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    Biomechanical and phenomenological models of the body, the meaning of illness and quality of care.James A. Marcum - 2005 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 7 (3):311-320.
    The predominant model of the body in modern western medicine is the machine. Practitioners of the biomechanical model reduce the patient to separate, individual body parts in order to diagnose and treat disease. Utilization of this model has led, in part, to a quality of care crisis in medicine, in which patients perceive physicians as not sufficiently compassionate or empathic towards their suffering. Alternative models of the body, such as the phenomenological model, have been proposed to address this crisis. According (...)
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    Solid Biomechanics.Roland Ennos - 2011 - Princeton University Press.
    Solid Biomechanics is the first book to comprehensively review the mechanical design of organisms.
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  3. The biomechanical influence of tibio-talar containment on stability of the ankle joint.Roman Frigg - manuscript
    this study is to analyse the biomechanical influence of the been studied extensively, little is known how it is influclinical data on stability of the ankle joint. A two-dimenenced by the osseous joint configuration. Based on lateral..
     
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    Biomechanical properties of intermediate filaments: from tissues to single filaments and back.Laurent Kreplak & Douglas Fudge - 2007 - Bioessays 29 (1):26-35.
    The animal cell cytoskeleton consists of three interconnected filament systems: actin‐containing microfilaments (MFs), microtubules (MTs), and the lesser known intermediate filaments (IFs). All IF proteins share a common tripartite domain structure and the ability to assemble into 8–12 nm wide filaments. Electron microscopy data suggest that IFs are built according to a completely different plan from that of MFs and MTs. IFs are known to impart mechanical stability to cells and tissues but, until recently, the biomechanical properties of single IFs (...)
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    From biomechanics to sport psychology: the current oscillatory approach.Guy Cheron - 2015 - Frontiers in Psychology 6.
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    Biomechanical analysis of knotless flexor tendon repair using large-diameter unidirection barbed suture.Toni E. Lin, Chrisovalantis Lakhiani, Michael R. Lee, Michel Saint-Cyr & Douglas M. Sammer - 2012 - In Zdravko Radman (ed.), The Hand. MIT Press.
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  7. The Role of Hypotheses in Biomechanical Research.Darrell Patrick Rowbottom & R. Mcneill Alexander - 2012 - Science in Context 25 (2):247-262.
    ArgumentThis paper investigates whether there is a discrepancy between stated and actual aims in biomechanical research, particularly with respect to hypothesis testing. We present an analysis of one hundred papers recently published inThe Journal of Experimental BiologyandJournal of Biomechanics, and examine the prevalence of papers which have hypothesis testing as a stated aim, contain hypothesis testing claims that appear to be purely presentational, and have exploration as a stated aim. We found that whereas no papers had exploration as a (...)
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    Comparison of the Gait Biomechanical Constraints in Three Different Type of Neuromotor Damages.Silvia Minosse, Martina Favetta, Alberto Romano, Alessandra Pisano, Susanna Summa, Tommaso Schirinzi, Gessica Vasco, Enrico Castelli & Maurizio Petrarca - 2022 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16.
    Background and ObjectiveAbsolute angle represents the inclination of a body segment relative to a fixed reference in space. This work compares the absolute and relative angles for exploring biomechanical gait constraints.MethodsGait patterns of different neuromotor conditions were analyzed using 3D gait analysis: normal gait, Cerebral Palsy, Charcot Marie Tooth and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, representing central and peripheral nervous system and muscular disorders, respectively. Forty-two children underwent gait analysis: 10 children affected by CP, 10 children by CMT, 10 children by DMD (...)
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    Towards understanding how bisphosphonate‐dependent alterations to nutrient canal integrity can contribute to risk for atypical femoral fractures: Biomechanical considerations and potential relationship to a real‐world analogy.David A. Hart - 2024 - Bioessays 46 (2):2300117.
    Bisphosphonates are a class of drugs which have shown good efficacy in the treatment of post‐menopausal osteoporosis, as well as a good safety profile. However, side‐effects such as risk for atypical femoral fractures (AFF) have appeared, leading to a decline in use of the drugs by many patients who would benefit from the treatment. While patient characteristics have contributed to improved understanding of risk factors, the mechanisms involved that explain AFF risk have not appeared. Recently, the possibility that the mechanism(s) (...)
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    Constraining the Air Giants: Limits on Size in Flying Animals as an Example of Constraint-Based Biomechanical Theories of Form. [REVIEW]Michael Habib - 2013 - Biological Theory 8 (3):245-252.
    The study of biomechanics most often takes a classic adaptationist approach, examining the functional abilities of organisms in relation to what is allowed by physical parameters. This approach generally assumes strong selection and is less concerned with evolutionary stochasticity in determining the presence of biological traits. It is equally important, however, to consider the importance of constraint in determining the form of organisms. If selection is relatively weak compared to stochastic events, then the observed forms in living systems can (...)
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    Infants attribute goals even to biomechanically impossible actions.Victoria Southgate, Mark H. Johnson & Gergely Csibra - 2008 - Cognition 107 (3):1059-1069.
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    Are Modular Activations Altered in Lower Limb Muscles of Persons with Multiple Sclerosis during Walking? Evidence from Muscle Synergies and Biomechanical Analysis.Tiziana Lencioni, Johanna Jonsdottir, Davide Cattaneo, Alessandro Crippa, Elisa Gervasoni, Marco Rovaris, Emilio Bizzi & Maurizio Ferrarin - 2016 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 10.
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    Revisiting Leonardo on Muscles: Intimations of Mathematical Biology and Biomechanics.Martin Kemp - 2023 - Biological Theory 18 (1):7-19.
    Leonardo da Vinci’s extensive drawings and notes devoted to anatomy do not arise in a medical context. He does not engage with surgery or “physic.” Rather, his aim is to reveal what he understood to be the divine engineering of God’s greatest creation. His earliest anatomical drawings map the conduits for the “spirits” at a deep level not practiced by other artists interested in the human body. The first set of drawings he produced in 1489 describes skulls with brilliant draftsmanship. (...)
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  14. Orientation specificity in the perception of biomechanical motions.B. I. Bertenthal & J. Pinto - 1990 - Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 28 (6):503-503.
     
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  15. Dynamical pattern-analysis predicts recognition and discrimination of biomechanical motions.B. I. Bertenthal & P. Davis - 1988 - Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society 26 (6):488-488.
     
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    Editorial: The Relationship Between Neural Circuitry and Biomechanical Action.Redha Taiar, Mario Bernardo-Filho, Borja Sañudo & Yury Ivanenko - 2022 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16.
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    The chondrocyte, architect of cartilage. Biomechanics, structure, function and molecular biology of cartilage matrix macromolecules.Helen Muir - 1995 - Bioessays 17 (12):1039-1048.
    Chondrocytes are specialised cells which produce and maintain the extracellular matrix of cartilage, a tissue that is resilient and pliant. In vivo, it has to withstand very high compressive loads, and that is explicable in terms of the physico‐chemical properties of cartilage‐specific macromolecules and with the movement of water and ions within the matrix. The functions of the cartilage‐specific collagens, aggrecan (a hydrophilic proteoglycan) and hyaluronan are discussed within this context. The structures of cartilage collagens and proteoglycans and their genes (...)
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  18. Models of medicine: from a biomechanical to a biopsychosocial view.H. G. Pauli - 1989 - In William R. Shea & Beat Sitter-Liver (eds.), Scientists and their responsibility. Canton, MA: Watson Pub. International.
     
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  19. Mobility and the skeleton: a biomechanical view.Thomas G. Davies, Emma Pomeroy, Colin N. Shaw & Jay T. Stock - 2014 - In Jim Leary (ed.), Past mobilities: archaeological approaches to movement and mobility. Burlington, VT: Ashgate.
     
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    Characterizing Motor Control of Mastication With Soft Actor-Critic.Amir H. Abdi, Benedikt Sagl, Venkata P. Srungarapu, Ian Stavness, Eitan Prisman, Purang Abolmaesumi & Sidney Fels - 2020 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 14:523954.
    The human masticatory system is a complex functional unit characterized by a multitude of skeletal components, muscles, soft tissues, and teeth. Muscle activation dynamics cannot be directly measured on live human subjects due to ethical, safety, and accessibility limitations. Therefore, estimation of muscle activations and their resultant forces is a longstanding and active area of research. Reinforcement learning (RL) is an adaptive learning strategy which is inspired by the behavioral psychology and enables an agent to learn the dynamics of an (...)
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    The Influence of the Coaches’ Demographics on Young Swimmers’ Performance and Technical Determinants.Daniel A. Marinho, Tiago M. Barbosa, Vitor P. Lopes, Pedro Forte, Argyris G. Toubekis & Jorge E. Morais - 2020 - Frontiers in Psychology 11:560959.
    The purpose of this study was to understand the relationship between the coaches’ demographics (academic degree and/or coaching level and/or coaching experience) and young swimmers’ performance and technical ability. The sample was composed by 151 young swimmers (75 boys and 76 girls: 13.02 ± 1.19 years old, 49.97 ± 8.77 kg of body mass, 1.60 ± 0.08 m of height, 1.66 ± 0.09 m of arm span), from seven different clubs. Seven coaches (one per club) were responsible for the training (...)
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    The Invisible Woman: The Bioaesthetics of Engineered Bodies.Lesley A. Sharp - 2011 - Body and Society 17 (1):1-30.
    Biomechanical engineering is marked by highly experimental efforts to craft mechanical devices that might one day alleviate the scarcity of transplantable organs in the USA. A pronounced desire among bioengineers involves melding humans with machines, bearing the promise of perfecting the natural yet messy flaws of the ‘natal’ body. Not all bodies are considered equal within this field, however. Visual renderings of heart devices — as an unusual sort of body prosthesis — foreground a specialized aesthetic, where the well-toned male (...)
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  23. The organization of human postural movements: a formal basis and experimental synthesis.Lewis M. Nashner & Gin McCollum - 1985 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 8 (1):135-150.
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    An Embodied Sonification Model for Sit-to-Stand Transfers.Prithvi Kantan, Erika G. Spaich & Sofia Dahl - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13.
    Interactive sonification of biomechanical quantities is gaining relevance as a motor learning aid in movement rehabilitation, as well as a monitoring tool. However, existing gaps in sonification research have prevented its widespread recognition and adoption in such applications. The incorporation of embodied principles and musical structures in sonification design has gradually become popular, particularly in applications related to human movement. In this study, we propose a general sonification model for the sit-to-stand transfer, an important activity of daily living. The model (...)
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  25. Biology meets Physics: Reductionism and Multi-scale Modeling of Morphogenesis.Sara Green & Robert Batterman - 2017 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 7161:20-34.
    A common reductionist assumption is that macro-scale behaviors can be described "bottom-up" if only sufficient details about lower-scale processes are available. The view that an "ideal" or "fundamental" physics would be sufficient to explain all macro-scale phenomena has been met with criticism from philosophers of biology. Specifically, scholars have pointed to the impossibility of deducing biological explanations from physical ones, and to the irreducible nature of distinctively biological processes such as gene regulation and evolution. This paper takes a step back (...)
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    Progress in Motor Control: A Multidisciplinary Perspective.Wolfgang Pauli, Charles P. Enz & K. V. Meyenn - 2008 - Springer.
    This ground-breaking book brings together researchers from a wide range of disciplines to discuss the control and coordination of processes involved in perceptually guided actions. The research area of motor control has become an increasingly multidisciplinary undertaking. Understanding the acquisition and performance of voluntary movements in biological and artificial systems requires the integration of knowledge from a variety of disciplines from neurophysiology to biomechanics.
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    Contingency’s causality and structural diversity.Alison K. McConwell - 2019 - Biology and Philosophy 34 (2):26.
    What is the relationship between evolutionary contingency and diversity? The evolutionary contingency thesis emphasizes dependency relations and chance as the hallmarks of evolution. While contingency can be destructive of, for example, the fragile and complex dynamics in an ecosystem, I will mainly focus on the productive or causal aspect of contingency for a particular sort of diversity. There are many sorts of diversities: Gould is most famous for his diversity-to-decimation model, which includes disparate body plans distinguishing different phyla. However, structural (...)
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  28. What affects facing direction in profile drawing? A meta-analytic inquiry.Sumeyra Tosun & Jyotsna Vaid - 2014 - Perception 43 (12):1377-1392.
    Two meta-analyses were conducted to examine two potential sources of spatial orientation biases in human profile drawings by brain-intact individuals. The first examined profile facing direction as function of hand used to draw. The second examined profile facing direction in relation to directional scanning biases related to reading/writing habits. Results of the first meta-analysis, based on 27 study samples with 4171 participants, showed that leftward facing of profiles (from the viewer's perspective) was significantly associated with using the right hand to (...)
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    演技スキル表現系について.清水 聡史 古川 康一 - 2006 - Transactions of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence 21:205-214.
    In this paper, we propose a framework for representing performance skill. Firstly, we notice the importance of performance skill representation. We introduce five different representation targets: performance tasks, performance rules, pre-shaping actions, dynamic integrity constraints, and performance states. Performance task description consists of a sequence of performance tasks and expressions. It acts as a goal description in planning. Performance rules describe model performance methods for given tasks including how to shape body parts and how to use various muscles. Pre-shaping action (...)
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    Fatigue-Related and Timescale-Dependent Changes in Individual Movement Patterns Identified Using Support Vector Machine.Johannes Burdack, Fabian Horst, Daniel Aragonés, Alexander Eekhoff & Wolfgang Immanuel Schöllhorn - 2020 - Frontiers in Psychology 11:551548.
    The scientific and practical fields—especially high-performance sports—increasingly request a stronger focus be placed on individual athletes in human movement science research. Machine learning methods have shown efficacy in this context by identifying the unique movement patterns of individuals and distinguishing their intra-individual changes over time. The objective of this investigation is to analyze biomechanically described movement patterns during the fatigue-related accumulation process within a single training session of a high number of repeated executions of a ballistic sports movement—specifically, the frontal (...)
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    Effects of Age and Expertise on Mental Representation of the Throwing Movement Among 6- to 16-Year-Olds.Michael Gromeier, Thomas Schack & Dirk Koester - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13.
    The aim of this article was to assess the development of mental representation of the overhead throwing movement as a function of age and expertise. The mental representational structure of the overhead throwing movement was measured using the Structural Dimensional Analysis-Motoric method that reflects the organization of basic action concepts. BACs are fundamental building blocks of mental representations, which comprise functional, sensory, spatiotemporal, and biomechanical characteristics of a movement. In this study, novices and handball athletes each were grouped according to (...)
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    Neuronal and muscular correlates consistent with Plamondon's theory: Velocity coding and temporal activation patterns.Uta Herrmann & John F. Soechting - 1997 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20 (2):311-312.
    This commentary cites several findings of neuromuscular research that are consistent with aspects of Plamondon's kinematic theory. In addition, we point out certain biomechanical properties of the limb that influence the requirements for the production of accurate movement, and might thus compromise the global applicability of any law governing speed/accuracy trade-offs.
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    Neuromechanical Assessment of Activated vs. Resting Leg Rigidity Using the Pendulum Test Is Associated With a Fall History in People With Parkinson’s Disease.Giovanni Martino, J. Lucas McKay, Stewart A. Factor & Lena H. Ting - 2020 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 14.
    Leg rigidity is associated with frequent falls in people with Parkinson’s disease, suggesting a potential role in functional balance and gait impairments. Changes in the neural state due to secondary tasks, e.g., activation maneuvers, can exacerbate rigidity, possibly increasing the risk of falls. However, the subjective interpretation and coarse classification of the standard clinical rigidity scale has prohibited the systematic, objective assessment of resting and activated leg rigidity. The pendulum test is an objective diagnostic method that we hypothesized would be (...)
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    Pig Hearts and Machine-Lathed Kidneys: The Ethics of Staying Alive.Brendan Parent - 2014 - Hastings Center Report 44 (4):46-47.
    To most people outside the relevant laboratories and operating rooms, xenotransplants and artificial organ transplants are bizarre. While the bizarre scares many away and angers others, Lesley A. Sharp approached it and asked, What behooves medical research to take organs out of pigs and primates and design organs out of metal and plastic and use them to replace failing organs in humans? Sharp attended years of conferences, visited countless hospitals and laboratories, and interviewed engineers, scientists, and surgeons to explore the (...)
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    Interdisciplinary character of the computational model in the solution of health problems.González Carbonell Raide Alfonso & Nápoles Padrón - 2014 - Humanidades Médicas 14 (3):646-658.
    La solución de los problemas de salud requiere de la interrelación entre diferentes ramas científicas y tecnológicas, tales como la Biomecánica, las tecnologías de la información, la ingeniería y las ciencias médicas. La importancia de la comunicación interdisciplinaria en las universidades fundamenta la creación de un grupo de investigación que fusiona el conocimiento de la mecánica clásica con las disciplinas de la salud y la participación de pacientes, técnicos, ingenieros, médicos y estudiantes. En el trabajo se realiza una reflexión sobre (...)
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    Mu-desynchronization, N400 and corticospinal excitability during observation of natural and anatomically unnatural finger movements.Nikolay Syrov, Dimitri Bredikhin, Lev Yakovlev, Andrei Miroshnikov & Alexander Kaplan - 2022 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16:973229.
    The action observation networks (AON) (or the mirror neuron system) are the neural underpinnings of visuomotor integration and play an important role in motor control. Besides, one of the main functions of the human mirror neuron system is recognition of observed actions and the prediction of its outcome through the comparison with the internal mental motor representation. Previous studies focused on the human mirror neurons (MNs) activation during object-oriented movements observation, therefore intransitive movements observation effects on MNs activity remains relatively (...)
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  37. Increasing the Probability of Good Art: Descartes, Aesthetic Judgment, and Generosity.James Griffith - 2024 - Flsf: Felsefe Ve Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi 37:259-282.
    Descartes’ first book, 1618’s Compendium of Music, focuses on biomechanical reactions in the human body but also claims that the purpose of art is to arouse emotions. By the end of the 1630s, however, he had given up on precisely predicting how that arousal may occur. This article contends, though, that Descartes’ abandonment of that project is a result of using an inappropriate psychological model for such predictions. An appropriate model is developed in his last book, 1649’s The Passions of (...)
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    Tissue Mechanical Forces and Evolutionary Developmental Changes Act Through Space and Time to Shape Tooth Morphology and Function.Zachary T. Calamari, Jimmy Kuang-Hsien Hu & Ophir D. Klein - 2018 - Bioessays 40 (12):1800140.
    Efforts from diverse disciplines, including evolutionary studies and biomechanical experiments, have yielded new insights into the genetic, signaling, and mechanical control of tooth formation and functions. Evidence from fossils and non‐model organisms has revealed that a common set of genes underlie tooth‐forming potential of epithelia, and changes in signaling environments subsequently result in specialized dentitions, maintenance of dental stem cells, and other phenotypic adaptations. In addition to chemical signaling, tissue forces generated through epithelial contraction, differential growth, and skeletal constraints act (...)
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    The Fate of the Method of ‘Paradigms’ in Paleobiology.Martin J. S. Rudwick - 2018 - Journal of the History of Biology 51 (3):479-533.
    An earlier article described the mid-twentieth century origins of the method of “paradigms” in paleobiology, as a way of making testable hypotheses about the functional morphology of extinct organisms. The present article describes the use of “paradigms” through the 1970s and, briefly, to the end of the century. After I had proposed the paradigm method to help interpret the ecological history of brachiopods, my students developed it in relation to that and other invertebrate phyla, notably in Euan Clarkson’s analysis of (...)
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    Construction of 3D model of knee joint motion based on MRI image registration.Mohd Asif Shah, Zheng Wen Lai & Lei Zhang - 2021 - Journal of Intelligent Systems 31 (1):15-26.
    There is a growing demand for information and computational technology for surgeons help with surgical planning as well as prosthetics design. The two-dimensional images are registered to the three-dimensional (3D) model for high efficiency. To reconstruct the 3D model of knee joint including bone structure and main soft tissue structure, the evaluation and analysis of sports injury and rehabilitation treatment are detailed in this study. Mimics 10.0 was used to reconstruct the bone structure, ligament, and meniscus according to the pulse (...)
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    Speaking to trees.Erazim Kohák - 1992 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 6 (2-3):371-388.
    What is the epistemological status of a world within which speaking to trees would appear as an appropriate behavior? It would be a world perceived as a community of autonomous beings worthy of respect. Such a world contrasts with the anthropocentric conception of the world as a value?free reservoir of raw materials, but neither worldview can or should claim descriptive accuracy. Both are equally ?manners of speaking? and the choice between them must rest on whether they are conducive to ecologically (...)
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  42. Hominization and Apes.Frédéric Joulian - 1997 - Diogenes 45 (180):73-96.
    The study of human origins is a kaleidoscopic field, a multitude of objects, reflections, and disciplines a swirl in an ever-changing tumult. The extreme diversity of the elements of information that are indispensable to this field of study (teeth, bones, apes, genes, ancient objects, present-day objects, biomechanical factors, cultural constructions …) appears all by itself to be enough to consign any attempt at synthesis to the realm of the Utopian. It hardly seems reasonable to expect the disparate sciences that fuel (...)
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    Form and Function in Developmental Evolution.Manfred D. Laubichler & Jane Maienschein (eds.) - 2009 - Cambridge University Press.
    This book represents an effort to understand very old questions about biological form, function, and the relationships between them. The essays collected here reflect the diversity of approaches in evolutionary developmental biology, including not only studies by prominent scientists whose research focuses on topics concerned with evolution and development, but also historically and conceptually oriented studies that place the scientific work within a larger framework and ask how it can be pushed further. Topics under discussion range from the use of (...)
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    Characterizing Movement Fluency in Musical Performance: Toward a Generic Measure for Technology Enhanced Learning.Victor Gonzalez-Sanchez, Sofia Dahl, Johannes Lunde Hatfield & Rolf Inge Godøy - 2019 - Frontiers in Psychology 10.
    Virtuosity in music performance is often associated with fast, precise, and efficient sound-producing movements. The generation of such highly skilled movements involves complex joint and muscle control by the central nervous system, and depends on the ability to anticipate, segment, and coarticulate motor elements, all within the biomechanical constraints of the human body. When successful, such motor skill should lead to what we characterize as fluency in musical performance. Detecting typical features of fluency could be very useful for technology-enhanced learning (...)
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    The future of post-human sports: towards a new theory of training and winning.Peter Baofu - 2013 - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.
    Are sports really supposed to be so competitive that, as Henry R. Sanders once famously said, â oeMen, I'll be honest. Winning isâ ]the only thing!â? (WK 2012) This competitive view of sports can be contrasted with a critical view by William Shakespeare, who wrote in Othello (Act. iv. Sc. 1), â oeThey laugh that win.â (BART 2012) Contrary to these opposing views (and other ones, as will be discussed in the book), sports (in relation to both training and winning) (...)
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    Influence of sagittal pelvic attitude on gait pattern in normally developed people and interactions with neurological pathologies: A pilot study.Martina Favetta, Alberto Romano, Susanna Summa, Alessandra Colazza, Silvia Minosse, Gessica Vasco, Enrico Castelli & Maurizio Petrarca - 2022 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16.
    BackgroundGait Analysis of healthy people, imitating pathological conditions while walking, has increased our understanding of biomechanical factors. The influence of the pelvis as a biomechanical constraint during gait is not specifically studied. How could mimicking a pelvic attitude influence the dynamic mechanical interaction of the body segments? We proposed an investigation of the pelvic attitude role on the gait pattern of typically developed people when they mimicked pelvic anteversion and posteroversion.Materials and methodsSeventeen healthy volunteers were enrolled in this study. They (...)
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    Hominization and Apes.Joulian Frederic - 1997 - Diogenes 45 (180):73-96.
    The study of human origins is a kaleidoscopic field, a multitude of objects, reflections, and disciplines a swirl in an ever-changing tumult. The extreme diversity of the elements of information that are indispensable to this field of study (teeth, bones, apes, genes, ancient objects, present-day objects, biomechanical factors, cultural constructions …) appears all by itself to be enough to consign any attempt at synthesis to the realm of the Utopian. It hardly seems reasonable to expect the disparate sciences that fuel (...)
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    The usefulness property of biorobotic sensorimotor models: A natural source of prosthetic designs.Kristen N. Jaax - 2001 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 24 (6):1062-1062.
    This commentary addresses an additional feature of biorobotic modeling: usefulness in prosthetic design. By implementing structurally and behaviorally accurate models as prosthetics, biologically accurate restoration can be approximated. This has potential to reestablish important peripheral elements of the sensorimotor control system, including limb biomechanics, proprioception, and vision. Examples given include musculoskeletal prosthetics and retinal implants.
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    Deciders.Robert Kirk - 2005 - In Zombies and Consciousness. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK.
    Considering humbler creatures than ourselves provides a better chance of uncovering what really matters for perceptual consciousness. This chapter discusses a series of broad classes of behaving systems, starting with ‘pure reflex systems’ and ending with ‘deciders’: systems with the ‘basic package’, capable of choosing between alternative courses of action, if only in a rudimentary sense. The idea of the basic package provides a framework for thinking about behaving systems, which advances the overall project of understanding perceptual consciousness. This framework (...)
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    Discrete Mesh Approach in Morphogenesis Modelling: the Example of Gastrulation.E. Promayon, A. Lontos & J. Demongeot - 2016 - Acta Biotheoretica 64 (4):427-446.
    Morphogenesis is a general concept in biology including all the processes which generate tissue shapes and cellular organizations in a living organism. Many hybrid formalizations have been proposed for modelling morphogenesis in embryonic or adult animals, like gastrulation. We propose first to study the ventral furrow invagination as the initial step of gastrulation, early stage of embryogenesis. We focus on the study of the connection between the apical constriction of the ventral cells and the initiation of the invagination. For that, (...)
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