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Kim-Boyle, David. "Visual Design of Real-Time Screen Scores." Organised Sound 19, no. 3 (November 13, 2014): 286–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355771814000272.
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The author examines visual design considerations in the development of real-time screen scores. Such scores are shown to lend themselves particularly well to the representation of non-linear musical processes and the articulation of non-linear musical forms. The author argues that the foregrounding of such scores, through their projection for an audience and meticulous design, draws especial attention to the manner in which such non-linear processes are represented and in turn decoded by performers. While the transparency of the decoding process is shown to vary across a wide spectrum, the central role of the notational schema in works such as these is shown to align them in many ways with a broader interface aesthetics, promoting rich fields of creative and artistic enquiry.
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Barker, Timothy S. "The past in the present: Understanding David Claerbout’s temporal aesthetics." Time & Society 20, no. 3 (November 2011): 286–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0961463x10375103.
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David Claerbout’s recent video and photographic works generate a distinct temporal aesthetic. In particular, these works experiment with time by situating the historical past not as a discrete moment in time, but rather as an actively engaged part of the present moment. Through the use of digital technologies Claerbout re-presents, experiments with, and opens up time as non-linear and complex, in effect producing a new experience of temporality through a mediation of the past. Using Gilles Deleuze’s concepts of time, informed by Michel Serres’ and Roland Barthes’ work on photography, I explore a theory of time through these artworks in which the past is understood as transpiring within the present, attempting to understand Deleuze’s temporal concepts aesthetically, not just philosophically.
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Naim, Nur Faraha Bte Hj Mohd, and Ag Asri Ag Ibrahim. "The Study of Affective Value in Educational Video Production Style Using Kansei Engineering Method." International Journal of Information and Education Technology 10, no. 8 (2020): 573–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.18178/ijiet.2020.10.8.1426.
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This paper presents the emotional responses among higher institution learners towards the production style of an educational video. The video design concepts for each production style were categorized into three sections, non-linear video with visual effects (interactive video mobile-learning), linear video with visual effects (green screen) and linear video with no visual effects (screencast). The Kansei Engineering approach was used to measure the learners’ emotion reaction on each of the production style. Through Kansei Engineering method, the outcomes presented variance of active and passive emotion reaction towards the production style, difference feelings responses caused by the video design, whereas at the end most learners agreed that the inclusion of interactivity and aesthetics in video design will increase their motivation to learn from the educational video.
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Hartati, Hartati, Suardi Suardi, and Ira Nuriya Santi. "PENGARUH KUALITAS PRODUK TERHADAP KEPUTUSAN PEMBELIAN ULANG SABUN MANDI MEREK SHINZUI DI KOTA PALU." Jurnal Ilmu Manajemen Universitas Tadulako (JIMUT) 3, no. 3 (July 31, 2020): 289–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.22487/jimut.v3i3.96.
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The purpose of this study is to determine simultaneous and partial influence of product quality both on repurchase decision of Shinzui bath soap in Palu City. Independent variables used in this study consist of performance, features, reliability, durability, conformance, aesthetics, and perceived quality; while dependent variable is repurchase decision (Y). The research method is descriptive. Sample consists of 80 respondents who selected by purposive sampling technique. Data analysis method is multiple linear regressions. The result of this research shows that product quality, consists of performance, feature, reliability, durability, conformance, aesthetics, and perceived quality simultaneously have significant influence on repurchase decision of Shinzui bath soap in Palu City. Partially, product qualities that consist of feature and perceived quality have significant influence on repurchase decision of Shinzui bath soap in Palu City. While performance, reliability, durability, conformance, and aesthetics variables partially have non-significant influence on repurchase decision of Shinzui bath soap in Palu City. Tujuan dari penelitian ini untuk mengetahui pengaruh kualitas produk baik secara serempak maupun parsial terhadap keputusan pembelian ulang sabun mandi Shinzui di Kota Palu. Variabel independen yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah Kinerja (Performance), Keistimewaan (Features), Kehandalan (Reliability), Daya Tahan (Durability), Kesesuaian (Conformance), Estetika (Aesthetics), dan Kualitas Yang Dirasakan (Perceived Quality), sedangkan variabel dependen adalah Keputusan Pembelian Ulang (Y). Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode deskriptif. Sampel yang digunakan pada penelitian ini yaitu sebanyak 80 responden dengan bentuk pengambilan sampel menggunakan teknik purposive sampling. Metode analisis data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode analisis regresi linear berganda. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa secara simultan kualitas produk yang terdiri dari Kinerja (Performance), Keistimewaan (Features), Kehandalan (Reliability), Daya Tahan (Durability), Kesesuaian (Conformance), Estetika (Aesthetics), dan Kualitas Yang Dirasakan (Perceived Quality) berpengaruh signifikan terhadap keputusan pembelian ulang sabun mandi Shinzui di Kota Palu. Secara parsial kualitas produk yang terdiri dari Keistimewaan (Features) dan Kualitas Yang Dirasakan (Perceived Quality) berpengaruh signifikan terhadap keputusan pembelian ulang sabun mandi Shinzui di Kota Palu, Sedangkan variabel Kinerja (Performance), Kehandalan (Reliability), Daya Tahan (Durability), Kesesuaian (Conformance), dan Estetika (Aesthetics) secara parsial berpengaruh tidak signifikan terhadap keputusan pembelian ulang sabun mandi Shinzui di Kota Palu.
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Borges, Gabriela, and Alex Caravela. "From City of God to City of Men: The Representation of Violence in Brazilian Cinema and Television." Cinémas 22, no. 1 (September 15, 2011): 123–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1005807ar.
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This paper discusses the representation of violence in Brazilian cinema and television through analysis of the TV seriesCity of Men(2003-7), which is a follow-up to the filmCity of God(2002), with the same actors, sets and non-linear narrative. The project began with the production of the TV episodePalace II(2000), which was developed intoCity of God’s script. After receiving international acclaim, it resulted in the production ofCity of Men. In this context, it is important to emphasise the relationship between cinema and television and their particular features as products of the Brazilian audiovisual industry’s renaissance in the 1990s. The representation of violence is analysed not only as a thematic issue common to Brazilian favelas but also as an aesthetic element of TV drama. The representation of the oppressed has been well known in Brazilian cinema since Glauber Rocha’s manifesto “Aesthetics of Hunger” (1965), in which he argues that films need to be aggressive in order to truly expose poverty. The main point to be addressed, however, is whether the representation of violence in this series conveys, criticises or reflects about what is really happening in Brazilian favelas or if it merely offers an aesthetic look into poverty for the delight of audiences in Brazil and abroad.
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Micu, Andreea S. "Photographing the End of the World: Capitalist Temporality, Crisis, and the Performativity of Visual Objects." Performance Philosophy 4, no. 1 (August 30, 2018): 39–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.21476/pp.2018.41206.
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The Depression Era collective started as several photographers and video artists joined forces in March of 2011 to create an archive of photographic images about the Greek economic crisis, amidst the social and political upheaval provoked by ongoing austerity impositions of the EU on the Greek economy. In this essay, I examine selected images from Depression Era, including images from Marinos Tsagkarakis’s series Non-Places of Transition, Yannis Hadjiaslanis’s series After Dark, Pavlos Fisakis’s series Nea Elvetia, and Georges Salameh’s series Spleen. Bringing together Marxist philosophical approaches to aesthetics, via Walter Benjamin and Jean Luc-Nancy, I argue that these photographers’ work is a performative undoing of capitalist understandings of linear time that capture and foster desires for alternative radical temporalities, for non-capitalist senses of time. I discuss how these works disrupt linear notions of time as progress, and as measure of productivity and economic growth, which are intrinsic to modernity, and the creation of financial debt. Against capitalist linear temporality, these Depression Era photographs enable a performative encounter, a realm of visual experimentation in which the spectator is invited to feel time differently, to imagine different alternative temporalities that emerge from the collapse of capitalism.
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Bonner, Marc. "How sf is embodied in level structures." Science Fiction Film & Television: Volume 14, Issue 2 14, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 209–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/sfftv.2021.14.
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The experience of game intrinsic space is an architectural mode of perception more congruent to actual experiences of physically real architecture than to filmic space. This paper thus centres on the aesthetics of production, concerning the game worlds’ geometry, level structures and game mechanics, within the broader context of how sf and computer games are inextricably merged. This is to investigate how game intrinsic spaces communicate properties of sf or a media-specific ‘science fiction-ness’ through their aesthetics and digital condition. By first building a foundation on the topic of singular space and its liminality, I will then proceed with a few remarks on sf theory, sf imagery and the staging of (im)possible worlds in relation to the concept of ontological possibility space. For this purpose, I refer to two authors of sf theory: Vivian Sobchack and Simon Spiegel. Based on these two sections, I will give an introductory overview on game intrinsic space, its non-linear properties and the incorporation of the player. Here, differences between filmic and game intrinsic space will also be emphasised through a brief discussion. Thus, sf theory and film theory are interwoven with spatial theory and game studies in order to analyse the ontological possibility space that goes beyond the player-character’s everyday experience in actuality. Several examples clarify the theoretical groundwork while Portal 2 (2011) and Echo (2017) function as case studies.
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Pavliv, Jarema. "A comparative analysis of “Hutsulka” in the performing interpretations by two violinists representing the tradition of the Kosmach-Brusturiv areal." Ethnomusic 14, no. 1 (2018): 142–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.33398/2523-4846-2018-14-142-177.
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In the offered article, a comparative analysis of two performing versions of the wedding ceremonial dance “Hutsulka”, dominant in the Eastern Carpathians region of Ukraine has been made, with outstanding violinists-capellists, which, based on traditions and their own virtuoso style, developed this dance genre due to the accumulation of stable and mobile elements of melo-, rhythm- and form-making, as well as the establishment of aesthetics of regional styles. The material for the study was the audio version of the “Hutsulka” recorded on the basis of the performance of two violinists representing the region of Kosmach- Brusturiv villages tradition – Kyrylo Lyndiuk (“Vityshyn”, 1929–2003) (recorded by prof. Bogdan Lukaniuk in 1991) and Ivan Sokoliuk (born in 1944; Musician's own recording of 2017) – and transcribed by the author of the article. The performance of “Hutsulka” by each violinist is characteristic of common and distinctive features concerning the formation of the variative composition, the thematic material (respectively, 29 and 43 themes of kolomyika, kozachok and voloshka bases), tonality and rhythmic structuring, individual interpretation of ornamentation, which is collectively connected with artistic orientation on certain artistic and performing directions, presented by iconic musicians-predecessors. The formal features of the Hutsulka composition depends on scenery where it is performed (1); the tonality outline determined by established regional tradition (2), and rhythmic outline, by the overall style, varyation technics, updating and ornamentation of rhythmic formulas, characteristic of the personal manner and style of the performer (3). Ornamentation, as the essence of the performing style of any Hutsul musician, in K. “Vityshyn” is characterized by intense interweaving of short melismatic legal groups and non-legal figurations within melodic line and texture. I. Sokoliuk 166 enriches the linear movement with prolonged melismatic groups and rhythm- intonational and figurational turns that decorate it and amplify the expression of dance overall sonority. In performing aesthetics of K. Lyndiuk prevails an acute articulation of melodic expressiveness with accented and often pointed rhythmic patterns that provides representative-temperamental virtuosity. For strategic performance aesthetics of I. Sokoliuk, rich in virtuosic expressiveness, is characterized by choral and transparent ringing articulation in the context of “stratum”-development creation of the whole large-scale virtuoso composition. Each version reveals individual compositional, improvised, techno-performing, emotional as well as aesthetic mind of their creators. All these qualities, formed by both musicians in a single tradition and expressed in related kolomyika and kozachok-voloshka tunes, present the decision of developmental, composite, rhythmic, intonational, articulation, tempo and many other aspects of style, characteristic of folk violinists – soloists and capellists, inherent to each of them, in their performing manner, evident in “Hutsulka” rendering.
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Buldakova, Yulia V., and Dmitry A. Shishkin. "Comics in Russia: Transmedia Narrative and Publishing Strategies." Tekst. Kniga. Knigoizdanie, no. 23 (2020): 115–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/23062061/23/7.
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Mass culture creates genre-and-style phenomena that possess both the illusion of a simplified understanding and a complex aesthetic nature. Comics is a phenomenon reflecting trends in the development of mass culture at the turn of the 21st century. In comics, the plot and genre are secondary (graphic novel, various adaptations and retellings), the aesthetics is ambivalent (playful and serious; secular, amateurish and professional), the text has a complex artistic nature (creolisation, polycodedness, centaurism, transmedia features) and, at the same time, an essential goal for reaching commercial success and facilitated consumption/perception. The article aims to describe and analyse the genre-and-style features of the comic strip as a transmedia phenomenon of mass culture. These features give grounds for assessing the principles and tendencies of the presence of the comics in the domestic book market, in particular, the ways of forming the publishing repertoire. The general trend of the modern study of comics (in addition to analysing specific samples of the genre) is the reflection of visual aesthetics in the artistic structure of its text. It is the basis for the inclusion of this genre into mass literature. The peculiarity of the poetics of the comic book lies in the transmedia and sequenciality means that organise the dramatic narrative and visual plot as equal artistic spaces. In combination with the experience of visual media, the genre, style, and discourse of mass culture acquire attributes of transmedia, marginality, and transfer, i.e. tendencies to the mobility of the borders of the traditional genre-and-style system and going beyond them with the help of several different media (visualisation). They have an impact on the genre-and-style features of the comics, and the features of the multimedia information space built on repetition and convergence—sequels, remakes—are becoming more and more familiar. The intention to replicate recognisable stories readers demand encourages major publishers to rely on comic book remakes, comic book adaptations, comic book sequels. There is an extensive development “in depth and in breadth” of the already familiar successful plot, character, aesthetic discourse. Publishing houses are not interested in expanding the thematic repertoire of the comic book, but they seek to update and deepen the reading experience through the emergence of national genre patterns, the discovery of new authors’ names. This leads to a non-linear dynamics in both book publishing and book selling practices in the comics industry and in the genre. The change in the range of comic books is mainly due to various types of remakes, including plot (plot and style, when the aesthetics of the narrative changes) variants of a well-known story. Thus, publishers are faced with common problems in their marketing strategies: objective, related to the lack of understanding of the genre nature and existence of comics, and specifically publishing—the emergence of special technological operations in the production of comics as a publication.
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Torres, Catalina M., Antoni Riera, and Dolores García. "Are Preferences for Water Quality Different for Second-Home Residents?" Tourism Economics 15, no. 3 (September 2009): 629–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5367/000000009789036620.
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The latest trends in tourism indicate the emergence of a new segment of visitors looking for accommodation in private residences. The increase in second-home residents has led to efforts to improve knowledge of the preferences of this new type of tourist in those destinations where their presence is considerable. As one of the key variables affecting the choice of residential tourists is the environmental quality of the area, this paper focuses on testing for the existence of an inverse correlation between the loss of coastal water transparency, viewed as a measure of environmental quality, and beach aesthetics in Santa Ponça Bay, a Mallorcan coastal area containing two urban beach zones of intensive recreational use, where the proportion of second-home residents is high. The results show that the willingness to pay for improvements in water transparency diminishes in a non-linear way when transparency deteriorates, resulting in no statistically significant differences between first- and second-home residents.
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Tristiyanti, Evilia, Suardi Suardi, and Syamsul Bachri Daeng Parani. "PENGARUH KUALITAS PRODUK TERHADAP KEPUASAN KONSUMEN MENGGUNAKAN PRODUK TUPPERWARE DI KOTA PALU." Jurnal Ilmu Manajemen Universitas Tadulako (JIMUT) 1, no. 2 (May 31, 2015): 233–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.22487/jimut.v1i2.23.
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This study aims to determine and analyze the effect of product quality on customer satisfaction using Tupperware products in Palu City. The type of research used is quantitative (showing the relationship between variables). The population of this study is that the general public who have used Tupperware products are not known with certainty. Sampling technique to determine the sample that will be used in this study using the technique of non probability sampling, the purposive sampling with the number of respondents 100 people. Data collection using questionnaire. The analysis method used multiple linear regression analysis. The result of the research showed that (1) There is influence of product quality significantly to customer satisfaction by using Tupperware product in Palu City (2)There is influence of product quality with performance, suitability, endurance, aesthetics and perceived significantly to consumer satisfaction using Tupperware product in Palu City. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui dan menganalisa pengaruh kualitas produk terhadap kepuasan konsumen menggunakan produk Tupperware di Kota Palu. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah kuantitatif (menunjukan hubungan antar variabel). Populasi penelitian ini adalah seluruh masyarakat umum yang telah menggunakan produk Tupperware jumlahnya tidak diketahui dengan pasti. Teknik pengambilan sampel untuk menentukan sampel yang akan digunakan dalam penelitian ini menggunakan teknik non probability sampling, yaitu purposive sampling dengan jumlah responden 100 orang. Pengambilan data menggunakan kuesioner. Metode analisis menggunakan analisis regresi linear berganda.Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa (1) terdapat pengaruh Kualitas produk secara signifikan terhadap kepuasan konsumen menggunakan produk Tupperware di Kota Palu (2) terdapat pengaruh kualitas produk dengan kinerja, kesesuaian, daya tahan, estetika dan perceived secara signifikan terhadap kepuasan konsumen menggunakan produk Tupperware di Kota Palu.
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Kalyanasundaram, Srisrividhiya. "Bird and Line." Trumpeter 36, no. 1 (March 19, 2021): 19–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1075877ar.
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"Bird and Line" is an artistic inquiry into the relationship between a deep state of artistic consciousness and the act of drawing a line to arrive at the form of a bird. This inquiry further proposes that by using line as a mode of research, the artist begins to perceive the consciousness of a bird and the relationship it shares with its form.
For me, the embodied and porous experiences of watching and knowing birds through the practice of working with "line" as an artistic element allow for an intimacy of experiencing and an unfolding of intersubjectivity. Artistic inquiry also acts as an investigation into self-awareness and self-realization in this space of making eco-art. These acts of being lead me into reflections on how perception and creativity are melded together during creative moments to allow for a porous consciousness to emerge and perform the act of drawing a bird. As an artist working with text, movement, and image, I embed questions on the ethics of creativity into how we evolve our lines of art, as well as encounter other beings. By unraveling the relationship between the inner and the outer through Indian aesthetic philosophy, I evolve methods for eco-art practice using line as an element. I emphasize the importance of artistic research with a framework of Indian aesthetics as a way of deepening our perception and relationships with the natural world.
This article is written to make artistic processes visible through a reflective auto-ethnographic approach. I write in a non-linear reflective narrative to comprehend cultural ontologies that drive my practice, unfolding internal thought processes, directions of research, and moments of mystical experience.
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Majeed, Muhammed Irfan, Satheesh B. Haralur, Muhammed Farhan Khan, Maram Awdah Al Ahmari, Nourah Falah Al Shahrani, and Sharaz Shaik. "An Anthropometric Study of Cranio-Facial Measurements and Their Correlation with Vertical Dimension of Occlusion among Saudi Arabian Subpopulations." Open Access Macedonian Journal of Medical Sciences 6, no. 4 (March 28, 2018): 680–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2018.082.
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BACKGROUND: Determining and restoring physiological vertical dimension of occlusion (VDO) is the critical step during complete mouth rehabilitation. The improper VDO compromises the aesthetics, phonetics and functional efficiency of the prosthesis. Various methods are suggested to determine the accurate VDO, including the facial measurements in the clinical situations with no pre-extraction records. The generalisation of correlation between the facial measurements to VDO is criticised due to gender dimorphism and racial differences. Hence, it is prudent to verify the hypothesis of facial proportion and correlation of lower third of the face to remaining craniofacial measurements in different ethnic groups. The objective of the study was to evaluate the correlation of craniofacial measurements and OVD in the Saudi-Arabian ethnic group.METHODOLOGY: Total of 228 participants from Saudi-Arabian Ethnic group were randomly recruited in this cross-sectional study. Fifteen craniofacial measurements were recorded with modified digital Vernier callipers, and OVD was recorded at centric occlusion. The obtained data were analysed by using the Spearman’s correlation and linear regression analysis.RESULTS: The Mean OVD in male participants was higher (69.25 ± 5.54) in comparison to female participants (57.41 ± 5.32). The craniofacial measurement of Exocanthion-right labial commissure and the Mesial wall of the right external auditory canal-orbitale lateral had a strong positive correlation with VDO. The strong correlation was recorded with a trichion-upper border of right eyebrow line and trichion-Nasion only in males. Meanwhile, the length of an auricle recorded the positive correlation in female participants.CONCLUSIONS: Being simple and non-invasive technique, craniofacial measurements and linear equations could be routinely utilised to determine VDO.
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London, Justin. "Some theories of emotion in music and their implications for research in music psychology." Musicae Scientiae 5, no. 1_suppl (September 2001): 23–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10298649020050s102.
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Work in musical aesthetics on musical meaning is relevant to psychological research on musical expressions of emotion. Distinctions between simple emotions, higher emotions, and moods are given, and arguments as to what kinds of emotions or moods music might be able to express (given music's semantic capacities and limitations) are summarized. Next, the question as to how music might express these emotions and moods is considered. The paper concludes with a number of cautionary points for researchers in the psychology of musical emotion: (1) musical expression always involves sonic properties, which must be taken into account. (2) If one uses “real world” musical stimuli, one may be faced with associative interference. (3) Context will often individuate emotional expression, transforming a simple emotion to a higher emotion by providing an intentional object. (4) There is not a simple linear relationship between intensity of a musical parameter and the intensity of an emotional expression. (5) Some perfectly good musical expressions of emotion may not arouse those emotions in the listener, yet it would be incorrect to call such passages “inexpressive.” (6) Any emotions aroused by listening to music, while similar to emotions that occur in non-musical contexts, will nonetheless have a number of important differences.
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Markova, V. A. "Book communications: Methodology of interdisciplinary research." Scientific and Technical Libraries, no. 3 (May 11, 2021): 95–112. http://dx.doi.org/10.33186/1027-3689-2021-3-95-112.
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The author argues that true understanding of book communications may be obtained through the application of research tools of various disciplines in the humanities. The evolution stages of scholarly views on the book phenomenon of social communications are reviewed. On each stage, researchers always turned to the other sciences’ methodologies. The author introduces her original interpretation of interdisciplinary studies of book communications. She emphasizes, however, that the central place in such studies belongs to the socio-communicative approach, where subject is examined within the context of communication. This non-linear and multilevel model covers both synchronous and diachronous cross-sections of communication, including the feedback. For the accurate representation at the diachronic level, both the historical-genetic and the cultural approaches have to be applied. The literary theory and in particular the concepts of receptive aesthetics, poststructuralism and hermeneutics have to be applied to obtain comprehensive understanding of the authorial and the readership roles in the structure of book communications. The information sciences and theories in postmodern philosophy would enable to understand the laws of book communications within the new information environment. Methodologically, it is important to use the works that investigate into the new communication environment phenomena such as the Internet, hypertext, online literature, and collective authorship.
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Drachevska, I. Yu, М. О. Dmitriev, Perera Clifford, V. M. Shevchenko, and I. V. Gunas. "Determination of cephalometric parameters, which usually do not change during surgical and orthodontic treatment depending on facial types according to Garson in Ukrainian young men and young women with orthognathic occlusion." Biomedical and Biosocial Anthropology, no. 41 (December 28, 2020): 18–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.31393/bba41-2020-03.
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Aesthetics is one of the key elements that accompanies modern medicine, in particular, dentistry. The need for treatment not only eliminates the symptoms of the disease but also leads to the restoration or improvement of the aesthetic appearance of the person, and especially the face, gave impetus to the development of new areas of science and technology. An important step in the implementation of such treatments is experimental research to identify the norm for certain categories of the population, primarily according to sex and ethnic group. The aim of the study was to establish the characteristics of cephalometric parameters in Ukrainian young men and young women with orthognathic occlusion, which usually do not change during surgical and orthodontic treatment, depending on sex and facial types. On the basis of the clinic "Vinintermed" teleroentgenography was performed using a dental cone-beam tomograph Veraviewepocs 3D Morita (Japan). Cephalometric examination of lateral teleroentgenograms in 46 young men (aged 17 to 21 years) and 72 young women (aged 16 to 20 years) with orthognathic occlusion was done. The type of face was determined according to the morphological index of Garson. The evaluation of parameters that usually do not change during surgical and orthodontic treatment was performed in the licensed package "Statistica 6.0" using non-parametric methods of evaluation of the results. The percentile ranges of cephalometric parameters, which usually do not change during surgical and orthodontic treatment depending on the facial types of Ukrainian young men and young women with orthognathic occlusion has been established. Pronounced manifestations of sexual dimorphism of cephalometric parameters, which usually do not change during surgical and orthodontic treatment (higher values in young men) are established only for most linear dimensions (values of distances NS, Ar-Go, N-Se, N-CC, P-PTV and S-Ar) in representatives of different types of faces. Both between young men and young women with different face types, there are almost no reliable or tendencies of differences in cephalometric parameters, which usually do not change during surgical and orthodontic treatment.
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Mandelli de Marsillac, Ana Lúcia. "Communication disorder: contemporary art and psychoanalysis." Communication & Methods, no. 1 (June 27, 2019): 91–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.35951/v1i1.6.
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This revision seeks to analyze the methodological intersections of contemporary art and psychoanalysis, by considering the value attributed to communication disorders by both fields. I will analyze elements of "In the Face of time: History of art and anachronism of Images" (2000), by Didi-Huberman. In addition, I will single out two texts that are crucial to the psychoanalytic method: "The Uncanny” (1919), by Freud and "Function and field of speech and Language" (1953), by Lacan. The concept of the uncanny is central to this approach, since it reveals the proximity between strangeness and familiarity. It is through the concept of the uncanny that psychoanalysis unfolds the perspective of a negative aesthetics, which is not at the service of the completeness of communication. Instead, it focuses on the cracks that paradoxically allow us to say more and to look at the latent contents of communication. Contemporary art and psychoanalysis both use non-linear communication. Research performed at their intersection is based on qualitative methodologies and seeks to analyze exemplary situations in culture, such as the discourses of an epoch and works of art. In this methodological encounter, there isn’t a single meaning to be sought. On the contrary, it is the researcher’s task to reflect on the paths that lead to the creation of a work of art, as well as on the ideals it conveys, its singularity and its relationship with culture. He can then render visible the complexity and the multiple meanings embedded in the work of art.
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Barra, Luca, and Massimo Scaglioni. "Paratexts, Italian style." Critical Studies in Television: The International Journal of Television Studies 12, no. 2 (June 2017): 156–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1749602017698477.
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In recent years, the completed transition towards a fully developed multichannel environment and the growth of non-linear offers has brought to the Italian television (TV) landscape unprecedented attention on the ways in which programmes are communicated to the audience and their images and identities are carefully built. The preparation and circulation of promos have therefore grown in importance and relevance in the national TV industry, as new original practices emerged and a long-lasting tradition was challenged by new formats and goals. Building on a set of in-depth interviews with professionals involved in the writing, production and distribution of promos, and analysis of other production materials, the article reconstructs the ‘promotional cultures’ of Italian broadcasters, analysing the main production processes, the different kinds of promos and the various skills involved, and the logics and constraints involved in the making of these ephemeral paratexts that more and more are pervading both the structure of programming flow and the experience of national TV viewers. Thus, the article investigates the professional practices and logics of contemporary commercial and pay TV programme promotion in Italy, defining the role played by national private broadcasters and transnational groups in shaping an Italian promotional space on TV. The ‘Italian style’ of TV show promotion emerges as a constant negotiation between local historical traditions and clichés, on the one hand, and international trends in promo production and aesthetics, on the other, with a solid path shared with other countries and broadcasters, and some peculiar specificities.
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Ingham, Valerie. "Connecting in Multiple Non-linear Ways: Aesthetic Awareness on the Fireground." International Journal of Arts Theory and History 11, no. 4 (2016): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/2326-9952/cgp/v11i04/1-9.
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Ahmed, Zuber, and Esar Ahmed. "Non-Linear Analysis of Cable Stayed Bridges." International Journal of Emerging Research in Management and Technology 6, no. 9 (June 24, 2018): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.23956/ijermt.v6i9.82.
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The concept of cable-stayed bridges dates back to the seventeenth century. Due to their aesthetic appearance, efficient utilization of material, and availability of new construction technologies, cable-stayed bridges have gained much popularity in the last few decades. After successful construction of the Sutong Bridge, a number of bridges of this type have been proposed and are under construction, which calls for extensive research work in this field. Nowadays, very long span cable-stayed bridges are being built and the ambition is to further increase the span length using shallower and slender girders. In order to achieve this, accurate procedures need to be developed which can lead to a thorough understanding and a realistic prediction of the bridge’s structural response under different load conditions.In the present study, an attempt has been made to analyze the seismic response of cable stayed bridges with single pylon and two equal side spans. This study has made an effort to analyze the effect of both static and dynamic loadings on cable-stayed bridges and corresponding response of the bridge with variations in span length, pylon height and pylon shape. Comparison of static analysis results have been made for different configuration of bridges - their mode shapes, time period, frequency, pylon top deflection, maximum deck deflection; and longitudinal reaction, lateral reaction and longitudinal moment at pylon bottom. Time history analysis results have been investigated for different configuration of bridges under the effects of three earthquakes response spectrum (Bhuj, El Centro and Uttarkashi) - axial forces in stay cables, deck deflections and stress diagrams at maximum peak ground acceleration of the above mentioned earthquakes.
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Kulezic-Wilson, Danijela. "Musical and film time." Muzikologija, no. 8 (2008): 253–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/muz0808253k.
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Comparative analysis of linear, non-linear and multiple temporal dimensions in music and film reveals that the understanding and utilisation of time in these two arts reflect not only the aesthetic inclinations of its creators and their subjective experiences of temporality but also their philosophical views and, sometimes, spiritual beliefs. Viewed in the context of contemporary theories about Time, particularly Shallis' interpretation of different temporalities as symbolic of various levels of reality and J. T. Fraser's concept of time as a hierarchical nest of different temporalities or Umwelts, the results of this comparison lead to the conclusion that the time in which music and film unfold belongs to a separate, artificial Umwelt of its own - art-temporality.
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Trafí-Prats, Laura, and Lucy Caton. "Towards an Ethico-Aesthetic of Parenting: Sensing Ritornellos of Play with GoPro Data." Genealogy 4, no. 2 (March 31, 2020): 34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genealogy4020034.
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This article argues for an ethico-aesthetic approach to parenting as an alternative to the neoliberalisation of parenting, and its critiques. This ethico-aesthetic approach focuses on affect and the intensification of collective life. In the article, it is explored in connection to a group of parents and children under six who participated in a play event called Moving with lines and light. As parents, researchers and players who participated in this play event, the authors think together with fragments of GoPro data and the concept of the ritornello. They do this as an exercise in sensing the non-linear time of parenting in/with the play through a prolonged, active and relational process of recollection and narration that combines analogic and technologic events. With these, the authors discuss the parenting body in postdevelopmental modes of existence organized around sense, territory and technicity that propel a thinking of parenting beyond practices of symbolic control, and as living ecologies of action.
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VAN LOOCKE, PHILIP. "FRACTALS IN CELLULAR SYSTEMS AS SOLUTIONS FOR COGNITIVE PROBLEMS." Fractals 08, no. 01 (March 2000): 7–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218348x00000032.
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A cellular method for the solution of function approximation and classification problems is introduced. It solves problems of the type solved by connectionist networks, but has an advantage of visualization. Solutions of complex, high-dimensional and non-linear problems correspond to sets of units that define fractal, two-dimensional patterns of aesthetic attractiveness. These sets, in turn, can be considered as patterns, and stored with a classic connectionist learning rule in a network. Then, one obtains a network in which the memorized patterns correspond to meta-patterns in the sense that they correspond to mappings between input and output patterns.
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Schlichting, Laura. "Interactive Graphic Journalism." Non-fiction Transmedia 5, no. 10 (December 31, 2016): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.18146/2213-0969.2016.jethc110.
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This paper examines graphic journalism (GJ) in a transmedial context, and argues that transmedial graphic journalism (TMGJ) is an important and fruitful new form of visual storytelling, that will re-invigorate the field of journalism, as it steadily tests out and plays with new media, ultimately leading to new challenges in both the production and reception process. With TMGJ, linear narratives may be broken up and ethical issues concerning the emotional and entertainment value are raised when it comes to ‘playing the news’. The aesthetic characteristics of TMGJ will be described and interactivity’s influence on non-fiction storytelling will be explored in an analysis of The Nisoor Square Shooting (2011) and Ferguson Firsthand (2015).
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Edkins, Jenny. "Novel writing in international relations: Openings for a creative practice." Security Dialogue 44, no. 4 (July 23, 2013): 281–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0967010613491304.
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Prompted by Elizabeth Dauphinee’s The Politics of Exile, the article explores the political potential of novel ways of writing in international relations. It begins by examining attempts to distinguish between narrative writing and academic writing, fiction and non-fiction, and to give an account of what narrative might be and how it might work. It argues that although distinctions between narrative writing and academic writing cannot hold, there are nevertheless ways of judging the practical political effects that writing can produce. It briefly examines feminist, postcolonial and other international relations scholars who collect other people’s stories or tell their own, and points to an instructive body of work in fiction and literary non-fiction beyond the discipline. It argues that writing that disrupts linear forms of temporality and instead inhabits ‘trauma time’ can open the possibility of an aesthetic political practice, and suggests that we foster such a creative practice in international relations.
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Tamošaitis, Romualdas. "ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF RECONSTRUCTION NEEDS." Engineering Structures and Technologies 2, no. 1 (March 31, 2010): 38–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/skt.2010.05.
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Durability and aesthetic appearance are important elements of all buildings, but the need for reconstruction is often influenced by the economic considerations. We often decide to reconstruct industrial buildings in order to increase profits and we choose to reconstruct residential houses to save money on heating or maintenance expenses. This article deals with a mathematical method for economic assessment of reconstruction needs. The mathematical method used in this article is based on evaluating the break-even point between the reconstruction expenditures and the economic profit. The relationship between the economic profit and the reconstruction expenditures is usually quite complicated as it may take a non-linear form and result in several break-even points. The main goal of an economic assessment in reconstruction usually concerns finding the rational solutions between several break-even points.
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Artuso, Kathryn Stelmach. "The Word and the Wheel: Navigating the Incarnation in Twentieth-Century Literature." Christianity & Literature 66, no. 3 (June 2017): 500–519. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0148333117708258.
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This essay maintains that an incarnational aesthetic often privileges the concrete over the abstract, transcends the dichotomy between the secular and the sacred, and offers a glimpse into the intersection of time and eternity, as evidenced in the works of Kathleen Norris, Madeleine L’Engle, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, and Jorie Graham, though such themes are given particular resonance in the non-linear narrative technique of Graham Greene’s novel The End of the Affair. Greene seeks to represent the simultaneity of past, present, and future in the cyclical technique of his novel, which offers the unreliable narrator a redemptive entrance into God’s wheeling story of eternal love. The revelation of Christ’s Incarnation and a revaluation of corporeal presence stand at the heart of this novel, underscoring how human intimacy is a window into divine intimacy.
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Ivanjac, Filip, and Tanja Radenkov. "Correction of post traumatically scarred upper lip with hyaluron filler." Srpski arhiv za celokupno lekarstvo, no. 00 (2020): 82. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/sarh191218082i.
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Introduction. It is generally known that dermal fillers are widely used in anti-aging medicine, to provide volume in healthy skin and mucous tissue. Fillers can also be successfully used with concave scars in order to lift the tissue and to give third dimension to the retracted skin surface. The aim of this case report was to show successful non-surgical treatment with hyaluron filler of the post traumatically deformed upper lip. Case outline. We report a case of a woman, with asymmetric partly incompetent upper lip, after trauma and primary surgical reconstruction. After almost 12 years, reconstruction with hyaluron filler was performed, using linear retrograde and bolus technique. Conclusion. Presented case correction of the posttraumatic scar of the upper lip illustrates that good aesthetic results could be achieved with hyaluron fillers.
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Aleksieva, Antonia, Giacomo Begnoni, Anna Verdonck, Annouschka Laenen, Guy Willems, and Maria Cadenas de Llano-Pérula. "Self-Esteem and Oral Health-Related Quality of Life within a Cleft Lip and/or Palate Population: A Prospective Cohort Study." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 11 (June 4, 2021): 6078. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18116078.
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(1) Objective: To investigate the oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) and self-esteem (SE) of a population with cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) and to compare it with a non-affected control cohort. (2) Materials and methods: This study comprised 91 CLP patients and a control group of 790 individuals, seeking orthodontic treatment. OHRQoL and SE were assessed by the Child’s Perception Questionnaire (CPQ) and the Dutch adaptation of the Harter’s Self-Perception Profile for Adolescents. Treatment need and self-perception of oral aesthetic were assessed using the Index of Orthodontic Treatment Need (IOTN) and the Oral Aesthetic Subjective Impact Scale (OASIS). Patients’ expectations and motivation for treatment were also scored. Linear models were used for statistical comparisons between groups. (3) Results: The cleft group scored higher in all domains of the CPQ, OASIS, IOTN and regarding SE for the domains of scholastic competence, athletic competence, physical appearance and behavioral conduct. The cleft group was not only more motivated and expected less discomfort during treatment but also had higher expectations for the treatment outcome. (4) Conclusions: The OHRQoL of CLP patients is strongly correlated with the presence of an oral cleft, while SE remains a personal resource not influenced by the malocclusion or medical condition.
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Ghimire, Krishna, and Hemchandra Chaulagain. "Common irregularities and its effects on reinforced concrete building response." Structural Mechanics of Engineering Constructions and Buildings 17, no. 1 (December 15, 2021): 63–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/1815-5235-2021-17-1-63-73.
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In most of the countries, the irregular building construction is popular for fulfilling both aesthetic and functional requirements. However, the evidence of past earthquakes in Nepal and the globe demonstrated the higher level of seismic vulnerability of the buildings due to irregularities. Considering this fact, the present study highlighted the common irregularities and its effect on reinforced concrete building response. The effect of structural irregularities was studied through numerical analysis. The geometrical, mass and stiffness irregularities were created by removing bays in different floor levels and removing the columns at different sections respectively. In this study, the numerical models were created in finite element program SAP2000. The structural performance was studied using both non-linear static pushover and dynamic time history analysis. The results indicate that the level of irregularities significantly influenced the behavior of structures.
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MOURA-JÚNIOR, Luiz Gonzaga de, Heládio Feitosa de CASTRO-FILHO, Francisco Heine Ferreira MACHADO, Rodrigo Feitosa BABADOPULOS, Francisca das Chagas FEIJÓ, and Silvana Duarte FERNANDES. "Ports minimization with mini-port and liver flexible retractor: an ergonomic and aesthetic alternative for single port in laparoscopic gastric bypass." ABCD. Arquivos Brasileiros de Cirurgia Digestiva (São Paulo) 27, suppl 1 (2014): 77–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-6720201400s100019.
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BACKGROUND: The laparoscopic access, with its classically known benefits, pushed implementation in other components, better ergonomy and aesthetic aspect. AIM: To minimize the number and diameter of traditional portals using miniport and flexible liver retractor on bariatric surgery. METHOD: This prospective study was used in patients with less than 45 kg/m2, with peripheral fat, normal umbilicus implantation, without previous abdominoplasties. Were used one 30o optical device with 5 mm in diameter, four accesses (one mini of 3 mm to the left hand of the surgeon, one of 5 mm to the right hand alternating with optics, one of 12 mm for umbilical for surgical maneuvers as dissection, clipping, in/out of gauze, and one portal of 5 mm for the assistant surgeon), resulting in a total of 25 mm linear incision; additionally, one flexible liver retractor (covered with a nelaton probe to protect the liver parenchyma, anchored in the right diaphragmatic pillar and going out through the surgeon left portal) to visualize the esophagogastric angle. RESULTS: In selected patients (48 operations), gastric bypass was performed at a similar time to the procedures with larger diameters (5 or 6 portals and 10 mm optics, with sum of linear incision of 42 mm) including oversuture line on excluded stomach, gastric tube and mesenteric closing. The non sutured portal of 3 mm and the two of 5 mm with subdermal sutures, were hardly visible in the folds of the skin; the one of 12 mm was buried inside the umbilicus or in the abdominoplasty incision. CONCLUSION: Minimizing portals is safe, effective, good ergonomic alternative with satisfactory aesthetic profile without need for specific instruments, new learning curve and limited movement of the instruments, as required by the single port.
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Paramita, Paramita, and Dila Damayanti. "ANALISIS PENGARUH MEREK, HARGA DAN KUALITAS PRODUK LARISSA AESTHETIC CENTER YOGYAKARTA TERHADAP KEPUTUSAN PEMBELIAN." Kajian Bisnis STIE Widya Wiwaha 27, no. 1 (January 31, 2019): 15–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.32477/jkb.v27i1.319.
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The purpose of this research is to know: (1) influence of brand influence to purchase decision of Larissa product (2) influence of price to decision of purchase of Larissa product (3) influence of product quality to decision of purchase of Larissa product (4) influence of brand, price, and product quality simultaneous decision to purchase Larissa products. This type of research is survey research. Population in this research is consumer of Larissa Aesthetic Center Galleria Mall. Sampling method with non probability sampling with convenience sampling with the number of 100 respondents. Data were collected with questionnaires that have been tested for validity and reliability. Data analysis technique used is multiple linear regression analysis. The result of this research show that (1) there is influence between brand to decision of purchasing of Larissa product, this is proved by result of t test statistic for Brand variable (X ) obtained t value bigger than t table (3,104> 1,985) with significance 0,003 < 0.05. So partially the brand variable (X1) has a significant effect on purchasing decisions (Y). (2) The result of t test statistic for Price variable (X‚ ) obtained t value count bigger than t table (2,905> 1,985) with significant t equal to 0,005, because t value count bigger than t table and significant t <0,05 0.005 <0.05). So partially variable brand (X‚ ) have a significant effect on purchase decision (Y). (3) The result of t test statistic for product quality variable (Xƒ ) is got t value bigger than t table (2,445> 1,985) with significant t equal to 0,016, because t value count bigger than t table and significant t <0,05 (0.016 <0.05). So partially variable brand (Xƒ ) have a significant effect on purchase decision (Y).
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Paramita, Paramita, and Dila Damayanti. "ANALISIS PENGARUH MEREK, HARGA DAN KUALITAS PRODUK LARISSA AESTHETIC CENTER YOGYAKARTA TERHADAP KEPUTUSAN PEMBELIAN." Kajian Bisnis Sekolah Tinggi Ilmu Ekonomi Widya Wiwaha 27, no. 1 (January 31, 2019): 13–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.32477/jkb.v27i1.85.
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The purpose of this research is to know: (1) influence of brand influence to purchase decision of Larissa product (2) influence of price to decision of purchase of Larissa product (3) influence of product quality to decision of purchase of Larissa product (4) influence of brand, price, and product quality simultaneous decision to purchase Larissa products. This type of research is survey research. Population in this research is consumer of Larissa Aesthetic Center Galleria Mall. Sampling method with non probability sampling with convenience sampling with the number of 100 respondents. Data were collected with questionnaires that have been tested for validity and reliability. Data analysis technique used is multiple linear regression analysis. The result of this research show that (1) there is influence between brand to decision of purchasing of Larissa product, this is proved by result of t test statistic for Brand variable (X ) obtained t value bigger than t table (3,104> 1,985) with significance 0,003 < 0.05. So partially the brand variable (X1) has a significant effect on purchasing decisions (Y). (2) The result of t test statistic for Price variable (X‚ ) obtained t value count bigger than t table (2,905> 1,985) with significant t equal to 0,005, because t value count bigger than t table and significant t <0,05 0.005 <0.05). So partially variable brand (X‚ ) have a significant effect onpurchase decision (Y). (3) The result of t test statistic for product quality variable (Xƒ ) is got t value bigger than t table (2,445> 1,985) with significant t equal to 0,016, because t value count bigger than t table and significant t <0,05 (0.016 <0.05). So partially variable brand (Xƒ ) have a significant effect on purchasedecision (Y).
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Montali, Jacopo, Luciano Laffranchini, and Carlo Micono. "Early-Stage Temperature Gradients in Glazed Spandrels Due to Aesthetical Features to Support Design for Thermal Shock." Buildings 10, no. 5 (April 26, 2020): 80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/buildings10050080.
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Investigating thermal breakage of glass panes requires careful analysis of the environmental boundary conditions to determine the expected thermal gradient between the sunlit and shaded parts of the glass. This is particularly critical for glazed spandrels, where an opaque posterior insulation layer normally increases the system’s temperatures. The choice of the spandrel system should also be evaluated against the aesthetical impression that it conveys. The aim of this study is to understand how early design factors, such as aesthetical features like color, are driving temperature gradients in the glazed pane to design for thermal shock. Multiple finite-differences analyses in a quasi-static regime for non-ventilated, single glazed spandrels were conducted in three locations (London, New York and Mumbai). Results were then analyzed via a general linear model in SAS 9.4 and Tuckey post hoc analysis. It was shown that a low absorptance of the back insulation (e.g., light color) can lead to a wide range of possible temperature gradients depending on the glass transparency, with higher values of the thermally induced temperature gradients for more opaque glasses. Conversely, a high absorptance of the insulation layer leads to moderate values of glass temperature gradients, which are not substantially sensitive to the effect of the glass transparency.
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Barker, Timothy. "Re-Composing the Digital Present." Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture 1 (June 1, 2011): 88–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/contemp.2011.13.
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This paper investigates the temporality that is produced in some recent and historical examples of media art. In exploring works by Janet Cardiff, Dennis Del Favero, and Omer Fast, I use the philosophy of Michel Serres and Gilles Deleuze to understand the convergence of temporalities that are composed in the digital present, as one moment in time overlays another moment. Developing Serres' concept of multi-temporality and Deleuze's philosophy of time and memory into a means to understand the non-linear time presented in these works, I argue that the different compositional strategies enacted by these artists provide the aesthetic grounding to experience “temporal thickness.” From here I investigate the interactive digital artworks Frames by Grahame Weinbren and Can You See Me Now? by the artist group Blast Theory. In this investigation, I understand interaction with technology, and the way that it shapes our sensory and processual experience, as a specifically temporal and temporalizing transaction, where human movements in the present are overlayed by technological processes.
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Heywood, Colin. "“Boundless dreams of the Levant”: Paul Wittek, the Geokge-Kreis, and the writing of Ottoman history ." Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland 121, no. 1 (January 1989): 32–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0035869x00167851.
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That history may be read as literature is an aesthetic judgment, which does not deflect from the essential difference between the two modes. To paraphrase Gibbon, who above all in this context knew what he was talking about, “the end of history is truth … the end of poetry is pleasure”. History, by definition, must fail to attain its ultimate goal of recreating the past “exactly as it happened”: that such is the case, whether because of the fallibility of the human intellect, or the difficulty (but not impossibility) of constructing history in a non-linear mode, or even – that stock excuse of historians – the doubtful, maybe putatively “fictional” quality of “the sources” – does not mean, as is from time to time suggested, that the attempt should not be made, or that history and fiction are indistinguishable. Intent, in this context, is all, nor should one forget that earlier proponents of fictionalised history may on occasion prove to be somewhat uncomfortable intellectual bedfellows.
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GALLOPE, MICHAEL. "World Music Without Profit." Twentieth-Century Music 17, no. 2 (June 2020): 161–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1478572220000018.
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AbstractThis article explores political and aesthetic dimensions of the ‘bubu music’ made by Sierra Leonean émigré Janka Nabay while living in the United States from 2010 to 2017. It narrates Nabay's story while tracing granular flows of creative labour, collaboration, and negotiations of cultural and economic capital at some level of ethnographic detail. The central sections of the article excavate the complex and often non-linear labour that went into the production of his band's music, and gives readers a sense of the way Nabay himself intellectually framed this process. It ultimately argues that Nabay was a resilient but often-dehumanized subject who exemplified the cultural and economic cross-currents of ‘World Music 2.0’ in ways that set privileged Western values of artistic autonomy into vivid relief. As an economically precarious subject split between indigenous nationalism and Western forms of cultural capital, Nabay lived a life of profound contradictions, by turns dissenting and exuberant.
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Moulton, Jacqueline Viola. "The Matter of Mapping Multispecies Entanglements of Mourning—A Manifesto’s Shout, An Orca’s Tour of Grief." Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research 2, no. 1 (February 18, 2021): 99–119. http://dx.doi.org/10.1344/jnmr.v2i1.33376.
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Mapping entanglements is work—work of care, maintenance, and mourning. This project utilises a new materialist methodology inherited from the work of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, who follow lines of becoming to track compositions which compose worlds. To map (non-linear, temporal, and situated) lines of loss across multispecies landscapes is material work of more-than-human mourning. The New York City-based performance artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles—alongside scholars such as María Puig de la Bellacasa and Donna J. Haraway—reorient configurations of work and care, which enable these lines to be followed into more-than-human worlds. Mapping lines of mourning into multispecies worlds is material work of the aesthetic-ethical response within shared and troubled landscapes. The key storytellers within the narrative of mourning and joy woven into this paper are the Salish Sea, the Lummi Nation, the Chinook Salmon, and the Southern Resident killer whale; the voices and cries to which this project, in work and care, is dedicated.
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Chandra-ambhorn, Somrerk, Sermsak Srihirun, and Thamrongsin Siripongsakul. "Effects of blackening parameters on the formation and adhesion of oxide on AISI 4140 steel." Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials 65, no. 4 (June 4, 2018): 383–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/acmm-12-2017-1877.
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Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate the aesthetic blackening coating formed by a hydrothermal process, focusing on the formation of magnetite and the oxide adhesion for improving the corrosion resistance of the steel. Design/methodology/approach The aesthetic black coating was applied on AISI 4140 steel using a hydrothermal process with a non-toxic solution consisted of ferrous sulphate hydrate (FeSO4·7H2O), sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and hydrazine hydrate (N2H4·H2O). Upon process parameters temperature and time, the morphology of the coatings and oxidation kinetics were investigated by using scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. Furthermore, the samples with coatings were subjected to the adhesion test using a tensile testing machine equipped with a charge-coupled device (CCD) camera. Findings From the formation parameters due to temperature and time for the conversion coatings, it was found that the oxidation kinetics had special characteristics which were in accordance with a linear rate law and Arrhenius relation. For the samples blackened, the XRD analysis results revealed that the magnetite was successfully formed on the surface of the steel. On the other hand, increasing the blackening temperature worsened the scale adhesion as observed by the lower strain provoking the first spallation and the higher sensitivity of the oxide to spall out with the imposed strain. Originality/value The effects of parameters of the formation of conversion coatings were investigated to understand the kinetics of the coatings. Furthermore, a tensile adhesion test using a CCD camera was applied to evaluate the adhesion between the native oxide formed by conversion coating.
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Lash, Scott. "Experience." Theory, Culture & Society 23, no. 2-3 (May 2006): 335–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/026327640602300262.
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For Kant, experience is epistemological, whereas ontological experience (Gadamer) is in the first instance poetic and Romantic (Schiller, Goethe). In contradistinction to Kantian Erfahrung, it is most often called Erlebniß. We note further that Erfahrung is cognitive experience while Erlebnis is also aesthetic experience. Dilthey and Husserl understand experience pertaining to knowledge through Erlebnis. In epistemological or classificatory knowledge the parts add up to the whole. Ontological knowledge instead is holistic in which the whole is present in each of the parts. In ontological knowledge we can know things themselves. Ontological experience is particularly important for global knowledge. This is because knowing another culture is not reducible to a culture's qualities or predicates. Culture as a way or form of life is a thingitself. A third type of experience is informational experience. This collapses the epistemological into the ontological and is also increasingly present today. This sort of experience of non-linear information theory can account for the experience of societies, of individual humans, of digital media, of neuronal networks, of phenotypes, urban forms, of cellular organisms, or of inorganic matter.
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Brown, William. "Non-Cinema: Digital, Ethics, Multitude." Film-Philosophy 20, no. 1 (February 2016): 104–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/film.2016.0006.
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In this article I propose the concept of ‘non-cinema’. The term points to that which is excluded from cinema, and accordingly I seek to explore the various reasons for these exclusions, in particular the political/ideological ones, together with how these exclusions are manifested on an aesthetic level. Instead of André Bazin's founding question regarding what is cinema, therefore, this essay asks what cinema is not – and why. This question is of redoubled importance in an age of technological change: not only are nearly all films now not made using the traditional equipment of filmmaking (analogue cameras, linear editing systems, polyester film stock), but nor do they get exhibited in traditional theatrical venues (instead circulating on DVD and related formats, and online). On a related note, increasing numbers of filmmakers actively are moving away from feature filmmaking, e.g. into television. The essay focuses in particular on ‘non-cinematic’ works by Philippine director Khavn de la Cruz and American director Giuseppe Andrews. Formally, I argue that their films deliberately embrace that which is perceived as non-cinematic in order to put forward what Argentine philosopher Enrique Dussel might define as a ‘barbarian’ film-philosophical vision of the world, which is reminiscent of Antonio Negri's concept of multitude, and which also has an ethical dimension in that it proposes the inclusion of the overlooked and the dispossessed, and of the darkness that necessarily accompanies the light.
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Nuryanti, Pingkan, Djoko Sulityo, and Bambang Suhendro. "NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS OF HOLLOW REINFORCED CONCRETE COLUMN QUARE CROSS-SECTION WITH VARIOUS LOAD ECCENTRICITY AND CONCRETE STRENGTH." LANGKAU BETANG: JURNAL ARSITEKTUR 5, no. 1 (June 28, 2018): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.26418/lantang.v5i1.24083.
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Hollow due to plumbing system has an effect to the building's visual and the aesthetic quality in terms of architecture. To overcome this, the pipe is planted in a construction structure such as a column. However, this will affect on the strength degradation and modes of failure of structural elements such as a column. The objective of this research is to study the strength, stiffness, ductility, cracking patterns, and modes of failure of hollow RC columns with square cross-section with various load eccentricity and concrete strength. In this research, 13 reinforced concrete columns with square cross section were made. Two of them were massive columns (C1E1, C1E2) with cross-sectional dimension of 150 x 150 mm2 and 800 mm long, six of them were hollow with the same size (C2E1, C3E1, C4E1, C2E2, C3E2, C4E2). Concrete strength fc'=34.52 MPa with eccentricity=60mm and fc'=35.72 MPa with eccentricity 100 mm. Models were analyzed by nonlinear finite element method using ATENA v.2.1.10 software. The FE model is calibrated against recent experimental results from Zacoeb (2003). Once validated, the model is used to examine stiffness, ductility, cracking patterns, and modes of failure of hollow RC columns with a square cross-section with various load eccentricity. The numerical results show that the different ultimate load strength of C1E1, C2E1, C3E1, C4E1, C1E2, C2E2, C3E2, C4E2 are 0,32%, 2,22%, 1,61%, 7,74%, 1,25%, 0,65%, 2,63%, 1,94%, while the differents stiffnes are 18,30%, 21,30%, 23,79%, 31,57%, 15,22%, 22,67%, 21,39%, 14,41%, and the differents ductility are 48,71%, 33,64%, 3,39%, 41,04%, 52,30%, 22,99%, 18,11%, 7,76%. Crack pattern occurred in C1E1, C2E1, C3E1, C4E1, C1E2, C2E2, C3E2, C4E2 are flexural crack and shear cracks. Exhibit modes of failure of C1E1, C2E1, C3E1, C4E1 are compression failure and C1E2, C2E2, C3E2, C4E2 are tension failure.Keywords: ATENA, columns, eccentricity, failure, hollow, nonlinearANALISIS NON-LINEAR KOLOM BETON BERTULANG PENAMPANG SEGIEMPAT BERONGGA DENGAN VARIASI EKSENTRISITAS BEBAN DAN MUTU BETONLubang akibat pemasangan pipa pada konstruksi untuk keperluan instalasi (air hujan, sanitasi, listrik dan lain-lain) dapat berpengaruh pada visualitas bangunan dan akan mempengaruhi kualitas estetika dari segi arsitektur. Untuk mengatasi hal tersebut pipa ditanam didalam struktur konstruksi seperti kolom. Akan tetapi hal ini akan menyebabkan degradasi kekuatan beton dan pola keruntuhan struktur pada kolom. Selain secara eksperimental, penelitian ini dapat juga dilakukan secara numeris menggunakan metode elemen hingga nonlinier. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui kekuatan, kekakuan, daktilitas, pola retak dan model keruntuhan kolom beton bertulang penampang persegi berongga dengan variasi eksentrisitas beban dan variasi mutu beton. Dalam penelitian ini dimodelkan 8 jenis kolom beton bertulang penampang segiempat yang terdiri dari 2 kolom masif (C1E1 dan C1E2) dan 6 kolom berongga (C2E1, C3E1, C4E1, C2E2, C3E2, C4E2) dengan ukuran 150 x 150 mm2, panjang 800 mm. Mutu beton fc'=34.52 MPa dengan eksentrisitas =60mm dan mtu beton fc'=35.72 MPa dengan eksentrisitas =100mm. Kolom dianalisis menggunakan software elemen hingga nonlinier ATENA V.2.1.10 dan hasilnya dibandingkan dengan hasil eksperimen sebelumnya dari Zacoeb (2003). Setelah model divalidasi, dilakukan perhitungan kekakuan, daktilitas, pengamatan pola retak dan jenis keruntuhan yang terjadi pada kolom penampang segiempat berongga dengan variasi eksentrisitas beban . Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa kolom beton bertulang berongga yang dimodelkan dengan ATENA yaitu untuk model kolom validasi C1E1, C2E1, C3E1, C4E1, C1E2, C2E2, C3E2, C4E2 mempunyai perbedaan beban maksimum dengan hasil eksperimen secara berturut-turut sebesar 0,32%, 2,22%, 1,61%, 7,74%, 1,25%, 0,65%, 2,63% dan 1,94%, dengan perbedaan kekakuan secara berturut-turut sebesar 18,30%, 21,30%, 23,79%, 31,57%, 15,22%, 22,67%, 21,39% dan 14,41%, dan perbedaan daktilitas secara berturut-turut sebesar 48,71%, 33,64%, 3,39%, 41,04%, 52,30%, 22,99%, 18,11% dan 7,76%. Pola retak yang terjadi adalah pola retak lentur dan retak geser. Pola keruntuhan pada C1E1, C2E1, C3E1, C4E1 merupakan keruntuhan tekan, sedangkan C1E2, C2E2, C3E2, C4E2 merupakan keruntuhan tarik.Kata-Kata kunci: ATENA, berlubang, eksentrisitas, keruntuhan, kolom, nonlinear.REFERENCESCervenka et al. (2007). Superior Material Models for Numerical Simulation of Concrete Cracking under Severe Conditions. Cervenka Consulting. Czech Republic.Public Work Ministry. (2007). SNI 03-2847-2007, Tata Cara Perhitungan Struktur Beton Bertulang untuk Bangunan Gedung. Bandung.Poston et al. (1985). Numerical Models for Non-prismatic Solid Cross-Section Behavior and Rectangular Cross-Section on Biaxially-Bred ColumnsSuprabowo, S. (1996). Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Column Capacity Perforated. Thesis. Department of Civil Engineering, Gadjah Mada University. Yogyakarta.Supriyadi. (1997). The Effect of Holes on Strongly Reinforced Concrete Column Boundaries. Thesis. Graduate Program. Gadjah Mada University. Yogyakarta.Zacoeb. A. (2003). Flexural Capacity of Reinforced Concrete Short Column with Variations Hole, Thesis. Graduate Program. Gadjah Mada University. Yogyakarta.
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Guignion, David. "Vapor Memory, or, memory in the ruins of history." Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 9, no. 2 (September 1, 2020): 165–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ajpc_00025_1.
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This article explores vaporwave’s appropriation of the past and future to constitute a (non)-site for the displacement of the present. In doing so, vaporwave – an electronic music genre that samples sights and sounds from 1980s and 1990s popular culture – masquerades itself as a radical project that decentres the subject’s location within the linear matrix of time (Tanner 2016) and houses the potential to oppose the humanistic territorializations of late capitalism (Killeen 2018; Whelan and Nowak 2018). I argue that these arguments focus too closely on vaporwave’s style and aesthetic dimension without considering its maintenance of various structures of oppression and appropriation indicative of globalized capitalism. The result is a misattribution of transgressive potential to vaporwave that ignores its incredibly conservative undertones. To engage with vaporwave then demands a bifurcation of its outward, rhizomatic veneer and the codes, conventions and axiomatics that underwrite it. I make this argument by drawing upon Jean Baudrillard’s (1981, 1993, 1994, 2010) scepticism of any accelerationist and technologist politics of subversion to mount effective sociopolitical change. Additionally, I make use of many feminist and critical race approaches to highlight the affinities between vaporwave’s appropriate style and the logics of late capitalism.
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Ghimire, Krishna, and Hemchandra Chaulagain. "Influence of structural irregularities on seismic performance of RC frame buildings." Journal of Engineering Issues and Solutions 1, no. 1 (May 1, 2021): 70–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/joeis.v1i1.36820.
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Irregular building structure is frequently constructed across the globe for fulfilling aesthetic as well as functional requirements. The structures with irregularities are the common building type in earthquake-prone country like Nepal. However, a post-earthquake reconnaissance survey reports revealed the high seismic vulnerability of the building with structural irregularities. In this context, the present study explores the influence of structural irregularities on performance of reinforced concrete (RC) frame structure. To this end, the structural irregularities are created in in the building structures. The geometrical irregularities are created by removing the bays in different floor levels. Likewise, the effect due to mass irregularities are studied by considering the swimming pool and game house at different floor levels. Furthermore, the stiffness irregularities are formulated by removing the building columns at different sections. All these irregularities are studied analytically in finite element program with 3-D structural models. The numerical analysis is done with non-linear static pushover and time history analysis. The results are analyzed in terms of fundamental time period, storey shear, storey displacement, drift and overturning moment. The results indicate that the level of irregularities significantly influenced the behavior of structures.
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Fisher, Pamela, and Lisa Buckner. "Time for “resilience”." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 38, no. 9/10 (September 10, 2018): 794–808. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijssp-12-2017-0167.
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Purpose Since the 2008 financial crisis, state retrenchment has added to the harshness of life for marginalised groups globally. This UK study suggests community activism may promote human capacity and resilience in innovative ways. The purpose of this paper is to address the relationship between non-normative understandings of time and resilience. Design/methodology/approach This research paper is based on qualitative study of the work of a third sector organisation based in an urban area in the UK which provides training in mediation skills for community mediators (CMs). These CMs (often former “gang members”) work with young people in order to prevent conflict within and between groups of white British, South Asian and Roma heritage. Findings CMs are reflexively developing temporalities which replace hegemonic linear time with a situationally “open time” praxis. The time “anomalies” which characterise the CMs’ engagement appear related to aesthetic rationality, a form of rationality which opens up new ways of thinking about resilience. Whether CMs’ understandings and enactments of resilience can point to broader changes of approach in the delivery of social care is considered. Practical implications This paper contributes to critical understandings of resilience that challenge traditional service delivery by pointing to an alternative approach that focusses on processes and relationships over pre-defined outcomes. Social implications Hegemonic understandings of time (as a linear process) can delegitimise potentially valuable understandings of resilience developed by members of marginalised communities. Originality/value This paper is original in developing a critical analysis of the relationship between resilience and time.
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Mahmoud, Naiera Ebrahim, Shaimaa Mohamed Kamel, and Tamer Samir Hamza. "THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TOLERANCE OF AMBIGUITY AND CREATIVITY IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO." Creativity Studies 13, no. 1 (March 23, 2020): 179–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/cs.2020.9628.
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Creativity is a cognitive ability that enables individuals to come up with both original and functional ideas and products. As architectural design requires producing aesthetic and practically useful solutions, it is a primary concern to enhance creativity in design disciplines. Many theorists argued that design is a non-linear process and many components of design problems are not clear at the beginning. At the start of the process, designers are always working at the periphery of a solution space where there is less coherence and more ambiguity. Thus, they must deal with a lot of ambiguity in every design situation. These states of uncertainty and confusion can be annoying for architecture students. On the other hand, tolerance of ambiguity is a personality trait that has been linked to creative thinking. Therefore, this paper attempts to investigate the correlation between tolerance of ambiguity of architectural students and their creativity via a qualitative study. The researchers implemented a mixed-method approach and recruited 18 architecture students. The results from this study revealed that there is a significant correlation between students’ creative thinking abilities and their tolerance for ambiguity. Our results also indicated that there is no statistically significant correlation between students’ tolerance of ambiguity and their design creativity.
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Abdul Malik, Nur Khaliesah, Nor Rohaizah Jamil, Latifah Abd Manaf, Mohd Hafiz Rosli, Zulfa Hanan Ash’aari, and Fasihah Mohd Yusof. "Application of Frequency Analysis on Peak River Discharge toward the Cumulative Floatable Litter Load at Log Boom Sungai Batu." MATEC Web of Conferences 266 (2019): 02002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201926602002.
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The accumulation of floatable litter in the river is mainly influenced by the increasing number of human population, rapid urbanization and development which indirectly lead to the changes of hydrological processes in river discharge, decreasing the water quality and aesthetical value of the river. The main objective of this paper is to determine the cumulative floatable litter load captured at the log boom during the extreme events by using the Gumbel distribution method for frequency analysis in river discharge of Sungai Batu. The annual maximum river discharge for a period of 35 years (1982 to 2016) was used in Gumbel distribution method to obtain the discharge for different return period (2, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, and 200). The result shows that the estimated discharge (103.17 m³/s) can estimate the cumulative floatable litter load (53267.27 kg/day) at 50 years return period. The R2 value obtained from non – linear regression analysis is 0.9986 indicate that Gumbel distribution is suitable to predict the expected discharge of the river. This study is very crucial for the related agencies in highlighting this environmental issues for their future references which can be used as a guidelines during the decision making process in making better improvement.
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Sathekge, Rachel, and Colin Lesar. "Evaluation of long-term sagittal lip changes using Burstone line: Pilot Study." South European Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Research 7, no. 2 (January 11, 2021): 32–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/sejodr7-28095.
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Lip position has become one of the most important soft tissue analyses as it influences the occlusion, tooth stability and facial aesthetic. Hence, the objective of this study was to compare the short-term and long-term sagittal lip positions/changes using the Burstone line (B-line).
Methods
The sample consisted of 18 Caucasoid females only (14 extractions, 4 non-extractions) who were successfully treated with edgewise appliances. All the patients were evaluated before treatment (T1),at the end of active treatment (T2), and at a long-term follow-up observation (T3). The mean age at commencement was 13.2 years with the range of 10.5-19 years.
The linear distance between the tip of the lips and the B-line were measured.
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T1-T2 time intervals showed the upper lip underwent a mean change of 1.272 mm relative to the B-line (-32.8%) which was statistically significant. The lower lip showed a mean change of 1.549 mm (-22.2%), but these changes were not statistically significant.
Lip protrusion relative to the B-line continued to reduce during the long term follow up period. The upper lip showed slight changes (-9.2%), whereas the lower lip demonstrated greater change (-53.8%).
Conclusion
Using B-line, the sagittal soft tissue lip positions were more retrusive on the long-term follow-up records for both extraction and non-extraction cases, their values were not very different from the normal values of the untreated cases. Although the differences were not statistically significant, upper lips were retrusive post treatment from T1-T2, while were statistically significant the lower lips were retrusive from T1-T2.
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Sathekge, Rachel, and Colin Lesar. "Evaluation of long-term sagittal lip changes using Burstone line: Pilot Study." South European Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Research 7, no. 2 (January 11, 2021): 32–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/sejodr7-28095.
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Objective
Lip position has become one of the most important soft tissue analyses as it influences the occlusion, tooth stability and facial aesthetic. Hence, the objective of this study was to compare the short-term and long-term sagittal lip positions/changes using the Burstone line (B-line).
Methods
The sample consisted of 18 Caucasoid females only (14 extractions, 4 non-extractions) who were successfully treated with edgewise appliances. All the patients were evaluated before treatment (T1),at the end of active treatment (T2), and at a long-term follow-up observation (T3). The mean age at commencement was 13.2 years with the range of 10.5-19 years.
The linear distance between the tip of the lips and the B-line were measured.
Results
T1-T2 time intervals showed the upper lip underwent a mean change of 1.272 mm relative to the B-line (-32.8%) which was statistically significant. The lower lip showed a mean change of 1.549 mm (-22.2%), but these changes were not statistically significant.
Lip protrusion relative to the B-line continued to reduce during the long term follow up period. The upper lip showed slight changes (-9.2%), whereas the lower lip demonstrated greater change (-53.8%).
Conclusion
Using B-line, the sagittal soft tissue lip positions were more retrusive on the long-term follow-up records for both extraction and non-extraction cases, their values were not very different from the normal values of the untreated cases. Although the differences were not statistically significant, upper lips were retrusive post treatment from T1-T2, while were statistically significant the lower lips were retrusive from T1-T2.
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Dutta, Deborah, and Sanjay Chandrasekharan. "Seeding Embodied Environmental Sensibilities: Lessons from a School Terrace-Farm in Mumbai, India." Case Studies in the Environment 3, no. 1 (December 31, 2019): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/cse.2018.001628.
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Environmental crises require collective and sustained action. However, pro-environmental action (PEA) has been mostly approached as an individual process. Further, conventional approaches to promote PEA assume an information-processing model of actions based on knowledge acquisition, which has been critiqued. Recent environmental education approaches emphasize more complex, non-linear models of action and focus on the acquisition of action-competence, which allows students to feel empowered to act in their local communities. Extending this approach, the potential of using the school as a base to involve other members of a community to engage in collective pro-environmental practices is a promising, but under-researched, direction to address sustainability issues. In this school-based case-study, we explored the development of action-competence, particularly the processes that lead up to such competence, by facilitating an urban farming project (40 students, 12–13 years old, tracked for 10 months). We studied students’ interaction with farming structures and entities closely, taking an analysis approach inspired by: (1) recent work highlighting the affective-aesthetic appeal of environmental entities and (2) embodied cognition models. Based on these data and analysis, we show how meaningful and embodied encounters with nature contribute to the enhancement of students’ environmental “action-space”. More interestingly, sharing of these “action-spaces” with adults, through various social experiences, motivated adults to participate in PEAs. This case-study is relevant to environmental educators and researchers seeking to design proactive interventions and explore general principles underlying collective environment-oriented actions.