But if selfies are simply an exercise in recording private memories and charting the course of our lives, then why do we feel such a pressing need to share them with hundreds and thousands of friends and strangers online?
"The unrecorded life," wrote Iris Chang in her study of Japan's brutal occupation of Nanking, "disappears as if it never existed". For Lise Kristensen, who survived a two-year imprisonment in Java's PoW camps during the second world war, the act of writing is both an exercise in recording an event all but forgotten by the west and an attempt to find "closure".
This autoethnography is an exercise in reporting, recording and reflecting on the process of attempting to apply a public relations theoretical construct to a practice environment.
In an industry whose product is now compressed into tidy digital bits, the project is an exercise in record-keeping that is partly motivated by the urgencies of economics.
Anni Rossi In the era of unlimited multitracking, Anni Rossi's "Rockwell" (4AD) is a solo album that feels like one: an exercise in austerity, recorded in a single day.
The interactive displays include a look through night-vision goggles to imitate a tiger's acute vision; "Talk Like a Tiger," an exercise in imitating recorded tiger sounds; scans of tiger anatomy; and a digital climbing wall for young jungle explorers.
It's not a Jack Whitexerciseercine in audio Luddism, recording straight to wax cylinder using only mics touched by Robert Johnson – but they did eschew digital technology, recording to tape, to get a warm, full sound.
To verify attendance in the programme, exercise is recorded in a notebook and the number of steps is recorded by a pedometer given to participants.
Together, these jokers and political statement-makers toss a quirky curveball at what's typically an exercise in mundane record-keeping, as these they willfully portray themselves to the federal government as people they are not -- or, at least, not completely.
The clinical outcome of this exercise as recorded in retrospect was discontinuation of ICS in 31 (27.7%) of the 112 patients (Table 1), of whom 20 (64.5%) had mild to moderate COPD, seven (22.6%) had no history, symptoms or signs indicating obstructive lung disease and the remaining four (12.9%) had episodic asthma without the need for long-term ICS treatment.
In heat exercise, highest recorded HR were in C 213 ± 1 bpm as 2-year-olds and 223 ± 1 bpm as 3-year-olds and in R 216 ± 1 bpm as 2-year-olds and 223 ± 1 bpm as 3-year-olds.
