Nonverbal Communication and its Effects on Human Relations: An Analysis from Surah Luqman by Tajudeen Yusuf

“…While much emphasis is placed on verbal communication, nonverbal cues such as body language, facial expressions, and gestures often carry significant weight in conveying messages. …”
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Quality Assessment of Interactive Mobile Application – Maternal and Infant Care for Tribal Birth Attendants by Rakhi Dwivedi, Akhil Dhanesh Goel, Varuna Vyas, Prem Prakash Sharma, Pratibha Singh, Kuldeep Singh

“…The application was found to be entertaining excellent rating (mean score ± standard deviation) (4.00 ± 0.58), and scored high on performance (3.77 ± 0.93); layout design (3.85 ± 0.90); subjective quality (4.23 ± 0.93), however, scored minimum on interest; gestural design; visual appeal, etc. MAI is a user-friendly, culturally acceptable Android app that can be used for the capacity building of frontline workers.…”
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PHONOLOGICAL SYSTEM OF BANGKA MALAY LANGUAGE, TOBOALI DIALECT, IN SOUTH BANGKA REGENCY by Herland Franley Manalu, Bob Morison Sigalingging, Dini Wulansari

“…The researchers obtained the Toboali dialect words by gesturing or pointing to objects and images so the informants were able to pronounce the words and then the phonetic transcription could be written. …”
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Observaţii asupra cărţilor de mărturie sub maledicţie arhierească în Ţara Românească by Laura Bădescu

“…Conclusions have been formulated, based on analysis of this corpus, regarding the entire process of registering the testimony given under curse, formalised through specific paraphenalia, acts and gestures, choosing witnesses, and taking the oath prior to the court testimony itself. …”
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ANALYSIS OF HUMAN STRUGGLE OF MAIN CHARACTERS IN INDIAN DRAMA FILM “BLACK” (2005) by Tira Nur Fitria

“…Sahai teaches her how to communicate through hand and mouth gestures. So, we can understand the struggles of the parents, teacher, and Michelle's struggle to find light in her life.…”
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Walking and standing in Athinas Street: Encountering pedestrian life in Athens’ historical centre by Dimitra Kanellopoulou

“…In the context of a growing debate on the need of radical gestures in order to stimulate life in public space, the paper aims to stimulate discussion about the forms and triggers of animation of street life that do not depend on traditional planning or event management. …”
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Corps sensible, environnement urbain moderniste by Françoise Michel-Jones

“…From the point of view of an anthropology of vision, this article explores the relationship between sensing body and urban environment, particularly the perceptive and cognitive changes that occurred in the West of the 1960s, as fascinatingly depicted by Jacques Tati in a film—Playtime—that became a cinema classic.A master of filmed description and analysis of the typical social gestures and behaviours of the urban middle classes, Jacques Tati offers a film intended as “audio-visual” film “material”, rather than a filmed account of a story centred on a subject. …”
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"[T]hings among the ruins" : les choses contre le roc dans The Song of the Lark et The Professor’s House de Willa Cather by Céline Manresa

“…If material things pave the way to a gentle taming of the wilderness, the objects modelled by cliff-dwellers epitomize the homology between the writer’s and the potter’s gestures. Altering her signifiers by referring to natural substances, such as clay, sand, gems and metals, Cather succeeds in creating a harmonious and respectful dialogue between her writing and the surrounding world…”
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(Auto)pathography, Photography, Trauma in Aleksandar Hemon’s The Lazarus Project by Angeliki TSETI

“…Significantly, these (auto)biographical gestures are performed in photo-textuality, in other words the combination of written text and photography—and its particular, as per Barthes, relation to death—in a relationship of reciprocity and complementarity. …”
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Arnold Bennett’s Naturalistic and Democratic Interiors in The Old Wives’ Tale (1908) by Laurent Mellet

“…This is how his naturalism based on an empirical art of the narrative and a surprising use of interior monologue gestures towards a democratic opening of literature in which doorframes, windows and thresholds help us reconsider the aesthetic and political meanings of interiority.…”
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The dynamic Colombian sign language dataset for basic conversation LSC70Mendeley Data by Jader Alejandro Muñoz Galindez, Leidy Verónica Villota Coral, Rubiel Vargas Cañas

“…This form of communication relies on the use of signs, gestures, facial expressions, and more. Considering that in Colombia, the population with hearing impairments is around half a million, a database of dynamic, alphanumeric signs and commonly used words was created to establish a basic conversation. …”
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Challenging “La Vie Bohème”: Community, Subculture, and Queer Temporality in Rent by Eleonora Sammartino

“…Since the 1980s, American film musicals have been increasingly concerned with subjectivities that escape heteronormative categorizations, asserting their gender through a performance that gestures to a major fluidity between gender positions. …”
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Pour une archéologie des peintures murales, la Chasse royale de la chapelle Sainte-Radegonde à Chinon (Indre-et-Loire) : étude technique et résultat des datations par le 14C by Amaëlle Marzais

“…The iconography had been discussed on several occasions since the discovery of this painting in 1965, but the technical aspects, as the implementation processes, tools, materials and gestures used, had not yet been studied. Thus, by focusing on two of the five horsemen, the successive application of the colouring stages can be identified and restored. …”
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Rotation des postes, assignation temporaire et impact des absences dans une usine d’abattage et de transformation du porc by Anne Falardeau, Nicole Vézina

“…In the porcine slaughterhouse concerned, the slaughter department workers had managed to set up a very complex job rotation system designed to maximize the possibility for changes in the rhythm and variation in the performance of working gestures, so as to prevent musculoskeletal disorders. …”
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Choice of props for courtship dancing in estrildid finches by Masayo Soma, Misaki Nakatani, Nao Ota

“…It is unclear whether such object-holding gestures are purely ritualistic or serve as an advertisement of an extended phenotype to potential mates. …”
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The Perspective of Peace or Fear for the Future? An Attempt to Evaluate Christian-Muslim Dialogue by Piotr Kaczmarek

“…Moreover, as practice shows, the Church's benevolent gestures often fall on deaf ears, and it seems that this effort is inadequate to the expected fruits of dialogue. …”
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‘A wound that aches yet isn’t felt ... a pain that rages without hurting’: Getting to know the identity of outsourced housekeepers through the bond of memory and social class by Viviani Teodoro dos Santos, Marivânia Conceição de Araújo, Marcio Pascoal Cassandre

“…The identity of the group is marked by: dramatic events, however, surrounded by gestures of solidarity; an intense and heavy daily work, marked by the hierarchy of distinctions; and a trajectory that is based on elements such as faith and daily dedication, so that, when playing a role in the system, they need to use conformism as a survival strategy.…”
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La patrimonialisation des produits du terroir à travers quelques musées consacrés au cognac et au vin en Nouvelle-Aquitaine by Florence Disson

“…Closely connected with the notion of intangible cultural heritage, these museums of local products express the heritage designation of a particular food or drink as a component of a territorial identity, and the identification as heritage of specific gestures and savoir-faire.…”
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La crémation parmi les pratiques funéraires du Néolithique récent-final en France Méthodes d’étude et analyse de sites by Esther Gatto

“…Various types of funeral gestures were identified within the corpus of the common burials with cremation(s) listed on the French territory.A spatial projection on the scale of France is proposed. …”
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Images et textes opératifs en design : énoncer, traduire les concepts, en et hors contexte by Éric Tortochot, Véronique Rey, Christina Romain

“…The translation of concepts is tested through a series of passages as needs evolve. These gestures or movements, which lead to representations and forms of utterance of the artifact’s desired shapes, are addressed to several interlocutors, whether or not they are design specialists. …”
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