Aspects Of Beauty Research Articles

The Attractiveness of the Average Face

This article explores the connection between perceived beauty and averageness. Although throughout the history of mankind attractiveness was linked to averageness, this concept is now being questioned in light of more recent developments in Evolutionary Psychology. What follows is in an attempt to open up the discussion on one aspect of beauty, averageness, including literature from the Humanities and Evolutionary Psychology. This article explores the connection between perceived beauty and averageness. Although throughout the history of mankind attractiveness was linked to averageness, this concept is now being questioned in light of more recent developments in Evolutionary Psychology. What follows is in an attempt to open up the discussion on one aspect of beauty, averageness, including literature from the Humanities and Evolutionary Psychology.

IMPLEMENTASI AL-QUR’AN DAN AL-HADITS PADA ARSITEKTUR ANDALUSIA

<p class="Keywords">Al-Quran is the final revelation that guide human’s life, not only for Muslims, but also for non-Muslim people. Meanwhile, al-Hadith contains explanations from the Prophet Muhammad pbuh about the Qur'an. Both of them provide the way of life for the whole mankind, not only in the interests of the afterlife, but also in the worldly life. Architecture as one of a human worldly need should also reflect on the values within the Qur’an and Hadith. One of the values that related to architecture is the beauty. This paper aims to show the implementations of the Qur’an and Hadith in the beauty aspect of Islamic architecture in Andalucia.</p>

The Meaning of Japan (1937)

2. The physical aspect of Japan as one sails across the China sea from Shanghai is that of slim brown mountains rising suddenly from the water.1 The vegetation is sparse, only 15% of the whole of Japan being cultivable.2 And yet the green of trees, the struggle of the crop, and the blooming of flowers gives a singular aspect of beauty and charm to the busy industry on the three islands that stretch northeast from Korea to Sakhalin.

“Those little color snapshots”: William Christenberry

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] William Christenberry, William Eggleston, and Walker Evans have defined southern photography just as profoundly as Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, and C. Vann Woodward shaped southern literature and history. Both groups are bound by their deep love for American South and by their admiration for one another's work--an admiration that I share. Walker Evans first introduced me to Bill Christenberry's work in 1973, shortly after he and Bill had traveled together to Hale County, Alabama. I met Bill not long after that trip, and we have been close friends ever since. Our understanding of sense of place and how it shapes southerners is significantly deepened by Bill Christenberry's vision for his work. His desire to possess dog-trot houses, country stores, and churches in Hale County first led him to photograph, then build miniature sculptures of these buildings. Once completed, he placed each building on base of red clay that he brought from Alabama. While these buildings evoke pastoral memories of rural South, Christenberry is not afraid to challenge romantic notions about his home region, as he strives to Ideal] with what I see as both beautiful aspects of where I'm from and also ... ugly or dark aspects. Calling his Ku Klux Klan series the most difficult to express, he summons terror of Klan violence in tableaus that reveal a strange and secret brutality. Bill Christenberry is nurtured by his Hale County roots and has drawn on them throughout his teaching career at Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C., where he has worked since 1968. Just as William Faulkner created mythic Yoknapatawpha County to frame his literary legacy, Christenberry draws on his own postage stamp of native soil in Hale County as inspiration for his photography, painting, and sculpture. This interview was recorded and filmed during summer of 1983 at Bill Christenberry's studio in Washington, D.C., as part of my film in South. The film accompanied an exhibit, Painting in South: 1564-1980, organized by Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia. William Christenberry, in his own words ... My interest in photography comes out of background in painting. As student at University of Alabama in mid to late 1950s, I began to look around West Central Alabama (the part of Alabama that I'm from) and see things that I wanted to try to paint, but I didn't know how to go about it. Santa Claus had brought me and my sister small Brownie camera in late 1940s, and I just loaded it with color film and went out to that Alabama landscape and began to photograph what caught my eye, especially rural architecture and graveyards in country. Back in studio, those little color snapshots were references for paintings that were quite expressionistic--a lot of gesture and rich surface quality, but with subject matter. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I first met Bill Eggleston in 1962, when I moved to Memphis. I think his interest in photography increased my interest in photography, because I continued to make those little snapshots for number of years. As I said, they were references for paintings. I never thought of them as art or as serious photographs until later, when I met Walker Evans in New York and he asked to see some of little snapshots. But that didn't change way I looked at things or what I looked at. Then, when I moved to Washington, D.C. in 1968, Waiter Hopps [Director of Corcoran Gallery, 1967-72] encouraged me to begin exhibiting little snapshots. Photography for me is wonderful means of expression, but it is not only thing that I try to do as an artist. It's just part of it, along with drawing and sculpture, and although this does not include painting since at least 1968, I don't doubt that someday I might like to try painting again. …

Can Men Detect Ovulation?

In contrast to our closest cousin, the chimpanzee, humans appear at first to lack cues of impending ovulation that would mark the fertile period in which a female can become pregnant. Consequently, that ovulation is “concealed” in women has long been the consensus among scientists studying human mating. A recent series of studies shows, however, that there are discernible cues of fertility in women’s social behaviors, body scents, voices, and, possibly, aspects of physical beauty. Some of these changes are subtle, but others are strikingly large (we report effect sizes ranging from small, d = 0.12 to large, d = 1.20). Moreover, emerging evidence suggests that women’s male partners may adaptively shift their behavior in response to cues of approaching ovulation. These results have far-reaching implications for understanding fluctuations in attraction, conflict, and relationship dynamics.

Designing core ontologies

One of the key factors that hinders integration of distributed, heterogeneous information systems is the lack of a formal basis for modeling the complex, structured knowledge that is to be exchanged. To alleviate this situation, we present an approach based on core ontologies. Core ontologies are characterized by a high degree of axiomatization and formal precision. This is achieved by basing on a foundational ontology. In addition, core ontologies should follow a pattern-oriented design approach. By this, they are modular and extensible. Core ontologies allow for reusing the structured knowledge they define as well as integrating existing domain knowledge. The structured knowledge of the core ontologies is clearly separated from the domain-specific knowledge. Such core ontologies allow for both formally conceptualize their particular fields and to be flexibly combined to cover the needs of concrete, complex application domains. Over the last years, we have developed three independent core ontologies for events and objects, multimedia annotations and personal information management. In this paper, we present the simultaneous use and integration of our core ontologies at the example of a complex, distributed socio-technical system of emergency response. We describe our design approach for core ontologies and discuss the lessons learned in designing them. Finally, we elaborate on the beauty aspects of our core ontologies.

FRONTLINE—Cross-Cultural Aspects of Beauty

The ever changing concept of beauty is elusive, surrounds us from birth and permeates our daily lives. This concept of beauty is affected by personal, interpersonal, cultural, and political issues. Arts and sciences have tried to define it to no avail as it continues to evolve. Human beings can recognize attractiveness in the other from an early age. Some favor culture as the reason behind this recognition believing that beauty and attractiveness in the other is a learned concept. Others favor an inborn capacity that allows human beings from very early to differentiate among what can be considered attractive versus unattractive in others’ faces (Etcoff, 2000). Even if we learn or are born to differentiate facial characteristics in others from an early age, an aspect that would facilitate attachment to the care taker, the meaning of such capacity for differentiation is still acquired in the context of interpersonal relationships. By the time human beings develop the capacity to determine their own concept of beauty and its influence on personality development, they have already been exposed to personal, interpersonal, political, and cultural concepts of beauty that can affect their sense of selfworth in a deep and at times immovable manner. It is this last aspect of beauty that we will explore in these papers. In the first of these articles, Ruth Lijtmaer introduces the concept of beauty by discussing it in the context of human aging, culture, and theories of beauty. Her concise review of pertinent literature frames the theoretical and clinical discussion of her patient’s personal struggle to try to resolve her inner conflicts through the beautification of her physical self with the help of plastic surgery. Maternal deprivation, competition with a “beautiful sibling,” and responsibility for the care of aging parents were among the dynamic issues that highlighted the treatment. Slow but steady exploration of such conflicted interpersonal relationships in the context of a sensitive therapeutic relationship allowed for

Is Beauty Skin Deep? The Impact of “Beautiful Attributes” on Life Opportunities and Interpersonal Relationships: A Tale of Two Sisters in South India1

The focus of this article is the impact of culturally perceived beauty and its attributes on identity formation and interpersonal relationships. In South India skin color is perhaps the most important aspect of beauty. Socialization starts from infancy, as people talk openly about a child's skin color and other "beautiful attributes" from the time of a child's birth. Women with the cultural designation of beautiful are more assertive than those women designated unattractive. Moreover, the increased self-confidence associated with their beauty allows them greater leeway to shape their lives according to their own desires. I will discuss culturally relevant "beautiful attributes" and the developmental impact on two sisters. The older sister was regarded as beautiful while her younger sister was considered less attractive. Cultural validation provides a theater for assertiveness while denigration enhances vulnerability to depression.

“Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder”? Aspects of beauty and attractiveness

SummaryDiscussing aesthetic issues and their management with patients is a growing area of dermatologic practice. Sometimes treatment options within one's own discipline are rapidly discussed, without a clear idea of the various aspects of the face which all combine to produce beauty and attractiveness. We review various features leading to the impression of beauty and attractiveness. Familiarity with these concepts should facilitate a broader discussion with the patient on the aspects of beauty and attractiveness beyond the borders of one's own discipline and also lead to multidisciplinary treatment options. We also examine the question how much the personality of the beholder himself is involved in the perception of attractiveness and beauty (of the person sitting opposite to him).The “ideal” face has an average profile with slightly protrusive and full lips. Attractiveness increases with average features and symmetry. Moreover, particular features such as the scheme of childlike characteristics combined with aspects of maturity and expression make a female face appear especially beautiful. Which attributes contribute to attractiveness of a man's face are controversial. Clear male signals such as a strong chin are likely not to increase attractiveness.

„Schönheit liegt im Auge des Betrachters”? Aspekte von Schönheit oder Attraktivität

Discussing aesthetic issues and their management with patients is a growing area of dermatologic practice. Sometimes treatment options within one's own discipline are rapidly discussed, without a clear idea of the various aspects of the face which all combine to produce beauty and attractiveness. We review various features leading to the impression of beauty and attractiveness. Familiarity with these concepts should facilitate a broader discussion with the patient on the aspects of beauty and attractiveness beyond the borders of one's own discipline and also lead to multidisciplinary treatment options. We also examine the question how much the personality of the beholder himself is involved in the perception of attractiveness and beauty (of the person sitting opposite to him). The "ideal" face has an average profile with slightly protrusive and full lips. Attractiveness increases with average features and symmetry. Moreover, particular features such as the scheme of childlike characteristics combined with aspects of maturity and expression make a female face appear especially beautiful. Which attributes contribute to attractiveness of a man's face are controversial. Clear male signals such as a strong chin are likely not to increase attractiveness.

‘When a ball dreams, it dreams it's a Frisbee’: the emergence of aesthetic appreciation within Ultimate Frisbee

The focus of this study examines the repeated references and celebration of more aesthetic elements in Ultimate Frisbee by both performers and spectators. This aspect was an emergent theme from a broader study and first became apparent when first considering how the landscape provided an aesthetic backdrop manifest in aspects such as location as well as music. An ethnographic approach was used and data was gathered through participant observation, the conducting of interviews and the examination of documentary evidence. An analytical outline proposed by Carlisle (1974) provided a clear structure within which expressive and evocative elements, intellectual beauty and dramatic aspects were identified and examined. It is posited that the raising of this ‘aesthetic attention’ within Ultimate allows people to reconnect with aesthetic aspects during a purposive sporting activity.

SIGEST

In recent years, almost everyone has heard about autonomous vehicles. The well-known DARPA grand challenges of the last two years concerned autonomous vehicles navigating challenging courses and terrain. The intent of developing this technology is that one day vehicles will be able to operate autonomously in a variety of dangerous situations, from military scenarios to disaster relief. How will these vehicles communicate and deploy to cover a space evenly, in an environment where they may only have local knowledge of other vehicles? This is an example of the problem that motivates this issue's SIGEST paper. The paper “Nonsmooth Coordination and Geometric Optimization via Distributed Dynamical Systems,” by Jorge Cortés and Francesco Bullo, first appeared in the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 44 (2005), pp. 1543–1574. In this seminal work, the authors design distributed (i.e., reliant on local knowledge) coordination algorithms for dynamic networks, and provide formal verification of the correctness of these algorithms. One of the important and challenging aspects of the problem they study is that they assume that the communication topology of the network may change as the system evolves, as opposed to remaining fixed. The paper considers two different scenarios for “even spacing” in the dynamic network, which are easy to describe informally if we continue to consider the example of vehicles in a convex polygonal region. The first is to cause each point in the region to be as close as possible to the nearest vehicle (akin in a static sense to positioning post offices in a town to minimize the longest distance of any home to the nearest post office); the second is to require each vehicle to be as distant as possible from all other vehicles, and the boundary of the region. In the case of just one vehicle, the first scenario corresponds to finding the center of the smallest circle entirely containing the polygon, whereas the second corresponds to finding the center of the largest circle fully contained within the polygon. It turns out that these disk-covering and sphere-packing concepts are related to the solutions in general. One of the fascinating and beautiful aspects of this paper is that it closely combines three rather distinct areas of applied mathematics: geometry and in particular Voronoi diagrams; dynamical systems where relationships can evolve and change; and optimization, specifically nonsmooth optimization, meaning that the objective functions are not continuously differentiable. Indeed, the authors show that dynamical system strategies based upon nonsmooth gradients have geometric interpretations related to Voronoi diagrams. The authors have modified an already very nicely written original paper to make it even more accessible to a general SIAM audience. We invite readers to enjoy this very important and illuminating view into the world of dynamical systems and optimization. Who knows, one day your car may incorporate technology stemming from this research!

A Study on the Aspects of Beauty in John Keats's Odes

A Study on the Aspects of Beauty in John Keats's Odes

Maintaining Microneurosurgical Ability via Staying Active in Microneurosurgery

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of staying inactive for well-trained microneurosurgical hand and to determine the critical time period in the decreasing of this special ability (microneurosurgery). For this purpose we planned a case-based and time-dependent study. This study was done on a microneurosurgeon who previously worked very actively in a department of neurosurgery (at least one operation in a day). He received a new appointment which included staying inactive in another department for a certain period of time, like a medical doctor. He did hand practice everyday and scored his ability in the aspect of total beauty and harmony of the work. The total performance of work was graded as bad, good and excellent. A bad grade was scored as 1 point, a good grade as 2 points, and an excellent grade as 3 points. The inactive time period was divided into three equal periods of 30 days. The total numerical values were calculated and a mean score was estimated for each 30-day period. The differences among the first, second, and third periods were enumerated based on the mean scores. The mean score in the first 30 days was estimated as 2.56+/-0.49, in the second 30 days as 2.16+/-0.37, and in the third 30 days 1.66+/-0.47. The differences between these values were statistically significant. The result of this study revealed that neurosurgeons may gradually lose their well trained microneurosurgical ability through staying inactive from daily practice. The maintenance of trained microneurosurgical ability should be preserved by staying active in neurosurgical operative practice.

CRUELTY IN THE (PSEUDO) AESTHETE: BROWNING’S ‘MY LAST DUCHESS’

Usually an aesthete has a love for and understanding of art and beauty, and his aesthetic perception helps to develop ethical values that govern his behaviour. It is assumed that an aesthete will not show any cruelty to the beautiful aspects of life. But a heinous murder is observed in the artistic realm of the Duke in ‘My Last Duchess’ by Robert Browning. The Duchess is killed in a very cruel manner by the Duke because of her apparently indifferent attitude towards him. The aim of this article is to explore the nature of the triumph of cruelty that makes the appeal of aesthetic values dim.

고등학생의 교복변형과 패션 액세서리 착용행동

There are many students who modify their uniforms and wear fashion accessories to pursue their individualities. The objectives of this research were to identify school uniform modification and fashion accessory wearing behavior of high school students. The results were as follows; 1. High school students considered that the uniform was desirable because the uniform showed identity best, but many students complained that the uniform was uncomfortable in activity. The most accessory used for the uniform was the cellular phone handle. 2. The uniform modification behavior was highly distinguishable at the coeducational school, the vocational school, and the art or physical school. They modified their uniform to pursuit slim and individuality. The uniform modification was for the beauty aspect more rather than practical aspect of uniform, and was proportional to the degree of the appearance, and in case of pants, the length and width of the pants showed increasing trend compared to the past. They considered accessory wearing as a compensational expression of the most of students who were not actively behaving on the uniform modification.

A Note on the Beauty and Beauty Art in Hindu Epic Literature

In this paper we inquire into the beauty and beauty art in Hindu epic literature, such as Mahabharata, Ramayana and so on. This is just a preliminary theoretical study on the theme and so the details of beauty art (makeup, ornaments, dress & etc.) which have been so far occasionally examined are not dealt with by us.We take beauty as luster of appearance and define beauty art as a technique for the increase and decrease of luster. We go on to examine the various aspects of beauty and beauty art, considering such various view-points as [1] beauty is alluring power, [2] the relation between appearance and inner qualities, [3] two types of beautification: by removal of stains and by equipment of shining elements, [4] bad nature of frail women. Especially view-point [1] is related to the religious relation between men and gods in India. In the same way, [2] corresponds to the duality of body and soul which is very important for understanding Indian culture.

Nail beauty

Nail beauty depends firstly upon nail health. It is a truism to say that a beautiful nail is always a healthy nail. In addition, there are subjective and evolving aspects of nail beauty which are related to fashion. The texture of the nail affects its appearance and function. Soft or brittle nails are fragile. This results in unattractive longitudinal and horizontal splitting. Fragility is encouraged by wet work and excessive nail manicuring, especially by the removal of nail cosmetics. Critical to the aesthetic appeal of the nail is its shape. Most pleasing are nails are those that conform to the 'magic' ratio, in which the nail's length is approximately equal to its breadth, especially for the thumbs. The role of nail decoration and nail art in nail beauty is a subjective and evolving question of fashion.

Psychosocial aspects of beauty: how and why to look good

It is difficult to pick up a paper or magazine today or turn on the television without being reminded that ours is a culture of youth and beauty. 1 Bookstore shelves sag under the weight of enticing tomes devoted to the subject. We are bombarded with advertisements for any one of thousands of different products, both prescription and over-the-counter, that claim to be able to restore our youthful appearance, banish wrinkles, tone skin, and remove cellulite, among other promises that often sound, and probably are, too good to be true. Health food stores and sales catalogs are replete with myriad products, so that one wonders how the average person, in face of such bombardment, can either resist the temptation to buy or make an informed selection from the veritable feast of goodies put before them. Billions of dollars are expended each year, and false claims abound, but fortunately, there are many preparations and procedures that, in skilled hands, can really make a difference.

Convective instability of 3-D fluid-saturated geological fault zones heated from below

We conduct a theoretical analysis to investigate the convective instability of 3-D fluid-saturated geological fault zones when they are heated uniformly from below. In particular, we have derived exact analytical solutions for the critical Rayleigh numbers of different convective flow structures. Using these critical Rayleigh numbers, three interesting convective flow structures have been identified in a geological fault zone system. It has been recognized that the critical Rayleigh numbers of the system have a minimum value only for the fault zone of infinite length, in which the corresponding convective flow structure is a 2-D slender-circle flow. However, if the length of the fault zone is finite, the convective flow in the system must be 3-D. Even if the length of the fault zone is infinite, since the minimum critical Rayleigh number for the 2-D slender-circle flow structure is so close to that for the 3-D convective flow structure, the system may have almost the same chance to pick up the 3-D convective flow structures. Also, because the convection modes are so close for the 3-D convective flow structures, the convective flow may evolve into the 3-D finger-like structures, especially for the case of the fault thickness to height ratio approaching zero. This understanding demonstrates the beautiful aspects of the present analytical solution for the convective instability of 3-D geological fault zones, because the present analytical solution is valid for any value of the ratio of the fault height to thickness. Using the present analytical solution, the conditions, under which different convective flow structures may take place, can be easily determined.