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Perception of verticality in the post-COVID-19 condition correlates to infection severity
Journal of Central Nervous System Disease, 2023 Background SARS-CoV-2 infection affects multiple systems, including musculoskeletal, neurological, and respiratory systems. Changes associated with physical inactivity due to prolonged hospitalization can affect the functional capacity of individuals ...
Bruno Henrique de Souza Fonseca MSc +6 more
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Augustine and Heidegger on Verticality and Everydayness [PDF]
, 2023 The first part of the article examines how Augustine’s notion of the everyday is mediated by his mystical ascensions, which give him the sense of height against which everydayness appears as oriented downward or fallen.
Dahl, Espen, Espen Dahl
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Rethinking Verticality Through Top-Down Views in Drone Hobbyist Photography [PDF]
, 2023 This paper adopts a geosemiotics perspective to the study of top-down views produced by drone hobbyists to explore how they challenge or disrupt traditional meanings associated with verticality.
O’Hagan, Lauren Alex +6 more
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Archaeology, Architecture and the Politics of Verticality [PDF]
, 2023 The Israeli-Palestinian is defined by where and how one builds. This chapter explores the politics of verticality. The terrain dictates the nature, intensity and focal points of confrontation. On the other hand, the conflict manifests itself most clearly
Weizman, Eyal
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Henry James and Vittor Carpaccio
RSA Journal, 2005 The paper investigates the theme of the Vertical and the Horizontal in Art by examining James's relation with Vittor Carpaccio, an artist he extols in the "Venice" essay (1882) in Italian Hours by declaring that "there is something ridiculous in talking
Marina Coslovi
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On the Mediality of Two Towers: Calgary—Toronto
Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Media Studies, 2020 This article uses the CN Tower and Calgary Tower to explore how the architectural form of the tower possesses a number of characteristics we typically associate with media technologies.
Ira Wagman, Liam Cole Young
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Journal of Parkinson’s Disease, 2021 Background: Verticality perception is frequently altered in Parkinson’s disease (PD) with Pisa syndrome (PS). Is it the cause or the consequence of the PS? Objective: We tested the hypothesis that both scenarios coexist.
Céline Piscicelli +8 more
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Od letargu do akrobacji. O wertykalnej orientacji podmiotu w eseistyce Marka Bieńczyka
Autobiografia, 2022 Initially two-handed, Marek Bieńczyk’s writing evolved towards a hybrid, multi-genre essay formula. Referring to Sloterdijk’s concept of theoretical life (bíos theōrētikós), this evolution was presented as an expression of an attitude reluctant to ...
JACEK BIELAWA
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The climbing body: verticality and the gallery [PDF]
, 2019 Embodied knowledge amassed through the act of climbing has the potential to generate alternate ways of understanding vertical planes. Verticality in the gallery refers to flat, blank walls that are traditionally disembodied, decontextualised and used for
van Uden, Ellyse
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Multi-level Verticality Optimization: Concept, Strategies, and Drawing Scheme
Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications, 2013 In traditional multi-level graph drawing-known as Sugiyama's framework-the number of crossings is considered one of the most important goals. Herein, we propose the alternative concept of optimizing the verticality of the drawn edges.
Markus Chimani, Philipp Hungerländer
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