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Showing 1 to 20 of 133 for “"body parts"”.
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Heads, shoulders, knees and toes: Exploring bodies, body parts and personhood in late Neolithic Malta through funerary taphonomy
This research addresses the body and personhood in late Neolithic Malta (c. 3600–2300 cal BC) by reconstructing funerary practices at two collective burial sites: the Xemxija Tombs (Malta) and Xagħra Circle (Gozo). The range and sequence of funerary practices are identified through implementing …
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An investigation into the root of two of the main vulture threats: poisoning and belief-based use of vulture body parts in Southern Kenya
… to vultures after belief-based use of their body parts. A total of 1387 interviews were administered within Maasai Mara pastoral community. We used the ‘Unmatched Count Technique' to estimate the prevalence and distribution of poison use, and direct questions to characterize poison types, …
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Sequential Recognition of Manipulation Actions Using Superpixel Group Mining
… scenario, occlusions among objects and human body parts and the transformations of objects increase the difficulty for action recognition.<br/><br/>Previous methods on manipulation action recognition often rely on high-level representation approaches such as object detection and human body …
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Capturing the human figure through a wall
… tracks the 3D positions of a person's limbs and body parts even when the person is fully occluded from its sensor, and does so without placing any markers on the subject's body. In designing RF-Capture, we built on recent advances in wireless research, which have shown that certain radio …
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Locomotor Ontogeny and the Evolution of Avian Flight
… modularity, or the developmental decoupling of body parts into discrete functional units, facilitates adaptive radiation by allowing body parts to become independently and functionally specialized without compromising one another. This may be particularly true in birds, which have …
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Locomotor Ontogeny and the Evolution of Avian Flight
… modularity, or the developmental decoupling of body parts into discrete functional units, facilitates adaptive radiation by allowing body parts to become independently and functionally specialized without compromising one another. This may be particularly true in birds, which have …
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Bridging the gap
… through time. The tendons that tie these body parts together tell the story of architecture. This thesis explores the joint between such members: the detail of the space between.
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Project Knowledge of 4-H Members Who Participated in the Equine Skillathon at the West Virginia State Fair
… of breed identification, conformation, body and hoof parts, as well as feed identification. The data was collected from the participating 4-H members' score sheets and used for the analysis. There were no differences in the scores for junior and senior 4-H members on breed …
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The Contribution of Planning-related Motor Processes to Mental Practice and Imitation Learning
… feet or hands while using the same or different body parts to respond to unrelated sounds. In contrast to previous work on stimulus response compatibility, we indeed found that responses were impaired – rather than facilitated – for those body parts that were concurrently used in mental practice. …
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Aesthetic detail in the works of Nella Larsen
… issues of gender, race, and sexuality. Female body parts, women's clothing, and skin color are particularly reiterated and fetishized. These evocative descriptions function symbolically and at times act as a counternarrative. Larsen's attempts to create a personal aesthetic are sometimes …
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CFD study of hydrodynamic signal perception by fish using the lateral line system
… experiments, to quantify the effects of 3D fish body parts on the received dipole signals, and to determine signal detection abilities of the lateral line system in background flow conditions. An approximation is developed for the dipole induced, oscillatory, boundary layer velocity profile over …
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Neural Correlates of Sexual Response: An ERP Investigation of Responses to De-Contextualized Sexual Cues
… (N = 40) viewed images of sexual and nonsexual body parts varying in activity state (flaccid or erect penises; relaxed arms or flexed biceps). In Study 2, opposite-gender attracted undergraduate women (n = 27) and men (n = 28) viewed images of sexually-preferred and non-preferred body parts …
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CFD study of hydrodynamic signal perception by fish using the lateral line system
… experiments, to quantify the effects of 3D fish body parts on the received dipole signals, and to determine signal detection abilities of the lateral line system in background flow conditions. An approximation is developed for the dipole induced, oscillatory, boundary layer velocity profile over …
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The language of emotions in Dalabon (northern Australia)
… are morphologically compound, often involving a body-part. Having discussed the morphology and syntax of these lexemes in Chapter 5 and their semantics in Chapter 6, chapters 7 to 11 question the linguistic association between body-parts and emotions in Dalabon. Like most languages in the world …
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The language of emotions in Dalabon (northern Australia)
… are morphologically compound, often involving a body-part. Having discussed the morphology and syntax of these lexemes in Chapter 5 and their semantics in Chapter 6, chapters 7 to 11 question the linguistic association between body-parts and emotions in Dalabon. Like most languages in the world …
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Enhancing cross-dataset performance in distracted driver detection using body part activity recognition.
… on recognising distinctive activities of human body parts involved when a driver is operating a vehicle. Representative state-of-the-art deep learning-based methods have been trained exclusively on three widely used image datasets and evaluated across the test sets of these datasets. …
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Clothing behavior, body cathexis, and appearance management of women enrolled in a commercial weight loss program
… appearance management, created appearance, body cathexis, and clothing behavior for a group of women enrolled in a commercial weight loss program. Subjects were 171 females enrolled in Weight Watchers® programs in Christiansburg, Virginia. No previous research had investigated clothing …
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Tracking multiple mice
… tracking and phenotyping. First, individual body parts of mice must be accurately tracked. This is achieved using shape context descriptors to obtain precise point to point correspondences between templates and mice in any frame of a video. This method provides for greater precision and …
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The Development of Body Image in Young Children: The Role of Muscularity and Adiposity
Negative body image can cause serious psychological problems. In some Western societies, body image concerns can develop at a young age, with early preadolescents preferring thinner bodies and reporting body dissatisfaction. The aims here were to clarify the significant gaps in published research, …
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