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Fourie, René. "Applying GIS in the evaluation of landscape aesthetics /." Link to the online version, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1644.
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Kuzovkin, Dmitry. "Assessment of photos in albums based on aesthetics and context." Thesis, Rennes 1, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019REN1S032/document.
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Le processus de sélection de photos dans des albums peut être considérablement amélioré à l’aide d’un critère d’évaluation automatique des qualités d’une photo. Cependant, les méthodes existantes abordent ce problème de manière indépendante, c’est à dire en évaluant chaque image séparément des autres images d'un album. Dans cette thèse, nous explorons la modélisation du contexte d’une photo via une approche de clustering de collections de photos et la possibilité d'appliquer l’information de contexte à l'évaluation d’une photo. Nous avons effectué des études subjectives permettant d’étudier la manière dont les utilisateurs regroupent et sélectionnent des photos dans un album. Ces études ont permis une estimation du niveau de l’accord entre les différents utilisateurs. Nous avons aussi étudié la manière dont le contexte influence leurs décisions. Après avoir étudié la nature des décisions des utilisateurs, nous proposons une approche informatique pour modéliser leur comportement. Tout d'abord, nous introduisons une méthode de clustering hiérarchique, qui permet de regrouper des photos similaires selon une structure de similarité à plusieurs niveaux, basée sur des descripteurs visuels. Ensuite, les informations de contexte de la photo sont utilisées pour adapter le score de la photo pré-calculé indépendamment, en utilisant les données basées sur des statistiques et une approche d'apprentissage automatique. De plus, comme la majorité des méthodes récentes d'évaluation de la photo sont basées sur des réseaux de neurones convolutionnels, nous avons exploré et visualisé les caractéristiques esthétiques apprises par ces méthodesAn automatic photo assessment can significantly aid the process of photo selection within photo collections. However, existing computational methods approach this problem in an independent manner, by evaluating each image apart from other images in a photo album. In this thesis, we explore the modeling of photo context via a clustering approach for photo collections and the possibility of applying such context information in photo assessment. To better understand user actions within photo albums, we conduct experimental user studies, where we study how users cluster and select photos in photo collections. We estimate the level of agreement between users and investigate how the context, defined by similar photos in corresponding clusters, influences their decisions. After studying the nature of user decisions, we propose a computational approach to model user behavior. First, we introduce a hierarchical clustering method, which allows to group similar photos according to a multi-level similarity structure, based on visual descriptors. Then, the photo context information is extracted from the obtained cluster data and used to adapt a pre-computed independent photo score, using the statistics-based data and a machine learning approach. In addition, as the majority of recent methods for photo assessment are based on convolutional neural networks, we explore and visualize the aesthetic characteristics learned by such methods
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Chambe, Mathieu. "Improving image quality using high dynamic range and aesthetics assessment." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université de Rennes (2023-....), 2023. http://www.theses.fr/2023URENS015.
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Pour traiter la grande quantité de données visuelles disponible, il est important de concevoir des algorithmes qui peuvent trier, améliorer, compresser ou stocker des images et des vidéos. Dans cette thèse, nous proposons deux approches différentes pour améliorer la qualité d'images. Tout d'abord, nous proposons une étude des méthodes d'évaluation automatique de l'esthétique. Ces algorithmes sont basés sur des réseaux de neurones supervisés. Nous avons récolté des images de différents types, puis nous avons utilisé ces images pour tester des modèles. Notre étude montre que les caractéristiques nécessaires pour évaluer précisément les esthétiques de photographies professionnelles ou compétitives sont différentes, mais qu'elles peuvent être apprises par un seul et unique réseau. Enfin, nous proposons de travailler sur les images à grande gamme dynamique (High Dynamic Range, HDR en anglais). Nous présentons ici un nouvel opérateur pour augmenter la gamme dynamique d'images standards, appelé HDR-LFNet. Cet opérateur fusionne la sortie de plusieurs algorithmes pré-existants, ce qui permet d'avoir un réseau plus léger et plus rapide. Nous évaluons les performances de la méthode proposée grâce à des métriques objectives, ainsi qu'une évaluation subjective. Nous prouvons que notre méthode atteint des résultats similaires à l'état de l'art en utilisant moins de ressourcesTo cope with the increasing amount of visual content available, it is important to devise automatic processes that can sort, improve, compress or store images and videos. In this thesis, we propose two different approaches to software-based image improvement. First, we propose a study on existing aesthetics assessment algorithms. These algorithms are based on supervised neural networks. We have collected several datasets of images, and we have tested different models using these images. We report here the performances of such networks, as well as an idea to improve the already trained networks. Our study shows that the features needed to accurately predict the aesthetics of competitive and professional are different but can be learned simultaneously by a single network. In a second time, we propose to work with High Dynamic Range (HDR) images. We present here a new operator to increase the dynamic range of images called HDR-LFNet, that merges the output of existing operators and therefore, consists in far fewer parameters. Besides, we evaluate our method through objective metrics and a user study. We show that our method is on-par with the state-of-the-art according to objective metrics, but is preferred by observers during the user study, while using less resources overall
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Fourie, Rene. "Applying GIS in the evaluation of landscape aesthetics." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1813.
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Thesis (MA (Geography and Environmental Studies))--University of Stellenbosch, 2005.Scenic beauty, or landscape aesthetics, should be regarded as a valuable resource, to be protected and enhanced in order to generate income. Current environmental impact assessment (EIA) studies do not include the evaluation of scenic beauty as a resource properly, due to the lack of effective evaluation methods. A general dilemma lies in objectively evaluating beauty. If scenic preferences can be associated consistently with the physical landscape features, the latter can be used as predictors of the former. Analysis of aesthetics can therefore be done with a degree of objectivity, based on these general preferences. A large number of these preferences are morphologically measurable. In other words, these preferences can be mapped in a Geographical Information System (GIS), rated, and evaluated quantitatively. The first step in objectively evaluating landscape aesthetics entailed identification and compilation from the literature of conceptual components in a landscape, i.e. the units defining a landscape. Four components were identified: landform, vegetation, water features and man-made features. Each of the four components can be subdivided into several elements. Secondly, scenic preferences that can be consistently associated with landscape features were identified. It was found that any subjective experience of landscape aesthetics would be either one of calmness or one of excitement. The presence or absence of the landscape elements, and specific combinations of elements and element variables within the context of an individual landscape, will determine the type and extent of the aesthetic experience of the viewer. Finally, this theory was put into practice. Coverages were created of a test region, with landscape elements as the features of the coverages, and element variables or characteristics as feature attributes. These landscape elements, as they enhance either calmness or excitement, were quantified by assigning value ratings to the elements according to the extent of the influence of the elements on the aesthetic value of the landscape. ArcInfo GRID functionality was used to convert the coverages to raster (or grid) overlays, using the element variables enhancing both calmness and excitement. A simple cumulative summing function was used to derive an aggregate Calm Aesthetic Experience map by adding grids enhancing calmness. An aggregate Exciting Aesthetic Experience map was constructed by adding grids enhancing excitement. Finally, these two grids were summed in order to construct a Total Aesthetic Experience map, which is an indication of the total aesthetic value of the test region. The outcome of this research was a method for analysis and objective evaluation of a landscape, using a GIS for data creation, analysis and map construction. The resultant map is an indication of aesthetic value, showing the test region graded according to intrinsic aesthetic value.
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Lothian, Andrew. "Landscape quality assessment of South Australia." Title page, table of contents, abstract and detailed contents only, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/37804.
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The object of this thesis is to provide, through a thorough analysis of human perception and interaction with aesthetics and landscape quality, a comprehensive basis on which to develop a credible methodology for the large scale assessment of perceived landscape quality. The analysis of human perception and interaction with aesthetics and landscape quality is gained by inquiring in depth into a range of theoretical constructs from key disciplines, cultural aspects, and empirical studies covering : 1. the contribution of philosophers to aesthetics 2. the psychology of perception and colour 3. the contribution of Gestalt psychology to aesthetics 4. the psychoanalytical construct of human responses to aesthetics 5. the influence of culture on landscape preferences, tracing the changing perceptions of mountains, the portrayal of landscapes in art, and the design of parks and gardens 6. a review of over 200 surveys of landscape quality in the late 20th century, including typologies and theories of landscape quality Based on the analysis of these and the knowledge gained, an empirical study is formulated and conducted, comprising a study of landscape quality of South Australia, an area of nearly 1 million km - 1. This involves, firstly, the acquisition of data covering the delineation of landscape character regions for the State, photography of these landscapes, derivation of a set of representative slides, and rating of these by groups of participants. Secondly, these preference ratings are comprehensively analysed on the basis of the attributes of the scenes covering land form, land cover, land use, water bodies, naturalism, diversity and colour. Thirdly, the results are applied as follows: 1. a map of landscape quality of South Australia is derived 2. the results are used to predict the effect that changes in land use ( e.g. clearance of trees ) will have on landscape quality 3. the theoretical constructs of landscape quality are evaluated on the basis of the preference ratings 4. a protocol is detailed to guide the undertaking of large - scale landscape quality assessment. The thesis thus fulfils the objective of conducting a thorough analysis of human perception and interaction with, aesthetics and landscape quality, to provide a basis for developing a credible methodology for the large - scale assessment of perceived landscape quality.Thesis (Ph.D.)--School of Social Sciences, 2000.
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Baraheem, Samah Saeed. "Text to Image Synthesis via Mask Anchor Points and Aesthetic Assessment." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton158800567702413.
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Tan, Joseph Tsun Daw. "Hypothetical Etiology and Competitive Assessment of Terahertz Light Induced Rhytide Improvement." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1327511578.
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Kang, Chen. "Image Aesthetic Quality Assessment Based on Deep Neural Networks." Thesis, université Paris-Saclay, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020UPASG004.
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Avec le développement des dispositifs de capture et d'Internet, les gens accèdent à un nombre croissant d'images. L'évaluation de l'esthétique visuelle a des applications importantes dans plusieurs domaines, de la récupération d'image et de la recommandation à l'amélioration. L'évaluation de la qualité esthétique de l'image vise à déterminer la beauté d'une image pour les observateurs humains. De nombreux problèmes dans ce domaine ne sont pas bien étudiés, y compris la subjectivité de l'évaluation de la qualité esthétique, l'explication de l'esthétique et la collecte de données annotées par l'homme. La prédiction conventionnelle de la qualité esthétique des images vise à prédire le score moyen ou la classe esthétique d'une image. Cependant, la prédiction esthétique est intrinsèquement subjective, et des images avec des scores / classe esthétiques moyens similaires peuvent afficher des niveaux de consensus très différents par les évaluateurs humains. Des travaux récents ont traité de la subjectivité esthétique en prédisant la distribution des scores humains, mais la prédiction de la distribution n'est pas directement interprétable en termes de subjectivité et pourrait être sous-optimale par rapport à l'estimation directe des descripteurs de subjectivité calculés à partir des scores de vérité terrain. De plus, les étiquettes des ensembles de données existants sont souvent bruyantes, incomplètes ou ne permettent pas des tâches plus sophistiquées telles que comprendre pourquoi une image est belle ou non pour un observateur humain. Dans cette thèse, nous proposons tout d'abord plusieurs mesures de la subjectivité, allant de simples mesures statistiques telles que l'écart type des scores, aux descripteurs nouvellement proposés inspirés de la théorie de l'information. Nous évaluons les performances de prédiction de ces mesures lorsqu'elles sont calculées à partir de distributions de scores prédites et lorsqu'elles sont directement apprises à partir de données de vérité terrain. Nous constatons que cette dernière stratégie donne en général de meilleurs résultats. Nous utilisons également la subjectivité pour améliorer la prédiction des scores esthétiques, montrant que les mesures de subjectivité inspirées de la théorie de l'information fonctionnent mieux que les mesures statistiques. Ensuite, nous proposons un ensemble de données EVA (Explainable Visual Aesthetics), qui contient 4070 images avec au moins 30 votes par image. EVA a été collecté en utilisant une approche plus disciplinée inspirée des meilleures pratiques d'évaluation de la qualité. Il offre également des caractéristiques supplémentaires, telles que le degré de difficulté à évaluer le score esthétique, l'évaluation de 4 attributs esthétiques complémentaires, ainsi que l'importance relative de chaque attribut pour se forger une opinion esthétique. L'ensemble de données accessible au public devrait contribuer aux recherches futures sur la compréhension et la prédiction de l'esthétique de la qualité visuelle. De plus, nous avons étudié l'explicabilité de l'évaluation de la qualité esthétique de l'image. Une analyse statistique sur EVA démontre que les attributs collectés et l'importance relative peuvent être combinés linéairement pour expliquer efficacement les scores d'opinion moyenne esthétique globale. Nous avons trouvé que la subjectivité a une corrélation limitée avec la difficulté personnelle moyenne dans l'évaluation esthétique, et la région du sujet, le niveau photographique et l'âge affectent de manière significative l'évaluation esthétique de l'utilisateurWith the development of capture devices and the Internet, people access to an increasing amount of images. Assessing visual aesthetics has important applications in several domains, from image retrieval and recommendation to enhancement. Image aesthetic quality assessment aims at determining how beautiful an image looks to human observers. Many problems in this field are not studied well, including the subjectivity of aesthetic quality assessment, explanation of aesthetics and the human-annotated data collection. Conventional image aesthetic quality prediction aims at predicting the average score or aesthetic class of a picture. However, the aesthetic prediction is intrinsically subjective, and images with similar mean aesthetic scores/class might display very different levels of consensus by human raters. Recent work has dealt with aesthetic subjectivity by predicting the distribution of human scores, but predicting the distribution is not directly interpretable in terms of subjectivity, and might be sub-optimal compared to directly estimating subjectivity descriptors computed from ground-truth scores. Furthermore, labels in existing datasets are often noisy, incomplete or they do not allow more sophisticated tasks such as understanding why an image looks beautiful or not to a human observer. In this thesis, we first propose several measures of subjectivity, ranging from simple statistical measures such as the standard deviation of the scores, to newly proposed descriptors inspired by information theory. We evaluate the prediction performance of these measures when they are computed from predicted score distributions and when they are directly learned from ground-truth data. We find that the latter strategy provides in general better results. We also use the subjectivity to improve predicting aesthetic scores, showing that information theory inspired subjectivity measures perform better than statistical measures. Then, we propose an Explainable Visual Aesthetics (EVA) dataset, which contains 4070 images with at least 30 votes per image. EVA has been crowd-sourced using a more disciplined approach inspired by quality assessment best practices. It also offers additional features, such as the degree of difficulty in assessing the aesthetic score, rating for 4 complementary aesthetic attributes, as well as the relative importance of each attribute to form aesthetic opinions. The publicly available dataset is expected to contribute to future research on understanding and predicting visual quality aesthetics. Additionally, we studied the explainability of image aesthetic quality assessment. A statistical analysis on EVA demonstrates that the collected attributes and relative importance can be linearly combined to explain effectively the overall aesthetic mean opinion scores. We found subjectivity has a limited correlation to average personal difficulty in aesthetic assessment, and the subject's region, photographic level and age affect the user's aesthetic assessment significantly
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Greene, Lawrence D. "Prediction of aesthetic response: a comparison of different philosophical paradigms' predictive utilities of aesthetic response towards natural landscape scenes." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/49784.
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Pembegul, Tugba. "Assessment Of Convention Centers From Users." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12610581/index.pdf.
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This study firstly aims to identify facility features of the convention centers and then propose a method in order to identify users&rsquopriorities and evaluate what extent these were provided by the convention centre. Data has been collected using self-administered questionnaires from three group of users
attendees, employees and meeting planners. The study has been conducted in istanbul Lü
tfi Kirdar Convention and Exhibition Center as a case, because of being the most remarkable convention center of Turkey. Each participant will be required to assess this convention center in terms of their priorities of expectations and features provided. The results have been evaluated statistically, and significant differences between the level of importance and performance of the facility features have been presented. This research is expected to be useful for constitution of design criteria of convention centers and effective management of the facilities, in terms of both identifying the features of convention centers and providing a method evaluating the performance of the facilities from the users&rsquo
perspective.
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Alarabi, Abdulghani Mustafa S. "Self-ligating vs. conventional ligating orthodontic bracket systems (smile aesthetics perspective) : data from randomised clinical trials." Thesis, University of Dundee, 2018. https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/e6de1899-8aae-4cd0-86ca-ea59946fa2bf.
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Introduction: Today one of the primary goals of any kind of dental treatment is the achievement of balanced smile aesthetics, as patients increasingly attend dental clinics to improve their appearance. The main aim of the present study was to assess and compare the smile aesthetics created by the use of two orthodontic bracket systems (self-ligating vs. conventional ligating) as a part of analysing secondary outcomes of two randomised clinical trials comparing between these two systems. Methodology: The assessment of smile aesthetics was done by analysing and scoring post-orthodontic treatment 125 frontal smile photographs subjectively and objectively. The subjective evaluation was performed by 20 dental professionals and 20 laypeople, while the objective assessment was done by one principal examiner using a group of smile aesthetics parameters. Statistical analysis: Multiple regression statistical analyses were performed to test the association between subjective and objective assessment of smile aesthetics in order to find the significant smile aesthetics predictors and assess the effect of the bracket type (self-ligating vs conventional) on the resulting smile aesthetics. Results: The finding from this research shows that the bracket type was not an important smile aesthetics factor in all the statistical models, although there are other important smile aesthetics factors as there was a significant correlation between the subjective and objective assessment of smile aesthetics parameters (Pearson’s correlation coefficients “r” > 0.50). Conclusion: There is insufficient evidence to reject the null hypotheses of no significant difference in the smile aesthetics created by the two orthodontic bracket systems. An Orthodontic Smile Aesthetics Rating (OSAR) tool has been developed.
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Ucar, Meltem. "Assessment Of User-ascribed Values For Cultural Properties In Relation With Planning Process Case Study: Tarsus." Phd thesis, METU, 2007. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/2/12608685/index.pdf.
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Value is the reason to conserve places. It is necessary to assess all values and meanings of cultural properties to provide right conservation decisions. Today, all cultural products are recognized as a part of heritage. In this context, users became one of the main sources in identification and valuation of cultural places. However, there is no commonly accepted method to assess user-ascribed values and integrate them to planning process.
Hence, the aim of the study is to define a process to assess user-ascribed values in relation with conservation decision-making process. The study evaluates two indicators to define the process. In the first one, the study evaluates multi-criteria decision analysis methods to define a thinking approach to integrate values to decision-making process and in the second one, evaluates the nature of users’
valuations to identify data collection process. In this context, value assessment process is re-defined, by considering users valuations through problem solving thinking approach and a process is developed to assess user-ascribed values. The proposed process is examined with Tarsus case study. Conclusion of the study points out that, users are important sources in identification of cultural properties. In this context, problem solving thinking approach can provide a proper approach to integrate values to planning process and user-based data can be assessed through utilization of more than one method. The conclusion also clarifies the need for establishment of new definitions and tools to protect user-valued places.
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Duzcu, Seda. "The Assessment Criteria Of Urban Regeneration Projects: The Case Of The Fener-balat Districts In Istanbul." Master's thesis, METU, 2006. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607904/index.pdf.
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Urban regeneration has become a frequently and widely used urban transformation strategy in many cities since the beginning of the 1990s. A number of urban regeneration projects have been implemented in declining city centres, old-industrial and harbour sites, and the working-class residential areas and undermined historical heritage sites of cities. The rise and mushrooming of such projects all over the world however brings about the questions related to their success level.
This thesis aims to assess the success level of urban regeneration projects according to the measurable (qualitative and quantitative) features of integrated planning approaches. It seeks to develop a model to examine the success level of urban regeneration projects in physical, environmental, economic and social terms. Using case study as a research method, the research focuses on the on-going ‘
Rehabilitation of the Fener and Balat Districts Programme&
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in the Istanbul Historical Peninsula, and tries to answer the question of how far this Programme can be successful in terms of regenerating the Fener-Balat Districts physically, environmentally, economically and socially.
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Bergqvist, Ingrid. "Lärares bedömning av bildämnet vid en lärarutbildning i Sydafrika : En minor Field study." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för beteendevetenskap och lärande, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-111252.
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Bedömning av estetiska ämnen har varit ifrågasatt gällande dess kvalité, rättvisa, funktion och hur det påverkar ämnet och individen. Studien syftar till att beskriva bedömning av det estetiska ämnet Visual Arts vid en lärarutbildning i Sydafrika presenterat ur ett lärarperspektiv. Forskningsfrågorna utgår från ämnesdidaktikens teori gällande Vad bedöms, Hur kommuniseras bedömningen och Varför görs bedömningen. Metoden som använts är ett två månaders fältarbete vid en bildlärarutbildning där jag följt tre lärare och deras arbete genom deltagande observation, samtal, intervjuer och insamling av vissa dokument. Det empiriska materialet har analyserat från de tre didaktiska frågorna. Resultatet visar att lärarna, som var utbildade konstnärer lade ned mycket tid och engagemang på bedömning. Bedömningen utgick från en normativ syn i avseende kvalité på studenters arbete. Studenter bedömdes återkommande summativt genom närvaro, arbetstakt, hur de följde instruktioner och produktens kvalité. Studentarbeten bedömdes i delar där hantverksskicklighet dominerade. Lärarna utförde kollegiala bedömningar av studentarbeten utifrån ett relativt betygssystem, vid dessa sessioner användes inga uttalade betygskriterier. Kvalitetskriterier kommuniserades till studenter under lektioner och redovisningar i form av korta kommentarer, till exempel nice, good, bad composition och studentarbeten användes ofta som exempel. Feedback gavs återkommande, den beskrev produkten men var sällan formativ i interaktion med studenten. Under lektioner förbättrade lärarna delar av studentarbeten genom att måla/ teckna på deras produkter vilket kan ifrågasätta en rättvis bedömning. Utifrån samtal och intervjuer med lärarna framgår att de såg bedömning som relativt oproblematisk, de utgick mer från egen erfarenhet än relaterade till befintliga styrdokument. Studenternas process och intention med arbetet användes mycket sparsamt som bedömningskriterier. Studien visar att det är svårt att förena en stark ämnestradition, förändringar utifrån nationella styrdokument och förhållandet att dessa studenter skulle bli bildlärare och inte konstnärer. Studien ger även underlag för diskussion hur den kulturella kontexten påverkar sättet att bedöma och väcker frågor om behovet av att utbyta erfarenheter i relation till kvalité inom utbildning.Assessment of the Arts has been challenged regarding its quality, fairness, function and how it affects the subject and the individual . The study examines assessment of Visual Arts in teaching education in South Africa, presented from a teacher’s view. The research questions have been based on a didactics theory .The Method is a two-month field work with participant observations, collection of documents and interviews at the teaching education where the daily work of three teachers, have been followed. The empirical material is analyzed from the three didactic questions what, how and why. The result shows that the teacher’s assessments are based on a normative approach in regards to high and low quality. The teachers performed collegial assessments of student work. A relative rating system were works were compared was used during the assessment. No explicit grading criteria were used. Students were repeatedly summative assessed on attendance, work pace, how they followed instructions and results of the projects. The projects were judged in parts where artistic technical skills dominated the grading process. Criteria were communicated to students during the lesson and presentation as brief comments, such as nice, good, bad composition and pieces student work was often used as an example. Feedback was recurrent describing the product but was rarely formative in interaction with the student. During lessons teachers improved some parts of students work by painting /drawing directly on their products, which might make questionable a fair assessment. The teacher regarded assessment as relatively easy task, referring to personal experience rather than to criteria/aims in course syllabus. Students' intentions of their work were not assessed. The study provides a basis for discussing how cultural context affects the way to assess and raises issues in relation to sustainable quality education of fair assessment. The ethnographic method increases understanding and helps reflections of higher education from a global perspective.
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Clay, Gary Robert. "Integrated scenic modeling of environmentally induced color changes in a coniferous forest canopy." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/187420.
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The relationship between the changes in color values of scenic landscapes, and the corresponding shifts in viewers' preferences to those changed environments, was the focus of the presented research. Color modifications, either natural or based on some human intervention, provide visual clues that an environment has undergone some transformation. These color changes can occur at both the micro and macro scale, can having temporal dimensions, and can be a result of combinations of both physical landscape change, and shifts in an observer's perspective with respect to that landscape. The research reviewed two existing models and related them in an integrated program of scenic change analysis. The first, a bio-physical remote sensing model, identified the relationships between the existing bio-physical environmental conditions and measured color signatures of selected landscape features. The second, a psychophysical perception model, established relationships between the landscape's bio-physical attributes and measured perceptual responses to those environments. By merging aspects of each model, the research related the changing scenic color patterns with observers' responses to those changed environments. The research methodology presented a program of scenic change analysis incorporating several technologies including (1) ground-based biological inventories, (2) remote sensing, (3) geographic information systems (GIS), and (4) computer visualization. A series of investigations focused on landscape scenes selected from a high elevation coniferous forest in southern Utah. Three initial scenic investigations compared (1) the impact of changing view angles on scenic color values, (2) color shifts due to changing sun-illumination angles within a day, and (3) color shifts due to changing biological conditions over a 12-month period. A fourth investigation measured the color changes caused by a spruce bark beetle outbreak, and developed a series of color signatures to simulate the color shifts indicative of an outbreak at different stages of development. These signatures were applied to digitized site photographs to produce a series of visualizations displaying different levels of beetle damage. The visualizations were then applied in a series of perceptual experiments to test the precision and reliability of the visual simulations.
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Amirshahi, Seyed Ali [Verfasser]. "Aesthetic Quality Assessment of Paintings / Seyed Ali Amirshahi." München : Verlag Dr. Hut, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1075409535/34.
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Jin, Heejae. "Assessment of men's tennis clothing movement and aesthetic analysis /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2010. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Thesis/Spring2010/h_jin_042110.pdf.
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Thesis (M.A. in apparel, merchandising, design and textiles)--Washington State University, May 2010.Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 7, 2010). "Department of Apparel, Merchandising, Design & Textiles." Includes bibliographical references (p. 59-62).
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Codling, Rosamunde Jill. "Wilderness and aesthetic values in the Antarctic." n.p, 1998. http://oro.open.ac.uk/18867.
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Zhou, Dan. "Artificial intelligence based visual assessment: an explanation system for landscape aesthetic." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51920.
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A rule-based expert system was developed to evaluate landscape quality from the perspective of a landscape designer/architect. The rationale for the development of such a system is that it can provide explanations for final assessments and retain this information during the reasoning process. The system also provides for systematic consideration of a broad range of variables with complex interrelationships. The entire system is composed of four subsystems programmed in VPI PROLOG. These subsystems are each separate expert systems for the assessment of man-made features, natural features, spatial organization and visual composition. The prototype of the system has been preliminarily tested and the results of the evaluation of selected landscape photographs is encouraging. The visual quality determination along with the explicit explanations, which are the translation and interpretation of the expert rules used in the reasoning process, were shown to be important in achieving a better understanding and evaluation of the landscape visual quality.Master of Science
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Ertan, Pinar. "Regulatory Measures To Reduce Natural Hazard Impacts And Local Seismic Attributes In Planning Decisions: The Case Of Fatih District In Istanbul." Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12610611/index.pdf.
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Urban risks have been questioned since the 1999 events in Turkey confirming that local seismic attributes are primary indicators for urban risk management. During the past decade tools and frameworks for global disaster risk management have shifted the priorities from emergency management to pre-disaster risk management and demand new tasks from urban planning. Security and resilience in local, national and global levels becomes a shared accountability which brings in a prominent role to the planning discipline in reducing local seismic vulnerabilities via research, implementation and disseminating methods of mitigation. In the local context, the so called Disasters Law and the Development Law do not contain the necessary concern for safety in urban planning and have no aspiration to devise appropriate tools for mitigation. The role of city planners, who could mainstream a holistic approach and provide community participation into decision making processes, is hardly apparent in legislation.
Urban mitigation planning methodology thus provides a new area of progression and expansion for the planning profession. This method is investigated in the local context of Fatih, sub-province in Istanbul. It is established that mitigation planning involves an elaborate set of procedures to include hazard identification, determination of vulnerable assets, spatial risk assessment, risk area prioritization, analyses of the emergency state and identification of more effective measures for risk reduction both in spatial and non-spatial terms in line with local development potential. This approach promises a new specialization in the planning theory and practice, and calls for new regulatory tools to facilitate implementation.
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McKim, Alison. "The Missing Piece: Enactment in Revealing and Redirecting Student Prior KnowledgeCan Enactment Expose Affect, Illuminate Mental Models, and Improve Assessment and Learning?" Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1428067920.
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Fitchie, Martin R. "Presenting tolerance analysis data within a virtual prototype environment : aesthetic quality assessment for a styling driven automotive design process." Thesis, University of Strathclyde, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.428858.
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De, Francesco Nicki. "Is the initial assessment of study models utilizing the dental aesthetic index reliable?, a premilinary investigation into the categorization of orthodontic treatment difficulty." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape8/PQDD_0003/MQ45145.pdf.
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Musso, Angela. "Modernism, gender and writing : a re-assessment of themes and aesthetic strategies in Katherine Mansfield's short stories from the viewpoint of cultural theory." Thesis, University of Sunderland, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.387633.
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Lienhard, Arnaud. "Estimation automatique des impressions véhiculées par une photographie de visage." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015GREAT104/document.
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Avec le développement des appareils photos numériques et des sites de partage de photos, nous passons une part croissante de notre temps à observer, sélectionner et partager des images, parmi lesquelles figurent un grand nombre de photos de visage. Dans cette thèse, nous nous proposons de créer un premier système entièrement automatique renvoyant une estimation de la pertinence d'une photo de visage pour son utilisation dans la création d'un album de photos, la sélection de photos pour un réseau social ou professionnel, etc. Pour cela, nous créons plusieurs modèles d'estimation de la pertinence d'une photo de visage en fonction de son utilisation. Dans un premier temps, nous adaptons les modèles d'estimation de la qualité esthétique d'une photo au cas particulier des photos de visage. Nous montrons que le fait de calculer 15 caractéristiques décrivant différents aspects de l'image (texture, illumination, couleurs) dans des régions spécifiques de l'image (le visage, les yeux, la bouche) améliore significativement la précision des estimations par rapport aux modèles de l'état de l'art. La précision de ce modèle est renforcée par la sélection de caractéristiques adaptées à notre problème, ainsi que par la fusion des prédictions de 4 algorithmes d'apprentissage. Dans un second temps, nous proposons d'enrichir l'évaluation automatique d'une photo de visage en définissant des modèles d'estimation associés à des critères tels que le degré de sympathie ou de compétence dégagé par une photo de visage. Ces modèles reposent sur l'utilisation d'attributs de haut niveau (présence de sourire, ouverture des yeux, expressions faciales), qui se montrent plus efficaces que les caractéristiques de bas niveau utilisées dans l'état de l'art (filtres de Gabor, position des points de repère du visage). Enfin, nous fusionnons ces modèles afin de sélectionner automatiquement des photos de bonne qualité esthétique et appropriées à une utilisation donnée : photos inspirant de la sympathie à partager en famille, photos dégageant une impression de compétence sur un réseau professionnelPicture selection is a time-consuming task for humans and a real challenge for machines, which have to retrieve complex and subjective information from image pixels. An automated system that infers human feelings from digital portraits would be of great help for profile picture selection, photo album creation or photo editing. In this work, several models of facial pictures evaluation are defined. The first one predicts the overall aesthetic quality of a facial image by computing 15 features that encode low-level statistics in different image regions (face, eyes and mouth). Relevant features are automatically selected by a feature ranking technique, and the outputs of 4 learning algorithms are fused in order to make a robust and accurate prediction of the image quality. Results are compared with recent works and the proposed algorithm obtains the best performance. The same pipeline is then considered to evaluate the likability and competence induced by a facial picture, with the difference that the estimation is based on high-level attributes such as gender, age and smile. Performance of these attributes is compared with previous techniques that mostly rely on facial keypoints positions, and it is shown that it is possible to obtain predictions that are close to human perception. Finally, a combination of both models that selects a likable facial image of good aesthetic quality for a given person is described
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Abed, El-Fattah Safi Mohammed. "Bridge Life Cycle Cost Optimization : Analysis, Evaluation, & Implementation." Thesis, KTH, Bro- och stålbyggnad, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-36944.
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Sakaguti, Nelson Massanobu. "Análise da percepção do dano estético facial por diferentes grupos de profissionais." Universidade de São Paulo, 2017. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/23/23153/tde-23082017-115607/.
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Introdução: A avaliação do dano ou prejuízo estético na área forense tornou-se um tema de grande importância nos últimos anos, principalmente devido à atenção que a sociedade de hoje dedica à estética, a harmonia do corpo, ou à \"beleza\" do ser humano. A aparência estética tem influência nas esferas sociais, no trabalho, bem como nas relações interpessoais. Cotidianamente, um grande número de pessoas são vítimas de acidentes de trânsito e de trabalho, violência urbana, traumas pela prática desportiva, e também do erro profissional, as quais apresentam sequelas de ferimentos sediados na região maxilo-facial, e oriundos destas ocorrências. Com o aumento dessas lesões, aumentaram também a preocupação com o conteúdo dos laudos e a justa avaliação destas lesões em consequência da perda estética. Uma dificuldade para os peritos nesse tipo de avaliação são os múltiplos detalhes no exame pericial, e muito em razão da carência de padronização de protocolos e de uma metodologia adequada capaz de abordar o dano estético de maneira objetiva. Objetivo: Valendo-se de metodologia analítica específica de impressão do impacto de prejuízo estético (método AIPE adaptado transculturalmente para o Brasil - Fernandes et al, 2016) o presente trabalho voltou-se ao estudo comparativo da percepção de dano estético em quatro grupos distintos de profissionais sendo eles: Profissionais da área do Direito, médicos, cirurgiões-dentistas, e outros profissionais que não das áreas da saúde e do Direito, representando as pessoas comuns da sociedade, com intuito de verificar a homogeneidade ou não de impressões, e assim fomentar e proporcionar uma melhor aplicabilidade na Justiça. Metodologia: Os profissionais voluntários receberam presencialmente do pesquisador o método AIPE que foi aplicado numa série de casos de prejuízo estético facial simulado. Resultados: Participaram do estudo 391 pessoas, sendo elas 93 do Direito, 93 da Medicina, 107 da Odontologia e 98 de outras áreas profissionais. Os grupos mostraram diferenças de opinião, onde os grupos Direito e Medicina, próximos entre si nas valorações, exprimiram mensurações significativamente menores comparativamente aos grupos Odontologia e Outros profissionais, que também foram próximos entre si nas valorações. Os profissionais com mais de 35 anos valoraram mais que os de menos de 35 anos de idade (p<0.05). Não houve variação de opinião significante entre homens e mulheres. Conclusão: O estudo demonstrou ser possível a análise da impressão do impacto do dano estético pelo método AIPE por grupos de profissionais de diferentes formações onde foram evidenciadas as diferenças de percepção entre eles. O trabalho incorporou o tema, com intuito de unificar o entendimento de conceitos e também propiciar discussões no âmbito do Poder Judiciário e demais envolvidos, como a sociedade, pacientes e peritos na busca das melhores formas da ciência, bom senso e justiça nas avaliações do dano estético facial. O estudo demonstrou que a percepção do dano estético facial dos cirurgiões-dentistas alinha-se ao senso comum da sociedade (outros profissionais), contemplando assim a perspectiva de laudos mais condizentes, quando redigidos por estes profissionais.Introduction: In the field of forensics, the evaluation of the aesthetic damage has become a subject of great importance in recent years. This is mainly due to the attention that the today\'s society dedicates to esthetics, the harmony of the body, or the \"beauty\" of the human being. Aesthetic appearance has an influence in social, professional, as well as interpersonal relationships. Every day, a significant number of people are victims of traffic and work-related accidents, urban violence, sports traumas, and also medical errors, which result in disfigurement and residual scarring in the maxillofacial region. With an increasing number of incidents and resulting lesions, there has a been a rising concern with the content of the reports and the whether correct evaluation of these lesions was performed regarding the consequential aesthetic loss from these lesions. Some of the difficulties for experts in this type of assessment are the quantity of details needed, combined with the lack of standardized protocols and adequate methodology capable of addressing the aesthetic damage objectively. Objective: Using the specific analytical methodology of impression of the impact of aesthetic damage (AIPE method cross-culturally adapted for Brazil - Fernandes et al., 2016) the work focuses on the comparative study of the perception of aesthetic damage in four distinct groups of professionals: law professionals, doctors, dentists, and others no Health and no Law professionals who represent a miscellaneous group in society with a view to verify the homogeneity or otherwise of impressions, and thus fostering and providing greater applicability in court. Methodology: The volunteer professionals were presented by the researcher with the AIPE method, which they applied to a series of simulated facial aesthetic damage cases. Results: In total, 391 people participated in the study; 93 in Law, 93 in Medicine, 107 in Dentistry and 98 were \"Other areas Professionals\". The groups showed differences in theirs opinion where the Law and Medicine groups were similar to each other in theirs evaluations, expressing significantly smaller measurements compared to the Dentistry group and Other professionals group, who also similar to each other. Evaluations by the professionals who were older than 35 were closer in range than those by the professionals less than 35 years of age (p <0.05). There was no significant difference in opinion between men and women. Conclusion: The study showed that it is possible to analyze the impression of the impact of aesthetic damage by the AIPE method by groups of professionals from different fields where the differences of perception between them were evidenced. The work regarding the assessment of facial aesthetic damage, was done in order to unify the understanding of concepts and also to foster discussions within the judiciary system (including society, patients, and experts) in the search of fairness, optimal use of science, and common sense. The study showed that the perception of facial aesthetic damage by dentists is aligned with the common sense of society (other professionals), thus suggesting a more appropriate perspective in reports drafted by these professionals.
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Benyamine, Isak. "Bedömning som meningsskapande resurs i handledningssamtal : Multimodala och kvalitativa diskurser i konstnärlig högskoleutbildning." Licentiate thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-113187.
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The aim of this investigation is to describe assessment as a meaning-making process in individual supervision of students in higher education of the aesthetic field. The qualitative analyses focus on how assessment is expressed within the supervision, in relation to the artistic professional field. The study was conducted within a multimodal socio-semiotic perspective. Sadler’s notion of quality and Bourdieu’s field concept of habitus, contributes to the social practice within the professional field, and in the full analysis of the empirical material. The case study examines assessment in an authentic environment. The data consists of video recordings from ten supervisions that took place in two different courses at two different colleges. The video recordings were transcribed through a multimodal framework and focused on the teachers’ and student’s speech, body movements, gazes and gestures during the sessions. Four selected supervision sessions were analysed based on the research questions and on the theoretical framework. The analyses revealed that assessment in higher education of the aesthetic field can be expressed as a process whereby the quality is related to the professional field. The students, as well as their teachers, are immersed in relationships, traditions and institutions that shape their artistic choices and judgments. The results indicate that students' meaning-making is linked to their previous experience in the artistic field. Teachers’ expectations of this experience have crucial implications for how the supervision sessions are shaped and designed. The shift of focus in the supervisions goes from the fulfilment of goals stated in the curriculum, to the meaning making, values, and perspectives that are recognized within the field of the arts. The study underlines the importance of conceptualization of the artistic processes. The overall results confirm previous studies showing that instruction and supervision in higher education of the aesthetic field develops in relation to the teacher's authority, expertise and in relation to students' independence.
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Rosado, Tânia Isabel Soares. "New methodologies for the characterisation and biodegradation assessment of mural paintings." Doctoral thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/13363.
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Mural paintings are an ancient art form, with historic and cultural value, whose preservation is
imperative.
These artworks have suffered degradation, promoted by several agents, however, the
contribution of the microorganisms on the paintings alteration has been undervalued.
This work aimed the development of innovative strategies that allow to identify and
characterise the role of the microorganisms in the degradation/deterioration of mural paintings.
Complementary methodologies, including culture-dependent methods and molecular
approaches were used, combining with microanalytical techniques to material characterisation.
This enabled the development of novel analytical protocols for microbial population assessment.
Following the characterisation of the microbial diversity, the metabolically active population
were assessed by enzymatic markers and viability assays, in order to signalise the main
biodeteriogenic agents involved in the biodeterioration of these heritage assets.
Through simulation assays, using high cells density from the microbial isolates, complemented
with in situ tests, it was possible to detect the presence of several alteration products namely
oxalates, plattnerite and carotenoids, attributed to specific biodeteriogenic agents. Mitigation
strategies, directed to the identified biodeteriogenic agents, were also developed; Novas metodologias para Caracterização e Avaliação da Biodegradação de pinturas murais
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A pintura mural é uma ancestral forma de arte, com enorme valor histórico e cultural, cuja
preservação é imperativa.
Estas obras de arte têm sido alvo de degradação, provocada por diversos agentes, no entanto,
a contribuição dos microrganismos para o processo de alteração das pinturas tem sido pouco
valorizada.
Este trabalho teve como objetivo o desenvolvimento de estratégias inovadoras que permitam
identificar e caracterizar o papel dos microrganismos no processo de degradação/deterioração
de pinturas murais.
Metodologias complementares, incluindo métodos de cultura e abordagens moleculares,
foram usadas em combinação com técnicas micro-analíticas de caracterização material,
permitindo o desenvolvimento de protocolos analíticos inovadores para avaliação da população
microbiológica.
Após a caracterização da diversidade microbiológica avaliou-se a população metabolicamente
ativa recorrendo a marcadores enzimáticos e testes de viabilidade celular para sinalizar os
principais agentes biodeteriogénicos envolvidos na biodeterioração destes bens patrimoniais.
Através de ensaios de simulação laboratorial, utilizando elevadas densidades celulares de
isolados microbianos, complementadas com ensaios in situ, foi possível detetar a presença de
diversos produtos de alteração nomeadamente oxalatos, platenerite e carotenoides, atribuídos a
agentes biodeteriogénicos específicos. Foram ainda desenvolvidas estratégias de mitigação
direcionadas para os agentes biodeteriogénicos identificados.
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Sante, Ana Beatriz. "Auto-imagem e características de personalidade na busca de cirurgia plástica estética." Universidade de São Paulo, 2008. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-22122008-165526/.
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Várias pesquisas têm buscado identificar motivações psíquicas associadas à crescente busca de Cirurgia Plástica Estética (CPE) nos últimos anos, porém a complexidade do tema e a diversidade metodológica dos estudos realizados comprometem evidências conclusivas, instigando novos trabalhos. Diante deste contexto, o presente estudo objetivou investigar características de personalidade e o nível de satisfação com a imagem corporal de mulheres que buscam CPE comparativamente a um grupo sem esta demanda de cuidados médicos. Para tanto, foram estudadas 78 mulheres saudáveis, voluntárias, de Ribeirão Preto (SP), de 18 a 50 anos, subdivididas em: Grupo 1 (n = 37, pacientes em fila de espera do Ambulatório de Cirurgia Plástica e Reparadora Hospital das Clínicas FMRP/USP, aguardando mamoplastia adicional e/ou lipoaspiração) e Grupo 2 (n = 41, mulheres que não procuraram CPE, selecionadas aleatoriamente na população). Estas voluntárias foram avaliadas individualmente por meio de breve entrevista de histórico de vida, questionário de nível sócio-econômico, Desenho da Figura Humana (DFH), Escala de Satisfação com a Imagem Corporal (ESIC) e Escalas de Personalidade de Comrey (CPS), aplicadas e analisadas conforme seus respectivos padrões técnicos. Foram realizadas análises estatísticas paramétricas (p 0,05) comparando o desempenho de G1 e G2 por meio do teste t de Student para variáveis numéricas e dos testes Qui-Quadrado ou Exato de Fisher para variáveis categóricas nominais. Análises de correlação foram realizadas (Pearson) dentre as escalas da CPS e os fatores da ESIC. Ainda foram realizadas, por meio de ANOVA 1-Fator, análises da variância do desempenho obtido nas técnicas objetivas em função de diferentes representações gráficas do DFH. As características sócio-demográficas de G1 e G2 foram equivalentes, sem diferenças significativas entre ambos. A análise estatística comparativa dos resultados de G1 e G2 nos demais instrumentos usados apontou diferença significativa no Fator 1 da ESIC (satisfação com a própria aparência) e nas Escalas T (Confiança X Atitude Defensiva) e M (Masculinidade X Feminilidade) da CPS. A comparação do DFH evidenciou diferenças entre os grupos em oito itens na 1ª Figura e 11 itens na 2ª Figura (agrupamento por ordem dos desenhos), 10 itens na Figura Feminina e 13 itens na Figura Masculina (agrupamento por sexo do DFH). O G1 mostrou correlação significativa entre o Fator 1 da ESIC com as escalas T, O, A e S da CPS, enquanto o G2 apresentou somente correlação significativa entre Fator 2 da ESIC com a escala S da CPS. O modo de representar graficamente a figura humana (DFH) pareceu diferenciar, em vários itens, a maneira como as mulheres relatam suas características de personalidade (CPS) e sua imagem corporal (ESIC), tanto no G1 quanto no G2. Os resultados encontrados sugerem que as mulheres que buscaram CPE apresentam maior insatisfação com a própria aparência corporal, maior atitude defensiva e sensibilidade afetiva do que as mulheres que não buscaram por esse tipo de procedimento. Pode-se pensar nestas características como fatores motivadores à busca de modificação estética cirúrgica no próprio corpo. Tais resultados apontaram que as vivências psíquicas relativas à imagem corporal e as características de personalidade são elementos relevantes a serem considerados na avaliação clínica de solicitantes de CPE.In the last years, several researches have attempted to identify the psychological motivations associated to the ever increasing search for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (APS). However the complexity of this subject and the methodological diversity of studies make it difficult for any evidences to be conclusive and further research is mandatory. In this context, the present study has the objective to investigate personality traits and the degree of satisfaction with their own body image, comparatively, in women in search for APS versus those who are not in search for APS. Seventy eight volunteer and healthy women from Ribeirão Preto (SP) applied for this study, ages ranging from 18 to 50 years old, and were divided into two groups: Group 1 (n = 37, patients in the wait list of the Ambulatory of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Hospital das Clínicas FMRP/USP, awaiting for augmentation breast surgery and/or liposuction) and Group 2 (n = 41, women that have not applied for APS, randomly chosen in the general population). These volunteers were individually evaluated by means of a brief interview about life history, questionnaire about social-economical classification, Human Figure Drawing (HFD), Body Image Satisfaction Scale (ESIC) and Comrey Personality Scales (CPS), applied and analyzed in accordance to their respective technical standards. Parametric statistical analysis was carried out (p 0,05) comparing the performance of G1 and G2 by means of the Students t test for numerical variables and of the Qui-Square or Fishers Exact test for nominal categorical variables. Correlation analysis was effected (Pearson) between CPS scales and the ESIC factors. Through the ANOVA One-Way, the variance analysis of the results obtained in objective techniques related to different graphical representations of HFD was also evaluated. The social-demographic characteristics of G1 and G2 were equivalent, without significant differences between the groups. The comparative statistical analysis of the results of G1 and G2 concerning the other analytical instruments indicated significant difference for ESIC Factor 1 (satisfaction with self appearance) and for the CPS T (Confidence X Defensive Attitude) and M (Masculinity X Femininity) scales. Comparison of HFD showed differences between the groups in eight items on the 1st Figure and 11 items on the 2nd Figure (grouping by order of the drawings), 11 items on Feminine Figure and 13 items on Masculine Figure (grouping by sex of HFD). G1 had significant correlation among ESIC Factor 1 with T, O, A and S scales of CPS, while the way of representation of the Human Figure (HFD) seemed to differentiate, in several items, the manner how women describe their personality traits (CPS) and their body image (ESIC), both in G1 and G2. The results suggest that the group of women in search for APS has less satisfaction with body image, more defensive attitude and affective sensibility than the group of women that is not in search for APS. It could be suggested that these characteristics may induce the search for aesthetic body enhancement. The results pointed out that psychic experience related to body image and personality traits are important elements to be considered in the clinical evaluation of patients in search for APS.
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Weaver, Joanna Corinne. "An Exploratory Study of Teacher Education Students’ Experiences with an Innovative Literacy Assessment and Remediation Course." University of Toledo / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1414948474.
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Karlsson, Mattias O. "Genomleva eller genomlida? : En didaktisk studie av gymnasieelevers upplevelser av litteraturläsning och litteraturundervisning." Thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Sektionen för språk, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-17884.
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Denna studie syftar till att undersöka hur gymnasieelever upplever litteraturläsning samt i vilken utsträckning estetiska läsningar görs. Vidare undersöks hur litteraturläsningens potentiella pedagogisk-didaktiska funktioner uppnås och/eller utnyttjas. Data har samlats in genom en enkät med öppna och slutna frågor. Genom diskursanalys har respondenternas svar kategoriserats och kommenterats. Resultatet visar att eleverna både genomlider och genomlever undervisningen och läsningen. Andelen estetiska läsningar är låg jämfört med andelen efferenta. En grupp respondenter signalerar att de inte kan skapa någon mening i och av sin läsning alls och det finns respondenter som gör uttalat efferenta läsningar och som därvid lyckas sämre med att skapa mening: dessa genomlider således. Det finns tecken på goda estetiska läsningar i respondentgruppen som ett resultat av ett genomlevande av litteraturen. Dessa läsningar lyfts sällan fram som bas för kunskapsutvecklande samtal kring läsning vilket sannolikt skulle gynna den förra gruppen respondenter. Studien visar även att vissa respondenters läsningsförmåga är svag och denna primärt behöver stärkas. Studien visar på en relativt svag uppfattning kring litteraturläsningens syfte: från disciplinär åtgärd via språkriktighet till insikt om den egna individen. Det finns utrymme för att öka litteraturläsningens didaktiska funktioner och positiva effekter på kunskaps- och personlighetsutveckling. Studien visar att detta kan uppnås genom att främja läsningsförmågan hos efferenta och allmänt svaga läsare genom en förstärkning av uppfattningen av litteraturläsningens syften, uppdelning mellan litteraturhistoria och utveckling av läsningsförmåga, stärkt stöd före och efter läsningen, gemensam läsning och bok- och textsamtal. Formativ bedömning skulle stärka individuella insatser i förmågansutvecklingen samt höja den kvalitativa nivån på elevernas läsningar.
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Castro, Genivaldo MacÃrio de. "Trilhas poÃticas do ensino de artes: o experimento artÃstico e estÃtico como base para a formaÃÃo docente em artes visuais no ensino fundamental para rede pÃblica municipal de Fortaleza-CE." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2015. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=15718.
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nÃo hÃEsta tese apresenta como figura as trilhas poÃticas do ensino em Artes Visuais, tendo o experimento artÃstico e estÃtico mediado pela poÃtica artÃstica pessoal como alvo da reconfiguraÃÃo da formaÃÃo do docente em Artes Visuais. O objetivo consistiu na investigaÃÃo da concepÃÃo dos docentes da linguagem do ensino de Artes Visuais sobre experimentos artÃsticos e estÃticos e da avaliaÃÃo dessas prÃticas, com vistas a redimensionar saberes e fazeres em suas aÃÃes pedagÃgicas. A fundamentaÃÃo teÃrica desta tese atribui que o objeto de estudo à de natureza ontolÃgica, o qual solicita a abordagem fenomenolÃgica, tendo a arte como elemento originÃrio o seu autor (HEIDEGGER, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2011) e a desconstruÃÃo como meio de desabrochar a arte (DERRIDA, 2002). A visÃo de ensino de Arte ContemporÃnea se faz presente, despontando a concepÃÃo de que Arte e vida se aproximam (BARBIERI, 2009; COHN, 2013; KONESKI, 2009; LEDUR, 2012; TESCH; VERGARA, 2012). A metodologia adotada foi a pesquisa educacional fenomenolÃgica e ocorreu a partir dos conceitos e definiÃÃes do pensamento de Heidegger e Merleau-Ponty (1999, 2009). A amostra apresentou oito professores da linguagem de Artes Visuais, com e sem formaÃÃo na Ãrea de Artes, do 6 ao 9 ano do Ensino Fundamental da rede pÃblica municipal de Fortaleza, Cearà (CE). O trabalho de campo se pautou num curso experimental, no qual os participantes ocuparam papÃis inicialmente como discentes e posteriormente como docentes (em suas prÃprias salas de aula). A aquisiÃÃo do corpus da pesquisa foi obtida atravÃs de questionÃrios, entrevistas, memoriais, ateliÃs de experimentos artÃsticos em Artes Visuais e sessÃes reflexivas gravadas em vÃdeo. Os dados foram tratados sob a fusÃo de horizontes, com base na hermenÃutica de Gadamer (1997), na compreensÃo do tipo antes e depois, atravÃs das preconcepÃÃes e das concepÃÃes sobre o ensino de Artes Visuais. Depreende-se que os participantes do curso compreenderam que a produÃÃo artÃstica dos alunos pode resultar das ideias do prÃprio discente. Portanto, conclui-se que a experiÃncia adquirida nos laboratÃrios da metodologia proposta fez com que os docentes despertassem em seus aprendizes a descoberta de que estes sÃo depositÃrios de sua prÃpria poÃtica artÃstica, o que torna desnecessÃrio utilizar obras existentes como modelo a ser imitado.
This thesis presents the poetic trails of teaching in Visual Arts, with the artistic and aesthetic experiment mediated by the artistic personal poetic as objective of rearrangement of the teacherâs formation in Visual Arts. The main purpose of the current research was to accomplish an investigation concerning the teacherâs conception of the language of Visual Artsâ teaching about artistic and aesthetic experiments as well as the assessment of those practices intending to readjust knowledge and practices in their pedagogic actions. The theoretical foundations of this thesis attributes that the object of study presents an ontological nature which requests the phenomenological approach, with art as an original element from the author (HEIDEGGER, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2011) and the deconstruction as a way of sprouting art (DERRIDA, 2002). The perspective of teaching Contemporary Art is also present, pointing to the conception that Art and life approach (BARBIERI, 2009; COHN, 2013; KONESKI, 2009; LEDUR, 2012; TESCH; VERGARA, 2012). The methodology adopted was the phenomenological educational investigation based on concepts and definitions of the thought of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty (1999, 2009). The sample was composed by eight teachers of the language of Visual Arts, with and without formation in the area of Arts, from the 6th to the 9th year of Elementary School in the public school system of Fortaleza-CearÃ. The field work was established in an experimental course, in which the participants occupied roles initially as students and later as teachers (at their own classrooms). The acquisition of the corpus of this research was obtained through questionnaires, interviews, memorials, studios of artistic experiments in Visual Arts and reflexive sessions recorded in video. The data were treated according the fusion of horizons, based on the hermeneutic perspective of Gadamer (1997) and on the type before and after, through preconceptions and conceptions on the teaching of Visual Arts. The analysis of the results revealed that the participants of the course understood that the studentsâ artistic production can result of the apprenticeâs own ideas. In conclusion, the acquired experience in the laboratories of the proposed methodology allowed the teachers to promote the discovery, by their students, of their own artistic poetic. Thus, it is not necessary to use existent works as a model to be imitated.
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Lucca, Lisie De. "Arte na escola: a experiência estética como um dos caminhos para promoção da vocação humana para o ser mais." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2013. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/9695.
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This research seeks to identify subsidies for leading an art course for elementary and secondary grades which promotes the human vocation to be more - a concept developed by Paulo Freire - by creating opportunities for students to go through aesthetic experiences in the classroom, and other educational paths. These subsidies were identified from the point of view of students and former students of a private school in Santo André, São Paulo, about their experiences upon the art classes they had gone though in their lives. Under the light of theories of Paulo Freire, Elliot W. Eisner, Sam Intrator, Efland, Freedman and Stuhr, Ana Mae Barbosa, John Dewey and other theorists, the students contributions from a Focus Group procedure and open written questionnaires were analyzed bearing in mind a qualitative approach. Seeking the theories that underlie the practices reported and discussed by the research subjects, this study brought up the desirable characteristics for art classes, teacher s attitude and the evaluation processs proposed by them, in promoting the inherent human vocation to "be more", fundamental condition for student s autonomy development
Esta pesquisa busca a identificação de subsídios para a liderança de um curso da disciplina de arte para as séries do ensino fundamental e médio que promova a vocação humana para o ser mais - conceito desenvolvido por Paulo Freire por meio da criação de oportunidades para os alunos passarem por experiências estéticas em sala de aula, entre outros caminhos pedagógicos. Estes subsídios foram identificados a partir do olhar de alunos e ex-alunos de uma escola particular em Santo André, São Paulo, sobre suas experiências de situações de aula de arte vividas desde a infância. À luz das teorias de Paulo Freire, Elliot W. Eisner, Sam Intrator, Efland, Freedman e Stuhr, Ana Mae Barbosa, John Dewey entre outros teóricos, foram analisadas as contribuições dos sujeitos de pesquisa por meio dos procedimentos de Grupo Focal e questionários com questões abertas, a partir de uma abordagem qualitativa. Ao buscar as teorias que subjazem às práticas relatadas e discutidas pelos sujeitos de pesquisa, este trabalho encontrou características desejáveis para que as aulas de arte, os professores da disciplina e a avaliação proposta por eles auxiliem na promoção da vocação humana para o ser mais , condição fundamental para o desenvolvimento da autonomia dos estudantes
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Oades, Nichola. "Läslyftet, läsloggen och läraren. En fallstudie om lärares syn på läsloggen som undervisningsmetod i kontexten av Läslyftet." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-32562.
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The object of this study is the reading log that has been issued by the Swedish National Agency for Education’s teachers’ in-service training, The Literacy Boost or Läslyftet. The in-service training programme has been broken down into different modules, and the focus of this study is the reading log that has been addressed by a section of one of the modules. Essentially, this study aims to investigate six different teachers’ perceptions and experiences of the reading log. The method used for this investigation is semi-structured interviews. Consequently, the following research questions were outlined: 1.How do the teachers view the reading log and how have their views been altered by the in-service training?2.Which types of text are the teachers prone to use the reading log for?The results of the semi-structured interviews have shown that the different teachers’ perceptions of the purpose of the reading log were unanimous and aligned with theories addressed in the material. However, the necessity of writing for reflection was questioned by one. Further, all the teachers were acquainted with the reading log prior to the in-service training, and even though only a few new theories were acquired, many teachers benefited from new insights and various ways of using the reading log. Many had also experienced the repetition as positive. Lastly, the interviews also uncovered that the language teachers were more prone to using the reading log for literature studies, whereas teachers who also taught civics were prone to using the reading log for different types of texts.Key words: reading log, reflection, social development theory, reader-response criticism, discussion, the extended concept of text, formative assessment, efferent and aesthetic reading In Swedish with an abstract in English
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CASTRO, Genivaldo Macário de. "Trilhas poéticas do ensino de artes: o experimento artístico e estético como base para a formação docente em artes visuais no ensino fundamental para rede pública municipal de Fortaleza-CE." www.teses.ufc.br, 2015. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/14348.
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This thesis presents the poetic trails of teaching in Visual Arts, with the artistic and aesthetic experiment mediated by the artistic personal poetic as objective of rearrangement of the teacher’s formation in Visual Arts. The main purpose of the current research was to accomplish an investigation concerning the teacher’s conception of the language of Visual Arts’ teaching about artistic and aesthetic experiments as well as the assessment of those practices intending to readjust knowledge and practices in their pedagogic actions. The theoretical foundations of this thesis attributes that the object of study presents an ontological nature which requests the phenomenological approach, with art as an original element from the author (HEIDEGGER, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2011) and the deconstruction as a way of sprouting art (DERRIDA, 2002). The perspective of teaching Contemporary Art is also present, pointing to the conception that Art and life approach (BARBIERI, 2009; COHN, 2013; KONESKI, 2009; LEDUR, 2012; TESCH; VERGARA, 2012). The methodology adopted was the phenomenological educational investigation based on concepts and definitions of the thought of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty (1999, 2009). The sample was composed by eight teachers of the language of Visual Arts, with and without formation in the area of Arts, from the 6th to the 9th year of Elementary School in the public school system of Fortaleza-Ceará. The field work was established in an experimental course, in which the participants occupied roles initially as students and later as teachers (at their own classrooms). The acquisition of the corpus of this research was obtained through questionnaires, interviews, memorials, studios of artistic experiments in Visual Arts and reflexive sessions recorded in video. The data were treated according the fusion of horizons, based on the hermeneutic perspective of Gadamer (1997) and on the type before and after, through preconceptions and conceptions on the teaching of Visual Arts. The analysis of the results revealed that the participants of the course understood that the students’ artistic production can result of the apprentice’s own ideas. In conclusion, the acquired experience in the laboratories of the proposed methodology allowed the teachers to promote the discovery, by their students, of their own artistic poetic. Thus, it is not necessary to use existent works as a model to be imitated.
Esta tese apresenta como figura as trilhas poéticas do ensino em Artes Visuais, tendo o experimento artístico e estético mediado pela poética artística pessoal como alvo da reconfiguração da formação do docente em Artes Visuais. O objetivo consistiu na investigação da concepção dos docentes da linguagem do ensino de Artes Visuais sobre experimentos artísticos e estéticos e da avaliação dessas práticas, com vistas a redimensionar saberes e fazeres em suas ações pedagógicas. A fundamentação teórica desta tese atribui que o objeto de estudo é de natureza ontológica, o qual solicita a abordagem fenomenológica, tendo a arte como elemento originário o seu autor (HEIDEGGER, 2003, 2005, 2010, 2011) e a desconstrução como meio de desabrochar a arte (DERRIDA, 2002). A visão de ensino de Arte Contemporânea se faz presente, despontando a concepção de que Arte e vida se aproximam (BARBIERI, 2009; COHN, 2013; KONESKI, 2009; LEDUR, 2012; TESCH; VERGARA, 2012). A metodologia adotada foi a pesquisa educacional fenomenológica e ocorreu a partir dos conceitos e definições do pensamento de Heidegger e Merleau-Ponty (1999, 2009). A amostra apresentou oito professores da linguagem de Artes Visuais, com e sem formação na área de Artes, do 6º ao 9º ano do Ensino Fundamental da rede pública municipal de Fortaleza, Ceará (CE). O trabalho de campo se pautou num curso experimental, no qual os participantes ocuparam papéis inicialmente como discentes e posteriormente como docentes (em suas próprias salas de aula). A aquisição do corpus da pesquisa foi obtida através de questionários, entrevistas, memoriais, ateliês de experimentos artísticos em Artes Visuais e sessões reflexivas gravadas em vídeo. Os dados foram tratados sob a fusão de horizontes, com base na hermenêutica de Gadamer (1997), na compreensão do tipo antes e depois, através das preconcepções e das concepções sobre o ensino de Artes Visuais. Depreende-se que os participantes do curso compreenderam que a produção artística dos alunos pode resultar das ideias do próprio discente. Portanto, conclui-se que a experiência adquirida nos laboratórios da metodologia proposta fez com que os docentes despertassem em seus aprendizes a descoberta de que estes são depositários de sua própria poética artística, o que torna desnecessário utilizar obras existentes como modelo a ser imitado.
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Taddei, Marco <1976>. "Il trattamento ortodontico nei bambini con particolari necessità sanitarie (SHCN): una valutazione della durata e del risultato clinico utilizzando l'indice PAR (Peer Assessment Rating), la componente DHC (Dental Health Component) e la componente AC (Aesthetic Component) dell'indice IOTN (Orthodontic Treatment Need Index)." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/6959/1/Taddei_Marco_tesi.pdf.
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Obbiettivo: Valutazione delle eventuali differenze nel trattamento ortodontico di un gruppo di bambini con particolari necessità sanitarie (SHCN) rispetto ad un gruppo di bambini non diagnosticati con SHCN.
Materiali e Metodi: Il gruppo campione (SHCN) è costituito da 50 bambini con SHCN. Il gruppo di controllo (NO SHCN) è costituito da 50 bambini non diagnosticati con SHCN pienamente corrispondenti per età, genere e tipo di apparecchio ortodontico utilizzato con i pazienti del gruppo di studio. I dati riguardanti i gruppi SHCN e NO SHCN sono stati analizzati in modo retrospettivo, valutando: - il punteggio pre- e post-trattamento e la riduzione finale dei valori dell'indice PAR (Peer Assessment Rating), della componente DHC (Dental Health Component) e della componente AC (Aesthetic Component) dell'indice IOTN (Orthodontic Treatment Need Index), - il numero di appuntamenti, - il numero di sedute semplici e complesse, - la durata complessiva del trattamento, - l'età all’inizio ed alla fine della terapia.
Risultati: Non sono state rilevate differenze statisticamente significative tra i due gruppi per quanto concerne il numero di appuntamenti, la durata complessiva del trattamento, l'età all’inizio ed alla fine della terapia ortodontica (valori del p-value:0.682, 0.458, 0.535, 0.675). Sono state rilevate differenze statisticamente significative tra i due gruppi per quanto riguarda i punteggi dell’indice PAR, delle componenti DHC e AC dello IOTN pre- e post-trattamento, il numero di sedute semplici e complesse (valori del p-value:0.030, 0.000, 0.020, 0.023, 0.000, 0.000, 0.043, 0.037). Per quanto concerne la riduzione finale del valore dell’indice PAR, della componente DHC e di quella AC dello IOTN non sono state riscontrate differenze statisticamente significative tra i due gruppi (valori del p-value:0.060, 0.765, 0.825).
Conclusioni: Lo studio incoraggia gli ortodontisti a trattare i bambini con SHCN nell'obiettivo di migliorarne la qualità di vita, pur evidenziando la necessità di un maggior numero di sedute complesse.Purpose: To analyze any differences in the orthodontic treatment between a group of children with special health care needs (SHCN) and a group of children not diagnosed with SHCN. Materials and Methods: The study sample (SHCN) consisted of 50 orthodontically treated children with SHCN. The control group (NO SHCN) consisted of 50 orthodontically treated children not diagnosed with SHCN fully matched for age, gender and type of appliance used with patients of the study sample. The differences between the SHCN and NO SHCN groups were analyzed retrospectively: - pre-, post-treatment scores and score reduction of the Peer Assessment Rating index (PAR), the Dental Health (DHC) and Aesthetic (AC) Components of the Orthodontic Treatment Need Index (IOTN), - number of appointments, - number of simple or complex chair time appointments, - overall treatment time, - age at treatment start and end. Results: There were no statistically significant differences between the two groups for the number of appointments, overall treatment time, age at treatment start and end (p values: 0.682, 0.458, 0.535 and 0.675). There were statistically significant differences between the two groups in PAR, DHC, AC pre- and post-treatment, and the number of simple and complex chair time appointments (p values: 0.030, 0.000, 0.020, 0.023, 0.000, 0.000, 0.043 and 0.037). The reductions of PAR, DHC and AC scores were not significantly different between the two groups (p values: 0.060, 0.765 and 0.825). Conclusions: This study, while reporting a greater number of complex chair time appointments during the orthodontic treatment of children with special health care needs, encourages orthodontists to implement the treatment of patients with SHCN, in an attempt to improve their quality of life.
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Taddei, Marco <1976>. "Il trattamento ortodontico nei bambini con particolari necessità sanitarie (SHCN): una valutazione della durata e del risultato clinico utilizzando l'indice PAR (Peer Assessment Rating), la componente DHC (Dental Health Component) e la componente AC (Aesthetic Component) dell'indice IOTN (Orthodontic Treatment Need Index)." Doctoral thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2015. http://amsdottorato.unibo.it/6959/.
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Obbiettivo: Valutazione delle eventuali differenze nel trattamento ortodontico di un gruppo di bambini con particolari necessità sanitarie (SHCN) rispetto ad un gruppo di bambini non diagnosticati con SHCN.
Materiali e Metodi: Il gruppo campione (SHCN) è costituito da 50 bambini con SHCN. Il gruppo di controllo (NO SHCN) è costituito da 50 bambini non diagnosticati con SHCN pienamente corrispondenti per età, genere e tipo di apparecchio ortodontico utilizzato con i pazienti del gruppo di studio. I dati riguardanti i gruppi SHCN e NO SHCN sono stati analizzati in modo retrospettivo, valutando: - il punteggio pre- e post-trattamento e la riduzione finale dei valori dell'indice PAR (Peer Assessment Rating), della componente DHC (Dental Health Component) e della componente AC (Aesthetic Component) dell'indice IOTN (Orthodontic Treatment Need Index), - il numero di appuntamenti, - il numero di sedute semplici e complesse, - la durata complessiva del trattamento, - l'età all’inizio ed alla fine della terapia.
Risultati: Non sono state rilevate differenze statisticamente significative tra i due gruppi per quanto concerne il numero di appuntamenti, la durata complessiva del trattamento, l'età all’inizio ed alla fine della terapia ortodontica (valori del p-value:0.682, 0.458, 0.535, 0.675). Sono state rilevate differenze statisticamente significative tra i due gruppi per quanto riguarda i punteggi dell’indice PAR, delle componenti DHC e AC dello IOTN pre- e post-trattamento, il numero di sedute semplici e complesse (valori del p-value:0.030, 0.000, 0.020, 0.023, 0.000, 0.000, 0.043, 0.037). Per quanto concerne la riduzione finale del valore dell’indice PAR, della componente DHC e di quella AC dello IOTN non sono state riscontrate differenze statisticamente significative tra i due gruppi (valori del p-value:0.060, 0.765, 0.825).
Conclusioni: Lo studio incoraggia gli ortodontisti a trattare i bambini con SHCN nell'obiettivo di migliorarne la qualità di vita, pur evidenziando la necessità di un maggior numero di sedute complesse.Purpose: To analyze any differences in the orthodontic treatment between a group of children with special health care needs (SHCN) and a group of children not diagnosed with SHCN. Materials and Methods: The study sample (SHCN) consisted of 50 orthodontically treated children with SHCN. The control group (NO SHCN) consisted of 50 orthodontically treated children not diagnosed with SHCN fully matched for age, gender and type of appliance used with patients of the study sample. The differences between the SHCN and NO SHCN groups were analyzed retrospectively: - pre-, post-treatment scores and score reduction of the Peer Assessment Rating index (PAR), the Dental Health (DHC) and Aesthetic (AC) Components of the Orthodontic Treatment Need Index (IOTN), - number of appointments, - number of simple or complex chair time appointments, - overall treatment time, - age at treatment start and end. Results: There were no statistically significant differences between the two groups for the number of appointments, overall treatment time, age at treatment start and end (p values: 0.682, 0.458, 0.535 and 0.675). There were statistically significant differences between the two groups in PAR, DHC, AC pre- and post-treatment, and the number of simple and complex chair time appointments (p values: 0.030, 0.000, 0.020, 0.023, 0.000, 0.000, 0.043 and 0.037). The reductions of PAR, DHC and AC scores were not significantly different between the two groups (p values: 0.060, 0.765 and 0.825). Conclusions: This study, while reporting a greater number of complex chair time appointments during the orthodontic treatment of children with special health care needs, encourages orthodontists to implement the treatment of patients with SHCN, in an attempt to improve their quality of life.
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Chuang, Ya-Ting, and 莊雅婷. "A Study Of Aesthetics-Chinese-Characters Online Assessment System." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61757457432101220480.
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This study proposed to find the least-squares regression slope of the best strokes to determine the slope of the line for Chinese characters can therefore be more accurate, then a different characters for the individual to do a single stroke cut the proportion of independent sections, according to their characteristics do correspond to strokes classification, the proportion of strokes classified on the slope of line segments to be analyzed later for strokes after the slope of the segments corresponding to the reviews to find the appropriate Top ranking and automatic, so that this system can more accurately determine the order of strokes and the students to know whether the appearance of the written characters is. Subjects in the study countries using the characters aesthetics vocabulary exercises online assessment system, as long as with the network and computer systems on the web can be done with a drill over and over again, after this learning enables participants know how to fix write Chinese characters, to know the written characters is beautiful, but also take into account the subjects as children, so simple and colloquial use of the analysis, so that children learn to write in the process of correction can be more easily learn how to get higher scores, improve reviews the ratio for the well-written, to achieve good learning outcomes. Aesthetics-characters online assessment system can help the teacher of scores in the subjects completed the system automatically after the test score is also more efficient, fair or not is no longer score is the phenomenon of teacher error correction points, marking a consistency, to the point assessment system also automatically saves the learner time to wait for the teacher marking, to improve learners' learning effectiveness, the aesthetics of the country the characters online assessment system with its value. Aesthetics-characters generation online assessment system for children to learn the purpose of the language an important part of the country to bring good learning, but also can reduce the burden on teachers marking vocabulary for education to bring vast well-being.
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"Content-based photo quality assessment." 2012. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5549070.
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基於審美的圖像質量自動評估近年來引起了計算機視覺領域的普遍關注。在這篇論文裡, 我們提出使用局部與整體特徵, 基於圖像內容進行圖片質量評估。首先, 圖像的主題區域被提取出來。這部分區域最吸引觀看者的注意力。基於主題區域, 我們提取局部特徵, 並結合整體特徵進行圖像質量評估。攝影專家拍攝圖片時, 對於不同內容的圖片, 會採取不同的技術手段和審美衡量標準。基於此項觀察, 我們提出根據圖片的內容, 在提取主題區域以及特徵的時候採用不同的手段。我們講數據根據圖像內容分為七類, 並分別設計主題區域提取方法和設計特徵。我們通過翔實的實驗數據，證明提出的框架之有效。同時, 我們提出根據圖像內容特徵構建自適應分類器, 以在不事先知道圖像內容分類的情況下進行自動質量評估, 並取得滿意效果。
Automatically assessing photo quality from the perspective of visual aesthetics is of great interest in high-level vision research and has drawn much attention in recent years. In this paper, we propose content-based photo quality assessment using both regional and global features. Under this framework, subject areas, which draw the most attentions of human eyes, are first extracted. Then regional features extracted both from subject areas and background regions are combined with global features to assess photo quality. Since professional photographers adopt different photographic techniques and have different aesthetic criteria in mind when taking different types of photos (e.g. landscape versus portrait), we propose to segment subject areas and extract visual features in different ways according to the variety of photo content. We divide the photos into seven categories based on the irvisual content and develop a set of new subject are a extraction methods and new visual features specially designed for different categories.
This argument is supported by extensive experimental comparisons of existing photo quality assessment approaches as well as our new features over different categories of photos. In addition, we propose an approach of online training an adaptive classifier to combine the proposed features according to the visual content of a test photo without knowing its category. Another contribution of this work is to construct a large and diversified benchmark database for the research of photo quality assessment. It includes 17, 613 photos with manually labeled ground truth. This new benchmark database will be released to the research community.
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
Luo, Wei.
Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-52).
Abstracts also in Chinese.
Chapter Abstract --- p.i
Chapter Acknowledgement --- p.iv
Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1
Chapter 1.1 --- Photo Quality Assessment by Professionals --- p.2
Chapter 1.2 --- Automatic Quality Assessment --- p.6
Chapter 1.3 --- Our Approach --- p.8
Chapter 2 --- RelatedWork --- p.12
Chapter 3 --- Content-based Quality Assessment --- p.15
Chapter 3.1 --- Global Features --- p.15
Chapter 3.1.1 --- Hue Composition Feature --- p.15
Chapter 3.1.2 --- Scene Composition Feature --- p.19
Chapter 3.2 --- Subject Area Extraction Methods --- p.21
Chapter 3.2.1 --- Clarity-Based Subject Area Extraction --- p.22
Chapter 3.2.2 --- Layout-Based Subject Area Extraction --- p.25
Chapter 3.2.3 --- Human-Based Subject Area Extraction --- p.25
Chapter 3.3 --- Regional Features --- p.25
Chapter 3.3.1 --- Dark Channel Feature --- p.27
Chapter 3.3.2 --- Clarity Contrast Feature --- p.28
Chapter 3.3.3 --- Lighting Contrast Feature --- p.30
Chapter 3.3.4 --- Composition Geometry Feature --- p.30
Chapter 3.3.5 --- Complexity Features --- p.31
Chapter 3.3.6 --- Human Based Features --- p.31
Chapter 3.4 --- Quality Assessment without the Information of Photo Categories --- p.33
Chapter 4 --- Experimental Results --- p.37
Chapter 4.1 --- Database description --- p.37
Chapter 4.2 --- Experimental Settings --- p.40
Chapter 4.3 --- Result Analysis --- p.41
Chapter 4.4 --- Conclusions and Discussions --- p.44
Bibliography --- p.47
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Edwards, Christie-Lee Helen. "An assessment of motion capture in animated film through an analysis of aesthetics." Thesis, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/22228.
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Thesis (M.A. (Digital Animation))--University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Humanities, 2016This study aims to determine whether motion-captured animation is better suited for hyper-realistic or caricatured film aesthetics and whether it creates or breaks the aesthetics engagement for the viewer. This will be done by analysing how each aesthetic maintains or breaks 'suspension of disbelief' in viewers towards character engagement and identification. This paper specifically aims to report on a study of body motion capture, via attaching trackers only on the body and not on the face and fingers. Films used to critically analyse these ideas will be The Advantures of Tintin: The secret of the Unicorn (year) directed by Steven Spielberg to illustrate motion capture, which pertains to caricatured animated feature film aesthetics with caricatured designs. in comparison Beowulf (year) directed by Robert Zemeckis will be studied to demonstrate motion capture with hyper-realistic aesthetics. Motion capture has often been critiqued negatively for its depiction of human characters and their movement as having a disturbing appearance; which is mostly criticised as effects of the Uncanny valley- a phenomenon first introduced by Professor Masahiro Mori. There are currently 13 major motion capture animation feature films, such as Final Fantasy: Spirits within, final fantasy: Advent children, the polar express, Last order final fantasy VII, monster house, happy feet, Beowulf, A Christmas Carol, The Adventures of Tintin: The secret of the Unicorn, Mars needs moms, Happy feet 2, kochadaiiyaan, Space Captain Haddock. With the amount of motion capture being used in current animation features, especially with a local South Africa studio such as The Flying Circus using it as a means of saving costs on animation production, there needs to be an understanding of where motion capture is best suited depending on the aesthetic design of the film. This becomes especially imperative to animated films, because it has its own codes of depicting 'realism' that are separate to that of live action films that are discussed in details in the paper. To conclude, this study will aid in determining which aesthetic style provides better engagement through a critique of aesthetics the films chose to pursue and which keeps viewers succumbed to 'suspension of disbelief'. This will aid in determining whether motion capture is an appropriate method to creating animated movement for a particular aesthetic.
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Foo, Peter. "Facial aesthetics and psychosocial outcome assessment following treatment of non-syndromic cleft patients." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/65935.
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The main aims of this study of treated South Australian adult patients with the diagnosis of non-syndromic cleft, was to evaluate the effect of long-term cleft treatment on general health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and oral health impact, to determine associations by age and gender, and to compare against the South Australian population norms. Furthermore, the study aimed to evaluate the opinions of a group of professionals and a group of lay people regarding the facial appearance of South Australian adult patients treated for orofacial clefting, as well as their perceptions whether further surgery was required to correct the facial appearance. It also set out to determine whether there are differences in opinion within professional groups as well as between lay people with and without a cleft. Participants (n=88) were recruited from cleft patients treated at the Children, Youth and Women’s Health Service under the Australian Craniofacial Unit over the last 34 years (1975 to 2009). Participants all had surgery to correct their unilateral or bilateral cleft lip, cleft palate, cleft lip and palate, and to correct jaw size discrepancies. Inclusion criteria were non-syndromic cleft patients aged 18 years or over who had completed their cleft treatment at this centre. Participants completed a questionnaire that included information pertaining to age, sex, HRQoL and oral health impact. State-based and national norms were used for comparative purposes. HRQoL was measured by the SF-36 questionnaire with high values indicating a good level of HRQoL. Oral health impact was measured by OHIP-14 questionnaire where high values indicated a poor level of oral health. Photographic records of 80 of the above participants were obtained with their consent. The photographs were taken following the completion of all treatment including orthognathic surgery as well as revision surgery. The photographs were standardised using computer software (Adobe Photoshop Windows PC version CS8.0) for size, background and brightness. Frontal, left profile and right profile views were available for each patient. These images were cropped, re-scaled and projected onto a screen for assessment by a panel of professional and lay people raters. Professionals (2 plastic surgeons, 1 dentist, 1 orthodontist, 1 psychologist) and lay people (1 male, 1 female adult without a cleft; 1 male, 1 female adult with a cleft) were recruited. The raters were asked to rate the photographs according to attractiveness of each patient’s nose, lips and overall facial appearance. The raters were also asked whether they thought further surgery was required. Facial aesthetics was measured by Visual Analogue Scale (0-100mm) with high values indicating good aesthetics. Necessity for further treatment was measured by Visual Analogue Scale (0-100mm) where high values indicated high perceived need for further treatment. There were no significant age or sex differences in the cleft sample’s SF-36 and OHIP-14 scores. When compared against South Australian 2002 state-level norms, cleft participants scored higher on physical functioning and physical role function but lower on vitality and mental health. The prevalence of having experienced one or more of OHIP–14 items ‘fairly often’ or ‘very often’ was 2.7 times higher than national-level estimates, while extent was 2.8 times and severity 1.7 times higher. The professionals rated facial aesthetics significantly lower and had a lower perception of need for further treatment than the lay people with and without a cleft. The lay people with a cleft rated facial aesthetics significantly higher and had a lower perceived need for further treatment than the lay people without a cleft. The non-surgical professionals rated facial aesthetics significantly lower and had a lower perceived need for further treatment than the surgical professionals. Oral health among cleft patients included in our study was poor compared with population-level estimates. The HRQoL showed mixed results, with the vitality and mental health components being poorer in the cleft group compared with population-level estimates. These results indicate that treatment for orofacial clefting does not entirely remove the factors contributing to poor HRQoL and oral health.
Differences exist in the facial aesthetics ratings and perceived need for further surgery between professionals, lay people with and without a cleft. This has profound implications in the assessment of the cleft deformity and management of treatment expectations.Thesis (D.Clin.Dent.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Dentistry, 2011
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YANG, MING-YANG, and 楊明揚. "A Preliminary Study on the Aesthetics Application of Full-service Airlines by Oral Assessment." Thesis, 2019. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7nd562.
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According to the statistics from the Civil Aviation Administration of the Ministry of Communications (2017), the number of air carrying in 2014 was reached 31,965,596, and had reached to 36,673,745 by 2017, the increase rate is about 14.7%, above this shows that the market of the aviation industry is still developing. After passengers confirm their travel itinerary, they will choose the airline based on their impression with what they see and hear in daily life , therefore, airlines must have a complete set of strategies to cope with market changes. However, the aviation industry has many similarities in hardware resources, the biggest difference is intangible assets, such as corporate culture, the spirit delivered by service and other resources that are difficult to imitate. Therefore, the aviation industry tries to integrate aesthetic elements into service aspect, creating an aesthetic environment to stimulate passengers 'pleasure, and further apply aesthetics to service contacts. Professionally trained employees can express the aesthetic feeling in the process of service by their performance, which can increase customers' willingness to buy back and the speed of marketing with good reputation. This study reviewed relevant literature, cases and theories of aesthetics at home and abroad, collected data through triangular cross examination combined with qualitative and quantitative approaches, and constructed indicative questionnaires with objective and continuous data through in-depth interviews with many experts and referring to the aesthetics scale proposed by previous scholars. In addition, considering the preliminary nature of this study, the validity of the questionnaire was tested by experts in relevant fields before the formal questionnaire was issued, and the factors were screened after the pre-test questionnaire was issued to exclude the questions about the importance of aesthetic factors that could not respond appropriately. The formal questionnaire uses the oral evaluation function to calculate the importance of each aspect and item, and then ranks them according to the relative weight, to summarize the research conclusions and draw the management implications. According to the research results, passengers' feedback on the application of airline aesthetics is ranked as follows according to importance: "aesthetics of labor service", " aesthetics of enterprise ", "aesthetics of atmosphere" and "experience of aesthetics feeling", which shows that passengers' feedback and evaluation are related to the contact time with flight attendants. When "aesthetics of atmosphere" and "experience of aesthetics feeling" dimensions in physical environment, the six aesthetic factors that passengers value are "aircraft type", " flight meal design ", "cabin toilet design" and "cabin temperature", "cabin seat design", "how does the flight attendants coordinate passenger interactions", it can be used as a reference for the management of full-service airlines and for reference by subsequent researchers.
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Kimura, Takashi. "The value of forested landscapes for adjacent residents of an urban forest /." 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/1957/10321.
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Zhang, Shu-Juan, and 張淑娟. "Exploration GSM Method and ISM Method of Assessment on Aesthetics - Campus Tree Pictorial Work Case -." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/r854w5.
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As the world increasingly frequent exchanges, art and culture of the countries, but also with the spread of the humanistic quality around the world, a national goal has always been to develop various advanced countries efforts. Although Taiwan is a national scientific and technological progress, but in this regard the spiritual life is a little behind other advanced countries, regardless of cultural events organized by the government or private, although there are people actively participate, but how to appreciate or judge, but like smoke and mirrors general, know Figure painting was good, but do not know what was good. Therefore, in the past few years, increasing attention aesthetic education, more and more scholars in this field published a variety of papers to explore how the aesthetic, the concept of beauty by way of education, indeed convey to each student. However, the pretty experience is very straightforward subjective feeling, everyone has their own standards and feelings. Thus, as things of beauty and ugliness in the comments or good or bad, it is still an objective standard, to persuade each other to avoid conflict or misunderstanding. So, we are hoping to minimize the impact of human factors, in order to achieve the objective aesthetic standard of review. The purpose of this study hope to the scientific method, to find an objective way to judge beauty and ugliness, so that subjective feelings into objective changes. And the use of GSM method and ISM method to be analyzed, make intuitive sense to form a reasonable assessment. The results show that the GSM method and ISM method with two modes of teaching, teachers in the teaching can explain whether teaching purposes.
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Wu, Meng-Luen, and 吳孟倫. "On Professional Contemporary Style Photographing Instruction Based on Neural Tree Based Classifiers Applied to Image Aesthetics Assessment." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13908677305106243477.
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In this dissertation, we study on how to use artificial intelligence and data mining technologies to make computers able to perceive the concept of beauty, which is an abstract idea, and design a photographing instruction system accordingly. We collect contemporary style images captured in recent years on social networks for analysis. In our instruction system, there are two parts of instruction, one is image characteristics, and the other is image composition. The image characteristics refers to the color and textures, while the image composition refers to the structure of an image. Our proposed photographing instructor is composed of tree-based classifiers and artificial neural networks, and form a random forest to predict whether an image meets the criterions of the contemporary style. Binary decision tree are built for photographing instruction. However, the decision tree suffers from axis-aligned problem, which limits its accuracy. Therefore, we combine the decision tree and neural network, and use the subsets to build multiple random trees as random forest to improve the accuracy. We also described about the limitations of the instruction system. The system gives semantic sentences to users for image characteristics enhancement, and use blocks to indicate which regions should be improved for image composition. In the experiments, we predict whether an image is favorable. When using image characteristics and composition features separately, and achieved 85% accuracy. When combining the two types of features, the accuracy was above 91%. In addition, the proposed instruction system is able to give correct suggestions. After applying the suggestions from our proposed system, the colors were more harmonized, the compositions were more balanced, and the main subjects were enhanced.
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Griner, Jaclyn Emily. "Art and the Everyday: Walking as an Interactive Method for Developing Visual and Aesthetic Awareness." Thesis, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-vh59-2d87.
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This research follows the topic of art and the everyday, and focuses on how our experience of the everyday is a significant area of educational inquiry. This study investigates the potential of walking as an interactive method of art education that relates to the way we learn from our everyday environment, and is connected to the field of visual culture art education, and the aesthetics of everyday life.
By taking participants on an art walk, I can observe how they engage with their everyday environment directly, and examine whether walking can promote visual and aesthetic awareness towards their ordinary surroundings. A total of eight participants will be studied during the walk; participants represent a mixed variation of age and gender, with and without backgrounds in art, and will participate in a walking interview followed by a sit-down interview.
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"A contemporary assessment of the genesis of the modern aesthetic : the impact of modern art on modern architecture." Thesis, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2426.
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This dissertation assesses the impact of modem art on the so-called heroic period of modem architecture, dated for the purposes ofthis thesis from 1917 to 1933. The study is premised on two principal arguments: firstly, modem art - Cubism, in particular - was the seminal influence on the codification of a modem architectural vocabulary. Secondly, the increasing preoccupation with utilitarian tenets obscured and ultimately undermined the semantic significance ofmodem architecture that was derived from the visual arts. A general introduction to the tumultuous history of 20th century architecture substantiates these presuppositions and contextualizes the current interest in the aesthetic intent of the pioneering Modernists. For the sake of reviewing the genesis of the modem aesthetic, the classical ideal of beauty is briefly reflected upon. This is followed by a review of the alternating depiction of pictorial depth and its extraordinary symbiotic relationship with the expression ofplastic space. The cubist-induced perception and experience of space is preceded by the catalytic role of the mechanization ofvision on the rejection ofthe classical canons of beauty. An in-depth analysis of Cubism, coupled with its derivatives that spawned architectural equivalents, reinforces the volumetric incarnation of modem art, exemplified by Purism, Constructivism and Neo-Plasticism. This study is concluded with an assessment of the adopted prerruses and a reflection on the longer-term objectives of this study.Thesis (Ph.D.)-University of Natal, Durban, 1999.
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Bitar, Hassan. "Public aesthetic preferences and efficient water use in urban parks." 2004. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/934.
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Local governments in Melbourne are rethinking the design of parks with the aim of increasing water efficiency. In changing park design to achieve this objective, community landscape aesthetic expectations need also to be considered if these changes are to be socially acceptable. Using a psychophysical approach of landscape assessment, this thesis examines the relationship between public perceptions of park environments in Melbourne and water consumption. The thesis first develops a perceptual classification of a sample of landscapes found in Melbourne’s urban park system. Secondly, it investigates the meanings, perceptions and aesthetic and general preferences the public associate with these park landscapes. Thirdly, it estimates the relative water-use of landscape plantings associated with these park landscapes. Finally, it develops a systematic approach to balancing the public aesthetic expectations and water-use in urban parks. (For complete abstract open document)
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Capecchi, Irene. "Winescape aesthetic perception assessment." Doctoral thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2158/1238417.
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Il termine Winescape rappresenta tutti gli elementi che sono correlati a un paesaggio vitivinicolo. La tesi indaga quali sono le caratteristiche estetico-percettive presenti nel Winescape che vanno a influire sul comportamento e le intenzioni del consumatore. Conoscere quali siano e le loro caratteristiche può essere di supporto ai decisori pubblici che vogliono aumentare la competitività del loro territorio o cantina, essendo queste una delle motivazioni che indirizzano le scelte dei consumatori e visitatori.
Il termine Winescape ha una duplice accezione in base alla relativa scala di riferimento: valutando la sua macro-dimensione, il termine fa riferimento alla regione vitivinicola, mentre prendendo in considerazione la sua micro-dimensione si riferisce all’ambiente della cantina.
Ad oggi, il metodo più frequentemente scelto per individuare quali sono gli elementi estetico percettivi preferiti dagli utenti è la somministrazione di survey al target di riferimento, ma e una procedura che ha dei limiti sempre più evidenti. Data la loro complessità si limitano a un numero ristretto di partecipanti e hanno un dispendio di tempo e risorse molto elevato. Inoltre, la risposta dell’utente può non essere completamente imparziale, viziata dalla consapevolezza di essere sottoposto a un questionario.
La tesi si basa sulla comprensione di questi limiti, dandosi come obiettivo quello di elaborare soluzioni e metodi alternativi. Ciò, definendo un approccio diversificato per ciascuna delle distinte accezioni del termine Winescape.
La soluzione che la tesi presenta per individuare le componenti estetiche che influenzano i comportamenti degli utenti nella macro-dimensione del termine Winescape, fa riferimento al concetto dei servizi ecosistemici culturali (CES), nonché i benefici immateriali di cui possono fruire sia gli abitanti che i turisti.
Un indicatore per conoscere i CES da parte del grande pubblico in modo spontaneo è l’analisi di foto condivise e geotaggate sui Social Media, come per esempio Flickr.
Altresì, nella micro-dimensione il processo è diverso: il Neuromarketing risulta essere l’alternativa più promettente nella ricerca sulla percezione e sulle emozioni, che grazie a questa tecnologia sono registrate in modo inconscio e quindi libere da preconcetti e alterazioni che sono invece inevitabili nella metodologia tradizionale. Il focus è di fornire al Manager di una cantina uno strumento utile per valorizzare, non solo la qualità del prodotto vitivinicolo, ma anche l’ambiente e l’architettura della cantina stessa. L’offrire un’esperienza unica ed emotiva, è il fine ultimo per stabile un lungo rapporto con i visitatori e indurre quest’ultimi a ripetere la visita e diventare consumatori fidelizzati.
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In winescape analysis, the term is also used to indicate two different approaches (Thomas et al., 2010): the macro approach, which looks at the wine landscape in the wine region or on the scale of a wine route (predominant in the literature on wine tourism, e.g. (Getz & Brown, 2006), and the micro approach, which focuses on the environment in a winery. Few researches describe and measure the specific feature of Winescape that influence ecotourists or consumers' behavior and intention. These elements would be an essential support tool for public decision-makers who want to increase their territorial competitiveness.
For the macro approach, few empirical studies aim to identify and measure specific attributes of the winescape that influence wine tourists' intentions and behavior. An approach refers to cultural ecosystem services (CES) that both inhabitants and tourists can benefit from. Recently, in the literature, to overcome limits of stated preference measures, a substitute indicator to know the revealed preferences of the general public on panorama aesthetics and leisure activities is geotagged photos upload on Social Media.
The micro approach Manager of wineries wants to create a beautiful, impressive experience of cellar door to establish a long relationship with visitors to induce consumers to repeat visits and purchase wine. (Bruwer et al., 2013; Bruwer & Alant, 2009). To succeed in these mission managers, they have to consider, in addition to wine product quality, the environment, and the architecture of buildings and services. A promising alternative in perception and emotion research is to use neuromarketing methods.
The aims are to elaborate a methodology that provides a useful tool for mapping and identifying CES and architecture element to help public administration in decision-making and provide helpful information for regional planning and rural development