Military personnel are at risk for infectious disease because of crowding, the rigors of physical training, and sometimes unhygienic field conditions.
In addition, we sought to measure the degree of physical crowding and personnel shortage in our sample.
Prager's sharp-edged, cinematic shots capture the hustle and bustle of an anonymous crowd, emphasizing the bizarre juxtaposition of physical proximity and mental distance.
Mixed traffic is a crowd of trains with different physical characteristics such as train type, length, maximum speed, braking capacity and varying running schedules.
Many shows I attended were outstanding because of the interplay of band members, the feel of the crowd and the physical experience of hearing the music through the speakers.
Allin delighted the American hardcore rock'n'roll scene of the late 80s and early 90s by performing naked, having swallowed vast amounts of laxatives, before bellowing violently misanthropic lyrics, maiming himself, defecating on stage, throwing his excrement into the crowd, and inflicting often actionable degrees of physical damage on audience members.
Elias Canetti, in his 1960 book "Crowds and Power," sees these times of physical communion with strangers as essential to transcending the fear of being touched.
"We're getting the urban poor and the same pressures about huge school systems with inadequate funding, typically big families, the erosion of physical facilities from crowding.
Edwin B. Henderson, the black Washington public schools director of physical education, observed the crowd before a game in September 1940 and wrote a subsequent letter to The Washington Post.
It turns out that if the crowd gets more agitated, the number and direction of physical contacts between individuals will begin to average out.
