Journal articles: 'Self-body recognition'

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Knoblich, Günther. "Self-recognition: body and action." Trends in Cognitive Sciences 6, no. 11 (November 2002): 447–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1364-6613(02)01995-2.

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Gessaroli, Erica, Veronica Andreini, Elena Pellegri, and Francesca Frassinetti. "Self-face and self-body recognition in autism." Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders 7, no. 6 (June 2013): 793–800. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2013.02.014.

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Richetin, Juliette, Annalisa Xaiz, Angelo Maravita, and Marco Perugini. "Self-body recognition depends on implicit and explicit self-esteem." Body Image 9, no. 2 (March 2012): 253–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bodyim.2011.11.002.

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Kadambi, Akila, and Hongjing Lu. "Individual Differences in Self-recognition from Body Movements." Journal of Vision 18, no. 10 (September 1, 2018): 1039. http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/18.10.1039.

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Frassinetti, Francesca, Manule Maini, Sabrina Romualdi, Emanuela Galante, and Stefano Avanzi. "Is it Mine? Hemispheric Asymmetries in Corporeal Self-recognition." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 20, no. 8 (August 2008): 1507–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2008.20067.

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The aim of this study was to investigate whether the recognition of “self body parts” is independent from the recognition of other people's body parts. If this is the case, the ability to recognize “self body parts” should be selectively impaired after lesion involving specific brain areas. To verify this hypothesis, patients with lesion of the right (right brain-damaged [RBD]) or left (left brain-damaged [LBD]) hemisphere and healthy subjects were submitted to a visual matching-to-sample task in two experiments. In the first experiment, stimuli depicted their own body parts or other people's body parts. In the second experiment, stimuli depicted parts of three categories: objects, bodies, and faces. In both experiments, participants were required to decide which of two vertically aligned images (the upper or the lower one) matched the central target stimulus. The results showed that the task indirectly tapped into bodily self-processing mechanisms, in that both LBD patients and normal subjects performed the task better when they visually matched their own, as compared to others', body parts. In contrast, RBD patients did not show such an advantage for self body parts. Moreover, they were more impaired than LBD patients and normal subjects when visually matching their own body parts, whereas this difference was not evident in performing the task with other people's body parts. RBD patients' performance for the other stimulus categories (face, body, object), although worse than LBD patients' and normal subjects' performance, was comparable across categories. These findings suggest that the right hemisphere may be involved in the recognition of self body parts, through a fronto-parietal network.

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Kadambi, Akila, Gennady Erlikhman, Martin Monti, and Hongjing Lu. "Brain networks for visual self-recognition from whole-body movements." Journal of Vision 20, no. 11 (October 20, 2020): 1719. http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.11.1719.

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Olgiati, Elena, Angelo Maravita, Viviana Spandri, Roberta Casati, Francesco Ferraro, Lucia Tedesco, Elio Clemente Agostoni, and Nadia Bolognini. "Body schema and corporeal self-recognition in the alien hand syndrome." Neuropsychology 31, no. 5 (2017): 575–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/neu0000359.

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Belliure, Belén, Eduardo Mínguez, and Ana De León. "Self-odour recognition in European storm-petrel chicks." Behaviour 140, no. 7 (2003): 925–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853903770238382.

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AbstractIn common with many other species of Procellariform, the European storm-petrel (Hydrobates pelagicus) has a well-developed olfactory anatomy, and chicks are able to recognize their own nests by smell. However, it is not known which olfactory cues these birds use to locate their burrows. To find out if body scent is one of these olfactory cues we used a T-maze device to perform three different preference tests. Chicks were allowed to choose between their own odour plus their nest, and a neutral odour; between their own odour and a neutral odour (far from any nest); and finally between their own odour and the body scent of a conspecific chick. Storm-petrel chicks can apparently recognize their own body odour, even when tested against the body scent of a conspecific. Individually distinctive odours may play an important role in facilitating nest recognition. The results indicate self-odour recognition, and suggest that individual odour recognition could play an important role in social relationships of storm-petrels.

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Li, Tong, Longfei Ren, Fangfang Yang, and Zijun Dang. "Analysis of Human Information Recognition Model in Sports Based on Radial Basis Fuzzy Neural Network." Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience 2022 (May 26, 2022): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/5625006.

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In sports, because the movement of the human body is composed of the movements of the human limbs, and the complex and changeable movements of the human limbs lead to various and complicated movement modes of the entire human body, it is not easy to accurately track the human body movement. The recognition of human characteristic behavior belongs to a higher level computer vision topic, which is used to understand and describe the characteristic behavior of people, and there are also many research difficulties. Because the radial basis fuzzy neural network has the characteristics of parallel processing, nonlinearity, fault tolerance, self-adaptation, and self-learning, it has the advantage of high recognition efficiency when it is applied to the recognition of intersecting features and incomplete features. Therefore, this paper applies it to the analysis of the human body information recognition model in sports. The research results show that the human body information recognition model proposed in this paper has a high recognition accuracy and can detect the movement state of people in sports in real time and accurately.

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Shimada, Sotaro. "Multisensory and Sensorimotor Integration in the Embodied Self: Relationship between Self-Body Recognition and the Mirror Neuron System." Sensors 22, no. 13 (July 5, 2022): 5059. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22135059.

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The embodied self is rooted in the self-body in the “here and now”. The senses of self-ownership and self-agency have been proposed as the basis of the sense of embodied self, and many experimental studies have been conducted on this subject. This review summarizes the experimental research on the embodied self that has been conducted over the past 20 years, mainly from the perspective of multisensory integration and sensorimotor integration regarding the self-body. Furthermore, the phenomenon of back projection, in which changes in an external object (e.g., a rubber hand) with which one has a sense of ownership have an inverse influence on the sensation and movement of one’s own body, is discussed. This postulates that the self-body illusion is not merely an illusion caused by multisensory and/or sensorimotor integration, but is the incorporation of an external object into the self-body representation in the brain. As an extension of this fact, we will also review research on the mirror neuron system, which is considered to be the neural basis of recognition of others, and discuss how the neural basis of self-body recognition and the mirror neuron system can be regarded as essentially the same.

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Hirot, F., D. Guardia, M. Lesage, P. Thomas, and O. Cottencin. "Decreased self-face recognition: A new evidence of body image disturbances in anorexia nervosa." European Psychiatry 28, S2 (November 2013): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2013.09.059.

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ObjectiveBody image disturbances are core symptoms of Anorexia Nervosa (AN). This study investigated self-face recognition in cases of AN, and the influence of others factors associated with AN, such as massive weight loss.MethodFifteen anorexic female patients and 15 matched Healthy Controls (HC) performed a self-face recognition task. Participants viewed digital morphs between their own face and a gender-matched, unfamiliar other face presented in a random sequence (Fig. 1). For each stimulus, subjects were asked if they recognized their own face, and respond by selectively pressing a button on a computer. Participants’ self-face recognition failures, cognitive flexibility, body concerns and eating habits were assessed, respectively, with the Self-Face Recognition Questionnaire (SFRQ), the Trail Marking Task (TMT), the Body Shape Questionnaire (BSQ) and the Eating Disorder Inventory-2 (EDI-2).Fig. 1Examples of stimulus. For each subject, a photograph of an unfamiliar face was digitally morphed into a photograph of the subject's face in 10% increments.resultsAnorexic patients showed a significantly greater difficulty than healthy control in identifying their own face (P = 0.028, Fig. 2). No significant difference was observed between the two groups for TMT (all P > 0.1). However, analysis did not reveal significant correlations between behavioral data and the EDI-2 or BSQ (all P > 0.1). A correlation analysis revealed a significant, negative correlation with BMI (P < 0.001) and the SFRQ “self-face recognition” subscale (P = 0.015). Fig. 2Self response rates per stimulus ranked in increasing order of familiarity (other to self) in both groups.DiscussionWe observed a decrease in self-face recognition, correlated with BMI, suggesting this disturbance could be linked to massive weight loss. It thus supports the theory of a lack of ability to update body image by the central nervous system, underlying self-images distortion in AN patients.

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Kim, Bum-Jun. "The Effect of Body Image Recognition on Self Esteem and Body Esteem among Female college students." Journal of the Korean society for Wellness 12, no. 1 (February 28, 2017): 273. http://dx.doi.org/10.21097/ksw.2017.02.12.1.273.

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van den Bos, Esther, and Marc Jeannerod. "Sense of body and sense of action both contribute to self-recognition." Cognition 85, no. 2 (September 2002): 177–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0010-0277(02)00100-2.

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Morita, Tomoyo, Minoru Asada, and Eiichi Naito. "Right-hemispheric Dominance in Self-body Recognition is Altered in Left-handed Individuals." Neuroscience 425 (January 2020): 68–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.10.056.

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Azevedo, Ge, and Y. S. Filippovich. "How art therapy supports development of self-consciousness." Collection of humanitarian researches, no. 3(24) (September 29, 2020): 18–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.21626/j-chr/2020-3(24)/3.

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As a therapeutic tool, art is a way to develop reflexive self-awareness. We suggest that to establish a link between art-therapy and the advancement of self-consciousness is a necessity taking into account that consciousness compounds of awareness of one’s body and one’s environment. Then we can regard self-awareness as recognition of consciousness. We suggest that a human body plays a key role in the process of conscious experience and that art can refine this process, increasing the awareness of self and others.

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Bretas, Rafael, Miki Taoka, Sayaka Hihara, Axel Cleeremans, and Atsushi Iriki. "Neural Evidence of Mirror Self-Recognition in the Secondary Somatosensory Cortex of Macaque: Observations from a Single-Cell Recording Experiment and Implications for Consciousness." Brain Sciences 11, no. 2 (January 25, 2021): 157. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci11020157.

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Despite mirror self-recognition being regarded as a classical indication of self-awareness, little is known about its neural underpinnings. An increasing body of evidence pointing to a role of multimodal somatosensory neurons in self-recognition guided our investigation toward the secondary somatosensory cortex (SII), as we observed single-neuron activity from a macaque monkey sitting in front of a mirror. The monkey was previously habituated to the mirror, successfully acquiring the ability of mirror self-recognition. While the monkey underwent visual and somatosensory stimulation, multimodal visual and somatosensory activity was detected in the SII, with neurons found to respond to stimuli seen through the mirror. Responses were also modulated by self-related or non-self-related stimuli. These observations corroborate that vision is an important aspect of SII activity, with electrophysiological evidence of mirror self-recognition at the neuronal level, even when such an ability is not innate. We also show that the SII may be involved in distinguishing self and non-self. Together, these results point to the involvement of the SII in the establishment of bodily self-consciousness.

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Li, Tian-Hang, Ling Liu, Ya-Yi Hou, Su-Nan Shen, and Ting-Ting Wang. "C-type lectin receptor-mediated immune recognition and response of the microbiota in the gut." Gastroenterology Report 7, no. 5 (July 10, 2019): 312–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gastro/goz028.

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Abstract C-type lectin receptors (CLRs) are powerful pattern-recognition receptors that discern ‘self’ and ‘non-self’ in our body and protect us from invasive pathogens by mediating immune recognition and response. The gastrointestinal tract is very important for the maintenance of homeostasis; it is the largest shelter for the billions of microorganisms in the body and CLRs play a crucial regulatory role in this system. This study focuses on several CLRs, including Dectin-1, Dectin-2, Dectin-3 and Mincle. We summarize the roles of CLRs in maintaining gastrointestinal immune-system homeostasis, especially their functions in mediating immune recognition and responses in the gut, discuss their relationships to some diseases, highlight the significance of CLR-mediated sensing of microbial and non-microbial compounds in the gut immune system and identify new therapeutic targets.

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Hasegawa, Hikaru, Shogo Okamoto, Ken Itoh, Masayuki Hara, Noriaki Kanayama, and Yoji Yamada. "Self-Body Recognition through a Mirror: Easing Spatial-Consistency Requirements for Rubber Hand Illusion." Psych 2, no. 2 (June 21, 2020): 114–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/psych2020011.

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Considering that humans recognize mirror images as copies of the real world despite misinterpreting optical reflections, spatial disagreement may be accepted in rubber hand illusion (RHI) settings when a mirror is used to show a fake hand. The present study performed two experiments to reveal how self-body recognition of a fake hand via a mirror affects RHI. First, we tested whether illusory ownership of a fake hand seen in a mirror could be induced in our experimental environment (screening experiment). Subjective evaluations using an RHI questionnaire demonstrated that embodiment of the rubber hand was evoked in the presence or absence of a mirror. We then examined whether using a mirror image for RHI allows disagreement in orientation (45 ∘ ) between the rubber and actual hands (main experiment). The participants experienced RHI even when the actual and rubber hands were incongruent in terms of orientation. These findings suggest that using a mirror masks subtle spatial incongruency or degrades the contribution of visual cues for spatial recognition and facilitates multisensory integration for bodily illusions.

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Deltort, N., J. R. Cazalets, A. Amestoy, and M. Bouvard. "The effect of interpersonal multisensory stimulation on the self-face recognition in adults with autistic syndrome disorder." European Psychiatry 33, S1 (March 2016): S367—S368. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eurpsy.2016.01.1318.

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Studies on individuals without developmental disorder show that mental representation of self-face is subject to a multimodal process in the same way that the representation of the self-body is. People with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) have a particular pattern of face processing and a multimodal integration deficit.The objectives of our study were to evaluate the self-face recognition and the effect of interpersonal multisensory stimulation (IMS) in individuals with ASD. We aimed to show a self-face recognition deficit and a lack of multimodal integration among this population.IMS consisted of the presentation of a movie displaying an unfamiliar face being touched intermittently, while the examiner applied the same stimulation synchronously or asynchronously on the participant. The effect resulting from IMS was measured on two groups with or without ASD by a self-face recognition task on morphing movies made from self-face and unfamiliar-face pictures.There was a significant difference between groups on self-recognition before stimulation. This result shows a self-face recognition deficit in individuals with ASD. Results for the control group showed a significant effect of IMS on self-face recognition in synchronous condition. This suggests the existence of an update of self-face mental representation by multimodal process. In contrast, there was no significant effect of IMS demonstrated in ASD group, suggesting a multimodal integration deficit for the constitution of self-representation in this population.Our results show the existence of a self-face recognition deficit in individuals with ASD, which may be linked to a lack of multimodal integration in the development of the self-face representation.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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Ueda, Masaya, Keita Ueno, Takashi Inamoto, China Shiroma, Masahiro Hata, Ryouhei Ishii, and Yasuo Naito. "Parietal Gamma Band Oscillation Induced by Self-Hand Recognition." Brain Sciences 12, no. 2 (February 16, 2022): 272. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12020272.

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Physiological studies have shown that self-body images receive unique recognition processing in a wide range of brain areas, from the frontal lobe to the parietal-occipital cortex. Event-related potential (ERP) studies have shown that the self-referential effect on the image of a hand increases P300 components, but such studies do not evaluate brain oscillatory activity. In this study, we aimed to discover the self-specific brain electrophysiological activity in relation to hand images. ERPs on the fronto-parietal midline were elicited by a three-stimulus visual oddball task using hand images: the self-hand, another hand (most similar to the self-hand), and another hand (similar to the self-hand). We analyzed ERP waveform and brain oscillatory activity by simple averaging and time-frequency analysis. The simple averaging analysis found no significant differences between the responses for the three stimulus tasks in all time windows. However, time-frequency analysis showed that self-hand stimuli elicited high gamma ERS in 650–900 ms at the Cz electrode compared to other hand stimuli. Our results show that brain activity specific to the self-referential process to the self-hand image was reflected in the long latency gamma band activity in the mid-central region. This high gamma-band activity at the Cz electrode may be similar to the activity of the mirror neuron system, which is involved in hand motion.

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Cook, Richard, Alan Johnston, and Cecilia Heyes. "Self-recognition of avatar motion: how do I know it's me?" Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 279, no. 1729 (July 27, 2011): 669–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2011.1264.

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When motion is isolated from form cues and viewed from third-person perspectives, individuals are able to recognize their own whole body movements better than those of friends. Because we rarely see our own bodies in motion from third-person viewpoints, this self-recognition advantage may indicate a contribution to perception from the motor system. Our first experiment provides evidence that recognition of self-produced and friends' motion dissociate, with only the latter showing sensitivity to orientation. Through the use of selectively disrupted avatar motion, our second experiment shows that self-recognition of facial motion is mediated by knowledge of the local temporal characteristics of one's own actions. Specifically, inverted self-recognition was unaffected by disruption of feature configurations and trajectories, but eliminated by temporal distortion. While actors lack third-person visual experience of their actions, they have a lifetime of proprioceptive, somatosensory, vestibular and first-person-visual experience. These sources of contingent feedback may provide actors with knowledge about the temporal properties of their actions, potentially supporting recognition of characteristic rhythmic variation when viewing self-produced motion. In contrast, the ability to recognize the motion signatures of familiar others may be dependent on configural topographic cues.

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Tu, Hong-bin, Li-min Xia, and Lun-zheng Tan. "Adaptive Self-Occlusion Behavior Recognition Based on pLSA." Journal of Applied Mathematics 2013 (2013): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/506752.

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Human action recognition is an important area of human action recognition research. Focusing on the problem of self-occlusion in the field of human action recognition, a new adaptive occlusion state behavior recognition approach was presented based on Markov random field and probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (pLSA). Firstly, the Markov random field was used to represent the occlusion relationship between human body parts in terms an occlusion state variable by phase space obtained. Then, we proposed a hierarchical area variety model. Finally, we use the topic model of pLSA to recognize the human behavior. Experiments were performed on the KTH, Weizmann, and Humaneva dataset to test and evaluate the proposed method. The compared experiment results showed that what the proposed method can achieve was more effective than the compared methods.

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Fukui, Takao, Aya Murayama, and Asako Miura. "Recognizing Your Hand and That of Your Romantic Partner." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 17, no. 21 (November 9, 2020): 8256. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218256.

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Although the hand is an important organ in interpersonal interactions, focusing on this body part explicitly is less common in daily life compared with the face. We investigated (i) whether a person’s recognition of their own hand is different from their recognition of another person’s hand (i.e., self hand vs. other’s hand) and (ii) whether a close social relationship affects hand recognition (i.e., a partner’s hand vs. an unknown person’s hand). For this aim, we ran an experiment in which participants took part in one of two discrimination tasks: (i) a self–others discrimination task or (ii) a partner/unknown opposite-sex person discrimination task. In these tasks, participants were presented with a hand image and asked to select one of two responses, self (partner) or other (unknown persons), as quickly and accurately as possible. We manipulated hand ownership (self (partner)/other(unknown person)), hand image laterality (right/left), and visual perspective of hand image (upright/upside-down). A main effect of hand ownership in both tasks (i.e., self vs. other and partner vs. unknown person) was found, indicating longer reaction times for self and partner images. The results suggest that close social relationships modulate hand recognition—namely, “self-expansion” to a romantic partner could occur at explicit visual hand recognition.

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Shi, Yafei, Yantao Wei, Donghui Pan, Wei Deng, Huang Yao, Tiantian Chen, Gang Zhao, Mingwen Tong, and Qingtang Liu. "Student body gesture recognition based on Fisher broad learning system." International Journal of Wavelets, Multiresolution and Information Processing 17, no. 01 (January 2019): 1950001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219691319500012.

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Observing student body gesture has been widely used to assess teaching effectiveness over the past few decades. However, manual observation is not suitable for the automatic data analysis in the field of learning analytics. Consequently, a student body gesture recognition method based on Fisher Broad Learning System (FBLS) and Local Log-Euclidean Multivariate Gaussian (L2EMG) is proposed in this paper. FBLS is designed by introducing the discriminative information into the hidden layer of Broad Learning System (BLS) and reducing the dimensionality of hidden-layer representations. FBLS has superiorities in accuracy and speed. In addition, L2EMG, which is a highly distinctive descriptor, characterizes the local image with a multivariate Gaussian distribution. So L2EMG features are fed into the FBLS for recognition in this paper. Extensive experimental results on self-built dataset show that the proposed student body gesture recognition method obtains better results than other benchmarking methods.

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Coleman, Christine, and Helge Gillmeister. "Body image and self-perception in women with navel piercings." PLOS ONE 17, no. 9 (September 9, 2022): e0274099. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274099.

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The present study investigated how women’s body image and body-perceptual processes are affected by navel piercings, an embellishment of the abdominal region women often feel negatively about. We probed perceptual (response times), cognitive (surveys), affective (aesthetic ratings) and neural (event-related potentials, ERPs) facets of (own) body perception. We found that navel piercings are primarily motivated by the desire to enhance one’s body image, and can significantly improve bodily self-perception relative to before and to imagined removal of the piercing. Hence, body image concerns in women with navel piercings were found to be comparable to those of a control group; and their aesthetic ratings of other women’s abdomens only differed, positively, for images depicting navel piercings. ERPs indicated that the sight of navel piercings enhances early structural encoding of bodies as well as late emotional-motivational processes, especially in women with navel piercings. We further found a strong self-advantage in both cortical and behavioural responses during recognition of own and others’ abdomens, especially for images displaying the piercing. Altogether, findings suggest that navel piercings become strongly, and beneficially, integrated into women’s bodily self image. Such piercings may thus be seen as expressions of body care that can protect against self-harming thoughts and behaviours.

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Sugiura, Motoaki, Yuko Sassa, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Naoki Miura, Yuko Akitsuki, Kaoru Horie, Shigeru Sato, and Ryuta Kawashima. "Multiple brain networks for visual self-recognition with different sensitivity for motion and body part." NeuroImage 32, no. 4 (October 2006): 1905–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.05.026.

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Lv, Yalong, Shengwei Tian, Long Yu, and Ruonan Zhang. "Water Body Semantic Information Description and Recognition Based on Multimodal Models." International Journal of Computational Intelligence and Applications 18, no. 02 (June 2019): 1950015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s1469026819500159.

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To solve the problems from using single-layer features in traditional water body identification models, such as the lack of local descriptors, large quantization errors, and the lack of semantic information descriptions, a multimodal model is proposed based on the different levels of feature knowledge. First, based on the multidescriptor hierarchical feature, the middle-level local feature extraction of the water body is achieved, and, combined with the convolutional neural network, the high-order global features of the water body are extracted. Then, the image features are hierarchically normalized, and multimodal RBM self-encoding is used for fusion to reduce the quantization error of each layer feature in the encoding process. Finally, the generative model of the Multimodal Model is used to expand the data and filter the multilayered features after fusion. In addition, the semantic information of a water body is further discovered by using the encoder and decoder of the discriminant model and is classified by employing SoftMax. The results show that compared with the traditional water body identification methods, the proposed method improves the recognition accuracy and image description ability.

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Shi, Jiaqi, Chaoran Liu, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, and Hiroshi Ishiguro. "Skeleton-Based Emotion Recognition Based on Two-Stream Self-Attention Enhanced Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Network." Sensors 21, no. 1 (December 30, 2020): 205. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21010205.

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Emotion recognition has drawn consistent attention from researchers recently. Although gesture modality plays an important role in expressing emotion, it is seldom considered in the field of emotion recognition. A key reason is the scarcity of labeled data containing 3D skeleton data. Some studies in action recognition have applied graph-based neural networks to explicitly model the spatial connection between joints. However, this method has not been considered in the field of gesture-based emotion recognition, so far. In this work, we applied a pose estimation based method to extract 3D skeleton coordinates for IEMOCAP database. We propose a self-attention enhanced spatial temporal graph convolutional network for skeleton-based emotion recognition, in which the spatial convolutional part models the skeletal structure of the body as a static graph, and the self-attention part dynamically constructs more connections between the joints and provides supplementary information. Our experiment demonstrates that the proposed model significantly outperforms other models and that the features of the extracted skeleton data improve the performance of multimodal emotion recognition.

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Pan, Wen-Fu, Anton Subarno, Mei-Ying Chien, and Ching-Dar Lin. "Motion Recognition and Students’ Achievement." SISFORMA 6, no. 2 (February 2, 2020): 73. http://dx.doi.org/10.24167/sisforma.v6i2.2468.

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Human motion has multifarious meanings that can be recognized using a facial detection machine. This article aims to explore body motion recognition to explain the relationship between students’ motions and their achievement, as well as teachers’ responses to students’ motions, and especially to negative ones. Students’ motions can be identified according to three categories; facial expression, hand gestures, and body position and movement. Facial expression covers four categories, namely, contempt, fear, happiness, and sadness. Contempt is used to express conflicted feelings, fear to express unpleasantness, happiness to express satisfaction, and sadness to express that the environment is uncomfortable. Hand gestures can likewise be grouped into four categories: conversational gestures, controlling gestures, manipulative gestures, and communicative gestures. Conversational gestures refer to communicative gestures. Controlling gestures refer to vision-based interface communications, like the ones popular in current technology. Manipulative gestures refer to ones used in human interaction with virtual objects. Communicative gestures relate to human interaction, and therefore involve the field of psychology. Body position and movement also can be classified into four categories, namely: leaning forward, leaning backward, correct posture, and physical relocation. Leaning forward happens when a user is working with a high level of concentration. Leaning backward occurs when a user has been highly concentrated on work for several hours, and needs a break or change. Correct posture is the sign of an enjoyable working position which involves sitting in a free and relaxed manner. Movement refers to a change to the student’s sitting location, reflecting some inadequacy of the learning environment. Teachers can anticipate changes of students’ emotions by good learning design, teaching metacognitive skills, self-regulated performance, exploratory talks, mastery approach/avoidance, using hybrid learning environments, and controlling space within classrooms. Teachers’ responses to students’ motions will be explored in this article

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Suddendorf, Thomas, and Emma Collier-Baker. "The evolution of primate visual self-recognition: evidence of absence in lesser apes." Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 276, no. 1662 (February 25, 2009): 1671–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2008.1754.

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Mirror self-recognition typically emerges in human children in the second year of life and has been documented in great apes. In contrast to monkeys, humans and great apes can use mirrors to inspect unusual marks on their body that cannot be seen directly. Here we show that lesser apes (family Hylobatidae ) fail to use the mirror to find surreptitiously placed marks on their head, in spite of being strongly motivated to retrieve directly visible marks from the mirror surface itself and from their own limbs. These findings suggest that the capacity for visual self-recognition evolved in a common ancestor of all great apes after the split from the line that led to modern lesser apes approximately 18 Myr ago. They also highlight the potential of a comparative approach for identifying the neurological and genetic underpinnings of self-recognition and other higher cognitive faculties.

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Qin, Yanan, Tao Huang, and Guanzhen Tang. "A Hierarchical Children’s Dance Movement Pose Estimation Method Based on Sequence Multiscale Feature Fusion Representation." Advances in Multimedia 2022 (August 24, 2022): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/2445210.

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Aiming at the problem that traditional human motion pose estimation methods cannot accurately capture and estimate the movement changes of children dancers, a hierarchical dance pose estimation method for children based on sequence multiscale feature fusion representation is proposed. By comparing the pose feature extraction algorithm with the actual recognition effect, the recognition rates of the dancer’s upper body, infiltration, and whole body have increased by 14.2, 10.6, and 12.6, respectively. The experimental results show that the proposed pose estimation algorithm achieves good pose estimation results on both the standard human pose estimation dataset and the self-built dance dataset.

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van Stralen, H. E., M. J. E. van Zandvoort, and H. C. Dijkerman. "The role of self-touch in somatosensory and body representation disorders after stroke." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 366, no. 1581 (November 12, 2011): 3142–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2011.0163.

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Somatosensory impairments occur in about half of the cases of stroke. These impairments range from primary deficits in tactile detection and the perception of features, to higher order impairments in haptic object recognition and bodily experience. In this paper, we review the influence of active- and self-touch on somatosensory impairments after stroke. Studies have shown that self-touch improves tactile detection in patients with primary tactile deficits. A small number of studies concerned with the effect of self-touch on bodily experience in healthy individuals have demonstrated that self-touch influences the structural representation of one's own body. In order to better understand the effect of self-touch on body representations, we present an informal study of a stroke patient with somatoparaphrenia and misoplegia. The role of self-touch on body ownership was investigated by asking the patient to stroke the impaired left hand and foreign hands. The patient reported ownership and a change in affect over all presented hands through self-touch. The time it took to accomplish ownership varied, based on the resemblance of the foreign hand to the patient's own hand. Our findings suggest that self-touch can modulate impairments in body ownership and affect, perhaps by helping to reinstate the representation of the body.

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Ishida, Hiroaki, Katsumi Nakajima, Masahiko Inase, and Akira Murata. "Shared Mapping of Own and Others' Bodies in Visuotactile Bimodal Area of Monkey Parietal Cortex." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 22, no. 1 (January 2010): 83–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2009.21185.

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Parietal cortex contributes to body representations by integrating visual and somatosensory inputs. Because mirror neurons in ventral premotor and parietal cortices represent visual images of others' actions on the intrinsic motor representation of the self, this matching system may play important roles in recognizing actions performed by others. However, where and how the brain represents others' bodies and correlates self and other body representations remain unclear. We expected that a population of visuotactile neurons in simian parietal cortex would represent not only own but others' body parts. We first searched for parietal visuotactile bimodal neurons in the ventral intraparietal area and area 7b of monkeys, and then examined the activity of these neurons while monkeys were observing visual or tactile stimuli placed on the experimenter's body parts. Some bimodal neurons with receptive fields (RFs) anchored on the monkey's body exhibited visual responses matched to corresponding body parts of the experimenter, and visual RFs near that body part existed in the peripersonal space within approximately 30 cm from the body surface. These findings suggest that the brain could use self representation as a reference for perception of others' body parts in parietal cortex. These neurons may contribute to spatial matching between the bodies of the self and others in both action recognition and imitation.

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Castro-Campos, Claudia, Ernesto Octavio Lopez-Ramirez, Maria Elena Urdiales-Ibarra, Maria Guadalupe Villarreal-Treviño, and Jennifer Aidé Rodríguez-Rey. "Self-Concept Schemata Organization to Cope With Social Stressors: A Chronometric Assessment." Journal of Social Sciences Research, no. 53 (March 10, 2019): 700–708. http://dx.doi.org/10.32861/jssr.53.700.708.

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A sample of 583 individuals of different ages and from different social and cultural backgrounds took part in a semantic priming study to explore their self-concept and self-esteem mental organization and structure in the human lexicon. Findings yielded by separating the sample into four groups showed that age and cultural background affect how humans organize self-esteem content and structure. Specifically, word recognition of physical attributes related to self-esteem provides support for the idea of a fractured mental representation of the self to cope with demands of ideal body stereotypes. It is suggested that meaning formation related to physical self is different from that based on abstract self-concept and self-esteem. This conceptual organization seems to help individuals to cope with ideal body stereotype demands and to avoid possible psychological disorders related to self-esteem affecting the so-called schematic individuals.

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Tu, Hong-bin, and Li-min Xia. "The Approach for Action Recognition Based on the Reconstructed Phase Spaces." Scientific World Journal 2014 (2014): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/495071.

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This paper presents a novel method of human action recognition, which is based on the reconstructed phase space. Firstly, the human body is divided into 15 key points, whose trajectory represents the human body behavior, and the modified particle filter is used to track these key points for self-occlusion. Secondly, we reconstruct the phase spaces for extracting more useful information from human action trajectories. Finally, we apply the semisupervised probability model and Bayes classified method for classification. Experiments are performed on the Weizmann, KTH, UCF sports, and our action dataset to test and evaluate the proposed method. The compare experiment results showed that the proposed method can achieve was more effective than compare methods.

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Jordan, Jan, and Elaine Mossman. "“Back Off Buddy, This Is My Body, Not Yours”: Empowering Girls Through Self-Defense." Violence Against Women 24, no. 13 (December 7, 2017): 1591–613. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801217741217.

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Although growing recognition is being given to the benefits of teaching self-defense skills to college women, very little research attention has considered the impacts of providing such courses to school-aged girls. This article presents the findings from a large-scale evaluation of self-defense programs provided to three different age groups of schoolgirls from diverse backgrounds in New Zealand, drawing on survey responses from the girls themselves, supplemented by qualitative data provided by key informant interviews with their school and self-defense teachers. The findings provide clear evidence of the many positive benefits that can result for girls of all ages who participate in feminist self-defense courses taught by carefully trained instructors with a strong empowerment focus.

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Kim, Sooim. "Imitation and Empathy by Mirror Neurons and Self-Recognition: Focused on Don DeLillo’s The Body Artist." Journal of American Studies 49, no. 2 (September 30, 2017): 23–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.22505/jas.2017.49.2.02.

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Kim, Mi Joung, Ye Rom Lim, and Ho Kyung Kwak. "Dietary behaviors and body image recognition of college students according to the self-rated health condition." Nutrition Research and Practice 2, no. 2 (2008): 107. http://dx.doi.org/10.4162/nrp.2008.2.2.107.

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Marlina, Reni, Dian Miranda, Marmawi Marmawi, and Andri Maulidi. "Effect of Students’ Self-Directed Learning to Self-Care in Organs of Human Body Lesson on Daily Life." Jurnal Obsesi : Jurnal Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini 3, no. 2 (July 12, 2019): 387. http://dx.doi.org/10.31004/obsesi.v3i2.201.

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This study aims to describe the effects of self-directed learning skills on self-care for organs of the body among five-year-old children in the kindergartens of Kubu Raya District, West Kalimantan. The methods used in this study were qualitative and quantitative research methods. The results of this study showed that the respondents were able to diagnose learning needs with good criteria, had not been able to formulate learning objectives independently, were able to identify learning resources with good criteria, were able to choose and apply appropriate learning strategies, and were happy to evaluate their learning outcomes with the very good criteria. In the aspect of self-care for organs, the students had knowledge about the organs and understood how to maintain with good criteria. The students had used their time to care for organs, had not been able to describe the functions of organs, and were able to analyze knowledge about personal health with very good criteria. The results of the analysis indicates that self-directed learning affected self-care for organs of the body. It is recommended for teachers and parents to teach the human body recognition not only having an accessory but more emphasis on practice in daily life

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Kornilova, Alla A., Sergey N. Gaydamaka, Marina A. Gladchenko, Dmitry Ya Agasarov, Igor V. Kornilov, and Maxim A. Gerasimov. "Thermal Waves and Flow Features of Pulsed Thermally Stimulated Biochemical Reactions in Viral Particles Interaction with Cells." Radioelectronics. Nanosystems. Information Technologies. 14, no. 1 (April 12, 2022): 87–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.17725/rensit.2022.14.087.

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This review considers the features of excitation, propagation over a long distance, and the action of non-dissipative high-frequency temperature waves in relation to their influence on the efficiency of the system for remote recognition of critical cells by viruses. It is shown that the action of such waves leads to screening of critical cells due to a change in their surface atomic and molecular structure, which leads to a significant change in the dispersion and other electromagnetic characteristics of these cells. This leads to a very strong weakening of the efficiency of the system of remote recognition of such cells by viruses, which corresponds to the effective "passive" self-defense of the body and blocking the activity of viruses. It is also shown that the effect of such temperature waves can be an "active" method of self-defense of the body, which reconfigures the virus recognition system to extraneous (non-critical) cells or other macrocomplexes. In this case, the result of the attack by the virus will be the mutual destruction of the "false target" and the virus due to the natural apoptosis of this non-critical object when the virus penetrates it.

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Quiroz-Omana, Juan Jose, and Bruno Vilhena Adorno. "Whole-Body Control With (Self) Collision Avoidance Using Vector Field Inequalities." IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters 4, no. 4 (October 2019): 4048–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/lra.2019.2928783.

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Tu, Hong-bin, Li-min Xia, and Zheng-wu Wang. "The Complex Action Recognition via the Correlated Topic Model." Scientific World Journal 2014 (2014): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/810185.

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Human complex action recognition is an important research area of the action recognition. Among various obstacles to human complex action recognition, one of the most challenging is to deal with self-occlusion, where one body part occludes another one. This paper presents a new method of human complex action recognition, which is based on optical flow and correlated topic model (CTM). Firstly, the Markov random field was used to represent the occlusion relationship between human body parts in terms of an occlusion state variable. Secondly, the structure from motion (SFM) is used for reconstructing the missing data of point trajectories. Then, we can extract the key frame based on motion feature from optical flow and the ratios of the width and height are extracted by the human silhouette. Finally, we use the topic model of correlated topic model (CTM) to classify action. Experiments were performed on the KTH, Weizmann, and UIUC action dataset to test and evaluate the proposed method. The compared experiment results showed that the proposed method was more effective than compared methods.

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Greig, Jason Reimer. "‘Do You Not Know that Your Bodies are Members of Christ?’: Towards a Christian Body Politics and the Cultural Practice of Cosmetic Surgery." Studies in Christian Ethics 30, no. 4 (December 2, 2016): 407–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0953946816680137.

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The contemporary rise in the West of cosmetic surgery as a cultural practice expresses the story of the late modern self as autonomous renovator, and the body as disenchanted raw material and individual possession. Technological biomedicine offers itself as the institution ready to assist this reflexive self in aligning the body to an individual’s inner identity. A Christian body politics, however, challenges this narrative of the human person, by claiming that gift and dependence more aptly represent human being than possession and autonomy. The rite of footwashing, particularly as articulated by Jean Vanier and practised in the communities of L’Arche, represents a sacramental practice which forms Christians in a different narrative of the body and being human. Footwashing reminds and trains members of the Body in a non-violent gentleness towards all bodies, and a recognition of humans as creatures of a good God rather than mere possessors of inert flesh.

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Thomas, Niclas, James Heather, Gabriel Pollara, Nandi Simpson, Theres Matjeka, John Shawe-Taylor, Mahdad Noursadeghi, and Benjamin Chain. "The immune system as a biomonitor: explorations in innate and adaptive immunity." Interface Focus 3, no. 2 (April 6, 2013): 20120099. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsfs.2012.0099.

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The human immune system has a highly complex, multi-layered structure which has evolved to detect and respond to changes in the internal microenvironment of the body. Recognition occurs at the molecular or submolecular scale, via classical reversible receptor–ligand interactions, and can lead to a response with great sensitivity and speed. Remarkably, recognition is coupled to memory, such that responses are modulated by events which occurred years or even decades before. Although the immune system in general responds differently and more vigorously to stimuli entering the body from the outside (e.g. infections), this is an emergent property of the system: many of the recognition molecules themselves have no inherent bias towards external stimuli (non-self) but also bind targets found within the body (self). It is quite clear that the immune response registers pathophysiological changes in general. Cancer, wounding and chronic tissue injury are some obvious examples. Against this background, the immune system ‘state’ tracks the internal processes of the body, and is likely to encode information regarding both current and past disease processes. Moreover, the distributed nature of most immune responses (e.g. typically involving lymphoid tissue, non-lymphoid tissue, bone marrow, blood, extracellular interstitial spaces, etc.) means that many of the changes associated with immune responses are manifested systemically, and specifically can be detected in blood. This provides a very convenient route to sampling immune cells. We consider two different and complementary ways of querying the human immune ‘state’ using high-dimensional genomic screening methodologies, and discuss the potentials of these approaches and some of the technological and computational challenges to be overcome.

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Nash, Carol. "Challenges to Learners in Interpreting Self as Other, Post COVID-19." Challenges 12, no. 2 (November 18, 2021): 31. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/challe12020031.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted continuing constraints on the ability of students to interact with teachers and peers. Regarding this imposed segregation, what has not been considered is the effect of learners seeing self as other. With respect to augmentations of their body in interpersonal space by, (1) extending the body through witnessing themselves regularly in videoconferencing learning sessions, (2) isolating the body as a result of spending time apart from peers, social distancing at home, and (3) protecting the body through required mask-wearing where learners now consider who they represent in a mask, there are three important ways in which learners have felt unable to recognize themselves as they did pre-COVID-19. This migration from self to other, involving ingroup/outgroup distinctions, will be investigated from a number of perspectives—both sociological and psychological. Why the turning of self into other is problematic to the psyche will be discussed, as will the possible consequences for this ongoing lack of learner recognition long term, including focus on the new norms or embracing self-directed learning. Based on this analysis, the type of mentorship by teachers and parents that may be appropriate for helping learners contend with these changes will be recommended.

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Conson, Massimiliano, Domenico Errico, Elisabetta Mazzarella, Francesco De Bellis, Dario Grossi, and Luigi Trojano. "Impact of body posture on laterality judgement and explicit recognition tasks performed on self and others’ hands." Experimental Brain Research 233, no. 4 (January 30, 2015): 1331–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-015-4210-3.

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Pawlikowski, Maciej. "The CO2 level as a factor stimulating angiogenesis Phenomena of tissue regeneration and destruction." Biotechnology and Bioprocessing 1, no. 2 (December 10, 2020): 01–05. http://dx.doi.org/10.31579/2766-2314/008.

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The regeneration of vessels and their development occur in places of their destruction. This phenomenon suggests that the destruction process itself stimulates vascular development and entails tissue healing and self-repair. Understanding the phenomena of self-repair is extremely important in the process of restoring tissues and organs to the proper functioning of individual organs and the entire body. Therefore, the recognition of angiogenesis processes seems to be the key in the treatment of many diseases.

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LI, YUZHUO, LEI JIANG, XINRONG LI, and WENQIAN FENG. "Non-contact clothing anthropometry based on two-dimensional image contour detection and feature point recognition." Industria Textila 74, no. 01 (February 28, 2023): 67–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.35530/it.074.01.202279.

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Developing the technology of estimating human body size from two-dimensional images is the key to realising more digitalization and artificial intelligence in the textile and garment industry. Therefore, this paper is an in-depth study of estimating body sizes from two-dimensional images in a self-collected database of human body samples. First, the artificial thresholds in the Canny edge operator were replaced by adaptive thresholds. The improved Canny edge operator was combined with mathematical morphology so that it could detect a clear and complete single human contour. Then a joint point detection algorithm based on a convolution neural network and human proportion is proposed. It can detect human feature points with different body proportions. Finally, front and side images and manual body measurements of 122 males aged 18–22 years were collected as the human sample database, calculating the length and fit of the girth size. Compared with manual body measurement data, the error of human length and girth size parameters within the national standard range of –1.5 ~ 1.5 cm can reach 91% on average. This study provides an accurate and convenient anthropometric method for digital garment engineering, which can be used for online shopping and garment customization, and has a certain practical value.

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Yurtsever, Ida, Łukasz Matusiak, and Jacek Cezary Szepietowski. "To Inject or to Reject? The Body Image Perception among Aesthetic Dermatology Patients." Journal of Clinical Medicine 12, no. 1 (December 26, 2022): 172. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jcm12010172.

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Background: Nowadays, aesthetic dermatology treatment has become not only physical beautification but also it can have positive effects on patients’ mental health. Body dysmorphic disorder can be the reason for treatment dissatisfaction. In the general population, the prevalence of BDD is 1.9% and it is more common among cosmetic patients. The aim of this study was to conduct the most comprehensive evaluation of body image and BDD among aesthetic patients. Methods: We recruited a group of 412 individuals, who were asked to complete 6 different on-line questionnaires concerning self-image, i.e., COPS, AAI, FAS, BAS-2, BSQ-16, and RSES. Results: The prevalence of BDD ranged from 7.28% to 11.17%, depending on the screening tool that was used. Our research revealed that BDD susceptibility, body image, body appreciation, and self-esteem were strongly interrelated (p < 0.001). A higher BMI was a risk factor for BDD, body dissatisfaction, and depreciation. The financial status markedly influenced all of the features. A history of psychiatric treatment influenced the risk of BDD, body satisfaction, body appreciation, and self-esteem. A history of cosmetic procedures and treatment satisfaction had no impact on the obtained results. Conclusions: Improving recognition of body dissatisfaction among aesthetic patients is very important. The psychometric assessment of patients before cosmetic treatment could be of help in choosing the appropriate approach.

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Mortimer, Nathan T., Mary L. Fischer, Ashley L. Waring, Pooja KR, Balint Z. Kacsoh, Susanna E. Brantley, Erin S. Keebaugh, et al. "Extracellular matrix protein N-glycosylation mediates immune self-tolerance in Drosophila melanogaster." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 39 (September 20, 2021): e2017460118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2017460118.

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In order to respond to infection, hosts must distinguish pathogens from their own tissues. This allows for the precise targeting of immune responses against pathogens and also ensures self-tolerance, the ability of the host to protect self tissues from immune damage. One way to maintain self-tolerance is to evolve a self signal and suppress any immune response directed at tissues that carry this signal. Here, we characterize the Drosophila tuSz1 mutant strain, which mounts an aberrant immune response against its own fat body. We demonstrate that this autoimmunity is the result of two mutations: 1) a mutation in the GCS1 gene that disrupts N-glycosylation of extracellular matrix proteins covering the fat body, and 2) a mutation in the Drosophila Janus Kinase ortholog that causes precocious activation of hemocytes. Our data indicate that N-glycans attached to extracellular matrix proteins serve as a self signal and that activated hemocytes attack tissues lacking this signal. The simplicity of this invertebrate self-recognition system and the ubiquity of its constituent parts suggests it may have functional homologs across animals.

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