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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
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Digit ratio (2D:4D) predicts communion in exploratory structural equation modeling of self-narratives

Unknown Date (has links)
Agency and communion are fundamental dimensions underlying psychological processes. Although agency and communion are coherent dimensions, their origins, nature, stability differ across theoretical framework. Common to these frameworks are gender differences in agency and communion. The present study hypothesized that because agency and communion relate to gender, they may also relate to digit ratio. The present study is important because digit ratio may offer clues on the origins and nature of agency and communion, and their gender differences. Agency and Communion factors were extracted from implicit linguistic measures obtained by LIWC analysis of selfnarratives. Exploratory structural equation modeling indicated communion related to digit ratio in men, and gender differences in communion. Although the results supported the distal, biological influences of communion argued by evolutionary accounts, the null finding agency was not related to digit ratio, while not directly interpretable, did not contradict socialization accounts of agency. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2014. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
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Fluxos e entre fluxos: metamorfoses de um corpo

Heine, Gabriela Massarra Santos 12 November 2018 (has links)
Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-12-12T09:29:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Gabriela Massarra Santos Heine.pdf: 939673 bytes, checksum: a3b4b7f8cee44e6d319adfbac613448b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-12T09:29:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gabriela Massarra Santos Heine.pdf: 939673 bytes, checksum: a3b4b7f8cee44e6d319adfbac613448b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-11-12 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / The present research results from a desire to seek other forms of relationship with the other, to see and feel it. In this sense, the emphasis of our object of study falls on the writings of the contemporary philosopher, Gilles Deleuze, in his readings in Espinosa and we search for possible connections with Jose Gil and Kuniichi Uno. It is, therefore, to think of human complexity in what it possesses of more particular: the potency of its body. Dance is proposed as a means of metamorphosis of the body and is consequently not the only form. To think about some flows and between flows that guide and permeate the Deleuze’s thought is like a kind of walk between transform and the conductor would be the body. In dance there are affectations capable of promoting the increase of power, strengthening our conservation as being. The more fit the body is, the greater will be your known its relation to the world. Thus, we seek through this dissertation to think about the relation of philosophy to dance, to literature, to theater. We understand that life is that of the body and what happens in it resounds in thought / A presente pesquisa resulta de um anseio de buscar outras formas de relação com o outro, de vê-lo e senti-lo. Neste sentido, a ênfase de nosso objeto de estudo recai sobre os escritos do filósofo contemporâneo, Gilles Deleuze, nas suas leituras em Espinosa e buscamos possíveis conexões com José Gil e Kuniichi Uno. Trata-se, portanto, de pensar a complexidade humana naquilo que ela possui de mais particular: a potência de seu corpo. A dança é proposta como um meio de metamorfose do corpo, não sendo, portanto, a única forma. Pensar em alguns fluxos e entre fluxos que norteiam e permeiam o pensamento deleuziano é como uma espécie de passeio entre devires e o condutor seria o corpo. Na dança ocorre afetações capazes de promover o aumento da potência fortalecendo nossa conservação como ser. Quanto mais apto estiver o corpo maior será seu poder de compreender sua relação com o mundo. Desta forma, procuramos por meio desta dissertação pensar sobre a relação da filosofia com a dança, com a literatura, com o teatro. Compreendemos que a vida é aquela do corpo e o que se passa nele ressoa em pensamento
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O estigma da deficiência física e o paradigma da reconstrução biocibernética do corpo / Physical disability and the bodys bio-cybernetics reconstruction paradigm

Kim, Joon Ho 06 December 2013 (has links)
Tanto a paralisia quanto a amputação são características corporais que tendem a resultar em estigma, ou seja, a mera percepção de sua existência pode depreciar a identidade social daquele que a tem. Entretanto, o surgimento de tecnologias prostéticas que habilitam amputados a competirem em nível olímpico contra pessoas sem deficiência tem produzido reações que contrariam a regra geral segundo a qual se evita expor aquilo que causa estigma. Mais do que isso, vem ganhando cada vez mais projeção midiática a imagem de amputados estereotipados como a realização do sonho do ciborgue: o corpo orgânico potencializado pela sua hibridação com sistemas cibernéticos. No bojo desse imaginário, a tecnologia do exoesqueleto robótico, derivada da indústria bélica, emerge como a solução que promete reestabelecer os movimentos de pessoas com lesão medular. Porém, a obsessão em encapsulá-los dentro de corpos robóticos supranumerários, em detrimento de outras tecnologias e terapias, parece muito mais motivada pelo simbolismo de um bipedismo simulado, que busca apagar a diferença entre os deficientes e os normais, do que pela reabilitação efetiva. A deficiência física e as tecnologias biocibernéticas de reconstrução e reabilitação corporais expõem não só a dimensão social irredutível do corpo, como também evidenciam que mesmo na mentalidade técnico-científica opera uma lógica simbólica, disfarçada nos recortes e classificações supostamente objetivos. Não é por acaso que a restauração do bipedismo em pessoas com paralisia tenha tanta afinidade com a imagem do milagre bíblico, pois o corpo-máquina, do qual a biocibernética é a evolução, e o corpo da cosmologia cristã, oriundo da Idade Média, não são completamente excludentes. De fato, apesar de constituírem sistemas de significação antagônicos, ambas as concepções de corpo compartilham as mesmas estruturas simbólicas inconscientes e, acima de tudo, atendem ao mesmo imperativo de dar sentido a uma realidade que a razão por si só não explica na sua totalidade. É sobre estes temas que esta tese procura refletir. / Both paralysis and amputation are body characteristics that tend to result in stigma, which means, in other words, that the mere perception of their existence may depreciate the social identity of those who have these traits. However, the emergence of prosthetic technologies enabling amputees to compete at the Olympic level against people without disabilities are provoking reactions that contradict the general rule pursuant to which one usually avoids exposing characteristics that cause stigma. Moreover, amputees stereotyped images have been increasingly reaching more media exposure as a cyborg dream that comes true: the organic body enhanced through its hybridization by means of cybernetic systems. In the midst of this imagery, the robotic exoskeleton technology derived from military industry emerges as a solution that promises to reestablish the movements of persons with spinal cord injuries. However, the obsession with their encapsulation inside supernumerary robotic bodies, to the detriment of other technologies and therapies, seems more driven by the symbolism of a simulated bipedalism, which aims to erase the differences between disabled and normal person, than actual rehabilitation. The physical disability and the bio-cybernetic technologies applied to the bodys rehabilitation and reconstruction, expose, not only the irreducible social dimension of the body, but also demonstrate that even the technical and scientific thinking operates under a symbolic logic, disguised under a presumably objective selective set of scopes and classifications. It is not a coincidence that bipedal restoration of persons with paralysis is close to the biblical miracle imagery, since the body-machine from which bio-cybernetics is the evolution, and the body of Christian cosmology rooted in the Middle Age, are not completely exclusionary. In fact, although they constitute antagonistic meaning systems, both concepts of the body share the same unconscious symbolic structures and, above all, they fulfill the same imperative of giving meaning to a reality that cannot be explained in its entirety only by reason. It is to this regard that this thesis will reflect.
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市場上的性別化身體: 香港模特兒的民族誌研究. / 香港模特兒的民族誌研究 / Shi chang shang de xing bie hua shen ti: Xianggang mo te er de min zu zhi yan jiu. / Xianggang mo te er de min zu zhi yan jiu

January 2005 (has links)
陳淑筠. / "2005年9月". / 論文(哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2005. / 參考文獻(leaves 225-233). / "2005 nian 9 yue". / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / Chen Shuyun. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2005. / Can kao wen xian (leaves 225-233). / 致謝 --- p.i / 摘要(中文) --- p.ii / 摘要(英文) --- p.iv / Chapter 第一章 --- 導論 --- p.1 / Chapter 第二章 --- 模特兒的發展歷史與性別化身體 --- p.25 / Chapter 第三章 --- 模特兒與模特兒公司的互動 --- p.68 / Chapter 第四章 --- 模特兒的日常工作與性別化身體 --- p.117 / Chapter 第五章 --- 男女模特兒的性別化身體 --- p.162 / Chapter 第六章 --- 結語 --- p.190 / 附錄:問卷調查 --- p.216 / 參考書目 --- p.225
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女身成佛: 探討佛教女性的終極證悟與世間修行. / 探討佛教女性的終極證悟與世間修行 / Nü shen cheng fo: tan tao fo jiao nü xing de zhong ji zheng wu yu shi jian xiu xing. / Tan tao fo jiao nü xing de zhong ji zheng wu yu shi jian xiu xing

January 2002 (has links)
金佩瑋. / "2003年9月". / 論文(哲學碩士)--香港中文大學, 2003. / 參考文獻 (leaves 126-133). / 附中英文摘要. / "2003 nian 9 yue". / Jin Peiwei. / Lun wen (zhe xue shuo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2003. / Can kao wen xian (leaves 126-133). / Fu Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / 論文摘要 --- p.i / Abstract --- p.ii / 致謝 --- p.iii / Chapter 1. --- 序章 --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- 緣起與目的 --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- 硏究方法 --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2.1 --- 論述分析. --- p.4 / Chapter 1.2.2 --- 質性調查 --- p.7 / Chapter 1.3 --- 理論及分析架構 --- p.10 / Chapter 1.3.1 --- 佛教學向度 --- p.11 / Chapter 1.3.1.1 --- 佛教看待女性的四種態度 --- p.11 / Chapter 1.3.1.2 --- 不利女身的斷言多爲後來竄加 --- p.12 / Chapter 1.3.1.3 --- 轉身論及法無男女論的形成過程 --- p.13 / Chapter 1.3.1.4 --- 轉男身的宗教意義 --- p.13 / Chapter 1.3.1.5 --- 女性曾爲一個歷史主體 --- p.14 / Chapter 1.3.1.6 --- 從權力角度檢視佛教女性處境 --- p.15 / Chapter 1.3.2 --- 女性主義與婦女硏究向度 --- p.15 / Chapter 1.3.2.1 --- 婦女硏究 --- p.15 / Chapter 1.3.2.2 --- 女性主義 --- p.16 / Chapter 1.3.3 --- 佛法義理原則 --- p.18 / Chapter 1.4 --- 典籍與名相 --- p.19 / Chapter 1.4.1 --- 典籍使用 --- p.19 / Chapter 1.4.2 --- 名相釋義 --- p.20 / Chapter 1.4.2.1 --- 女身 --- p.20 / Chapter 1.4.2.2 --- 成佛 --- p.20 / Chapter 2. --- 重構女身成佛的論述場景 --- p.22 / Chapter 2.1 --- 佛經時代的女性境況 --- p.23 / Chapter 2.2 --- 建立女身成佛的系譜 --- p.28 / Chapter 2.2.1 --- 佛在世勇於破禁的年代´ؤ´ؤ女性即身成就阿羅漢 --- p.29 / Chapter 2.2.2 --- 部派對立及厭惡女性的年代´ؤ´ؤ女身不能成佛 --- p.34 / Chapter 2.2.3 --- 大乘運動崛起的年代´ؤ´ؤ以轉身論解放女身 --- p.39 / Chapter 2.2.4 --- 密教與陰性興起的年代´ؤ´ؤ所有人皆能即身成佛 --- p.50 / Chapter 2.3 --- 小結 --- p.58 / Chapter 3. --- 論述背後的女人 --- p.61 / Chapter 3.1 --- 尋找女性的蹤影 --- p.61 / Chapter 3.1.1 --- 碑銘上存在的女性 --- p.62 / Chapter 3.1.2 --- 佛塔信仰體系下的女性狀況 --- p.65 / Chapter 3.1.3 --- 論爭背後的女性參與 --- p.67 / Chapter 3.2 --- 沒女身的協商與互動 --- p.69 / Chapter 3.3 --- 義理上分析和解構 --- p.71 / Chapter 3.4 --- 小結 --- p.73 / Chapter 4. --- 女修行人的協商與互動 --- p.75 / Chapter 4.1 --- 受訪者背景與成佛觀 --- p.75 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- 受訪者背景簡述、接觸佛教以及修行槪念 --- p.75 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- 不同傳統的成佛觀 --- p.78 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- 成佛信念與本身傳統相應 --- p.81 / Chapter 4.2 --- 抵抗與協商的話語 --- p.84 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- 女身之苦與障重 --- p.84 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- 抵抗與磋商 --- p.87 / Chapter 4.2.2.1 --- 人望高處成男身 --- p.87 / Chapter 4.2.2.2 --- 建構乘願再來的話語 --- p.88 / Chapter 4.2.2.3 --- 直接向權威挑戰 --- p.90 / Chapter 4.2.2.4 --- 把經教性別支配論述消弭 --- p.91 / Chapter 4.2.2.5 --- 把握佛法的隨機和弔詭性 --- p.92 / Chapter 4.3 --- 佛教女人的得力與消力 --- p.94 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- 傳統與信仰想像 --- p.94 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- 以退爲進及以傳統制傳統 --- p.96 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- 建立正面楷模及女性的傳統 --- p.101 / Chapter 4.4 --- 小結 --- p.101 / Chapter 5. --- 去性別化與權力主體 --- p.104 / Chapter 5.1 --- 從轉身到去性別 --- p.105 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- 去性別化´ؤ´ؤ現代轉身論 --- p.106 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- 轉身/去性別還是陽剛與陰柔? --- p.107 / Chapter 5.2 --- 女性的權力與主體性 --- p.109 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- 沒女身的主體性與權力 --- p.110 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- 顛覆性的主體權力 --- p.113 / Chapter 5.3 --- 小結 --- p.115 / Chapter 6. --- 總結´ؤ´ؤ初探女性義理學 --- p.118 / Chapter 6.1 --- 新世代的衝擊與重建 --- p.119 / Chapter 6.2 --- 女性義理學及性別硏究的策略與方向 --- p.121 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- 轉身/去性別的新意涵 --- p.121 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- 回復性別平等的新傳統 --- p.123 / Chapter 6.3 --- 正視偏見與盲點 --- p.124 / Chapter 6.4 --- 結語 --- p.125 / Chapter 7. --- 參考書目 --- p.126
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Somatické frazémy v turečtině a češtině / Somatic Phrasemes in Turkish and Czech

Michálková, Kateřina January 2019 (has links)
This master thesis deals with "somatisms" (i.e. names of human body parts) in language. It uses the example of two distant and unrelated languages - Czech and Turkish - to explore conceptualization of human body and its parts in phraseology, and possible differences that may occur across languages and cultures. This thesis consists of two key parts: a quantitative comparison and a qualitative comparison. In the first part, the frequency of individual somatisms and respective words is measured and compared in phraseology of both languages. The second part is a qualitative analysis of head - the most frequent somatism in both Czech and Turkish. The analysis and comparison are based on the perspective of cognitive linguistics, more specifically on the approach called "linguistic picture of the world" and related "profile theory".
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Confissões não declaradas / Confessions Not Declared

Katia Salvany Felinto Alvares 30 April 2015 (has links)
A Tese Confissões | Não | Declaradas apresenta um conjunto de experimentos poéticos realizados entre 2011 e 2015, cujo foco toma o corpo - para além do masculino e feminino - como subjetividade encarnada. Neles estão incorporadas tanto as investigações no campo das práticas artísticas quanto as reflexões no plano conceitual. A criação de campos sensórios em desenhos, esculturas, fotografias, gravuras e videoperformances refere-se às práticas artísticas. Já o desenvolvimento ensaístico do texto sobre as noções de corpo e sua conversão em imagem - de subjetividade como objeto de encarnação e de corpo fluido em estado artístico - remete ao plano conceitual em que os resultados dos experimentos poéticos se rebatem e se multiplicam. Como desdobramento disso, ainda são desencadeadas ideias sobre questões de gênero na interação erótica e, numa outra perspectiva, são desenvolvidas reflexões sobre o sujeito múltiplo metaestável como resultante de um processo de individuação contínuo. A metodologia que está na base dos experimentos poéticos é a pesquisa da sensação, porém empreendida com o objetivo de criar zonas estéticas capazes de dissolver formas corporais culturalmente crista / This thesis, entitled Confessions | Not | Declared, presents a series of artistic experiments conducted between 2011 and 2015, focusing on the human body beyond the categories of male and female, taken as embodied subjectivity. These experiments embody both artistic practice-based research and theoretical considerations. Artistic practice refers to the creation of sensory fields in drawings, sculptures, photographs, prints and video performances. The theoretical analysis examined some notions of the human body converted into image: the notion of incarnated subjectivity and the notion of a flowing body in artistic state, and how these concepts related to the artistic experimentation. Furthermore, both ideas on gender issues in erotic interaction and, from a different perspective, reflections on a metastable, multiple subject resulting from a continuous process of individuation, were considered. Sensation research was the methodology underpinning the artistic experiments. With this approach, aesthetic zones were created that dissolved culturally constructed notions of human body forms, and the images produced, rather than mere images, were infused with story-telling power.
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3 : 6 SEC OF MOVEMENT

ROLL, FELIX January 2014 (has links)
How does one approach the human body when designing and use it as a tool for investigating to develop shape-expression in dress? For this research, the movement of the human body has been chosen as the base element to generate shapes from movement, to enable a form of visible objects. This has been accomplished by carefully studying the original movement of a human body through film. Looking att balance, direction and general shape. The new human body, which has been generated from this research, provides the viewer or creator a different perspective of the body in relation to the static body, which is regularly used in fashion design from the beginning of the design process. This research has been conducted to propose the importance of the human body as an active element in the beginning of the design process and to be viewed as a new platform of innovative design and artistic development in dress. In addition, to develop a contemporary understanding of the body’s role when designing and developing fashion design. By using the human body in motion for shape and form, in contrast to the regular static dummy/body or flat sketching, the collection challenges the standard methods of designing and applying techniques. / Program: Modedesignutbildningen
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Dragões: gênero, corpo, trabalho e violência na formação da identidade entre travestis de baixa renda / Dragons: gender, body, work and violence in the identity formation among low-income brazilian travestis

Garcia, Marcos Roberto Vieira 10 May 2007 (has links)
O presente estudo se iniciou a partir de uma intervenção de cerca de quatro anos, na área da promoção de saúde, voltada a um grupo de travestis de baixa renda, que realizava encontros em uma instituição pública na região central de São Paulo. O método de pesquisa utilizado foi o da observação participante ativa, priorizando-se o caráter interativo e dialógico na obtenção dos dados. Buscou-se investigar a constituição da identidade social entre as referidas travestis, pela descrição e análise de quatro eixos fundamentais para o entendimento de seu universo - gênero, corpo, trabalho e violência - na perspectiva de transcender o privilégio dado à categoria gênero nos estudos existentes sobre travestis. Procurou-se submeter cada um destes eixos a uma análise social ampliada e referida à realidade brasileira. A partir de uma abordagem critica à categoria \"identidade\", foi proposto o entendimento desta, em relação ao grupo estudado, como uma \"colcha de retalhos\" (\"patchwork\"), formada a partir da assimilação de fragmentos de diferentes identidade sociais presentes em nossa sociedade. Considerou-se que as principais identidades incorporadas pelas travestis estudadas foram as da \"mulher submissa\", da \"puta\" e da \"mulher super-sedutora\", no campo da feminilidade e as do \"viado\", do \"malandro\" e do \"bandido\", no campo da masculinidade. A \"identidade travesti\" resultante mostrou não apenas a ambigüidade masculino/feminina, mas também contradições e tensões entre as próprias identidades femininas - e masculinas - incorporadas. / This study had its origin in a four-year health promotion work, directed to low-income travestis, within a public health institution in the central area of São Paulo, Brazil. The research method comprised active participant observation , with interactive, and dialogical data collection. The social identity formation among these travestis was investigated by description and analysis of four axis; gender, body, work, and violence, each of them fundamental for the understanding of their universe, attempting to transcend the status given to gender category in other studies with this population. Each one of these axis were submitted to a wider social analysis and referred to the current situation in Brazil. The identity category was subjected to a critical analysis and was proposed, in the referred group, the understanding of identity as a patchwork, built by the assimilation of different identity fragments that are common in Brazilian society. The major identities incorporated by the studied travestis were, in the field of feminility, the submissive woman, the puta (whore), and the seductress. In the field of masculinity the viado (queer), the malandro (rogue), and the bandido (bandit). The resultant travesti identity showed not only a masculine and/or feminine ambiguity, but also contradictions amongst the incorporated feminine identities, in the same way as the masculine ones.
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Impacto de patologias no desempenho termodinâmico do corpo humano. / Impact of pathologies on thermodynamic performance of human body.

Henriques, Izabela Batista 15 December 2017 (has links)
Neste trabalho, o conceito de exergia é utilizado na proposição de um indicador de idade exergética que permita observar alterações da expectativa de vida de um indivíduo a partir da exergia destruída durante seu ciclo de vida. Para tal, a análise exergética é aplicada ao corpo humano e a volumes de controle menores dentro do corpo para diferentes cenários nos quais ocorram alterações nas reações metabólicas, a fim de determinar a taxa de exergia destruída em função da idade cronológica. Com essa informação, é calculado o indicador de idade exergética, podendo comparar a taxa de progressão da vida do indivíduo nas diferentes condições avaliadas com base na ideia de que há um valor máximo de exergia destruída acumulada durante a vida. Os efeitos do tabagismo e da obesidade são avaliados, e observa-se uma redução de aproximadamente 15 anos na expectativa de vida de fumantes, enquanto, para os obesos, o indicador mostra um aumento. Portanto, a identificação da obesidade como um fator de risco se deve ao desenvolvimento de patologias associadas à obesidade, e não ao aumento do metabolismo e à presença de gordura corporal subcutânea. Uma vez que maior parte das patologias relacionadas à obesidade está associada ao sistema cardiovascular, é proposto um modelo exergético do coração. Observa-se um aumento da taxa de exergia destruída na presença de hipertensão, que leva a uma redução de cerca de quatro anos na expectativa de vida. Por fim, é proposto um modelo do metabolismo de uma célula de câncer que leva em conta as alterações das rotas metabólicas, a partir do qual é possível observar um aumento de quase três vezes no metabolismo exergético de uma célula de câncer em comparação com uma célula saudável. A análise da progressão de um tumor indica que, na ausência de tratamento, a redução da expectativa de vida é de 27 anos. Além disso, no caso de tratamento, cada seis meses na presença da doença reduz a expectativa de vida em cerca de quatro anos. / In the present work, the concept of exergy is applied in order to propose an index of exergetic age that allows observing changes in life expectancy of a subject based on the exergy destruction throughout the life cycle. To do so, exergy analysis is applied to the human body and smaller internal control volumes for different scenarios where changes in metabolic reactions take place, aiming at determining the destroyed exergy rate as a function of chronological age. From this data, exergetic age index is calculated, enabling to compare the rate of life progression of the subject under different circumstances, based on the idea that there is a maximum value of cumulative destroyed exergy throughout life. The effects of smoking and obesity are evaluated and a reduction of approximately 15 years is observed for smokers, while, for obese people, the index shows an increase. Thus, the identification of obesity as a risk factor is more associated to the development of obesity-related diseases than to the metabolic rate increase and the presence of a thicker layer of subcutaneous fat. Since most of the obesity-related diseases are associated to the cardiovascular system, an exergy model of the human heart is proposed. The model reports an increase of the exergy destruction in case of hypertension that causes a reduction of about four years in life expectancy. Finally, a model of the metabolism of a cancer cell is proposed taking into account the changes in the metabolic paths, from which it is possible to observe a threefold increase of the exergy metabolism of a cancer cell, in comparison to a healthy one. The analysis of tumor progression indicates that, in the absence of treatment, the reduction of life expectancy is about 27 years. Furthermore, in case of treatment, each six months living with the disease causes a reduction of almost four years in life expectancy.

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