Gestures

Gebarde,/. gesture demeanor mien. Gebaren, n. behavior appearance, gebilren, v.t. bear, bring forth. — geboren, p.a. 

I juiced ten cases of those once, Mr. Kosmas said, gesturing toward the pomegranates. I had a white apron on. I looked like a butcher. ... 

A model is always iiutially produced in a person s mind - being then called a mental model. For commuiucations purposes, it must be expressed in different modes of representation concrete, verbal, mathematical, visual, gestural or mixtures... 

Schlemmer, R.F., and Davis, J.M. Evidence for dopamine mediation of submissive gestures in the stumptail macaque monkey. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 14[Suppl 1]1 95-102, 1981. 

Thank you, Una, my dear, Uncle Gareth is saying, as he comes into the room, carrying a smallish painting. That s such a help. I m sorry, that photo fell over when I put the box down, I say, gesturing from a safe distance. 

With his other hand he gestures at the jagged castle towers. It s a long way from New Eltham. And I couldn t ever tell Gareth what I told you. Not face to face, anyway. ... 

By now, Haber was cut off from all but a handful of friends and colleagues. Few academic associates visited or sent words of sympathy, although such gestures would have cost them nothing. The chemical industry, which owed Haber much of its success, had allied itself with the Nazis. Carl Bosch, Haber s old colleague in the nitrogen-fixation process, was the only industrialist who tried to help. 

Late stage symptoms Language - significant word-finding problems poor verbal comprehension. Other - difficulty performing simple gestures inability to use common/familiar objects or routines. 

Next day, Dr. Hoffman handed over to us a few weekly construction reports. It was a token gesture. The other counsel would not release anything until the court ruled. Hoffman wanted to return all the remaining documents (for he believed the court would order the defense to do so anyway) and to account for those that had been destroyed. Or (and the alternative seemed impossible to him), if the court did not issue the order, the prosecution would raise a rumpus that would hurt the defense even more than a frank disclosure of the suppressed evidence. 

The Model-View-Controller (MVC) architecture (or some variant) is commonly used in the design of user interfaces. A user-interface element is associated with a single model—the object that acts as the source of the information presented, and the recipient of user requests. Each element is designed as a pair of a view, which deals with the presentation aspects of information from the model and a controller, which is responsible for interpreting user inputs and gestures for the view and the model. The view and controller roles are combined into a single object in some variants. 

In 1763, an American captain presented two smallpox-laden blankets and a handkerchief to Native Americans as a gesture of friendship. An English general also gave blankets contaminated with smallpox to Native Americans loyal to the... 

In conflict resolution, the role of conciliatory gestures is now being studied as de Waal (1989) has done for chimpanzees. Do these work by restoring the perception of equity Sackin and Thelen (1984) have demonstrated that reconciliation between children was usually followed by resumption of peaceful interaction. 

Zivin, G. (1977). Facial gestures predict preschoolers encounter outcomes. Social Science Information, 16, 715-730. 

We propose that there are multi-layered processing mechanisms. The top layer for processing holds consciously accessible information. The bottom layers can not be assessed directly and controlled. On the top layer communication is actually an accessible information exchange about the real world with its social and ecological aspects. We can tell each other what we think about each other or gossip about others (Dunbar, 1993), we can create and use non-verbal signals like gestures (Morris et al., 1979) differently in different cultures and we are able to lie and detect lies. 

Morris, D., Collett, B., Marsh, P. O Shaugnessy, M. 1979. Gestures, their origins and distribution. London Jonathan Cape. 

Stamer, T. Pentland, A. 1995. Visual recognition of american sign language using hidden Markov models. Proc lnt 1 Workshop on Automatic Face- and Gesture-Recognition, Zurich, Switzerland, June 26-28, 1995. 

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