Aesthetic Attractiveness Research Articles

Combined Rhinoplasty and Genioplasty

Long-term follow-up reference for experienced clinicians dedicated to profileplasty. To evaluate the long-term results and complications of combined rhinoplasty and genioplasty. Retrospective study including objective and subjective evaluation before and after 3 years of undergoing simultaneous open rhinoplasty and genioplasty among a cohort of 90 patients. SETTING Academic medical center. A total of 90 cases of combined rhinoplasty and genioplasty performed from January 2002 through January 2004 were reviewed to evaluate the stability of the esthetic result. Long-term stability of the esthetic outcome of the simultaneous open rhinoplasty and genioplasty. Soft-tissue Pogonion projection to the true vertical line and mandibular height (mandibular incisor tip to menton) were recorded. As far as reduction genioplasty patients are concerned, 45.6% of the patient population had a 100% stability after 3 years (<0.25 mm resorption measured at the menton). On the other hand, if augmentation genioplasty patients are considered, 52.4% (22 patients with a vertical augmentation range from 4-6 mm; mean, 5.3 mm; and 25 patients with a sagittal augmentation from 6-8 mm; mean, 7.2 mm) had 100% stability after 3 years. The chin was stable with no more than 1 mm of recurrence. The results of the study indicate that the combined approach in correcting the facial profile is an effective procedure to achieve a more harmonic and consistent clinical outcome. The recurrence rate of less than 1 mm on the chin bone measurements is relevant to support this statement. An aesthetically proportionate face is strongly determined by the nasal-cervical relationship when observing the patient's profile. Even after a successful rhinoplasty, the patient's face can lack aesthetic attractiveness. Combined rhinoplasty-genioplasty is usually the best solution, particularly for patients with microgenia. It provides optimum patient satisfaction with a low incidence of recurrence. 4.

중국 백화점의 물리적 환경에 따른 소비자의 내적반응이 점포충성도에 미치는 영향

Abstract Outstanding service quality is a crucial factor to increase customer revisits, to increase customer revisits,to create new customers through positive word-of-mouth marketing and increase profits; in conjunction,the physical environment of department stores have a firsthand impact on customer purchasing behavior.This study examines the physical environment dimensions of department stores in China and the causal re-lationship with the physical environment, service environment, internal responses and store loyalty. Thesubjects in this study were male and female adults who finished the shopping the Lotte and WangfujingDepartment Store located in Beijing. All participants were over the age of 20 and a one-on-one survey wasconducted to gather data from October to November 2011. Data from 424 respondents were analyzed: inaddition, AMOS factor analysis and path analysis were used. The results were as follows. First, physicalenvironment factors consist of exterior aesthetic attraction, convenience, cleanliness and an interior aestheticattraction. Second, exterior aesthetic attraction, convenience and cleanliness affect the overall service envir-onment perception. Third, the service environment exercised an influence on internal responses, and internalresponses impacted store loyalty. Fourth, a comparative analysis was made over Korean and Chinese de-partment stores in China to check the research model. In Wangfujing Department Store, exterior aestheticattraction, cleanliness and convenience had a statistically significant impact on service environment percep-tions. In Lotte Department Store, the perception of service environment was under the statistically significantinfluence of all physical factors (exterior aesthetic attraction, interior aesthetic attraction, convenience andcleanliness). The findings of this study are helpful for Korean Department stores that plan to make inroadsinto China to formulate efficient service environment strategies tailored to local consumer characteristics.Key words: Physical environment, Perception of service environment, Internal response, Revisit intention,Word-of-mouth intention; 물리적 환경, 서비스 환경지각, 내적반응, 재방문의도, 구전의도

Photos vs silhouettes for evaluation of African American profile esthetics

Patient photos and silhouettes are commonly used in clinical evaluations and orthodontic research to evaluate profile esthetics. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the use of photos or silhouettes is a more appropriate method of evaluating African American profile esthetics and whether there are different profile esthetic preferences among clinicians when using photos compared with silhouettes. Pretreatment records of 20 adolescent African American patients were selected (10 male, 10 female) from the orthodontic clinic at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. Each patient's profile photo was digitally changed with imaging software (Dolphin Imaging and Management Solutions, Chatsworth, Calif) to fabricate a series of 7 photos and 7 silhouettes with lip positions at uniform distances relative to Ricketts' E-line standard. Fifteen raters consisting of orthodontic faculty and residents were asked to select the most esthetically pleasing profile from each patient's photo series and silhouette series. More rater preferences for the photographs (86%) were within the acceptable esthetic range (within 2 mm of the E-line in either direction) than were their preferences for silhouettes (66%) (P <0.001). Flatter profiles with less lip projection than the esthetic norm were more often preferred in the silhouettes than in the photos. Thirty-one percent of the silhouettes preferred by the raters were flatter than the norm compared with 9% of the photos (P = 0.003). Fuller profiles were preferred in only 3% of the silhouettes and 5% of the photos (P = 0.6). Esthetic attractiveness of faces of African American orthodontic patients is rated differently in photos and silhouettes. When evaluating soft-tissue esthetic profile preferences, rater preferences in the photographs were closer to the established esthetic norm than were their preferences in the silhouettes. Using silhouettes to evaluate patient esthetics could influence clinicians or researchers to select profiles that are flatter than the established esthetic norm.

The Authentic Place in the Amenity Migration Discourse

The amenity migration movement has garnered significant interest across the wider academic community. In recent works, the emphasis on the investigation into this phenomenon has centered on the aesthetic attractiveness, both culturally and environmentally, of regional locations. This article follows this theme and explores the role of place in the amenity migration discourse. Using a theoretical framework emerging from the cultural sociology of Smith, it is shown through various metanarratives that authenticity plays a major role in the promotion and protection of amenity migration places. Specifically, natural landscape, cultural heritage, and community are discussed as significant contributors to this aura of authenticity. Maintaining this, however, is somewhat problematic as the phenomenon continues to gather momentum.

Aesthetic Aspects of Walking and Cycling

For reasons of energy efficiency, health and the avoidance of climate change, it is desirable to encourage walking and cycling. However, step changes will be required to reverse years of decline in these transport modes. Recent thinking about how these might be achieved have concentrated on traditional transport policy measures, namely economic, engineering and information based instruments, while little emphasis has been put on the aesthetic dimension how the attractiveness of the built environment might be a significant factor in influencing walking and cycling. This paper argues that conceptualization of the aesthetic attractiveness of the street scene necessary to make walking and cycling pleasurable experiences is made difficult by the high degree of subjectivity involved and the likelihood that attitudes to the street scene may change in the future. In response to such problems, the paper suggests that there is a need for philosophical analysis of the issues involved. An introduction to such analysis is provided by a review of aesthetic thinking about landscapes and townscapes. This concentrates on research concerning the relevance of the forerunners of modern aesthetics, the eighteenth-century philosophers Hume and Kant, who attempted to tackle, on a generalized level, the types of problem raised here. As a result of this review, it is clear that there are no simple formulae or mechanisms by which aesthetic assessments can be applied off the shelf. Rather, the consideration of the historical philosophical arguments historically made about aesthetics can help provide a platform for generating insights on a case-by-case basis.

Pleasure as Unconstrained Movement in Renaissance Literary Aesthetics

In this essay I show that the pleasure provided by the poem as an imaginary landscape, as evidenced in rhetorical theory (Quintilian's analysis of varietas in Virgil's Georgics ), and in exemplary poems by Du Bellay ('Romae descriptio') and Ronsard ('Elegie a Louis Des Masures'), can be identified as that of unconstrained movement. Aristotle's definition of pleasure as unimpeded activity of our natural faculties in the Nicomachean Ethics captures the aesthetic attraction yielded by descriptive variety and links it to the ethical. Poussin's heroic landscape painting is an avatar of this neoclassical, humanist pleasure.

Firing Up Psyche: Myth, Motorcycles, and the Cultural Imagination

The motorcycle’s history as a cultural phenomenon uncovers many of the cultural values that a society promotes. Given the motorcyle's worldwide appeal, both for its efficiency and economy as well as for its speed and aesthetic attraction, its presence constellates qualities of a people’s mythology. Specifically, the Harley-Davidson motorcycle is a magnet and a metaphor for speed, power, aesthetics, freedom, speed, tribal belonging, sexuality, leather, art, economics, and pleasure. The motorcycle increasingly assumes status in world culture as an icon for wealth, economy, belonging, status, the unconventional, the outlaw, the outsider, and differences in gender status. As such, the motorcycle is globally symbolic, archetypal, and mythic.

Holding Aesthetics and Ideology in Tension

Studying imagery, irrespective of the kind, must focus equally upon its aesthetic attractiveness, its sensory lures, and its oftentimes dubious social ideology. The terms aesthetic and ideology are addressed as problematic and are defined in current, ordinary language terms: aesthetics as visual appearances and their effects and ideology as a style of thinking. Aesthetics, viewed as inherently ideological because it is a primary means by which ideology is inculcated, has become increasingly important to address in art education as the aestheticization of economics, politics, and everyday life has become increasingly pronounced. The Build-a-Bear Workshop® is offered as an example of aesthetic and ideology working together. Finally, a comparison is drawn between Schiller’s view of aesthetics as a means of social control and the current use of aesthetics to inculcate the late capitalist ideology of continual consumption and thus ensure socio-economic stability.

Suspended animation: movement and time in bossa nova

How do we explain the enduring aesthetic power and attraction of bossa nova, as a compositional and performative style, fifty years since its emergence in Brazil? By way of arguing for a greater articulation, in popular music studies, between aesthetic, musicological concerns and social meaning, this article takes up the concept of movement as a key principle, both of musical experience and social life. Bossa nova is characterized as integrating two conceptions of time and movement, and therefore two civilizational temporalities: the modal and the tonal systems. At the heart of its appeal, it is argued, is bossa nova’s ability to hold these two systems in a balanced state of permanent, dynamic tension, or ‘suspended animation’. As such, more than a simple endorsement of Brazil’s optimistic postwar developmentalist rhetoric, bossa nova was, and remains, instead, a simultaneously utopian and critical response to the experience of modernity in that country since the second half of the twentieth century.

The City of London, Real and Unreal

2004, actually, and Lord Mayor standing in shadow of St. Paul's, throngs of Londoners in front of him and behind him looming that leaden-headed old obstruction, Temple Bar. The Lord Mayor speaks, people applaud, and large wooden doors open, uniting crowds on either side of gateway, who mingle with each other, with aldermen, and with reporters, all celebrating return of Christopher Wren's Portland stone arch to City of London. It is capstone on City's major commercial development project, revamped Paternoster Square. Temple Bar no longer bars anything; it serves simply as an aesthetic attraction for nearby office workers and as a pleasing passageway through which shoppers can visit Marks & Spencer Simply Food, Vidal Sassoon, Boots, or Starbucks. There is no fog anywhere. To scholars of Victorian Britain, Temple Bar is instantly recognizable; images of it abounded in nineteenth century, and, as Lynda Nead has shown, it was not merely a symbol of London but the pivot around which London moved (203). With its central carriage gate and flanking pedestrian posterns, and its statues of early Stuarts, Temple Bar stood as boundary between Westminster and quasi-independent City of London: monarchs customarily waited at its gates to be met by Lord Mayor before entering City. By

On the Promise of a Sociological Aesthetics: From Georg Simmel to Michel Maffesoli

This article outlines the contribution of a sociological aesthetics to explaining social life. The central argument is that aesthetic phenomena are neither incidental nor epiphenomenal to social structure; rather the social bond itself possesses an aesthetic dimension. The two central thinkers discussed are Georg Simmel and Michel Maffesoli. The first pioneered a sociology grounded in aesthetics through the study of forms of sociation where, as social interaction becomes more fully autonomous, the aesthetic attraction of doing things together starts to dominate. The second emphasizes what social actors feel they have in common when they share tastes, customs or habits. He terms this an ‘ethics of aesthetics’ and asks whether it is becoming the dominant form of collective bonding. Synthesizing these insights, the article concludes by advocating that the full potential of a sociological aesthetics is realized only when: (i)careful attention is paid to the specific character of aesthetic forms of integration; (2) aesthetic and non-aesthetic forms of sociation are clearly differentiated; and (3) socio-aesthetic analysis avoids vague ‘culturalogical’ generalizations.

Contemporary musical historiography and the problems of the methodological approach

The first foreign review of the general history of music translated to Serbian language was Karl Nef's Einf?hrung in die Musikgeschichte. It was published in Belgrade, in 1937. During the '70s and '80s of the 20th century, there were translated popularly conceived histories of music of Luciano Alberti and Nobert Difourc. In 2002/2004 the Belgrade publisher "Clio" issued the second and third volume of Gerald Abraham's Concise Oxford History of Music. It was estimated that the long pause, as well as the choice of the prominent British author, present strong reasons for detailed critical study approach to the latest edition. The character of the study is threefold and interdisciplinary: musicological, philological and bibliographical. The first part of the study is the analysis of the writer's methodological procedure that can be discussed. Namely, next to the significant virtues in expert and style such as conciseness in statements original observations and evaluations, and literate, aesthetic attractiveness, Abraham's book also contains contradictory of methodological character. The writer is not completely consistent in conducting of the chosen methodological procedure. On one side, he does not describe the history of European music with period terms such as baroque, classicism impressionism or expressionism. On the other side, he nevertheless uses period terms in some way, but only in relation to the music of the 19th century. The only style that The Concise Oxford History of Music elaborates is Romanticism. Such inconsistent ness cannot be justified even more from the aspect of potential student readers of this reference book. The second part of disquisition contains analysis and evaluation of the Serbian translation of Abraham's History. That philological section of the work discusses mistakes in translation, controversial examples of transcription and adaptation of foreign names, grammatical, lexical and punctuation omissions. Also, examples show almost complete absence of necessary musicological and literary comments and processing of the original text in Serbian translation.

Management Fashion as Image-Spectacle

Drawing on the work of Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle and Daniel Boorstin’sThe Image, this article argues that aesthetic and management fashions are not separate forms, as both represent the preeminence of the image spectacle. Central to this is the increasing emergence of pseudoevents and synthetic products. Using empirical findings from a study of the production of six best-selling management books, it shows that they are manufactured coproductions that result from an intricate editorial process in which the original ideas are moulded in order for them to have a positive impact on the intended audience. Central to this is a set of conventions that stress the vivification of ideas. The editorial process thus seeks to enhance the aesthetic attractiveness of the ideas. The implications of the conceptual approach and empirical findings are considered with respect to current understandings of management fashion.

Prospects for exterior wood coatings research

Wood coatings research has a long documented history spanning most of the last century. Is there anything left to discover? Current research, and other investigative activities, suggest the answer be yes! But how does the research translate into user benefits? In many cases the benefit is an environmental one. The challenge is to show that new more benign coatings can match and possibly exceed the performance of established benchmarks. However this does not mean that all problems are solved, and the continued decline of the replacement window market is a salutary reminder of this. It is tortunate that the aesthetic attraction of wood has continued to generate consumer interest. Growth in flooring and decking provide good examples. For new wood coatings to be successful in this new century they must deliver benefits across the whole supply chain, otherwise despite the attractiveness of wood as a material the market will decline. Consideration is given as to how research might translate to supply chain benefits, with particular reference to exterior wood coatings for buildings.

Sex, Literature and Censorship

Acknowledgements. Preface. Part I: Desire and Theory. Chapter 1: a Too Hot For Yalea ? The Challenge of Queer Theory. Chapter 2: The New Bisexuality. Chapter 3: Wishful Theory. Chapter 4: Sexual Disgust . Part II: Dangerous Knowledge. Chapter 5: Daemonic Desires. Chapter 6: Dangers Within. Part III: Desire and Art. Chapter 7: Those Who Love Art the Most Also Censor it the Most. Chapter 8: Critical Wars and Academic Censors. Chapter 9: Shakespeare at the Limits of Political Criticism. Chapter 10: The Aesthetic Attraction of Fascism. Chapter 11: Desire: Art Against Philosophy?. Conclusion. Notes. Bibliography. Name Index. Subject Index

THE USE OF FRACTALS FOR THE STUDY OF THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERCEPTION: PSYCHOPHYSICS AND PERSONALITY FACTORS, A BRIEF REPORT

The present article deals with perception of time (subjective assessment of temporal intervals), complexity and aesthetic attractiveness of visual objects. The experimental research for construction of functional relations between objective parameters of fractals' complexity (fractal dimension and Lyapunov exponent) and subjective perception of their complexity was conducted. As stimulus material we used the program based on Sprott's algorithms for the generation of fractals and the calculation of their mathematical characteristics. For the research 20 fractals were selected which had different fractal dimensions that varied from 0.52 to 2.36, and the Lyapunov exponent from 0.01 to 0.22. We conducted two experiments: (1) A total of 20 fractals were shown to 93 participants. The fractals were displayed on the screen of a computer for randomly chosen time intervals ranging from 5 to 20 s. For each fractal displayed, the participant responded with a rating of the complexity and attractiveness of the fractal using ten-point scale with an estimate of the duration of the presentation of the stimulus. Each participant also answered the questions of some personality tests (Cattell and others). The main purpose of this experiment was the analysis of the correlation between personal characteristics and subjective perception of complexity, attractiveness, and duration of fractal's presentation. (2) The same 20 fractals were shown to 47 participants as they were forming on the screen of the computer for a fixed interval. Participants also estimated subjective complexity and attractiveness of fractals. The hypothesis on the applicability of the Weber–Fechner law for the perception of time, complexity and subjective attractiveness was confirmed for measures of dynamical properties of fractal images.

Mapping the Aesthetic Aspects of Natural Complexes in the Western Lake Baykal Region

Results are presented of the study and mapping of the aesthetic characteristics of natural features (primarily vegetation) of a tract of land on the western shores of Lake Baykal. The purpose was to conduct an inventory and assign value to various natural natural vegetation formations/ecological zones based on their aesthetic qualities and attractiveness in terms of recreational potential. Considerable attention is devoted to a description of how various categories of aesthetic characteristics were defined and values assigned to them. Translated by Edward Torrey, Alexandria, Virginia, from: Geografiya i prirodnyye resursy, 2001, No. 3, pp. 29-33.

Insecticidal activity of Dennettia tripetaia Baker f. and Piper guineense Schum. and Thonn. against Dermestes maculatus Degeer (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) and Necrobia rufipes Degeer (Coleoptera: Cleridae) on dried fish

Various stages of Dermestes maculatus Degeer and Necrobia rujipes Degeer were placed in Kilner jars containing dried catfish Clarias sp. treated separately with 0.25, 0.5, 0.75 and 1.0g of Dennettia tripetala Baker f. and Piper guineense Schum. and Thonn. seed powders’ / 25g of fish. D. tripetala and P. guineense seed powders significantly (P&lt;0.05) inhibited oviposition and achieved 100% adult mortality of the test insects in 7 days. In treated fish, larvae did not develop beyond second instar and 100% of larvae died by day 30 with D. tripetala powder being more insecticidally active. Minimal frass was produced in fish treated with both plant powders at 0.25g powder 125g of fish. In experiments under simulated storage conditions, essential oil extracts of D. tripetala and P. guineense treated at 0.1, 0.2 and 0.3ml / 25g of fish significantly (P &lt; 0;05) inhibited oviposition and achieved 100% adult mortality of both D. maculatus and N. rufipes in 7days, and there-was no progeny development by day 30. In treated fish, all the larvae died after 7 days, as compared to\fish treated with 0.1 and 0.2ml groundnut oil / 25g and the untreated control. The aesthetic attractiveness of the fish was high. There are prospects for use of D. tripetala and P. guineense powder and essential oil extracts in the protection of dried fish in storage in Nigeria.

Meta-Patterns and Higher Order Meta-Patterns in Cellular Systems

A new method for function approximation and classification in cellular systems is developed. The solution of a function approximation or a classification problem does not correspond to a connection matrix, but to a pattern in a cellular automaton. The pattern is obtained by a procedure of chaotic growth. It acts as a map between input- and ouput-patterns, and in this sense it is a meta-pattern. It is shown that problems with symmetry are typically solved by fractal patterns with aesthetic attractiveness. Also meta-meta-patterns are introduced, which are patterns that solve sets of problems instead of a single problem. Such patterns specify sets of sets of couples of input- and ouput-patterns. This schema is generalized straightforwardly for higher order meta-patterns.

Trends in beach utilisation on the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, during and after Apartheid

This study examined patterns of recreational beach usage around the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, and how these have changed between the Apartheid and post-Apartheid eras. Two survey methods were employed, namely counts of users and questionnaires. Counts of the numbers of people engaged in different activities were performed on each of 11 beaches on 87 days between May 1995 and May 1996. During this period, 660 beach users were also questioned at 17 beaches. For both sampling methods, the date and weather conditions were noted, as well as the age, gender and racial group of those counted or questioned. Further information gained from the questionnaire surveys included group structure, travel mode and distance, frequency and duration of beach visits, primary attractions of that particular beach and attitudes regarding facilities at that beach. Beach usage has increased proportionally with the rising population of Cape Town over the past decade. Some integration of racial groups was evident, although this process has been slow, with White people being over-represented and Black and Coloured people being under-represented in relation to the general population. The primary objective of beach visitors was relaxation, with 56% of users being engaged in passive activities. Beach usage was highly seasonal, with peak attendances in summer. Environmental or aesthetic attractiveness were the major reasons given for going to the beach, and 84% of people were satisfied with beach conditions and facilities. The primary concern of beachgoers was the inadequacy of toilet facilities, both in terms of their provision and maintenance. More than 90% of those questioned were in favour of marine reserves, although there was a high level of ignorance concerning the location of existing reserves.