Dying is never beautiful, but there are beautiful moments: qualitative interviews with those affected on the subject of ‘good dying’

What is beautiful is good.

A person's physical appearance, along with his sexual identity, is the personal characteristic that is most obvious and accessible to others in social interaction. The present experiment was designed to determine whether physically attractive stimulus persons, both male and female, are (a) assumed to possess more socially desirable personality traits than physically unattractive stimulus person...

Is a Beautiful System Dying? A Possible Smithian Take on the Financial Crisis and its Aftermath

Palliative care is not just for those who are dying.

And so at our next appointment we were greeted by two paediatricians who wanted to talk to us. They asked us what was going on. It felt natural to tell them our story. They listened intently, and I realised the purpose of this questioning much later: they wanted to get a sense of us first. “What would you like to happen?” I choked up in tears. I hadn’t told anyone about my wish to meet her, to ...

Beauty and the Lives of Those Who Are Beautiful Are Topics with Broad Appeal

People magazine has circulation of over 3.5 million copies, more than The New Yorker and Newsweek combined. This book caters to this widespread interest in good looks while injecting economics into the analysis of the topic. Daniel Hamermesh has written half a dozen papers on the relationship between beauty and economic outcomes and these articles are the backbone of the book, which is organize...

Framelets—small is beautiful

The contribution introduces the notion of framelets. They are essentially small frameworks. Thus framelets can be easily understood and modified. As framelets are not aimed at complex application domains, they can also be assembled without the problems associated with the combination of large frameworks. Our first experiences with framelets demonstrate that these architectural building blocks a...