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Jacobs, Harvey M. "The Anti-Environmental ‘Wise Use’ Movement in America." Land Use Law & Zoning Digest 47, no. 2 (1995): 3–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00947598.1995.10394698.
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McCarthy, James. "First World Political Ecology: Lessons from the Wise Use Movement." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 34, no. 7 (2002): 1281–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a3526.
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The author demonstrates, through a case study of the Wise Use movement, that the insights and tools of political ecology have much to offer in the study of First World resource conflicts. He uses theories and methods drawn from the literature concerning political ecology and moral economies to argue that many assumptions regarding state capacity, individual and collective identities and motivations, and economic and historical relations in advanced capitalist countries are mistaken or incomplete in ways that have led to important dimensions of environmental conflicts in such locales being overlooked. The argument is based mainly on the author's own research on the Wise Use movement in the rural American West of the 1980s and 1990s but also draws on other recent work in political ecology, historical and economic geography, and environmental history.
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Peeples, Jennifer A. "Chapter One: Aggressive Mimicry: The Rhetoric of Wise Use and the Environmental Movement." Environmental Communication Yearbook 2, no. 1 (2005): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15567362ecy0201_1.
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Reitan, Eric. "Private Property Rights, Moral Extensionism and the Wise-Use Movement: A Rawlsian Analysis." Environmental Values 13, no. 3 (2004): 329–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096327104323312653.
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Agur, Colin, and Nicholas Frisch. "Digital Disobedience and the Limits of Persuasion: Social Media Activism in Hong Kong’s 2014 Umbrella Movement." Social Media + Society 5, no. 1 (2019): 205630511982700. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2056305119827002.
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This article probes the catalytic features of social media in civic participation and mass civil disobedience in Hong Kong’s 2014 protests, and conceptualizes digital activism in terms of mobilization, organization, and persuasion. It makes use of in-depth interviews, in English, Mandarin, and Cantonese, with 40 of the leading users of social media during the protests. These included, first and foremost, student activists, as well as opposition figures and journalists who reported on the protests. The article finds that the velocity and scale of social media have strengthened protesters’ ability to mobilize and organize, on the Internet and in the streets. Yet, these advantages have not carried over into persuasion of previously uncommitted individuals. Protesters encountered two main obstacles to persuasion via social media: the multitude of messages enabled by social media and the age segmentation of media. As a result, the movement’s social media efforts generated new attention and created digital space for activism, but did not persuade a durable majority of Hongkongers of the movement’s legitimacy. The Umbrella Movement may not have persuaded Hongkongers that their movement and tactics were valid or wise, but the existence of social media allowed protest leaders to document their motivations and conduct, and blunt less flattering narratives in legacy media.
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Harmening, Corinna, Christoph Hobmaier, and Hans Neuner. "Laser Scanner–Based Deformation Analysis Using Approximating B-Spline Surfaces." Remote Sensing 13, no. 18 (2021): 3551. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13183551.
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Due to the increased use of areal measurement techniques, such as laser scanning in geodetic monitoring tasks, areal analysis strategies have considerably gained in importance over the last decade. Although a variety of approaches that quasi-continuously model deformations are already proposed in the literature, there are still a multitude of challenges to solve. One of the major interests of engineering geodesy within monitoring tasks is the detection of absolute distortions with respect to a stable reference frame. Determining distortions and simultaneously establishing the joint geodetic datum can be realised by modelling the differences between point clouds acquired in different measuring epochs by means of a rigid body movement that is superimposed by distortions. In a previous study, we discussed the possibility of estimating these rigid body movements from the control points of B-spline surfaces approximating the acquired point clouds. Alternatively, we focus on estimating them by means of constructed points on B-spline surfaces in this study. This strategy has the advantage of larger redundancy compared to the control point–based strategy. Furthermore, the strategy introduced allows for the detection of rigid body movements between point clouds of different epochs and for the simultaneous localisation of areas in which the rigid body movement is superimposed by distortions. The developed approach is based on B-spline models of epoch-wise acquired point clouds, the surface parameters of which define point correspondences on different B-spline surfaces. Using these point correspondences, a RANSAC-approach is used to robustly estimate the parameters of the rigid body movement. The resulting consensus set initially defines the non-distorted areas of the object under investigation, which are extended and statistically verified in a second step. The developed approach is applied to simulated data sets, revealing that distorted areas can be reliably detected and that the parameters of the rigid body movement can be precisely and accurately determined by means of the strategy.
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Roady, Trey, Kyle Wilson, Jonny Kuo, and Michael G. Lenné. "How Do Drivers Hold Their Phone? Age, Prevalence, & Handedness." Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 64, no. 1 (2020): 1254–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1071181320641298.
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Objective Research shows frequent mobile phone use in vehicles but says little regarding how drivers hold their phone. This knowledge would inform countermeasures and benefit law enforcement in detecting phone use. Methods 934 participants were surveyed over phone-use prevalence, handedness, traffic-direction, and where they held their device. Results The majority (66%) reported using their phone while driving. Younger drivers were more likely to use their device. Of device-users, 67% preferred their passenger-side hand, 25% driver-side, and 8% both. Height- wise: 22% held in-lap, 52% even with the wheel, and 22% at wheel-top. Older drivers were more likely to hold the phone in the highest position The three most popular combinations were passenger-middle (35%), passenger-low (19%), and passenger-high (13.9%). There was insufficient evidence of differences based on handedness, prevalence, or traffic-direction. Conclusion Driver-preferred attention regions often require substantial neck flexion and eye-movement, which facilitates distraction detection. However, behavior may change in response to future interventions.
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Wildes, Fred T. "Recent Themes in Conservation Philosophy and Policy in the United States." Environmental Conservation 22, no. 2 (1995): 143–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892900010195.
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A key characteristic of conservation in the United States is the dichotomy between two main philosophies. One of these is anthropocentric and utilitarian, advocating the wise use of Nature and natural resources, while the other is basically ecocentric, as it espouses principles of nonuse and preservation. This dualism has existed since the early days of the conservation movement, when the formerly uncontrolled use of a supposedly limitless natural environment finally gave way to a policy of resource management which was designed to conserve Nature and resource availability within the framework of human utilization. Generally opposed to this historically dominant paradigm were those who believed in preserving Nature for its own sake, and who have laboured over the years to modify and ameliorate the prevalent, central pattern.After a period of relative unconcern, conservation underwent a resurgence as part of the environmental movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Environmental quality was the key concern, being highlighted by problems of pollution and degradation of the natural habitat. While providing the impetus for some broad environmental and conservation measures, this central focus directed primary attention to setting the problems. The traditional dominance of utilitarian resource management was maintained, relying on our managerial and scientific skills to address heightened environmental concerns. The era also spawned a number of other philosophies and themes. These have included a renewed sense of the ethics and spirituality of Nature, the emergence of ecology as a publicly-recognized-as-important field of science, ‘greener’ ecocentric movements, theories advocating more radical change, neo-Marxist theory on the relationship between Man and Nature, and various themes on limiting environmental growth and stress especially imposed by everincreasing human numbers.
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Oluwafisayo T., Ayo-Agunbiade, and Stephens Mobolaji S. "Causal Factors of Flight Delay in Nigerian Airport: A Case Study of Murtala Muhammed International Airport." Bangladesh Journal of Multidisciplinary Scientific Research 1, no. 2 (2019): 54–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.46281/bjmsr.v1i2.381.
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Delay is a prominent event mostly experienced at the airport by both airline and passengers. Globally delay is permitted at 15mins later than the scheduled time. Assessing the level of delay in the airport is a major criterion for measuring airport performance. Aircraft not adhering to schedule flight results in increased airport congestion, cancellation flight and flight delay. This study made use of primary data through well-structured questionnaires to obtain information from selected NAMA Staff at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA). Operational delay report for a month and Airlines flight were examined for two months under the MMA2 to know the deviation of scheduled flight time from actual flight time. Descriptive Analysis, Wilcoxon Rank test, Factor Analysis and Step Wise Regression were the statistical tools deployed for this research. Findings showed that on a monthly base, 63% of the domestic traffic flows are delayed. Some factors responsible for delay were considered: aircraft damage, bad weather, aircraft maintenance, VIP movement and fueling are the major factor responsible for delay of aircraft Movement.
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Van Acker, Veronique, Begga Van Cauwenberge, and Frank Witlox. "MaxSUMO: A New Expert Approach for Evaluating Mobility Management Projects." PROMET - Traffic&Transportation 25, no. 3 (2013): 285–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.7307/ptt.v25i3.290.
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There is need for better understanding of how mobility management interventions work and how they affect the individuals’ modal choice decisions, as well as need for robust evaluation techniques allowing any behavioural changes to be observed. Changing individual’s behaviour is not a one-step process and any evaluation methodology should account for this. A new standardized expert evaluation resource MaxSUMO takes this step-wise process into account. MaxSUMO is based on a new theoretical behavioural change model MaxSEM which measures individuals’ stage positions (their susceptibility to change behaviour) and stage movement (progression towards actual behavioural change). This paper illustrates the use of MaxSUMO by the evaluation of the mobility campaign “I keep moving, even without my car” undertaken by the City of Ghent.
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Hereward, James P., Paul J. DeBarro, and Gimme H. Walter. "Resolving multiple host use of an emergent pest of cotton with microsatellite data and chloroplast markers (Creontiades dilutus Stål; Hemiptera, Miridae)." Bulletin of Entomological Research 103, no. 5 (2013): 611–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007485313000291.
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AbstractFollowing the global uptake of transgenic cotton several Hemipteran pests have emerged as primary targets for pesticide control. Previous research on one such emergent pest: the green mirid, Creontiades dilutus, indicated differential use of two crop hosts, cotton (Gossypium hirsutum, Malvaceae) and lucerne (alfalfa) (Medicago sativa, Fabaceae). We tested the hypothesis that this apparent demographic independence of lucerne and cotton inhabiting mirids is the result of cryptic species being associated with these two crops. We assessed gene flow using microsatellite markers across adjacent cotton and lucerne crops at three geographically separated sites (up to 900 km apart). We also analysed the recent feeding behaviour of these insects by amplifying chloroplast markers from their gut contents. We find high gene flow between these two crops (mean pair wise FST between host plants=0.0141 within localities), and no evidence of cryptic species. Furthermore, the gut analyses revealed evidence of substantial recent movement between these two crops. We discuss the implications of these results for interpreting multiple host use in this species and setting future research priorities for this economically important pest.
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Callahan, Cory, and Janie Hubbard. "Protest and prayer: the Jewish and Catholic presence at Selma." Social Studies Research and Practice 14, no. 2 (2019): 238–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ssrp-02-2019-0008.
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Purpose The recent motion picture Selma infused fresh interest – and controversy – into the political and emotional peak of America’s modern Civil Rights Movement. Ava DuVernay, the film’s director, faced criticism for her exclusion of the Jewish presence from the movie’s portrayal of the March 21, 1965 Voting Rights March. The recent attention presents a teachable moment and new energy for thinking deeply about this pivotal event in America’s past. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The authors provide valuable historical domain knowledge surrounding the 1965 Voting Rights March, present the requisite plans and curriculum resources for implementing wise-practice instructional strategies, and explore the rationale underpinning the inquiry-based activities. Findings The authors share innovative approaches, at the secondary and elementary levels, integrating historical domain knowledge with renewed interest in the 1965 Voting Rights March to create powerful teaching-and-learning experiences. The approaches are innovative because they contain dynamic curriculum materials and reflect wise-practice use of historical photographs within the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards. Practical implications The approaches shared here are centered around questioning, a key to student learning. The lessons feature the development of questions, both from teachers and students, as classes work collaboratively to interpret a potentially powerful historical photograph and use historical events to practice thinking deeply about important topics. Originality/value Social studies classrooms are ideal educational spaces to develop and practice the analytical skills and dispositions students need to meet the challenge of critiquing visual information that concerns complex public issues, such as the role of religion in society.
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Ogino, Mikito, and Yasue Mitsukura. "Portable Drowsiness Detection through Use of a Prefrontal Single-Channel Electroencephalogram." Sensors 18, no. 12 (2018): 4477. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s18124477.
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Drowsiness detection has been studied in the context of evaluating products, assessing driver alertness, and managing office environments. Drowsiness level can be readily detected through measurement of human brain activity. The electroencephalogram (EEG), a device whose application relies on adhering electrodes to the scalp, is the primary method used to monitor brain activity. The many electrodes and wires required to perform an EEG place considerable constraints on the movement of users, and the cost of the device limits its availability. For these reasons, conventional EEG devices are not used in practical studies and businesses. Many potential practical applications could benefit from the development of a wire-free, low-priced device; however, it remains to be elucidated whether portable EEG devices can be used to estimate human drowsiness levels and applied within practical research settings and businesses. In this study, we outline the development of a drowsiness detection system that makes use of a low-priced, prefrontal single-channel EEG device and evaluate its performance in an offline analysis and a practical experiment. Firstly, for the development of the system, we compared three feature extraction methods: power spectral density (PSD), autoregressive (AR) modeling, and multiscale entropy (MSE) for detecting characteristics of an EEG. In order to efficiently select a meaningful PSD, we utilized step-wise linear discriminant analysis (SWLDA). Time-averaging and robust-scaling were used to fit the data for pattern recognition. Pattern recognition was performed by a support vector machine (SVM) with a radial basis function (RBF) kernel. The optimal hyperparameters for the SVM were selected by the grind search method so as to increase drowsiness detection accuracy. To evaluate the performance of the detections, we calculated classification accuracy using the SVM through 10-fold cross-validation. Our model achieved a classification accuracy of 72.7% using the PSD with SWLDA and the SVM. Secondly, we conducted a practical study using the system and evaluated its performance in a practical situation. There was a significant difference (* p < 0.05) between the drowsiness-evoked task and concentration-needed task. Our results demonstrate the efficacy of our low-priced portable drowsiness detection system in quantifying drowsy states. We anticipate that our system will be useful to practical studies with aims as diverse as measurement of classroom mental engagement, evaluation of movies, and office environment evaluation.
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Lach, Denise. "Introduction: Environmental Conflict." Sociological Perspectives 39, no. 2 (1996): 211–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1389308.
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Environmental conflict appears to be increasing exponentially. Natural resource management disputes over preservation or “wise use” rage in forests, river systems, rangelands, and mineral lands. Locating hazardous waste sites is so contentious that there is only one site in the country that accepts the high-level waste produced everywhere else in the United State. Existing waste sites are closing their gates to all but local waste. Low income and minority communities are documenting the disproportionate burden of toxic contamination in their neighborhoods and are fighting back in the environmental justice movement. NIMBY (Not In My ***BackYard) responses to LULUs (Locally Unwanted Land Uses) appear to have paralyzed both government agencies and neighborhoods as they attempt to clean up past contamination, control present pollution, and manage future responses to development. Conflicts and disputes between affected parties—stakeholders in the common parlance—are regularly in the news as local, state, and federal government agencies attempt to gain public acceptability of programs through public involvement in decision making.
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Gitman, Elena, Svetlana Soloveva, and Tatiana Tokhtueva. "Readiness of additional vocational education teachers for pre-retirement age citizens education within Worldskills competition standards." KANT 36, no. 3 (2020): 252–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.24923/2222-243x.2020-36.48.
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The paper deals with the problem of vocational education teachers' readiness for training pre-retirement age citizens. With the introduction of the state program "Older Generation", aimed to improve the skills or mastering the new competence of pre-retirement age citizens, training centers for this contingent are actively opening up. The training is conducted by teachers of educational institutions of the secondary vocational education system. Training programs according to Worldskills standards within the framework of the championship movement "Skills of the Wise" provide an opportunity for people aged 50+ to upgrade their skills or to master a new competency on the basis of the existing one. The authors aim to identify the level of andragogical competence of a teacher of vocational education. The research is based on empirical methods such as comparative analysis, generalizations, observation, questionnaires, and experiment. The research results show that the education of older people cannot be based on general recommendations, and requires the use of certain methodological approaches in teaching methods.
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Sanpera, Ignacio, Sandra Villafranca-Solano, Carmen Muñoz-Lopez, and Julia Sanpera-Iglesias. "How to manage pes cavus in children and adolescents?" EFORT Open Reviews 6, no. 6 (2021): 510–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1302/2058-5241.6.210021.
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Pes cavus in its different forms is not a pathological entity, but rather the manifestation of multiple diseases. Cavovarus, a form of cavus foot, should never be considered a physiological deformity. A neurological condition should always be excluded. The evolution of pes cavovarus is unpredictable because of the large number of conditions involved in its aetiology, as well as their variable degree of expression. About 66% of cavovarus feet are the result of subtle neurological diseases, which only become evident later in life. Although surgery may not change quality of life, recent studies suggest that it may improve foot posture and reduce walking instability. The aim of treatment is to preserve a painless, plantigrade, mobile foot. Management consists of correcting bone deformity while preserving movement, and the wise use of rebalancing techniques. Arthrodesis should only be a salvage procedure. Cite this article: EFORT Open Rev 2021;6:510-517. DOI: 10.1302/2058-5241.6.210021
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Singh, Harcharan. "Planning of Integrated Land Use and Social Infrastructure of SAS Nagar, Mohali, Punjab." Asian Review of Social Sciences 8, no. 1 (2019): 61–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.51983/arss-2019.8.1.1533.
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The social infrastructure and needs of the various communities coexisting in a city are associated in considerably substantial and strong relationship with its surrounding environment. There are numerous parameters which influence the social infrastructure and community needs with respect to its integration with the land use of that city. Accessibility of proper terminals for public transportation, institutes, and hospitals parks etc. These parameters are studied along with parallel analysis of the total area covered and existing population of the city. Social infrastructures in a city have a large impact on the quality of life of the people in the urban centers. SAS Nagar (Mohali) is a counter magnet city of Chandigarh and one of the the most well-known planned city in Punjab, India. Mohali started developing as a counter magnet in the early 1990’s. It was initially known as Mohali village, a part of the Union Territory of Chandigarh. Mohali inhere with phases/ sectors including the new industrial areas, commercial centers and the educational institutions like as C-DAC Mohali in the vicinity of the residential areas. Mohali is spread over a total area of 167.67 sq. km out of which 32.58 sq.km is under the MC area with is characterized by very well planned areas. Despite of being a well-planned city of Punjab, India; Mohali still have a shortage of appropriate opportunity of services with low openness to the needs of the people. This study focuses on the relationship between land use and the social infrastructure with emphasis on the relationship analysis with geospatial planning techniques. The quality of life of people depends on the accessibility to quality of social and community infrastructure; it also impacts the migration pattern and the movement of daily commuters for their various reasons in the city. The advancement of the city is being anticipated as per the increase of the urbanization along with accessibility to proper social infrastructure, which satisfies the essential & functioning demand of the city. The development of the city is of two types’ i.e. compact development and sprawl development (depends on the density of population per sq.km). The assessment study of community infrastructure and social needs of Mohali includes various types of operational functioning parameters for study like; directional analysis, population wise analysis and area wise analysis. These social and community infrastructural needs have their own norms and standards for the city level services and as well as neighbourhood level assistance, which categorize their accessibility for the integrated land use pattern and population for services. By using open source GIS, the served areas and un-served areas along with their names are bring classified properly as per the given parameters.
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Seider, T., E. Porges, A. Woods, and R. Cohen. "C-19 An fMRI Study of Age-Associated Changes in Basic Visual Discrimination." Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology 34, no. 6 (2019): 1048. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/arclin/acz034.181.
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Abstract Objective The study was conducted to determine age-associated changes in functional brain response, measured with fMRI, during visual discrimination with regard to three elementary components of visual perception: shape, location, and velocity. A secondary aim was to validate the method used to isolate the hypothesized brain regions associated with these perceptual functions. Method Items from the Visual Assessment Battery (VAB), a simultaneous match-to-sample task, assessed visual discrimination in 40 healthy adults during fMRI. Participants were aged 51-91 and recruited from a larger community sample for a study on normal aging. The tasks were designed to isolate neural recruitment during discrimination of either location, shape, or velocity by using tasks that were identical aside from the perceptual skill required to complete them. Results The Location task uniquely activated the dorsal visual processing stream, the Shape task the ventral stream, and the Velocity task V5/MT. Greater age was associated with greater neural recruitment, particularly in frontal areas (uncorrected voxel-level p < .001, family-wise error cluster-level p□.05). Conclusions Results validated the specialization of brain regions for spatial, perceptual, and movement discriminations and the use of the VAB to assess functioning localized to these regions. Anterior neural recruitment during visual discrimination increases with age.
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Chen, Liding, Wei Wei, Bojie Fu, and Yihe Lü. "Soil and water conservation on the Loess Plateau in China: review and perspective." Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 31, no. 4 (2007): 389–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309133307081290.
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The Loess Plateau, China, has long been suffering from serious soil erosion. About 2000 years ago, larger areas were used for grain production and soil erosion was thus becoming severe with increase in human activity. Severe soil and water loss led to widespread land degradation. During the past decades, great efforts were made in vegetation restoration to reduce soil erosion. However, the efficiency of vegetation restoration was not as satisfactory as expected due to water shortage. China initiated another state-funded scheme, the `Grain-for-Green' project in 1999, on the Loess Plateau to reduce soil erosion and improve land quality. However, the control of soil erosion effectively by land-use modification raised problems. In this paper, the lessons and experiences regarding soil and water conservation in the Loess Plateau in the past decades are analysed first. Urgent problems are then elaborated, such as the contradiction between land resource and human population, shortage of water both in amount and tempospatial distribution for vegetation growth, weak awareness of the problems of soil conservation by local officials, and poor public participation in soil and water conservation. Finally, suggestions regarding soil and water conservation in the Loess Plateau are given. In order to control soil erosion and improve vegetation, a scientific and detailed land-use plan for the Loess Plateau has to be made, in the first instance, and then planning for wise use of water resources should be undertaken to control mass movement effectively and to improve land productivity. Methods of improving public awareness of environmental conservation and public involvement in vegetation rehabilitation are also important.
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Pramasepta, Wipti Aga, Christina Rochayanti, and Kartika Ayu Ardhanariswari. "CONTENT ANALYSIS OF SOCIAL CRITICAL IN ANTITANK-PROJECT INSTAGRAM ACCOUNT." Indonesian Journal of Communication Studies 13, no. 1 (2020): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.31315/ijcs.v13i1.3849.
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Criticism is one element that can keep the existing system in its tracks and not get out of the way the system should be. Anti-tank has initially been one of the artists and activists who expressed their criticism using posters in Yogyakarta. This study aims to determine the content of criticism in the Antitank Project and the tendency of criticism. The method is content analysis. The theory used is the spiral silence theory and Habermas' critical theory. The study population amounted to 192 images in the period of January 2016 - December 2018. The study sample was taken 46 pictures to be examined because of the repetition of several photographs. The research results show that there is a tendency in Antitank criticism, namely in the political field, in which there is an important element of power and has high publicity. The object of criticism of Anti-tank's dominant work is the state government, which holds the country's highest authority. Communication of indirect criticism works or symbols becomes dominant in Antitank social criticism works. The use of symbols is more interesting and wise, to reduce conflict with the object of criticism. Antitank uploads through Instagram to get broad support and increase the approach to his work to cause movement to a broad audience by the theory adopted, namely the spiral of silence theory.
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Hong, Chang-Yu, Ran Yoon, Jung-Don Hwang, and Min-Seok Jwa. "Exploring Community Symbiotic Tourism Programs for the Utilization and Conservation of Ecology in Lava Stony Forest (Gotjawal) of Jeju Island, Korea." Sustainability 12, no. 20 (2020): 8371. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12208371.
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According to our research findings, the future-oriented conservation of natural ecological resources in the Sahn-Yang Gotjawal area should be shaped and formed in a sustainable ecological way to improve the economy of the Sahn-Yang area. This study covers a systematic and quantitative assessment of the function, design, and purpose of establishing a regional eco-tourism program using the Sahn-Yang Gotjawal (Volcanic Lava Stony Forest) natural resources of Jeju Island, South Korea. Although citizens’ interest in Jeju Gotjawal has increased, reckless exploration and damage still occurred. There were improvements on the movement to preserve geological features and the ecosystem. However, unfortunately the negative effects of only seeking development opportunities without regard to the environment was realized as well. Through strengths, opportunities, aspirations, results (SOAR) analysis, various potential situations and conditions using the Sahn-Yang Gotjawal resources were analyzed with quantitative and qualitative techniques. In addition, through media analysis, the benefits and opportunities that the Gotjawal resources could provide the citizens were identified and the results were combined with SOAR analysis to present an integrated vision. In order to make wise use of Sahn-Yang Gotjawal, such as conserving, sustaining, and creating accessibility (guided by SESs), it is necessary to concentrate on the ‘strengths’ such as creating and maximizing attractions which can develop management programs such as preservation research and monitoring, as well as establishing sustainable usage of facilities such as visitors’ gathering spaces, exploration activities, and convenient facilities.
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Gallagher, Lisa M., and Francois Bethoux. "Therapeutic use of the Arts for Patients with Multiple Sclerosis." US Endocrinology 13, no. 02 (2017): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.17925/use.2017.13.02.82.
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People with multiple sclerosis (MS) face a wide variety of physical, emotional, and social challenges. A multidisciplinary comprehensive care approach is recommended for the management of MS and its consequences, and non-traditional treatments are increasingly considered by patients and health care providers, particularly for the promotion of wellness in the context of this chronic disease. Previous research has demonstrated the benefits of the therapeutic arts (art therapy, dance and movement therapy, and music therapy) in addressing some of the physiological, psychological, cognitive, social, and spiritual needs of patients facing a variety of chronic illnesses. Our review of the literature suggests that therapeutic art can be beneficial to individuals with MS, particularly in promoting self-efficacy, emotional well-being, and motor control. However, the body of evidence is limited, and further research is needed regarding the outcomes and mechanism of action of therapeutic arts in MS to better understand their role in the management of the consequences of the disease.
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Ahmad, Ishtiaq, JinYoung Jang, and KyungHi Chang. "QoS Priority-Based Mobile Personal Cell Deployment with Load Balancing for Interference Reduction between Users on Coexisting Public Safety and Railway LTE Networks." Electronics 9, no. 12 (2020): 2136. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics9122136.
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The Republic of Korea has played a leading role in the development of next-generation long-term evolution (LTE) public safety networks. The LTE-based public safety (PS-LTE) network, the LTE-based high-speed railway (LTE-R) network, and the LTE-based maritime (LTE-M) network use the same 700 MHz frequency band. That results in severe co-channel interference (CCI), so there is a dire need for practical research into resolving the CCI issue. Moreover, unplanned deployment of the mobile personal cell (mPC) generates serious user-association issues owing to its movement, which leads to severe co-channel interference in coexisting PS-LTE and LTE-R networks. Indeed, it is important to satisfy users’ quality of service (QoS) requirements during resource allocation in specific public safety situations. Therefore, we address the CCI issues through wise deployment of the mPC for user association and load balancing in overlapping PS-LTE and LTE-R networks. In this paper, we propose a QoS mPC deployment (QoS_mPCD) scheme for priority-based load balancing and interference reduction in coexisting PS-LTE and LTE-R networks. The proposed scheme efficiently manages the user-association and load-balancing problems, and allocates the best resources to high-priority users based on defined service priority levels. Moreover, we employ an enhanced inter-cell interference coordination (eICIC) scheme that further reduces the interference with the users offloaded onto an mPC. System-level simulations are performed to evaluate the proposed QoS_mPCD scheme by considering important performance matrices such as user equipment (UE) throughput, UE received interference, and UE outage probabilities.
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Desposato, Scott, and Gang Wang. "THE LONG-TERM IMPACT OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND REPRESSION ON DEMOCRATIC ATTITUDES." Journal of East Asian Studies 20, no. 3 (2020): 317–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jea.2020.16.
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AbstractDemocracy movements in authoritarian regimes usually fail and are repressed, but they may still affect attitudes and norms of participants and bystanders. We exploit several features of a student movement to test for enduring effects of social movements on democratic attitudes. College students were the core of the movement and had wide exposure to the ideas and activities of the movement, as well as the suppression of the movement. College-bound high school students had limited exposure to the movement and its activities. Time of college entry could in theory be manipulated and endogenous, so we also use birthdate as an exogenous instrument for enrollment year. Applying a fuzzy regression discontinuity, we test for the impact of exposure to the movement on long-term attitudes. We find significant attitudinal differences between those in college during the movement, and those who started college post-movement. These results are strongest for alumni of the four universities that were most connected to the movement.
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Doğu, Burak. "Political Use of Twitter in Post-Gezi Environmental Protests." Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 12, no. 2 (2019): 185–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01202007.
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Abstract Twitter has often been associated with recent social movements, particularly in the Middle East region. It was also used widely in Turkey during and after the nationwide Gezi protests of 2013. In this article, I study the political engagement practices on Twitter with a particular focus on the post-Gezi environmental protests, and reflect on how emergent protest ecologies are shaped through the participation of the diverse stakeholders. Based on an analysis of three environmental protests in Yirca, Iztuzu and Cerattepe, I highlight the role of Twitter as a political platform connecting players across protests. Findings indicate that Twitter plays a significant role in expanding protest networks and enabling the congregation of a wide variety of players, such as environmental movement organizations, media, political figures and activists who then help to sustain their resistance movements.
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Wong, Jeremy, Elizabeth T. Wilson, Nicole Malfait, and Paul L. Gribble. "Limb Stiffness Is Modulated With Spatial Accuracy Requirements During Movement in the Absence of Destabilizing Forces." Journal of Neurophysiology 101, no. 3 (2009): 1542–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.91188.2008.
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The motor system can use a number of mechanisms to increase movement accuracy and compensate for perturbing external forces, interaction torques, and neuromuscular noise. Empirical studies have shown that stiffness modulation is one adaptive mechanism used to control arm movements in the presence of destabilizing external force loads. Other work has shown that arm muscle activity is increased at movement end for reaching movements to small visual targets and that changes in stiffness at movement end are oriented to match changes in visual accuracy requirements such as target shape. In this study, we assess whether limb stiffness is modulated to match spatial accuracy requirements during movement, conveyed using visual stimuli, in the absence of external force loads. Limb stiffness was estimated in the middle of reaching movements to visual targets located at the end of a narrow (8 mm) or wide (8 cm) visual track. When greater movement accuracy was required, we observed modest but reliable increases in limb stiffness in a direction perpendicular to the track. These findings support the notion that the motor system uses stiffness control to augment movement accuracy during movement and does so in the absence of external unstable force loads, in response to changing accuracy requirements conveyed using visual cues.
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Grossman, Kandice. "TigerSwan at Standing Rock: Ethics of Private Military Use Against an Environmental-Justice Movement." Case Studies in the Environment 3, no. 1 (2019): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/cse.2019.002139.
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In 2016, thousands of people, led by Oceti Sakowin Tribal members, gathered at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota in an attempt to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The movement aroused international media attention, mass support from a wide range of individuals and environmental groups, and political debates regarding Indigenous rights, climate change, fossil fuel reliance, water protection, and corporate power. Ultimately, 10 months into the movement, it was halted by the US federal government and the pipeline was installed. During the movement, state and federal military forces worked alongside a private military and security contractor (PMSC), TigerSwan, hired by owners of the pipeline, Energy Transfer Partners. This case study addresses the ethics of the use of private military against Indigenous-led environmental activists at Standing Rock. Readers will review the modern rise and use of privatized militia, examine specific tactics used by TigerSwan at Standing Rock, and consider the ethics surrounding principles of transparency, accountability, regulation, and the potential risk for increased violence against citizens. A brief historical overview of Oceti Sakowin’s political resistance to US federal land appropriation and corporate exploitation is provided, as well as an analysis of future implications for Indigenous-led environmental justice movements. With this case study, instructors, students, and researchers can debate and analyze the ethical dilemmas regarding the use of PMSCs to target environmental justice movements.
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Schrank, Amy J., and Frank J. Rahel. "Movement patterns in inland cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki utah): management and conservation implications." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 61, no. 8 (2004): 1528–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/f04-097.
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Knowledge of movement patterns is critical to the management and conservation of inland salmonids. We studied the movements of Bonneville cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarki utah) in a drainage in western Wyoming, USA. Our objectives were to (i) characterize the postspawning movement patterns of adult Bonneville cutthroat trout, (ii) contrast postspawning and summer movement patterns, and (iii) identify factors that disrupt the movements of Bonneville cutthroat trout. Our data showed that postspawning movements of Bonneville cutthroat trout formed a continuum, with fish moving from 0.5 to 82.0 km. Postspawning distance was positively related to fish length. Despite the wide range of movement observed during the spring, fish did not move more than 0.5 km during the summer. A road culvert and an irrigation diversion dam did not seem to pose barriers to the upstream movement of Bonneville cutthroat trout to headwater spawning areas in the spring. However, 23% of radio-tagged fish in 2000 moved into the irrigation diversion ditch as they moved downstream after spawning and subsequently died there. Maintaining drainage connectivity is an important conservation concern for trout populations such as this one, where fish move between complementary spawning and summer habitats.
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Gottlieb, G. L., Q. Song, D. A. Hong, G. L. Almeida, and D. Corcos. "Coordinating movement at two joints: a principle of linear covariance." Journal of Neurophysiology 75, no. 4 (1996): 1760–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.1996.75.4.1760.
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1. Six subjects performed fast, "single-joint" flexions at either the elbow or shoulder over three angular distances in a sagittal plane. Movement endpoints were located to require flexion of only a single, "focal" joint, without any external, mechanical constraint on the other, "nonfocal" joint. Three subjects performed another series of movements between two targets while moving along different paths and in which both joints were flexed. 2. We compared the torque patterns that were produced at the two joints. For single-joint movements, they were both biphasic pulses that accelerated and then decelerated the limb. 3. The torque at the nonfocal joint of a single joint movement was very close to linearly proportional to that at the focal joint throughout the movement. Elbow and shoulder torques differed by a linear scaling constant and went through extrema and zero crossings almost simultaneously. 4. In contrast, during movements in which subjects were explicitly instructed to use a hand path they would not naturally, use the linear interjoint torque scaling rule did not apply. This demonstrated that when we wish to move along a path between two targets that is not produced by linear torque covariation, we are able to modify that rule at will. 5. We speculate that linear, dynamic covariation of the torque patterns across two joints may be an important principle for reducing the number of degrees of freedom that the nervous system must independently control in performing unconstrained limb movements over naturally chosen paths.
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Howard, Ian S., James N. Ingram, Konrad P. Körding, and Daniel M. Wolpert. "Statistics of Natural Movements Are Reflected in Motor Errors." Journal of Neurophysiology 102, no. 3 (2009): 1902–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00013.2009.
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Humans use their arms to engage in a wide variety of motor tasks during everyday life. However, little is known about the statistics of these natural arm movements. Studies of the sensory system have shown that the statistics of sensory inputs are key to determining sensory processing. We hypothesized that the statistics of natural everyday movements may, in a similar way, influence motor performance as measured in laboratory-based tasks. We developed a portable motion-tracking system that could be worn by subjects as they went about their daily routine outside of a laboratory setting. We found that the well-documented symmetry bias is reflected in the relative incidence of movements made during everyday tasks. Specifically, symmetric and antisymmetric movements are predominant at low frequencies, whereas only symmetric movements are predominant at high frequencies. Moreover, the statistics of natural movements, that is, their relative incidence, correlated with subjects' performance on a laboratory-based phase-tracking task. These results provide a link between natural movement statistics and motor performance and confirm that the symmetry bias documented in laboratory studies is a natural feature of human movement.
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Guido, Jorgelina M., Pablo AE Alarcón, José A. Donázar, Fernando Hiraldo, and Sergio A. Lambertucci. "The use of biosphere reserves by a wide-ranging avian scavenger indicates its significant potential for conservation." Environmental Conservation 47, no. 1 (2019): 22–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0376892919000304.
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SummaryThe framing of environmental conservation has been changing, mainly towards a reconciliation between human needs and nature conservation. A major challenge of biosphere reserves (BRs) is the integration of biodiversity conservation and the sustainable development of local communities. Although these areas are large, they are often not large enough to contain the movements of wide-ranging species. We studied immature Andean condor (Vultur gryphus) movements to evaluate their habitat use in relation to protected areas (PAs). We particularly aimed to determine whether BRs significantly increase the protection of this wide-ranging species. We analysed the movement overlap of 26 GPS-tagged birds with the PAs of Patagonia, and we evaluated preferences for particular landscape categories with a use–availability design. Condors were mainly located in unprotected areas (56.4%), whereas 26.4% of locations were within International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) PAs and 17.2% of locations were in BRs (not including IUCN PAs). When compared to availability, birds preferred BRs over other areas, highlighting the importance of BRs in protecting species that forage in humanized areas. However, the lack of controls and management policies expose condors to several threats, such as poisoning and persecution, in both private lands and BRs. Implementing strict management practices for BRs will help to conserve wide-ranging scavengers that feed in humanized areas.
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Gupta, Devarupa. "Potential Groundwater Extraction and Piezometric Surface Fluctuations in Puruliya, West Bengal – A GIS based study." Abstracts of the ICA 1 (July 15, 2019): 1–2. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/ica-abs-1-102-2019.
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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> A majority of Indians living in rural areas still primarily depend on agriculture for their sustenance. The water requirement is thus constantly high with groundwater being the most widely used source for domestic, agricultural and industrial use. More than 90% of the rural and nearly 30% of the urban populations depend on groundwater for meeting their drinking and domestic requirements causing an ever-rising demand for groundwater resources, resulting in an increase of the stress on these reservoirs and their consequent pollution. Water resources development occupies a key place in India because of its role in stabilizing the Indian agro-economy. Groundwater is a dynamic and replenishable natural resource but in hard rock terrain availability of groundwater is of limited extent.</p><p>This work attempts to present an overview of groundwater utilisation in the different blocks of Puruliya district, West Bengal and particularly within Puruliya Town (Municipality). Being a semi-arid district, Puruliya experiences hot and dry summers. Groundwater in the district occurs at shallow depths within the weathered mantle, fractural zones of hard rock, and narrow zones of unconsolidated sediments which are utilized by developing dug wells. During the peak of long and harsh summers, most of these openings dry out and there occurs a severe scarcity of water.</p><p> The objectives are:</p><ul><li>Block-wise assessment of groundwater fluctuation (recharge &amp;amp; utilization), types of irrigation structures and present utilization status.</li><li>To examine the groundwater abstraction and use in Puruliya town – the district headquarter.</li><li>Remote sensing studies for locating weak zones and for understanding factors influencing groundwater movement in different geomorphologic setup.</li><li>To highlight the problems associated with groundwater use and investigate possible solutions.</li></ul><p> The following study is mostly done based on secondary data collected from various Central and State Government offices. The various data used and their sources are as follows:</p><ol><li>District level groundwater reports from Central Groundwater Board, Eastern Region, Kolkata.</li><li>District and ward level administrative, land use and land cover, geomorphology and groundwater maps and statistics from Puruliya Town Municipality.</li><li>Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission Digital Elevation Model (SRTM DEM data for preparation of elevation and drainage maps along with Survey of India topographical maps (73E, 73I, 73J – R.F. – 1&amp;thinsp;:&amp;thinsp;250,000) for preparing several base maps.</li><li>Lineament extraction and mapping using SRTM DEM to show possible fracture zones that might be used for future groundwater abstraction.</li><li>Collating different reports together and preparing thematic maps to show the groundwater utilisation status of the different blocks in Puruliya district.</li></ol><p>The work analyzes the correlations between the physiography, geomorphology, geology, hydrogeology, soils, climate and land use &amp;ndash; land cover of the region with the groundwater zones. The present level of groundwater utilization in the district is mapped. Amount and quality of groundwater extracted, the levels of groundwater abstraction development block-wise are examined along with the different types of mechanical structures related to this. The nature of groundwater level fluctuation throughout the district at the Block level, in the Pre-Monsoon and Post-Monsoon season is also depicted and the long term terns of the peizometric surface behaviour analysed from these maps. The Block level utilisation as well the ward level utilisation of groundwater in the District Headquarter, Puruliya Town is mapped. A small attempt is also made to delineate some potential groundwater zones through lineament mapping and correlation with the earlier mapped variables. Problems faced in groundwater exploitation here and its ambient quality is also examined.</p>
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Whitmore, Margaret M., and Matthew K. Litvak. "Seasonal distribution and movement of juvenile Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus) in the lower Saint John River Basin, New Brunswick, Canada." Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 75, no. 12 (2018): 2354–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/cjfas-2017-0429.
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Juvenile Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus oxyrinchus) movement and distribution varies seasonally within the lower Saint John River Basin. We use acoustic telemetry to track coarse-scale movement and a network-based approach to develop metrics describing distribution and movement patterns of juvenile Atlantic sturgeon tagged in two rivers, the Saint John and Kennebecasis rivers. We use principal component analysis to develop indices of movement and residency and test for differences among seasons and between fish from each river. Juvenile Atlantic sturgeon exhibit higher residency during summer months compared with winter and spring. Juveniles are primarily concentrated in the brackish waters of the lower river reaches but make movements as far upriver as rkm 88. There was high variation in distribution and movement patterns exhibited by fish tagged in the Kennebecasis River, ranging from single-location occupancy to wide distribution. Three fish left the system during the study, indicating juveniles embark on brief marine excursions. Identifying spatiotemporal distributions of juvenile Atlantic sturgeon in their natal river systems is a crucial step towards identifying critical habitat and informing management decisions for this species.
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Cos, Ignasi, Farid Medleg, and Paul Cisek. "The modulatory influence of end-point controllability on decisions between actions." Journal of Neurophysiology 108, no. 6 (2012): 1764–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00081.2012.
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Recent work has shown that human subjects are able to predict the biomechanical ease of potential reaching movements and use these predictions to influence their choices. Here, we examined how reach decisions are influenced by specific biomechanical factors related to the control of end-point stability, such as aiming accuracy or stopping control. Human subjects made free choices between two potential reaching movements that varied in terms of path distance and biomechanical cost in four separate blocks that additionally varied two constraints: the width of the targets (narrow or wide) and the requirement of stopping in them. When movements were unconstrained (very wide targets and no requirement of stopping), subjects' choices were strongly biased toward directions aligned with the direction of maximal mobility. However, as the movements became progressively constrained, factors related to the control of the end point gained relevance, thus reducing this bias. This demonstrates that, before movement onset, constraints such as stopping and aiming participate in a remarkably adaptive and flexible action selection process that trades off the advantage of moving along directions of maximal mobility for unconstrained movements against exploiting biomechanical anisotropies to facilitate control of end-point stability whenever the movement constraints require it. These results support a view of decision making between motor actions as a highly context-dependent gradual process in which the subjective desirability of potential actions is influenced by their dynamic properties in relation to the intrinsic properties of the motor apparatus.
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King, Sheila M., Caroline Dykeman, Peter Redgrave, and Paul Dean. "Use of a Distracting Task to Obtain Defensive Head Movements to Looming Visual Stimuli by Human Adults in a Laboratory Setting." Perception 21, no. 2 (1992): 245–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/p210245.
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Defensive responses to looming visual stimuli have been obtained in a wide variety of species, including human infants as young as one week. This phenomenon has not, however, been formally demonstrated for adults under laboratory conditions. In this paper it is reported that similar responses, namely avoidance movements of the head, can be obtained in most human adults provided that they are suitably distracted by playing a computer tracking game. Such behaviours were not obtained when subjects were not so distracted. The use of control conditions also ruled out the possibility that simple movement cues from stimuli presented on a noncollision trajectory are sufficient stimulus to obtain defensive responses. It is of interest to note that latencies for avoidance movements were significantly shorter than those for orienting movements in the same situation, but were no different from the latencies for orienting movements when subjects were not distracted. It is argued that these findings are consistent with the proposition that defensive head movements to looming stimuli, like orienting movements to novel peripheral stimuli, represent a basic visual competence that is normally suppressed (or subsumed) by higher competences. The decision to avoid is probably based on the computation of time to contact, and may reflect the operation of a subcortical system for elementary analysis of optic flow.
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Polito, Michael J., Jefferson T. Hinke, Tom Hart, Mercedes Santos, Leah A. Houghton, and Simon R. Thorrold. "Stable isotope analyses of feather amino acids identify penguin migration strategies at ocean basin scales." Biology Letters 13, no. 8 (2017): 20170241. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2017.0241.
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Identifying the at-sea distribution of wide-ranging marine predators is critical to understanding their ecology. Advances in electronic tracking devices and intrinsic biogeochemical markers have greatly improved our ability to track animal movements on ocean-wide scales. Here, we show that, in combination with direct tracking, stable carbon isotope analysis of essential amino acids in tail feathers provides the ability to track the movement patterns of two, wide-ranging penguin species over ocean basin scales. In addition, we use this isotopic approach across multiple breeding colonies in the Scotia Arc to evaluate migration trends at a regional scale that would be logistically challenging using direct tracking alone.
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Luczak, Tony, David Saucier, Reuben Burch V., et al. "Closing the Wearable Gap: Mobile Systems for Kinematic Signal Monitoring of the Foot and Ankle." Electronics 7, no. 7 (2018): 117. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics7070117.
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Interviews from strength and conditioning coaches across all levels of athletic competition identified their two biggest concerns with the current state of wearable technology: (a) the lack of solutions that accurately capture data “from the ground up” and (b) the lack of trust due to inconsistent measurements. The purpose of this research is to investigate the use of liquid metal sensors, specifically Liquid Wire sensors, as a potential solution for accurately capturing ankle complex movements such as plantar flexion, dorsiflexion, inversion, and eversion. Sensor stretch linearity was validated using a Micro-Ohm Meter and a Wheatstone bridge circuit. Sensors made from different substrates were also tested and discovered to be linear at multiple temperatures. An ankle complex model and computing unit for measuring resistance values were developed to determine sensor output based on simulated plantar flexion movement. The sensors were found to have a significant relationship between the positional change and the resistance values for plantar flexion movement. The results of the study ultimately confirm the researchers’ hypothesis that liquid metal sensors, and Liquid Wire sensors specifically, can serve as a mitigating substitute for inertial measurement unit (IMU) based solutions that attempt to capture specific joint angles and movements.
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Kostic, Milos, and Masa Popovic. "The modified drawing test for assessment of arm movement quality." Journal of Automatic Control 21, no. 1 (2013): 49–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/jac1301049k.
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The cerebrovascular accident often results in motor impairment of one of the upper limbs, hence, compromising the quality of life of stroke survivors. Rehabilitation aims to restore the movement abilities of the paralyzed/paretic upper limb. An important element in rehabilitation is to apply a quantified measure of the quality of movement, in order to follow the recovery and select the most appropriate therapeutic modality. We developed a method that uses data recorded during planar movements and outputs an objective measure that relates to the smoothness, velocity and precision of the movement. This method is universal, in a sense that hand position can be recorded by any available means (e.g., robot assistant, digitizing board, motion tracking systems, etc). The method follows the Drawing Test, but generates results that show the ability of the patient to make point to point movements and track the presented trajectory. The method is based on measurements of hand position during movement along a target path in form of a 2 cm wide rectangle. The patient?s task is to move the hand along the target path as quickly as possible, with as few contacts (collisions) with the sides of the path. This paper addresses the aspects of automatic detection of parameters that quantify the quality of movement (speed, smoothness and precision). The use of this method is presented with 10 patients.
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Jaffe, Debra M., Nancy P. Solomon, Robert A. Robinson, Henry T. Hoffman, and Erich S. Luschei. "Comparison of Concentric Needle Versus Hooked-Wire Electrodes in the Canine Larynx." Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery 118, no. 5 (1998): 655–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/019459989811800515.
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BACKGROUND: The use of a specific electrode type in laryngeal electromyography has not been standardized. Laryngeal electromyography is usually performed with hooked-wire electrodes or concentric needle electrodes. Hooked-wire electrodes have the advantage of allowing laryngeal movement with ease and comfort, whereas the concentric needle electrodes have benefits from a technical aspect and may be advanced, withdrawn, or redirected during attempts to appropriately place the electrode. OBJECTIVES: This study examines whether hooked-wire electrodes permit more stable recordings than standard concentric needle electrodes at rest and after large-scale movements of the larynx and surrounding structures. A histologic comparison of tissue injury resulting from placement and removal of the two electrode types is also made by evaluation of the vocal folds. METHODS: Electrodes were percutaneously placed into the thyroarytenoid muscles of 10 adult canines. Amplitude of electromyographic activity was measured and compared during vagal stimulation before and after large-scale laryngeal movements. Signal consistency over time was examined. Animals were killed and vocal fold injury was graded and compared histologically. RESULTS: Waveform morphology did not consistently differ between electrode types. The variability of electromyographic amplitude was greater for the hooked-wire electrode ( p < 0.05), whereas the mean amplitude measures before and after large-scale laryngeal movements did not differ ( p > 0.05). Inflammatory responses and hematoma formation were also similar. CONCLUSIONS: Waveform morphology of electromyographic signals registered from both electrode types show similar complex action potentials. There is no difference between the hooked-wire electrode and the concentric needle electrode in terms of electrode stability or vocal fold injury in the thyroarytenoid muscle after large-scale laryngeal movements. (Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1998;118:655–62.)
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Jian, Fuji. "Influences of Stored Product Insect Movements on Integrated Pest Management Decisions." Insects 10, no. 4 (2019): 100. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects10040100.
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Insect movement inside and outside grain bulks and processed products influences pest management decisions. Movement allows insects to find essential food resources, shelters (refuges), warmer and/or humid locations, mating and egg-laying sites, even when they are rare in fields, buildings, mills, warehouses, and inside grain masses. This review discussed the advantages and disadvantages of stored product insect movements, and the influence of insect mobility on some integrated pest management practices. Insect movement (1) results in clumped insect spatial distributions and thus makes large sample sizes necessary for monitoring; (2) makes trapping more efficient, but is influenced by many factors; (3) allows control methods to be effective, but requires pest management programs to be area-wide; (4) makes eradication of quarantine pests difficult and commodities are quickly re-infested; and (5) results in a diverse genetic pool and speeds the development of resistance to pesticides. Any element of an IPM approach should use the knowledge of insect movement. Reasons for the difficult interpretation of cryptic movement behaviours of insects were provided and future research areas were suggested.
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Jadapalle, Sree Latha Krishna, Edwin McCray, John Azat Masoud, and Michael W. Kortz. "Methylphenidate-Induced Chorea Due to Possible Cytochrome P450 Metabolism Heterogeneity - A Rare Case." CNS Spectrums 26, no. 2 (2021): 176–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1092852920002898.
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AbstractBackgroundChorea is defined as a hyperactive movement disorder associated with involuntary, quick, and unpredictable muscle contractions of the limbs, face, and trunk. The unpredictable nature of these movements includes variation in speed, timing, and direction of movement. A wide variety of medications, medical conditions and illicit drugs have been associated with movement disorders. Examples include a multitude of antipsychotic induced movement disorders and dyskinesia related to dopaminergic agents, like levodopa and metoclopramide. Dyskinesias have been associated with psycho-stimulant use, such as methylphenidate. However, most cases reported were associated with large doses or chronic use. Aside from dyskinesia, methylphenidate is known to be associated with tic disorder, tremor, and muscle spasm. However, this case reported is unlike any of the above described and involved the development of chorea after only 2 days of moderate doses of methylphenidate, in a patient on chronic methadone maintenance treatment, with successful arrest of symptoms following discontinuation of the methylphenidate.Case PresentationA 47-year-old female was admitted to our hospital after presenting to the emergency department with 1 week of violent flailing movements. The ballistic flailing movements started acutely after 2 days of initiating methylphenidate in addition to her chronic methadone treatment and 2-week period of initiation of paroxetine. Lab work showed normal CBC, CMP, CRP, CK, and TSH. Urine drug screen, CT angiography of the head, and Huntington’s disease testing were all unremarkable, suggesting a decreased likelihood of illicit drugs, traumatic brain injury, or Huntington’s disease etiologies. Confirmation of the diagnosis was made as the chorea symptoms abruptly resolved upon discontinuation of methylphenidate and administration of intravenous Benadryl. The patient has been on methadone alone for 11 months and methylphenidate alone 2 years back with no involuntary movements or any similar presentation that shows the possibility of drug interaction through cytochrome P450 metabolism between Methylphenidate and methadone.ConclusionWe are presenting a rare case report that adds on to the scarce literature on methylphenidate-induced chorea. It also challenges the consulting psychiatrists to broaden their differential diagnosis for acute onset of choreiform movement disorders. This unique case intrigues the thought process to consider the interaction of methylphenidate in the presence of cytochrome P450 2D6 and 3A4 inhibitors like methadone.
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Krouchev, Nedialko I., and John F. Kalaska. "Context-Dependent Anticipation of Different Task Dynamics: Rapid Recall of Appropriate Motor Skills Using Visual Cues." Journal of Neurophysiology 89, no. 2 (2003): 1165–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00779.2002.
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Recent studies have reported that human subjects show varying degrees of ability to use contextual cues to recall the motor skills required to compensate for different dynamic external force fields during arm movements. In particular, the subjects showed little or no ability to use color cues to adjust motor outputs in anticipation of the perturbing fields after limited periods of training that were sufficient to learn to compensate for the fields themselves. This is unexpected since humans and monkeys can use color cues to perform a wide range of visuomotor tasks. Here we show that a monkey with extensive practice compensating for viscous fields in an elbow-movement task can use associated color cues to adjust motor output in anticipation of an impending field before physically encountering it.
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Konovalova, Yu P., and V. I. Ruchkin. "Assessment of influence of short-period geodynamic movements on stress-strain behavior of rock mass." Mining informational and analytical bulletin, no. 3-1 (March 20, 2020): 90–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.25018/0236-1493-2020-31-0-90-104.
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Geodynamic diagnostics of rock mass is critical in terms of safe arrangement and operation of subsoil use objects. The modern geodynamic movements are one of the factors that govern the stress-strain behavior of rocks. The experimental research accomplished in the recent decades show that geodynamic movements are the wide-spread phenomena of complex time-and-space distribution. It is conditionally assumed to distinguish between the trend movements of the same direction and velocity over the period of observations and the cyclic short-period movements with cycle duration from a few minutes to a few hours. The cyclic short-period geodynamic movements can exert direct or indirect impact on subsoil use objects. The cyclic nature is governed by many natural factors. The influence of one or another factor on the stress-strain behavior of rock mass is yet unstudied unambiguously to date. However, it is evident that strains governed by the cyclicity of movements should be taken into account in geodynamic diagnostics. The implemented studies of short-period movements on testing grounds by continuous monitoring using GNSS methods for many hours at spacing from two hundred meters to two kilometers revealed that directions of displacement of check points frequently exceeded accuracy of their determination. During the experiments, a procedure was developed to determine parameters of strain tensor in rock mass based on the prevailing direction and amplitude of short-period movements. The amplitude of short-period movement is a difference between the minimal and maximal values of displacements in a set of discrete measurements within continuous observation session. The obtained field of strains was compared with the values calculated by the data on the trend geodynamic movements for 6 years with the same check points in the same pattern. The correlation is found between the orientations of principal axes of strain tensors calculated by the data on the trend and shortperiod movements. The developed procedure makes it possible to take into account the shortperiod cyclicity of the modern geodynamic movements, and the found correlation between the orientation of strain tensor of the trend and cyclic movement enable express estimation of changes in the stress-strain behavior of rocks.
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Zaytseva, Tatiana N., Viktor A. Nizhelskoy, Marina Yu Gerasimenko, and Manami Saito. "Expressive movement: an interdisciplinary view." Russian Journal of Physiotherapy, Balneology and Rehabilitation 19, no. 6 (2020): 395–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/1681-3456-2020-19-6-8.
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The purpose of the rewiev is to familiarize the teaching community from the world of dance and theater, artistic sports, coaches, leading master classes, etc. with modern medical and physiological approaches to the study of the expressiveness of human body movements. The use of such knowledge in educational practice can contribute to achieving maximum results in professional activity, increasing the effectiveness of training, and reducing injuries in classes related to physical activity. Association of a wide range of specialists interested in the development of the technicality and virtuosity of the performance of movements, which form the basis of professional skill, discussion of topical issues of the use of modern technologies and their implementation in practice will allow specialists to form a comprehensive understanding of modern trends in the study of expressive movement in the aspect physiology and medicine, as well as at a qualitatively new level to develop general approaches to the translation of the knowledge gained.
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Sun, S. C., C. D. Mote, and H. B. Skinner. "Use of hot wire anemometry to measure velocity of the limb during human movement." Journal of Biomedical Engineering 14, no. 5 (1992): 435–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0141-5425(92)90091-x.
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Morris, James Winston. "The Challenges of Realization in a Global Civilization." Kanz Philosophia : A Journal for Islamic Philosophy and Mysticism 1, no. 2 (2011): 9. http://dx.doi.org/10.20871/kpjipm.v1i2.11.
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<div><p>The contemporary historical situation suggests fascinating parallels with that period of the 13th/7th century when the massive destruction of the Mongol invasions opened the way for popular new forms of Islamic life and practice that eventually spread Islam throughout Asia. Today, as in earlier periods of dramatic upheaval, we can witness those processes of inspiration and awakening that give rise to the spiritual pathways of future centuries, through each soul’s gradual discovery of its unique challenges and demands of ihsan.</p><p>One way of describing this transformation, to use the Qur’anic language adapted by Ibn ‘Arabi, is in the terms of the process of spiritual realization (tahqīq) by which people discover their guiding inner relationship to those divine qualities or “Names” that eventually come to define the meaning and purpose of their lives. Through our life long movement of service (‘ibda) to the “Lord” (rabb) constituted by each divine Name, the transformation of the soul follows a familiar, naturally ascending trajectory. It begins with a curiosity drawing us toward some particular dimension of the Real (al-Haqq); then a compelling striving leading to heightened discipline and awareness; and ultimately to the creative manifestation of that devotion through the appropriate means of teaching, communication, and new communities of fellow- seekers—the Qur’anic “servants of the All-Merciful”—that slowly emerge from this shared spiritual work of devotion, discovery and creative response. </p><p>Here we point to some ways this process of civilizational renewal is unfolding around the world, focusing on three of the most far-reaching of those divine Names: the “servants of the All-Wise” (al-Hakīm), in their exploring and deciphering the infinite Signs of God’s Wisdom “on the horizons”, in all of the sciences of nature and society; to those muhsinūn and “servants of the Beautiful” (al-Jamīl) whose creative acts of beauty help awaken that love and awe which mark the beginnings of each spiritual journey; or to those “servants of the Subtly-Gracious” (al-Latīf) whose lives are dedicated to deepening our understanding of the presence and meaning of each of the divine Signs “in our souls,” in the emerging science of spirituality. These “servants of the all- Merciful” and their communities are themselves the first seeds of an emerging global civilization.</p></div>
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Gallagher, Lisa M., and Francois Bethoux. "Therapeutic use of the Arts for Patients with Multiple Sclerosis." US Neurology 13, no. 02 (2017): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.17925/usn.2017.13.02.82.
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People with multiple sclerosis (MS) face a wide variety of physical, emotional, and social challenges. A multidisciplinary comprehensive care approach is recommended for the management of MS and its consequences, and non-traditional treatments are increasingly considered by patients and health care providers, particularly for the promotion of wellness in the context of this chronic disease. Previous research has demonstrated the benefits of the therapeutic arts (art therapy, dance and movement therapy, and music therapy) in addressing some of the physiological, psychological, cognitive, social, and spiritual needs of patients facing a variety of chronic illnesses. Our review of the literature suggests that therapeutic art can be beneficial to individuals with MS, particularly in promoting self-efficacy, emotional well-being, and motor control. However, the body of evidence is limited, and further research is needed regarding the outcomes and mechanism of action of therapeutic arts in MS to better understand their role in the management of the consequences of the disease.
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Gillner, Sabine, and Hanspeter A. Mallot. "Navigation and Acquisition of Spatial Knowledge in a Virtual Maze." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 10, no. 4 (1998): 445–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/089892998562861.
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Spatial behavior in humans and animals includes a wide variety of behavioral competences and makes use of a large number of sensory cues. Here we studied the ability of human subjects to search locations, to find shortcuts and novel paths, to estimate distances between remembered places, and to draw sketch maps of the explored environment; these competences are related to goal-independent memory of space, or cognitive maps. Information on spatial relations was restricted to two types: a visual motion sequence generated by simulated movements in a virtual maze and the subject's own movement decisions defining the path through the maze. Visual information was local (i.e., no global landmarks or compass information was provided). Other position and movement information (vestibular or proprioceptive) was excluded. The amount of visual information provided was varied over four experimental conditions. The results indicate that human subjects are able to learn a virtual maze from sequences of local views and movements. The information acquired is local, consisting of recognized positions and movement decisions associated to them. Although simple associations of this type can be shown to be present in some subjects, more complete configurational knowledge is acquired as well. The results are discussed in a view-based framework of navigation and the representation of spatial knowledge by means of a view graph.
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Titisantoso, Mutiara Putri, Indriyanto Indriyanto, and Usrek Tani Utina. "ESTETIKA GERAK TARI DADI RONGGENG BANYUMASAN." Imaji 18, no. 1 (2020): 62–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.21831/imaji.v18i1.31649.
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Tari Dadi Ronggeng merupakan sebuah karya tari yang berpijak pada unsur gerak banyumasan. Keindahan Tari Dadi Ronggeng dapat dilihat melalui geraknya. Keindahan gerak tersebut dapat dilihat melalui aspek dasarnya yaitu ruang, waktu, dan tenaga. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui estetika gerak tari yang terdapat pada Karya Tari Dadi Ronggeng Banyumasan. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode penelitian kualitatif dengan menggunakan pendekatan deskritif kualitatif, pendekatan etik dan emik dan pendekatan estetis koreografis, dengan menggunakan teknik pengumpulan data wawancara, observasi, dan dokumentasi. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan menggunakan Teori Adshead, dkk. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian yang telah dilakukan, gerak sebagai media pokok Tari Dadi Ronggeng dapat mencerminkan nilai keindahan. Keindahan gerak terbentuk melalui jalinan pola penggunaan ruang, waktu, dan tenaga yang menghasilkan keindahan yang khas. Penggunaan volume gerak yang cenderung lebar dengan tempo yang bervariasi namun tetap menggunakan intensitas tenaga yang besar memberikan kesan energik, seksi, dan ceria.Kata Kunci: dadi ronggeng, estetika, gerak tari. Dadi Ronggeng is a dance creation that come from the people’s elements by using the basis of the movement of Banyumasan. The beauty of a Tari Dadi Ronggeng can be seen through its movement. The beauty of the movement can be seen through its basic aspects, namely space, time, and energy. The purpose of this study is to determine the aesthetics of dance movements found in the Tari Dadi Ronggeng Banyumasan Dance creation. The research method used is a qualitative research method with a qualititative descriptive approach, ethical and emic approaches, and an aesthetic choreograpic approach using data collection techniques for interviews, observation, and documentation. The Adshead Theory et al is as data analysis technique. Based on the results of research that has been carried out movement as the main medium of Dadi Ronggeng Dance, it can reflect the value of the beauty of the dance. The beauty of the movement in the Dadi Ronggeng Dance is formed by relating the use space, time, and energy in the dance. The combination of twisting movements, the use of movement volumes that tend to be wide with varying tempo but still using a large intensity of energy gives an energetic, sexy and cheerful.Keywords: dadi ronggeng, aesthetic and dance movement.
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Boni, Stefano. "Assemblies and the struggle to diffuse power." Focaal 2015, no. 72 (2015): 9–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2015.720102.
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The article is focused on the practical mechanisms of assembly management in egalitarian settings in a comparative perspective: on the one hand, I examine assemblies in what may be termed classic ethnographic settings (principally East African pastoralists); on the other hand, I turn to meetings in recent social movements (the Occupy movement in the United States and Slovenia; the 15M in Spain; Greece and Bosnia). I have two principal aims. First, I wish to identify and evaluate similarities and differences in the running of meetings with regard to processes of consensus building; the coordination of assemblies through the creation of roles and the menace of leadership; and the management of place, time, and speech. Second, I aim to evaluate current social movements' use of alterpolitics, intended as the practical and imaginary reference to group meetings of the historical, sectarian, or ethnic other.