Search results for "Image"

Educación física y deporte como aprendizaje a lo largo de la vida: alternativas pedagógicas al modelo prototípico corporal

2017

Resumen: El discurso hegemónico actual promulga una educación corporal basada en imágenes prototípicas que no tienen en cuenta los intereses, necesidades o particularidades de las personas mayores. Sobre todo, vinculadas con el cuerpo esbelto, el físico imponente y la reproducción que trata de moldear la imagen corporal de una persona adolescente. Por el contrario, nuestra propuesta se centraría en invertir este modelo partiendo de las necesidades de los propios adultos, dando una mayor validez a las relaciones interpersonales, sociales y afectivas, que a la estética corporal resultante. Abstract: The current hegemonic discourse expresses a type of body education based on prototypical image…

Body image during sexual activity in the population of Polish adult women

2020

Introduction. Recently it has been shown that body image during sexual activities is a better predictor of the diversity of sexual experience than body image as a psychological trait. To measure contextual body image (as a state) the Body Exposure During Sexual Activity Questionnaire (BESAQ) was developed. Material and methods. 845 women aged 18-55 years were included in the study. The original model was first translated into Polish and consulted to create the version to be further validated. The original model was tested using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). The population was divided in two equal groups – group 1 was used for exploratory factor analysis. Discriminant and convergent va…

Sexual behaviors and function during menopausal transition—does menopausal hormonal therapy play a role?

2020

Objectives: The menopausal transition is a biological adaptation to the variety of life changes (body, comorbidities, relationship), but that biology is not an “end all” in the context of sexual function and overall sexual health. The aim of this study is to evaluate determinants altering the risk of female sexual dysfunction (FSD) and other sexual problems and to establish whether menopausal hormonal therapy (MHT) decreases that risk and modifies sexual behaviors. Methods: A cross-sectional observational study was conducted in 210 women between the ages of 45 and 55. Two groups were identified: MHT users (n = 107) and controls—MHT non-users (n = 103). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of M…

The spanish body image state scale: factor structure, reliability and validity in a colombian population

2019

ObjectiveBody image is a construct highly dependent on culture and ethnicity. Furthermore, recent studies reveal that body image is not only a trait, but also a momentary state subject to change in diverse situational contexts. However, cultural influences on momentary body image have not been sufficiently investigated. To assess the influence of Latin American culture on momentary body image and to enable its comparison to Western countries, the Spanish translation of an existing state body image scale such as the Body Image States Scale (BISS) is needed. In addition, the factor structure, reliability and general validity of the Spanish BISS (S-BISS) should be evaluated prior to its applic…

Phantoms Used for Mapping of Skin Chromophores by Multi-spectral Imaging

2014

Skin phantoms can be used for better understanding of diffuse reflectance imaging of skin. In this study, skin phantoms of hemoglobin, bilirubin and melanin were developed and studied for possibilities to calibrate chromophore concentration values.

Convergence Analysis of Distributed Set-Valued Information Systems

2016

This paper focuses on the convergence of information in distributed systems of agents communicating over a network. The information on which the convergence is sought is not rep- resented by real numbers, as often in the literature, rather by sets. The dynamics of the evolution of information across the net- work is accordingly described by set-valued iterative maps. While the study of convergence of set-valued iterative maps is highly complex in general, this paper focuses on Boolean maps, which are comprised of arbitrary combinations of unions, intersections, and complements of sets. For these important class of systems, we provide tools to study both global and local convergence. A distr…

Wpływ Kościoła katolickiego na dzieje i rozwój Śląska. Przyczynek do dyskusji nad rolą chrześcijaństwa w historii Śląska

2013

CO-CREATING THE PLACE BRAND OF FINNISH LAPLAND : Mental associations and visual representations

2019

Master's thesis Innovative governance and public management ME523 - University of Agder 2019 Brands are living in an era of customer-centric life where alltheir potential, present and former customers are regardedas co-creators. The center of attention is in customers’ daily lives and they have an enormous amountofpower to influence on brands.Social media hasaccelerated the pace of communication and this has connected also cities and counties into the new brand co-creation paradigm. Places have adopted branding practices from the business world to persuadepeople to move, do business or travel in their area. In Finland, Lapland has been one of the first counties to execute place branding act…

Comparative Study of Feature classification Methods for Mass Lesion Recognition in Digitized Mammograms

2007

In this work a comparison of different classification methods for the identification of mass lesions in digitized mammograms is performed. These methods, used in order to develop Computer Aided Detection (CAD) systems, have been implemented in the framework of the MAGIC-5 Collaboration. The system for identification of mass lesions is based on a three-step procedure: a) preprocessing and segmentation, b) region of interest (ROI) searching, c) feature extraction and classification. It was tested on a very large mammographic database (3369 mammographic images from 967 patients). Each ROI is characterized by eight features extracted from a co-occurrence matrix containing spatial statistics inf…

There's Nothing Bulldog about Britain Anymore: The Rise and Fall of the Bulldog Spirit

2019

This paper explores the British national icon, the English Bulldog, and its symbolic connotations with spirited and determined courage. In charting the usage of the bulldog for propaganda purposes, it suggests that although the use of the bulldog is not as fashionable as it once was, it is nevertheless a firmly fixed British cultural icon used for propaganda, as it was demonstrated in the referendum campaign over the United Kingdom’s membership in the European Union.