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  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
15,763 Views
15 Pages

27 October 2017

This essay explores the mechanics associated with rebirth, noting differences between Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain narratives. It examines the concept of subtle body and the liṅgam in Sāṃkhya. According to the Hindu tradition, the remains of the departe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,128 Views
16 Pages

29 January 2021

This essay explores conflicting attitudes toward the body in Buddhist literature, with a focus on the tantric Buddhist traditions of yoga and meditation, which advanced the notion that the body was an innately pure site for realization while nonethel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,817 Views
17 Pages

31 May 2021

The Tibetan yoga practice known as “winds, channels, and inner heat” (rtsa rlung gtum mo) is physically challenging, and yet is intentionally designed to transform the mind. This chapter explores the relationship between Buddhist doctrine and this ph...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,193 Views
18 Pages

17 April 2023

This article examines the efficacy of the postures, breath control techniques, and meditative states of yoga, specifically Haṭha Yoga, in promoting overall mental and physical health. It then examines whether this form of yoga could be effectiv...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
20,134 Views
22 Pages

18 August 2017

A qualitative study of Western practitioners of Buddhist meditation investigated unexpected, challenging, difficult, and distressing experiences. This paper reports on a subset of 12 practitioners within Tibetan Vajrayāna lineages who described energ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Citations
7,322 Views
10 Pages

Wearable Wide-Range Strain Sensors Based on Ionic Liquids and Monitoring of Human Activities

  • Shao-Hui Zhang,
  • Feng-Xia Wang,
  • Jia-Jia Li,
  • Hong-Dan Peng,
  • Jing-Hui Yan and
  • Ge-Bo Pan

14 November 2017

Wearable sensors for detection of human activities have encouraged the development of highly elastic sensors. In particular, to capture subtle and large-scale body motion, stretchable and wide-range strain sensors are highly desired, but still a chal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,407 Views
22 Pages

Skin-Inspired Tactile Sensor on Cellulose Fiber Substrates with Interfacial Microstructure for Health Monitoring and Guitar Posture Feedback

  • Rajat Subhra Karmakar,
  • Chia-Pei Chu,
  • Chia-Lin Li,
  • Chun-Hway Hsueh,
  • Ying-Chih Liao and
  • Yen-Wen Lu

22 January 2023

Skin-inspired flexible tactile sensors, with interfacial microstructure, are developed on cellulose fiber substrates for subtle pressure applications. Our device is made of two cellulose fiber substrates with conductive microscale structures, which e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,162 Views
13 Pages

Deep Learning Denoising Improves and Homogenizes Patient [18F]FDG PET Image Quality in Digital PET/CT

  • Kathleen Weyts,
  • Elske Quak,
  • Idlir Licaj,
  • Renaud Ciappuccini,
  • Charline Lasnon,
  • Aurélien Corroyer-Dulmont,
  • Gauthier Foucras,
  • Stéphane Bardet and
  • Cyril Jaudet

Given the constant pressure to increase patient throughput while respecting radiation protection, global body PET image quality (IQ) is not satisfactory in all patients. We first studied the association between IQ and other variables, in particular b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,235 Views
17 Pages

21 February 2023

Anuran species can respond to environmental changes via phenotypic plasticity, which can also result in ecological impacts across the life history of such species. We investigated the effects of predation pressure (i.e., the non-consumption effect) f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,256 Views
22 Pages

20 October 2021

Alpine topography is formed by a complex series of geomorphological processes that result in a vast number of different landforms. The youngest and most diverse landforms are various Quaternary sedimentary bodies, each characterised by its unique lan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,726 Views
18 Pages

12 December 2022

Demographic Information on threatened species is important to plan conservation actions. Due to their aquatic lifestyle, the subtle nature of hippo sexual dimorphism, and their occurrence in inaccessible areas, it is difficult to visually determine h...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
266 Views
4 Pages

Hemorrhage in Onodi Cell Leading to Traumatic Optic Neuropathy

  • Aditi Mehta,
  • Ramya Rathod,
  • Chirag Ahuja,
  • Manpreet Singh and
  • Ramandeep S. Virk

Traumatic optic neuropathy (TON) is an important cause of vision loss in the setting of cranial and/or facial trauma. Both direct and indirect variants exist, with the latter being more common. We describe the case of a young male presenting with los...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,947 Views
10 Pages

Recognizing Human Emotions Through Body Posture Dynamics Using Deep Neural Networks

  • Arunnehru Jawaharlalnehru,
  • Thalapathiraj Sambandham and
  • Dhanasekar Ravikumar

Body posture dynamics have garnered significant attention in recent years due to their critical role in understanding the emotional states conveyed through human movements during social interactions. Emotions are typically expressed through facial ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
13,918 Views
13 Pages

5 September 2018

The assignment of gender to robots is a debatable topic. Subtle aspects related to gender, in a robot’s appearance, may create biased expectations of the robot’s abilities and influence user acceptance. The present research is a cross-cul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,265 Views
18 Pages

12 April 2025

Remote sensing image change detection is a core task of remote sensing image analysis; its purpose is to identify and quantify land cover changes in different periods. However, when the existing methods deal with complex features and subtle changes i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,342 Views
10 Pages

23 September 2022

Without visual cues, modern viewers may not discern the ways that All’s Well That Ends Well brings together the bodies of horses and humans, asking viewers to consider the physical dependence and sometimes overlapping medical conditions the two...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,291 Views
7 Pages

The metric self-organization of matterspace–time implies a nonlocal correlation of its affine connections and the fulfillment of the volumetric conservation of energy–momentum under shifts in coordinate time. Geodesic forces or accelerati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
488 Views
14 Pages

Core Body Temperature Negatively Correlates with Whole-Brain Gray Matter Volume: A Pilot Study in the Context of Global Warming

  • Keisuke Kokubun,
  • Kiyotaka Nemoto,
  • Yoshimitsu Yamamoto,
  • Ayumu Mitera and
  • Yoshinori Yamakawa

12 December 2025

Global warming has been associated with various adverse effects on human physiology, yet its potential impact on brain structure remains largely unexplored. The present pilot study investigated the relationship between core body temperature and whole...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
11,805 Views
29 Pages

Exploring the Immunological Role of the Microbial Composition of the Appendix and the Associated Risks of Appendectomies

  • Tarequl Islam,
  • Md Shahjalal Sagor,
  • Noshin Tabassum Tamanna,
  • Md Kamrul Islam Bappy,
  • Danishuddin,
  • Md Azizul Haque and
  • Maximilian Lackner

14 March 2025

The appendix, an integral part of the large intestine, may serve two purposes. First of all, it is a concentration of lymphoid tissue that resembles Peyer’s patches. It is also the main location in the body for the creation of immunoglobulin A...

  • Review
  • Open Access
69 Citations
15,542 Views
27 Pages

pH-Responsive Mesoporous Silica and Carbon Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery

  • Miguel Gisbert-Garzarán,
  • Miguel Manzano and
  • María Vallet-Regí

The application of nanotechnology to medicine constitutes a major field of research nowadays. In particular, the use of mesoporous silica and carbon nanoparticles has attracted the attention of numerous researchers due to their unique properties, esp...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3,125 Views
18 Pages

There is a significant, rather than just anecdotal, connection between the liver and the eyes. This connection is evident in noticeable cases such as jaundice, where the sclera has a yellow tint. But this can be seen through even more subtle indicato...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,734 Views
18 Pages

The Fabp4-Cre-Model is Insufficient to Study Hoxc9 Function in Adipose Tissue

  • Sebastian Dommel,
  • Claudia Berger,
  • Anne Kunath,
  • Matthias Kern,
  • Martin Gericke,
  • Peter Kovacs,
  • Esther Guiu-Jurado,
  • Nora Klöting and
  • Matthias Blüher

Developmental genes are important regulators of fat distribution and adipose tissue (AT) function. In humans, the expression of homeobox c9 (HOXC9) is significantly higher in subcutaneous compared to omental AT and correlates with body fat mass. To g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,055 Views
14 Pages

Effects of Anthropogenic Disturbance of Natural Habitats on the Feeding Ecology of Moorish Geckos

  • José Martín,
  • Jesús Ortega,
  • Roberto García-Roa,
  • Gonzalo Rodríguez-Ruiz,
  • Ana Pérez-Cembranos and
  • Valentín Pérez-Mellado

20 April 2023

Urbanization and anthropic influences can drastically modify a natural habitat and transform it into an easily recognizable “urban habitat”. Human activities can also induce less severe modifications of what apparently might still look li...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,305 Views
18 Pages

Sensorimotor Control in Dystonia

  • Phillip Desrochers,
  • Alexander Brunfeldt,
  • Christos Sidiropoulos and
  • Florian Kagerer

This is an overview of the sensorimotor impairments in dystonia, a syndrome characterized by sustained or intermittent aberrant movement patterns leading to abnormal movements and/or postures with or without a tremulous component. Dystonia can affect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,098 Views
9 Pages

Posture as a Non-Invasive Indicator of Arousal in American Toads (Anaxyrus americanus)

  • Sarah M. Woody,
  • Rachel M. Santymire and
  • Katherine A. Cronin

Animal welfare has become a priority for modern zoos and aquariums. However, amphibians have not yet been the focus of much welfare research, perhaps in part because they do not tend to display many quantifiable active behaviors. This study focused o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,433 Views
13 Pages

Brain-Biomarker Changes in Body Fluids of Patients with Parkinson’s Disease

  • Cristina Cocco,
  • Antonio Luigi Manai,
  • Elias Manca and
  • Barbara Noli

Parkinson’s disease (PD) is an incurable neurodegenerative disease that is rarely diagnosed at an early stage. Although the understanding of PD-related mechanisms has greatly improved over the last decade, the diagnosis of PD is still based on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
388 Views
22 Pages

23 December 2025

Infrared thermal cameras can noninvasively measure the surface temperatures of objects and are widely used as fever-screening systems for infectious diseases. However, body temperature measurements alone are often insufficient for identifying people...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,014 Views
19 Pages

21 October 2021

The therapeutic efficacy of a cardiovascular device after implantation is highly dependent on the host-initiated complement and coagulation cascade. Both can eventually trigger thrombosis and inflammation. Therefore, understanding these initial respo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,591 Views
20 Pages

The Complexity of the Arterial Blood Pressure Regulation during the Stress Test

  • Naseha Wafa Qammar,
  • Ugnė Orinaitė,
  • Vaiva Šiaučiūnaitė,
  • Alfonsas Vainoras,
  • Gintarė Šakalytė and
  • Minvydas Ragulskis

In this study, two categories of persons with normal and high ABP are subjected to the bicycle stress test (9 persons with normal ABP and 10 persons with high ABP). All persons are physically active men but not professional sportsmen. The mean and th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,036 Views
19 Pages

Patterns of Directional and Fluctuating Asymmetry in Southern Ocean Sea Urchins

  • Fernando Moya,
  • Thomas Saucède,
  • Paul Brickle,
  • Manuel J. Suazo,
  • Jordan Hernández-Martelo,
  • Elie Poulin and
  • Hugo A. Benítez

4 September 2025

Bilateral symmetry is a fundamental organizational trait in many metazoans. However, deviations from this symmetry, manifested as directional or fluctuating asymmetries, offer valuable insights into developmental, functional, and environmental proces...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,621 Views
20 Pages

Mindfulness, Interoception, and Olfaction: A Network Approach

  • Barbara Lefranc,
  • Charles Martin-Krumm,
  • Charlotte Aufauvre-Poupon,
  • Benoit Berthail and
  • Marion Trousselard

29 November 2020

The fine-tuned interplay between the brain and the body underlies the adaptive ability to respond appropriately in the changing environment. Mindfulness Disposition (MD) has been associated with efficient emotional functioning because of a better abi...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,364 Views
17 Pages

8 October 2023

In this review, we investigate several aspects and features of spatial field correlations for the massless scalar field and the electromagnetic field, both in stationary and nonstationary conditions, and show how they manifest in two- and many-body s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,288 Views
11 Pages

Body Size, Cerebral Blood Flow, Ambient Temperature, and Relative Brain Temperatures in Newborn Infants under Incubator Care

  • Satoko Fukaya,
  • Sachiko Iwata,
  • Kennosuke Tsuda,
  • Akiko Hirose,
  • Masahiro Kinoshita,
  • Shinji Saitoh and
  • Osuke Iwata

22 April 2024

Subtle changes in body temperature affect the outcomes of ill newborns. However, the temperature profile of neonatal brains remains largely unknown. In open-cot care, increased cerebral perfusion is correlated with higher superficial brain temperatur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,804 Views
10 Pages

Association of the rs3039851 Insertion/Deletion in the Gene PPP3R1, Which Encodes the Regulatory Calcineurin Subunit B Type 1, with Left Ventricular Mass in Polish Full-Term Newborns

  • Iwona Gorący,
  • Beata Łoniewska,
  • Klaudyna Lewandowska,
  • Agnieszka Boroń,
  • Małgorzata Grzegorczyk,
  • Robert Nowak,
  • Jeremy Simon C. Clark and
  • Andrzej Ciechanowicz

Background: The five base-pair (bp) insertion/deletion (rs3039851) polymorphism in the PPP3R1 gene, which encodes calcineurin subunit B type 1, has been found to be associated with left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in hypertensive patients and in at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
527 Views
19 Pages

27 September 2025

Surface defect detection serves as one of the crucial auxiliary components in the quality control of varistors, and it faces real challenges such as the scarcity of defect samples, high labelling cost, and insufficient a priori knowledge, which makes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,168 Views
11 Pages

Effect of Solar Radiation on Skin Microbiome: Study of Two Populations

  • Nurit Harel,
  • Leah Reshef,
  • Dvora Biran,
  • Sarah Brenner,
  • Eliora Z. Ron and
  • Uri Gophna

Here, we examined the skin microbiome of two groups of healthy volunteers living on the Mediterranean coast with different exposures to sun radiation. One group, exposed to the sun in the summer, was compared with a group covered with clothing throug...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,992 Views
11 Pages

21 January 2023

Patients with mitral valve prolapse (MVP) have been reported to have exercise intolerance. However, the underlying pathophysiological mechanisms and their physical fitness remain unclear. We aimed to determine the exercise capacity of patients with M...

  • Article
  • Open Access
933 Views
17 Pages

Sexual Differences in Appendages of a Fossorial Narrow-Mouth Frog, Kaloula rugifera (Anura, Microhylidae)

  • Wenyi Zhang,
  • Xianzheng Wang,
  • Jin Huang,
  • Xiuping Wang,
  • Bin Wang,
  • Jianping Jiang,
  • Bingjun Dong and
  • Meihua Zhang

31 August 2025

Skeletons serve as the body’s fundamental structure and perform multiple vital functions, and thus even subtle modifications can lead to functional changes. However, studies on sexual shape dimorphism in the appendicular skeletons of anurans re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,749 Views
17 Pages

Tracking the Track: The Impact of Different Grazing Strategies on Managing Equine Obesity

  • Lorna Cameron,
  • Meg Challinor,
  • Sophie Armstrong,
  • Abigale Kennedy,
  • Sarah Hollister and
  • Katharine Fletcher

19 March 2025

Horses evolved to live in herds, continuously moving and foraging. Domestic horses often have limited social contact and movement, with high calorific intake, contributing to obesity. “Track grazing” is an increasingly popular management...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,288 Views
11 Pages

Symmetry of Gait in Underweight, Normal and Overweight Children and Adolescents

  • Veronica Cimolin,
  • Nicola Cau,
  • Alessandro Sartorio,
  • Paolo Capodaglio,
  • Manuela Galli,
  • Gabriella Tringali,
  • Bruno Leban,
  • Micaela Porta and
  • Massimiliano Pau

2 May 2019

Abnormal excess or lack of body mass can influence gait patterns, but in some cases such differences are subtle and not easy to detect, even with quantitative techniques for movement analysis. In these situations, the study of trunk accelerations may...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
6,333 Views
31 Pages

15 September 2018

Dyadic interactions are ubiquitous in our lives, yet they are highly challenging to study. Many subtle aspects of coupled bodily dynamics continuously unfolding during such exchanges have not been empirically parameterized. As such, we have no formal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,297 Views
24 Pages

Gestational and Lactation Exposure to Perfluorohexanoic Acid Results in Sex-Specific Changes in the Cerebellum in Mice

  • Elizabeth C. Plunk,
  • Navya Navnith,
  • Hannah Swan,
  • Linh Le,
  • Matthew McCall,
  • Marissa E. Sobolewski and
  • Ania K. Majewska

19 August 2025

Currently regulated per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been associated with immune, endocrine, and neurotoxicity following gestational exposures. As a result, industries have effectively replaced them with next-generation PFAS, including...

  • Article
  • Open Access
540 Views
15 Pages

Sexual Shape Variation and Allometric Effects in Guinea Pig (Cavia porcellus) Skulls

  • Ebru Eravci Yalin,
  • Tomasz Szara,
  • Ebuderda Günay,
  • Ana Pešić,
  • Nicoleta Manuta,
  • Barış Can Güzel,
  • Muhammed Taha Temir and
  • Ozan Gündemir

30 November 2025

The skull provides essential diagnostic features for species identification and sex determination. Cranial sexual dimorphism in guinea pigs (Cavia porcellus) is particularly important to understand, as these animals are frequently used in experimenta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
933 Views
30 Pages

Identification and Sedimentary Model of Shallow-Water Deltas: A Case Study of the Funing Formation, Subei Basin, Northeast China

  • Ziyi Yang,
  • Guiyu Dong,
  • Lianbo Zeng,
  • Yongfeng Qiu,
  • Chen Guo,
  • Zhao Ma,
  • Tianwei Wang,
  • Xu Yang,
  • Shuo Ran and
  • Xing Zhao

21 February 2025

Shallow-water deltas are not only a hot spot for sedimentological research but also a key target for oil and gas exploration. In this paper, taking the third member (E1f3) of the Funing Formation in the Upper Jurassic as an example, based on observat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,309 Views
18 Pages

Biological Impact of Photoperiod on Fairy Shrimp (Branchinecta orientalis): Life History and Biochemical Composition

  • Sara Farhadi,
  • Behrooz Atashbar Kangarloei,
  • Ahmad Imani and
  • Kourosh Sarvi Moghanlou

22 July 2021

B. orientalis, fairy shrimp, is often among the most conspicuous invertebrates inhabiting temporary aquatic habitats with a typical variation in environmental conditions. Its life history characteristics and biochemical composition were studied under...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
503 Views
25 Pages

Patient-Reported Outcome Measures for Evaluating Body Awareness: A Systematic Review Using the COSMIN Methodology

  • Cristina Bravo,
  • Manuel Trinidad-Fernández,
  • David Barranco-i-Reixachs,
  • Sandy Arias-Matiz,
  • Pedro Malagon-Santos and
  • Daniel Catalán-Matamoros

12 December 2025

Objective: Body awareness is the conscious, subjective multimodal integration of body-related sensitivity from bodily signals—detecting states and subtle reactions to internal and environmental conditions—modifiable by attention, interpre...

  • Review
  • Open Access
25 Citations
19,475 Views
29 Pages

Perspectives, Measurability and Effects of Non-Contact Biofield-Based Practices: A Narrative Review of Quantitative Research

  • Luís Carlos Matos,
  • Jorge Pereira Machado,
  • Fernando Jorge Monteiro and
  • Henry Johannes Greten

Practices such as “Reiki”, therapeutic touch, healing touch, and external “Qigong” have been regarded as some form of “energy medicine” or “biofield therapy”. The biofield concept has been studied and debated by researchers of distinct areas of exper...

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