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Introduction. Anorexia nervosa severely impacts the physical body and mental body (i.e., body image). In this retrospective study, we investigated the relationship between the perceived body image and body composition in women with anorexia nervosa. Specifically, we aimed to verify what components (i.e., weight, body composition, and micronutrients) may predict a higher number of symptoms of negative body image in this clinical condition. Methods. Weight status and body composition, including the expressions of vitamins, and body image concerns were measured in a sample of 112 women with anorexia nervosa (age in years M = 26.78; SD = 12; range = 14–67). Results. According to the regression analysis, a higher skeletal muscle mass and a higher concentration of vitamin B6 seemed to predict a higher number of symptoms of negative body image in our sample. Conclusions. This study pointed out muscle mass and the concentration of vitamin B6 as involved in the psychological expression of body image concerns in anorexia nervosa, especially at the beginning of the disease. Thus, we may suggest including and monitoring these parameters in routine care for anorexia nervosa. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ethnic cultural heritage is an important medium for deepening group cultural cognition, generating emotional resonance and cohesion of identity. How primary and secondary school students can gain travel experience, construct social body, and form identity through the physical and physical practice of study trips in heritage sites are important for digging deeply into the value of ethnic cultural heritage. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 48 elementary and middle school students who had traveled to the Old Sicheng Heritage Site of Yongshun to conduct research trips. The grounded theory was used for data processing, and based on the research perspective of the intersection of physical body and social body, the embodied experience of the research trip to the heritage site was constructed the theoretical model. The research finds that: (1) Physiological and physical practice, study trip situation, sensory perception experience are important factors that affect the formation of the social body. (2) The essence of cultural heritage study trip experience is the process by which elementary and middle school students' embodied physical bodies and social bodies are unified, and it is a combination of representation and non-representation of embodied travel experience. (3) Primary and secondary school students have formed a unique cognition and deep emotion of cultural heritage through study trips, which is the result of the construction of heritage identity. (4) The strength of heritage identity is affected by the embodied experience; The whole process of tourism embodied experience includes not only the entry from the physical body to the sensory perception experience, but also the formation of the social body so that the meaning of self-existence can be reflected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the text is to analyse the impact of the project of philosophical anthropology elaborated by Helmuth Plessner, which will be demonstrated on the concept of corporeality seen in the framework of excentric positionality. In the first part of the text, we analyse the interference of philosophical anthropology and phenomenology (on the examples of lived body and oikos). This is based on historical as well as on deeper philosophical reasons. In this connection, we also find some practical applications of Plessner's project, e.g., in cultural anthropology, ethnology and pedagogy. In the second part, the problematics of "corporeality as excentric positionality" will be seen in the light of philosophy of biology and we open a dialog with a French biophysician Henri Atlan who focuses on characterisations of human, non-human and inhuman. Here, excentric positionality converges with emergence (autopoiesis) and corporeality becomes one of the sings of anthropological difference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Results of contemporary research in discourse of type and typology indicate that there are number of conflicts in definition, nature and concept of type and typology in architecture as a unique abstract image presenting a group of buildings. This is an exaggerated statement in the field of architecture, type represents a group of architectural components that has been identified to follow a certain mechanism in the course of collecting and classifying it. Type provides facilities to preserve and recall experiences as a concept and tools, linking the past to the future. Type, therefore, can be seen as the faculty for retaining and recalling architectural experience. But, according to this definition, some experts consider the physical aspects of types, while others study metaphysical and intuitive features of it. For example, In Rossi’s point of view, form stands only on physical basis rather than ritual. Also, He has reduced typology exclusively to the field of urban analysis. For Rossi, empty form has become the essence of architecture. In the other hand, some researchers believe, type is necessary as a remembering device for architecture. Its record is the history and the collective human memory of architecture. The essence of architecture transcends its builders time or era. Society demands a historical continuity in architecture for its cultural framework and for the lessons learned in building techniques. The notion of type then, can be seen as a method of historical continuity in architecture that links the past to the future, and with its surrounding context and culture. This study seeks to find the true meaning and historical evidence-based definition of type and typology, which allows the presence of physical body and metaphysical aspects (architectural backgrounds, experiences, architects, building residents and non-material concepts) together. In this paper, the analytical – descriptive methods is utilized to introduce and criticize the contemporary ideas and a proposed definition of type as an abstract image constructed by physical body and scheme, is presented. Considering the proposed definition of type and typology, Talardar houses, as a type of vernacular houses in Taft city will be analyzed. Finally, because of biological history and formal concept of "type and typology", the term of "Dastgāh" (Architectural Modal System) is proposed. In the other words, due to type’s nature, term of “architectural modal system” is closer and more appropriate for the word of type in architecture. In an architectural modal system, the material and non-material aspects have attended as mass and space language. In addition, the architectural modal system can be presented as a national model system and vernacular modal system such as: musical modal system that on a national scale has limited number, but on a local scale with a scheme of national modal system, according to place and time to take a unique form. The ability to identify unique aspects of national and vernacular modal system as well as boundaries of diverse architecture in the different regions is an outstanding feature of this definition and proposed method of type and typology.

There are a lot of approaches to the explanation of the gravitational phenomenon. Until now none of them explains the real nature of gravitation. The model of the ethereal medium is constructed so that it is good to be a transmitter of gravitation. An action of a gradient medium on the body immersed in it is considered. Bodies of different sizes that are in a gradient medium are demonstrated to acquire the same acceleration. Creating the gradient of the ether elastic pressure by a physical body in the vicinity of another physical body that also creates the gradient of the ether elastic pressure in the vicinity of the first body results in the rise of an attractive force called gravitation. The closeness of the experimental gravitational constant and the value obtained from the theoretical analysis is shown. Two forces are acting on physical bodies. One force is acting through the direct contact on the outer shell of the physical body. Another force (the ether) is exerted to every elementary mass (nucleus, electron, etc.) within the physical body shell. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Today, phenomenology, with an emphasis on direct explanations with regard to the lived experience of people is interest of different areas. With emphasis on body, Merleau- Ponty's phenomenology is considered in medical science. In his phenomenology, Merleau- Ponty gives new definition of body and names it lived body. Lived body is against of mechanical body and is the central of subjectivity and being- in- the – world and included all of existential aspects of man. Such definition enable doctors to consider all of existential aspects of man besides his physiological and same understanding of the disease based on the patient lived experience. This paper attempts to examine the implications of this new concept of the body as it is described in the medical field.

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Flexibility is one of the key concepts in the formation alphabet of architecture but it is less frequently taken into account in the area of physical body and it has more been dealt with of the diversity or free plan designing types in micro-scales. When the architectural spaces’ context needs flexibility, the structure, as well as the architectural form, should be both designed because the most important challenge in investigating flexibility in architectural context is structure and flexibility has to be granted to the body of structure and that in a macro-scale. The present article aims at investigating flexibility in the architectural context for which the structure should be coordinated with the behavioral architecture. Origami technology solidifies and renders flexible its structure to be followed by physical flexibility and structural stability and this is why it has drawn the attention of the structural and architectural engineers. In this regard, origami is utilized as a factor linking the structure and architecture. The diamond origami pattern possesses the intended properties in terms of architectural flexibility and structural stability and it was subjected to loading in the form of a model made of steel plates in finite element software. The findings indicated that the diamond origami pattern provides the required flexibility for adaptation to the various environmental conditions by blending architecture and structure in the building’s physical body and that the diamond pattern’s adaptability is feasible in all the sub-branches. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]