EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF THE BODY-MIND CONTINUUM IN AFFECTIVE STATES*

1951 ◽  
Vol 113 (6) ◽  
pp. 512-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
BLAISE PASQUARELLI
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Affective States

Maximizing Recall of Gruesome Images for Health Effects Advertising: An Experimental Investigation

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 112-121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brennen W. Mills ◽  
Owen B. J. Carter ◽  
Robert J. Donovan
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Body Part ◽  
The Body ◽  
Advertising Effectiveness ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Online Study ◽  
Video Clips ◽  
Video Images ◽  
The Impact

The objective of this case study was to experimentally manipulate the impact on arousal and recall of two characteristics frequently occurring in gruesome depictions of body parts in smoking cessation advertisements: the presence or absence of an external physical insult to the body part depicted; whether or not the image contains a clear figure/ground demarcation. Three hundred participants (46% male, 54% female; mean age 27.3 years, SD = 11.4) participated in a two-stage online study wherein they viewed and responded to a series of gruesome 4-s video images. Seventy-two video clips were created to provide a sample of images across the two conditions: physical insult versus no insult and clear figure/ground demarcation versus merged or no clear figure/ground demarcation. In stage one, participants viewed a randomly ordered series of 36 video clips and rated how “confronting” they considered each to be. Seven days later (stage two), to test recall of each video image, participants viewed all 72 clips and were asked to identify those they had seen previously. Images containing a physical insult were consistently rated more confronting and were remembered more accurately than images with no physical insult. Images with a clear figure/ground demarcation were rated as no more confronting but were consistently recalled with greater accuracy than those with unclear figure/ground demarcation. Makers of gruesome health warning television advertisements should incorporate some form of physical insult and use a clear figure/ground demarcation to maximize image recall and subsequent potential advertising effectiveness.

The World-Relatedness of Affectivity: Heidegger and Richir

2021 ◽  
Vol 66 (2 supplement) ◽  
pp. 55-77
Author(s):  
Dominic Nnaemeka Ekweariri
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Phenomenal Experience ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
The World

" My investigation reveals that Heidegger’s account of affectivity – though his programmatical determination included an ontical dimension or otherwise lived, personal experiences – is overshadowed by a dense ontology that cannot enable real phenomenal experience. This is why he could not account for other affective states such as emotions, feel-ings and the role of the body in affectivity. Besides, in that account we are lost when we seek to answer the question of whether moods are “one” or “many”. My aim is to point out how these deficiencies in Heidegger’s account of mood could be overcome in Richir’s account of affectivity, where indeterminate background feelings (affections) could give rise to a deter-minate and occurent emotion (affects). The advantage of this move is a rich ontic account of affectivity where not only the body but also sense/meaning of affective episodes play a robust role in an encounter of world events. If Richir reproached Heidegger for existential solipsism, one could now reproach the former for existentiell/phenomenal solipsism. In the end I suggest that these two core but opposite aspects of affectivity (the ontological and the ontic) belong to the same reality: Dasein is not just in the world (ontology), but also the world is in Dasein (ontic/phenomenological). Keywords: mood, affection, affect, Heidegger’s ontology, Richir’s Leib and sense. "

Dead Bodies, Affective States and Volatile Icons

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-101
Author(s):  
Daniella Kuzmanovic
Keyword(s):  
The State ◽  
The Body ◽  
Dead Body ◽  
Affective States ◽  
Public Figure ◽  
Turkish Nationalism ◽  
Dead Bodies ◽  
The Dead

Dead bodies are symbolically effective in the context of politics, and enjoy a particular connection with affect. The mass-mediated mobilizations around Hrant Dink and the dead body of Dink suggest that there is indeed something about Katherine Verdery’s insight. Dink was a Turkish citizen of Armenian descent, editor, civic activist and a controversial public figure in Turkey. He was assassinated in 2007. Rather than focusing on the Armenian aspect in context of Turkish nationalism in order to grasp the efficacy of Dink and of his dead body, this article dwells on the intertwinement between his dead body and experiences of state subjects in Turkey. I argue that the efficacy of Dink, the semantic and affective density generated by way of the dead body, is produced in a conjuncture where neither meanings around the body and the person it embodied, nor of the state will stabilize.

scholarly journals Experiments on the friction and abrasion of the surfaces of solids

1833 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 364-365
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Cast Iron ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Horizontal Surface ◽  
Rapid Review ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Surface Time ◽  
Previous Contact ◽  
The Subject

The first part of this paper is occupied by a rapid review of the labours of mechanicians on the subject of friction, from the period of those of Amontons at the end of the 17th century, to those of Coulomb and of Vince in the years 1779 and 1784; from which the author draws the conclusion that the progress of knowledge in this department of science has been slow and unsatisfactory, and that a wide field is still left open to experimental investigation. With a view to elucidate several points not yet sufficiently ascertained by former writers, the author instituted several sets of experiments; some calculated to determine the forces required for dragging bodies of various kinds along a horizontal surface, and others for measuring the angle at which a plane was required to be inclined to the horizon in order to admit of the body sliding down it, attention being paid to the circumstances of pressure, extent of surface, time of previous contact, and velocity of motion. The following are the principal conclusions which the author deduces from his experiments. The friction of ice rubbing upon ice diminishes with an increase of weight; but without observing any regular law of increase. When dry leather is made to move along a plate of cast iron, the resistance is but little influenced by the extent of surface. With fibrous substances, such as cloth, the friction diminishes by an increase of pressure, but is greatly increased by the surfaces remaining for a certain time in contact; it is greater, cœteris paribus , with fine, than with coarse cloths; the resistance is also much increased by an increase of surface. With regard to the friction of different woods against each other, great diversity and irregularity prevail in the results obtained; in general the soft woods give more resistance than the hard woods: thus, yellow deal affords the greatest, and red teak the least friction. The friction of different metals also varies principally according to their respective hardness; the soft metals producing greater friction under similar circumstances than those which are hard. Within the limits of abrasion, however, the amount of friction is nearly the same in all the metals, and may in general be estimated at one sixth of the pressure. The power which unguents have in diminishing friction, varies according to the kind of the fluidity of the particular unguent employed, and to the pressure applied.

Theoretical and Experimental Investigation of an Externally Pressurized Porous Annular Thrust Gas Bearing and Its Optimal Design

1997 ◽  
Vol 119 (3) ◽  
pp. 486-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changzhi Cui ◽  
Kyosuke Ono
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Surface Layer ◽  
Optimal Design ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Dynamic Stiffness ◽  
Damping Ratio ◽  
The Body ◽  
Design Parameters ◽  
Darcy Model ◽  
Gas Bearing

Static and dynamic characteristics of an externally pressurized porous annular thrust gas bearing (PATGB), which has a thin restricted surface layer, are investigated by numerical analysis and experiment. In the analysis, it is assumed that the fluid flow obeys Darcy’s law in the porous material, restricted with Darcy’s restrictor (Darcy-Darcy model) or orifice restrictor (Darcy-Orifice model) in the surface layer. From experimental investigation, it is found that the theoretical results calculated by the Darcy-Darcy model agree with the experimental data better than those of the Darcy-Orifice model. Based on the Darcy-Darcy model, the unique relationships among the design parameters, which can provide the maximum damping ratio, were derived as functions of feeding parameter under the conditions of allowable static stiffness and the local minimum dynamic stiffness. Considering the dimensionless mass of the body supported by the bearing, an optimal design method is proposed to maximize the damping ratio at the natural frequency, while maintaining the required stiffness in the low frequency region.

Effects of Clothing Ventilative Designs on Thermal Insulation under Varying Wind Conditions

2011 ◽  
Vol 332-334 ◽  
pp. 1927-1930 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiang Hui Zhang ◽  
Jun Li
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Thermal Comfort ◽  
Thermal Insulation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Thermal Manikin ◽  
Clothing Insulation ◽  
Vertical Side ◽  
Wind Velocities ◽  
Heat And Moisture ◽  
Body Heat

This paper reports on an experimental investigation of the effects of clothing ventilative designs on thermal comfort measured in terms of thermal insulation. Eight T-shirts with varying areas and locations of mesh fabric were designed and produced for testing on a dry thermal manikin. Clothing thermal insulation of T-shirts was measured under three wind velocities: 0.5, 1 and 2m/s. The results showed that, the areas and locations of ventilation panels affect the total thermal insulation. The T-shirts with larger area of mesh fabric are preferable in terms of releasing more body heat. Among various designs tested, mesh fabrics applied at two vertical side seams can most effectively release heat and moisture from the body. Clothing insulation is also greatly affected by wind.

Experimental Investigation of the First and Second Order Wave Exciting Forces on a Restrained Body in Long Crested Irregular Waves

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joa˜o Pessoa ◽  
Nuno Fonseca ◽  
Suresh Rajendran ◽  
C. Guedes Soares
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Transfer Functions ◽  
Vertical Cylinder ◽  
Vertical Axis ◽  
Second Order ◽  
The Body ◽  
Irregular Waves ◽  
Numerical Predictions ◽  
Exciting Forces ◽  
Wave Exciting Forces

The paper presents an experimental investigation of the first order and second order wave exciting forces acting on a body of simple geometry subjected to long crested irregular waves. The body is axis-symmetric about the vertical axis, like a vertical cylinder with a rounded bottom, and it is restrained from moving. Second order spectral analysis is applied to obtain the linear spectra, coherence spectra and cross bi-spectra of both the incident wave elevation and of the horizontal and vertical wave exciting forces. Then the linear and quadratic transfer functions (QTF) of the exciting forces are obtained. The QTF obtained from the analysis of irregular wave measurements are compared with results from experiments in bi-chromatic waves and with numerical predictions from a second order potential flow code.

An experimental investigation of a two-layer inviscid shock cap due to blunt-body nose injection

1963 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 442-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judson R. Baron ◽  
Edgar Alzner
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Mach Number ◽  
Contact Surface ◽  
Blunt Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
Bow Shock ◽  
Mass Injection ◽  
Axisymmetric Channel ◽  
Injection Rates

Blunt-body solutions for suspersonic flow usually concern closed body surfaces. This paper reports on an experimental investigation of a two-layer shock cap and indicates the existence of a predictable contact surface separating the layers. The inner layer was generated by injecting air through a contoured axisymmetric channel on a blunt body so as to simulate a hemispherical contact surface in a Mach number 4.8 flow.Results show the existence of the contact surface and the influence of a range of mass-injection rates upon the displacement of the bow shock and contact surface from the body.

scholarly journals Experimental Investigation of the Mechanisms and Performance of Active Auxetic and Shearing Textiles

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael Granberry ◽  
Brad Holschuh ◽  
Julianna Abel
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Investigation ◽  
Shape Memory Alloys ◽  
Shape Memory ◽  
Smart Materials ◽  
Haptic Feedback ◽  
Axial Stress ◽  
The Body ◽  
Strain Behavior ◽  
Biaxial Tensile Testing ◽  
And Performance

Abstract Anisotropic textiles are commonly used in wearable applications to achieve varied bi-axial stress-strain behavior around the body. Auxetic textiles, specifically those that exhibit a negative Poisson’s ratio (v), likewise exhibit intriguing behavior such as volume increase in response to impact or variable air permeability. Active textiles are traditional textile structures that integrate smart materials, such as shape memory alloys, shape memory polymers, or carbon nanotubes, to enable spatial actuation behavior, such as contraction for on-body compression or corrugation for haptic feedback. This research is a first experimental investigation into active auxetic and shearing textile structures. These textile structures leverage the bending- and torsional-deformations of the fibers/filaments within traditional textile structures as well as the shape memory effect of shape memory alloys to achieve novel, spatial performance. Five textile structures were fabricated from shape memory alloy wire deformed into needle lace and weft knit textile structures. All active structures exhibited anisotropic behavior and four of the five structures exhibited auxetic behavior upon free recovery, contracting in both x- and y-axes upon actuation (v = −0.3 to −1.5). One structure exhibited novel shearing behavior, with a mean free angle recovery of 7°. Temperature-controlled biaxial tensile testing was conducted to experimentally investigate actuation behavior and anisotropy of the designed structures. The presented design and performance of these active auxetic, anisotropic, and shearing textiles inspire new capabilities for applications, such as smart wearables, soft robotics, reconfigurable aerospace structures, and medical devices.

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