This text Center Speaker aims to analyze the relation between the organization and the structuring of city spaces by architecture and urban planning, and the homogenization of bodies and social exclusion existing in cities.A situation that acquires special traits thanks to the spread of a cyber technology that deeply modifies the most common spatio
Effects of musical improvisation as a cognitive and motor intervention for the elderly
Abstract Music has been debated as a positive factor for the health of elderly people.In a randomized study, the researchers compared an intervention based on percussion and musical improvisation with a choir activity.The Dog Crate objective was to investigate whether improvisation would influence the executive functioning and motor skills of healt
The systematic position of the enigmatic thyreophoran dinosaur Paranthodon africanus, and the use of basal exemplifiers in phylogenetic analysis
The first African dinosaur to be discovered, Paranthodon africanus was found in 1845 in the Lower Cretaceous of South Africa.Taxonomically assigned to numerous groups since discovery, in 1981 it was described as a stegosaur, a group of armoured ornithischian dinosaurs characterised by bizarre plates and spines extending from the neck to the tail.Th
Estimation of Road Wetness from a Passenger Car
This paper presents an evaluation of a system aiming at estimating water depths on a road surface.Using accelerometers, the system records the vibrations of a wheel arch liner due to impacts of water droplets.The system setup, including the location of the accelerometers on a wheel arch and the data acquisition, is described.Tests were performed wi