by its academic-aristocratic approach at the beginning, and the mere artistic vision of art afterwards, beaux arts had become the cottage of hopes and dreams for art-lovers and artists from iran and all around the world. accordingly, iran, like many other countries, has had consecutive associations and interactions with these schools, especially beaux-arts school, in qualitative and quantitativ...

The course is suitable for senior nurses, clinical nurse specialists and allied health professionals working directly with adult cancer patients with dependent children (under 18 years) and particularly those interested in enhancing their clinical competence and confidence supporting parents with cancer. The module has been designed to enable students to develop an understanding of systemic fam...

Nam Shub is a tool and software art project for the creation, modification and performance of text oriented electronic art ranging from experimental literature to visual sound poetry performances or interactive art installations. The discussed project is the second version or rather a newly developed and enhanced version of HyperString which was presented at e-poetry 2005. This tool will be mad...

abstract niklas luhmann was one of the prominent thinkers in the realm of sociology and the philosophy of social sciences. his approach was a systems approach. he classified the realm of reality and its entities into four groups that consisted of: machines, organisms, psychic systems, social systems. he belonged to the second wave of systemic thought and focused on the complexity and emergence ...

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...

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...

Creative activities including arts are characteristic to humankind. Our understanding of creativity is limited, yet there is substantial research trying to mimic human creativity in artificial systems and in particular to produce systems that automatically evolve art appreciated by humans. We propose here to model human visual preference by a set of aesthetic measures identified through observa...

Many characteristics of a product are evaluated during the development phase, such as function, aesthetics and manufacturing. The conception phase is supported by drawings and computer graphics, followed by physical prototypes that help evaluating the product features. The augmented reality technology has a great potential to assist the designers in this phase, reducing the development process ...