of observability of global and relative motions. To enable the models of thehuman body at an early stage of the fusion of sensor data, an optimization basedmaximum a posteriori algorithm was used, which is also better suited for thenonlinear system tracked compared to the conventional method of using Kalmanfilters.One of the models that improves the position estimate greatly, without addingadditional sensing, is the contact detection, with which the velocity of a segmentis set to zero whenever it is considered stationary in comparison to the surround-ing environment, e.g. when a foot touches the ground. This thesis looks at botha scenario when this contact detection can be applied and a scenario where itcannot be applied, to see what possibilities an addition of GNSS sensor couldbring to the human body motion tracking case. The results display a notable im-provement in position, both with and without contact detection. Furthermore,the heading estimate is improved at a full-body scale and the solution makes theestimates depend less on acceleration bias estimation.These results show great potential for more accurate estimates outdoors andcould prove valuable for enabling motion tracking of scenarios where the contactdetection model cannot be used, such as e.g. biking.
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Molloy, A. J. "Force sensing for measuring human body movement." Thesis, Aston University, 2006. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/15354/.
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The research developed in this thesis explores the sensing and inference of human movement in a dynamic way, as opposed to conventional measurement systems, that are only concerned with discrete evaluations of stimuli in sequential time. Typically, conventional approaches are used to infer the dynamic movement of the body; such as vision and motion tracking devices, with either a human diagnosis or complex image processing algorithm to classify the movement. This research is therefore the first of its kind to attempt and provide a movement classifying algorithm through the use of minimal sensing points, with the application for this novel system, to classify human movement during a golf swing. There are two main categories of force sensing. Firstly, array-type systems consisting of many sensing elements, and are the most commonly researched and commercially available. Secondly, reduced force sensing element systems (RFSES) also known as distributive systems have only been recently exploited in the academic world. The fundamental difference between these systems is that array systems handle the data captured from each sensor as unique outputs and suffer the effects of resolution. The effect of resolution, is the error in the load position measurement between sensing elements, as the output is quantized in terms of position. This can be compared to a reduced sensor element system that maximises that data received through the coupling of data from a distribution of sensing points to describe the output in discrete time. Also this can be extended to a coupling of transients in the time domain to describe an activity or dynamic movement. It is the RFSES that is to be examined and exploited in the commercial sector due to its advantages over array-based approaches such as reduced design, computational complexity and cost.
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Benocci, Marco <1978>. "Body ares networks for human motor assessment." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2010. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/2589/1/Benocci_Marco_BodyAreaNetworsForHumanMotorAssessment.pdf.
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Healthcare, Human Computer Interfaces (HCI), Security and Biometry are the most promising application scenario directly involved in the Body Area Networks (BANs) evolution. Both wearable devices and sensors directly integrated in garments envision a word in which each of us is supervised by an invisible assistant monitoring our health and daily-life activities. New opportunities are enabled because improvements in sensors miniaturization and transmission efficiency of the wireless protocols, that achieved the integration of high computational power aboard independent, energy-autonomous, small form factor devices. Application’s purposes are various: (I) data collection to achieve off-line knowledge discovery; (II) user notification of his/her activities or in case a danger occurs; (III) biofeedback rehabilitation; (IV) remote alarm activation in case the subject need assistance; (V) introduction of a more natural interaction with the surrounding computerized environment; (VI) users identification by physiological or behavioral characteristics.
Telemedicine and mHealth [1] are two of the leading concepts directly related to healthcare. The capability to borne unobtrusiveness objects supports users’ autonomy. A new sense of freedom is shown to the user, not only supported by a psychological help but a real safety improvement. Furthermore, medical community aims the introduction of new devices to innovate patient treatments. In particular, the extension of the ambulatory analysis in the real life scenario by proving continuous acquisition.
The wide diffusion of emerging wellness portable equipment extended the usability of wearable devices also for fitness and training by monitoring user performance on the working task. The learning of the right execution techniques related to work, sport, music can be supported by an electronic trainer furnishing the adequate aid.
HCIs made real the concept of Ubiquitous, Pervasive Computing and Calm Technology introduced in the 1988 by Marc Weiser and John Seeley Brown. They promotes the creation of pervasive environments, enhancing the human experience. Context aware, adaptive and proactive environments serve and help people by becoming sensitive and reactive to their presence, since electronics is ubiquitous and deployed everywhere.
In this thesis we pay attention to the integration of all the aspects involved in a BAN development. Starting from the choice of sensors we design the node, configure the radio network, implement real-time data analysis and provide a feedback to the user. We present algorithms to be implemented in wearable assistant for posture and gait analysis and to provide assistance on different walking conditions, preventing falls. Our aim, expressed by the idea to contribute at the development of a non proprietary solutions, driven us to integrate commercial and standard solutions in our devices. We use sensors available on the market and avoided to design specialized sensors in ASIC technologies. We employ standard radio protocol and open source projects when it was achieved.
The specific contributions of the PhD research activities are presented and discussed in the following.
• We have designed and build several wireless sensor node providing both sensing and actuator capability making the focus on the flexibility, small form factor and low power consumption. The key idea was to develop a simple and general purpose architecture for rapid analysis, prototyping and deployment of BAN solutions. Two different sensing units are integrated: kinematic (3D accelerometer and 3D gyroscopes) and kinetic (foot-floor contact pressure forces). Two kind of feedbacks were implemented: audio and vibrotactile.
• Since the system built is a suitable platform for testing and measuring the features and the constraints of a sensor network (radio communication, network protocols, power consumption and autonomy), we made a comparison between Bluetooth and ZigBee performance in terms of throughput and energy efficiency. Test in the field evaluate the usability in the fall detection scenario.
• To prove the flexibility of the architecture designed, we have implemented a wearable system for human posture rehabilitation. The application was developed in conjunction with biomedical engineers who provided the audio-algorithms to furnish a biofeedback to the user about his/her stability.
• We explored off-line gait analysis of collected data, developing an algorithm to detect foot inclination in the sagittal plane, during walk.
• In collaboration with the Wearable Lab – ETH, Zurich, we developed an algorithm to monitor the user during several walking condition where the user carry a load.
The remainder of the thesis is organized as follows. Chapter I gives an overview about Body Area Networks (BANs), illustrating the relevant features of this technology and the key challenges still open. It concludes with a short list of the real solutions and prototypes proposed by academic research and manufacturers. The domain of the posture and gait analysis, the methodologies, and the technologies used to provide real-time feedback on detected events, are illustrated in Chapter II. The Chapter III and IV, respectively, shown BANs developed with the purpose to detect fall and monitor the gait taking advantage by two inertial measurement unit and baropodometric insoles. Chapter V reports an audio-biofeedback system to improve balance on the information provided by the use centre of mass. A walking assistant based on the KNN classifier to detect walking alteration on load carriage, is described in Chapter VI.
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Benocci, Marco <1978>. "Body ares networks for human motor assessment." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2010. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/2589/.
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Healthcare, Human Computer Interfaces (HCI), Security and Biometry are the most promising application scenario directly involved in the Body Area Networks (BANs) evolution. Both wearable devices and sensors directly integrated in garments envision a word in which each of us is supervised by an invisible assistant monitoring our health and daily-life activities. New opportunities are enabled because improvements in sensors miniaturization and transmission efficiency of the wireless protocols, that achieved the integration of high computational power aboard independent, energy-autonomous, small form factor devices. Application’s purposes are various: (I) data collection to achieve off-line knowledge discovery; (II) user notification of his/her activities or in case a danger occurs; (III) biofeedback rehabilitation; (IV) remote alarm activation in case the subject need assistance; (V) introduction of a more natural interaction with the surrounding computerized environment; (VI) users identification by physiological or behavioral characteristics.
Telemedicine and mHealth [1] are two of the leading concepts directly related to healthcare. The capability to borne unobtrusiveness objects supports users’ autonomy. A new sense of freedom is shown to the user, not only supported by a psychological help but a real safety improvement. Furthermore, medical community aims the introduction of new devices to innovate patient treatments. In particular, the extension of the ambulatory analysis in the real life scenario by proving continuous acquisition.
The wide diffusion of emerging wellness portable equipment extended the usability of wearable devices also for fitness and training by monitoring user performance on the working task. The learning of the right execution techniques related to work, sport, music can be supported by an electronic trainer furnishing the adequate aid.
HCIs made real the concept of Ubiquitous, Pervasive Computing and Calm Technology introduced in the 1988 by Marc Weiser and John Seeley Brown. They promotes the creation of pervasive environments, enhancing the human experience. Context aware, adaptive and proactive environments serve and help people by becoming sensitive and reactive to their presence, since electronics is ubiquitous and deployed everywhere.
In this thesis we pay attention to the integration of all the aspects involved in a BAN development. Starting from the choice of sensors we design the node, configure the radio network, implement real-time data analysis and provide a feedback to the user. We present algorithms to be implemented in wearable assistant for posture and gait analysis and to provide assistance on different walking conditions, preventing falls. Our aim, expressed by the idea to contribute at the development of a non proprietary solutions, driven us to integrate commercial and standard solutions in our devices. We use sensors available on the market and avoided to design specialized sensors in ASIC technologies. We employ standard radio protocol and open source projects when it was achieved.
The specific contributions of the PhD research activities are presented and discussed in the following.
• We have designed and build several wireless sensor node providing both sensing and actuator capability making the focus on the flexibility, small form factor and low power consumption. The key idea was to develop a simple and general purpose architecture for rapid analysis, prototyping and deployment of BAN solutions. Two different sensing units are integrated: kinematic (3D accelerometer and 3D gyroscopes) and kinetic (foot-floor contact pressure forces). Two kind of feedbacks were implemented: audio and vibrotactile.
• Since the system built is a suitable platform for testing and measuring the features and the constraints of a sensor network (radio communication, network protocols, power consumption and autonomy), we made a comparison between Bluetooth and ZigBee performance in terms of throughput and energy efficiency. Test in the field evaluate the usability in the fall detection scenario.
• To prove the flexibility of the architecture designed, we have implemented a wearable system for human posture rehabilitation. The application was developed in conjunction with biomedical engineers who provided the audio-algorithms to furnish a biofeedback to the user about his/her stability.
• We explored off-line gait analysis of collected data, developing an algorithm to detect foot inclination in the sagittal plane, during walk.
• In collaboration with the Wearable Lab – ETH, Zurich, we developed an algorithm to monitor the user during several walking condition where the user carry a load.
The remainder of the thesis is organized as follows. Chapter I gives an overview about Body Area Networks (BANs), illustrating the relevant features of this technology and the key challenges still open. It concludes with a short list of the real solutions and prototypes proposed by academic research and manufacturers. The domain of the posture and gait analysis, the methodologies, and the technologies used to provide real-time feedback on detected events, are illustrated in Chapter II. The Chapter III and IV, respectively, shown BANs developed with the purpose to detect fall and monitor the gait taking advantage by two inertial measurement unit and baropodometric insoles. Chapter V reports an audio-biofeedback system to improve balance on the information provided by the use centre of mass. A walking assistant based on the KNN classifier to detect walking alteration on load carriage, is described in Chapter VI.
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Heimerl, Theresia. "Das Wort gewordene Fleisch die Textualisierung des Körpers in Patristik, Gnosis und Manichäismus /." Frankfurt am Main : Lang, 2003. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/53021099.html.
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Khan, Qamar. "Aspects of carotid body pathology in man." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.333500.
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Leyburn, Boyd Harlan III. "The body in fantasy : how the human body informs science fiction set design." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22980.
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Elessawi, Elkhadra Abdulmula. "Measurement of caesium-137 in the human body using a whole body counter." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2010. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55066/.
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Gamma radiation in the environment is mainly due to naturally occurring radionuclides. However, there is also a contribution from anthropogenic radionuclides such as 137Cs which originate from nuclear fission processes. Since 1986, the accident at the Chernobyl power plant has been a significant source of artificial environmental radioactivity. In order to assess the radiological impact of these radionuclides, it is necessary to measure their activities in samples drawn from the environment and in plants and animals including human populations. The whole body counter (WBC) at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff makes in vivo measurements of gamma emitting radionuclides using a scanning ring of six large-volume thallium-doped sodium iodide (Nal(Tl)) scintillation detectors. In this work the WBC was upgraded by the addition of two high purity germanium (HPGe) detectors. The performance and suitability of the detection systems were evaluated by comparing the detection limits for Cs. Sensitivities were measured using sources of known activity in a water filled anthropomorphic phantom and theoretical minimum detectable count-rates were estimated from phantom background pulse height spectra. The theoretical minimum detectable activity was about 24 Bq for the combination of six Nal(Tl) detectors whereas for the individual HPGe detectors it was 64 Bq and 65 Bq, despite the much improved energy resolution Activities of 137Cs in the human body between 1993 and 2007 were estimated from the background Nal(Tl) spectra of 813 patients and compared with recent measurements in 14 volunteers. The body burden of Cs in Cardiff patients increased from an average of about 60 Bq in the early and mid 1990s to a maximum of about 100 Bq in 2000. By 2007 it had decreased to about 40 Bq. This latter value was similar to that of Cardiff residents at the time of the Chernobyl accident and to that of the volunteers measured in 2007 (51 Bq). However, it was less than the mean activity of Cardiff residents in 1988 (130 Bq) indicating an overall decrease over a period of about 20 years. The variation in the in vivo activity is probably due to complex inter-relationships between a number of factors such as the removal of deposited 137Cs into the sea by rainfall, individual dietary choices, the imposition and removal of restrictions on foodstuffs from Chernobyl-affected areas and travel to countries that suffered greater initial fall-out than the UK.
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Hansson, Moa. "Body based patterns. : The human body as a tool for designing surface patterns." Thesis, Högskolan i Borås, Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-23827.
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This degree work places itself in the field of textile design, surface patterns and conceptual design. The aim of the work is to use the human body as a tool for designing conceptual surface patterns onto textiles. The methods of designing were done through practical workshops. Examples of workshops is shadow workshop, motif workshop and pattern workshop. For each workshop appropriate rules was decided based on analizis of preveous workshops. The outcome could be presented as two types of results; firstly, a design method for generating surface patterns, and secondly, heat transfer printed textiles that prove the validity of the method. The work proposes an alternative approach for inspiration to designing surface patterns.
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Drake, Scott, and n/a. "A well-composed body: anthropomorphism in architecture." University of Canberra. Design & Architecture, 2003. http://erl.canberra.edu.au./public/adt-AUC20060713.101839.
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Since the writings of Vitruvius in the first century AD, the use of the human body as a
metaphorical and symbolic referent has provided what is perhaps the most prolific trope for
architectural theory. The image of �Vitruvian Man,� with limbs outstretched to touch the
circle drawn from its navel, took on particular significance during the Renaissance, as
architects such as Alberti, Filarete, di Giorgio, Colonna, and Serlio published their own
interpretations of Vitruvius� Ten Books. For these writers, the body, as microcosm, was
the best available means for representing the order of the cosmos, the world as a whole.
Yet just as the idea of the body as architectural referent was being reinterpreted, the body
itself was being transformed by Renaissance anatomy. The unity and integrity of the body
was jeopardised as anatomists studied the body through the dissection of corpses. The
published results of these studies, the most notable being Vesalius� De Humani Corporis
Fabrica, were highly influential, with the anatomical methods of observation and partition
emerging as the fundamental tenets of modern science. Several centuries later, the
transformation of the body from a symbol of the world to an object amenable to scientific
observation and control was all but fully realised, as the discoveries of Pasteur were put to
use in the conquest of disease. These changing medical conceptions of the body led to
concomitant transformations of the sense of self, as the body as object was increasingly
divorced from the operations of the mind, in both its conscious and unconscious forms.
This thesis will examine how these changing conceptions of the human body have been
interpreted within architectural theory since Vitruvius. Beginning with the idea of ornament
as trope of sacrifice, it will examine how interpretations of the relation between the body as
whole and as part have affected ideas of architectural composition. Further, it will examine
the ethical implications of the trope of building as body, such that a building which reflects
the proportions of a �well-composed� body (Francesco di Giorgio), is itself an injunction to
�composure,� or appropriate behaviour. It will argue that modern architecture, while
rejecting classical anthropomorphism, was nonetheless influenced by ideas and practices
arising from anatomy. Then, in contrast to the object-body of anatomy, the thesis will
examine phenomenological and hermeneutical conceptions of the body, which interpret the
body as lived. From Merleau-Ponty�s study of perception to Scarry�s reading of the
significance of pain, the contribution of the body to the sense of self will be explored, giving
rise to a renewed conception of anthropomorphism as the manifestation not only of human
form, but of human sentience. Further, to the modern fragmentation of both the body and
architecture will be opposed integrative strategies of selfhood, such as the formation of
narrative identity (Ricoeur), the engagement with a community through practice (MacIntyre),
and the idea of the �monstrous� body (Frascari). These strategies will be used to explore
ways in which the form of the body can be understood other than in purely material terms,
and how this is translated into architecture.
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Robinson, T. Christopher. "The sticking out parts a content analysis of print and Website advertisements on breast and penis augmentation /." unrestricted, 2008. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04202008-190035/.
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Thesis (M.A.)--Georgia State University, 2008.Title from file title page. Elizabeth Sheff, committee chair; Dawn Baunach, Denise Donnelly, committee members. Electronic text (97 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed June 24, 2008. Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-85).
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Bauer, Paul Charles. "The body image diviner." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/23405.
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Lytle, Nicole E. "Mapping Body Touch Using Body Diagrams and Dolls." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1333733004.
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Hecht, Susan M. "Developing a theology of the physical body." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2000. http://www.tren.com.
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Ogris, Georg. "Multi-modal on-body sensing of human activities." Volltext kostenfrei, 2009. http://d-nb.info/1000666379/34.
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Van, den Bergh Michael. "Visual body pose analysis for human-computer interaction." Konstanz Hartung-Gorre, 2010. http://d-nb.info/1000839370/04.
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MANO, TADAAKI. "AUTONOMIC RESPONSES TO ENVIRONMENTAL STIMULI IN HUMAN BODY." Nagoya University School of Medicine, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/16055.
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Kariyannavar, Kiran. "Connecting the human body - Models, Connections and Competition." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Elektroniksystem, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-78009.
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Capacitive communication using human body as a electrical channel has attracted much attention in the area of personal area networks (PANs) since its introduction by Zimmerman in 1995. The reason being that the personal information and communication appliances are becoming an integral part of our daily lives. The advancement in technology is also helping a great deal in making them interesting,useful and very much affordable. If we interconnect these body-based devices with capacitive communication approach in a manner appropriate to the power, size, cost and functionality, it lessens the burden of supporting a communication channel by existing wired and wireless technologies. More than that, using body as physical communication channel for a PAN device compared to traditional radio transmission seems to have a lot of inherent advantages in terms of power and security etc. But still a lot of feasibility and reliability issues have to be addressed before it is ready for prime time. This promising technology is recently sub-classified into body area networks (BAN) and is currently under discussion in the IEEE 802.15.6 Task Group for addressing the technical requirements to unleash its full potential for BANs. This could play a part in Ericsson's envision of 50 billion connections by 2020. This thesis work is part of the main project to investigate the models, interface and derive requirements on the analog-front-end (AFE) required for the system. Also to suggest a first order model of the AFE that suits this communication system.In this thesis work the human body is modeled along with interfaces and transceiver to reflect the true condition of the system functioning. Various requirements like sensitivity, dynamic range, noise figure and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) requirements are derived based on the system model. An AFE model based on discrete components is simulated, which was later used for proof of concept. Also a first order AFE model is developed based on the requirements derived. The AFE model is simulated under the assumed interference and noise conditions. The first order requirements for the submodules of the AFE are also derived. Future work and challenges are discussed.
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Daly, Tricia School of Media Film & Theatre UNSW. "Representing the human body ??? science as social meaning." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of Media, Film and Theatre, 2006. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/23293.
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Representing the human body ??? science as social meaning adopts and develops systemic functional social semiotics to analyse the popular science texts, The Human Body, Superhuman, Human Instinct, Brain Story, The Secret Life of Twins and How to Build a Human. These are predominantly produced through the resources of the Wellcome Trust and/or the BBC/TLC (The Learning Channel), and feature celebrity doctors (Robert Winston) or scientists (Susan Greenfield) as presenters. Adopting a modified and expanded systemic functional semiotics derived from Kress and van Leeuwen (1996, 2001), it is argued that these texts share a logic that displaces social/historical time (including broader historical and social struggles) by constructing the apparent timelessness of middle-class families, by metaphor and abstraction. Central to the temporalities of these programmes is the notion of ???going back??? to the familial in which conscious (patriarchal) time is seen as ???male??? and the unconscious timeless is seen as ???female???. Second, the penetrative digital modes of the programmes imagine different, if conventional, genders, emphasising the interior and inertial female. The popular medical science discourses highlighted in the analysis constitute an unconscious set of taken-for-granted socio-political contexts in which medical and bioscientific knowledge is paraded and celebrated. Narrative resolution of the contradictions inherent in the contextual refrain of contemporary global capitalism is largely achieved through time by the semiotic realisation of ???going back??? to evolutionary, genetic, and (hence to) essential time and to abstracted spatial metaphors. The production origins (British, multi-national) of the factual science documentary prefigure or pre-structure the genre???s conservative colonising discourse around gender, ???race??? and evolution that are developed as social, political or even military metaphors.
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Ong, Eng-Jon. "Learning the visual dynamics of human body motions." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.270937.
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Dawood, Azmeh. "Civil monsters : classifying the human body in Shakespeare." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.365435.
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Wren, Christopher R. (Christopher Richard). "Pfinder : real-time tracking of the human body." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10652.
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Brady, Kathryn Marie. "Organ Transplantation: The Ethos of Human Body Parts." Thesis, Boston College, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/513.
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Thesis advisor: Eric StraussA bioethics thesis focusing on the issues of organ transplantation and the organ trade in the nations of China and India. It explains how the organ transplantation procedure is done, the laws pertaining to organ transplantation, the ethics of organ transplantation, the organ trade in its various aspects in the nations of China and India, and finally shares the story of a living organ donor in the United States. It addresses questions such as: How do we classify brain death? Who should be allowed to donate their organs? Should organs be available for sale and purchase? Is the organ trade a violation human rights? It concludes with the author's opinions on the subject, which are decidedly against the organ trade
Thesis (BS) — Boston College, 2007
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: Biology
Discipline: College Honors Program
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Navaratnam, Ramanan. "Probabilistic human body pose estimation from monocular images." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612174.
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Pletta, Andy, Adam Timmons, Tom Abbeg, and Thomas McBeth. "Wireless Body Area Network for Monitoring Human Kinetics." International Foundation for Telemetering, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/596353.
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ITC/USA 2015 Conference Proceedings / The Fifty-First Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 26-29, 2015 / Bally's Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, NVThis paper describes a project to implement a body area network to monitor the movements of a human subject. The sensor nodes can measure six degrees of movement by using a three axis accelerometer and three axis gyroscope. The data is transmitted wirelessly from the sensors to a wearable microcontroller. The microcontroller interfaces with a computer application that allows a user to easily analyze and interpret the stored data.
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Burgess, Scott Anthony. "The human body-soul complex in Plato's Timaeus." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683195.
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Requejo-Roque, Katherinne Isabel. "Iron oxide nanoparticles stable in the human body?" Revista de Química, 2013. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/101184.
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Actualmente, es posible obtener nanopartículas de óxido de hierro solubles en agua y establesen entornos biológicos por medio de la descomposición térmica a altas temperaturas y el intercambiode ligandos. Este método permite un control óptimo de la distribución de tamañopara obtener nanopartículas monodispersas y con superficie apta para funcionalizar, lo cuales fundamental en aplicaciones biológicas.Currently, it is possible to obtain iron oxide nanoparticles soluble in water with high stability in biological environments through thermal decomposition at high temperatures and ligand exchange. This method of synthesis allows good control of size distribution in order to obtain monodispersed nanoparticles with surfaces suitable for functionalization which is necessary for biological applications.