Although teacher learning has often been overlooked in discussions surrounding classroom practice, it is believed that learning cultivates the resilience and vitality needed for teachers to thrive. Teachers have often been required to demonstrate a high level of skill and professionalism as they orchestrate tasks that maximise student engagement. Their work has consequently been compared to tha...

Although the practice of medicine is built on a foundation of ethics, science, and common sense, the increasing complexity of medical interventions, social interactions, and societal norms of behavior challenges the ethical practice of aesthetic surgeons. We report a survey of the opinions, practices, and attitudes of experienced and novice facial plastic surgeons. The survey consisted of 15 cl...

Normally the primary purpose of an information display is to convey information. If it can be aesthetically interesting, that is an added bonus. Recent research experiments with reversing this imperative. An information display, which is first aesthetically pleasing and second is able to display information, is designed and implemented. The display presents an e-mail title in a visual form as a...

Architectural designs are not just collections of 3D objects. Architects have both high-level aesthetic design intent, and intent for the functionality of the building; these must eventually translate into real-world construction materials and processes. Physical prototypes are still essential for the architect and their clients to get a feel for whether designs “work”. An exciting recent devel...

85 Lters Dear Editor: I read with considerable concern the communication from Dr Carmichael and Dr Mokbel in this journal on the subject ‘Evolving Trends in Breast Surgery: Oncoplastic to Onco-Aesthetic Surgery’ [1]. The authors laud the use of oncoplastic breast surgery (OBS) and characterise its further development as deserving of the designation ‘onco-aesthetics’. This suggests a sense of ju...

I agree that the Library and other agents of the College may lend or copy this thesis upon request. Abstract In recent years, there has been a considerable push by the entertainment industry toward stereoscopic 3D display methods. Furthermore, stereoscopic displays are becoming more and more affordable for home use. This leads to questions about the actual perceptual and aesthetic benefits of t...

Substantial evidence suggests that beauty is associated with the survival and reproduction of organisms. Landscape architecture is composed of a series of natural elements that have significant evolutionary implications. The present study used one pilot material ratings and three experiments to examine the mechanisms of aesthetic appraisals of landscape architecture. The results confirmed that ...

Resolving to finish reading a novel, staying true your punk style, or dedicating life an artistic project: these are examples of aesthetic commitments. I develop account the nature such commitments, and argue that they significant insofar as help us manage temporally extended our agency relationships with objects. At same time, focusing on commitments can give better grasp normativity; this is ...

In a task of rating images of artworks in an fMRI scanner, regions in the medial prefrontal cortex that are known to be part of the default mode network (DMN) were positively activated on the highest-rated trials. This is surprising given the DMN's original characterization as the set of brain regions that show greater fMRI activity during rest periods than during performance of tasks requiring...