Recent research has shown that proprioception relies on distorted representations of body size and shape. By asking participants to localise multiple landmarks on their occluded hand, perceptual maps of hand size and shape can be constructed and compared to actual hand structure. These maps are different from the actual size and shape of the occluded hand, revealing underestimation of finger le...

We report from a project on the futures of personal mobility in the UK, in the context of sustainable mobility and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport. This paper looks at how people, behaviour and mobility are imagined in visioning documents (forecasts, pathways, etc.) in the future up to 2050, a timeline with great emission reduction targets. We use the lens of two inno...

In complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS1) initiated by wrist fracture, a motor imagery program (MIP), consisting of hand laterality recognition followed by imagined movements and then mirror movements, reduces pain and disability, but the mechanism of effect is unclear. Possibilities include sustained attention to the affected limb, in which case the order of MIP components would not alter the ...

Two single case studies are presented examining the effects of imagined limb activation in participants with unilateral visual neglect and severe physical disabilities. The first study employed a standard ABBABBA design where the participant was asked to imagine making movements with his left arm during the intervention conditions. Neglect was systematically assessed at each stage on the follow...

BACKGROUND During the course of a previous study, our laboratory made a serendipitous finding that just thinking about genital stimulation resulted in brain activations that overlapped with, and differed from, those generated by physical genital stimulation. OBJECTIVE This study extends our previous findings by further characterizing how the brain differentially processes physical 'touch' sti...

The SIOC project is aimed at expressing information about the structure and content of online community sites and at enabling interoperability on the Social Web using Semantic Web technologies. In this paper we briefly describe the SIOC project, introduce the SIOC Core ontology and its modules, and discuss some SIOC-based applications in terms of human and agent communication.

This paper proposes a methodology to identify and classify the semantic relations holding among the possible different answers obtained for a certain query on DBpedia language specific chapters. The goal is to reconcile information provided by language specific DBpedia chapters to obtain a consistent results set. Starting from the identified semantic relations between two pieces of information,...

Online communities are islands of people and topics that are not interlinked. Complementary discussions exist on disparate systems but it is currently difficult to exploit the available distributed information. A Semantically Interlinked Online Community (SIOC) can enable efficient information dissemination across communities by creating an ontology that will model concepts identified in discus...

<p>The article addresses a narrative of communanlity stemming primarily from feelings responsibility. Referencing selected media reports on Carola Rackete’s sea rescue operation in 2019, the discusses circumstances under which society calls its individual members to act spirit responsibility for their community - and at point this common hope actually results action. The paper focuses wha...

Abstract This study explores the role of immigration and racialization in creating first Swedish victim support centre early 1980s. The is based on a qualitative content analysis archives Victim Support Södertälje, lasting centre, from 1983 to 1990. While many centre’s activities focused crime prevention, it defined victimization as province immigrant communities and, notably, outside—and aberr...