Le Corps animal comme puissance subversive des normes architecturales. Retour réflexif sur cinq cas d’étude by Léa Mosconi

“…The human body — male, and able-bodied — has long served as a model for architects and urban planners, making it a standard and a scale for architectural projects. …”
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Energy-Efficient Harvested-Aware Clustering and Cooperative Routing Protocol for WBAN (E-HARP) by Zahid Ullah, Imran Ahmed, Fakhri Alam Khan, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Nawaz, Tamleek Ali, Muhammad Khalid, Fahim Niaz

“…Wireless body area network (WBAN) is an interconnection of small bio-sensor nodes (BSNs) that are deployed in/on different parts of human body. It is used to sense health-related data, such as rate of heart beat, blood pressure, blood glucose level, electro-cardiogram (ECG), and electro-myography (EMG), of human body and pass these readings to real-time health monitoring systems. …”
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Do sheep (Ovis aries) discriminate human emotional odors? by Izïa Larrigaldie, Fabrice Damon, Solène Mousqué, Bruno Patris, Léa Lansade, Benoist Schaal, Alexandra Destrez

“…This exploratory study suggests young ovines can detect human body odor, a further step toward understanding the human-sheep relationship.…”
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Material interfaces. Biological meets digital by Sabrina Lucibello, Lorena Trebbi, Chiara Del Gesso

“…Bonsiepe, in 1995, had already integrated the material characteristics of objects and the semiotic value of the interface, acknowledging its ability to become a ‘non-verbal language’, ‘spatial system’ establishing new relationships between the human body and technology. Therefore, surfaces have the key role of ‘membranes’, creating and receiving stimuli from inside and outside, and from subject and object. …”
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The beauty of sorrow: by V. Tendenan

“…Secondly, it universalizes the human body as an instrument of sorrow. Thirdly, it celebrates life amidst grief. …”
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Pedestrian Reidentification Algorithm Based on Local Feature Fusion Mechanism by Xiaobing Liu

“…Taking advantage of the inherent structure of the human body, we pay attention to pedestrian parts with prominent features and ignore other parts with interference information. …”
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Applying Pulse Width Modulation in Body Coupled Communication by Miltiadis Moralis-Pegios, Pelagia Alexandridou, Christos Koukourlis

“…The term Body Coupled Communication is used in order to specify that the human body or a part of it, such as an arm, is used as a path that transfers digital information. …”
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Beyond the body – Rethinking the architectural module to promote social inclusion by Mickeal Milocco Borlini, Ambra Pecile, Christina Conti

“… The architectural module has long been associated with the concept of measurement, where standardisation of the human body is used to define absolute modularity. With the awareness of human diversity, this narrow view of the module’s applicability is problematic, particularly in processes of environmental accessibility and inclusion. …”
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Development of a Wearable-Sensor-Based Fall Detection System by Falin Wu, Hengyang Zhao, Yan Zhao, Haibo Zhong

“…The system monitors the movements of human body, recognizes a fall from normal daily activities by an effective quaternion algorithm, and automatically sends request for help to the caregivers with the patient’s location.…”
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Ludzkie zoo w percepcji dzieci by Tomasz Nowicki

“…The children’s statements show unequivocal resistance to the vision of exposure of the human body and strong species identification. The images of the Human Zoo make it possible to see the orientation to the perception of the species relationship in the normative dimension. …”
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Osoba i bioetyka: jaka koncepcja człowieka i życia ludzkiego w bioetyce? by Edmund Kowalski

“…Therefore particular attention is given to the theoretical perspectives and practical indications that are relative to human life, the human body, and the person understood as a process in the ever-open task of achievement and development: therefore, from an ethical perspective. …”
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Effect of terahertz radiation on cells and cellular structures by A. P. Rytik, V. V. Tuchin

“…The problem of the safety of terahertz radiation for the human body from the point of view of its effect on the structures and systems of biological cells is also considered. …”
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Transformations des représentations corporelles durant l’Épiclassique mésoaméricain (600 à 900 apr. j.‑c.) by Juliette Testard

“…The iconography of Cacaxtla-Xochitecatl (Tlaxcala) and Xochicalco (Morelos) is markedly different—especially in its representation of the human body—from images from Teotihuacan (Mexico). Whereas the body is a container or medium in Teotihuacan, in Cacaxtla-Xochitecatl and Xochicalco it seems to simultaneously turn into a material that is at once living and sacrificed, connected with a tangible and pragmatic reality. …”
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Isotropy of an Upper Limb Exoskeleton and the Kinematics and Dynamics of the Human Arm by Joel C. Perry, Janet M. Powell, Jacob Rosen

“…Moreover, the design of an exoskeleton, which is physically linked to the human body, must have a workspace that matches as close as possible with the workspace of the human body, while at the same time avoid singular configurations of the exoskeleton within the human workspace. …”
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The Beliefs, Myths, and Reality Surrounding the Word Hema (Blood) from Homer to the Present by John Meletis, Kostas Konstantopoulos

“…The Hellenes (Greeks) especially have always known hema as the well-known red fluid of the human body. Greek scientific considerations about blood date from Homeric times. …”
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Life-Threatening Retroperitoneal Hematoma in a Patient with COVID-19 by Monarch Shah, John Paul Colombo, Sanya Chandna, Haris Rana

“…COVID-19 is a respiratory illness that affects the human body in many different ways. The disease carries both thrombotic and hemorrhagic complications, especially in those patients who are anticoagulated to prevent the thromboembolic manifestations. …”
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Zmartwychwstanie przez technikę. Problem tożsamości umysłu w koncepcjach rozwoju sztucznej inteligencji. by Olgierd Sroczyński

“…In the article, we analyze the issue of human identity, particularly the role played by the human body in shaping it. This allows for adopting a new perspective on contemporary trends related to the development of artificial intelligence, especially the concept of "mind uploading".…”
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Applying Finite Element Method–Dirichlet Boundary Condition Iteration to the Computation of Coupling Factors for a 3-D Human Model by Giovanni Aiello, Salvatore Alfonzetti, Santi Agatino Rizzo, Nunzio Salerno

“…A simplified model of the human body is assumed as suggested by IEC standards. …”
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Tissue Modeling and Analyzing with Finite Element Method: A Review for Cranium Brain Imaging by Xianfang Yue, Li Wang, Ruonan Wang

“…For the structure mechanics of human body, it is almost impossible to conduct mechanical experiments. …”
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Rejouer le paysage by Arsène Caens

“…The concrete, ordinary situation of the human body as it acts on, perceives the landscape, and verbalises its perception of it would allow us to account for the complexity of local uses, common knowledge and the practices of symbolisation often involved in the elaboration of our relationship with the perceived object. …”
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