Journal articles: 'Female aesthetics'

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Griffin, Garrett R., and Jennifer C. Kim. "Ideal Female Brow Aesthetics." Clinics in Plastic Surgery 40, no. 1 (January 2013): 147–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cps.2012.07.003.

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Cherenfant, Sybile. "Gender Preferences in Classroom Aesthetics." Journal of Student Research 2, no. 1 (May 31, 2013): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.47611/jsr.v2i1.95.

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Male and female students on the Robert Morris University campus were asked to complete a survey to analyze aesthetics in classrooms. Their answers helped determine what each gender found the most important in his or her learning environment, and whether female students were or were not the most aware of their aesthetic environment.

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Bruehlmann, C., M. Blumer, and M. B. Soyka. "Impact of intraoperative Cone-Beam Computed Tomography use on patient satisfaction after closed nasal reduction." Rhinology Online 4 (May 1, 2021): 77–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.4193/rhinol/21.018.

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Background: The aim of the study was to assess, whether there is a difference in aesthetic and functional patient satisfaction between closed nasal reductions with intraoperative Cone-Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) and without using intraoperative medical imaging. Methods: A monocentric, retrospective cohort study of 43 patients (20 patients treated with intraoperative CBCT and 23 patients treated without intraoperative imaging) was conducted. Subjective postoperative aesthetic and functional aspects of the nose were assessed. Additionally, questions comparing the aesthetics and function of the nose before and after the accident and on the desire of revision surgery were asked. Results: Both the SCHNOS-C and total SCHNOS score in the non-CBCT group were higher than the respective scores of the CBCT-group. The comparison of SCHNOS-C between male subjects of the two groups showed no statistical significance. The comparison of SCHNOS-C between male and female subjects over both groups showed significantly higher scores for female subjects. Conclusions: Patients undergoing surgery with intraoperative CBCT imaging showed better aesthetical outcomes than patients, treated without intraoperative imaging. However, the difference showed no clinical importance, so that both strategies appear to have comparable outcomes regarding postoperative aesthetics and function of the nose. Gender instead of the different strategies could contribute to the demonstrated differences. Female subjects seem to be less satisfied with the aesthetics of their nose postoperatively, potentially being more sensitive to remaining nasal deformities after surgery.

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Gates, Eugene. "The Female Voice: Sexual Aesthetics Revisited." Journal of Aesthetic Education 22, no. 4 (1988): 59. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3332981.

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Roye, Anja, Lea Höfel, and Thomas Jacobsen. "Aesthetics of Faces." Journal of Psychophysiology 22, no. 1 (January 2008): 41–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/0269-8803.22.1.41.

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Temporal and brain topographic characteristics of the aesthetic judgment of male and female faces were investigated, using event-related potentials and reaction times. The evaluative aesthetic judgment of facial beauty (beautiful vs. not beautiful) was contrasted with a nonevaluative descriptive judgment of head shape (round vs. oval). Analysis showed longer reaction times in the descriptive than in the evaluative task, suggesting that the descriptive judgment demanded more cognitive effort and may entail greater uncertainty. Electrophysiologically, the evaluative judgment elicited a negativity (400 to 480 ms) for the judgment not beautiful, maximal over midline leads. A comparable deflection has been previously reported for evaluative judgments of graphic patterns. It was interpreted as an impression formation independent of the type of stimulus material, occurring when an aesthetic entity is judged intentionally. Besides this effect, which was independent of the gender of the face, the temporal characteristics of aesthetic evaluation differed depending on the gender of the face. We report a negativity for male faces only (280–440 ms) and a late positivity (520–1200 ms), which was stronger for female faces, both concerning not beautiful judgments. Thus, the evaluation of male and female facial beauty was processed in different time-windows. The descriptive judgment round elicited a larger posterior positivity compared with oval (320–620 ms). These results complement investigations of the architecture and time course of evaluative aesthetic and descriptive judgment processes, using faces as stimulus material.

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Kılıç, Duygu, Banu Arzu Alkan, and Kerem Kılıç. "Use of a Surgical Guide in a Crown-Lengthening Procedure to Improve the Aesthetics of the Interdental Papillae: A Case Report." International Dental Research 2, no. 3 (December 15, 2012): 75. http://dx.doi.org/10.5577/intdentres.2012.vol2.no3.3.

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Aim: This case report describes the use of a surgical guide in a crown-lengthening procedure to improve the aesthetics of the anterior interdental papillae in an adult female patient. Methodology: A 40-year-old female underwent a crown-lengthening procedure with guidance provided by a surgical template to correct unsatisfactory aesthetics in the anterior gingiva and prosthesis. Results: The patient’s functional and aesthetic expectations were met successfully with interdisciplinary treatment, including surgical crown lengthening and the placement of all-ceramic restorations. Conclusions: This case showed that satisfactory anterior aesthetics can be achieved by comprehensive examination, careful planning of treatment employing a surgical guide, and prosthodontist–periodontist teamwork, even in the complete absence of interdental papillae. How to cite this article: Kılıç D, Alkan BA, Kılıç K. Use of a Surgical Guide in a Crown-Lengthening Procedure to Improve the Aesthetics of the Interdental Papillae: A Case Report. Int Dent Res 2012;2:75-80. Linguistic Revision: The English in this manuscript has been checked by at least two professional editors, both native speakers of English.

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Meagher, Michelle. "Jenny Saville and a Feminist Aesthetics of Disgust." Hypatia 18, no. 4 (2003): 23–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2003.tb01411.x.

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This essay examines an aesthetics of disgust through an analysis of the work of Scottish painter Jenny Saville. Saville's paintings suggest that there is something valuable in retaining and interrogating our immediate and seemingly unambivalent reactions of disgust. I contrast Saville's representations of disgust to the repudiation of disgust that characterizes contemporary corporeal politics. Drawing on the theoretical work of Elspeth Probyn and Julia Kristeva, I suggest that an aesthetics of disgust reveals the fundamental ambiguity of embodiment, allowing us to critically attend to the aesthetic and cultural objectification of the female body.

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Abidia, Randa F., Ambreen Azam, Ahmed A. El –Hejazi, Khuloud K. Al-Mugbel, Mehdiya S. Haider, and Noura M. Al-Owaid. "Female Dental Student’s Perception of Their Dental Aesthetics and Desired Dental Treatment." European Scientific Journal, ESJ 13, no. 3 (January 31, 2017): 171. http://dx.doi.org/10.19044/esj.2017.v13n3p171.

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Objectives: This study aims to assess the self-perception of female dental students of their dental aesthetics regarding their satisfaction, its effect on their quality of life and felt need for treatment. Materials and Method: This is a descriptive study for 1st, 2nd and 3rd year dental students (n=110) in the College of Dentistry at Princess Nourah University (PNU). The survey was distributed via link "Google form". A 20 item questionnaire was prepared and tested before on seven students for clarity. Questions were regarding how students feel about their dental aesthetics and what they desire for treatment. Whether they felt their teeth affected their attractiveness, confidence and quality of life. Data was entered in SPSS for statistical analysis. Results: With a response rate of 94.5% majority (89.4%) of students felt their teeth affected the attractiveness of their faces. Almost one third (30.8%) have tried to hide their smile. Around half (51%) were not satisfied with their tooth colour. Almost two thirds of students (61.5%) felt their quality of life is affected by the appearance of their teeth. ‘Tooth whitening’ was selected by almost two thirds of students (64.4%) followed by almost half (46.2%) the students wanting ‘orthodontic treatment’. Conclusion: Dental aesthetics is rated highly among female dental students.The majority of the students felt that their teeth affected the attractiveness of their face and influenced their quality of life. Students desired teeth whiteneing followed by orthodontic treatment as their perceived need for aesthetic dental treatments.

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Ren, Xiaoni. "Exploiting women’s aesthetic labour to fly high in the Chinese airline Industry." Gender in Management: An International Journal 32, no. 6 (August 7, 2017): 386–403. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/gm-03-2017-0033.

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Purpose Drawing upon the existing theoretical and empirical sourced knowledge of aesthetic labour and gender, this paper aims to explore the exploitation of women’s aesthetic labour in the Chinese airline industry and the underlying causes from a contextual point of view. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative study has emerged from a broader research project which aimed to explore women’s experiences of work-family conflict and their career aspirations in the Chinese airline industry in which aesthetic labour was prevalent as a significant issue during semi-structured interviews with female employees and HR/line management. Thus, the study draws upon interview data focusing on recruitment and selection of flight attendants in three Chinese airlines. This is complemented by secondary sources of data from Chinese television programmes and job advertisements. Findings This study reveals that aesthetics is both gendered and context-bound. It exposes that aesthetic labour in Chinese airlines is demanded from women but not men. It highlights that gendered aesthetic labour is continuously shaped by four influential contextual issues – legislation, labour market practices, national culture and airline management practices. Originality/value By uncovering the dynamic interconnectedness of gender and aesthetics and illustrating the exploitation of women’s aesthetic labour for commercial gains in Chinese airlines, this paper contributes to the understanding of the gendered aesthetics in the airline industry. It also offers new insights into the theory of aesthetic labour by locating it in a context that differs significantly from other socio-cultural contexts.

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Strajnic, Ljiljana, Dijana Bulatovic, Ivica Stancic, and Rade Zivkovic. "Self-perception and satisfaction with dental appearance and aesthetics with respect to patients’ age, gender, and level of education." Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo 144, no. 11-12 (2016): 580–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/sarh1612580s.

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Introduction. Patient?s subjective evaluation of dental appearance and aesthetics is becoming an increasingly important factor in aesthetic treatments and prosthetic therapy. Objective. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of age, education level, gender, and different dental status and the appearance of the upper anterior teeth (color, size, shape, position and alignment of the anterior teeth) on the satisfaction of the respondents with dental appearance and aesthetics of their upper anterior teeth and their desire for improvement. Methods. The study encompassed 480 people aged 20 to 50 years with an average age of 30.84 years. There were 236 male and 244 female subjects. The respondents were interviewed using a questionnaire specially designed for the purpose of this research. For the study, the subjects were divided into the following three age groups: the younger age group (20-30 years of age), the middle age group (31-40 years of age), and the older age group (41-50 years of age). Results. The conducted study did not reveal statistical significance with respect to gender in any of the examined parameters (p > 0.05). A little more than one half of the respondents in each age group were satisfied with their dental appearance and aesthetics (60.3% of the respondents in the age group of 20-30 years, 55.7% in the age group of 31-40, and 53.7% in the age group of 41-50 years of age). Satisfaction with dental appearance and aesthetics increases linearly with the increase in the level of education and was the highest among the respondents with university degree (33.3%). Conclusion. Female respondents were more dissatisfied with their dental appearance and aesthetics as compared with male respondents, but the difference was found to be non-significant. Patients with higher education level were more satisfied with their dental appearance and aesthetics than those with lower education.

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Malambo, Pasmore, Andre P. Kengne, Estelle V. Lambert, Anniza De Villiers, and Thandi Puoane. "Does Physical Activity Mediate the Association Between Perceived Neighborhood Aesthetics and Overweight/Obesity Among South African Adults Living in Selected Urban and Rural Communities?" Journal of Physical Activity and Health 14, no. 12 (December 1, 2017): 925–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2016-0147.

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Background: To investigate the mediation effects of physical activity (PA) on the relationship between the perceived neighborhood aesthetic environment and overweight/obesity in free-living South Africans. Methods: A cross-sectional study of 671 adults aged ≥ 35 years was analyzed. PA was assessed using the validated International Physical Activity Questionnaire. Perceived neighborhood aesthetics was assessed using the Neighborhood Environment Walkability Scale Questionnaire. Results: Of 671 participants, 76.0% were women, 34.1% aged 45–54 years, and 69.2% were overweight or obese. In adjusted logistic regression models, overweight/obesity was significantly associated with neighborhood aesthetics [odds ratio (OR) = 0.68; 95% confidence interval (CI), 0.50–0.93] and PA (OR = 0.65; 95% CI, 0.65–0.90). In expanded multivariable models, overweight/obesity was associated with age 45–55 years (OR = 1.59; 95% CI, 1.05–2.40), female gender (OR = 6.24; 95% CI, 3.95–9.86), tertiary education (OR = 4.05; 95% CI, 1.19–13.86), and urban residence (OR = 2.46; 95% CI, 1.66–3.65). Conclusion: Aesthetics was positively associated with PA; both aesthetics and PA were negatively associated with overweight and obesity. There was no evidence to support a significant mediating effect of PA on the relationship between aesthetics and overweight/obesity. Future studies should consider objective assessment of aesthetics and PA. In addition, future studies should consider using longitudinal design to evaluate food-related environments, which are related to overweight or obesity.

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Li, Yun, Rong Rong, and Xiaoxiang Qi. "Labor, Alienation, and Aesthetics: Perspectives from Chinese Female Worker Poets." International Journal of Literary Humanities 15, no. 2 (2017): 29–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2327-7912/cgp/v15i02/29-42.

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Mermann-Jozwiak, Elisabeth. "The German feminist movement and the question of female aesthetics." Women's Studies International Forum 16, no. 6 (November 1993): 615–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0277-5395(08)80006-4.

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Pandey, Anita. "Language and Representation: Linguistic Aesthetics of Female West African Writers." Research in African Literatures 35, no. 3 (September 2004): 112–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2004.35.3.112.

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Papayanis, Marilyn Adler. "Feeling Free and Female Sexuality: The Aesthetics of Joni Mitchell." Popular Music and Society 33, no. 5 (December 2010): 641–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2010.510919.

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Wiley, Catherine A. "Vernon Lee: Aesthetics, History, and the Victorian Female Intellectual (review)." Victorian Periodicals Review 38, no. 1 (2005): 117–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2005.0014.

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Pandey, Anita. "Language and Representation: Linguistic Aesthetics of Female West African Writers." Research in African Literatures 35, no. 3 (2004): 112–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2004.0071.

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Ousterhout, Douglas K. "Feminization of the Forehead: Contour Changing to Improve Female Aesthetics." Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 79, no. 5 (May 1987): 701–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00006534-198705000-00003.

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Stanton, Anna Ziajka. "Spatial Attractions: The Literary Aesthetics of Female Erotic Experience in the Colony." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 8, no. 2 (April 2021): 253–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2020.42.

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This article examines the aesthetics of representing female sexuality within colonial narratives of the West–East encounter. I consider two literary works whose female characters challenge the gendered metaphors of empire that predominated in a tradition of colonial literature and its postcolonial rewriting: the short story “La femme adultère” by the French-Algerian writer Albert Camus, and the novel Wāḥat al-ghurūb by Egyptian writer Bahāʾ Ṭāhir. In each text, the standard heterosexual troping of imperial conquest as a male activity directed at or against a feminized other is inverted to place a European woman’s sexually aroused body at the center of the drama of colonial contact. Reading these two texts against the grain of the aesthetic formulas that they employ to contemplate the political stakes of cross-cultural intimacies in a colonial setting, I argue that the phenomenological immediacy of how the female protagonist in each is shown to experience the eroticism of colonial space introduces a break in these formulas. The loss of narrative plausibility in each text that follows from these erotic interludes, I propose, ultimately testifies to the irreducibility of the body to either enforcing or disputing the epistemologies of the colonial project.

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Hui, Calvin. "The Geopolitical Aesthetics." Prism 18, no. 1 (March 1, 2021): 170–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/25783491-8922233.

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Abstract This article focuses on contemporary Chinese film director Jia Zhangke 賈樟柯 (b. 1970–) and his engagement with what critical/cultural theorist Fredric Jameson (b. 1934- ) calls geopolitical aesthetics or cognitive mapping. Through the county-level city (xiancheng 縣城) perspective, the block (bankuai 板塊) structure, the interplay of real and fictional, and the intertextual and transmedial references, Jia explores the possibilities of representational forms and aspires to map and scan the otherwise unrepresentable totality that is global capitalism in China. In this essay, the author engages with Jia's film Shijie 世界 (The World; 2004) and examines the portrayal of the migrant workers and their performances in the World Park in Beijing, China. Focusing on political economy and social class, he suggests that The World renders visible the dialectic of mobility and immobility of the migrant workers within the context of global capitalism in China. Shifting gears to gender, he explains how the female migrant workers, dressed in lavish and extravagant costumes and performing exotic dances for the tourists in the World Park, can be regarded as a productive site for deciphering the otherwise imperceptible contradictions of globalizing China. In particular, the author analyzes the film's opening sequence to show that the world featured on-screen is located at the disjuncture between reality and fantasy.

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Cranmer, Gregory A., Maria Brann, and Nicholas D. Bowman. "Male Athletes, Female Aesthetics: The Continued Ambivalence Toward Female Athletes in ESPN’s The Body Issue." International Journal of Sport Communication 7, no. 2 (June 2014): 145–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/ijsc.2014-0021.

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Previous studies have suggested that media reify frames that subtly enforce sex differences in a manner that detracts from women athletes’ athleticism. This phenomenon is referred to as ambivalence. To analyze ambivalence, this study introduces a theoretically and empirically supported coding scheme that was used to conduct a quantitative frame analysis of 157 images featured in ESPN’s The Body Issue. These images were coded for frames that de-emphasize athleticism, sexualize athletes, or deny a sporting context. Results suggest that athlete sex is associated with de-emphasized athleticism and sexualized frames, and sport gender is associated with context frames. Results also support longitudinal trends in The Body Issue series, which suggest that the series has become more sexualized and removed from a sports context but has decreased the use of frames that de-emphasize athleticism. In general, The Body Issue continues to reinforce established media trends that trivialize female athletes, despite claiming to do the opposite.

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Havas, Julia, and Maria Sulimma. "Through the Gaps of My Fingers: Genre, Femininity, and Cringe Aesthetics in Dramedy Television." Television & New Media 21, no. 1 (May 30, 2018): 75–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527476418777838.

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Concentrating on the series “Girls” (2012–2017), “Fleabag” (2016), and “Insecure” (2016–), this article examines the female-centered dramedy as a current genre of U.S.-American television culture with specific investments in gendered value hierarchies. The article explores the format’s dominant narrative and aesthetic practices with specific focus on prestige dramedy’s “cringe” aesthetics. Cringe is increasingly mobilized as a mode of political expression following the format’s privileging of female subjectivities. As such, cringe is tasked with negotiating the tensions between drama and comedy on one hand and intersectional relations of identity politics on the other. Character “complexity,” embedded in ideological themes around identity, modifies the “comedy” in cringe and becomes associated with the more prestigious dramatic mode, this way governing the texts’ appeal to cultural value. The article demonstrates the ways the female-centered cringe dramedy expresses its politicization and “complexity” via disturbing gendered expectations of mediated femininity, and specifically body and sexuality politics.

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Yates-Richard, Meina. "‘Hell You Talmbout’: Janelle Monáe’s Black Cyberfeminist Sonic Aesthetics." Feminist Review 127, no. 1 (March 2021): 35–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0141778920973648.

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This article explores the ways in which Janelle Monáe’s audiovisual performances leverage black female flesh to trouble historically constituted imaginings of ‘the human’. Tracking Monáe’s audiovisual aesthetics across ‘Many moons’ and Dirty Computer, I interrogate acoustic and imagistic resonances that recall the repeating horrors of bondage, and which also constitute performative ‘fabulations’ whereby freedoms that are engendered specifically by and within black female flesh might be imagined. Monáe ‘enfleshes’ the cyborg to critique cyberfeminist and posthumanist theories that advocate for material dissolution as a framework for liberation, as well as to trouble black women’s historical relationships to the category ‘human’. Rather than understand Dirty Computer as a (re)turn to the human Monáe, I contend that the project extends the artist’s longstanding critical engagement with the black female cyborg and black sonic cyberfeminist liberatory potentialities.

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He, Yali, Yan Yang, Abdelrahman Mohamed, and Genmiao Qi. "Esthetic Evaluation of Facial Soft Tissue Based on Nonrigid Image Deformation." Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2020 (November 3, 2020): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/2526542.

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As the time passes by, orthodontics is paying more and more attention to facial aesthetics. However, related research is mostly in the stage of qualitative evaluation without clinical reference of specific soft tissue data. Therefore, by collecting the pre- and post-treatment photographs of 26 adult female patients, this study used image deformation technology to process the photos of a 23-year-old female patient, and two groups of facial photos were established. Then, 22 males and 27 females were selected to conduct an aesthetic evaluation to the original and processed photos by questionnaire survey. Relevant indicators of the corresponding photos were obtained. Group t-test, paired t-test, and nonparametric test were used in data calculation. For patients with high compliance, deep overbite with low angle or average angle are more suitable for fixed appliance with the bite plate, while with high angle are not suitable. The nonprofessionals prefer narrower face, more retracted lip position, and fuller chin than in the actual treatment. Among them, female evaluators prefer narrower lower face than male evaluators do. Male evaluators prefer thicker lips and chins, especially thicker lower lips than female evaluators do. Laypeople prefer narrower face, more retracted lip position, and fuller chin.

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Edgerton, Milton T. "Discussion: Feminization of the Forehead: Contour Changing to Improve Female Aesthetics." Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 79, no. 5 (May 1987): 712–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00006534-198705000-00004.

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De Klerk, Helena M., and Stephna Lubbe. "Female consumers' evaluation of apparel quality: exploring the importance of aesthetics." Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management: An International Journal 12, no. 1 (February 29, 2008): 36–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/13612020810857934.

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Pietruski, Piotr, Wiktor Paskal, Adriana M. Paskal, Janusz Jaworowski, Łukasz Paluch, and Bartłomiej Noszczyk. "Analysis of the Visual Perception of Female Breast Aesthetics and Symmetry." Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 144, no. 6 (December 2019): 1257–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/prs.0000000000006292.

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McGowan, Grace. "“I Know I Can’t Change the Future, But I Can Change the Past”: Toni Morrison, Robin Coste Lewis, and the Classical Tradition." Contemporary Women's Writing 13, no. 3 (November 2019): 339–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpaa001.

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Abstract “A central figure in transnational intellectual history” (Roynon, 2013), Toni Morrison’s oeuvre has helped deconstruct the triangulated relationship between a European Graeco-Roman classical tradition, Africa, and America. Morrison’s deconstruction of the classical past and its aesthetics have laid the foundation for the reconstructive work of a new generation of writers, including Robin Coste Lewis. Both writers renegotiate and reclaim a classical aesthetic by recovering its African roots and situating it in an African American context. In addition, the article (1) examines the role of a classical aesthetic in beauty discourse and Robin Coste Lewis’s re-vision of the black female body and (2) addresses what this means for canonicity, linking Lewis’s ambivalence about reclaiming a classical aesthetic to Morrison’s ambivalence in “Unspeakable Things Unspoken” (1987).

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CAVALCANTI, Sabrina Maciel, Flavia Bridi VALENTIM, Selva Maria Gonçalves GUERRA, and Elizabeth Pimentel ROSETTI. "Aesthetic perception of gingival smiles." Revista de Odontologia da UNESP 47, no. 1 (February 19, 2018): 45–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1807-2577.08017.

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Abstract Introduction Dentists have shown interest in learning new techniques to create more attractive smiles, but with little concern for understanding the reasons why the patient is dissatisfied. Objective To evaluate the aesthetic perception of laypersons in dentistry in comparison with general practitioner dentists and periodontists regarding the gingival smile, and to compare this aesthetic perception between the male and female genders. Methodology A photograph of a standard smile was taken and was digitally modified to create the periodontal conditions of a gingival smile from 0.5 mm to 2.5 mm. The photographs were judged by 150 individuals (25-65 years of age), 81 female and 69 male, divided into three groups: 50 laypersons, 50 general practitioners and 50 periodontists. The evaluation was performed using a visual analog scale. The statistical evaluation tests used were the Pearson Chi squared test, Student's t-test, ANOVA and Newman-keuls. Result The aesthetic perceptions among the professionals are similar, and they observe more subtle changes in the aesthetics of the smile than the laypersons observe. The general practitioners and periodontists were similarly sensitive to changes generated in the gingival smile when these reached 1.5 mm, while laypersons only perceived them when these changes reached 2.5 mm. There was no significant difference in the aesthetic perception of male and female evaluators in any of the groups. Conclusion The aesthetic perception of the gingival smile between general practitioner dentists and periodontists was similar, and dental professionals were more demanding than the layperson. There was no difference between female and male aesthetic perceptions.

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Junqueira, Adriana Maria Ribeiro, Giovana Rodrigues Perin Carnaúba, Claudia Cristina da Costa Telles, and Madelei Jomhara Vargas-Mendoza. "Restabelecimento do sorriso com restaurações em resina composta após clareamento dental: relato de caso." Journal of Dentistry & Public Health 11, no. 2 (December 15, 2020): 130. http://dx.doi.org/10.17267/2596-3368dentistry.v11i2.3302.

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INTRODUCTION: Currently, patients desire a harmonious and natural smile, for which minimally invasive procedures must be prioritized. Teeth bleaching and direct resin composite restorations are indicated treatments for changing tooth color and shape, restoring aesthetics and function. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to present a clinical case showing that a smile can be reestablished through teeth bleaching and direct resin composite restorations. CASE REPORT: A 33-year-old female patient presented at a clinical consultation to discuss the aesthetics of her smile after finishing orthodontic treatment. Her teeth showed altered color and shape, so dental bleaching and direct restorations were planned. Dental bleaching was performed using the combined technique, and 14 days later, composite resin restorations were completed in the maxillary incisors, canines, and premolars. CONCLUSION: Tooth bleaching and resin composite restorations are conservative approaches that allowed the aesthetic reestablishment of one’s smile.

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Holla, Sylvia M. "Food in fashion modelling: Eating as an aesthetic and moral practice." Ethnography 21, no. 1 (April 13, 2018): 26–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1466138118769914.

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This paper investigates the relation between food, the body and morality in fashion modelling. More than has been recognized so far, eating is a continuous form of body work that is decidedly essential to aesthetic labour. Against the backdrop of slender aesthetics, models are purposefully socialized into remaining or becoming slender, through food beliefs inducing them to eat in specific ways. Food is classified into good and bad categories, and believed to affect male and female bodies differently. But other than to aesthetics or gender, considering ‘what (not) to eat’ links to morality, enabling models to draw symbolic boundaries between themselves and others. These show two main moral imperatives: models should eat controlled and effortlessly. Solving this moral paradox, models normalize and conceal controlled eating. Ultimately, the fashion modelling food system preoccupies models with self-surveillance and reinforces power inequalities between models and other professionals.

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Bahadır, H. Sevilay, Gökhan Karadağ, and Yusuf Bayraktar. "Minimally Invasive Approach for Improving Anterior Dental Aesthetics: Case Report with 1-Year Follow-Up." Case Reports in Dentistry 2018 (September 6, 2018): 1–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/4601795.

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Dental aesthetics have become highly important in recent years. Treating aesthetic demands with noninvasive or minimally invasive techniques can preserve the natural tissues. A 20-year-old female patient presented to the clinic with aesthetic concerns. After the clinical and radiographic examinations, hypomineralization was identified in the maxillary anterior teeth except the maxillary right canine. An external discoloration was also identified in the maxillary left canine tooth. Moreover, the right canine tooth was identified as a Turner’s tooth according to the patient’s anamnesis. The resin infiltration technique was applied to the maxillary anterior teeth except the maxillary right canine. The bleaching treatment was applied to the maxillary left canine tooth. Then, a laminate veneer restoration was applied to the upper right canine tooth with Turner’s hypoplasia. Following the treatment, a satisfactory aesthetic restoration was achieved. After 1-year examination, no clinical failures were observed.

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DURIGON, Migueli, Bruno Pinto ALESSI, Matheus NEVES, and Micheline Sandini TRENTIN. "Perception of dentists, dental students, and patients on dentogingival aesthetics." Revista de Odontologia da UNESP 47, no. 2 (March 2018): 92–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1807-2577.08917.

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Abstract Introduction Patients’ demand for dentogingival aesthetics has increased significantly in recent years, and this is a complex concept due to numerous factors involved in obtaining patient/professional satisfaction. Some dentogingival features may alter smile harmony, such as excessive gingival display. Objective To evaluate whether the presence of gingival display has a negative influence on the perception of dentogingival aesthetics. Material and method 180 individuals (60 dentists, 60 dental students, and 60 patients) evaluated images of volunteer smiles. These images were digitally altered by the Adobe Photoshop™ software, creating different situations of gingival display (4 mm, 2 mm, 0 mm, -2 mm, -4 mm), and graded by the evaluators with the following scores: (01) very pleasant smile, (02) pleasant smile, and 03) unpleasant smile. The scores assigned were analyzed using ANOVA (α=0.05). Result Gingival displays between 0 and 2 mm were considered aesthetically pleasing. Changes of -4 and +4 mm were defined as the most disharmonious smiles. The 0-mm female smile was considered the most harmonious for dentists (1.51) and dental students (1.77), by Student's t test (p<0.05). In the opinion of patients, the smile of +2 mm was considered the most aesthetic. In the image evaluations of men, the 0-mm smile was considered the most aesthetic (p <0.05) for dentists (1.85) and dental students (1.62). The patients considered +2 mm of gingival display the most harmonious smile. Conclusion The aesthetic perception of dental students and dentists was different when compared to the group of patients.

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Ortlieb, Stefan A., Uwe C. Fischer, and Claus-Christian Carbon. "Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful: Is there a Male Gaze in Empirical Aesthetics?" Art and Perception 4, no. 3 (September 16, 2016): 205–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22134913-00002051.

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In his ground-breaking Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Edmund Burke (1757) presented a comprehensive aesthetic theory based on two types of aesthetic appreciation: the beautiful and the sublime. While beauty inspires us with tender feelings of affection, a thrill of delightful horror attracts us to the sublime. According to Burke these ideas originate in a drive for affiliation (beautiful) and a drive for self-preservation (sublime). He also claims that the sublime is generally the more powerful aesthetic experience. A synopsis of literature on gender differences in aesthetic preferences, personality traits, and social motivation suggests, however, that on average women might be less susceptible to the Burkeian sublime than men. We tested this hypothesis empirically using sixty picture details from a triptych by Hieronymus Bosch. One hundred and fifty participants rated these stimuli in terms of threat (respectively safety) and liking. Besides, they completed standardized scales for state and trait anxiety as well as for state and trait depression. We found a strong effect for gender: on average, safety and liking were more closely related for female than for male participants. In the light of these findings we state that Burke’s concepts of the beautiful and the sublime might in fact be confounded with gender-related aesthetic preferences and that his proclivity to the sublime could reflect a male gaze on aesthetics. Finally, we discuss possible indicators for ‘Burke’s fallacy’ in empirical aesthetics today.

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Sijabat, Yessy Josephine, C. Christnawati, and Dyah Karunia. "Contrasting perceptions of male and female dental students regarding smile aesthetics based on their gingival display." Dental Journal (Majalah Kedokteran Gigi) 51, no. 4 (December 31, 2018): 200. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/j.djmkg.v51.i4.p200-204.

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Background: Perception consists of personal opinion in relation to an object. In terms of aesthetics, perception normally differs from one individual to another based on several factors such as gender. When expressing emotion, a smile is the most important facial expression whose aesthetics are constructed from a number of components, including gingival display. Purpose: This study aimed to establish the comparative perceptions of the smile aesthetics of male and female dental students based on their gingival display. Methods: 36 dental students, divided equally according to gender, were enrolled in this study. Photographic images of the smile of each subject were taken from a frontal direction with a Canon EOS 700D digital camera and subsequently printed. Assessments were conducted by comparing the photographs of subjects from the perspective of smile references based on the gingival display, followed by subject scoring on the basis of smile classification. Assessments were conducted twice within a two-week period to confirm test reliability. The data collected was analyzed by means of kappa statistic and U-Mann Whitney tests. Results: The test results indicated that all subjects demonstrated a coincidence in their analysis (κ=0.84). Statistical analysis showed that a score of 0.902 (p>0.05) had been produced by a U-Mann Whitney test. Conclusion: It can be concluded that no difference exists between male and female students in the perception of smile aesthetics based on the gingival display.

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Webb, Sarah, and Janet Fulton. "‘I want to read it in my hands’: The aesthetic attraction of independent women’s magazines." Australian Journalism Review 41, no. 2 (November 1, 2019): 273–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ajr_00011_1.

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There is a growing body of evidence suggesting that independent magazines, also known as ‘independents’, are thriving in Australia’s print media industry. As ‘maverick’ editors, owners and publishers focus more on the design and aesthetic aspects of their publications in response to changing reader expectations, there appears to be a demand for independents among female readers. In particular, young adult female readers are choosing to engage with independent women’s magazines in Australia, placing particular emphasis on the aesthetic reading experience offered by the hard-copy format. To explore this phenomenon, a survey and focus group were conducted among women aged 18‐24 years, using Blumler and Katz’s Uses and Gratifications theory as the theoretical framework. The initial survey garnered findings from 300 respondents, while the focus group consisted of six participants. One key aspect of the results is that aesthetics is central to understanding the continued appeal and use of such a medium. Other aspects include quality of content, entertainment, escape, collection and habit, and ease of use. In an age where ‘digital’ is often regarded as the norm, young adult female readers are seeking inspiration and expression from independent women’s magazines.

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Nyam, Esther Akumbo. "Female Mask/Masquerade in Nigeria, Aesthetics and the Art of Secret Societies." Journal of African Theatre, Film and Media Discourse 1, no. 1 (February 14, 2020): 97–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.33886/kujat.v1i1.129.

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The Dramatic performance by actors in masks and costumes still remains enigmatic. The ideological context of mask, and masquerade in Africa is associated with the spirit world which is an act of secret society dominated by men’s world. This paper focused on the role, performances and contributions of women in masquerade performances in Nigeria. The symbolism of women’s aesthetics, cosmology, mythology, performance, Genre, audience participation, construction, and originators and custodians of mask and masquerade is highlighted as emerging trends of feminist discuss in contemporary theatre performances as central to women liberation in men’s dominated society. The paper concludes the role and place of women in taking the masquerade performances, economic, social, political, culture empowerment from it’s inception as custodians of Spiritism.

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Sedgh, Jacob. "The Aesthetics of the Upper Face and Brow: Male and Female Differences." Facial Plastic Surgery 34, no. 02 (April 2018): 114–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0038-1636935.

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AbstractA hallmark of the modern era of facial plastic surgery is the increasing demand for upper facial rejuvenation by both genders and the growing variety of such options, including both surgical and non-surgical modalities. Thus, now more than ever, differentiating these aesthetic ideals between the two genders and understanding their nuances has become a necessity for the facial cosmetics community. In this article, a detailed comparison of the the pertinent anatomical and topographical differences is presented, followed by a review of the historical evolution of these aesthetic trends.

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Azam, Samiul, and Marina L. Gavrilova. "Biometric Pattern Recognition from Social Media Aesthetics." International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence 11, no. 3 (July 2017): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcini.2017070101.

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Online social media (OSN) has witnessed a significant growth over past decade. Millions of people now share their thoughts, emotions, preferences, opinions and aesthetic information in the form of images, videos, music, texts, blogs and emoticons. Recently, due to existence of person specific traits in media data, researchers started to investigate such traits with the goal of biometric pattern analysis and recognition. Until now, gender recognition from image aesthetics has not been explored in the biometric community. In this paper, the authors present an authentic model for gender recognition, based on the discriminating visual features found in user favorite images. They validate the model on a publicly shared database consisting of 24,000 images provided by 120 Flickr (image based OSN) users. The authors propose the method based on the mixture of experts model to estimate the discriminating hyperplane from 56 dimensional aesthetic feature space. The experts are based on k-nearest neighbor, support vector machine and decision tree methods. To improve the model accuracy, they apply a systematic feature selection using statistical two sampled t-test. Moreover, the authors provide statistical feature analysis with graph visualization to show discriminating behavior between male and female for each feature. The proposed method achieves 77% accuracy in predicting gender, which is 5% better than recently reported results.

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SILVA-JUNIOR, Manoelito Ferreira, Rahyza Inácio Freire de ASSIS, and Flávia Bittencourt PAZINATTO. "Molar incisor hypomineralization: an aesthetic conservative restorative approach." RGO - Revista Gaúcha de Odontologia 64, no. 2 (June 2016): 186–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1981-863720160002000092980.

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ABSTRACT The aim this study is to present a clinical case of conservative aesthetic restorative treatment of teeth 11 and 21 in a patient diagnosed with molar incisor hypomineralization. An 18-year-old female patient came to the Outpatient Restorative Dentistry Clinic at the Federal University of Espírito Santo, complaining mainly of not feeling comfortable with a color change in her anterior teeth. Molar incisor hypomineralization was diagnosed in molars and incisors and the negative psychosocial implications for the aesthetics involved were noticed. Due to factors such as age, financial viability, technical facility and low degree of severity, we opted for maximum preservation of the healthy tooth structure, through minimal surgical intervention to remove the irregular enamel only and subsequently restore the teeth involved (11 and 21) with resin composite. For the patient, this conservative procedure restored function and aesthetics, and thereby improved her emotional and social behavior. Conservative restorations can provide real solutions, especially in cases of molar incisor hypomineralization in anterior teeth where the patient's psychological state should always be considered. An appropriate assessment of the dental substrate and a careful restorative technique are necessary for success in terms of aesthetics and function and can quickly promote the patient's well-being.

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Klinger, Barbara. "Gateway Bodies: Serial Form, Genre, and White Femininity in Imported Crime TV." Television & New Media 19, no. 6 (April 27, 2018): 515–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1527476418768003.

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In this article, I study transnational crime TV through a key recurring textual element—serial narrative—to understand how it creates terms of transnational legibility in a major import market, the United States. These programs’ serial form both suits the ecology of the U.S. post-network era and articulates aesthetic and ideological norms recognizable to U.S. audiences. Imported serial crime TV is tied to multiple genres and familiar tropes of gender and race, often relying on the discovery of white female victims to galvanize police investigations, serve as gothic spectacles, and animate family melodramas. DR’s Forbrydelsen exemplifies such complexly layered and “translatable” serial form. I argue that the aesthetics of this and other programs foreground raced female bodies to deterritorialize them, in the process creating a transnational lingua franca in crime TV. In repeatedly pairing such victims and female detectives, these shows ultimately also illuminate the place feminism itself occupies in transnational flow.

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Kernev Štrajn, Jelka. "Ecocriticism as Subversive Aesthetics." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, no. 20 (October 15, 2019): 17. http://dx.doi.org/10.25038/am.v0i20.321.

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Art is subversive when it crosses the boundary of the generally acceptable, though over time such art can and does become mainstream. A much more complicated question is what is subversive in aesthetics? Ecocriticism has already become, along with ecofeminism and animal studies, an academic discipline. It can be defined as subversive if it is understood in terms of an attitude, which is not anthropocentric. And here is the catch: how can the human also encompass the alien? The question that emerges here is all but rhetorical: how can we decentre and amplify our human consciousness and perspective to include zoocentric, biocentric or geocentric positions? At this point the contemporary theory creates contrasting opinions, which cross the boundaries of aesthetics, poetics and ecocriticism since they reach out to the fields of metaphysics and antimetaphysics. Within the phenomenon of perception the other always appears, as Deleuze said in his Logic of Sense, as “a priori Other”. We have to deal, henceforth, with a kind of pre-reflexive level of consciousness and amplified sensory perception, which, as we know, is the basic condition of artistic creation. Thus, this paper – because it seeks to penetrate into the node of these questions – takes literary art as its starting point. In the spirit of the above-mentioned observations, I have attempted to investigate in ‘minority literature’ (female authors of contemporary Polish and Slovene literature) how this decentred attitude, which Jure Detela, a Slovene poet, poetically defined, corresponds to our thesis on a particular ecocritical stream, which can be defined as an ecofeminist aesthetics. The ‘minoritarian literature’ here is meant exclusively in the sense that was defined by Deleuze and Guattari’s books Kafka and A Thousand Plateaus. Article received: April 12, 2019; Article accepted: July 6, 2019; Published online: October 15, 2019; Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Kernev Štrajn, Jelka. "Ecocriticism as Subversive Aesthetics." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 20 (2019): 17-25. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i20.321

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Seifert, Christin, and Veena Chattaraman. "Too new or too complex? Why consumers’ aesthetic sensitivity matters in apparel design evaluation." Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management 21, no. 2 (May 8, 2017): 262–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jfmm-10-2016-0092.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the individual and joint effects of collative design factors, complexity and novelty, on aesthetic response to apparel products; and whether the influence of these factors is moderated by consumers’ centrality of visual product aesthetics (CVPA). Design/methodology/approach A mixed factorial experimental design, using women’s tops with design complexity and novelty (high vs low) manipulated orthogonally, was conducted among 260 female participants to test the model and its corresponding hypotheses. Findings Consumers’ aesthetic response was more positive for high than low complexity and novelty apparel designs. Further, when viewed in combination, high complexity + low novelty and low complexity + high novelty apparel designs were favored over high complexity + high novelty and low complexity + low novelty apparel designs, respectively. High CVPA consumers were more distinguishing than low CVPA consumers with respect to novelty in apparel designs. Practical implications This study suggests that firms need to be aware that complexity and novelty are crucial for consumers when judging apparel designs. Originality/value This study fills an important knowledge gap in the aesthetics literature by drawing on the processing fluency theory and Wundt curve and considering the joint effect of novelty and complexity, both critical determinants of a product’s marketplace success.

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Shaabi, Fawzia, Bandar Al-Makramani, Fuad Al-Sanabani, Alraawi Abdo, Ahmari Al, and Moaleem Al. "The potential factors affecting the perception of aesthetic smile among adult patients attending Dental clinics of Jazan University." Acta stomatologica Naissi 36, no. 81 (2020): 1966–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/asn1980956s.

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Introduction: Aesthetic smile is an important part for every patient since it plays a vital role in his personality, selfconfidence and self-esteem. Aim: To assess the relationship between the potential factors affecting the perception of aesthetic smile among adult patients, to evaluate the patient's satisfaction toward their smile and to find the most common factors for their dissatisfaction caused by smile. Materials and methods: A 100 males and 100 females were evaluated for the presence or absence of aesthetic smile. The clinical examination was included categories related to personal aesthetic factors of the smile. A questioner designed by Goldstein to measure the patient's self-perception and satisfaction of their smiles was used. The data were pooled for analysis, statistical significance was set to p-value ˃ 0.05. Results: There was a significant differences in the parallel interpupillary line and coincided of dental midlines alone and with facial midlines in the aesthetic and non-aesthetic choices, also between the symmetry of maxillary central and lateralicisors, and canines with their axial inclinations choices (p< 0.05). Some group of questions showed significant differences among female and male subjects while, the male subjects Some questions were near to the statistical significant differences, while others showed no significace between males and females choices. Conclusion: Dental and facial factors showed highly significant relationship with aesthetic smile. So, it should be observed by a dental specialist to provide a proper treatment plan with respect to the potential factors of the aesthetics to help for self-satisfaction measurement.

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Samuels, Curtis A., George Butterworth, Tony Roberts, Lida Graupner, and Graham Hole. "Facial Aesthetics: Babies Prefer Attractiveness to Symmetry." Perception 23, no. 7 (July 1994): 823–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/p230823.

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The visual preferences of human infants for faces that varied in their attractiveness and in their symmetry about the midline were explored. The aim was to establish whether infants' visual preference for attractive faces may be mediated by the vertical symmetry of the face. Chimeric faces, made from photographs of attractive and unattractive female faces, were produced by computer graphics. Babies looked longer at normal and at chimeric attractive faces than at normal and at chimeric unattractive faces. There were no developmental differences between the younger and older infants: all preferred to look at the attractive faces. Infants as young as 4 months showed similarity with adults in the ‘aesthetic perception’ of attractiveness and this preference was not based on the vertical symmetry of the face.

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Scott, Derek B. "The Sexual Politics of Victorian Musical Aesthetics." Journal of the Royal Musical Association 119, no. 1 (1994): 91–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jrma/119.1.91.

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A sexual division of musical composition emerged in nineteenth-century Britain: during that period, metaphors of masculinity and femininity solidified into truths about musical style. Contemporary social theory, domestic sphere ideology, the new scientia sexualis, and aesthetics of the sublime and the beautiful ensured that certain musical styles were considered unsuitable or even unnatural for women composers. Female creativity was also denied or inhibited by educational and socio-economic pressures born of ideological assumptions. In consequence, many women found themselves marginalized as composers, restricted to ‘acceptable’ genres such as the drawing-room ballad. Men, too, were affected by the sexual politics of the age, because the supposed revelation of biological truths in music meant that the presence of feminine qualities in their compositions could lead to invidious comparison with the less elevated output of women.

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Maitra, Saikat, and Srabani Maitra. "Producing the Aesthetic Self: An Analysis of Aesthetic Skill and Labour in the Organized Retail Industries in India." Journal of South Asian Development 13, no. 3 (November 16, 2018): 337–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0973174118808129.

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Drawing on the concept of aesthetic labour, this article examines how skill training programmes in the organized retail industries in Kolkata modulate underclass female service worker-bodies to align them with the corporeal ideals of a globally fetishized consumer-citizenship aesthetics. Applicants for the entry-level jobs in retail are usually young women from economically underprivileged families, who are routinely viewed as being ‘deficient’ in the basic social, communicational and cultural norms. This necessitates a refashioning of the workers’ personhood by changing their bodily deportments, hygiene standards, communicational skills and social etiquettes. Yet there is little sustained examination of the impact of such skill training on the everyday lives of young female employees who are simultaneously tied to the aspirations for corporate social mobility as well as the vagaries of their own personal lives imbued with poverty, low wage and socio-economic precariousness. Based on a two-year ethnography in shopping malls in Kolkata, this study makes an original contribution in reflecting on how, while female service workers might very well learn to inhabit spaces like shopping malls through a learnt performance of embodied consumer cosmopolitanism under aesthetic labour regimes, their class backgrounds continue to produce moral surveillance, frictions as well as restrictions.

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Miller, Tyrus. "Bachelor Japanists: Japanese Aesthetics and Western Masculinities – Christopher REED." Artists, Aesthetics, and Artworks from, and in conversation with, Japan - Part 2, no. 9 (December 20, 2020): 91–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.32926/2020.9.r.tyr.bache.

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Bachelor Japanists offers readers an engaging and richly narrated look at Western “Japanism” of the 19th and 20th century—scholarly, collectionist, and creative engagements with Japanese culture, religion, art, and aesthetics—which, Christopher Reed argues, Western individuals and coteries used to construct queer “bachelor” identities, both male and female, eschewing marriage and evading the domestic norms of their day. The term bachelor, Reed underscores, is not [...]

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Tallarico, Marco, Chang-Joo Park, Aurea Immacolata Lumbau, Marco Annucci, Edoardo Baldoni, Alba Koshovari, and Silvio Mario Meloni. "Customized 3D-Printed Titanium Mesh Developed to Regenerate a Complex Bone Defect in the Aesthetic Zone: A Case Report Approached with a Fully Digital Workflow." Materials 13, no. 17 (September 2, 2020): 3874. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ma13173874.

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Alveolar-ridge augmentation, anterior aesthetics, and digital technologies are probably the most popular topics in the dental-implant field. The aim of this report is to present a clinical case of severe atrophy of the anterior maxilla in a younger female patient, treated with a titanium membrane customized with computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM), simultaneous guided implant placement, and a fully digital workflow. A young female patient with a history of maxillary trauma was treated and followed-up for 1 year after implant placement. A narrow implant was inserted in a prosthetically driven position with the aid of computer-guided surgery. In the same surgical section, a customized implantable titanium mesh was applied. The scaffold was designed according to the contralateral maxillary outline in order to recreate a favorable maxillary bone volume. Finally, highly aesthetic, CAD/CAM, metal-free restorations were delivered using novel digital technologies.

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Weitzman, Arthur J. "Voyeurism and Aesthetics in the Turkish Bath: Lady Mary's School of Female Beauty." Comparative Literature Studies 39, no. 4 (2002): 347–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cls.2002.0035.

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