Introduction One of the most remarkable features of the human mind is its capacity for aesthetic appreciation. In the visual modality, aesthetics can be defined as the ability to derive pleasure from arrangements of colors, forms and patterns. This piece of our psychology acts in subtle ways, but it nonetheless plays an extremely consequential role in many people's lives. The sense of aesthetic...

background combined procedures involving elective breast surgery at the time of abdominoplasty are frequently performed procedures in aesthetic plastic surgery. while found to be safe outpatient procedures, many surgeons elect to perform combined abdominoplasty/breast surgery as inpatient surgery. this study was performed to explore the practice of performing the combined procedure as an inpati...

There have been few studies of why some people are frequently involved in aesthetic activities such as going to the theatre, reading or playing musical instruments, whereas others are less involved. This study assesses the broad roles of education, personality and demographic factors such as social class, age and sex. More aesthetic activity was associated with music and art education, whereas ...

Philosophy is akin to poetry due their respective endeavour express the ultimate good sense which we term civilization. This can be exemplified through Chinese vision of waterscapes found running philosophy and alike. As observed in tradition, Daoist water allegory referred “the supreme good”. It further explicated with reference Confucian appreciation “huge waterscapes” terms moral symbolism. ...

This article assays geographical research into nuclear cultures, and cognate conversations in atomic heritage, toxic waste studies, memory landscape as one way to develop the notion of memory. In doing so, we survey how geographers social scientists have sought think communicate things through three specific modes: archival, aesthetic, speculative. Our central argument is that provides a theore...

This paper extends the previous work of generating monotonic-rhythm log-aesthetic space curve segments so that compound-rhythm log-aesthetic space curve segments are interactively generated. A compound-rhythm log-aesthetic space curve segment is composed of two monotonic-rhythm log-aesthetic space curve segments whose logarithmic curvature and torsion graphs are represented by two connected lin...

Associations between self-reported need for aesthetic improvements in the workplace and the need for ergonomic improvement and health factors were investigated to determine the possible impact of aesthetic needs on job performance. The need for aesthetic improvements were compared with the need for ergonomic improvements. All employees at a Swedish broadcasting company were invited to participa...

Aesthetic content is perhaps one of the least understood, and discussed, concepts in architecture. Our purpose here is to demonstrate the efficacy of a computing environment created for the purpose of instantiating aesthetic content as a context for ideation in the architectural design process. A four-part approach is taken: We first abstract, from historical sources, a definition of “aesthetic...