Active Scene Research Articles

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Currently, WiFi-based user continuous action counting and recognition is limited to a single person. Being able to continuously analyze and record the different actions of multiple users in a device-free scene is one of the most challenging job to date. In this paper, we present a new WiFi-based multi-user action recognition system, called IMar, which can achieve decomposition of multi-user action information and retain action features as much as possible, i.e., simultaneously recognize and count the continuous and different actions of multiple people. Our main technical route is to design a Dynamic Propagation Delay Threshold Sanitization (DPDTS) algorithm to retain the path information that only passes through the target user body, in order to reduce the multipath effect and make the data as pure as possible, and then model the amplitude relationship of the multi-person action scene. After acquiring the individual data according to the model and tensor decomposition, we propose a Multiplayer Action Amplitude Decomposition and Completion (MAADC) algorithm to obtain more informative data for individual continuous action. Moreover, the single-person data of subcarrier-level obtained by tensor decomposition is extended to the data of stream-level, which brings great convenience to the single-person action recognition. Experimental results show that IMar can work with up to 6 people. The average recognition accuracy and counting accuracy are 78% and 91% respectively in the experimental group of continuous and natural actions by multiple users, and the average recognition accuracy of the experiments in all cases is 83.7%.

Lippmann’s triangular relationship on the crime scene: Pseudo-environments convicting the innocent

Lippmann noted that analyses of public opinion must start ‘by recognizing the triangular relationship between the scene of action, the human picture of that scene, and the human response to that picture working itself out upon the scene of action’. This is certainly the case for crime scenes. The majority of the public will never be a victim of serious crime, and many people will not have close contact with law enforcement and the court system. Hence, much of what is learnt about crime is from exposure to news reports and depictions in popular media. Lippmann noted that crime is among the most important topics in terms of news output. Two case studies of persons who were initially convicted and later exonerated provide examples of how journalists report on eyewitness testimony when those eyewitness reports formed the main evidence for the prosecution. These case studies also provided opportunities to explore how pseudo-environments were developed by journalists to signify that the wrongfully convicted individuals were indeed guilty after such a jury verdict – without much, if any, reference to the possibility that those individuals were convicted based on witness misidentification.

Quality Evaluation and Informatization Analysis of Physical Education Teaching Reform Based on Artificial Intelligence

With the continuous reform of China’s education and the development of the educational environment, English will no longer be the third subject for Chinese students and physical education will replace it as the third subject. The teaching mode has also gradually changed from the traditional artificial mode to the current smart education. In the context of artificial intelligence, physical education can also apply this technology to daily teaching. After physical education becomes the third subject, it is necessary to reform the existing teaching mode and conduct quality evaluation and informatization analysis. In order to achieve this effect, we use artificial intelligence action scenes to detect students' detailed actions and identify key actions and then use computer vision system to create regression models and Bayesian formulas to give the criteria for judging the subsequent training points of the computer. Then, according to the training data of each student in the training process, the quality analysis and informatization evaluation of the teaching reform of physical education are carried out. Using the action bank algorithm as the basic algorithm of feature extraction, a template research method based on multispectral clustering is proposed to facilitate its dissemination in the computer background database. Then, through experiments to compare the before and after optimization of the algorithm, the data analysis of the resolution, time consumption, and detection error of the action bank model were carried out, and it was found that the performance was improved. Then, by means of mean shift detection method and spatiotemporal action detection method, the resolution, time consumption, and detection error of the action bank model are optimized to achieve the quality evaluation and informatization analysis of physical education teaching reform.

The award-wapsi controversy in India and the politics of dance

ABSTRACT In 2015, a coalition of artists in India launched a protest against the ruling establishment, returning their awards to the government in response to a series of attacks on minorities and dissident thinkers that had remained unacknowledged or insufficiently condemned by the state. Known as “Award Wapsi” (award return’ in Hindi), this was notably the first artist action of its kind in independent India, with artmakers from diverse domains participating in it. However, dancers were notably missing from the scene of this historic non-violent action. Those artists most invested in the idea of movement abandoned the protest movement. Moreover, this controversy elicited a fierce backlash, with a group of pro-government artists coordinating a counter-protest against their rebelling peers, with dancers represented among the ranks of those supporting the state. This paper considers the absence of dancers from oppositional organizing, and the presence of dancers in movements allied with the ruling regime, to think about the changing perceptions of political activism and the place of the artist in contemporary Indian society.

Characterization of radicals in polysorbate 80 using electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy and spin trapping

Polysorbates are an important class of nonionic surfactants that are widely used to stabilize biopharmaceuticals. The degradation of polysorbate 20 and 80 and the related particle formation in biologics are heavily discussed in the pharmaceutical community. Although a lot of experimental effort was spent in the detailed study of potential degradation pathways, the underlying mechanisms are only sparsely understood. Besides enzymatic hydrolysis, another proposed mechanism is associated with radical-induced (auto)oxidation of polysorbates. To characterize the types and the origin of the involved radicals and their propagation in bulk material as well as in diluted polysorbate 80 solutions, we applied electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy using a spin trapping approach. The prerequisite for a meaningful experiment using spin traps is an understanding of the trapping rate, which is an interplay of (i) the presence of the spin trap at the scene of action, (ii) the specific reactivity of the selected spin trap with a certain radical as well as (iii) the stability of the formed spin adducts (a slow decay rate). We discuss whether and to which extent these criteria are fulfilled regarding the identification of different radical classes that might be involved in polysorbate oxidative degradation processes. The ratio of different radicals for different scenarios was determined for various polysorbate 80 quality grades in bulk material and in aqueous solution, showing differences in the ratio of present radicals. Possible correlations between the radical content and product parameters such as the quality grade, the manufacturing date, the manufacturer, the initial peroxide content according to the certificate of analysis of polysorbate 80 are discussed.

Practice-based learning and sustainable education for management students

Purpose: This paper aimed to understand the learning processes and the constitution of knowledge about Sustainability of undergraduate students in Business Administration. From the perspective of learning based on practices and the concept of knowing-in-practice, students’ social, contextual and material relations were explored during a year. Design/methodology/approach: In methodological terms, an ethnographic study was conducted with the detailed description of action scenes. Findings: The findings reveal a dynamic and heterogeneous interweaving of elements such as people, technology, ideas, speech and actions and point to the need to recover sensitive knowledge and the collective construction of reality through reflective and collaborative processes with tangible results. Academic contributions: There is a contribution to the discussion of Sustainable Education. The focus is not on what Sustainable Education ‘is’, but ‘how’ is ‘done’ and what ‘does’. The implicit meanings are sustained in practice, become embodied and appear in discursive and sociomaterial practices. Practical contributions: Enacted knowing and doing were perceived when students reported replacing unsustainable practices with sustainable ones, based on the experiences they had during the research.

PORTRAYAL OF GISELLE’S CHARACTER IN “ENCHANTED” MOVIE: A GENDER STEREOTYPE STUDY

Enchanted (2007) is a musical romantic comedy movie produced by Walt Disney Pictures that combine animated and live action scenes. The movie has interesting characters and plot to analyze. This study examines Giselle’s character in Disney’s Enchanted movie, the connection with gender-role stereotypes, and the moral values from the story. Data were collected by using library research method and analyzed through structural approach and coded content analysis approach based on coding characteristics. Results showed that Giselle has more feminine than masculine characteristics that confirm the female gender-role stereotype. However, a twist at the climax of the story displaying her acquired masculine traits indicates the rise of modern female-gendered representation from Disney. Further studies are needed to investigate the development of the dynamic character related to Disney’s gender-role message and the influences to today society life.

Using Animated Action Scenes to Remotely Assess Sentence Diversity in Toddlers.

Although language samples are child-friendly and well-suited for obtaining global measures of language production, structured protocols have the potential to elicit many different exemplars of language structures in a shorter amount of time. We created a structured elicitation protocol, the Sentence Diversity Priming Task (SDPT), to efficiently assess sentence diversity in toddlers via video chat platforms. Sentence diversity is operationalized as the number of different subject–verb combinations in active declarative sentences. The task is presented as an animated picture book, with parents serving as the child's primary partner during administration. In this article, we provide the rationale for assessing sentence diversity, describe the task, and present preliminary analyses of compliance and developmental associations for 32 typically developing toddlers, 30–35 months old, with average language abilities. The preliminary findings suggest that the SDPT is an engaging task that holds toddlers' attention, reveals robust individual differences in their ability to produce sentences, is positively correlated with parent-reported language measures, and has the potential for assessing children's language growth over time. Finally, recommendations and tips for developing and remotely administering the protocol are provided, with an emphasis on encouraging parent involvement and increasing toddler compliance.

ХУДОЖЕСТВЕННЫЙ ТЕКСТ КАК ВЫСКАЗЫВАНИЕ (НА МАТЕРИАЛЕ ПОВЕСТИ А. П. ЧЕХОВА «ПАЛАТА № 6»)

In our study, the most famous story of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, who is known as the world-famous Russian and short story writer and is among the greatest writers in history, “Ward No. 6” is handled. In our article, the methodology of literary text analysis is explained, taking into account the internal dynamics of the construction of expressions and their inclusion in the chain of communication in the application of interactive teaching of the Russian language to Turkish students in a foreign language. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's story "Ward No. 6" is accepted as a message that the reader is expected to respond to in the form of a call, criticism, evaluation, and sympathy. In our study, three types of expressions covering the text were used. These are the monologue author's speech, the indirect speech of the characters, and the dialogical speech. the author reveals the individuality of the topic of speech, his own style, worldview, the peripeteia of the plot of the works, with the author's speech, the different forms of expression of the characters' speech. In addition, in our study, through the role of landscape drawings, the year, the month, the day, the hour, the weather, as well as an action scene, are analyzed as a marker as well as the peripeteia of the plot of the work and an indicator of the emotional state of the characters. The subject of our study is the types of expressions in the story text as a communication tool between the characters, the author and the reader. In our study, as a part of the interactive teaching of Russian, the text analysis of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov's story "Ward No. 6" conducted with Turkish students, taking into account all the difficulties of understanding a foreign language text, the strategy of reading and understanding Russian literary texts, the speech tools used as a complex expression and it was concluded that each reader should find his own individual answer.

Beyond ‘la petite mort’ – sex and death in 120 BPM

ABSTRACT Recent French films have sparked discussion about how we understand the AIDS crisis and how that historical understanding informs present-day views of HIV/AIDS in France and further afield. An example of this, Robin Campillo’s period piece, 120 Battements par minute (2017), explicitly depicts ‘la petite mort’ and the connection between orgasm and demise through the experiences of Parisian ACT UP members during the height of the AIDS crisis in the early 1990s. The following article argues that the three sex scenes in 120 BPM are pivotal points in the narrative which quite literally raise the dead, connecting the characters to lost lovers, members of their community and their past selves. Through this, I analyse how these scenes interact with the film’s re-enactment scenes of protest actions in the 1990s, through their choreography, dialogue, duration, and the images of sexual acts themselves. To do this, I identify how the film troubles and reconstructs ideas of death in AIDS cinema through the recognition of the HIV+ individual as one who will not be desexualised by the virus, even if they are dying. This article will scrutinise and query the relationship between the sex scene, mortality, and memory in 120 BPM.

''… SENT BY JESUS CHRIST'' (CULTURAL INCIDENT OF 1875 IN THE CHIGIRINSKY DISTRICT)

The relevance of the topic is due to the trends in the development of historical science, the vector of which is directed towards the study of the history of "little" people. One of the completely forgotten characters of the past was a simple peasant woman, Nastasya Likhosherstaya. For the first time in historiography, her work is in the field of special scientific interest and is considered against the background of long-term peasant unrest in the Chigirin district of the Kiev province in the 1870s. The scene of action was the village of Adamovka of the same district. The main characters are Likhosherstaya herself, several hundred villagers, mostly women, a volost foreman and a local priest. The study was carried out within the framework of microhistory methods, which make it possible to consider the object of study in event details and semantic shades. The source base for the study was the materials of official records management, including reports from the volost and district police authorities to higher authorities, as well as reports from the Kiev GZhU to the 3rd department of the imperial chancellery. The article shows how the study of a separate cultural incident helps to take a fresh look at the attitude of the peasants themselves to the reform in the state village on the example of a specific district of Right-Bank Ukraine.

Effects of visual and aromatic stimulations on the perception of five fundamental tastes.

Taste perception is affected by various environmental factors. In the present study, we investigated the effects of visual and aromatic stimulations on stress responses and taste perception. Fourteen young healthy participants were assessed for stress levels and taste intensities under 5 different conditions: normal (no stimuli), watching an action scene, watching a forest scene, sniffing a rosemary aroma, and sniffing a lavender aroma. Compared to participants under the action scene condition, participants under the forest scene or under the rosemary aroma condition showed significantly lower stress levels. Furthermore, the forest scene condition significantly increased the saltiness intensity, whereas the rosemary aroma condition significantly increased the bitterness intensity. A positive or negative correlation was observed between the stress level and taste intensity of sourness and saltiness, respectively. These findings indicate that visual image and aroma have the potential to change taste perception as well as modulate stress conditions.

Explain the Concept of “Islamic Medicine

Background and Objectives: Today, various medical schools have emerged, including modern, complementary and traditional medicine, Chinese and recently Islamic medicine, each of which has played a role in the process of human health based on its own philosophy. On the other hand, the find and hidden excommunication of the followers of each school than other medical schools, caused conflicts in the action scene that achieve of the population right to health has faced with challenges. The purpose of this article is to explain the concept and components of Islamic medicine so that by understanding of it more accurately, the scope of these conflicts can be reduced. Methods: This article is a review and library that has been conducted purposefully and with certain criteria through searching in valid religious books including Tasnim’s interpretation, the status of reason in the geometry of religious knowledge and domestic and international scientific databases with related keywords such as Islamic medicine without applying time limits. Results: Understanding the roots of scientific differences, the concept of Islamic science, Islamic anthropology, spiritual medicine, the scope of evidence-based medicine, the basic requirements and criteria of Islamization of medicine, how to deal with medical narrative propositions and finally provide a model for dealing with medical issues are components that should be considered in recognizing the true concept of Islamic medicine. Conclusion: According to the prominent position of wisdom in the Islam school, the actual concept of “Islamic medicine” is very much beyond from what that now wrongly instead of saying “Teb al-’A’imma” or “Medicine of Period of Islamic Civilization” is used. At least the concept of “Islamic medicine” includes all of the common medical schools and whatever medical science based on the method of sages and with a monotheistic view and in the line of physical and spiritual health of the human.

Impersonal Intimacies

In this article, Dr. Kari Barclay evaluates the concept of desexualized language prevalent in different spheres of intimacy work. "Desexualized language" describes the technique in intimacy choreography of using technical language to name choreography and sex acts. Instead of describing a scene's action as a "blow job" or urging one performer to "grope" another's chest, intimacy choreographers might describe performed action as "oral stimulation" or urge performers to "close distance between their hand and a scene partner's chest before applying muscle-level touch" (Pace, 2020, 39-71). Much of the writing and discourse of desexualized language comes from Chelsea Pace and Laura Rikard of Theatrical Intimacy Education (Pace, 2020, 10), but advocacy for desexualized language is found throughout the intimacy field, including in the work of Intimacy Directors and Coordinators (formerly Intimacy Directors International) (Kaufman, Sina, and Warden, 2019; Kaufman, Noble, and White, 2020). What exactly is desexualized language trying to do, and what might be some of its potential unintended effects?

Estrategia programática en Instagram de los candidatos en las elecciones autonómicas de la Comunidad de Madrid 2021

La investigación analiza el uso de la red social Instagram como herramienta para la difusión de las líneas programáticas de partido en las elecciones a la Comunidad de Madrid en 2021. Para ello se presta atención a la gestión y visibilidad de las publicaciones de los candidatos, la composición temática de los programas electorales y su argumentación en la red social, así como a las posibles estrategias usadas en este medio como complemento a la celebrificación del líder. A través de una metodología basada en el análisis de contenido, complementado con un análisis cualitativo, se estudia una muestra compuesta por 377 posts publicados en los perfiles de los seis aspirantes a la presidencia autonómica. El estudio aborda variables como el formato de contenido, el escenario de actuación, el protagonismo del líder y la correspondiente argumentación propagandística. Los resultados muestran el potencial de Instagram en la divulgación de los planes de acción política, a pesar de la falta de una estrategia común que la fomente como un canal de comunicación real con el electorado. Además, se precisa la personalización del candidato, el componente ideológico de las publicaciones y la determinación de la actualidad electoral durante la campaña.

A Pragmatist Constructivism Framework (PCF) to understand the undetermined policy process: three policy solutions for shale gas problem

ABSTRACT If most of the traditional policy approaches propose a causal and deterministic framework to explain policy change, they fail to clarify how, in the same context and over a brief period, a government can successively take different and contradictory decisions. In order to understand this phenomenon and to better consider the importance of uncertainty in the policy process, this article develops a pragmatist constructivist framework (PCF) to study the indeterminacy of the struggles that unfold within many public and discrete spaces of debate in the politico-bureaucratic world. It also analyzes the unpredictable flows between these different spaces. Developing a pragmatist approach, the article highlights the uncertain conditions of success of several solution proposals by insisting on the importance of the definitional changes adopted by their spokespersons to facilitate the enlistment of new supporters and resist the various tests in the form of critical arguments and power relations. Drawing on a large qualitative study, the PCF relies on the meticulous empirical reconstitution of interactions and scenes of action to understand the complex and unexpected sequence of events that led to a given solution and to propose a specific analysis attentive to the complex relationship between power, knowledge, meaning and ownership struggles.

КОНФЛИКТ КУЛЬТУРНОГО И ПРИРОДНОГО В КАВКАЗСКОМ МЕГАТЕКСТЕ РУССКОЙ ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ

The article deals with the role of the antithesis “cultural – natural” in the mythopoetics of the Caucasian megatext. The study is based on the texts of Russian writers (A.A. Bestuzhev-Marlinsky, A.S. Pushkin, M.Yu. Lermontov, L.N. Tolstoy), in which the Caucasus is the scene of action. At the same time, the thesis that the integrating role in the megatext is played not by locus, but by the underlying mythologeme of all the texts in question. The motivic complex of initiation, established as the basic one for the Siberian megatext of Russian literature, is under consideration as a basis for the Caucasian megatext, since both megatexts arose as a result of perception of Caucasian and Siberian locus as a symbolic “land of the dead”. However, the Caucasian text also contains a complex of motives cultivated by the mythologeme of the world tree, which manifests itself in the form of a number of value-marked oppositions, including pairs “north – south”, “west – east”, “civilization – barbarism”, ultimately ascending to the binary opposition “culture – nature”. Those antitheses are implemented at different levels of the literary text organization: focalization and plot, motives and mythotectonics, the artistic system of the author. There is a semantic tension between the fields “cultural” and “natural”, which is usually resolved through an appeal to the motivic complex of sacrifice, which also ascends to the archetypal iconic complex of the world tree. Consequently, the antithesis “cultural – natural” plays a world-modeling role in Caucasian texts which are pieces of a single megatext. The antithesis superimposes on the motivic complex of initiation and creates an ambivalent chronotope of symbolic death and spiritual rebirth.

My Hero by Brian Biggs

Reviewed by: My Hero by Brian Biggs Natalie Berglind Biggs, Brian My Hero; written and illus. by Brian Biggs. Dial, 2022 [40p] Trade ed. ISBN 9780525553380 $18.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9780593529409 $10.99 Reviewed from digital galleys Ad 3-6 yrs Abigail is an underappreciated superhero: "Disguised as an ordinary kid, she flies in the face of danger!" Her attempts to rescue Harry the cat from a tree only get her dragged away by her father for a bath, where she tries to convince him that she's Awesome Girl, "a defender of freedom and justice." Daddy indulges her but doesn't quite believe her, until Abigail has a chance to prove herself when her stuffed purple octopus takes her father captive, but the rescue can only succeed if Daddy affirms his belief in her powers. Wanting to be a superhero isn't a particularly new goal for a kid narrator (see Chabon's The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man, BCCB 11/11; DiPucchio's Super Manny!, BCCB 11/17) and the story lacks freshness, but this still offers visual appeal in its mixed media art. Gouache and glued paper emphasize Biggs' ebullient style of splotchy gradients in funky '70s hues, and the bold-lettered text adds drama to the action scenes. The book takes an interesting turn when Abigail must go toe to tentacle with the octopus, as traditional page spreads with contained text move to full-on comic book panels with speech bubbles for the heroic bits. All those misunderstood viewers who yearn for superhero glory will cheer on Awesome Girl as she rescues her father and finally gets the parental validation she deserves. [End Page 244] Copyright © 2022 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Using verb morphology to predict subject number in L1 and L2 sentence processing: A visual-world eye-tracking experiment

We investigated whether adult German native speakers and Dutch-speaking second-language learners of German exploit German regular verb morphology for predictive sentence processing and whether such predictive processing is moderated by working memory capacity and awareness of the predictive cue. In a picture-matching task with visual-world eye-tracking, the participants (first-language group: <em>n</em> = 31; second-language group: <em>n</em> = 30) saw two pictures of action scenes, varying in the number of referents depicted (singular versus plural). Simultaneously, they heard sentences in German in which the verb suffix represented the first reliable cue for grammatical number of the upcoming subject noun phrase. Successful exploitation of this number cue was measured as anticipatory button-press reaction times and eye-movements toward the correct picture, before subject onset. We found significant prediction effects in both the first-language and the second-language group, with anticipatory processing being somewhat faster in the native speakers than in the learners. Faster reaction times on prediction trials were associated with higher working memory scores. Debriefing interviews revealed that all participants had become aware that they could use the verb form predictively, adding further evidence that prediction can be a conscious process.

Into the periphery: Acting into fleeting, unfinished, just perceptible movements of experience in scenes of joint action

Much of what goes on in organisational life happens at the edge of language, in the form of vague stirrings, fleeting feelings or small gestures. In the midst of relating to others, we may sense a potential new opening or an ill-defined disquiet. Usually, it is only later that we can make reference to a some-thing that has since emerged. I offer two reflective narratives of moments of action occurring with colleagues and students. I propose that as organisational and action research practitioners we need to learn a particular kind of artistry, one that pays attention to minor shifts and variations as they are occurring, often at the periphery of our awareness. I draw on Manning’s work on ‘minor gestures’ and Shotter’s notions of ‘joint action’ and ‘withness thinking’. I turn to novelist Clarice Lispector to explore how we might approach crafting after-the-fact, reflexive accounts that remain in touch with the precarious potentiality of where things might go next.