Human Beauty Research Articles

The Language Art and Tragic Beauty of Shen Congwen’s Border Town

As Shen Congwen’s representative work, Border Town was published in the 1930s. This work has a beautiful writing style, showcases unique local customs and ideal human beauty, and occupies a unique position in the history of Chinese literature. After nearly a century, it still receives high attention from the academic community and support from readers. Its literary value can withstand the test of time. The work Border Town has rich exploratory value. This article mainly analyzes the literary value of Border Town from two aspects. On the one hand, the language art of Border Town, which is the concentrated embodiment of the author Shen Congwen’s talent and the key to touching people’s hearts in this work. This article will deeply analyze how the work constructs poetic words that touch people’s hearts from the shaping of the environment and the psychological details of the characters. On the other hand, the tragic beauty of Border Town is reflected in the tragic love story between Cuicui and Nuosong, the tragic life story of her grandfather, and the tragedy of the author’s creation not being accepted by the times. This article will explore how the work creates a lingering and tragic atmosphere from these perspectives. The research ultimately proves that Border Town is a work that transcends the times and has research and aesthetic value, worthy of repeated reading and exploration.

β-Cyclodextrin as an elicitor of polyphenolic contents of barley (Hurdeum vulgare) callus with antioxidant and anti-aging properties on human skin fibroblast cells (HFF2)

The skin, as the largest organ of body, plays a crucial role in human beauty, yet is vulnerable to aging due to ultraviolet radiation (UV) exposure. Various methods, including intradermal injection, surgery, laser therapy, stem cell applications, and cosmetic treatments, are employed to combat skin aging. Phytochemicals, known for their antioxidant properties, are extensively studied for skincare. Barley (Hurdeum vulgare) contains diverse phenolic compounds, exhibiting strong antioxidant activity, potentially reducing cellular aging. Here, we examined the anti-aging properties of barley callus extract enriched with polyphenols in human skin fibroblast cells (HFF2) exposed to UVB radiation. β-cyclodextrin was used as an elicitor at concentrations of 2.5 and 5 ppm to enhance the production of polyphenolic compounds in the callus of black and yellow barley. A concentration of 5 ppm significantly increased the phenolic and flavonoid content in both black and yellow barley callus. Analysis of the extracts obtained from the callus showed that aqueous and ethanolic extracts of black barley callus, at a concentration of 0.1 μg/mL, enhanced cell viability and decreased matrix metalloproteinase-1 (MMP-1) levels while increasing sirtuin (SIRT1) production in UVB-exposed HFF2 cells. These extracts also exhibited high antioxidant effects and promoted cell migration, DNA integrity, and cell cycle advancement. The findings suggest the potential use of black barley callus extract in cosmetics to mitigate UV radiation effects and premature skin aging. Additionally, β-cyclodextrin is highlighted as a valuable elicitor for enhancing polyphenol content, contributing to the antioxidant and anti-aging properties of black barley callus for skincare applications.

An Ayurvedic Management of Khalitya –A Single Case Study

Introduction:Hair is a crucial aspect of human beauty, self-esteem, style, confidence, and well-being. Hair loss, caused by factors like lifestyle changes, hormonal imbalance, poor diet, sleep problems, stress, and genetics, is increasingly common. Ayurveda refers to hair loss as Khalitya, categorizing it under Kshudra Roga or Shiroroga.Aim:To study the effect of external use of Amlaki-Amrasthi lepa, internal use of Amalaki-Amrasthi kashay, and Avipattikar churna in the case of Khalitya. Case Study: This case study focuses on a 25-year-old woman who visited the OPD at Agadtanta of Dr. D. Y. Patil College and Hospital in Pimpri, Pune. She reported experiencing excessive hair loss and occasional scalp itching, along with mild dandruff.She was treated with Amlaki-Amrasthi lepa as an external application on scalp region, with internal use of Amlaki-Amrasthi kashay and Avipattikar churna for 30 days.Discussion: This case study focuses on the management of Khalitya.The role of Amalaki-Amrasthi lepa, Amalaki-Amrasthi kashay and Avipattikar churna in the management of Khalitya was determined by this case study. The therapeutic approaches markedly reduced the signs and symptoms of Khalitya.Conclusion: A comprehensive analysis and discussion of the treatment of Khalitya utilizing Ayurvedic methodologies is provided in this case study. Amlaki-amaranthi lepa, Amlaki-amrasthi kashay, and Avipattikar churna were found safe and effective in managing hair loss and improving hair health without side effects. Unlike costly modern treatments like hair implants and PUVA, Ayurvedic options are affordable and accessible. This case study aims to encourage further research and develop a cost-effective Ayurvedic treatment for Khalitya.

Engineering Human Beauty with More Caution

ABSTRACT Ravasio (2023) recently presents an interesting discussion of strategies to deal with lookism. He categorizes strategies into revisionary and redistributive ones and argues for a case against the former. This note is a critical response to both the taxonomy and the evaluation. I argue that the taxonomy needs to be improved and that the case against revisionary strategies cannot be maintained.

The effect of implicit theories of human beauty and perceived pressure on cosmetic consumption.

The effect of implicit theories of human beauty and perceived pressure on cosmetic consumption.

Faithful Marriage - The Human Beauty of the Ede People in Buon Ma Thuot, Dak Lak Province, Vietnam

The Ede people are one of the long-standing ethnic groups in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. Their unique cultural heritage is reflected in various architectural works, festivals, religious rituals, customs, and traditions. This article analyzes marital fidelity, a human and cultural value that continues to be present in the cultural life of the Ede people in Buon Ma Thuot, Dak Lak Province, Vietnam.

The Emergence and Application of Violin Virtuosity During the Romantic Period

Musicians used virtuosity to showcase the pinnacle of human mastery over musical instruments, and the violin, known as the king of instruments, excels in terms of its range, tone, and flexibility. The combination of the violin and virtuosity allows for an infinite range of possibilities in musical expression. The virtuoso style emerged during the Romantic period, an era that celebrated the beauty of humanity and freedom, and it propelled violin artistry to unprecedented heights. This phenomenon was not a coincidence but the result of the interplay of musical style inheritance, advances in violin-making techniques, social change, and commercial development. The historical context imbued violin virtuosity with unique significance, determining the characteristics of virtuoso musical genres, composition styles, and performance contexts. This holds a special place in the history of Western music and violin development, profoundly influencing the philosophy of violin music performance. However, the ultimate goal of virtuosity is not just to perform fast and seamless notes flawlessly but to use technique as a means to showcase a unique style and evoke musical emotions. Violin students, when practicing and performing virtuosic music, should possess a certain understanding of virtuosity as an art form and endeavor to uncover the musical depth behind the technical prowess.

The Beauty and Poverty of Humanity in Shen Congwen's Writing on the World of Xiangxi

Shen Congwen's articles have always been described as the beauty of human feelings in the western Hunan world, away from the humble human nature of the city, and return to the beauty of human nature itself. But is Shen Congwen's writing, especially on the human nature in the world of western Hunan, so one-sided and simple that he loses the true nature of human nature and becomes a lack of human nature?

Human Beauty according to Artificial Intelligence.

This work explores the upcoming era of artificial intelligence (AI), its potential impact on societal norms and aesthetics, and the biases inherent in AI systems. With the ability to generate realistic human-like art and language, AI entities like DALL·E or Midjourney have significant cultural and economic implications, particularly in creative sectors. However, our study highlights potential biases in AI, demonstrated through a text-to-image model called Craiyon, which was found to generate oversized and sexually suggestive images of breasts when prompted with certain phrases. These results underline the influence of societal norms on AI and the risk of perpetuating harmful stereotypes or unrealistic beauty standards. We emphasize the need for vigilance in monitoring AI's learning processes and potential biases, particularly as AI starts playing a crucial role in shaping societal perceptions of beauty and self. More inclusive and diverse AI models are needed to better represent the complexity of human beauty and to avoid biases.

Women’s Ornaments in the Poetry of Khawaja Farid and their Analytical Review

Throughout intellectual history, mystics, philosophers, poets, and aestheticians have engaged in discussions about the concept of beauty. The character of beauty is also considered a divine attribute reflecting God’s love for beauty. Consequently, everything created by Allah is beautiful. Human beauty is unparalleled in terms of the appropriateness and attractiveness of his stature, shape and appearance. Allah’s blessing is that the almighty created man’s best creations and created his structure in good manners. Khawaja Farid, a Sufi poet, also shed light on the concept through his poetry, particularly in glorifying female obsession with ornaments. Khawaja Farid belongs to the pantheistic (Wahdat Al-Wajood) spiritual school of thought. Those affiliated with this spiritual school of thought loved every creature of this universe. As a result, they love the creator and have more spiritual intimacy with God. In this article, I aim to answer several questions regarding this theme, including the types of ornaments used, their purpose, the feelings they keep, and their symbolic meaning. Khawaja Farid’s poetry indicates that all ornaments, colours, and forms are used to enhance the beauty of the female form for the beloved. These ornaments are worn on various body parts, such as fingers, wrists, elbows, nose, ears, neck, head, and feet, to gain the romantic approval of the beloved. Female characters in his poetry not only adorn themselves but also try to acquire famous and expensive clothes and ornaments from different places and cultures to increase their attractiveness. These ornaments’ purpose is aesthetic and symbolic, representing the lover’s desire to draw the beloved’s attention and keep their love alive. The feeling of wearing these ornaments arises from the belief that they will enhance the wearer’s beauty and make them more attractive. However, the critical study also finds these ornaments uncomfortable and impractical. Although these beautiful ornaments make life complicated and unbearable, they still practise those traditions to impress the beloved. In overview, the article excavates into the aesthetics of Khawaja Farid’s poetry and the role of ornaments in enhancing the female form’s beauty. The embellishments are worn to gain the beloved’s romantic appreciation and represent the lover’s desire to keep their love active. Although these ornaments are uncomfortable, they are essential for aesthetic and symbolic value. The article provides insight into the romantic aspects of ornamentation in poetry and the hidden sense behind these adornments.

Role of Herbal Drugs in Treatment of Dermatologic Disorders: A Review

Herbal cosmetics contain phytochemicals derived from various botanical sources to address nutrient deficiencies and improve human appearance. Natural beauty is God's gift; cosmetics help sustain and enhance human beauty and personality. Recently, herbal cosmetics have gained popularity due to their inherent suitability and usefulness and fewer adverse effects than synthetic products. In this article, we highlighted the advantages, types of herbal cosmetics, toxic effects, chemicals and adverse effects of synthetic cosmetics and herbs used for dermal care. Then, we surveyed to investigate the pattern of cosmetic usage in the daily lives of people, their awareness and practices regarding caution with cosmetic use, and common side effects associated with people during cosmetic usage.

Science and Art in The Creation of Adam

The Renaissance was an intellectual and cultural movement that took place in Europe from the mid-14th century to the 16th century, and profoundly influenced European intellectual life in the early modern period. Beginning in Italy and spreading to the rest of Europe in the 16th century, its influence is reflected in art, architecture, philosophy, literature, music, anatomy, etc. The Creation of Adam is one of the important works of this period. Michelangelo's rigorous judgment of the body on the basis of anatomy, coupled with the use of clairvoyance skills, paints a unique human beauty with a sense of power. Renaissance scholars adopted a humanistic approach in their studies and looked for realism and human emotions in art. Based on The Creation of Adam, this article provides a case study and literature analysis of the connection between art and science, especially the embodiment of anatomy in The Creation of Adam. This article offers contemporary historians and artists some thoughts on the visual language of science, including how to understand science as a craft or even as an art, understand which works are both scientific and artistic, and how to develop a new visual language for science.

“Beauty of the Person” According to Karol Wojtyła (Ontology and Experience)

This paper outlines the essential core of Karol Wojtyła’s thought on beauty. By introducing the central category of “beauty of the person”, Wojtyła essentially integrated and ordered therewith all the other meanings of the term. Whatever is beautiful in an adequate sense is also morally good. As far as human beauty is concerned, Wojtyła pointed out that it is differentiated by gender, i.e. female beauty and male beauty, and by “layers,” i.e. external beauty (aesthetic, sensual and bodily beauty) and, more importantly, internal beauty, which constitutes the beauty of a person as a person. Outer beauty allows a person to be noticed, to be discovered, but in love one cannot stop at outer beauty (the temptation to treat the body as a possible object of use). For love is love of the whole person, not only of his or her beautiful body and sexual attractiveness. A specific issue is the analysis of the creation of beautiful things, which at the same time are imprinted in the interior of man and – as long as man does not give in to the egoistic “temptation of self-emptying” – bear witness to his “immortality.”

IMPACTOS DA GINÁSTICA AERÓBICA EM SEUS PRATICANTES

ABSTRACT Introduction: Aerobics refers to exercise that integrates dance, gymnastics, and technical movements with a hectic pace and high demand for aerobic energy. The practice of this sport can improve cardiopulmonary function and prevent cardiovascular diseases, besides eliminating excess fat and improving body shape. Objective: Analyze the body changes caused by aerobic gymnastics in its practitioners. Methods: This article analyzes relevant scientific articles to raise a protocol of exercises performed by the experimental test method. The results of the relevant variables went through mathematical statistics, analysis, and confrontation of the research results. Results: The comparison of various indicators before and after the intervention showed that the normal range of body composition for women was 0.75 to 0.80; the test results showed that the waist-to-hip ratio of the volunteers decreased from 0.89 to 0.77. Conclusion: The aerobic gymnastics protocol performed positively impacted the body composition of its practitioners. In the psychological domain, it also contributed to a correct understanding of the body’s physical aesthetics, promoting the achievement of high-level human beauty in its practitioners. Level of evidence II; Therapeutic studies - investigation of treatment outcomes.

The Narrative Space: John Hejduk’s Angelic Architecture

Pragmatist modern architecture tends to dissociate mind and body and has been unable to dialogue with the human soul, but architectural educator John Hejduk challenged such an understanding of buildings as autonomous objects and strove for the soul of architecture, which had a direct connection to good humanity. This paper analyzes how Hejduk explored the design concept of “narrative space” to reflect on the predicament of meaninglessness in the built environment, implementing it through design to re-bridge human perceptual and emotional connection to the lost spiritual and cosmic world. The analysis focuses on his poems, experimental drawings, and the symbolism of angels to interpret the hermeneutic depth of historical meaning in his architecture and to define humanity as a poetical dwelling between heaven and earth. The paper discloses how Hejduk used the dialogue between poetical narrative and architectural geometrical form, the symbol of angels as divine messengers, the act of sketching as narrative composition, and the legacy of his architectural pedagogy to reinvent architecture as a more thoughtful design process toward the beauty of humanity. This paper demonstrates that Hejduk’s architectural approach generated a poetical resistance against Cartesian principles of modern architecture and established an expressive and critical design language, interweaving the multiple theoretical threads of memory, history, trauma, and poetical emotion into the production of marvelous space that can tell stories and inspire our passion for spiritual architecture.

The expanding beauty regime: Or, why it has become so important to look good

In contemporary societies, physical appearance is more important to more people than ever before. This article sketches the expansion of this contemporary beauty regime. Drawing mainly on European data, I argue that since the late 1800s the societal importance of appearance grew, as a result of expanding media and consumer cultures, social democratization, a shift to a service-based economy and the rise of new media. People came to have more developed and diverse tastes in human beauty and more opportunities to cultivate their appearance. It became more important to be beautiful, for men and women, across the course of life, in more domains of life. Drawing on the tradition of process sociology inspired by Weber and Elias, I interpret this gradual raising of cultural standards as the emergence of a beauty regime involving new standards for social control and self-control, standards for moral and aesthetic evaluation and standards for social worth and self-worth. The beauty regime is demanding and constraining for individuals but contributes to the emergence of durable social constellations that people might consider progress. The beauty regime makes appearance more central to many domains of life, and thus more consequential for identities and inequalities, self-worth and social worth.

Belleza y elección de pareja: Lo que la biología evolutiva nos enseña

We tend to regard beauty as the product of our education, the quintessence of cultural refinement, and we often emphasise the relative nature of beauty. That is why many find it shocking that the perception of beauty, especially human beauty, has a clear biological explanation, one that is largely independent from our education and culture. People are surprised because not only do the characteristics that define beauty originate in biology, but they are also universal and common to all members of our species.

Potential Cosmetic Active Ingredients Derived from Marine By-Products.

The market demand for marine-based cosmetics has shown a tremendous growth rate in the last decade. Marine resources represent a promising source of novel bioactive compounds for new cosmetic ingredient development. However, concern about sustainability also becomes an issue that should be considered in developing cosmetic ingredients. The fisheries industry (e.g., fishing, farming, and processing) generates large amounts of leftovers containing valuable substances, which are potent sources of cosmeceutical ingredients. Several bioactive substances could be extracted from the marine by-product that can be utilized as a potent ingredient to develop cosmetics products. Those bioactive substances (e.g., collagen from fish waste and chitin from crustacean waste) could be utilized as anti-photoaging, anti-wrinkle, skin barrier, and hair care products. From this perspective, this review aims to approach the potential active ingredients derived from marine by-products for cosmetics and discuss the possible activity of those active ingredients in promoting human beauty. In addition, this review also covers the prospect and challenge of using marine by-products toward the emerging concept of sustainable blue cosmetics.

Eyebrows, Chintz and a Smile: Some Features of the Author’s Interpretation of the Concept BEAUTY in the Poetry of Pavel Vasiliev

Purpose. The article examines the features of the representation of the concept BEAUTY in the poetry of Pavel Vasiliev. In his work, there is a transcultural symbiosis of Russian and Kazakh aesthetic canons of beauty.Results. Typically Kazakh features of a person's appearance look aesthetically attractive for the poet. He considers eyebrows to be an important part of a human beauty. A peculiar artistic interpretation of this detail of appearance is manifested in the epithets, in a dynamic metaphorical model [EYEBROWS → are BIRDS]. A relevant sign of beauty is the harmony – the proportionality of a person’s figure. The peculiarities of understanding the beauty of a woman in clude close attention to such details of clothes and shoes as a skirt, a shawl and heels. The skirt in the process of metonymization replaces the woman [SKIRT instead of A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN]. Semiotically relevant is the characteristic of clothing made by the fabric – chintz, silk. In the semiosis of fabric as a sign of class affiliation and financial situation, such mechanism of analogy as the metonymy is involved. Developing and supplementing the ideas of oppositeness of external and internal beauty of a person and the localization of the internal beauty in his eyes, Pavel Vasiliev defines the locus of a spiritual beauty in a smile, in the corners of a woman's lips.Conclusion. The concept of BEAUTY in Vasiliev’s poetry has the individual and author's artistic and aesthetic features, and preserves the folk aesthetic ideal of beauty at its core.

Discover the Beauty of Huangmei Cross-stitch

In Huangmei, Huangmei cross-stitch, Huangmei opera and Zen Buddhism are called "The three most precious treasures of Huangmei". As an important part of the intangible cultural heritage of Jingchu, Huangmei cross-stitch is defined as a traditional folk embroidery craft with a long history and strong decorative effect. The handicraft form of folk art is produced by the traditional natural economy of farming society. Throughout the development history of folk art in the traditional society, it not only truthfully reflects the living customs of the traditional society at that time, but also conveys to us the aesthetic taste and emotional pursuit of the traditional handicraftsman. Due to the influence of local and surrounding areas cultural arts and humanistic aesthetics for a long time, Huangmei cross-stitch has gradually been endowed with more profound significance under the background of the integration and infiltration of various cultures. Huangmei cross-stitch not only reflects the powerful creativity of human beings, but also shows the extraordinary wisdom of human beings. Through the classic cross-stitch works with the beauty of practicality, decoration and humanity, we can find that the colorful and far-reaching patterns and themes not only show the aesthetic taste of the workers, but also show their positive attitude and spiritual sustention for the pursuit of a better life.