Intimate Zone Research Articles

What Is Intimacy?

Why is it more violating to grab a stranger’s thigh or stroke their face than it is to grab their forearm? Why is it worse to read someone’s dream journal without permission than it is to read their bird watching field notes? Why are gestation mandates so incredibly intrusive? Intimacy is key to understanding these cases, and to explaining many of our most stringent rights. I present two ways of thinking about intimacy, Relationship-First Accounts and the Intimate Zones Account. I argue that only the Intimate Zones Account lets us cohesively understand intimacy’s importance, and the scope of our intimate rights. I characterize our intimate zones as meeting the Hiddenness and Importance Conditions. A feature’s meeting these conditions makes it a locus of special vulnerability by which our persons can be fundamentally altered. This special vulnerability explains why our duties to respect the intimate boundaries of others are so strict.

Instantaneous Errors and Body Gestures in Some American Political Contexts

The purpose of this research study is to give a psycholinguistic investigation of some of Trump's smiles, zone distances, handshaking styles, and speech errors. It is carried out under the framework of contextual congruence, which states that what speakers say, and their body movements should be compatible. To create a personal sketch for Trump, 73 short movies and 119 pictures were meticulously scrutinized. 81.4% of images and more than 65.3% of videos indicated phony grins provided to specific people, including Michael Flynn, Mike Pence, and John Kelly. Trump's genuine smile was only noticed when he was with one of his family members, particularly his daughter. With the exception of Nancy Pelosi, the results also suggested that Trump tended to breach his political foes’ intimate zones as a form of nonverbal political counterattack. The results also revealed that Trump's recursive handshake style was a double-handed handshake. He employed this method to demonstrate the sincerity of affection toward the recipient. He regularly gave this handshaking approach to various Asian politicians, who felt irritated by it, since Trump used to perform this handshaking in 30 seconds. Donald used all of his body language and facial clues to control not only his adversaries but also his allies and his speech errors reflected the same facts.

Fedezetcsere az adóvégrehajtásban

The Act of the tax debt execution is maybe the most disputed administrative measure in the system of law because in this case the power of state intervenes in the personal intimate zone limiting the title of ownership. Respecting the final decision or judgement just as important in the Basic Law relating the constitutional order, however at least as important is the protection of the debtor’s rights and legitimate interests. In the proceeding of tax debt execution rights of the tax authority and the debts face to face requires sufficient balancing rules which is part of the debtor’s rights. By the law upon the judgment debtor’s application to be submitted before the auction is scheduled at the latest, in respect of the judgment debtor’s circumstances meriting particular treatment, the court may release the seized movable property from the attachment if the recovery of the debt is secured even after the release and/or if the judgment debtor offers an asset as a cover for the debt with a market value reaching or exceeding that of the asset requested to be released. This essay tries to trying to present the legal institution of the exchange of covers in enforcement proceedings in the tax debt execution. It should be empasized that the tax execution is a coercive procedure because of the tax enforcement so taking considerations because of reasons of equity is possible between strict rules.

Депиляция и эпиляция интимной зоны: косметический тренд и медицинский риск

Депиляция и эпиляция интимной зоны: косметический тренд и медицинский риск

What Does ASMR Sound Like? Composing the Proxemic Intimate Zone in Contemporary Music

Over the past decade, the viral circulation of the acronym ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) has brought a new sensation and audiovisual genre to the attention of the internet-connected world. This phenomenon has attracted the interest of contemporary music composers, who have begun using the term ASMR as a shorthand for a broader theoretical category that involves the assemblage of a specific sound quality, its aisthesis, and a range of compositional, performance, and recording techniques through which they are manipulated. Based on interviews with eight living composers (Carola Bauckholt, Chaya Czernowin, Andrew Harlan, Ole Hübner, Neo Hülcker, Allan Gravgaard Madsen, Morten Riis, and Charlie Sdraulig), I argue that the term ASMR is used as a shorthand to invoke the ‘intimate zone’. As one of the four zones of human interaction formalised by anthropologist Edward T. Hall in his theory of proxemics, the intimate zone emerges from the ways in which space, the sensorium, and one’s sense of self mould each other. After deconstructing the nature of ASMR as an autonomous galvanic response, and combining the framework of proxemics with that of ‘cultural techniques’, I articulate the ways in which the composers use the term ASMR to speak about features of past contemporary art music as well as their current work. I then describe the strategies employed in their compositions to engage the intimate zone and divide them into two main categories. The first involves calibrating the perceived proximity of the audience to the sound object, while the second involves manipulating the space in which this interaction occurs.

Striking a Chord

There is much that is lost with dementia. It has been established that whereas some other cognitive functions may be impaired, ‘procedural memory’—'implicit musical memory’—associated with singing, can remain intact even in the advanced stages of dementia. This joint piece focuses on how we can activate what remains through song, to strike a chord, both musically and as a way of keeping in touch with our intimate, core, primary relationships in life. We underline song as a modality of connection, even as we live with the changing constellations of cognitive impairment. Song is not only seen as narrative but also a carrier and a repository of memories; when lyrics of a song are remembered, autobiographical events are recalled for a while. Words or wordlessness are located within a wider bodily assemblage of performativity. Gestures, movements, objects, sounds and settings define the repertoire of song. We contribute to the field of critical dementia studies and music, both from a transnational diasporic perspective, as well as from the intimate zones of being carer-researcher daughters, searching for ways to connect with our parents as they live with dementia. This article considers the relation between song and dementia as inter-generational encounters of exchange and contact within the context of diasporic and transnational familial relations of care.

Casa tomada: o medo em El hombre de al lado (Gastón Duprat e Mariano Cohn, 2009)

Hugo Hortiguera (2014) nota que a situação de deterioração ou lassidão dos laços sociais é, talvez, um dos elementos que mais significativa e insistentemente vem se projetando no discurso cinematográfico argentino da última década. Além de uma “fuga da cidade”, o autor observa um recolhimento na casa, que aparece nos filmes como último refúgio onde se proteger e escapar. Mas os conflitos também alcançam essa zona íntima: uma divisão parece ter possuído os espaços mais recônditos. El hombre de al lado (Duprat e Cohn, 2009) toca de maneira contundente a questão da casa como espaço íntimo fraturado – revela-se um tecido de desconfianças que a atinge, passando do lugar que provê proteção a seus habitantes para se transformar em mais um espaço instável da cidade. O filme constata e desdobra um problema de comunicação e negociação na diferença que provoca uma mudança radical na forma de morar na casa Curutchet (projeto de Le Corbusier). Propomos analisar como o filme concebe esse espaço em desintegração através das correspondências e dissonâncias entre a casa e seus moradores, pensando como estão suspensos na diegese valores que guiaram a construção da Curutchet e como constantes ressignificações desses valores promovem a emergência do que Freud conceituou como estranho. Ademais, a forma de localizar os personagens, articulada à suspeita que rege a relação que o protagonista estabelece com o “vizinho”, nos leva a fazer conexões com clássicos da literatura argentina que implantaram conceitos fundamentais para se pensar o país e suas divisões, como o conto “Casa tomada”, de Julio Cortázar, e “Cabecita negra”, de Germán Rozenmacher.

Stress and Burnout: Solutions to a Global Problem

21<sup>st</sup> Century is an era of stress and burnout. For the past few decades it has been a burning and hot topic of discussion for researchers, to evolve stress and burnout- from a global problem to global solutions, as it affects the life of individuals in an unprecedented manner and touches them at workplace across the globe. Everybody knows what stress is all about. It has become a part of life and perhaps, to some extent, necessary at work and outside work. Some people are more productive and creative when they work under stress. But if stress is intense and continuous, then it becomes a negative phenomenon leading to physical illness and psychological disorders. Stress and burnout in today's environment has become a well documented problem. Various researches have evaluated stress and burnout in workplaces. Stress is a non-specific response of body to any demand made on it. Many researchers have identified that stress and burnout has become an integral part of our daily life due to the negative aspects of job, such as, multiple responsibilities, disciplinary problems, employee's apathy, involuntary transfers, inadequate pay and perks, less chances of career advancement and lack of administrative support etc. As a result of these, individuals are likely to suffer from stress and may experience a sense of tiredness and frustration. When prolonged stress continues and it is not effectively managed, it can even lead to symptoms of burnout, a state of emotional exhaustion, depersonalization and diminished personal accomplishment in the workplace. Stress management can be done through six zones which we have discussed in detail, with a holistic approach. It includes health zone, intimate zone, family zone, work zone, social zone and spiritual zone. In this paper, an effort is made to discuss the solutions of stress and burnout in different and innovative ways through different zones which have been experienced by the author in his 20 years of professional career. Thus, stress and burnout are not a trivial problem but a major dysfunction of the 21<sup>st</sup> century, which has far reaching impact on quality and quantity of productivity. The present paper explores the concept of stress and burnout, the major differences between them, factors leading to genesis of the problem, various symptoms and how it is a serious quality concern for all professionals. Appropriate interventions for prevention and management of stress and burnout are also suggested.

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Teaching the rectal examination with simulations: effects on knowledge acquisition and inhibition

Undergraduate medical curricula are often deficient in teaching physical examinations in intimate zones, such as the rectal examination. Student inhibition is assumed to substantially hamper both the acquisition of knowledge and the performance of these examinations in practice. The two present studies examined the effects of low-fidelity (LFS) and high-fidelity (HFS) simulation on the acquisition of the necessary knowledge and inhibition about carrying out the rectal examination. In addition, we investigated the effects of the different sequencing of the two simulations (HFS-LFS versus LFS-HFS). A manikin for the rectal examination was used to implement the LFS. Standardised patients (SPs) were used to implement the HFS. Study samples consisted of 41 (Study 1) and 188 (Study 2) female and male undergraduate medical students. Each student participated in two individual sessions of 30 minutes each. Half the students participated first in the HFS and then in the LFS and the other half participated in the simulations in the opposite order. Outcome measures were self-rated inhibition and knowledge tests. In both studies, HFS was found to reduce inhibition significantly more than LFS. Furthermore, in Study 2, a marginal effect of the sequence of simulation was found. In both studies, both types of simulation were found to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge. There was no sequence effect for the acquisition of knowledge. Teaching the rectal examination with the help of SPs, who represent an HFS, can help medical undergraduate students to overcome inhibition about this examination. Standardised patient simulation is far more effective than that achieved using a manikin, which represents an LFS. Both types of simulation support the acquisition of knowledge.

Many Ways to Remember: Layered Time in Mora's House of Houses

That Pat Mora arranges her memoir House of Houses according to a Western secular calendar seems apparent at first browse. At first reading, however, this orderly notion of a representative year breaks down, for book begins not with January or even with a preface or introduction, but with a title chapter. Immediately, therefore, essentiality of Western calendar comes into question. The title chapter establishes that Mora will shed restrictions of time and logic: her is a dream in which dead walk alongside living, past is simultaneous with present, and future is so certain that she can name grandchildren yet to be conceived. Why, then, should Mora impose a calendar at all? An answer is suggested in past comments by Mora herself. During an interview conducted by Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak and Nancy Sullivan, Mora reiterates her fascination with concepts of and geography as they help define a person's psychological landscape, a zone she refers to as internal rooms, issues of or the world of dreams, mental space (145). In House of Houses, she interjects time into definition of this region. In response to her own query, How much does our know that we know not? (2), she declares that inner body, of self, knows all because psyche remembers all. Through generations, she writes, sun, wind, rain, hands, voices, and dreams create and alter this place pregnant with possibilities in a landscape as familiar to me as my body (4). Fluid and accepting, inner carries one's knowledge as well as one's still unsettled questions. Within it, people, stories, fears, joys, doubts, and certainties of many lives rise bidden and unbidden to surround, interpret, and absorb a new experience. This house is repository for all that creates a sense of heritage, belonging, and identity. Mora further concludes that people both influence and are influenced by psychological construct in which they are raised. The of self is a living, reciprocating entity impervious to time, a grouping that nest[s] like bodies inside one another (3). The notions that time is concentric rather than linear and that all of our past is simultaneously available to us are reiterated throughout House of Houses by foregrounding of landscape and generations. Insisting that we internalize our pasts, Mora writes, the landscape imprints itself; and when we can't see world that is home ... we yearn to see shapes and vistas that live in our interior (25). Viewing her family as a house in her imagination, she describes a home of concentric design. Orchards surround this home, which itself presents a smooth adobe wall to outside but allows guests to penetrate increasingly more intimate zones until they reach very heart of family. In this house, rooms open onto a covered porch, which in turn opens onto a garden, which in turn surrounds family life source, a central fountain. The internal sphere is a separate world of flowing water, living greenery, shifting shade, and timeless intimacy: a personal space, womb of family. Investigating such a presents a significant writing challenge. Mora's readers, receptive as they may be, live outside her and must be invited in before they can learn its geography. Even as they learn to accept cumulative presence of people and influences in her inner world, they need to know which characters and events preceded others. Mora must consolidate her extended family even while she preserves family's numerous personalities; their ethnic, social, religious, and political diversity; their sometimes polarized generations; their gender issues; and their levels of information and misinformation. She has to demonstrate that inner allows living and dead to exist simultaneously, for line between corporeality and spirituality is hazy there. …

Touch, Justification, and Sex: Influences on the Aversiveness of Spatial Violations

Hall's pioneering studies designated discrete zones of interpersonal space appropriate to levels of intimacy within a culture. This project investigated variables expected to affect reactions of Ss to entry into their intimate zone by strangers. Violations of Hall's intimate zone were predicted to be more aversive to males when accompanied by physical contact and when lacking prior psychological justification. In Experiment 1 a female confederate (C) sat six inches from individual Ss (21 males and 23 females) and touched half the Ss. Half the Ss were given a rationalization for the C's intrusion. Experiment 2 was a replication with a male C and 40 male and 40 female Ss. Aversive reactions were measured by decrements in performance and liking. As predicted, touch and no justification resulted in significantly lower task performance by males only, regardless of sex of intruder. Intrusions decreased liking by males and increased liking by females. It is concluded that proxemic theory should be elaborated to account for the effects of touch, justification, and sex.