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The Mysterious Stranger and Modern Enchantment

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sociological accounts of modernity have long emphasized rationalization, alienation, and the attenuation of affective intensity. While these diagnoses capture crucial dynamics of modern social order, they leave underexplored a persistent and generative dimension of social life: enchantment.
Dmitry Kurakin
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical evaluation of motion and position sense in the upper extremities of the elderly using motion analysis system

open access: yesClinical Interventions in Aging, 2014
Kuan-yi Li,1 Yi-hui Wu2 1Department of Occupational Therapy and Graduate Institute of Behavioral Sciences, Healthy Aging Research Center, Chang Gung University, Kwei-shan, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan; 2Department of Rehabilitation, Taoyuan Chang Gung Memorial ...
Li KY, Wu YH
doaj  

Objects of Affection: Deathly Encounters With Taxidermy, Stuffed Toys and Atmospheres

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores how children and young people relate to death through affective atmospheres and embodied, imaginative encounters with taxidermy and stuffed toy animals. Using arts‐based research (ABR), we explore how death, affective atmospheres, empathy and materiality entangle during multispecies relations.
Rachel Sinquefield‐Kangas   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the role of cutaneous force in teleoperation: subtracting kinesthesia from complete haptic feedback

open access: yes, 2013
A study on the role of cutaneous and kinesthetic force feedback in teleoperation is presented. Cutaneous cues provide less transparency than kinesthetic force feedback but they do not affect the stability of the teleoperation system.
C. Pacchierotti   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Fostering Dialogue on AI Ethics and Biases Through an Issue‐Based Traveling Exhibition

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Discriminatory algorithms, unauthorized data use, and environmental costs show how artificial intelligence (AI) advancements are tied to larger sociopolitical issues. Through the design and pilot study of AI Dilemmas, an issue‐based traveling exhibition, this qualitative case study explores fostering dialogue on such complex scientific ...
Dagmar Mercedes Heeg, Lucy Avraamidou
wiley   +1 more source

InterPLAY: A Framework to Describe Play and STEM Engagement at Exhibits for Young Children

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Play‐based STEM learning at exhibits is a feature of children's museums and science centers; yet little is known about how these exhibits support young children's STEM engagement. This study developed and tested the interPLAY Framework to describe play‐based STEM engagement at exhibits for young children.
Kelly L. Hoke   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reliability and stability of cerebral palsy classification scales for individuals with STXBP1‐ and SYNGAP1‐related disorders

open access: yesDevelopmental Medicine &Child Neurology, EarlyView.
Aim To determine the interrater reliability and stability of the Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS), Manual Ability Classification System (MACS)/Mini‐MACS, and Communication Function Classification System (CFCS) in individuals with STXBP1‐ and SYNGAP1‐related disorders.
Samuel R. Pierce   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Localization of impaired kinesthetic processing post-stroke

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2016
Kinesthesia is our sense of limb motion, and allows us to gauge the speed, direction, and amplitude of our movements. Over half of stroke survivors have significant impairments in kinesthesia, which leads to greatly reduced recovery and function in ...
Jeffrey Michael Kenzie   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Grasping at Illusions: Stimulating the skin to investigate the cutaneous contribution to kinesthesia in the human hand

open access: yes
How do you know your hand is moving without looking at it? This “movement sense”, known as kinesthesia, is thought to be primarily informed by receptors in muscles; specifically, the muscle spindles.
Leverett, Jessica A.
core   +1 more source

Long-term effects of kinesthesia/balance and strengthening exercises on patients with knee osteoarthritis: A one-year follow-up study

open access: yes, 2008
Objective: Strengthening exercises are given frequently to the patients with knee osteoarthritis. It is known that these patients have proprioceptive deficits.
Diracoglu, Demirhan   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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