Background The field of infertility medicine has witnessed a surge of scientific developments in recent years, but research on public attitudes towards infertility treatments has remained minimal. This study examined the social and demographic factors that affect women’s attitudes towards assisted reproductive technology (ART) in general, as well as their opinions of specific issues related to ...

The aim of this article is to unravel the craftsmanship of online identities implicit in taking and sharing selfies and to measure the immediate or resulting violence by imposed definition upon the subject-photographer. This paper especially focuses on the identity building of young women on the social networking platform Instagram. Crucial to the research are Susan Sontag’s work on photography...

Art is a way to provide distance from the intense affect associated with the disaster, and a way to work around and through the natural defenses that arise when trying to link affect with cognition. The ability to create art about the threatening thoughts and feelings channels the child’s energy into the art, or into a positive task, which then can be explored safely. If these thoughts ca...

in study of sema and its related architectural spaces in chalabioghlu khanghah, the main goal is to understand the most important principles of spaces formation in the complex. to achieve this goal, at the very first place it’s necessary to study sema tradition itself in the second step, architecture of the complex should be taken to consideration, both as a whole and in details. acquiring all ...

Before methods for drawing accurately in perspective were developed in the 15th century, many artists drew with divergent perspective. But we found that many university students draw with divergent perspective rather than with the correct convergent perspective. These experiments were designed to reveal why people tend to draw with divergent perspective. University students drew a cube and isol...

nowadays “design” is considered as an independent discipline which is neither a science, nor an art, but an interdiscipline with strong relations with both art and science. therefore, this new understanding demands reidentifying all design sub-disciplines. “space” as one of this sub-disciplines, has a pivotal role in shaping form in both design and architecture. while concrete understanding of ...

The term ‘Database Aesthetics’ has become a catchword of the digital realm and poses interesting semantic questions that seem to outline the field of research and art relating to databases itself. What exactly do we mean by ‘database aesthetics’? In discourse on digital art, the term is frequently used to describe the aesthetic principles applied in imposing the logic of the database to any typ...