the confrontation between iranian and western musical cultures and especially taking the idea of western orchestra is a topic that had incongruous dimensions in iranian music. therefore, this process leads up to some questions: what is the relationship between the multiplicity of musical performance and identity of iranian music? and the other question: did such a process in its different dimen...

Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that, consistent with theoretical expectations, being very attractive reduces a young adult’s (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it. A variety of tests suggest that this result is not likely because beauty is acting as a proxy for socioeconomic status, although we cannot rule out the possibility that s...

Evaluation has been suggested to be one of the main trends in current NIME research. However, the meaning of the term for the community may not be as clear as it seems. In order to explore this issue, we have analyzed all papers and posters published in the proceedings of the NIME conference from 2012 to 2014. For each publication that explicitly mentioned the term “evaluation”, we looked for: ...

This paper starts with a critical view of beautiful female images in the mass media being frequently generated by a stereotypical Korean concept of beauty. Several female beauty myths have evolved in Korea during the present decade. Nearly all of them have formed due to a deeply-ingrained androcentric ideology which objectifies women. Mass media causes the public to hold a distorted concept abo...

aesthetics, nowadays, is regarded as a branch of philosophy which studies  beauty and art. this research is about aesthetics from mulla sadra's viewpoint. in the works of this philosopher, beauty in general means  possessing all the good properties. the special definition of beauty, which includes only sensible objects, is possessing the factors of order, good combination, moderation, and ...

Musical keyboard instruments have a long history, which resulted in many kinds of keyboards (claviers) today. Since the hardware of conventional musical keyboards cannot be changed, such as the number of keys, musicians have to carry these large keyboards for playing music that requires only a small diapason. To solve this problem, the goal of our study is to construct UnitKeyboard, which has o...

This paper develops a general equilibrium exchange rate model consistent with the weak empirical evidence supporting the law of one price. Some firms segment markets by country, and set prices in local currency of sale, a practice we refer to as pricing-to-market (PTM). The presence of PTM increases exchange rate volatility, relative to a situation where the law of one price holds. PTM also aff...

Two recent measurements of beauty production in deep inelastic ep scattering with the ZEUS detector are presented. In the first analysis, beauty production was identified using muons associated to a jet. In the second measurement, beauty content was extracted using the decay length significance and invariant mass of secondary vertices. Measured differential cross sections were compared to theor...

Neuroaesthetics has been searching for the neural bases of the subjective experience of beauty. It has been demonstrated that neural activities in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and the left primary motor cortex (lPMC) correlate with the subjective experience of beauty. Although beauty and ugliness seem to be semantically and conceptually opposite, it is still unknown whether these two eva...