• February 2019 - Oman is showing regional leadership in the Eastern Mediterranean Region by adopting the Patient Safety Friendly Hospital Initiative to improve the safety of health care in public and private hospitals nationwide. (who.int)
  • Experimental results show that there is a correlation between pressure distribution and lying posture. (hindawi.com)
  • For example, suppose that a person is lying in the upright posture, and we found the body parts belonging to the tier-1 as shown in Figure 1 . (hindawi.com)
  • Based on the above criteria, the basic three postures, upright , left , and right posture, as shown in Figure 2 can be easily identified. (hindawi.com)
  • Information about these movements is sent from the vestibular system to the cerebellum, which co-ordinates the motor movements needed to maintain posture and balance ( Ito, 2006 ). (elifesciences.org)
  • Apple says little about use cases, but does have enough specifics to show that this posture detection is not just so the company can nag you about not doing your sit-ups. (appleinsider.com)
  • Proper gait, posture, and visual focus during head movement all depend on an intact sense of balance. (medscape.com)
  • This circuitry starts with the vestibular system: a sensory system in the inner ear that relies on hair cells to detect movements, and to provide our sense of balance and spatial awareness. (elifesciences.org)
  • The vestibular system contains five organs that are sensitive to different types of movement. (elifesciences.org)
  • These experiments showed that the primary afferents largely originated at the three semi-circular canals of the vestibular system, and that the dendrites of the VG neurons mostly had a dimorphic morphology (see Figure 1 ). (elifesciences.org)
  • At any rate, its author emerges as a large-scale contrarian, impatiently opposed to many movements in contemporary philosophical thought, and quite happy to suppose that it does not take much to show that they are largely wrong-headed. (nd.edu)
  • This system senses weak water movements and mediates crucial behaviours, including prey detection, predator avoidance, schooling, orientation to water currents (rheotaxis), and localization of objects. (thefishsite.com)
  • Most commonly, people have neck pain and headache, but if the spinal cord or lowest part of the brain (brain stem) is affected, people may have difficulty sensing vibration, pain, and temperature and may have weak muscles, dizziness, and impaired vision. (msdmanuals.com)
  • For instance, several studies have shown that the levels of FA in functionally important bilateral traits is typically less than that in functionally less important traits. (thefishsite.com)
  • Their odd head morphology allows this technique to be successful , because it actually doesn't disturb the water very much, kind of like how a boat moves through a no wake zone in a lake. (iflscience.com)
  • No movements were observed when the outdoor temperature stood at a cold 10 degrees Celsius and the possums had a low body temperature. (scienceblog.com)
  • The startling hiss and flare of simultaneously struck matches reveal Mnemosyne seated in her familiar pose, head shrouded but without the book and lamp of memory that form part of the sculpture. (danz.org.nz)
  • In this work, we present a neuromorphic architecture for head pose estimation and scene representation for the humanoid iCub robot. (frontiersin.org)
  • The spiking neuronal network is fully realized in Intel's neuromorphic research chip, Loihi, and precisely integrates the issued motor commands to estimate the iCub's head pose in a neuronal path-integration process. (frontiersin.org)
  • In a spatial audio embodiment, motion data from [a] headset and source device motion are fused in the source device," says Apple, "such that relative position and attitude can be calculated by the source device for use in head pose tracking for certain tracking scenarios to ensure that the spatial audio sound bed is properly centered. (appleinsider.com)
  • In particular, head pose tracking using relative motion is useful for determining whether the user's head is turning while their torso is stationary or whether the user's torso has moved," it continues. (appleinsider.com)
  • The cervical joint position sense test, which measures joint position error (JPE), is the most common test used to assess neck proprioception. (bvsalud.org)
  • Once the seahorse is extremely close to the prey, it is able to jerk its head extremely quickly and consume the tiny copepod. (iflscience.com)
  • Some ear devices (e.g., earbuds) include inertial sensors that control audio playback, provide microphone orientation data used in beamforming to reduce background noise, and head tracking for anchoring a spatial audio sound field played through the ear devices. (appleinsider.com)
  • Harvard Law student Ted Hamilton discusses with host Steve Curwood the lawsuit that's attempting to compel Harvard to divest its portfolio of fossil fuels, and the connections between divestment and the broader climate movement. (loe.org)
  • 2) in a broader, and more usual, sense to cover the view (in relation to which many schools may be classed as rationalistic) that the human reason, or understanding, is the sole source and final test of all truth. (catholic.com)
  • Recycling doesn't stop climate change, but it is something that people can actually do, that gets them on board, that helps the movement gain traction. (cdc.gov)
  • To relieve pressure on the brain, spinal cord, or nerves, doctors use traction or manipulate the head, then immobilize the neck, but sometimes surgery is needed. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Keeping your head upright may seem like a trivial task, but the neural circuitry required to perform this task is rather complex and not fully understood. (elifesciences.org)
  • Biological neural systems evolved to solve tasks that are highly relevant to robotics: perception, movement control, action planning, or decision making under uncertainty. (frontiersin.org)
  • She heads the Insect Robotics group at the University of Edinburgh, and was recently made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. (lu.se)
  • At Gustu, a restaurant Meyer opened in 2013 in La Paz, Bolivia, head chef and native Bolivian Marsia Taha sees the New Nordic philosophy as a means to show off her own country's cuisine. (sothebysrealty.com)
  • Using FSR (force sensing resistor) sensors arranged in a grid structure, three major body parts such as head , shoulder , and hips are identified, and six lying positions are determined based on these body parts. (hindawi.com)
  • Head, shoulder, and hips are relatively high in pressure and are easy to distinguish due to low movement. (hindawi.com)
  • The body parts belonging to the tier-1 are head , shoulder , and hips . (hindawi.com)
  • In addition, the combined weight of the head, shoulders, and hips belonging to the tier-1 is 48% of the body weight [ 8 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Then we can check whether the extended area includes both the head and the hips. (hindawi.com)
  • The young Nauman's thrusting his hips left and right with his hands behind his head gave the earlier version an unquestioned sense of mockery. (hyperallergic.com)
  • We present real-time robotic experiments using 2 degrees of freedom (DoF) of the robot's head and show precise path integration, visual reset, and object position learning on-chip. (frontiersin.org)
  • The sacculus and the utricle detect gravity and linear movements, respectively, and there are three semi-circular canals that detect rotation. (elifesciences.org)
  • Now two separate patent applications have been revealed, which despite being applied for a year apart, both aim to detect every movement - and use it. (appleinsider.com)
  • People listen to you maybe unfairly, there's unfair attention shined upon the Harvard campus and so even though we're students we have this unearned power to influence conversation and to make a difference for the climate movement. (loe.org)
  • Earnings don't move the overall market… focus on the central banks and focus on the movement of liquidity… most people in the market are looking for earnings and conventional measures. (financialsense.com)
  • By 2025, 1 Million Strong aims to support 1 million people impacted by addiction through The Phoenix , a national sober active community that provides free and meaningful programming to anyone impacted by substance use, including those in recovery, anyone who chooses to live a sober lifestyle, and supporters of the movement. (kdvr.com)
  • Built around the shared goal of empowering people to show up as their best selves, 1 Million Strong is a partnership between The Phoenix , Stand Together Music , and Stand Together Foundation . (kdvr.com)
  • More DOF bringing the abdomen into crisp focus would have improved the picture (as you felt yourself), however 1/250s might have been an equally important consideration helping to freeze motion and avoid camera movement. (photomacrography.net)
  • Through trust and consistent support and because WHO colleagues work with hospital staff in a manner that shows them they are moving forward, together they are achieving concrete change in patient safety. (who.int)
  • Set in the far future, this establishing shot shows Los Angeles from high above. (backstage.com)
  • Tier -1 is defined as a region where the pressure in the body part is high and it is continuously maintained due to the low frequency of movement. (hindawi.com)
  • Even on home video one gets a sense of being high off the ground. (combustiblecelluloid.com)
  • Several studies have shown that high FA levels are characteristics of individuals with low fitness e.g. (thefishsite.com)
  • Following a best practice meeting on patient safety organized by WHO, the Ministry showed a high level of commitment and interest in the implementation of the Patient Safety Friendly Hospital Initiative to improve the safety of health care in public and private hospitals nationwide, and a roadmap of actions was developed. (who.int)
  • The morphogenetic movements of gastrulation rearrange the three germ layers precursors, positioning mesodermal cells between outer ectodermal and inner endodermal cells to shape the head-to-tail body axis. (nature.com)
  • A drop of their body temperatures to below 13 degrees Celsius, caused their reactions and movements to be extremely slow and very basic. (scienceblog.com)
  • In other words, it is advantageous to discriminate based on the upper body when recognizing the lying postures using the pressures sensed. (hindawi.com)
  • When the devices you are wearing can calculate the position of your entire body, and predict where movement is going to take you, it can alert you to real or virtual obstacles. (appleinsider.com)
  • These can together] provide a more accurate full body skeletal model that can provide detailed insights into a user's movements," says Apple, "allowing improved progress tracking for various fitness activities or health monitoring. (appleinsider.com)
  • An additional advantage is that existing devices already owned by the user" continues the patent application, "can be used in combination with inexpensive compact sensor modules (inertial sensors, altimeter and camera) that can easily attached to different locations of the user's body or clothing to create a distributed sensing system. (appleinsider.com)
  • Balance therapy, which includes head, eye, and body exercises you can do at home to help train your brain to overcome dizziness. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Aside from the neck strain of having one strapped to the front of your head, there's the problem that those screens flickered very, very fast. (escapistmagazine.com)
  • METHODS: Participants (n=152) were randomly allocated into four intervention groups: One group received local neck treatment (NT) comprising manual therapy and exercise and the other three groups received additional sensorimotor training (either joint position sense/oculomotor exercises, balance exercises or both). (bvsalud.org)
  • Craniocervical junction disorders are abnormalities of the bones that join the head and neck. (msdmanuals.com)
  • As a result, movement of the neck is limited. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The study is the first to show that animals are able to smell while in torpor. (scienceblog.com)
  • Dogs were used because of their powerful sense of smell, acute hearing and superior night vision. (tripod.com)
  • Labrador retrievers made great tracker dogs because of their strong sense of smell and mild disposition. (tripod.com)
  • From Los Angeles to London, the tenets of the New Nordic Movement-locally sourced, health-conscious, fearlessly inventive-have infiltrated many of the world's most renowned restaurants. (sothebysrealty.com)
  • This unusually introspective theme is carried further by the inclusion in the show of two miniature versions of the installation. (hyperallergic.com)
  • By 15 degrees Celsius, the three males in the study aroused enough to start moving, while the two females still only lifted their heads. (scienceblog.com)
  • But since the late 19th century, it has also been used to refer to a movement within painting - initially seen to be based in France, but whose origins and legacies were latterly found to extend all over the world - which attempted to depict the human subject in its formative relationships with natural habitats and social milieus , with a visual accuracy approaching that of photography. (theartstory.org)
  • Loss of Fry function drastically affects the movement and morphological polarization of cells during gastrulation and disrupts dorsal mesoderm convergent extension, responsible for head-to-tail elongation. (nature.com)
  • Are they able to sense danger and wake up from their energy-saving sleep to move to safety? (scienceblog.com)
  • Copepods are speedy little creatures that can zip away from predators after sensing impending danger from movement in the water. (iflscience.com)
  • Global liquidity conditions, as measured by BofA Merrill Lynch's Global Liquidity Tracker (GLT), continue to rest in negative territory and currently appear to be heading lower. (financialsense.com)
  • BofA Merrill Lynch's Emerging Market Liquidity Tracker is deeply in the red and currently heading lower. (financialsense.com)
  • This movement brings festivals, fans, artists, and music industry leaders together, uniting to redefine norms and create a vibrant sense of community. (kdvr.com)
  • A hearing test will show the hearing loss that occurs with Ménière disease. (medlineplus.gov)
  • And also a big bow to the curator Milada Ślizińska for her hard work, passion and strong belief in the show! (tinkin.com)
  • I commend the tireless work of African governments, and through you Honourable Ministers, appreciate the strong leadership of Heads of State, in responding to this virus and sustaining action on other priorities. (who.int)
  • It was 1929 and his work was shown in the prestigious Montross Gallery when he made the decision to devote all his time to painting. (cdc.gov)
  • When he kicked a stone to refute Berkeley, Dr. Johnson saw himself as a robust common-sense realist rebutting a wholly fantastical idealism. (nd.edu)
  • Newt, though looking as Alby's dumb muscle at a first glance, is a reserved and competent person who is ready to step in every time when Alby needs help or he needs a voice of reason and common sense contrary to his impulsive decisions. (jgdb.com)
  • As the patient safety movement had originated from within Oman, the Ministry and hospitals felt a strong sense of ownership over the initiative. (who.int)
  • Although there are still plenty of protests against pollution, sprawl and habitat loss, today much of the environmental movement is focused on the changing climate, and climate justice and responsibility are just what Ted Hamilton is calling for. (loe.org)
  • Over the past few years, the environmental movement has picked up steam and seeped into the national consciousness. (cdc.gov)
  • The image creates a real sense of energy and movement and (like you) I think the eye helps to make the photo. (photomacrography.net)
  • How does the real life experience differ from the show they watched? (faubourg36-lefilm.com)
  • The community they seek is only imagined, a world conjured up by the promises of advertised products, but with no history, social relations, or contextualized culture that would make for a sense of real [End Page 329] belonging. (newagefraud.org)
  • Andy mentions that they found the original hobby horse used in the film's dance sequences and he asks the old woman to show the audience a few of the old steps. (jimcarreyonline.com)
  • Loss of sensory information, central integration, and output control mechanisms all result in a sense of imbalance. (medscape.com)
  • Bebbington's tone is helpful in this treatment, showing as it does the historic precedent and preparation for the resurgence that would find full flow in the 1950s, while realistically placing Lloyd-Jones within events. (banneroftruth.org)
  • One screen has the artist in four rectangular divisions, side by side, showing his movements from back to front, while another shows the same movement from the side. (hyperallergic.com)
  • The overall analysis showed that there may be a trend towards abstractness that is more gradual than abrupt, though further studies would be needed to confirm this. (lu.se)
  • In this paper I will reject a movement analysis, at least for the case of Swedish. (lu.se)
  • Instead of a movement analysis, I would like to suggest that ERCs are complex sentences consisting of a phonetically reduced question and an adjacent answer part. (lu.se)
  • Here, I will particularly argue against a movement analysis. (lu.se)
  • Secondly, neuromasts are organised in anatomically distinct lines that are distributed bilaterally along the head and trunk, and the existence of multiple traits (i.e. individual lines) provides the possibility to determine the overall level of FA precisely, unlike most single-trait estimations. (thefishsite.com)
  • Gastrulation movements are orchestrated by a small, heterogeneous group of cells with inductive and morphogenetic properties located in the dorsal lip of the blastopore (DBL) of the amphibian gastrula known as the Spemann-Mangold organizer or dorsal organizer. (nature.com)
  • I am invited by Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Zamek Ujazdowski (Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdów Castle) to participate in a group show called "The Future Is Not What Is Used To Be. (tinkin.com)
  • If its ideas have shown consumers anything, it's that good food need not have traveled far. (sothebysrealty.com)
  • Camera angles, transitions , movements , and cuts all affect the camera shot, but the shot type usually indicates the field size used to focus on subjects in a frame. (backstage.com)
  • Informed by elements of Romanticism and Realism , Naturalism was at one time the dominant trend in Western art, only retrospectively eclipsed by the attention paid to its contemporary movement, Impressionism . (theartstory.org)
  • Discuss what type of society these shows might reflect to a child opening the time capsule one hundred years from now. (faubourg36-lefilm.com)
  • It's all an excuse for Miyazaki to include several dogfights and to show off his extraordinary sense of three-dimensional space and movement, and especially a dizzying sense of height. (combustiblecelluloid.com)
  • and many of these wearable devices include inertial sensors that can sense the motion of the user. (appleinsider.com)
  • After we shake hands the first thing they told me is because of my art works the U.S. Embassy pull out the funding from the show. (tinkin.com)
  • But during his brief stay in the city, he met art critic and instructor Mary Mowbray-Clarke, who showed his works at her gallery, the Sunwise Turn Book shop, launching his career as a leading artist. (cdc.gov)
  • Estimates also show that 263 handlers and 500 dogs made the ultimate sacrifice in Vietnam. (tripod.com)
  • So, we are strongly advocating at the regional and global levels for greater dose sharing and the transfer of technology, and we are seeing an emerging sense of urgency to get things done. (who.int)