Going Through the Motions: American Bodies in Pharrell Williams’s “24 Hours of Happy” by Claude Chastagner

“…The video promoting Pharrell Williams’s 2013 hit “Happy” is unusual: it runs continuously for 24 hours and displays a succession of around 400 people dancing to the song and often singing its lyrics and displaying with their bodies and facial expressions the spirit of happiness that the song epitomizes. …”
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Smoking Hot: the Odalisque’s eroticizing Cigarette by Liesbeth Grotenhuis

“…Hidden in the harem, the painting made the odalisque available for western eyes: lounging, dancing and above all, blatantly smoking. The Orient was “nicotinized”: fumes evoked dreams and hallucinations, as well as steamy sexual suggestions. …”
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« La plus grande utilité publique ». Renouveau pédagogique et éducation du corps au Collège de Sorèze (1759-1854) by Serge Vaucelle

“…The establishment offered special forms of instruction, stressing certain scientific and literary disciplines and also physical education (fencing, dancing, horse riding and equestrianism). Pupils’ best results were also recorded in swimming. …”
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Intelligent System of Somatosensory Music Therapy Information Feedback in Deep Learning Environment by Nan Zhao

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Pantropical Jumping Spiders in Florida by Glavis B. Edwards, Jr.

“…Many are marked with contrasting colors or bands, especially the males who display this ornamentation while dancing before females to win acceptance for mating. …”
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O insulă a criticii şi a istoriei literare în epoca totalitarismului by Stancu Ilin

“…The play, in the intellectual meaning of the word, has fulfilled his last years. He was dancing menuet, or acting in his plays, or reading the poetry of Baudelaire together with his younger disciples. …”
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Pantropical Jumping Spiders in Florida by Glavis B. Edwards, Jr.

“…Many are marked with contrasting colors or bands, especially the males who display this ornamentation while dancing before females to win acceptance for mating. …”
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Integrating humanoid robots with human musicians for synchronized musical performances by MengCheng Lau, John Anderson, Jacky Baltes

“…Entertainment robotics has garnered significant attention in recent years, with researchers focusing on developing robots capable of performing a variety of tasks, including magic, drawing, dancing, and music. This article presents our research on forming a musical band that includes both humanoid robots and human musicians, with the goal of achieving natural synchronization and collaboration during musical performances. …”
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Affects of Resistance: Candomblé Rituals in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction by Parvathi M. S.

“…These eco-ancestral rituals emerge as sites of expressive emotions in which the drumming, singing, and dancing bodies of the performers are embedded. The proposed paper situates the candomblé rituals in Crooked Plow (2023), a contemporary Brazilian novel, within the socio-cultural and political matrices of the plantation communities of the twentieth century. …”
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Biomechanics of Heading a Soccer Ball: Implications for Player Safety by Charles F. Babbs

“…The calculated head accelerations were compared to those during presumably safe daily activities of jumping, dancing, and head nodding and also were related to established criteria for serious head injury from the motor vehicle crash literature. …”
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Human Development IX: A Model of the Wholeness of Man, His Consciousness, and Collective Consciousness by Søren Ventegodt, Tyge Dahl Hermansen, Trine Flensborg-Madsen, Erik Rald, Maj Lyck Nielsen, Joav Merrick

“…These phenomena are explained based on the concept of deep quantum chemistry and infinite dancing fractal spirals making up the energetic backbone of the world. …”
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Integrating feedback control for improved human-structure interaction analysis by Santiago A. Lopez, Daniel Gomez, Albert R. Ortiz, Sandra Villamizar

“…., standing, sitting) or active (e.g., walking, dancing, jumping), considerably impact the dynamic response of structures such as grandstands, slender slabs, and pedestrian bridges, highlighting the necessity for their consideration in design. …”
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Surgical Treatment Outcomes of Unresolved Osgood-Schlatter Disease in Adolescent Athletes by Frederick Mun, William L. Hennrikus

“…Sports played included basketball, football, running, and dancing. All patients returned to sports at an average of 21 weeks and 6 days postsurgery (range 8-56). …”
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PID CONTROLLER FOR SPEED CONTROL OF PMSM BASED ON MAYFLY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM by Fatimah F. Jaber

“…Recently, the MA was introduced as a new intelligent optimization method with exceptional optimization capabilities. Nuptial dancing and random flight improve the ability of the algorithm to balance its features of exploitation and exploration while assisting in its escape from local optima. …”
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The impact of COVID-19-induced distance learning on physical activity and dietary habits of female students in the Qassim Region by Mona S. Almujaydil

“…However, after schools reopened, there was a significant increase in students’ participation in activities such as swimming, dancing, and housework (P < 0.05). Moreover, sleep hours and TV-watching time increased compared to the DL period. …”
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Taking Time: A Mixed Methods Study of Parkinson’s Disease Caregiver Participation in Activities in Relation to Their Wellbeing by Lia Prado, Rebecca Hadley, Dawn Rose

“…Although many studies have shown that psychosocial interventions, such as dance classes, can improve quality of life for people with Parkinson’s disease (PD): few have addressed the role of, and potential benefits to, the caregivers in such activities. …”
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Under the Light of the Population Register Dated 1857 An Evaluation upon the Socio-Economic Lives of the Gypsy Living in İstanbul by Ayşegül Kuş

“…Hence, the most widely adopted occupation by the Gypsies engaged in several occupationsin the socioeconomic Ottoman structure has been çengilik dancing which has continued up to modern times. The purpose of this study is to handle and evaluate the socio-economic structure of the Gypsy in the districts of Eyüp, Galata and Üsküdar in İstanbul in the Population Register dated 1857 and numbered 00474. …”
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Beta oscillations predict the envelope sharpness in a rhythmic beat sequence by Sabine Leske, Tor Endestad, Vegard Volehaugen, Maja D. Foldal, Alejandro O. Blenkmann, Anne-Kristin Solbakk, Anne Danielsen

“…Most environmental rhythms and patterns in human behavior, such as walking, dancing, and speech do not, however, display strict isochrony but are instead quasi-periodic. …”
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Yoruba Epistemology, Art, Language and the Universe of Meanings: A Meta-Analysis by Michael O. Afolayan

“…Indeed, Okediji’s pedagogy is the proverbial Yoruba drum of “ògìdìgbó” which is revealed only to the wise and the prudent, and they are the only two capable of effectively dancing to its rhythm. The paper reminds one of the title of the memoir of Ellen DeGeneres, the famous American comedian, titled Seriously . . . …”
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