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Journal articles on the topic "Spatial Intimacy"
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Cockayne, Daniel, Agnieszka Leszczynski, and Matthew Zook. "#HotForBots: Sex, the non-human and digitally mediated spaces of intimate encounter." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 35, no. 6 (May 10, 2017): 1115–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263775817709018.
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Contemporary practices of sex and intimacy are increasingly digitally mediated. In this paper, we identify two distinctly spatial effects of these mediations. First, the digital extends the spaces of sex/uality beyond the immediately proximate, simultaneously expanding the potential for non-human object choice in intimate encounters. Second, the digital intensifies the experiential fidelity of intimate encounters by folding the remote into the spatially immediate, such that non-proximate intimate relations with human subjects as well as non-human objects may feel more proximate. We articulate these effects by building on and contributing to developments in the geographies of encounter, which allows us to bring together theories and conceptual framings of intimacy, digitality and sexuality in a uniquely spatial register. These effects of extension and intensification resonate in a selection of empirical examples of digitally mediated sex/uality that we place along continuums of more-and-less human and more-and-less proximate. These continuums comprise the conceptual axes of a heuristic framework that we advance to both (i) capture particular points at which configurations of spaces, practices and subject/object choices of sex crystallize given conditions of pervasive digital mediation, and (ii) provoke further interrogations of the multiple ways in which sex, sexuality and intimacy are recast by the digital.
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Alfirevic, Djordje, and Sanja Simonovic-Alfirevic. "Spatial organization concepts for living spaces with two centres." Spatium, no. 42 (2019): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/spat1942001a.
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In a functional sense, the centre of the living space is a gathering area for its users and for visitors. In most cases, the living area has at least one space towards which its users gravitate daily or occasionally. In situations where there are two or more centres in the living area, their position, size and connection determine the character of the functional organization, and they result from the social needs of the users. This paper analyzes characteristic examples of how dwellings are organized with several gathering centres, drawing out three basic concepts: a) living space with centres grouped in a social zone, b) living space with a flexible centre on the boundary between zones and c) living space with a secondary centre in a private area. On the other hand, attention is drawn to the existence of different boundaries of territoriality (boundaries of ownership, hospitality and intimacy), which determine the domains of social, private and intimate zones in housing. Depending on whether the gathering centres are located on one side, on the other, or along the border of territoriality, the degree of intimacy of the living space also changes.
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Roshko, Tijen. "Second Skin: Intimacy, Boundary Conditions and Spatial Interactions." Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal—Annual Review 4, no. 1 (2010): 71–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1833-1874/cgp/v04i01/37816.
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Hamm, Marion. "Physically Distant – Socially Intimate." Anthropology in Action 27, no. 3 (December 1, 2020): 56–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/aia.2020.270312.
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In the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic situation, physical interaction and public performances became difficult, while use of digital media for public and private purposes was extended and intensified. This affected citizens’ right of assembly and led to new forms of collective sociality. This article analyses how social intimacy was re-arranged during lockdown through a thick description of mediated performances circulating on Italy’s Day of Liberation from Nazi fascism. It examines how a politicised commemoration of resistance echoed fears and desires relating to the virus and enabled the production of subjectivities in a transnational techno-social environment. Combining Lauren Berlant’s concept of intimate publics with theories of media, social movements, mediation and national identity, it offers an analytical framework detailing three layers of social intimacy: spatial/corporeal materiality, biography and mediation.
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Williams, John. "Distant Intimacy: Space, Drones, and Just War." Ethics & International Affairs 29, no. 1 (2015): 93–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0892679414000793.
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This article argues that the use of just war theory as the principal framework for ethical assessment of the use of drones for targeted killing is hampered by the absence of a spatial dimension. Drawing on critical political geography, the article develops a concept of “distant intimacy” that explores the spatial characteristics of the relationship between drone deployers and their targets, revealing that the asymmetry of this relationship extends beyond conventional analysis to establish “dronespace” as a place where the autonomy of the target and the possibility of reciprocity are structurally precluded. This extends ethical critique of drone use beyond established concerns and establishes the importance of space and spatiality to the possibility of ethics in a way that just war theory has, to date, been unable to fully appreciate.
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Batchelor, Peter. "Grasping the Intimate Immensity: Acousmatic compositional techniques in sound art as ‘something to hold on to’." Organised Sound 24, no. 3 (November 29, 2019): 307–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355771819000372.
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This article explores the accessibility of acousmatic compositional approaches to sound and installation art. Principally of concern is the consideration of intimacy to create a means of ‘connecting’ with an audience. Installations might be said to explore ideas of intimacy in two ways which increase accessibility for the installation visitor: through cultivating installation–visitor relationships, and through encouraging visitor–visitor relationships. A variety of ways in which various acousmatic compositional techniques relating to intimacy might be brought to bear on and operate as a way of drawing a listener into a work are explored, in particular as they relate to the consideration of space and spatial relationships. These include recording techniques, types of sound materials chosen, and the creation of particular spatial environments and listening conditions. Along with a number of instances of sound art provided by way of examples, my ongoing GRIDs series of sound sculptures will provide a case study of works related to an acousmatic aesthetic where these concerns find an outlet.
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Layne, Linda L. "A Changing Landscape of Intimacy: The Case of a Single Mother by Choice." Sociological Research Online 20, no. 4 (November 2015): 156–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5153/sro.3739.
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American women who purposely undertake motherhood without the involvement of a male partner tend to be beneficiaries of second-wave feminist achievements in the areas of expanded educational and employment opportunities. I draw on an in-depth, longitudinal case study of one such Single Mother by Choice (SMC) to explore how the opportunities she has enjoyed and professional achievements she has attained have shaped her ‘intimate landscape.’ Intimacy means ‘innermost,’ and refers to a spatial relationship, whether physical and or metaphorical. ‘Landscape’ refers to ‘all the visible features of an area’ and ‘the distinctive features of a particular situation or intellectual activity.’ Together Carmen and I engaged in topography, producing a detailed description of the arrangement of the features of this area of her life—the intimate physical and emotional relations with her children, her dog, her mother, and close emotional relationships with her siblings and their families, some friends, and members of her church.
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Andersson Cederholm, Erika, and Johan Hultman. "Bed, Breakfast and Friendship: Intimacy and Distance in Small-Scale Hospitality Businesses." Culture Unbound 2, no. 3 (September 16, 2010): 365–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.10221365.
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Through an analysis of the narrative of a Bed and Breakfast (B & B) and art gallery owner, the emergence of intimacy as a commercial value in the hospitality industry is illustrated. This is a formation of economic value where economic rationality as a motive for commercial activity is rejected. Simultaneously though, a different set of market attitudes are performed by hospitality practitioners in the course of everyday interactions with customers, and a tension between emotional, spatial and temporal intimacy and distance is uncovered and discussed. It is concluded that commercial friendship is a more complex issue than what has been acknowledged so far in the hospitality literature. A continued discussion of intimacy in hospitality will therefore affect the cultural understanding of emotions, identity and lifestyle values on the one hand, and business strategy, value creation and markets on the other.
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Whyte, David. "Viral Intimacy and Catholic Nationalist Political Economy." Anthropology in Action 27, no. 3 (December 1, 2020): 39–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/aia.2020.270309.
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Changes in the conduct and regulation of intimacy during the COVID-19 crisis in the Republic of Ireland has uncovered the legacy of Catholic nationalism in Irish capitalism. Many commentators analysed the increased welfarism and community service provision as the suspension of Irish neoliberalism. In fact, the Irish COVID-19 response is shaped by a longer tradition of political and economic approaches that have their genesis in the revolutionary Catholic state following independence from Britain. Based on ethnography of community development practices in a rural Irish region, the article describes how Catholic nationalist influences are present in the collection of institutions involved in the Community Response and its approach to spatial organisation. The governance of the response also sheds light on a lack of intimacy between citizen and state that is not only the product of neoliberal structural adjustments but is uniquely characteristic of the Catholic ethos that influences Irish capitalism.
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Rutter, G. A. "Moving Ca2+ from the endoplasmic reticulum to mitochondria: is spatial intimacy enough?" Biochemical Society Transactions 34, no. 3 (May 22, 2006): 351–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bst0340351.
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A number of studies in recent years have demonstrated that the ER (endoplasmic reticulum) makes intimate contacts with mitochondria, the latter organelles existing both as individual organelles and occasionally as a more extensive interconnected network. Demonstrations that mitochondria take up Ca2+ more avidly upon its mobilization from the ER than when delivered to permeabilized cells as a buffered solution also indicate that a shielded conduit for Ca2+ may exist between the two organelle types, perhaps comprising the inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor and mitochondrial outer membrane proteins including the VDAC (voltage-dependent anion channel). Although the existence of such intracellular ER–mitochondria ‘synapses’, or of an ER–mitochondria Ca2+ ‘translocon’, is an exciting idea, more definitive experiments are needed to test this possibility.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Spatial Intimacy"
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Anderson, Katie. "Navigating intimacy with ecstasy : the emotional, spatial and boundaried dynamics of couples' MDMA experiences." Thesis, London South Bank University, 2017. http://researchopen.lsbu.ac.uk/1844/.
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MDMA (3,4-methylenedioxy-methamphetamine or ‘ecstasy’) is well-known for its empathic and sociable effects (Bogt, Engels, Hibbel & Van Wel, 2002). Indeed, there is a body of work that discusses the role the drug plays in social bonding (Beck & Rosenbaum, 1998; Duff, 2008; Farrugia, 2015; Hinchliff, 2001; Solowij, Hall & Lee, 1992). However, there has been extremely limited research looking at MDMA’s impact specifically on romantic relationships (Vervaeke & Korf, 2006). Hence, this thesis explored couples’ experiences of intimacy on MDMA and how this intertwines with their relationship. Semi-structured interviews with ten couples, using visual methods (Reavey, 2011; Del Busso, 2009; Majumdar, 2011), and eight individual written diaries (Kenten, 2010) were analysed using a thematic approach (Braun & Clarke, 2006). A ‘bubble’ (Sloterdijk, 1999 cited in Klauser, 2010) is argued to organically form around couples on MDMA, producing a distinct affective atmosphere of muted fear, worry and shame and heightened feelings of safety and love, which mediates emotional and discursive ‘practices’ of intimacy (Gabb & Fink, 2015). Movement, spaces and objects are also argued to facilitate intimacy, producing new subjectivities which alter boundaries: between self and world; within the self; and between self and other (Brown & Stenner, 2009). Yet beneath the seeming ‘flow’ to MDMA experiences, couples construct clear, symbolic boundaries, segmenting these experiences from both everyday life (Douglas, 2001), and other people (Stenner, 2013). The research is argued to have key implications for drug theory and practice, namely that drug use is not only an individual act (Duff, 2008) but also relational in nature – its meaning partly determined by how it interweaves with important relationships in people’s lives.
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Berg, Råholm Denice. "Ett zonindelat välkomstrum : En rumslig studie om hur zonindelning kan gestaltas i väntrumsmiljö för att påverka besökarnas känsla av trygghet." Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Innovation och produktrealisering, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-49377.
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Summary: The healthcare environments of the future are developing at a rapidpace, which is a built-in change for us visitors. Today's waiting rooms are often open rooms and can be a problem for users' privacy.This study intends to investigate how zoning can affect the visitor's sense of a safe and secure waiting room environment. The underlying interest in the study is about the research of environmental psychology, which shows that the design of the room can affect the users' perception of privacy and personal space. The visions of this study is that the work will become an aid to future waiting room plans where the aid is in the form of a spatial concept with focus on zoning and its colors. Research question: • Can a zoned waiting room affect the visitor's feeling of a safe and calm waiting environment? • What environmental psychological principles can affect the feeling in the different zones in the waiting room environment? • How can the zoning be shaped in color and form to give the visitor a sense of safety and calm? Purpose: The purpose of the report is to investigate how the waiting room environment in hospitals can be designed with a focus on the user's need for privacy and intimacy and how this can increase the feeling of security. The purpose is also to develop a concept for health care in Region Sörmland that will contain vital and decisive factors in spatial design that are important in a waiting room and which the local development unit can relate to for future renovations of waiting rooms. The waiting room should break the traditional waiting rooms and contribute to a sense of security and integrity. Methodology: Several different methods have been used to obtain the most credible result possible. The study has a qualitative approach where primary data is collected with the help of interviews and surveys. Conclusion: The respondents in the study generally felt that an open waiting room with chairs along a wall felt more insecure than a waiting room with separating walls with different types of seating. Because there were different seating options, the patient could control his or her desire to sit more or less securely and the control could affect safety. The design of the different zones through color and light also affected the room's feel in different ways. Strong colors felt stressful while more saturated, dull colors felt calm and safe. A stripped-down environment with few colors and impressions felt sterile and insecure. The method result resulted in a design proposal where different types of seating possibilities and other selectable activities were divided into zones in the room with the colors that according to results from method and theory create security.Sammanfattning: Framtidens vårdmiljöer utvecklasi snabb takt, vilket innebär förändringar för oss besökare. Dagens väntrum är ofta öppna rum och kan vara ett problem för användarnas integritet. Denna studie har för avsikt att undersöka hur zonindelning med kan påverka besökarens känsla av en trygg och säker väntrumsmiljö. Det bakomliggande intresset för studien handlar om miljöpsykologins forskning som visar att rumsutformningen kan påverka användarens upplevelse av avskildhet och integritet. Visionen är att arbetet ska bli ett hjälpmedel för kommande väntrumsplaner där hjälpmedletär i form av ett rumsligt konceptmed fokus på zonindelning och dess färger. Frågeställning: •Kan ett zonindelat väntrum påverka besökarens känsla av en trygg väntrumsmiljö? •Vilka miljöpsykologiska principer kan påverka känslan i de olika zonerna i väntrumsmiljö? •Hur kan zonindelningen gestaltas i färg och form för att besökaren ska få en känsla av trygghet? Syfte: Syftet med rapporten är att undersöka hur väntrumsmiljönpå sjukhus kan gestaltas med fokus på användarens behov av avskildhet och intimitet och hur detta kan öka känslan av trygghet. Syftet är också att ta fram ett koncept för sjukvården i Region Sörmland som ska innehålla vitala och avgörande faktorer inom rumslig gestaltning som är av betydelse i ett väntrum och som lokalutvecklingsenheten kan förhålla sig till inför framtida renoveringar av väntrum. Väntrummet ska bryta mot de traditionella väntrummen och bidra till en känsla av trygghetoch integritet. Metod: Flera olika metoder har använtsför att får ett sågenomgripanderesultatsom möjligt. Studien har en kvalitativ ansatsdär primärdata samlats in med hjälp av intervjuer och enkäter. Resultat: Det respondenterna i studien upplevde generellt var att ett öppet väntrum med stolar längs en vägg känns mer otryggt än ett väntrum med avskiljande väggar med olika sorters sittmöjligheter. Genom att det fanns olika sittmöjligheter kunde patienten själv kontrollera sin vilja till att sitta mer eller mindre avskilt och kontrollen kan påverkar tryggheten. De olika zonernas gestaltning genom färg och ljus påverkade också rummets känsla på olika sätt. Starka färger kändes stressande medans mer mättande, dova färger kändes lugna och trygga. En avskalad miljö med få färger och intryckkändes steril och otrygg. Metodresultatet resulterade i ett designförslag där olika sorters sittmöjligheter och andra valbara aktiviteter delades in i zoner i rummet med de färger som enligt resultat från metod och teori skapar trygghet
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Sarin, Anika. "open / close: assimilating immersive spaces in visual communication." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4876.
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I am interested in two spaces obverse to each other: open and closed. An open space develops organically based on how people inhabit it. Interacting with an open space is a dynamic, sporadic, multisensory, immersive, and subjective experience. In such spaces, we are confronted with an alternative aesthetic, one that is in conflict with the seamlessness of a closed space. A closed space is anchored on definite variables like structure, use and boundaries. While interaction between people and space is important, the space is tightly controlled and interaction is designed. Through this thesis project, I present a method that metaphorically transforms the experience of a walk through a closed space into an open-ended and immersive experience.
When space develops as a response to our actions, it affords intimacy and a sense of belonging. It facilitates deeper expressiveness through engagement. By applying a method that uses fragmentation, recurrence and motion, I am metaphorically transforming an urban closed space to open. Through this transformation I am creating a fresh person-space dialogue that temporarily destabilizes perception and encourages physical sensation which allows for an intimate experience of the space. An immersive interaction with an open space transgresses the urban sterility of a closed space and is capable of creating a diversity of distinct experiences.
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Washburn, Emily. "Abjection and Empathy: The Shared Spaces and Blurred Boundaries of Infinite Jest." 2014. http://scholarworks.gsu.edu/english_theses/171.
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In Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace positions abjection in opposition to empathy. Both psychological phenomena derive from a relationship between two people, but abjection depends on a pushing away and empathy depends on a pulling toward. The experience of either phenomenon results in a blurring of interpersonal boundaries, but there is no intimacy in abjection. Instead, as made evident in the central family of Wallace’s novel, the result of abjection is that an individual retreats into the self, rejecting any attempt at intimacy that might be interpreted as an effort to breach autonomy. This alienation is best countered by empathy, as modeled in Infinite Jest in the practice of “Identification” in Alcoholics Anonymous. To identify with a person is to empathize with him or her: to share perspective and emotion. Empathy, unlike abjection, lasts only for a moment, allowing for the reinstatement of the boundaries of self.
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Li, Pei-Chen, and 李佩真. "The Effects of Social Density, Spatial Density, and Intimate on Perceived Crowding, Consumer Emotion, and." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06259918258591934208.
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The purpose of this study is to inquire how the spatial density, social density and the meal person's intimate degree influence consumer's perceived crowding, consumer emotion and patronage Intention. A hypothesized path model using structural equation modeling was proposed to examine the correlation of variables. This study is an experimental research which aims to investigate the effects of spatial density, social density, and dining situation on perceived crowding. The three effects will be manipulated independently. The study is designed by 2 × 2 × 3 factors, including spatial density (high vs. low), social density (high vs. low), and the meal person's intimate degree (high vs. medium vs. low). A fictitious scenario will be offered to participants to read first, and then colored graphics for illustrating the crowded restaurant will be presented. Next, participants will answer the questionnaires. Each respondent will only be assigned one dining situation comprised of social density and the meal person's intimate degree factors. The spatial density factor will adopt a within-subject way to proceed situation simulation and randomly separate participants into two dining situation group (high spatial density and low spatial density). There are 12 fictitious scenarios and will be sent to respondents randomly. Subjects were 294 students of Nation Taiwan Normal University. Data were analyzed by SPSS12.0 and AMOS 6.0. The results of path analysis of structural equation modeling using AMOS indicatedthat “spatial density” and “social density” had significant direct effect on “perceived spatial crowding” and “perceived social crowding”. In particular, “perceived spatial crowding” had significant direct effect on “positive consumer emotion” and “negative consumer emotion”; “perceived social crowding” had significant direct effect on “positive consumer emotion”; “positive consumer emotion” and “negative consumer emotion” had significant direct effect on “patronage Intention”. Besides, the Subjects’ tolerance for crowding had moderated effect on the relationship of perceived crowding and consumer emotion. Most hypotheses were confirmed by the result of analysis.Suggestions for further study and limitations were discussed at the endof the study.
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Wu, Chia-Hsun, and 吳佳洵. "A Spatial Multilevel Analysis of Intimate Partner Violence against Women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/qptkyt.
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LaSalle, Virginie. "Les figures du seuil comme dispositif de l’intime dans l’architecture domestique : du sens du chez-soi à l’espace d’habitation spécialisé." Thèse, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/21117.
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Forgetta, Emanuela. La città e la casa Spazi urbani e domestici in Maria Aurèlia Capmany, Natalia Ginzburg, Elsa Morante e Mercè Rodoreda. Venice: Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-586-5.
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This research work aims at the reconstruction of literary spaces created by four great female authors of the twentieth century. Analysed individually or from a comparative perspective, the texts solicit a reflection on the representation of space in literature produced by women. The focus of the investigation is the dynamic contrast that, at the moment of perception, is established between the ‘internal’, and therefore subjective, dimension and the ‘external’ dimension, regulated by the social context in which the subject moves. The work consists of three parts: the first part establishes the parameters within which the research is organised; the second part investigates the process of reappropriation of the city – a place of almost exclusive male prerogative – by the protagonists of the proposed novels and their “walking down the street” as a device of spatial organisation. In the third and last part, the female perception of the domestic space is analysed. A place of female confinement par excellence, it shows, even in literature, an ambivalent character, as an expression of abuse and affection at the same time. From the ‘spatial’ reinterpretation of the proposed works, therefore, both the intimate representation of space and the historical-social evaluation of the context in which the protagonists, and their own authors, move, emerge.
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Hall, Edward Twitchell. The hidden dimension. New York: Anchor Books, 1990.
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Tulloch, John, and Belinda Middleweek. Brutal Intimacy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190244606.003.0007.
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Chapter 5 begins with risk sociology’s understanding of intimacy as “a dogmatism for two” to explore an interdisciplinary mix of theory, including Tim Palmer’s analysis of the cinema of “brutal intimacy”; Tanya Modleski’s recognition of a current horror genre inflection of new desires for unleashing sexuality, violence, and control; Kelley Conway’s recognition of an authorship of considerable diversity in the context of films made by women about female sexuality in French culture; Raymond Williams’s concept of historical “structures of feeling”; Beck and Beck-Gernsheim’s “normal chaos of love”; and Giddens’s “transformation of intimacy.” Within these contexts, the films Twentynine Palms, Trouble Every Day, and Irréversible are analyzed textually, exploring genre, narrative, visual shot style, diegetic/non-diegetic sound, and spatial mapping (and the disruption of all these categories), with a particular focus on the road film Twentynine Palms.
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Shamma, Yasmine. Alice Notley’s Inhabited Spaces. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198808725.003.0004.
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Though Berrigan and Notley were married, this chapter moves away from addressing coterie (as it has received thorough attention) to instead consider the way that the intimacy enforced by living in small spaces shaped the school’s tone and form. This chapter treats the school’s domestic poetry, focusing exclusively on Alice Notley’s Mysteries of Small Houses, a collection of poems devoted to remembering the spaces Notley inhabited, while locating the tendency to address lived-in space as one promoted by Frank O’Hara. Integrating urban and spatial theory to offer a psycho-geographic reading of this poetry, this chapter utilizes material from an original interview personally conducted with Notley devoted to spatial discussions. In this way, this chapter pays homage to previous studies of the school by offering a space for the living poets of The New York School to speak for themselves, while testing the validity of this study, within the study.
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Greyser, Naomi. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190460983.003.0001.
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Critics have defined sentimentalism as a stylized genre that represents and cultivates sympathy and tears. On Sympathetic Grounds demonstrates that sentimentalists evoked sympathy to express a desire for a place that was territorial and emotional, what Greyser calls an affective geography. Affective geographies describe a sense of intimacy across distance that defies linear cartography. This introduction offers affective geographies as a method for analyzing sentimentalism and its place in the production of space. Whether through true friendship, deep understanding, or the power of sympathy to heal social violence, sentimentalists experienced, and mapped, an array of transcendent connections. These spatial arrangements have enriched conditions for living and have also mercilessly enlisted some bodies and lives as the grounds for others’ well-being.
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Stadler, Nurit. Voices of the Ritual. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197501306.001.0001.
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Voices of the Ritual analyzes the revival of and manifestation of rituals at female saint shrines in the Holy Land. In the Middle East, a turbulent, often violent place, states tend to have no clear physical borders, and lands are constantly in flux. Here, groups with no voice in the political, cultural, media, and legal arenas look for alternative venues to voice their entitlements. Members of religious minorities employ rituals in various sacred places to claim their belonging to and appropriation of territory. What does this female ritualistic revival mean—politically, culturally, and spatially? The author bases her analysis on a long ethnographic study (2003–2017) that analyzes the rise of female sacred shrines, focusing on four dimensions of the ritual: the body in motion, female materiality, place, and the rituals encrypted in the Israel/Palestine landscape. In the practices at these shrines, mostly canonical, the idea of the “body in motion” is central, with rituals imitating birth and the cycle of life using a set of body gestures. These rituals, performed by men and women, are intimate forces that extend between the female saint and the worshippers. Female materiality strengthens intimacy and creates a bridge between the experience and the material. The intimacy between saint and worshipper created with the body and the female material scattered around represent keys to intimate claims to the land, making the land familiar to worshippers. Rituals encrypt female themes into the landscape that has for decades been dominated by masculine-disseminated war and conflict.
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Moore, Robbie. Hotel Modernity. Edinburgh University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474456654.001.0001.
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Hotel Modernity explores the impact of corporate space on the construction and texture of modern literature and film. It centres the hotel and corporate space as key sites of modern experience and culture. Examining architectural and financial records, hotel trade journals, travel journalism, advertisements and cinematic and literary representations, it charts the rise of hotel culture from 1870 to 1939. The book defines corporate space as the new urban, capital-intensive, large-scale spaces brought about by corporations during the nineteenth century, including department stores, railway stations and banking halls. Only in hotels, however, did the individual live within corporate space: sleeping in its beds and lounging in its parlours. The hotel structured intimate encounters with the impersonal and the anonymous, representing a radically new mode of experience. In chapters featuring readings of both canonical and relatively little-studied texts by Henry James, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Bowen, Arnold Bennett, and Henry Green, alongside films by F. W. Murnau, Segundo de Chomón, and Charlie Chaplin, Hotel Modernity considers the relationship between new kinds of spatial organisation and new forms of subjective and intersubjective life. Hotels provoked these writers and filmmakers to rethink the conventions and functions of fictional characters. This book charts the warping and decentring of the category of ‘character’ within the corporate, architectural, informatic and technological networks which come to define hotel space in this period.
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Bickford, Tyler. Earbuds Are Good for Sharing. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190654146.003.0003.
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This chapter presents a detailed analysis of children’s practices of sharing earbuds with friends and peers. Portable music technologies mediate face-to-face relationships among schoolchildren, and the social links they support provide an intimate environment for interaction that mostly excludes adults. These face-to-face interactions using digital audio technologies challenge theoretical perspectives from two fields. First, a prominent view of sound technologies as progressively isolating individuals from one another fails entirely to account for children’s sociable practices. Second, while approaches to portable communication technologies increasingly do privilege communication among intimates, in their focus on communication at a distance they neglect the face-to-face connections in which these devices are embedded. Technology studies are also largely unconcerned with portable music listening as “new media,” accepting the view that portable music is isolating. The opposite is true for children, for whom music devices make connections in materially and spatially grounded face-to-face relationships.
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Franks, Hallie M. The World Underfoot. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190863166.001.0001.
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In the Greek Classical period, the symposium—the social gathering at which male citizens gathered to drink wine and engage in conversation—was held in a room called the andron. From couches set up around the perimeter of the andron, symposiasts looked inward to the room’s center, which often was decorated with a pebble mosaic floor. These mosaics provided visual treats for the guests, presenting them with images of mythological scenes, exotic flora, dangerous beasts, hunting parties, or the specter of Dionysos, the god of wine, riding in his chariot or on the back of a panther. This book takes as its subject these mosaics and the context of their viewing. Relying on discourses in the sociology and anthropology of space, it argues that the andron’s mosaic imagery actively contributed to a complex, metaphorical experience of the symposium. In combination with the ritualized circling of the wine cup from couch to couch around the room and the physiological reaction to wine, the images of mosaic floors called to mind other images, spaces, or experiences, and, in doing so, prompted drinkers to reimagine the symposium as another kind of event—a nautical voyage, a journey to a foreign land, the circling heavens or a choral dance, or the luxury of an abundant past. Such spatial metaphors helped to forge the intimate bonds of friendship that are the ideal result of the symposium and that make up the political and social fabric of the Greek polis.
Book chapters on the topic "Spatial Intimacy"
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Gao, Chenglin, and Shuo Tong. "Research on the Design of Community Residential Space from the Perspective of Digitization." In Proceeding of 2021 International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Applications, 550–59. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2456-9_56.
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AbstractThe residential architecture in the process of urban digital development has become a living complex with real and virtual mirrors, in which people are the unity of connection between spatial environment, identity and living relationship. In this paper, the new value orientation of community residential design is analyzed by sorting out the meaning of community; within the design system of residential space, the intimacy and public consciousness of residents’ neighborhood relationship is enhanced through spatial transition and cultivation of shared living space. The argument is developed from three levels: individual residents’ self-reconstruction, residents’ new behavioral decisions, and spatial behavioral output. Through a series of argumentation, the relationship between community and residential space planning and design is explored, and the data on the interaction between users, usage behavior and space usage of different households are statistically obtained. At the same time, this paper simulates and designs the community residential space module system based on this data and combined with the computer 3D model derivation. The residential block formed by the combination of the smallest modules, as the smallest residential unit, continues to form the design path of a sustainable residential system through the process of combination and deformation of space.
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Yeung, Heather H. "The Poetics of Intimate Perception: The Poetry of Mimi Khalvati." In Spatial Engagement with Poetry, 129–50. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137478276_10.
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Drigo, Marina, Charles R. Ehlschlaeger, and Elizabeth L. Sweet. "Modeling Intimate Partner Violence and Support Systems." In Ecologist-Developed Spatially-Explicit Dynamic Landscape Models, 235–53. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1257-1_14.
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Lähdesmäki, Tuuli, Jūratė Baranova, Susanne C. Ylönen, Aino-Kaisa Koistinen, Katja Mäkinen, Vaiva Juškiene, and Irena Zaleskiene. "Belonging and Home." In Learning Cultural Literacy through Creative Practices in Schools, 99–115. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89236-4_7.
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AbstractIn this chapter, the authors discuss artifacts in which children explore belonging and home. The chapter defines the sense of belonging as a core feature of humanity and living together. The feeling of having a home and being at home is both an intimate and a socially shared aspect of belonging. The children expressed belonging to a wide range of spaces in their artifacts. This spatial span extends from macro to micro scale and indicates belonging based on spaces, social relations, and materiality. Even very young children can see and depict their belonging as multiple and including spatial and social dimensions. The analyzed artifacts reveal both concrete and symbolic approaches to belonging and home.
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Reynolds, Tracey, and Elisabetta Zontini. "‘Non-Normative’ Family Lives? Mapping Migrant Youth’s Family and Intimate Relationships across National Divides and Spatial Distance." In Mapping Intimacies, 228–47. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137313423_13.
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Unruh, Jon, and Mourad Shalaby. "Tenure Security in War-Affected Scenarios: Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainability." In Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development, 157–76. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81881-4_8.
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AbstractThis chapter describes the role of land rights and tenure security in war-affected scenarios. Because armed conflict and tenure security both operate in the domain of spatial relationships between people, the connection between them is acutely intimate. War-torn land tenure scenarios are unique in their combination of a weakened and chaotic formal (statutory) system, vigorous but very fluid informal tenure activity, along with the presence of political demands regarding land, and international actors that have a large interest and influence in the direction of recovery. While this combination carries risks, it also represents real opportunity for practical and policy reform in support of tenure security and sustainability. Subsequent to a review of the land tenure security issues that emerge prior to, during, and after armed conflict, the chapter describes how certain forms of post-conflict land rights recovery can support tenure security and contribute to long-term sustainability. The chapter presents the case of Afghanistan to highlight the issues of conflict and tenure security.
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Romania, Vincenzo. "Shameful Traces and Image-Based Sexual Abuse: The Case of Tiziana Cantone." In Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research, 347–59. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11756-5_22.
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AbstractIn this chapter, I reflect on the relationship between shame and digital traces in cases of image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) (I am thankful to Giovanni Zampieri, Dario Lucchesi and Massimo Cerulo for their invaluable help in writing and revising this chapter.). I will introduce the concept of shameful trace to describe records of diverse nature that can be used by a group of people participating in an effort to stigmatise an appearance, a conduct, an attitude or any other cause of social disapproval. Such a record is an object of shame only in a latent form. For it to become a shameful trace, it is necessary that it be shared and focussed on particular situations of moral condemnation.This is neither a purely theoretical nor a purely empirical article. Rather, I first consider a case study of moral violence against a young Italian woman, Tiziana Cantone, who committed suicide in 2016 after the widespread non-consensual dissemination of intimate images. Further, I propose a theoretical understanding of the diffusion of shameful traces as a process of concerted social action including five elements: first, the ontology of the trace; second, the actors involved in its production and diffusion; third, the temporal and spatial coordinates of the shame diffusion and the technical or social means employed in it; and finally (fourth and fifth), the cultural and normative frameworks. Finally, I investigate how social bonds and sociotechnical and normative regulations favour the diffusion of shame in cases of IBSA.
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Iyer, Usha. "Choreographing Architectures of Public Intimacy." In Dancing Women, 59–90. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190938734.003.0003.
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Chapter 2 develops a body-space-movement framework that studies the spaces of dance, the movement vocabularies used, and the resulting construction of star bodies. This framework uncovers the production processes behind the fetishized space of the Hindi film cabaret, an “architecture of public intimacy,” whose spatial and choreographic operations arouse intense sensorial stimulation. Through a focus on cabaret numbers featuring the dancing star Helen, this chapter discusses the cine-choreographic practices that produce a collision of infrastructures, bodies, and spaces. The body-space-movement framework is also employed to analyze film dance in relation to Indian “classical” and “folk” dance forms. Borrowing from Indian performance treatises like the Natya Shastra and Abhinaya Darpana, this chapter deconstructs the dancing female body into three broad zones—the face, the torso, and the limbs—each of which is capable of a variety of addresses depending on the social connotations of those gestural articulations at certain historical moments.
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Sufrin, Carolyn. "Custody as Forced and Enforced Intimacy." In Jailcare. University of California Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520288669.003.0008.
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This chapter explores the phenomenon of “pastoral custody,” where safety could be achieved through a knotty entanglement of control and benevolence. It discusses Foucault's description of pastoral power, which creates the simultaneous intimacy of custody and care in jail. This form of custody acknowledges the many contradictory tasks and affects of facilitating the minutiae of inmates' daily existence. The collective space of the jail and the deputies' job description result in close and constant spatial proximity, as well as intimacy around personal bodily processes and social interactions. The job of custody, then, requires both forced and enforced intimacy generated by the jail's conditions.
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Jensen, Steffen Bo, and Karl Hapal. "Fraternity Denied." In Communal Intimacy and the Violence of Politics, 120–43. Cornell University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501762765.003.0006.
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This chapter focuses on the central masculine youth peer groups in 2009 and 2010, the members of Tau Gamma Phi. It describes the youth groups' internal dynamics and engagements with local politics to be included as equal and dignified people despite the seemingly impenetrable glass ceilings of Philippine society. It also talks about their attempts of inclusion in a hundred-year-long struggle for equality that resonates strangely with the aspiration of the activists and communal politics. Through an analysis of ritualized violence, the chapter argues that the youth groups aspire to a transcendental world of significance beyond the spatial and temporal confinement of the relocation site. While young men were drawn to Tau Gamma Phi in their thousands in 2010, it had already begun to weaken and by 2017, the fraternity's power and influence had considerably waned.
Conference papers on the topic "Spatial Intimacy"
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Li, Chao, Qian Zhang, Ziping Zhao, Li Gu, and Bjorn Schuller. "Exploring Spatial-Temporal Representations for fNIRS-based Intimacy Detection via an Attention-enhanced Cascade Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network." In 2020 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). IEEE, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icpr48806.2021.9412577.
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Suo, Jin, Michael McDaniel, Parham Eshtehardi, Saurabh S. Dhawan, Lucas H. Timmins, Hanjoong Jo, Robert W. Taylor, Habib Samady, and Don Giddens. "Intimal Thickening Sourced From Low Wall Shear Stress in Human Left Coronary Artery Was Observed by Optical Coherence Tomography." In ASME 2011 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2011-53017.
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The high resolution of optical coherence tomography (OCT) may offer improved description of luminal surfaces and intimal thickening in human coronary arteries by comparison to other imaging modalities, such as intravascular ultrasound (IVUS). We investigated the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery of a patient using both OCT and IVUS methods and found an asymmetrical distribution of intimal thickness (IT) around the lumen circumference in the OCT images, whereas the IVUS images showed a lumen with no asymmetry in IT. We reconstructed a 3D coronary artery model from the OCT slices that represented the morphological details of local luminal surfaces accurately and used this to simulate the pulsatile flow field in the model employing computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The pulsatile wall shear stress (WSS) distribution on the LAD surface was derived, and time-averaged WSS was computed. The data for IT and WSS distributions in the LAD segment were compared, and a linear inverse relationship between IT and WSS was found; higher WSS (> 25±5 dynes per square centimeter) favors thinner intima (< 0.12±0.05 millimeters) and lower WSS (< 12±5 dynes per square centimeter) favors thicker intima (> 0.33±0.05 millimeters). The enhanced spatial resolution of OCT offers an improved imaging technique for developing CFD models and assessing early atherosclerosis in patients with coronary artery disease.
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Carvalho, Jorge, and Pedro S. Gomes. "Costs and benefits of urban dispersion on a local scale: presentation of an ongoing research project." In International Conference Virtual City and Territory. Barcelona: Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.7547.
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There is an increasing urbanization of the world population, but the city has been taking new shapes,different from traditional compact and continuous forms. In the emergent city, mobility has transformed
social and spatial relations, construction is intertwined with increasingly abandoned green spaces and the urban structure is fragmented and dispersed. Such dispersion, even without many defenders among key
urban theorists, is nowadays a reality, unplanned, but practised and accepted.
Arguments for and against dispersion have long been confronted, remaining unchanged: for some, it means contact with nature, space and intimacy; for others, it is a simulacrum of nature, isolation and
anonymity. Such subjective arguments are important in the identification of different concepts of quality of life. But there are other arguments, objective ones: land consumption, public infrastructure costs, mobility costs and housing prices.
The Research Project “Costs and Benefits of Urban Dispersion on a local scale”, from which this communication derives, seeks opinion, as precise as possible, on these issues. To do so, it will consider costs and benefits.
Studies seeking to quantify costs, relating mainly to the USA, analyse dispersion, the majority of times, on a regional scale. In this Project, we intend to compare costs between different “Base Land Units” of the
extended city – a concept similar to that of the neighbourhood unit or of the neighbourhood itself. Our main goal is, then, to analyse and, if possible, to confront costs and benefits of different land use types.
By benefits we understand quality of life, a concept that changes from opinion group to opinion group. We intend to transform this concept into an algorithm which integrates this variability, based on the current
literature, similar previous studies and on the answers to a questionnaire applied to the inhabitants of Aveiro-Ílhavo and Évora (our case studies).Regarding costs, we will look at local public infrastructure (including networks, all public space and public equipments) and mobility (integrated costs per km and per user for each transport mode). Quantification of costs relating to land consumption and other environmental externalities (nature and landscape based)
has to be left for a later research opportunity.
Our conclusions, supported by public questionnaires, will be expressed quantitatively: an utility function to
represent opinions on quality of life; an integrated cost for local infrastructure + mobility; and a methodology to relate the two functions for a variety of scenarios.
This will result in the formulation of a comparative opinion, expressed in cost-benefit terms, between the various typologies of dispersed occupation and, also, between these and those of continuous occupation.
To formulate an operative proposal regarding urban dispersion, it is important to understand how the market works (in terms of its agents, procedures and prices) for current dispersed occupation dynamics.
This paper will go through the work undertaken so far, describing concepts and methods and presenting preliminary results when possible. It will not only focus on the Project’s general methodology, but also on
methodologies specific to each Task, whenever it is thought appropriate.
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Leuchs, Gerd, Margaret Hawton, and Luis L. Sánchez-Soto. "Maxwell and the Modern Quantum Vacuum." In Laser Science. Washington, D.C.: Optica Publishing Group, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/ls.2022.lm5f.6.
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Maxwell’s equations perfectly describe the spatio-temporal structure of the electromagnetic field also in vacuum. But the modern quantum vacuum can e. g. be polarized. We show that there is an intimate relation hidden in QED. © 2022 The Authors
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Gårdhagen, Roland, Jonas Lantz, Fredrik Carlsson, and Matts Karlsson. "Wall Shear Stress in Turbulent Pipe Flow." In ASME 2009 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2009-205040.
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Low and/or oscillatory Wall Shear Stress (WSS) has been correlated with elevated risk for increased intima media thickness and atherosclerosis in several studies during the last decades [1, 2]. Most of the studies have addressed laminar flows, in which the oscillations mainly are due to the pulsating nature of blood flow. Turbulent flows however show significant spatial and temporal fluctuations although the mean flow is steady.
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Johnson, Kevin R., and John N. Oshinski. "Image Based CFD Modeling of Coronary Artery Wall Shear Stress and Importance of Patient-Specific Velocity Boundary Conditions." In ASME 2007 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2007-176224.
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Low and oscillatory arterial wall shear stress (WSS) have been shown to have an effect on many factors implicated in atherosclerotic lesion development. The majority of studies on the relationship between low or oscillating WSS and sites of intimal thickening and early atherosclerotic lesion development are based on in-vitro model studies of flow and WSS distribution. These models are based on average vessel geometries with average flow conditions and compared to average pathology distribution of lesions that may obscure the true relationship between WSS and lesion distribution[1]. Recent techniques have been developed using coronary MR angiography to create patient-specific 3D models along with velocity measurements of blood flow using phase contrast magnetic resonance (PCMR). However, these models may lack adequate spatial resolution for accurate, localized calculation of WSS[2]. Current, state-of-art multidetector CT scanners offer improvements in spatial resolution over MRI for creation of 3D vessel models.
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El Zahab, Zaher, Eduardo A. Divo, and Alain J. Kassab. "A Genetic-Algorithm-Based Design Approach to Minimize Abnormal Hemodynamics Parameters at the End-to-Side Distal Anastomoses of Synthetic Bypass Grafts." In ASME 2007 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2007-176718.
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Medical records on post-operative performances of synthetic bypass grafting show poor results due to the re-stenosis occurring at the end-to-side distal (ETSD) anastomoses of the grafts. The re-stenosis is mainly caused by intimal hyperplasia (IH) [1]. A major factor behind the anastomotic IH development is the non-physiological flow patterns, such as separation and re-attachment, resulting from the bifurcating nature of the anastomotic geometry [2]. The spatial wall shear stress gradient (SWSSG) has been experimentally proven to cause proliferation and migration of the endothelial cells [3], resulting in an endothelial dysfunction that potentially leads to the initiation of IH.
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Bonert, Michael, Jerry G. Myers, Stephen E. Fremes, and C. Ross Ethier. "Influence of Graft/Host Diameter Ratio on the Hemodynamics in Sequential ITA Anastomoses." In ASME 2000 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2000-2612.
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Abstract Multivessel grafting with internal thoracic artery (ITA) conduits may improve the long-term results of coronary surgery for patients with multivessel coronary disease. Sequential ITA grafting has been increasingly used as a means of allowing a single ITA to revascularize a greater amount of the myocardium (Izzat et al, 1994). In this procedure, the graft first supplies blood to a coronary artery via a side-to-side anastomoses and then delivers blood to a second site in the coronary vasculature through an end-to-side anastomosis. However, it is unclear if the complex geometry and hemodynamic patterns in the side-to-side anastomosis contribute to the development of intimal hyperplasia, as reported for end-to-side anastomoses (Bassiouny et al. 1992). In a previous study we studied the hemodynamics of side-to-side anastomosis when graft and host diameters are equal (Bonert et al., 1999). In this study, we examined the wall shear stress (WSS) characteristics in idealized models of a “parallel” and a “diamond” side-to-side anastomoses for the case in which the graft diameter is substantially larger than the host diameter (Lei et al., 1996). Regions of specific interest were those exhibiting low WSS and rapidly changing WSS (high spatial WSS gradient) both of which have been suggested to promote intimal hyperplasia.
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Hasegawa, Hideyuki, Sho Kageyama, and Hiroshi Kanai. "Improvement of axial spatial resolution of ultrasound image using Wiener filter for measurement of intima-media thickness of carotid artery." In 2013 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ultsym.2013.0315.
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Walker, Andrew M., Clifton R. Johnston, and David E. Rival. "The Investigation of Flow Separation Downstream of a Slotted Tube Stent in the Presence of a Pulsatile Flow Environment." In ASME 2012 Summer Bioengineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/sbc2012-80290.
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Stent strut configuration has been found to alter local fluid flow and wall shear stress (WSS) patterns that can promote intimal hyperplasia. To quantify these alterations, we used particle image velocimetry (PIV) to investigate local fluid dynamics distal to a deployed stent within an acrylic tube. A blood analogue mixture of glycerol and water was pumped through a flow loop in both steady and pulsatile conditions. Steady and pulsatile velocity profiles and near WSS (NWSS) predicted by PIV were in good agreement with the Poiseuille and Womersley estimations. Introduction of a Palmaz balloon expanded slotted tube stent increased centerline velocities between 6.9% and 9% and decreased NWSS distal from the stent outlet by > 40%. Peak normalized vorticity was similar between non-stented and stented flows, although spatial coverage of higher vorticity was increased upon stent introduction. Future work will incorporate Echo PIV to complement PIV findings on how strut configuration affects flow dynamics.