Currently, on Western sciences of health, the word “psyche” (from the Greek ψυχή) is closely associated to the concept of mind in all its aspects: awareness (consciousness), emotion (affect), and cognition (intellectual activity). The mental activity can be elevated until sublime issues like altruism, values, and morals. Even spirituality is a human dimension associated to mind, although consid...

Musical biography proliferated in England in the hagiographical climate of the later nineteenth century, partly as an outcome of the rise of the aesthetic of the idolised Great Composer and the corresponding emergence of musical canons (whose constituency was, however, by no means certain at this time). This article presents a theoretically-enriched demonstration of the paradigms through which ...

This paper introduces human breathing as a metaphor for thinking about individual contributing to organizational coordination. It extends the information processing view commonly found in structure and process based social cognition theories. These theories need extension, as they cannot adequately explain current phenomena like organizational improvisation and breakdowns. Following the canons ...

Analysis of attractiveness of faces has long been a topic of research. Literature has identified many different factors that can be related to attractiveness including symmetry, averageness, sexual dimorphism and adherence to the Golden Ratio. In this research we systematically analyze the role of three factors: symmetry, conformance to Neoclassical Canons and the Golden Ratio in the determinat...

In modern architectural debate, buildings are made by their description in the literature as much they defined reality of construction. On this point, a relatively small glitch celebratory narrative roof Sydney Opera House – four columns that do not appear descriptions building offers opportunity to reflect on generation architecture’s canons and perhaps perceived need elevate subject matter ab...

In no area of the social sciences has ideology contaminated knowledge more pervasively than in writings on the sex industry. Too often in this area, the canons of scientific inquiry are suspended and research deliberately skewed to serve a particular political agenda. Much of this work has been done by writers who regard the sex industry as a despicable institution and who are active in campaig...

The canon is a composition pattern with a long history and many forms. The concept of the canon has also been applied to experimental film making and on Japanese television. We describe our work-in-progress on an Interactive Visual Canon Platform (IVCP) that enables creators of visual canons to design their movements through rapid cycles of performance and evaluation. The IVCP system provides r...