sensory perception and cultural values in the art of pardeh-xaniasghar izadi-jeiran assistant professor, department of anthropology, university of tehranabstract: my anthropological focus is on experience and perception of audience of pardeh-xani affected by sensory anthropology in which culture is defined as the ways of sensing the world. the art of pardeh-xani seeks to create special sensory ...

INTRODUCTION In orthodontics, facial esthetics is assumed to be related to golden proportions apparent in the ideal human face. The aim of the study was to analyze the putative relationship between facial esthetics and golden proportions in white adolescents. METHODS Seventy-six adult laypeople evaluated sets of photographs of 64 adolescents on a visual analog scale (VAS) from 0 to 100. The f...

In all ages, “philosophers and artists have proposed definitions of Beauty; thanks to their testimonies can thus reconstruct a history of aesthetic ideas over the time. But other things were with the idea of Ugly. Most often, Ugly was defined in opposition to the Beauty, but almost never have been dedicated ample studies, but some hints in parenthesis or some marginal notes” as U. Eco asserts (...

A cross the broad fields of educational theory and research, constructivism has become something akin to a secular religion. In her book Evolution as a Religion (1985), Mary Midgley wrote that the theory of evolution "is not just an inert piece of theoretical science. It is, and cannot help being, also a powerful folk-tale about human origins. Any such narrative must have symbolic force" (1985,...

User generated content in the form of customer reviews, feedbacks and comments plays an important role in all types of Internet services and activities Iike news, shopping, forums and blogs. Therefore, the analysis of user opinions is potentially beneficial for the undcrstanding of user attitudes or the improvement of various Internet services. In this paper, we propose a practical unsupervised...

CONTEXT Generalized social phobia (GSP) is characterized by fear/avoidance of social situations. Previous studies have examined the neural responses in GSP to one class of social stimuli, facial expressions. However, studies have not examined the neural response in GSP to another equally important class of social stimuli, the communication of praise or criticism. OBJECTIVE To examine the neur...

According to Satosi Watanabe’s “theorem of the ugly duckling”, the number of (possible) predicates satisfied by any two different particulars is a constant, which does not depend on the choice of the two particulars. If the number of (possible) predicates satisfied by two particulars is their number of properties in common, and the degree of resemblance between two particulars is a function of ...

According to Satosi Watanabe’s “theorem of the ugly duckling”, the number of (possible) predicates satisfied by any two different particulars is a constant, which does not depend on the choice of the two particulars. If the number of (possible) predicates satisfied by two particulars is their number of properties in common, and the degree of resemblance between two particulars is a function of ...