The Rhetoric of the Open Hand and the Rhetoric of the Closed Fist

1969 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward P. J. Corbett
Keyword(s):  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.5) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Mr. Dhaval Patania ◽  
Ms. Nisha Iyer ◽  
Mr. Vivek Darji

When considering health, one of the most important parameter to be seen is the state of heart. The heart is the main element in a human body which is muscular organ about the size of a closed fist that functions as the body’s circulatory pump. It takes in deoxygenated blood through the veins and delivers it to the lungs for oxygenation before pumping it into various arteries. There exists a project which can measure ECG (Electrocardiogram), temperature and heartbeat rate and the base of working was using Bluetooth (802.15.1), which passed the readings of the system to the Android and desktop application. The current project masks all the inabilities of the previous systems which it was supposed to cover. The current project is very synchronized version of the previous system created. It is compact, easy to use and cost friendly. This project will be working on Internet of Things (IoT), which uses Wi-Fi (802.11) for passing the readings of the system to the Android and desktop application. Wi-Fi enables the project’s abilities and the productivity to magnify at a high level. 


1998 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Marback
Keyword(s):  

1967 ◽  
Vol 87 ◽  
pp. 24-32
Author(s):  
R. M. Cook

These notes on the beginnings of Greek sculpture contain little that has not been said before, but aim at applying a severer logic to the evidence and the conclusions drawn from it. The problems may be defined as what models were used by early Greek sculptors, why they chose those models, where the choice was made, and what the impulse was that induced them to take up this new art.The earliest surviving Greek sculpture worth the name is of the Daedalic style, which Jenkins has analysed neatly in his Dedalica. This style began in the second quarter of the seventh century and continued into the last quarter. So much is fairly generally accepted.The artistic influence of Egypt on Greece has been propounded since the eighteenth century, and there are still many students who see its effects in sculpture. Usually their arguments are very general, asserting similarity of types and technical methods rather than of style. Of the Archaic Greek types the kouros is most apparently comparable to Egyptian—an upright, four-square figure with arms held to its sides and one foot in front of the other. Except for the stance this is the most obvious pose for a standing figure, and there are essential specific differences, well defined by Schrader. The stock Egyptian male has a support behind the forward leg, tilts backwards, and wears a kilt; the Greek kouros stands free, has a more mobile poise and is naked (except in the Daedalic style for a belt). As for resemblances in detail, Richter and Carpenter single out the roll of stone clenched in the hand of some Greek kouroi; this does not seem a regular or very early feature, and it may be a technical coincidence to avoid hollowing the inside of the closed fist. The ‘layer wig’ of course, though of Egyptian origin, is not so common in Egyptian sculpture and was already naturalised in Phoenician and Syrian art.


Author(s):  
Jean-Luc Nancy
Keyword(s):  

To accompany L’Isola del silenzio by Claudio Parmiggiani Labor lost, philosophy, jurisprudence, and medicine, other labor lost, theology, physiology, and you, learned disciplines of every kind, all your efforts lost, as well as mine.1 Take care, for in a short while nothing of you shall remain, knowledge, wisdom, venerable deposits of nights of study and lives of contemplation. Nothing will remain but my closed fist on your torn pages, which I will toss into the fire....


2010 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Langdon ◽  
Adam Way ◽  
Samuel Heaton ◽  
Jason Bernard ◽  
Sean Molloy

INTRODUCTION Acute osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures are common and usually managed conservatively. However, a significant number will remain symptomatic, causing significant pain with considerable associated morbidity and mortality. These fractures can be effectively treated with cement augmentation. However, it is impossible to distinguish between an acute and a chronic healed fracture on plain radiographs. The definitive investigation is a magnetic resonance scan. The aim of this paper is to describe and evaluate two new clinical signs to help in the diagnosis of symptomatic fractures. A prospective study of 83 patients with suspected acute osteoporotic vertebral compression fractures was carried out. All patients had a full clinical assessment, which included closed-fist percussion of their spine and asking the patient to lie supine on the examination couch. All patients had a MRI scan. RESULTS The closed-fist percussion sign had a sensitivity of 87.5% and a specificity of 90%. The supine sign had a sensitivi-’ of 81.25% and a specificity of 93.33%. CONCLUSIONS These tests will enable the practitioner to predict more accurately which patients have an acute fracture, guiding referral for further imaging.


Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document