Pictures don't live in isolation from a context of comprehension and response. According to Gretchen Barbatsis, the notion that meaning is something added to a piece of art has important connotation in the way we conceptualize art. The dynamic understanding of visual interpretation is a mutual process, in which the artwork and the viewer add something to one another. Art conveys meanings, refle...

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 can be e...

Objective It is thought that mothers who conceive via assisted reproductive technology (ART) may be at greater risk of postpartum depression (PPD) because of the problems and psychological stresses associated with ART treatment. The aim of the present study is to determine the occurrence of PPD among mothers conceiving via ART in comparison with mothers naturally conceiving, using Edinburgh Pos...

We report a replication and extension of Ferreira (2003), in which it was observed that native adult English speakers misinterpret passive sentences that relate implausible but not impossible semantic relationships (e.g., The angler was caught by the fish) significantly more often than they do plausible passives or plausible or implausible active sentences. In the experiment reported here, part...

This article surveys the use of pain charts or pain drawings in eliciting information about the location of pain symptoms from children and adolescents. While pain charts are widely used and have been incorporated in multidimensional pediatric pain questionnaires and diaries, they present a number of issues requiring further study. These include, in particular, the number and size of different ...

We describe a method for constructing qualitative structural descriptions of hand-drawn sketches of 3D objects. We use visual grouping and segmentation operations to extract edges and surfaces, and use line labeling with an extension of Malik’s (1987) junction catalog to identify threedimensional features in order to construct an orientationinvariant symbolic representation. These symbolic repr...

To incorporate metabolic, bioremedial functions into the performance of buildings and to balance generative architecture's dominant focus on computational programming and digital fabrication, this text first discusses hybridizing Maturana and Varela's biological theory of autopoiesis with Andy Clark's hypothesis of extended cognition. Doing so establishes a procedural protocol to research biolo...

art is one of the important events of human's life and should be systematically deduced [from the islamic tradition]. the subject of art may be investigated in jurisprudence [the islamic law] in two ways: with a general view and disregarding art works, or focusing on special cases. it is important, in the general view, to deduce the first and main principle [of islam] in this regard. accor...