Rhetorical figures, which are frequently applied in advertisements, can add literary flavor to the texts, gratify audiences’ aesthetic needs, and deepen their impression. In advertisement translation, it is very common that the rhetorical figures applied in the original text are replaced with new ones in the translation. This research focuses on rhetorical figures’ function of enhancing audienc...

This article contains a survey of recent debates in the philosophy of photography, focusing on aesthetic and epistemic issues in particular. Starting from widespread notions about automatism, causality and realism in the theory of photography, the authors ask whether the prima facie tension between the epistemic and aesthetic embodied in oppositions such as automaticism and agency, causality an...

art contains the sensuous appearance of the Idea, the symbol of a rationality of reason that is beyond words [1], Art was not language for Hegel because it is non-discursive; it gave form to hidden, ineffable content. Marcuse in his later work came to regard art as the last refiige of critical insights in a totally mobilized society. In his last book, The Aesthetic Dimension (1978), he rejoins ...

The phrase "Aesthetic Computing" while taken literally applies the philosophical area of aesthetics to the field of computing and work in the area is broadly defined as such; however, in my operational definition for the work we do at the University of Florida, aesthetic computing is treated as embodied formal language. The purpose of aesthetic computing is to deliver knowledge and practice of ...

BACKGROUND Resident experience in aesthetic surgery is often deficient in many training programs around the country. OBJECTIVE This study is the first to review the 10-year experience of a resident aesthetic clinic and identifies important educational aspects necessary for residency training in aesthetic surgery. METHODS The operative experience of each chief resident from 1994 through 2004...

BACKGROUND Valid tools to assess aesthetic outcomes after breast reconstructive surgery are scarce. Previously a professional aesthetic assessment scale was introduced, the Aesthetic Items Scale (AIS). We aim to determine if this method is a valid and reliable tool to assess aesthetic outcome after breast reconstructive surgery. METHODS The study population was consenting women who underwent ...

In this paper we investigate and compare four aesthetic measures within the context of evolutionary art. We evolve visual art with an unsupervised evolutionary art system using genetic programming and an aesthetic measure as the fitness function. We perform multiple experiments with different aesthetic measures and examine their influence on the evolved images. To this end we store the 5 fittes...

BACKGROUND Despite the emphasis of contemporary nursing theories on the belief that nursing is a science and an art in care, published studies show that only the nursing science has developed. Many experts believe that by recognizing and perceiving this concept, the clinical field can develop aesthetic knowledge in nursing and education of students. OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to...