Review article of PhD thesis submitted in 2020 to the Archaeological Doctoral Programme, School History, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest under supervision Miklós Szabó.

Unsupervised learning of a generalizable model of the visual appearance of humans from video data is of major importance for computing systems interacting naturally with their users and others. We propose a step towards automatic behavior understanding by making the posture estimation cycle more autonomous. The system extracts coherent motion from moving upper bodies and autonomously decides ab...

the Ottawa Hospital has introduced a dress code that will require staff to wear uniforms prescribed by their respective departments and functions. The Ontario-based hospital may be the first to issue a formal, publicized dress code in the country. Put into effect in March, the code requires staff to don their scrubs and lab coats whenever they enter the hospital, and take them off when they lea...

Beginning in the 1880s, nurses donned uniforms that were considered to be state-of-theart protection against illness. The original nurses’ uniform was known as the “fever-proof” shield to protect the entire body of the visiting nurse from infection, although it left the face and the hands uncovered (Figure 1). Over the years, the nurse’s uniform has changed significantly. Gone are the days of a...

The term ‘human interpretation’ itself has two interpretations: interpretation by human beings and interpretation of human beings. We are all familiar with both kinds of interpretation in ordinary life. Marie interprets Sam’s remark as a sexual invitation; Joseph interprets the famous guest’s attire as an insult to the host. But as the organizers of our conference point out, we have no systemat...

Scholars of insanity and its historical antecedents have paid very little attention to personal and institutional clothing. Such dress, distributed to patients in mental institutions, has always been inscribed with the conflicting narratives of the period in which it was made and worn. The language of civil and medical authority is more evident than personal choice in the shape and address of t...

Grasping the various aspects of Islamophobia in Muslim societies requires much finer methods order to decipher intentions actors distinctive life situations varying from media education. This article engages a debate as whether is new type racism, i.e., cultural, geographical, phenotypical, or Xeno-racism, and relatively recent that has emerged neo-liberal states: anti-Muslim racism. In Muslim-...