University of North Carolina School of the Arts

This project explores the interdisciplinary integration of robotics and animatronics in collaboration with UNCSA’s Animatronics MFA program. Two robotic quadrupeds, specifically the Unitree Go1 and PuppyPi, were modified to resemble lifelike canine characters for theatrical performance. Digital dog models were sourced from ZBrush, resized, and reshaped to fit the robots’ dimensions before being transferred into CAD using Fusion 360 for shell fabrication. To enhance realism, mold-making techniques with silicone, flocking, and pattern-making were employed to create detailed, lifelike aesthetics. The completed robotic dogs were successfully integrated into the production, though realworld testing revealed trade-offs between realism and performance, emphasizing the need for future improvements in material weight, mobility, and scene choreography.

This article’s contribution utilizes eroticism to re-imagine the meanings of what it is to feel fully and pleasurably as becoming, in tandem with existing, moving through, and/or being present to one’s traumas. Therefore, what possibilities emerge when the erotic is emboldened as an engagement of transgressing and melting binaries of self and community? And further, reading with an erotic praxis, while the content of the text engaged might not be deemed erotic, what are the possibilities presented when the overall practice of reading, regardless of the material being deemed academic and/or leisure, is approached as erotic?.

The asymmetry of the face is an individual characteristic of man, but in the absence of a consensus on what should be considered asymmetry, in particular, how much one side of the facial skeleton should differ from the other, so that we can speak, e.g. , about the presence of pathological asymmetry, facial asymmetries will remain a research topic with varied statistics. The purpose of this article is to determine the correlation between facial asymmetry and endobuccal pathologies, as well as the treatment methods used to heal the pathology

Abstract In the shadows of a Shinto torii (gateway) in São Paulo's ‘Japanese’ neighbourhood rests the city's first burial ground for enslaved Africans. Recently unearthed, the gravesite is one of the few visible remains of the Liberdade neighbourhood's significance in São Paulo's ‘Black zone’. This article excavates the history of the nearby Remedies church, the headquarters of Brazil's Underground Railroad and a long-time museum to the enslaved. The 1942 demolition of the Remedies church, I argue, comprised part of a spatial project of forgetting centred on razing the city's ‘Black zone’ and reproducing São Paulo as a non-Black, ethnically immigrant metropolis.

In seven studies (n = 1133), adults tried to create funny ideas and then rated the funniness of their responses, which were also independently rated by judges. In contrast to the common “funnier than average” effect found for global self-ratings, people were relatively modest and self-critical about their specific ideas. Extraversion (r = 0.12 [0.07, 0.18], k = 7) and openness to experience (r = 0.09 [0.03, 0.15], k = 7) predicted rating one’s responses as funnier; women rated their responses as less funny (d = −0.28 [−0.37, −0.19], k = 7). The within-person correlation between self and judge ratings was small but significant (r = 0.13 [0.07, 0.19], k = 7), so people had some insight into their ideas’ funniness.