Search results for "Movement"

Movement and physical activity in early childhood education and care in the Nordic countries

2022

Background The World Health Organization (WHO) acknowledges the importance of preschool children taking part in comprehensive physical activities supporting, among other things, their motor development, and competencies. A growing number of children attend early childhood education and care (ECEC), and expectations that this will support the development and learning of the youngest children are high. ECEC are governed by different policies embodied in both laws and curricula, and the framework of a curriculum plays a key role in ensuring the quality of ECEC services. The documents represent the content society wants the ECEC institutions to disseminate, and set out the values, objectives, a…

Ekumeniczne wyzwania w realizacji ewangelizacyjnej misji Kościoła

2020

The main request of the Church is to ensure the effective and reliable proclamation of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world. The ecumenical mouvement has been setting the same target emphasizing that the evangelistic mission of the Church should be based on the common witness of Christians, pointing at their unity in faith and corporating mission statment of the saving message to the world. It is about the actualization of the Christ‘s messianic mission through the Church. The Second Vatican Council, in the Decree Ad Gentes, understands the evangelization in the wide context as “such activity by which the Church, obedient to Christ‘s command, moved by the grace and love of the Holy Spiri…

Migration Flows in Finland: Regional Differences in Migration Determinants and Migrant Types

2003

The present study analyzes interregional migration flows in Finland during 1985-96 using a large sample from the longitudinal census data file. The regional concentration of population has sped up in recent years, and most migrants now head to five urban growth centers. The empirical analysis reveals that it is particularly the human capital component (young, educated individuals) that moves to, and stays in, the growth centers. They are attracted by the higher expected wages and employment chances. Conversely, some individuals, mainly older and less educated ones, move back to their original home regions. This countermovement reduces the speed of population concentration. Declining region…

Agricultural Policy and the Struggle over the Destiny of Collective Farms in Estonia

1999

The principal goal of several Estonian governments has been the privatization of agriculture, replacing large collective farms with western family farms. This has happened despite a clear majority of kolkhoz and sovkhoz workers who favoured preserving the system of large-scale farms. The abstract restitutionalist and ultra-liberalist ideas became a fixed dogma, unconnected with resolving immediate pragmatic problems, because government policy was not articulated with the interests of the agricultural population. Nevertheless, the large-scale system has been partially preserved thanks to the resistance of the rural population. In many respects the outcome of decollectivization also depended …

LA SENTINELLA GLOBALE. I campi elettromagnetici del MUOS di Niscemi e i loro effetti.

2017

Il MUOS (Mobile User Objective System), un radar installato in Sicilia proprio all’interno della riserva “sughereta di Niscemi”, è una delle quattro sentinelle del sistema globale che la Us Navy ha realizzato nei vari angoli del mondo per tenere sott’occhio tutto il pianeta. La storia di questo impianto è fatta di promesse non mantenute, di interventi politici pro MUOS poi sconfessati dalla magistratura, di proteste organizzate nel tentativo di interloquire con quei poteri, che pure erano sembrati disponibili. Al fondo delle azioni del movimento NO MUOS, che qui vengono ricordate insieme all’analogo caso di Radio Vaticana che all’inizio degli anni Duemila scosse il mondo politico italiano, …

Removing ocular artifacts from magnetoencephalographic data on naturalistic reading of continuous texts

2022

Naturalistic reading paradigms and stimuli consisting of long continuous texts are essential for characterizing the cortical basis of reading. Due to the highly dynamic nature of the reading process, electrophysiological brain imaging methods with high spatial and temporal resolution, such as magnetoencephalography (MEG), are ideal for tracking them. However, as electrophysiological recordings are sensitive to electromagnetic artifacts, data recorded during naturalistic reading is confounded by ocular artifacts. In this study, we evaluate two different pipelines for removing ocular artifacts from MEG data collected during continuous, naturalistic reading, with the focus on saccades and blin…

Embodied Metre in Spontaneous Movement to Music

2009

Listening to music is often associated with spontaneous body movements, frequently synchronized with its periodic structure. The notion of embodied cognition assumes that intelligent behavior does not emerge from mere passive perception, but requires goal-directed interactions between the organism and its environment. According to this view, one could postulate that we use our bodily movements to help parse the metric structure of music. The aim of the study was to investigate how pulsations on different metrical levels are manifested in spontaneous movement to music. Participants were presented with a piece of instrumental music in 4/4 time, played in five different tempi ranging from 92 B…

The application of motion capture to embodied music cognition research

2012

Embodiment in dance - relationships between expert intentional movement and music in ballet

2009

Embodied music cognition posits that there is a relationship between the emergent properties of a musical piece and the way musicians, dancers and listeners experience them in their body-minds. Musicological analyses assign kinetic properties to music, under the assumption that the sonic forms have the capacity to activate movement; in other words, that music ‘moves’ us. But, in which sense the movement elicited by music is indeed based on music? These questions are not fully answered so far. This paper analized comparatively musical and choreographic phrases in different ballet interpretations, with the aim of identifying the extent to which these two expressive modes convey similarities, …

Development of an in vitro neuroblastoma 3D model and its application for sterigmatocystin-induced cytotoxicity testing

2021

Abstract Given the increasing importance of establishing better risk assessments for mycotoxins, novel in vitro tools for the evaluation of their toxicity are mandatory. In this study, an in vitro 3D spheroid model from SH-SY5Y cells, a human neuroblastoma cell line, was developed, optimized and characterized to test the cytotoxic effects caused by the mycotoxin sterigmatocystin (STE). STE induced a concentration- and time-dependent cell viability decrease in spheroids. Spheroids displayed cell disaggregation after STE exposure, increasing in a dose-dependent manner and over time. STE also induced apoptosis as confirmed by immunofluorescence staining and Western blot. Following the decrease…