Body Activity Research Articles

Research on Human Motion Recognition Based on Data Redundancy Technology

Aiming at the problems of low recognition rate and slow recognition speed of traditional body action recognition methods, a human action recognition method based on data deduplication technology is proposed. Firstly, the data redundancy technology and perceptual hashing technology are combined to form an index, and the image is filtered from the structure, color, and texture features of human action image to achieve image redundancy processing. Then, the depth feature of processed image is extracted by depth motion map; finally, feature recognition is carried out by convolution neural network so as to achieve the purpose of human action recognition. The simulation results show that the proposed method can obtain the optimal recognition results and has strong robustness. At the same time, it also fully proves the importance of human motion recognition.

Space, time and the female body: New Delhi on foot at night

Our paper lays out an experiential account of walking the city, an otherwise mundane everyday act, as a performative action. The specific act of walking that this paper examines is part of a series of performance actions titled ‘Women Walk at Midnight’ (Delhi, 2016- present) where women collectively walk the streets of the city at night. Breaking from the conventional article format, our paper draws on reflexive feminist research and performance analysis to narrate the performative dimensions of walking that foreground how women collectively negotiate fear and vulnerability in/of the city. We draw on our own memories and experiences of walking - embodied, sensorial, even intuitive - not only as participants of the Midnight Walk but as women who often negotiate varied agressions of the city streets. The paper weaves an intricate pattern of relations between space, time and movement of female bodies in the city of New Delhi from a gendered perspective. We posit that transformations of urban atmosphere through the course of the day shape our experiences of the city, reproducing it as a gendered site. Relation of bodies to space, we argue, shifts in response to time. We are interested not only in the singular and deliberate actions carried out by individual walkers, but unpack the shared notions of risk, adventure and pleasure, experienced fleetingly and afforded only through the collective. These performative actions of female bodies at night not only challenge the rehearsed understandings of urban citizenship but also stage its emancipatory possibilities.

Ignoring evidence, producing inequities: public policies, disability and the case of Kaiowá and Guarani Indigenous children with disabilities in Brazil

Backround: An inter-institutional task force was brought together in 2018 to evaluate the irregular institutionalisation of Guarani and Kaiowá Indigenous children with disabilities in Dourados, in central-western Brazil. Aims and objectives: We draw on this case study to undertake a ‘situational analysis’ on the existence/absence and the use/non-use of evidence in the evaluation of public policies regarding Indigenous children with disabilities. By critically analysing concrete practices in the context of multilevel intersectoral dialogue and joint action of state bodies and civil society, we aim to highlight the effective and potential gains from using Culturally Appropriate Evidence (CAE) at the intersection of policies on children, Indigenous peoples and people with disabilities. Methods: We used a case study approach to analyse the precedents, development and ramifications of the task force, examine the legal framework regulating the rights of Indigenous children with disabilities, and describe the process of institutionalisation of Indigenous children in the Dourados region in the first two decades of the 21st century. Findings: We identified that inter-institutional and intersectoral collaboration enhances the development of CAE and the instrumentalisation of intersectoral alternatives. Discussion and conclusions: Although entrenched institutional bureaucratic culture, and the absence of mechanisms for participation and consultation with Indigenous peoples, can create obstacles to the formulation and use of these kinds of evidence in public policies, the production of evidence through the articulated and collaborative effort of agents can offer, when there are political conditions for it, the necessary conditions to develop culturally appropriate solutions for complex scenarios.

Kerja Etnografi dan Imajinasi Sebagai Metode Penciptaan Teater Biografi Garam

Each of art creators has their own tendencies in producing their works. The choices of form and process are significantly influenced by their cultural and aesthetical experience. The objective is to obtain the originality of the ideas and to offer novelty among the development in the field of theatre todays. This writing is aimed to reveal the creative process of the producing of a theatre work entitled Biografi Garam (The Biography of Salt). Methodologically, this is a qualitative study to describe the method or the creative process. Ethnography and Estetika Paradoks are adopted to gain the structure of thoughts influencing the alternatives in constructing the performance aesthetic. The form of body theatre is chosen to obtain the natural structure of Madurese body as well as to release the identity to perform a free body. The creative process conducted through tubuh mengenal (the body knowing) and tubuh mengalami (the body experiencing) gives methodological experience on how the acts processed through natural body and situation becomes a theatre artwork. The background of Madurese people with all of the natural characteristics constructs the actor body so that a cultural body can be created on the stage. Ethnography and imagination process are the methods interrogating the body to become a theatre body performing Madura aesthetically to the stage. The form of a stage body is the construction result between the cultural Madura and the body execution in manifesting the ideas and imagination into an artwork that can be appreciated by the audience.

Realni akty yak instrument publichnoho administruvannia

In the article the phenomenon of real acts as a public administration tool is researched. The consolidation of public administration tool «real acts» was first embodied in the German doctrine of administrative law. The scientific research of real acts in the Ukrainian administrative law hasn’t yet received the necessary results. It’s formulated the definition of real acts as informal decisions or actions of public administration bodies which are adopted or committed outside the legal regulation of administrative activities and aimed at communication with private persons. It’s determined the legal features of real acts: 1) they are informal decisions or actions of public administration bodies; 2) the purpose of their application is to inform private persons about socially significant information or to reach a consensus between public administration bodies and private persons during the administrative procedure; 3) their content doesn’t reflect the final result of the power influence of public administration bodies; 4) they are additional illegal means of communication of public administration bodies with private persons; 5) may be appealed in court in case of violation of the rights, freedoms or interests of private persons. It’s noted that the real acts for the legal nature and form of adoption (committed) aren’t administrative acts. It’s concluded that real acts complement the system of public administration tools and reflect the part of administrative activity of public administration bodies, which doesn’t have a legal formalization. The use of real acts by public administration bodies allows to increase the efficiency of relations with private persons during the occurrence of administrative procedure relations. The real acts aren’t legal facts that can lead to the dynamics of administrative legal relations, but their application may be subject of court legal proceedings to protect the rights, freedoms and interests of private persons with public administration bodies. Administrative procedural legislation of Ukraine should contain provisions on the possibility of applying real acts in order to expand the possibilities of public influence of public administration bodies on various spheres of public administration.

Somatic Ways of Knowing: Fina Miralles’ earliest practices of sensorial perception

This article investigates the sensorial and perceptual practices by Catalan artist Fina Miralles in her early performances (1972–3) as documented via photographs and Super-8 films. It analyses the works Paraules a l’arbre, Fenòmens atmosfèrics and Translacions by engaging with feminist theories of embodiment, agency and Noland’s elaboration of kinesthesia 1 (2009) as a central analytical tool. How were Fina Miralles’ artistic corporeal dynamics emancipatory and liberatory in the last years of Francoism? How does this kind of political action value the body senses and perceptions particularly as sites for a kind of learning? I argue that through their relation to the environment, Fina’s perception processes provide the key to a sensorial knowledge that allows for corporeal agency and feminist praxis in the face of the acute restrictions on feminine bodies under Franco dictatorship (1939–75). Body action, relations, motion and transposition of natural elements generate a gradual sensorial connection to Miralles’ self and to the world. This article examines how Fina created somatic spaces and experiences of increasing corporeal agency that led in later actions to a reconstitution of the body in both intimate and public spaces.

Color Aesthetic in the theatre show

The research deals with the tagged (aesthetic color in theatrical presentation) analytical study, revealing the relationship of light color in terms of intellectual symbolic and semantic in the theatrical presentation, light and color are essential and effective elements in life and visual arts such as theater, which is in the structure of art performs aesthetic and scientific tasks within the theatrical presentation, scientific and artistic bases have psychological and aesthetic data. The research is divided into three chapters. The first chapter (methodological framework) deals with several points such as: problem of the study, importance of the study, objectives of the study and limits of study. The second chapter (theoretical framework) deals with the themes of light and color in the life of society, the dramatic effect of light and color, form and color, the effect of light and color in the stage show, the effect of lighting and color on the body of the actor, the effect of lighting and color on decoration, the effect lighting and color on fashion accessories, the effect of light and color on makeup. The third chapter deals with the analysis of three theatrical models. In the fourth chapter the study gained a number of results, the most important are the following: 1- The colors of the decoration give an indication of the event, place and time. 2- Light and color highlight the actor's body and visual connotations in the scenes of the stage show.

A Comparative Study of Feature Selection Approaches for Human Activity Recognition Using Multimodal Sensory Data.

Human activity recognition (HAR) aims to recognize the actions of the human body through a series of observations and environmental conditions. The analysis of human activities has drawn the attention of the research community in the last two decades due to its widespread applications, diverse nature of activities, and recording infrastructure. Lately, one of the most challenging applications in this framework is to recognize the human body actions using unobtrusive wearable motion sensors. Since the human activities of daily life (e.g., cooking, eating) comprises several repetitive and circumstantial short sequences of actions (e.g., moving arm), it is quite difficult to directly use the sensory data for recognition because the multiple sequences of the same activity data may have large diversity. However, a similarity can be observed in the temporal occurrence of the atomic actions. Therefore, this paper presents a two-level hierarchical method to recognize human activities using a set of wearable sensors. In the first step, the atomic activities are detected from the original sensory data, and their recognition scores are obtained. Secondly, the composite activities are recognized using the scores of atomic actions. We propose two different methods of feature extraction from atomic scores to recognize the composite activities, and they include handcrafted features and the features obtained using the subspace pooling technique. The proposed method is evaluated on the large publicly available CogAge dataset, which contains the instances of both atomic and composite activities. The data is recorded using three unobtrusive wearable devices: smartphone, smartwatch, and smart glasses. We also investigated the performance evaluation of different classification algorithms to recognize the composite activities. The proposed method achieved 79% and 62.8% average recognition accuracies using the handcrafted features and the features obtained using subspace pooling technique, respectively. The recognition results of the proposed technique and their comparison with the existing state-of-the-art techniques confirm its effectiveness.

The legal category of the symbol within the meaning of the act on the prohibition of the promotion of communism or other totalitarian system by the names of organizational units, municipality auxiliary entities, buildings and public utility facilities, an

The exercise of competence in the field of adapting street names and public venues to the standards set out in the provisions of the Act of April 1, 2016 on the prohibition of promoting communism or other totalitarian system by the names of organisational units, commune auxiliary units, buildings, public utility facilities and devices and monuments requires assessment of the facts and subsumption made in the context of the interpretation of certain facts from the point of view of their symbolic meaning. Therefore, it can be concluded that public administration bodies take into account the category of a symbol, which in the context of the provisions on street renaming is a specific legal category. It is a category that determines the legality of actions taken both by the authority responsible for assigning a given name and by the authority supervising the application of these regulations. The provisions of the act also apply to the visual impact on public space and spaces with the status of public accessibility of monuments, or more precisely, the content of which these monuments are personified. The analysis of the jurisprudence issued on the exercise of competences regulated by this Act leads to the identification of a number of contexts of the referent of the symbol in the case of assessing whether the name of the street or the values embodied by the monument symbolise communism or other totalitarian system. Thus, we can distinguish: the context of social awareness of the existence of the designate, the context of the date, the context of the person and the context of historical facts, as regards the designations of symbols of communism or other totalitarian system, which should be taken into account as premises for assessing the legality of the actions of administrative bodies in the context of their assessment facts, subsumption and imperative actions. Both the authorities exercising the competence to name streets and assessing the symbolism carried by monuments, as well as the authorities exercising the competence to assess the legality of the actions of the deciding authorities in this subject, should take into account the context-criteria indicated here as determinants of whether a given name or monument actually symbolises communism or other totalitarian regime.An important issue is the “range” of influence coupled with the issue of symbol awareness. Thus, we can distinguish symbols identified in a broad social context and exclusive symbols — legible only to a narrow group of people. On the other hand, regardless of the territorial (local or universal) impact of a symbol as a phenomenon in the public space — there must be general agreement as to its symbolic meaning, or even universal awareness of this fact.

Owning a virtual body entails owning the value of its actions in a detection-of-deception procedure

The feeling of owning one's body underlies human self-awareness. Body-ownership illusions allow temporarily modulating body ownership, which has observable effects on the behavior and cognitive processes. However, the extent of those effects is unclear. Here, we investigated whether illusory ownership of a virtual body extended to ownership of the value/meaning of its actions. A variation of detection-of-deception procedure (Concealed Information Test) was performed by an embodied virtual avatar (first-person perspective, 1PP), or a non-embodied one (third-person perspective, 3PP), while the skin conductance responses (SCRs) were recorded from passively observing participants. Target stimuli (i.e., concealed information) evoked significantly larger SCRs than the neutral ones only when the avatar was embodied (in 1PP). Such pattern of SCR differences corresponds to that observed when participants perform the task themselves, thus suggesting that the sole experience of owning a virtual body can trigger physiological responses related to the subjective significance of the body's actions.

Coding Body Language in Sports: The Nonverbal Behavior Coding System for Soccer Penalties.

Nonverbal behavior (NVB) plays an important role in sports. However, it has been difficult to measure, as no coding schemes exist to objectively measure NVB in sports. Therefore, the authors adapted the Body Action and Posture Coding System to the context of soccer penalties, validated it, and initially used this system (Nonverbal Behavior Coding System for Soccer Penalties [NBCSP]) to explore NVB in penalties. Study 1 demonstrated that the NBCSP had good to excellent intercoder reliability regarding the occurrence and temporal precision of NVBs. It also showed that the coding system could differentiate certain postures and behaviors as a function of emotional valence (i.e.,positive vs. negative emotional states). Study 2 identified differences in NVB for successful and missed shots in a sample of penalties (time spent looking toward the goal, toward the ground, right arm movement, and how upright the body posture was). The authors discuss the utility of the coding system for different sport contexts.

The Sporting Bubble as Gilded Cage

The Sporting Bubble as Gilded Cage

Comparison of attentional resource allocation to threat and selfrelevant information: An event-related potentials study

Although previous researchers have shown that attention is preferentially allocated during situations involving both threat and selfrelevant information, it is unclear which information type requires more cognitive resources. We compared the automatic processing of threat and self-relevant stimuli using the no-report oddball paradigm. Participants looked at images on a computer screen that displayed fighting with opponents or interacting with friends or customers. The body action of the person depicted was performed either toward the viewing participant or toward other people. Participants watched without making an explicit response, and event-related potentials were measured with electroencephalography. We found that threat (vs. selfrelevant) information elicited a larger P300 amplitude, and for nonthreatening events the P300 amplitude was larger for self-relevant than other-relevant stimuli. These results indicate that threat (vs. selfrelevant) information demands more cognitive resources, possibly because people prioritize survival.

Caenorhabditis elegans learning in a structured maze is a multisensory behavior

SummaryWe show that C. elegans nematodes learn to associate food with a combination of proprioceptive cues and information on the structure of their surroundings (maze), perceived through mechanosensation. By using the custom-made Worm-Maze platform, we demonstrate that C. elegans young adults can locate food in T-shaped mazes and, following that experience, learn to reach a specific maze arm. C. elegans learning inside the maze is possible after a single training session, it resembles working memory, and it prevails over conflicting environmental cues. We provide evidence that the observed learning is a food-triggered multisensory behavior, which requires mechanosensory and proprioceptive input, and utilizes cues about the structural features of nematodes' environment and their body actions. The CREB-like transcription factor and dopamine signaling are also involved in maze performance. Lastly, we show that the observed aging-driven decline of C. elegans learning ability in the maze can be reversed by starvation.

ҚАЗАҚСТАНДЫҚ ДІНИ ЖАҒДАЙДЫ РЕТТЕУДЕГІ БАТЫС ЕУРОПА МЕМЛЕКЕТТЕРІНІҢ ИСЛАМ ДІНІН ҚОҒАМҒА БЕЙІМДЕУ ҮЛГІЛЕРІ ЖАЙЛЫ ДИСКУРСТЫҢ ОРНЫ МЕН ЫҚПАЛЫ

The article describes the paradigms according to which Western European countries regulate and determine the state of Islam in their societies, the place of Muslim immigrants in society, their relations with the local population, their adaptation or integration into society. It shows the main directions of development and descriptions of political and social processes in Western Europe, in their context Islam and changes in the way of life of Muslims, their adaptation and misunderstandings are determined. It describes the social status of the Muslim community, the reasons for its low level, and the facts of the separation of members of this community, and the actions of state bodies to solve this problem. It analyses the correct sides and those sides that can be considered as shortcomings in the processes of integration and assimilation, and emphasizes that they should be guided by the policy of “perception” and not the principle of “alienation”. It is described that the concept of the conflict of civilizations was created by hands, and it appeared because of the lack of full knowledge and understanding of both sides about each other, so it gained importance, and ways to solve this problem are described. The data accumulated during the use of research methods are systematized, and the possibilities of turning the term “multiculturalism” into realityare suggested. The theoretical significance of this article, offered as a result of research, is characterized by the value of the data it contains, and its practical significance is described by the fact that it can become an additional tool for research conducted in this area.

Colisión de derechos en pandemia. Derecho a la salud y límites a la acción estatal

En contextos de epidemias/pandemias, la salud es un derecho fundamental y es entendido como derecho-núcleo que funciona como eje articulador desde y hacia dónde se dirigen las acciones de los órganos de gobierno, primariamente, y de los demás actores públicos y privados, secundariamente. La potestad del Estado de invocar legítimamente la protección de la salud colectiva como causa de restricción de ciertos derechos y libertades producirá inevitablemente un conflicto en el ejercicio de otros derechos fundamentales. Así, el objetivo del presente trabajo busca analizar estas dinámicas de colisión. Con este propósito, se realizó una revisión bibliográfica de diversas fuentes, un exhaustivo análisis e identificación de la normativa internacional aplicable, así como del alcance de los principios jurídicos relevantes y de los contenidos mínimos inderogables de los derechos y libertades que puedan presentarse en disputa ante la preponderancia de unos sobre otros, utilizando de base el método documental con un enfoque cualitativo. Se concluye, que en el desarrollo de una epidemia/pandemia, cuanto más amenazada se encuentra la salud colectiva y los demás derechos estrechamente vinculados, mayor será el rol del Estado en la consecución de sus obligaciones de hacer manifestadas en sus decisiones políticas y políticas públicas. El Estado —en tanto ente garante y servidor del respeto y realización de los derechos y libertades fundamentales— deberá armonizar aquellos que estén en conflicto con una mirada a corto, mediano y largo plazo y siempre direccionado por el principio de proporcionalidad, en consonancia con los límites constitucionales y convencionales.

Between the character's race and actor's body in the text of Bernard-Marie Koltès

Between the character's race and actor's body in the text of Bernard-Marie Koltès

An Exploration of a Way for Contemporary Actor Training/Acting: A Perspective from Denis Diderot and Tadashi Suzuki's Concepts

This research aims to reconsider the necessity of an alternative way(s) for contemporary actor training and acting in discussing and articulating Diderot and Suzuki's concepts and approaches for acting/training. First of all, the physical body, assumed and conceptualized by Diderot is beyond our control by means of a type of radical body/mind dualism, and is based on the concept that body and mind are separate. In contrast, Suzuki's notion of acting/training is raised by his concern about the role of an actor's body in the constitution of an actor's bodily experience against the imitation of the West-oriented theatre/acting/training. The descriptions of the two theatre artists' notion of acting/training gives us insight into the place and role of contemporary theatre as a practical root to encounter and communicate between a doer and a spectator where an actor's body must appropriately be attuned and cultivated towards the cultivation of bodily attributes which are foundation but usually neglected by actors/directors/practitioners particularly in Korea. Especially, misunderstanding of a specific training sources/approaches, namely 'scientific system' and the 'method' have taken us away from the potential possibilities of the lived oneness. Here, the 'possibility' refers to the primary bodily functions within a specific context or being in the here and now rather than attempting to copying, imitating and/or adapting a specific cultural source(s)/approaches/techniques as we have faced with through the previous century. We reconsider and argue that a potential way to correspond the nature of theatre/acting/training is that how to meet the demand of contemporary spectators which in turn intensifies an actor's stability, sustainability and hopefully professional identity in this contemporary era.

Chitosan and glyceryl monooleate nanostructures containing gallic acid isolated from amla fruit: targeted delivery system

Gallic acid, active constituent of amla fruit its natural abundance with beneficial multi actions in body make them attractive for clinical applications. In present study, we focused on extracting, separating and characterizing gallic acid from amla and further formulated into chitosan nanoparticles, so bring it to increase its aqueous solubility and thereby bioactivity. Gallic acid nanoparticles were prepared by using poloxamer 407, chitosan and Glyceryl Monooleate (GMO) using probe sonicator and high pressure homogenization method. Prepared nanoparticles were characterized by particle size, zeta potential, DSC, XRD, SEM, entrapment efficiency, loading content, in-vitro release and stability study. They showed approximately 76.80% encapsulation of gallic acid with average size of 180.8 ± 0.21 nm, and zeta potential +24.2 mV. The cumulative in vitro drug release upto 24 hrs 77.16% was achieved suggesting that from all our findings, it can be concluded that work will facilitate extraction, design and fabrication of nanoparticles for protection and sustained release of gallic acid particularly to colonic region.

Research on the application of MOD method, the core technology of industrial engineering

This paper studies the application of MOD scheduled action time standard method. The Modular Arrangement of Predetermined Time Standards is abbreviated as MODAPTS method. MODAPTS job determination method is widely used in human factor engineering. This method decomposes job actions into 21 basic human body actions. When its time unit is MOD, each action has a corresponding standard time. In this pap, that application of MODAPTS method is systematically discussed, from its characteristic to the basic system of MODAPTS and the mark of motifs, with emphasis on the application of time value of time-limited action and simultaneous action of both hands, and the difficult MOD analysis formula is given. I hope that MODAPTS can be widely applied to China’s industrial engineering in the application of big data and Internet of Things human factors engineering and the promotion of Made in China 2025.