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Showing 1 to 20 of 272 for “"Sensations"”.
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Possible sensations
… former is investigated as a space in which novel sensations are explored in literature and film. As an especially cogent example of filmic use of facial expression I address at length the role facial gestures play in the absence of vocal expression in Carl Dreyer's silent film classic, The Passion …
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Molecular Mechanisms of Itch Sensations
<p>Itch is a sensation which causes scratching response to protect skin against external harmful reagents. Acute itch arises in short time period after insect bites or allergen contact. Chronic itch happens in various skin diseases such as atopic dermatitis: AD) and psoriasis. Chronic itch usually …
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Temporal Dynamics of Heat Pain Sensations
… of the most prominent noxious heat-evoked sensations, 2) characterise sex differences in these sensations, 3) evaluate the magnitude of sharp pain quality evoked in hairy and glabrous skin, and 4) determine the role of absolute stimulus temperatures on sex differences in pain adaptation and …
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Kim Ki-duk and the Cinema of Sensations
Despite the apparent usefulness for film analysis, the notion of "sensation" disappears in Deleuze's two Cinema books (Cinema 1: The Movement-Image [1983] and Cinema 2: The Time-Image [1985]) published right after Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation (1981), which develops the idea of sensation. …
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Acting in Shakespeare: Singular sensations in Shakespeare and song
The purpose of this project was to determine if it was possible to take Shakespeare's text and, preserving the language, present it in a way which would make it more accessible to a modern audience. It was also important to maintain the appropriate acting style and technique that distinguishes …
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Graphic sensations: Vogue and the politics of the body, 1930-1945
This dissertation analyzes the visual program and material body of American Vogue magazine, a publication dedicated to the modern woman, during two tumultuous decades before the mid-century. In the 1930s, images of the female body, as well as the composition of the page, radically changed, as …
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Rival sensations: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, her adapters, and the contest for cultural representation
"In the nineteenth century, British playwrights exploited a loophole in the copyright law to adapt popular novels at will for the stage. This study documents this moment in theater and literary history to reveal the textual multiplicity that resulted when novels competed for audiences with several …
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An Exploration of Visual Sensations: The Use of Depth Perception to Create Pre-Architectural Forms
This exploration is one artist's view of visual reasoning through the study of depth perception. The experiment searched for pre-architectural forms through an investigation of geometric rectangular shapes and planar figures in anticipation of finding architectural volumes, that is, …
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Astringency and other oral sensations : biological sources of individual variation and association with food and beverage behaviour
… tasters (TTs), who perceive 'phantom' taste sensations with lingual thermal stimulation, were more responsive to stimuli at both temperatures than thermal non-tasters (TnTs). While PTS, TIS, and gender affected self-reported liking and consumption of some alcoholic beverages, gender …
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Sensations: a fabric of natural alcoves to provide relief from city life and stimulate the five senses
Cities have always been, and will likely always be, hectic. With every new technological advance this characteristic becomes amplified, and today city life offers little relief from cell phone chatter, honking car horns, bustling crowds and towering buildings. This is the essence of the city, and …
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Neuronal Processes Underlying Spatial Summation of Heat Sensations Investigated by Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Entire Central Nervous System
… processes underlying spatial summation of heat sensations in healthy female volunteers, by means of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of the central nervous system. The first study of this project involved increasing the surface area of skin stimulated by manipulating the number of …
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An investigation into the pressures and sensations caused by wearing a bra and the influence of these on bra fitting
… was carried out into the pressure and sensations caused by wearing a bra and the influence of these on bra fitting issues. The literature review revealed that there has been only. a small amount of research into the topic of the fit of bras, and certainly not enough to effect any !' …
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Mirror touch: Electrophysiological and behavioural evidence on the effects of observing others’ tactile sensations on somatosensory processing in the observer and possible links to trait empathy
… of all, the sight of others’ passive tactile sensations modulated somatosensory activity relatively consistently at both early and late processing stages within the first 200 ms after tactile stimulus onset. These modulations occurred independently of whether the touch target was actually a …
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The evaluation and optimization of sensorial comfort
… has been carried out it has been on specific sensations or fibres and no over-view of the range of sensations and their relative severity has been established. This means that different research studies in this area cannot be compared because they are so specific. This research programme has …
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The Effects of Attentional Focus and Expertise Level on Self-Selected Exercise Intensity
… prompted to focus on self-talk versus bodily sensations on exercise intensity chosen by participants and level of enjoyment. One hundred and forty-two undergraduate psychology students ran on a treadmill for 20 minutes on two separate days, one week apart. One day they were asked to focus on …
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Understanding obesity : psychological cues and antecedents of eating behaviour
… non-hungry eating (NHE) (eating without physical sensations associated with hunger) and overeating (eating past the physiological sensations of fullness). The immediate psychosocial cues that trigger NHE and overeating, along with the psychosocial antecedents that influence NHE and overeating have …
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Artificial gravity : evaluation of adaptation to head movements during short-radius centrifugation using subjective measures
… magnitude of inappropriate perceived self-motion sensations and severity of motion sickness. Verbal accounts of perceived pitch, motion-sickness scores and computer animations of subjective sensations were obtained from eight subjects, during three sessions performed at the following intervals: …
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The Role of Child Anxiety in Parent Sick Role Reinforcement
… by increasing the threat value of bodily sensations. Although a sizeable body of work has examined the role of parent behavior in these processes, few have examined offspring factors in this process. Additionally, little work has examined how parental anxiety sensitivity (AS) is associated …
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Our Third Ear: A Multi-Sensory Experience of Sound
… Tactile investigation involved varied tactile sensations such as vibration, temperature, pressure, proprioception, and touch. Further research questioned the practicality, feasibility, and psychological impacts of using such sensations as well as where on the body such sensations would …
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