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Journal articles on the topic "Beauty and art"

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Stecker, Robert. "Free Beauty, Dependent Beauty, and Art." Journal of Aesthetic Education 21, no. 1 (1987): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3332815.

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Janaway, Christopher. "BEAUTY IN NATURE, BEAUTY IN ART." British Journal of Aesthetics 33, no. 4 (1993): 321–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/33.4.321.

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Chang, C. W. "Beauty and Art." Facial Plastic Surgery 22, no. 3 (August 2006): 180–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-2006-950175.

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Gracyk, Theodore A., and Jon Huer. "Art, Beauty, and Pornography." Journal of Aesthetic Education 22, no. 2 (1988): 121. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3333134.

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Donagh, Enda Mc. "Beauty, Art and Theology." Irish Theological Quarterly 72, no. 4 (November 2007): 338–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021140008088806.

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Grayson, M. "Beauty, Art, and Foreplay?" Science 306, no. 5701 (November 26, 2004): 1477a. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.306.5701.1477a.

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Reitan, Meredith Drake. "Beauty Controlled." Journal of Planning History 13, no. 4 (October 21, 2013): 296–321. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1538513213508078.

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In the first two decades of the twentieth century, more than twenty plans were prepared for the Los Angeles Civic Center. With their monumental architectural style, broad boulevards and landscaped public plazas, these proposals draw heavily from planning’s early City Beautiful roots and challenge the idea that Los Angeles had only a “brief infatuation” with the movement. This article considers a number of these proposals, paying particular attention to two schemes that bookend the local movement: the 1907 plan prepared by Charles Mulford Robinson for the Municipal Art Commission and the plan prepared by the Allied Architects Association in the mid-1920s. While neither was implemented in full, the discussions that surrounded their adoption demonstrate a continued local interest in aesthetically oriented planning at a grand scale. A close reading of these plans, and especially the ways in which the authors attempt to communicate their ideas visually provides an opportunity to consider how the profession incorporated competing ideas about art and science, professional expertise, race and real estate, in its attempt to persuade public officials and the public at large to act.
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Gustafsson, Daniel. "The Beauty of Christian Art." Forum Philosophicum 17, no. 2 (2012): 175–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/forphil201217212.

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Kemp, G. "Philosophies of Art and Beauty." British Journal of Aesthetics 42, no. 1 (January 1, 2002): 95–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/42.1.95.

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Falla, Carlo. "TRUTH, BEAUTY, ART and SCIENCE." Journal of Interior Design 20, no. 2 (September 1994): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-1668.1994.tb00189.x.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Beauty and art"

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Palmer, Christine Anne. "Beauty, Ugliness, and Meaning: A Study of Difficult Beauty." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2009. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/2312.

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The emergence of modern art, and subsequently contemporary art, has brought with it a deep-rooted deliberation of the definition of beauty and its role in the realm of art. Unlike many representational artworks, contemporary art less often contains a beauty that is readily available on the surface of an artwork- an easy beauty. Instead, it often possesses a beauty that requires substantial reasoning and understanding- a difficult beauty. Just as the definition of beauty has and will continue to be culturally and historically changing, so must our methodological and pedagogical practices in regards to beauty and Aesthetics. As Art Educators, I feel it is our responsibility to help students process artworks that may contain these complexities (such as difficult beauty), in search of meaning and understanding. Through understanding is derived fluency in processing the artwork, which, in turn, leads to appreciation, and pleasure. The study conducted in this thesis investigated the relationship between beauty, ugliness, and meaning and explored the reasons behind judgments of beauty. It can be concluded, through the results, that beauty and meaning are closely related, and that meaning can have both positive and negative affects on judgments of beauty. Judgments of beauty are both cognitive and affective and appear to have social and cultural foundations, as well as a relationship to personal experience and meaning. Ultimately, strong personal meaning and experience, both positive and negative, outweighed physical, social, and cultural judgments of beauty. Meaning and experience greatly affect judgments of beauty. As educators, we can take the information gleaned from this study to enhance the ability of students to process artworks which contain complexities and may require understanding. As students become more able to recognize and process beauty in its many forms, the fluency in which they process such artworks will increase, thus promoting more positive aesthetic experiences. The children's book, Terrible the Beautiful Bear, contained in Chapter Six of this thesis, is an example of how to teach this concept to young children. Helping students become aware that beauty exists in curious and difficult places, and prompting them to search for meaning, gives students a greater capacity to take part in its pleasure.
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Salov, Amanda. "An absurd beauty." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4982.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on April 10, 2009) Includes bibliographical references.
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Sandy, Heather. "Beauty and the Synthetic." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1591407.

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Nijsse, Jennifer Jean. "Beauty: deepening an understanding of contemporary art, art practice and theory /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2100.

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Barry, Marie Porterfield. "Lesson 05: Ideal Beauty in the Ancient World." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2020. https://dc.etsu.edu/art-appreciation-oer/6.

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Siebert, Chiung-Ling Jyan. "Beauty and Decay." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2021. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8982.

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The intention of the project is to create an environment where the viewer can explore and form a personal narrative in the process of organic interaction with the work. At first glance, the scale of the installation will attract the viewer to the exhibition, however, upon close investigation he will discover there is deterioration, decay, and mutation. The ideas of time, beauty, decay, mortality, and interdependence will be discussed in this paper. The visitors are invited to interact with the work. I hope through spontaneous interaction the arrangements from the viewer will result in evolution of the work. The balance and tension between patterns and evolution, between creativity and predictability will evolve naturally. I hope the viewer can build a meaningful experience based on his or her cultural, intellectual, and social background through interacting with the installation.
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Chan, Brian S. "The beauty of God and the art of worship." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2004. http://www.tren.com.

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Jones, Danielle Lynise. "Perception of cuteness and beauty." Orlando, Fla. : University of Central Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0002538.

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Goldbeck, Justina. "Beauty is in the eye of she who holds it." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1173.

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Justina Goldbeck Artist Statement My work explores themes of supernatural alternate universes and humans interaction with nature. Using the medium of photography I strive to create impossible realities, juxtaposing the real and the imagined. My work portrays mystical women interacting with surreal environments and seeks to portray the simple act of existing nature as a magical and spiritual experience. As a female artist my work has often been criticized for being too beautiful and for this reason, void of substance. I believe that beauty has inherent value and goodness. My photos celebrate the beauty of female strength and the unmarred landscape. The mirror to me represents negative stereotypes of superficiality attributed to women female created art. Male painters and photographers thought history have become famous for portraying the passive female form. However, selfies or other images taken of women and by women are considered exercises in vanity. This series seeks to challenge that narrative. The mirrors in my images add depth to the piece, showing a perspective one would not see otherwise. In most images the mirrors obscure the subject and reflect the environment she is in, uniting women with nature, and revealing something deeper within the subject. Photographs are taken far away from civilization and are not preplanned and are constructed without the use of elaborate technology. My practice is rooted in exploring, discovering new landscapes and new ways to photograph them. My work is notably not manipulated in photoshop. All of the seemingly impossible elements of the pieces are created in camera using mirrors and strategically placed colored camping lights. This lack of manipulation is intended to challenge the idea that images reflect unadulterated reality. It is also to contradict the idea that anything impossible must be photoshopped. My work is influenced by magical realism as well as surrealist photography. As a female photographer working with female subjects it is important to me to escape the traditional relationship between active artist and passive subject. Each photo I take is a collaboration with my female subject as well as a collaboration with nature. Through my photos I seek to emphasize a non objectified female form as she interacts with nature and portray my subject as a magnetic and powerful force uniting in spirit with her natural environment.
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Ka'ili, Tēvita O. "Tauhi Vā : creating beauty through the art of sociospatial relations /." Thesis, e-Book (PDF), 2008. http://www.library.auckland.ac.nz.ezproxy.auckland.ac.nz/eproducts/ebooks/Tauhi_Va_Creating_Beauty_Final_Copy.pdf.

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Books on the topic "Beauty and art"

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Heaton, Aldam. Beauty and art. Chester, NY: Anza Publishing, 2005.

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Baldiserra, Lisa. Beauty queens. Victoria, B.C: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 2004.

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Reekmans, Inge. Forbidden art, forbidden beauty. London: LCP, 2002.

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Foster, Hal. Compulsive beauty. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1993.

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J, Vrieze, and Nieuwe Kerk (Amsterdam Netherlands), eds. Earthly beauty, heavenly art: Art of Islam. Amsterdam: De Nieuwe Kerk, 1999.

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Aucoin, Kevyn. The art of makeup. New York: HarperCollins/Callaway Editions, 1994.

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Lessons in Beauty. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1997.

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Bathers, bodies, beauty. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2006.

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Theodore, Prescott, ed. A broken beauty. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2005.

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Markowitz, Yvonne J. Imperishable beauty: Art nouveau jewelry. Boston: MFA Publications, 2008.

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Book chapters on the topic "Beauty and art"

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Oelker, Aenne, Thomas Horger, and Christina Kuttler. "The Beauty of a Beast." In The Art of Theoretical Biology, 24–25. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33471-0_12.

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Aidan Nichols, O. P. "The Origin and Crisis of Christian Art." In Redeeming Beauty, 19–49. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315245119-3.

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Kaufman, Whitley R. P. "Art, Beauty, and Darwinism." In Human Nature and the Limits of Darwinism, 129–49. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59288-0_7.

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Brozzo, Chiara, and Andy Hamilton. "Art, Beauty, and Morality." In The Murdochian Mind, 347–62. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003031222-30.

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Aidan Nichols, O. P. "Sergei Bulgakov on the Art of the Icon." In Redeeming Beauty, 71–88. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315245119-6.

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Mesplède, Sophie. "Pursuing Natural Beauty." In British Art and the Environment, 147–65. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021.: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003099215-13.

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Spadoni, Aldo. "Hardware Art: Space Art Meets Rocket Science." In The Beauty of Space Art, 169–88. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49359-2_10.

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Aidan Nichols, O. P. "Hans Urs von Balthasar on Art as Redemptive Beauty." In Redeeming Beauty, 53–69. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315245119-5.

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Aidan Nichols, O. P. "The French Dominicans and the Journal L′Art sacré." In Redeeming Beauty, 105–23. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315245119-9.

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Rentschler, Ingo, Terry Caelli, and Lamberto Maffei. "Focusing in on Art." In Beauty and the Brain, 181–216. Basel: Birkhäuser Basel, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-6350-6_9.

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Conference papers on the topic "Beauty and art"

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Santoro, Anthony. "All this useless Beauty." In ACM SIGGRAPH 2004 Art gallery. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1185884.1185956.

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Liu, Xiaodan. "What is Beauty?" In 2021 International Conference on Education, Language and Art (ICELA 2021). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220131.112.

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Sheng, Weina. "Research on the Beauty of Art Animation." In 6th International Conference on Social Science, Education and Humanities Research (SSEHR 2017). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/ssehr-17.2018.52.

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Huang, Haihong, and Yingzi Yu. "Visual Beauty of Color and Ceramic Art Design." In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Humanities Science, Management and Education Technology (HSMET 2019). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/hsmet-19.2019.155.

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"On the Decorative Beauty of Lacquer Painting Art." In 2020 Conference on Social Science and Modern Science. Scholar Publishing Group, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.38007/proceedings.0000719.

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Plumb, Helen. "IMPERMANENT ART- THE ESSENCE OF BEAUTY IN IMPERFECTION." In CAT 2010: Ideas before their time : Connecting the past and present in computer art. BCS Learning & Development, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.14236/ewic/cat2010.9.

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Omar, M., M. Ibrahim, H. M. Razali, and S. F. M. Hashim. "The beauty in the Malay manuscript appreciation of art." In PROCEEDINGS OF 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ADVANCED MATERIALS ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY (ICAMET 2020). AIP Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0055659.

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Tabisz, Stanisław. "City as a work of art." In Virtual City and Territory. Barcelona: Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.8109.

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Impressional and comparative reflection about the existence and the operation of selected cities in a context of their unique aesthetics and beauty, by a painter, draftsman and designer, the chancellor of the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. A description of a direct experience of the city seen as an open work of art, specific in its structural complexity both in its material and spiritual atmosphere
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Woods, B. "Art and Science in Yacht Design (Where does Beauty reside?)." In International Symposium on Marine Design. RINA, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.3940/rina.md.2006.03.

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Li, Minfang, and Minyan Li. "The Pursuit and Innovation of Formal Beauty in Modern Art." In 4th International Conference on Management Science, Education Technology, Arts, Social Science and Economics 2016. Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/msetasse-16.2016.56.

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Reports on the topic "Beauty and art"

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Bault, Shawn M. Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder: A Tale of Strategic Context and Operational Art in Iraq, 2004-2008. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, May 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada566709.

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Prud’homme, Joseph. Quakerism, Christian Tradition, and Secular Misconceptions: A Christian’s Thoughts on the Political Philosophy of Ihsan. IIIT, October 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47816/01.006.20.

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In his elegant and insightful book Muqtedar Khan admonishes Muslims to do beautiful things. It is an arresting call in a book itself beautiful in style, clarity, and boldness of vision for a better world. Professor Khan’s quest for beauty in a specific Muslim context: the beauty that arises when actions are done with the inescapable sense that God sees all one does – or, Ihsan. But what exactly do the commands of God require of those who, knowing He is watching, set themselves the task of scrupulously doing His will?
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Galenson, David. Anticipating Artistic Success (or, How to Beat the Art Market): Lessons from History. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, February 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w11152.

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Harmon, Christopher C. 'Are We Beasts?' Churchill and the Moral Question of World War II 'Area Bombing'. Fort Belvoir, VA: Defense Technical Information Center, December 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada529814.

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Ryan, Mark David, Greg Hearn, Marion McCutcheon, Stuart Cunningham, and Katherine Kirkwood. Australian Cultural and Creative Activity: A Population and Hotspot Analysis: Albany and Denmark. Queensland University of Technology, September 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/rep.eprints.213126.

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Located a 45-minute drive apart from each other in WA’s Great Southern Region, Albany and Denmark attract creative practitioners who are drawn to the region’s natural beauty and country lifestyle. A regional services hub, Albany has a robust creative services presence with a legacy media sector that functions as a hub for public and commercial media organisations servicing Great Southern and the Wheatbelt. Denmark, while a much smaller town, is renowned nationally as an enclave for locally, nationally, and internationally acclaimed artists and creatives.
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Pompeu, Gustavo, and José Luiz Rossi. Real/Dollar Exchange Rate Prediction Combining Machine Learning and Fundamental Models. Inter-American Development Bank, September 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004491.

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The study of the predictability of exchange rates has been a very recurring theme on the economics literature for decades, and very often is not possible to beat a random walk prediction, particularly when trying to forecast short time periods. Although there are several studies about exchange rate forecasting in general, predictions of specifically Brazilian real (BRL) to United States dollar (USD) exchange rates are very hard to find in the literature. The objective of this work is to predict the specific BRL to USD exchange rates by applying machine learning models combined with fundamental theories from macroeconomics, such as monetary and Taylor rule models, and compare the results to those of a random walk model by using the root mean squared error (RMSE) and the Diebold-Mariano (DM) test. We show that it is possible to beat the random walk by these metrics.
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Blaxter, Tamsin, and Tara Garnett. Primed for power: a short cultural history of protein. TABLE, November 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.56661/ba271ef5.

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Protein has a singularly prominent place in discussions about food. It symbolises fitness, strength and masculinity, motherhood and care. It is the preferred macronutrient of affluence and education, the mark of a conscientious diet in wealthy countries and of wealth and success elsewhere. Through its association with livestock it stands for pastoral beauty and tradition. It is the high-tech food of science fiction, and in discussions of changing agricultural systems it is the pivotal nutrient around which good and bad futures revolve. There is no denying that we need protein and that engaging with how we produce and consume it is a crucial part of our response to the environmental crises. But discussions of these issues are affected by their cultural context—shaped by the power of protein. Given this, we argue that it is vital to map that cultural power and understand its origins. This paper explores the history of nutritional science and international development in the Global North with a focus on describing how protein gained its cultural meanings. Starting in the first half of the 19th century and running until the mid-1970s, it covers two previous periods when protein rose to singular prominence in food discourse: in the nutritional science of the late-19th century, and in international development in the post-war era. Many parallels emerge, both between these two eras and in comparison with the present day. We hope that this will help to illuminate where and why the symbolism and story of protein outpace the science—and so feed more nuanced dialogue about the future of food.
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HEFNER, Robert. IHSAN ETHICS AND POLITICAL REVITALIZATION Appreciating Muqtedar Khan’s Islam and Good Governance. IIIT, October 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.47816/01.001.20.

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Ours is an age of pervasive political turbulence, and the scale of the challenge requires new thinking on politics as well as public ethics for our world. In Western countries, the specter of Islamophobia, alt-right populism, along with racialized violence has shaken public confidence in long-secure assumptions rooted in democracy, diversity, and citizenship. The tragic denouement of so many of the Arab uprisings together with the ascendance of apocalyptic extremists like Daesh and Boko Haram have caused an even greater sense of alarm in large parts of the Muslim-majority world. It is against this backdrop that M.A. Muqtedar Khan has written a book of breathtaking range and ethical beauty. The author explores the history and sociology of the Muslim world, both classic and contemporary. He does so, however, not merely to chronicle the phases of its development, but to explore just why the message of compassion, mercy, and ethical beauty so prominent in the Quran and Sunna of the Prophet came over time to be displaced by a narrow legalism that emphasized jurisprudence, punishment, and social control. In the modern era, Western Orientalists and Islamists alike have pushed the juridification and interpretive reification of Islamic ethical traditions even further. Each group has asserted that the essence of Islam lies in jurisprudence (fiqh), and both have tended to imagine this legal heritage on the model of Western positive law, according to which law is authorized, codified, and enforced by a leviathan state. “Reification of Shariah and equating of Islam and Shariah has a rather emaciating effect on Islam,” Khan rightly argues. It leads its proponents to overlook “the depth and heights of Islamic faith, mysticism, philosophy or even emotions such as divine love (Muhabba)” (13). As the sociologist of Islamic law, Sami Zubaida, has similarly observed, in all these developments one sees evidence, not of a traditionalist reassertion of Muslim values, but a “triumph of Western models” of religion and state (Zubaida 2003:135). To counteract these impoverishing trends, Khan presents a far-reaching analysis that “seeks to move away from the now failed vision of Islamic states without demanding radical secularization” (2). He does so by positioning himself squarely within the ethical and mystical legacy of the Qur’an and traditions of the Prophet. As the book’s title makes clear, the key to this effort of religious recovery is “the cosmology of Ihsan and the worldview of Al-Tasawwuf, the science of Islamic mysticism” (1-2). For Islamist activists whose models of Islam have more to do with contemporary identity politics than a deep reading of Islamic traditions, Khan’s foregrounding of Ihsan may seem unfamiliar or baffling. But one of the many achievements of this book is the skill with which it plumbs the depth of scripture, classical commentaries, and tasawwuf practices to recover and confirm the ethic that lies at their heart. “The Quran promises that God is with those who do beautiful things,” the author reminds us (Khan 2019:1). The concept of Ihsan appears 191 times in 175 verses in the Quran (110). The concept is given its richest elaboration, Khan explains, in the famous hadith of the Angel Gabriel. This tradition recounts that when Gabriel appeared before the Prophet he asked, “What is Ihsan?” Both Gabriel’s question and the Prophet’s response make clear that Ihsan is an ideal at the center of the Qur’an and Sunna of the Prophet, and that it enjoins “perfection, goodness, to better, to do beautiful things and to do righteous deeds” (3). It is this cosmological ethic that Khan argues must be restored and implemented “to develop a political philosophy … that emphasizes love over law” (2). In its expansive exploration of Islamic ethics and civilization, Khan’s Islam and Good Governance will remind some readers of the late Shahab Ahmed’s remarkable book, What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic (Ahmed 2016). Both are works of impressive range and spiritual depth. But whereas Ahmed stood in the humanities wing of Islamic studies, Khan is an intellectual polymath who moves easily across the Islamic sciences, social theory, and comparative politics. He brings the full weight of his effort to conclusion with policy recommendations for how “to combine Sufism with political theory” (6), and to do so in a way that recommends specific “Islamic principles that encourage good governance, and politics in pursuit of goodness” (8).
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Perdigão, Rui A. P. New Horizons of Predictability in Complex Dynamical Systems: From Fundamental Physics to Climate and Society. Meteoceanics, October 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.46337/211021.

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Discerning the dynamics of complex systems in a mathematically rigorous and physically consistent manner is as fascinating as intimidating of a challenge, stirring deeply and intrinsically with the most fundamental Physics, while at the same time percolating through the deepest meanders of quotidian life. The socio-natural coevolution in climate dynamics is an example of that, exhibiting a striking articulation between governing principles and free will, in a stochastic-dynamic resonance that goes way beyond a reductionist dichotomy between cosmos and chaos. Subjacent to the conceptual and operational interdisciplinarity of that challenge, lies the simple formal elegance of a lingua franca for communication with Nature. This emerges from the innermost mathematical core of the Physics of Coevolutionary Complex Systems, articulating the wealth of insights and flavours from frontier natural, social and technical sciences in a coherent, integrated manner. Communicating thus with Nature, we equip ourselves with formal tools to better appreciate and discern complexity, by deciphering a synergistic codex underlying its emergence and dynamics. Thereby opening new pathways to see the “invisible” and predict the “unpredictable” – including relative to emergent non-recurrent phenomena such as irreversible transformations and extreme geophysical events in a changing climate. Frontier advances will be shared pertaining a dynamic that translates not only the formal, aesthetical and functional beauty of the Physics of Coevolutionary Complex Systems, but also enables and capacitates the analysis, modelling and decision support in crucial matters for the environment and society. By taking our emerging Physics in an optic of operational empowerment, some of our pioneering advances will be addressed such as the intelligence system Earth System Dynamic Intelligence and the Meteoceanics QITES Constellation, at the interface between frontier non-linear dynamics and emerging quantum technologies, to take the pulse of our planet, including in the detection and early warning of extreme geophysical events from Space.
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Reichmuth, David, Jessica Dunn, and Don Anair. Driving Cleaner: Electric Cars and Pickups Beat Gasoline on Lifetime Global Warming Emissions. Union of Concerned Scientists, July 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.47923/2022.14657.

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Passenger cars and trucks are one of the largest sources of global warming emissions in the US. Electric vehicles (EVs) have the potential to dramatically reduce these emissions, especially when charged by low-carbon renewable electricity. New UCS analysis finds that over its lifetime—from manufacturing to operation to disposal—the average new battery electric vehicle produces more than 50 percent less global warming pollution than a comparable gasoline or diesel vehicle. Based on the most recently available data on power plant emissions and EV sales, driving the average EV in the US produces global warming emissions equal to a gasoline vehicle that gets 91 miles per gallon. To speed climate benefits and to encourage more drivers to choose electric vehicles, the report recommends policy changes and investments to bring even more renewable energy onto the grid, develop robust battery recycling programs to help reduce manufacturing impacts, and make EVs more accessible and affordable.
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