1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910453145803321

Autore

Classen Constance <1957->

Titolo

The deepest sense [[electronic resource] ] : a cultural history of touch / / Constance Classen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2012

ISBN

0-252-09440-9

1-283-99357-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Collana

Studies in sensory history

Disciplina

612.8/8

Soggetti

Touch - History

Senses and sensation - History

Social history

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-220) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""The Inside Story""; ""1. A Place by the Fire""; ""The Common Touch""; ""A Place by the Fire""; ""The Walled City""; ""Hard at Work""; ""The Rites of Pleasure""; ""2. A Touchable God""; ""A Tactile Cosmology""; ""Mystical Touch""; ""Gestures of Piety""; ""The Cult of Relics""; ""Corpus Christi""; ""Ordeals by Fire""; ""3. Painful Times""; ""Suffering Bodies and Healing Hands""; ""Blind Touch""; ""Leprosy, the Black Death, and Dancing Mania""; ""The Uses of Pain""; ""The Torments of Hell""; ""Sorrow and Compassion""

""4. A Womanâ€?s Touch""""Male and Female Bodies""; ""A Womanâ€?s Touch""; ""Womenâ€?s Work""; ""Texts and Textiles""; ""Mystical Raptures and Pain Craft""; ""The Witchâ€?s Touch""; ""5. Animal Skins""; ""Animal Bodies""; ""Animal Companions""; ""Beasts, Wild Men, and Slaves""; ""Animal Souls""; ""Experimentation and the  Campaign Against Cruelty""; ""6. Tactile Arts""; ""The Aesthetics of Touch""; ""The Feel of Art""; ""Crafty Ladies""; ""Touch in the Museum""; ""7. The Modern Touch""; ""Petrarchâ€?s Vision""; ""The Decline of Sacred Touch""; ""New Sensory Worlds""

""The Persistence of Touch""""The Finishing Touch""; ""8. Sensations of



a New Age""; ""The Drill""; ""The School, the Prison, and the Museum""; ""The Feel of the City""; ""The Electric Creed""; ""Touch at Home""; ""The Stuff of Dreams""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""back cover""

Sommario/riassunto

From the softest caress to the harshest blow, touch lies at the heart of our experience of the world. Now, this deepest of senses is the subject of an extensive historical exploration. This book fleshes out our understanding of the past with explorations of lived experiences of embodiment from the middle ages to modernity.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911046536803321

Autore

Feng Xiaohua

Titolo

Cloud Computing : 12th EAI International Conference, CloudComp 2024, Luton, UK, September 9–10, 2024, Proceedings / / edited by Xiaohua Feng, Patrick Siarry, Liangxiu Han, Longzhi Yang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2026

ISBN

3-031-92517-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2026.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 pages)

Collana

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, , 1867-822X ; ; 617

Altri autori (Persone)

SiarryPatrick

HanLiangxiu

YangLongzhi

Disciplina

004.6782

Soggetti

Computer networks

Application software

Computers, Special purpose

Computer Communication Networks

Computer and Information Systems Applications

Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The Cloud-Edging Computing -- Admission Control and Scheduling of Offloaded Tasks Over Mobile Edge Servers -- Identifying the ‘gaps’ where Cloud Computing can help Computer Laws in curbing Cyber bullying and Cyber stalking -- SecureCloud: A Cross-Platform



Encrypted File Sharing Solution with Forensic Imaging Capability in India -- Integration of AI and Cloud Computing: Advantages and Challenges -- Understanding Human Behavior through Smart Home IoT Data Analysis: Patterns and Insights -- Blockchain in Space-Air-Ground Integrated Networks: A Critical Look -- Empowering HEIs through LLMs and Cloud Computing: Strategies for Seamless Integration and Sustainable Transformation -- Wireless Networks; Network Security -- Network Intrusion Detection by Adaptive Deep Metric Learning -- AI, Wireless Security and Forensics with Cloud, Networks Impact on Education -- Lightweight CSI Feedback with Global Context Attention for RIS-Assisted Communications -- Discriminative Features Learning Based Approach for Object Detection Enhancement -- Emerging Applications /The Cloud-Edging Integration Applications -- An LLM-based Agent Framework for Dynamic and Semantic Data Fusion, Integration and Engineering for Data Analysis -- AI for Law and AI under Law in China -- Enhancing Biometric Security: Advancements in Environment-Independent Channel State Information Analysis -- Monitoring Patient Apps Security Vulnerabilities -- Leveraging Artificial Intelligence Integration in Regional Sports Education to Foster Equitable and Sustainable Development.

Sommario/riassunto

This book LNICST 617 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Cloud Computing, CloudComp 2024, held in Luton, UK, during September 9–10, 2024. The 16 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. The proceedings focus on topics such as The Cloud-Edging Computing Wireless Networks; Network Security Emerging Applications /The Cloud-Edging Integration Applications.