The Ethics of Refusal in Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life by Marguerite La Caze, Magdalena Zolkos

“…We conclude by drawing attention to three key presences in the film; nature, children and the wife, Fani, who turn the negative power of refusal into an affirmative gesture of companionship, co-presence and witnessing.…”
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Transformer-Based Optimization for Text-to-Gloss in Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation by Younes Ouargani, Noussaim El Khattabi

“…Sign Language is the primary means of communication for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community. These gesture-based languages combine hand signs with face and body gestures for effective communication. …”
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UAlpha40: A comprehensive dataset of Urdu alphabet for Pakistan sign languageMendeley Data by Sameena Javaid, Shahood Sajid, Yusra Khan Baloch

“…While researchers have focused on the 36 static gestures, the 4 dynamic gestures have been overlooked. …”
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Noncontact Palm Vein ROI Extraction Based on Improved Lightweight HRnet in Complex Backgrounds by Fen Dai, Ziyang Wang, Xiangqun Zou, Rongwen Zhang, Xiaoling Deng

“…A noncontact palm vein ROI extraction algorithm based on the improved HRnet for keypoints localization was proposed for dealing with hand gesture irregularities, translation, scaling, and rotation in complex backgrounds. …”
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Applicability of a Single Depth Sensor in Real-Time 3D Clothes Simulation: Augmented Reality Virtual Dressing Room Using Kinect Sensor by Sasadara B. Adikari, Naleen C. Ganegoda, Ravinda G. N. Meegama, Indika L. Wanniarachchi

“…The system is also equipped with gender identification and gesture controllers to select the cloth. The developed application successfully augmented the selected dress model with physics motions according to the physical movements made by the user, which provides a realistic fitting experience. …”
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Every sip counts: Understanding hydration behaviors and user-acceptability of digital tools to promote adequate intake during early and late pregnancy. by Abigail M Pauley, Asher Y Rosinger, Jennifer S Savage, David E Conroy, Danielle Symons Downs

“…These findings will inform the design of a behavioral intervention incorporating smart connected water bottles, wearables for gesture detection, and behavior modification strategies to overcome barriers, promote proper hydration and examine its impact on maternal and infant health outcomes.…”
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Reliability of an Inertial Measurement System Applied to the Technical Assessment of Forehand and Serve in Amateur Tennis Players by Lucio Caprioli, Cristian Romagnoli, Francesca Campoli, Saeid Edriss, Elvira Padua, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, Giuseppe Annino

“…This research involved a group of amateur players who performed a series of standardized gestures (forehands and serves) wearing a sensorized chest strap fitted with a wireless inertial unit. …”
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The French Actor on the London Stage: Charles Fechter by Catherine Quirk

“…The American critic Henry Austin Clapp describes him as ‘a master of the exterior symbolism of the histrionic art’, and the actor’s own annotations to his acting copy of Othello reflect the focus he placed on the development of his character through gesture, posture, movement, and other superficial markers. …”
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Virtual choir as a kind of digital musical art by Xinbin Fu

“…In addition, singing in a virtual project slows down the development of empathy of singers, reduces their ability to recognize the conductor’s gestures and facial expressions. The scientific novelty. …”
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Smart Driving Hardware Augmentation by Flexible Piezoresistive Sensor Matrices with Grafted‐on Anticreep Composites by Kaifeng Chen, Hua Yang, Ang Wang, Linsen Tang, Xin Zha, Ndeutala Selma Iita, Hong Zhang, Zhuoxuan Li, Xinyu Wang, Wei Yang, Shaoxing Qu, Zongrong Wang

“…Real‐time visualization of pressure distribution is realized by sensor matrices, which demonstrate the capability of tactile gesture recognition on both flat and curved surfaces. …”
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Effects of digital and non-digital parental distraction on parent-child interaction and communication by Souhir Chamam, Souhir Chamam, Alexia Forcella, Alexia Forcella, Nadia Musio, Nadia Musio, Florence Quinodoz, Florence Quinodoz, Nevena Dimitrova

“…Communication is also affected—parents speak and gesture less towards their children and, in turn, children are less likely to develop their language abilities. …”
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Pour une théorie de la réception du discours grammatical by Jean-Rémi Lapaire

“…The article closes with a brief study of an alternative, multimodal approach to linguistic description. Recorded gesture sequences – or Kinegrams– were used with the same group of students to explain grammatical phenomena during the semester. …”
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Game Edukasi Pengenalan Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI) Menggunakan Myo Armband pada Arsitektur Client Server by Rizky Yuniar Hakkun, M. Rizky, Buchori Rafsanjani

“…This study aims to develop a cloud platform as a backend for hand gesture recognition, making it easier for developers to create SIBI recognition applications. …”
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The multiple uses of artificial intelligence in exercise programs: a narrative review by Alberto Canzone, Alberto Canzone, Giacomo Belmonte, Antonino Patti, Domenico Savio Salvatore Vicari, Domenico Savio Salvatore Vicari, Fabio Rapisarda, Valerio Giustino, Patrik Drid, Antonino Bianco

“…The findings suggest that artificial intelligence holds promise in promoting physical activity across diverse populations, including children, adolescents, adults, older adult, and individuals with disabilities.ConclusionOur research found that artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning techniques were used: (a) as part of applications to generate automatic messages and be able to communicate with users; (b) as a predictive approach and for gesture and posture recognition; (c) as a control system; (d) as data collector; and (e) as a guided trainer.…”
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A qualitative study of community perceptions and practices relating to blood donation in Cameroon by Solange Dabou, Wilfred Ngwa, Ngo Valery Ngo, Constantine T Asahngwa, Ghyslaine Bruna Djeunang Dongho, Regina Sinsai, Evrard Kepgang, Odette D Kibu, Ronald Mbua Gobina, Denis Alemka Foretia

“…Some participants believed that donating blood is: (1) a humanitarian and life-saving gesture, (2) an act of social and religious responsibility and (3) a means for donors to access health services. …”
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Random resistive memory-based deep extreme point learning machine for unified visual processing by Shaocong Wang, Yizhao Gao, Yi Li, Woyu Zhang, Yifei Yu, Bo Wang, Ning Lin, Hegan Chen, Yue Zhang, Yang Jiang, Dingchen Wang, Jia Chen, Peng Dai, Hao Jiang, Peng Lin, Xumeng Zhang, Xiaojuan Qi, Xiaoxin Xu, Hayden So, Zhongrui Wang, Dashan Shang, Qi Liu, Kwang-Ting Cheng, Ming Liu

“…The co-design system is validated on 3D segmentation (ShapeNet), event recognition (DVS128 Gesture), and image classification (Fashion-MNIST) tasks, achieving accuracy comparable to conventional systems while delivering 6.78 × /21.04 × /15.79 × energy efficiency improvements and 70.12%/89.46%/85.61% training cost reductions.…”
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Identifikasi Emosi Pengguna Konferensi Video Menggunakan Convolutional Neural Network by Lina Lina, Arthur Adhitya Marunduh, Wasino Wasino, Daniel Ajienegoro

“…However, a more complex analysis is required to interpret other signals such as visual signals from face, gesture, etc.This paper discusses an automatic emotion identification system of video conferencing participants. …”
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Establishment of political and diplomatic relations between Lithuania and France in 1918-1920: Exchange of mistrust by Vilma Bukaitė

“…On May 11, the French government de facto recognized the Lithuanian government. Such diplomatic gesture was met rather unresponsively, being cast into shadow by other political events. …”
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The authority of the printed word in the Lithuanian village of the XIX century by Džiuljeta Maskoliūnienė

“…Buying books of the latter attribution was absolutely a voluntary, cultural gesture not supervised by any institution. This reveals the then state of literary communication in Lithuania. …”
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Aportaciones al estudio de la gestualidad en la iconografía románica hispana by Alicia Miguélez Cavero

“…This approach is based on the prior configuration of a gestural corpus, formed by attitudes, gestures and postures portrayed in the Romanesque Art of the Spanish kingdoms. …”
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