Masques et mascarades dans Romola par George Eliot : la traversée des apparences by Stéphanie Richet

“…It works on the mode of prestidigitation in that it relies on the displacement of attention, drawing the viewer’s gaze on a spectacular, yet spurious gesture, while the real action lies somewhere else. …”
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Introduction to the January 2025 Issue by Peter H. Siegel

“…Our January issue content includes 19 regular papers spanning topics that include wearable smart skins, batteryless IoT devices, astronaut hand gesture recognition, THz chiral structures, and metamaterial transmitarrays. …”
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« L’attention littéraire » dans les textes d’Alessandro Mendini (1931-2019) : une traduction permanente vers le projet by Catherine Geel

“…Text and “translation” are for him a central subject, a gesture, an origin and a project process.…”
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The Reserve of Poetry by Geneviève Cohen-Cheminet

“…My point is not so much to unearth an Americana collectible that would express American popular culture in the 1920s but to give a measure of insight into the reserved violence of Lorine Niedecker’s aesthetic gesture.…”
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A Rollercoaster to Model Touch Interactions during Turbulence by Alexandre Alapetite, Emilie Møllenbach, Anders Stockmarr, Katsumi Minakata

“…Participants had to repeatedly solve three basic touch interactions: a single click, a one-finger drag-and-drop, and a zoom operation involving a 2-finger pinching gesture. The completion times of the different tasks as well as the number of unnecessary interactions with the screen constitute the collected user data. …”
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La vie des Gommes : pour une approche biographique des pneus de Carol Rama by Carolina Spovieri

“…By stripping it of its status as an unusable commodity, the creative gesture gives the waste a kind of new memory, like a second life that makes it autonomous. …”
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EmoHeart: Conveying Emotions in Second Life Based on Affect Sensing from Text by Alena Neviarouskaya, Helmut Prendinger, Mitsuru Ishizuka

“…However, to trigger visual display of user's affective state in a virtual world, user has to manually assign appropriate facial expression or gesture to own avatar. Affect sensing from text, which enables automatic expression of emotions in the virtual environment, is a method to avoid manual control by the user and to enrich remote communications effortlessly. …”
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PVC/MXene electrospun film triboelectric nanogenerator for efficient mechanical energy harvesting and multifunctional human motion sensing by Lina Liu, Weiqiu Zhu, Haotian Ma, Junyu Zhou

“…It also demonstrates excellent environmental durability, stability, and multifunctional sensing capabilities, including monitoring physiological signals and biomechanical movements, making it a promising candidate for self-powered wearable sensors, energy harvesting, gesture recognition, and healthcare applications. …”
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Kinect-Based Exergames Tailored to Parkinson Patients by Ioannis Pachoulakis, Nikolaos Papadopoulos, Anastasia Analyti

“…Platform navigation and gameplay rely on a collection of gestures specifically developed for this purpose and are based upon training programs tailored to PD. …”
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Habiter l’exil : Retablo hispánico, Mexique, 1946 by Salomé Foehn

“…For this generation of exiles, to inhabit is a philosophical « gesture » (Benoît Goetz), a harmonic and contrapuntal « way of being » (Edward Said). …”
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« Mourir dans un baiser » Un archétype du féminicide ? by Jacqueline Carroy, Marc Renneville

“…When the man survives the death of his partner, the intentionality of the gesture raises questions. We analyse this on the basis of a double suicide committed in Constantine, Algeria, on 25 January 1888. …”
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The Ethics of Refusal in Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life by Marguerite La Caze, Magdalena Zolkos

“…We conclude by drawing attention to three key presences in the film; nature, children and the wife, Fani, who turn the negative power of refusal into an affirmative gesture of companionship, co-presence and witnessing.…”
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La tardive floraison des campagnes. L’architecture moderniste des kolkhozes dans l’Estonie soviétique by Mart Kalm

“…As a single generous gesture the Estonian SSR allowed the collective farm administrative office cum clubhouse to be built according to a one-off design. …”
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Transformer-Based Optimization for Text-to-Gloss in Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation by Younes Ouargani, Noussaim El Khattabi

“…Sign Language is the primary means of communication for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community. These gesture-based languages combine hand signs with face and body gestures for effective communication. …”
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UAlpha40: A comprehensive dataset of Urdu alphabet for Pakistan sign languageMendeley Data by Sameena Javaid, Shahood Sajid, Yusra Khan Baloch

“…While researchers have focused on the 36 static gestures, the 4 dynamic gestures have been overlooked. …”
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Noncontact Palm Vein ROI Extraction Based on Improved Lightweight HRnet in Complex Backgrounds by Fen Dai, Ziyang Wang, Xiangqun Zou, Rongwen Zhang, Xiaoling Deng

“…A noncontact palm vein ROI extraction algorithm based on the improved HRnet for keypoints localization was proposed for dealing with hand gesture irregularities, translation, scaling, and rotation in complex backgrounds. …”
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An intelligent hybrid-fabric wristband system enabled by thermal encapsulation for ergonomic human-machine interaction by Aobo Cheng, Xin Li, Ding Li, Zhikang Chen, Tianrui Cui, Lu-Qi Tao, Jinming Jian, HuiJun Xiao, Wancheng Shao, Zeyi Tang, Xinyue Li, Zirui Dong, Houfang Liu, Yi Yang, Tian-Ling Ren

“…Abstract Human-machine interaction has emerged as a revolutionary and transformative technology, bridging the gap between human and machine. Gesture recognition, capitalizing on the inherent dexterity of human hands, plays a crucial role in human-machine interaction. …”
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Applicability of a Single Depth Sensor in Real-Time 3D Clothes Simulation: Augmented Reality Virtual Dressing Room Using Kinect Sensor by Sasadara B. Adikari, Naleen C. Ganegoda, Ravinda G. N. Meegama, Indika L. Wanniarachchi

“…The system is also equipped with gender identification and gesture controllers to select the cloth. The developed application successfully augmented the selected dress model with physics motions according to the physical movements made by the user, which provides a realistic fitting experience. …”
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Every sip counts: Understanding hydration behaviors and user-acceptability of digital tools to promote adequate intake during early and late pregnancy. by Abigail M Pauley, Asher Y Rosinger, Jennifer S Savage, David E Conroy, Danielle Symons Downs

“…These findings will inform the design of a behavioral intervention incorporating smart connected water bottles, wearables for gesture detection, and behavior modification strategies to overcome barriers, promote proper hydration and examine its impact on maternal and infant health outcomes.…”
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Reliability of an Inertial Measurement System Applied to the Technical Assessment of Forehand and Serve in Amateur Tennis Players by Lucio Caprioli, Cristian Romagnoli, Francesca Campoli, Saeid Edriss, Elvira Padua, Vincenzo Bonaiuto, Giuseppe Annino

“…This research involved a group of amateur players who performed a series of standardized gestures (forehands and serves) wearing a sensorized chest strap fitted with a wireless inertial unit. …”
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