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Minor Gestures: Chantal Akerman’s Un jour Pina a demandé…

open access: yesCinéma & Cie, 2020
Drawing on Erin Manning’s concept of the ‘minor gesture’, this article engages with the choreographic and filmic value of gestural hands. It considers Bausch’s choreography as a gestural practice that intervenes into everyday comportment and habits to ...
Lucia Ruprecht
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Could You Say [læp˺ tɒp˺]? Acquisition of Unreleased Stops by Advanced French Learners of English Using Spectrograms and Gestures

open access: yesLanguages
The present study analyses the production rates of stop-unrelease amongst advanced French learners of English before and after training. Although stop-unrelease may be regarded as a minor issue in English pronunciation teaching, it has received some ...
Maelle Amand, Zakaria Touhami
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Intuitive Control of a Robotic Arm via Inertial Sensors and EMG for Assistive Applications

open access: yesCurrent Directions in Biomedical Engineering
We present an intuitive, real-time control system for a 6-axis robotic arm, designed to support assistive applications in biomedical contexts. Using four MARG-based inertial sensors placed on the arm and hand, human motion is captured and mapped to robot
Hofmann Matthis   +3 more
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Transcending Measurement: What Matters When Making-with-Music for Equitable Wellbeing in Health and Social Care Systems

open access: yesBehavioral Sciences
Research has long supported the use of and engagement with music as a catalyst for health and wellbeing. However, there is a lack of research exploring how the structures, rituals and ‘minor gestures’ that go alongside music-making, making-with the ...
Marisa de Andrade   +4 more
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Workplace bullying as the erosion of recognition: ethnographic insights from a Schutzian perspective

open access: yesFrontiers in Sociology
This article proposes to understand workplace bullying as the erosion of recognition from a phenomenological perspective. Drawing on Schutz’s sociology of knowledge, it examines how rumours, silences, and informal labels reorganise the typifications ...
Ángel Martínez-Hernáez
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Key-Specific Structure in Mozart's Music: A Peek into his Creative Process?

open access: yesEmpirical Musicology Review, 2023
Theories of tonal music take for granted that all keys of the same mode (i.e., all major and all minor keys) are employed by composers in essentially the same way; however, newer analytical and cognitive research challenges this view by pointing to ...
Uri B. Rom, Saharon Rosset
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On attaining user-friendly hand gesture interfaces to control existing GUIs

open access: yesVirtual Reality & Intelligent Hardware, 2020
Background: Hand gesture interfaces are dedicated programs that principally perform hand tracking and hand gesture prediction to provide alternative controls and interaction methods.
Egemen Ertugrul, Ping Li, Bin Sheng
doaj   +1 more source

Divine Expressions in Pala Art: Sculptures of Transcendence with special reference to Buddhist minor Deities

open access: yesRESEARCH REVIEW International Journal of Multidisciplinary, 2023
The art and iconography of the sculptures from the Pala period (8th to 12th centuries CE) in India represent a significant phase in the evolution of Buddhist and Hindu art. The Pala dynasty, which ruled over parts of present-day India and Bangladesh, was
Akanksha Tiwari, Alok Shrotriya
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Storytelling, Folktales and the Comic Book Format [PDF]

open access: yes, 2001
The reading process in comics is an extension of text. In text alone the process of reading involves word-to-image conversion. Comics accelerate that by providing the image.
de Vos, Gail
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Utility of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) for educational psychologists’ work [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Despite embracing a bio-psycho-social perspective, the World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) assessment framework has had limited application to date with children who have special ...
Aljunied, M, Frederickson, N
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