An exploration of culling and the role it plays in the creation and care of uniquebeings. In traditional selective breeding, the living things that do not support the project areculled, or killed, so that resources may be put toward the specimens exhibiting the proper traits.This is regularly practiced by farmers, pet breeders, fanciers and hobbyists, but rarely by artists.

There is a danger in looking at highway design strictly from the viewpoint of aesthetics without indicating how this relates to other phases of design. An optimum design is only possible when the stand­ ards of structural design, geometric design, and aesthetic design are integrated and in perfect balance with each other. However, not being qualified to discuss structural or geometric design, n...

This study identified the criteria that are valued among Internet users when rating and accessing health information on the World Wide Web. Participants (N = 578) successfully completed a Web-based survey by ranking 12 criteria for evaluating health information. Then, by applying those same evaluation criteria, rated the quality of three preselected health-related websites and indicated their p...

Computational Aesthetics applied on digital photography is becoming an interesting issue in different frameworks (e.g., photo album summarization, imaging acquisition devices). Although it is widely believed and can often be experimentally demonstrated that aesthetics is mainly subjective, we aim to find some formal or mathematical explanations of aesthetics in photographs. We propose a scoring...

Abstract : Najmoddin Razi was the well-known mystics in the late 6th century and beginning of 7th century (AH). He has authored so many works in the field of Islamic mysticism. In his most significant work, Mersadolebad, he pointed out the beginning and end of the universe, the start of deportment and the extremity of development as well as the destination and goals of lover and beloved. In Raz...

the study of decentralization in fiji shows that increasing capacities is not necessarily related to increasing decision space of local officials, which is in contrast with earlier studies in pakistan. future studies should address the relationship among decision space, capacities, and health system performance.