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The role of human body movements in mate selection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
It is common scientific knowledge, that most of what we say within a conversation is not only expressed by the words meaning alone, but also through our gestures, postures, and body movements.
Neave, Nick   +5 more
core   +1 more source

MAPFL: Modular Adaptive Personalised Federated Learning From Visual Sentiment to Physical Activity

open access: yesCAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Human‐centric sensing tasks such as visual sentiment analysis and smartphone‐based human activity recognition (HAR) exhibit strong client heterogeneity from feature, label, and concept shifts. Among these, concept shift—how individual users interpret and generate human‐centric signals—is particularly challenging yet underexplored in federated ...
Chang Liu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Overview of High‐Temperature Superconducting Cables in DC Systems: Unlocking Potential for High‐Voltage DC Networks

open access: yesHigh Voltage, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper provides an overview of high‐temperature superconducting (HTS) cables in DC systems, with a focus on their deployment in high‐voltage DC (HVDC) networks. The assessment of HTS cable properties—such as extremely low electrical resistance, high current‐carrying capacity and a compact geometry—and their comparison with those of ...
Mohammad Hossein Mousavi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Aesthetics in prison : an evolutionary approach

open access: yes, 2022
In many penal systems, imprisonment is treated as a form of social retaliation for committing a prohibited act. At the same time, most codifications of executive criminal law assume that imprisonment is to lead to the inmates’ social rehabilitation. It is impossible to achieve this goal in a situation of severe frustration of their basic physical and ...
Florek, Stefan, Piotrowski, Przemysław
openaire   +1 more source

Introduction: On the fickleness of friendship Introduction : de l'inconstance en amitié

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In this Introduction to the special section, I provide a brief overview of the anthropology of friendship, particularly from the 1960s to the present, before focusing on the four articles that form the main body of the section. I argue that anthropologists who do not regard themselves as specialists in friendship will still find much to gain from ...
Simon Coleman
wiley   +1 more source

Not by Our Genes Alone

open access: yesAisthesis, 2013
Recent discoveries in life sciences evidenced that changes in the composition of the microbiome and epigenetics represent two essential mechanisms at the basis of the biological evolution, since both allow a rapid change of the phenotype in response to ...
Mauro Mandrioli
doaj   +1 more source

A. Alison, Bachelard, “International Lexicon of Aesthetics”, Vol. 4, Milano, Mimesis, 2021.

open access: yes, 2021
Bachelard   +5 more
core   +1 more source

The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, EarlyView.
This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
wiley   +1 more source

Reflections on imitation, vocal mimicry, and entrainment

open access: yesAisthesis, 2016
It is my contention that understanding natural phenomena such as vocal mimicry can bolster theories of the evolution of language and music as well as inform evolutionary and naturalistic aesthetics more generally.
Anton Killin
doaj   +1 more source

‘Sinister Indian‐like Half‐circle’: Tennis, Orientalism and the White Racial Frame in the Twentieth‐Century British Sporting Press

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining sport alongside race, media and imperial power opens a rich field for understanding how macro‐level ideologies are shaped and circulated through everyday cultural forms. In twentieth‐century Britain, mass media framed and distributed narratives that rendered the empire's political realities intelligible to a broad public.
SOUVIK NAHA
wiley   +1 more source

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