Orientador: Paulo Rennes Marçal Ribeiro / Banca: Claudia Dias Prioste / Banca: Glória Maria Palma / Banca: Fernanda dos Santos Varandas / Banca: Valeria Cristina Gimenes Prado / Resumo: Esta tese é parte integrante da pesquisa no programa de pós-graduação em Educação Escolar pela Unesp de Araraquara. Parte da premissa de que o discurso sobre o Corpo e a Sexualidade sempre esteve presente na história da humanidade por meio de diferentes plataformas discursivas. O advento da fotografia no século XIX ressignifica as expressões sobre o corpo ao incorporar no frame da máquina elementos objetivos que na representação artística eram de certa forma, perdidas ou enfraquecidas pelos artistas. O surgimento da internet ressignificou a relação do ser humano com o corpo, uma vez que as plataformas digitais ampliam os efeitos de sentido das produções de subjetividade. Um dos aspectos presentes nesta ressignificação se manifesta na hiperexposição nas redes sociais. Tais mudanças conceituais tendem a criar certa tensão dentro da escola, por existir grande imperícia pelos gestores educacionais em lidar com questões relacionadas à Educação Sexual que aliada ao surgimento de nudes e sexting produzidos por determinados alunos, evocam tabus e provocam silenciamentos e punições por parte de educadores. Nos dias atuais, a internet faz parte do convívio social, sendo o tipo de ferramenta que serve não apenas para a comunicação, mas também para atividades diversas ligadas ao lazer e entretenimento. Há que se questionar, nessa dimensão, o que é o corpo e a sexualidade nas redes sociais. Para responder a esta questão, uma análise filosófica a partir do conceito de subjetivação e enunci... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This thesis is an integral part of the research in the post-graduation program in School Education by Unesp of Araraquara. It starts from the premise that the discourse on the Body and Sexuality has always been present in the history of humanity through different discursive platforms. The advent of photography in the nineteenth century resigns the expressions about the body by incorporating in the frame of the machine objective elements that in the artistic representation were somehow lost or weakened by the artists. The emergence of the internet has reaffirmed the relationship between the human being and the body, since the digital platforms amplify the sense effects of the productions of subjectivity. One of the aspects present in this resignification is manifested in hyperexposure in social networks. Such conceptual changes tend to create a certain tension within the school, because there is great malpractice by educational managers in dealing with issues related to Sexual Education that together with the appearance of nudes and sexting produced by certain students, evoke taboos and provoke silences and punishments by educators. Nowadays, the internet is part of social interaction, being the type of tool that serves not only for communication, but also for diverse activities related to leisure and entertainment. It is necessary to question, in this dimension, what is the body and sexuality in social networks. To answer this question, a philosophical analysis based on the c... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

The following thesis explores the obtaining of evidence during criminal proceedings via a line-up technique which is listed in section 104b, Act No. 141/1961, Criminal Procedure Code. The chosen topic is reviewed in its complexity from several different angles including theoretical aspects and my own personal experience. The thesis concentrates on a line-up of subjects in natura, problems associated with the procedure and offers possible solutions on how to face the given problems. In the first chapter the thesis provides general definition of a line-up and its variations and remaining subchapters to the possibility of its urgency and unrepeatability as well as to the question whether an object must participate. Next it follows the historical development of line-ups, offers views both current and historical on the practice as a method of criminal evidence gathering and explores the fact that it has only recently become part of the Criminal Procedure Code. This is opposed to being considered, as was the case for a long time, as a specific kind of interrogation, a view that can still be found among some theorists up to this day. In the next two chapters, a line-up is compared to other methods of criminal evidence that are part of the Criminal Procedure Code and the thesis also takes a closer look at...

Context. Underwater human detection has been an important problem in computer vision areas. Body part-based models could gain good performance in on-land human detection with occlusion existing scenarios. This thesis explores the feasibility of human body parts detection in underwater environment. Objectives. This thesis aims to build a DNN-based underwater human body part detector for human body part detection task. Three body part detectors implemented with different DNN-based models (Faster R-CNN, SSD and YOLO) are built and compared over underwater human body part detection task. Methods. In this thesis, experiments are used as research methods. Three DNN-based models which are regarded as the independent variables in the experiment is trained, tested and evaluated. And the detection results of detector based on the three different models are dependent variables. Finally the detection performance calculated on the result for each detector is compared. Results. Underwater Body part detector based on Faster R-CNN provides the best detection performance on the body part detection task in terms of mAP, and YOLOv2 achieves the fastest detection speed but it has the smallest mAP value. In addition, SSD model has both decent detection performance and also detection speed. Conclusions. Underwater Body part detector based on Faster R-CNN, SSD, and YOLO could gain good performance over underwater human body part detection task. Building an underwater body part detector via deep learning method is feasible.

This thesis consists of a collection of poems. By virtue of its content and arrangement, the collection ruminates on and attempts to work through the problem of corporeality and bodily experience: the anxieties surrounding illness, mortality, and the physicality of contemporary life. This collection explores the tension inherent in the mind/body duality and, rather than prescribing solutions, offers multiple avenues and perspectives through which to view bodily experience, as well as how that experience affects an individual’s identity, agency, and sense of self.

In this master thesis it have been investigated how the stiffness of a seat affect the risk of neck injuries, e.g whiplash associated disorders, in a rear end low velocity car collision using a female human body model, HBM, and if dividing the seat into several sections with different stiffnesses. The project is performed in collaboration with CEVT, China Euro Vehicle Technology, a innovation center of the Geely Holding Group. The HBM used is the VIVA open source HBM developed by Chalmers University of Technology together with Volvo Cars, The Swedish National Road and Transport ResearchInstitute (VTI) and Folksams forskningsstiftelse. Two different seats were investigated, a generic seat and the seat of the existing Lynk&Co 01. The stiffness of the seat had a significant impact on the risk of neck injuries, but does not seem to be a good idea to divide the seat into several sections since the height of the individual in the seat influence what stiffness is optimal for each section. It was also discovered that the relative distance between the head and the headrest at the moment of impact has a great affect on the risk of neck injuries.

This project uses digital technology to interpret the human body as a malleable material for the development of sculptural and textile-based design. Mikhail Bakhtin’s definition of the grotesque human body lays the conceptual groundwork for using the human body as an interactive tool, that co-shapes itself with digital technology as an extension. The technology has been given agency to affect the creative outcome, rather than treating it as a means to an end. By 3D scanning the designer’s own body, and manipulating photographic documentation of it, through algorithmic interpretations, the morpho- logical transformations of the designer’s body, in multiple realities, were investigated while reflecting on its influence on self-perception. The investigated methods resulted in alternative bodily structures carved in polystyrene, and dressed in hybrid materials of transfer-printed textiles and bio-plastic. The design outcomes suggests a design method wherein agency is given to digital technology which allows for exploring unexpected ways of perceiving the human body.

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Yes / This paper describes a hybrid computational method which efficiently models the interaction between a small antenna placed in proximity with the human body. Results for several test cases of placed in different locations on the body are presented and discussed. The near and far fields were incorporated into the study to provide a full understanding of the impact on human tissue. The cumulative distribution function of the radiation efficiency and absorbed power is also provided. The antennas are assumed to be operating over the 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz WLAN frequencies.

My dissertation focuses on various intellectual currents that shaped poet, composer, and amateur ethnomusicologist Amelia Rosselli’s work from 1950 to 1964, before she gained mild fame as a poet on the Italian literary scene. Rosselli had a trilingual background in Italian, English, and French, due to her Italian father and English mother and her family’s forced absence from Italy from Rosselli’s birth in 1930 until 1946, as a result of her father’s political activities. Rosselli is sometimes considered an outsider to Italian poetic movements, but in this dissertation I trace how she fits into various transnational intellectual networks. In doing so, I examine Rosselli through different lenses than what is typical in analyses of her work: I center her understandings of cultural difference according to her studies in various strains of anthropology and ethnomusicology. In doing so, Rosselli’s association of cultural difference with new conceptions of technology comes to the fore: namely, audiovisual recording technology used in ethnographic and ethnomusicological research; tools of electronic music that were bound up with this research in the 1950s; and new points of view on the body’s use as a technology, through a diffusion of the concept of techniques of the body. What emerges from my investigation is Rosselli’s political investments in establishing the universality of humans’ physiological and psychological capacities, beyond race (Chapter 1); valorizing previously marginalized cultural techniques, particularly techniques of the body (Chapter 2); seeking new mediatic modes of expression beyond the West (Chapter 3); and remapping relationships between self and other in her poetic output (Chapter 4). Although these political goals did not always result in building networks of solidarity, I argue that taking them seriously as important elements in Rosselli’s thought allows for a fuller consideration of how ideas of power dynamics, universality, and relationality play out in relation to cultural difference in her work. In doing so, I reveal how Rosselli inscribed herself into various political and intellectual networks that shaped Italian cultural life in the 1950s and 1960s.

The increased prevalence of crash avoidance technologies like autonomous emergency braking necessitates understanding of occupant responses during low-speed frontal pre-crash braking and low-severity crash events. Active human body models (HBMs) have emerged as valuable tools to evaluate occupant safety during these events, but must be validated with relevant volunteer data to accurately represent the responses of live occupants. The objective of this dissertation was to quantify the occupant responses of relaxed and braced 5th percentile female and 50th percentile male volunteers during low-speed frontal and frontal-oblique sled tests designed to simulate pre-crash braking and low-severity crash events. A study comprised of 160 low-speed sled tests was performed with 20 volunteers. The volunteers' kinematics, kinetics, and muscle responses were compared to determine how altering impact direction (frontal and frontal-oblique), impact severity (1 g and 2.5 g), demographic group (mid-size male and small female), and muscle state (relaxed and braced) affected occupant responses. The volunteers' occupant responses were significantly affected by impact direction, impact severity, demographic group, and muscle state. The frontal-oblique tests resulted in greater leftward excursions compared to the frontal tests. Increasing the pulse severity resulted in greater forward excursions, reaction forces, and muscle activation. The male volunteers exhibited greater forward excursions and reaction forces compared to the female volunteers. However, the two demographic groups exhibited similar muscle activation during the sled tests. Bracing increased the volunteers' initial joint angles, muscle activation, and reaction forces prior to the sled tests. Bracing decreased forward excursions and increased reaction forces during the sled tests. The relaxed volunteers exhibited greater relative changes in occupant responses compared to the braced volunteers. Overall, this study demonstrated that muscle activation significantly affected the volunteers' kinematics, kinetics, and muscle responses for both mid-size males and small females during low-speed events. Observed differences between demographic groups were more prominent when relaxed and more diminished when braced. These results underscore the importance of validating active HBMs with relevant volunteer data in order to be more representative of live occupants for a wider range of demographic groups in varying muscle states. Finally, this dissertation provides a large, comprehensive, and novel biomechanical dataset that can be used to develop and validate active HBMs for use in assessing occupant response during frontal pre-crash braking and low-severity crash events. These models will help improve the understanding of potential injury risk and development of effective vehicle safety systems for use during low-speed events. / Doctor of Philosophy / Computer models, known as active human body models (HBMs), have emerged as tools that can be used to assess occupant safety during low-speed vehicle crashes. In these types of events, occupants have enough time to react and potentially brace before the crash, which could in turn affect their responses during the crash. It is important to understand how occupants respond during crashes so that effective vehicle safety systems can be developed. Active HBMs are particularly valuable because they can simulate muscle activation to reflect the response of live occupants. However, data are needed from live occupants to ensure that these models are accurate. To gather this data, a study was performed where volunteers experienced low-speed frontal sled tests when they were relaxed and braced. The sled tests were designed to simulate pre-crash braking and low-severity vehicle crashes. Mid-size male and small female volunteers were recruited to participate to represent the standard adult occupant populations used in current frontal impact vehicle safety standards. A motion capture system was used to measure the volunteers' forward motion, load cells were used to measure the volunteers' exerted reaction forces on the test buck, and electrodes were used to measure the volunteers' muscle activity. The volunteers' responses were significantly different between the relaxed and braced muscle states, and between the males and females. Comparing between males and females, the males moved farther forward and exerted larger reaction forces, but both demographic groups exhibited similar muscle responses. Comparing between muscle states, bracing increased the volunteers' muscle activation and reaction forces before the sled tests. Bracing also increased the volunteers' reaction forces during the sled tests, but decreased forward movement. Overall, the volunteers exhibited greater relative changes in response when they were relaxed compared to when they were braced. Overall, this study demonstrated that muscle activation significantly affected the volunteers' responses for both mid-size males and small females during low-speed events. These results highlight the importance of developing active HBMs with relevant volunteer data in order to be more representative of live occupants. Finally, the data from this study can be used to develop active HBMs to improve their accuracy, so that the models can be used to assess occupant safety during low-speed frontal vehicle crashes. This will help improve the understanding of potential injury risk and development of effective vehicle safety systems, to reduce the number of injuries caused by vehicle crashes.