Think of treating a straightforward Eadweard Muybridge motion study of nude men and women most of whom, in this instance, eventually don undergarments as a cartoonish parade tricked out by aggressively accented arm and upper-body posturing, all punctuated by a nasty-edged hissing sound.

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Mr. BABBITT: Well, there was a nice compromise because President Clinton proclaimed a national marine sanctuary, which is about 80 percent of the way toward a national monument, which closed the area to most but not all fishing and set in motion a study of what kind of permanent protection there out to be.

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For years on end Mr van der Meer made a study of the statistical properties of the motion of particles in accelerators: sometimes late into the night, and sometimes lost in deep reflection.

ECONOMIST: Simon van der Meer

The Motion Picture Association of America is already working on its own economic study of the harmful effects of file sharing, to be completed this autumn.

ECONOMIST: The good and bad of internet file-sharing

In the fixation order portion of the study, participants tended to view the phones in a clockwise motion, beginning with the iPhone in the upper left of the group image.

FORBES: Eye-Tracking Study Finds iPhone, iPad Draw More Attention Than Android Devices

The time-sensitive pattern created by that pinch-circle motion, along with the motion involved in rotating the dial, are complex enough that Memon says a study of about 100 users has shown it can identify users with about 2% false positives and 2% false negatives.

FORBES: Gesture-Based Login Apps For iPad And iPhone Aim To Banish Passwords From Touchscreens

Patwari's new study points out pros and cons of adding wireless detection of breathing to the motion-detecting capability.

ENGADGET: Researchers use wireless network to monitor breathing, could save lives

This one caught my eye however, as a new study is attempting to use Kinect to detect early signs of autism in children with its motion sensing capabilities.

FORBES: Connect

The motion of the chest and abdomen during breathing impedes the wireless radio signals crisscrossing a bedridden patient, who in the study was Patwari himself.

ENGADGET: Researchers use wireless network to monitor breathing, could save lives