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Journal articles on the topic "Synthesis of beauty"
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Nicolaou, K. C. "Creating complexity – the beauty and logic of synthesis." Chemical Communications, no. 6 (March 6, 2003): 661–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/b212248k.
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Guyer, Paul. "Beauty, Systematicity, and the Highest Good: Eckart Förster'sKant's Final Synthesis." Inquiry 46, no. 2 (June 2003): 195–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00201740310001191.
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Dular, Sonja. "Gazing into Beauty, Gazing into Death." Maska 33, no. 189 (June 1, 2018): 30–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/maska.33.189-190.30_1.
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A Melancholic Croquis is based on the motifs of Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice and its eponymous film adaptation by Luchino Visconti. The director Matej Filipčič conceived the project as a unique synthesis of a theatre performance, a scientific experiment and a social event. The article focuses on this triple connection, the specifics of the project’s content, form and production. It first explains the thematic deviation from the original: the performance does not foreground the artist and his being torn between the Apollonian and the Dionysian, but centres on melancholy, which Filipčič recognises as melancholic and defines experientially as an equation of both principles. The original motifs are present but are of secondary significance since the question no longer concerns a philosophical deliberation on the ways of achieving beauty but rather the staging of an ambience, experience itself and the possibility of recording the spectator’s emotional responses. Why? Because a melancholic is a person par excellence clinging to time and enclosed by time, able to ‘fight’ against the fleeting and the fleetingness of time with only one weapon: a series of questions that force creative persons (artists, philosophers, scientists) towards creative acts, into which Filipčič constantly inserts memories, intertwining the personal and the collective, placing the particular in the universal that is valid here and now. The article also traces the fundamental building blocks of Filipčič’s staging process: the poetics of memory, the use of a croquis and a concern for communicativeness, which are read through A Melancholic Croquis.
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Ahmad, Imran, Ernest Mui, Laura Galbraith, Rachana Patel, Ee Hong Tan, Mark Salji, Alistair G. Rust, et al. "Sleeping Beauty screen reveals Pparg activation in metastatic prostate cancer." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 29 (June 29, 2016): 8290–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1601571113.
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Prostate cancer (CaP) is the most common adult male cancer in the developed world. The paucity of biomarkers to predict prostate tumor biology makes it important to identify key pathways that confer poor prognosis and guide potential targeted therapy. Using a murine forward mutagenesis screen in a Pten-null background, we identified peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma (Pparg), encoding a ligand-activated transcription factor, as a promoter of metastatic CaP through activation of lipid signaling pathways, including up-regulation of lipid synthesis enzymes [fatty acid synthase (FASN), acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC), ATP citrate lyase (ACLY)]. Importantly, inhibition of PPARG suppressed tumor growth in vivo, with down-regulation of the lipid synthesis program. We show that elevated levels of PPARG strongly correlate with elevation of FASN in human CaP and that high levels of PPARG/FASN and PI3K/pAKT pathway activation confer a poor prognosis. These data suggest that CaP patients could be stratified in terms of PPARG/FASN and PTEN levels to identify patients with aggressive CaP who may respond favorably to PPARG/FASN inhibition.
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Milani, Raffaele. "Beauty and building stereotype: Aesthetics of the architecture." SAJ - Serbian Architectural Journal 11, no. 3 (2019): 363–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.5937/saj1903363m.
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In this paper we examined the stereotype as a resilient model of types of created objects, a repeated and repeatable image of a manufacturing process, and a standardised model of virtuality; in other words, stereotyping gives form to things within a system of objects reproduced serially. The centuries-old synthesis of artisanship and material has been transformed in our times into design. To reconstruct an object means to retrace the techniques that produced it, including traditional ones. In terms of the relationship among technologies, there is a heated debate between those who want to defend the traces of the past as a memory important for the future, as well as an instrument for harmonising the masses, and those who favour the absolute novelty of the hybrid style that is now in vogue after the modernist phase. The latter support deregulating the manufacture of architectural objects and the incoherent, improvised organisation of the suburban environment. Throughout history there have been important differences of opinion on the value of humankind, quality of life, ways of thinking, and forms of culture and art
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COSTARELLI BRANDI, Hugo. "Elementos esenciales de lo bello en la Summa de Bono de Ulrico de Estrasburgo / Essential Elements of the Beautiful in the Summa de Bono of Ulrich of Strasbourg." Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval 22 (January 1, 2015): 205. http://dx.doi.org/10.21071/refime.v22i.6221.
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Within the deep philosophical reflection of the thirteenth century are commonly heard names such as Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure. However, little is said of those disciples of lesser brilliance who spread the thought of their teachers. Such is the case of Ulrich of Strasbourg. This Dominican friar, a fellow student of Thomas Aquinas in Cologne, studied under Albertus Magnus the De Divinis nominibus of Pseudo-Dionysius. Years later, Ulrich wrote a work called Summa de bono where, in dealing with beauty, a unique Neoplatonic synthesis operates, but from the original perspective of his master. This paper analyses the concept of beauty present in Ulrich of Strasbourg to show how there is as much clear dependence on Albertian Neoplatonism as there is originality in the presentation of the topic.
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Kliszcz, Angelika, Andrzej Danel, Joanna Puła, Beata Barabasz-Krasny, and Katarzyna Możdżeń. "Fleeting Beauty—The World of Plant Fragrances and Their Application." Molecules 26, no. 9 (April 23, 2021): 2473. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules26092473.
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This article is devoted to some aspects of the fragrant substances of plant origin applied in the food industry and perfumery as well. Since antiquity many extractive techniques have been developed to obtain essential oils. Some of them are still applied, but new ones, like microwave or ultrasound-assisted extractions, are more and more popular and they save time and cost. Independently of the procedure, the resulting essential oils are the source of many so-called isolates. These can be applied as food additives, medicines, or can be used as starting materials for organic synthesis. Some substances exist in very small amounts in plant material so the extraction is not economically profitable but, after their chemical structures were established and synthetic procedures were developed, in some cases they are prepared on an industrial scale. The substances described below are only a small fraction of the 2000–3000 fragrant molecules used to make our life more enjoyable, either in food or perfumes. Additionally, a few examples of allelopathic fragrant compounds, present in their natural state, will be denoted and some of their biocidal features will be mentioned as an arising “green” knowledge in agriculture.
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Ainsworth, Kerri. "Public Art & Event Design: A Synthesis of Sustainability, Environmental Awareness, Beauty & Functionality." Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal—Annual Review 5, no. 1 (2011): 121–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.18848/1833-1874/cgp/v05i01/38020.
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Kotliar, Svitlana, and Iryna Zaspa. "Female Portrait in Photography Art: from Authenticity to Modernity." Bulletin of Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. Series in Audiovisual Art and Production 4, no. 1 (June 30, 2021): 84–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.31866/2617-2674.4.1.2021.235094.
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The purpose of the research is to analyze female photo portrait, the concept of female beauty in photography, the history of the origin and formation of female portrait in photography. Moreover, the aim was to trace the common and distinct features of a female portrait from the past to nowadays. It was decided to establish a role of female photo portrait in the art of photography, to prove its peculiarity and importance. The research methodology consists of the following parts: theoretical – analysis of the female beauty concept in the photo portrait, history of female portrait development in photography, empirical – study of relationships between female portraits of different times, comparative – comparison of modern and authentic portraits. In the course of cognitive synthesis and generalization of distinctive and similar features of female photo portraits of different times, special features of the female portrait were determined. Scientific novelty. For the first time, the history and formation of female photo portrait from authenticity to the nowadays were analyzed. The analysis was conducted based on photo portraits researches of different times. A detailed analysis of factors influencing the formation of this genre of photography was carried out. With the help of the theoretical analysis, the factors influencing the development of the female photo portrait were determined, its specifics and features were outlined. Conclusions. In the course of the article, we analyzed female portrait in photography and the concept of female beauty in different periods. With the help of the analysis of the history of development and formation of the female portrait photography genre, its role in the art of photography has been established. Peculiarities of female photo portrait as a genre of the art of photography were determined. Its peculiarity and importance have been proved. The factors influencing the concept of female beauty in photography, the development of female portrait and its features have been generalized.
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Tokajuk, Andrzej. "The Truth in Architecture as a Synthesis of Material and Ideas – Brick Architecture of Białystok." Teka Komisji Architektury, Urbanistyki i Studiów Krajobrazowych 16, no. 3 (September 30, 2020): 24–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.35784/teka.2400.
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In contemporary architecture, the problem of the truth and lies can be considered in several aspects - form, idea, material, also in terms of beauty and aesthetics. The aim of this article is to show that the truth in architecture can be interpreted as a kind of synthesis of material and ideas. Such synthesis occurs, inter alia, in the architecture of buildings with brick facades. The author of the text carries out the case studies analysis on the example of the brick architecture of Białystok from the 19th and 20th centuries - among which several outstanding works of architecture can be identified. The result of the research is the confirmation of the thesis put at the beginning and the presentation the evolution of the forms of brick architecture in Białystok in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Synthesis of beauty"
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Simisic, Pasic Lamila. "Justify Beauty, Architectural Sensorium." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/586174.
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The thesis traces architecture intertwined with its environment, and what could be a possible organ that is part of such communication. It is giving an articulation, towards Architectural Sensorium. Powerful and differences of symbiosis between environment and architecture is stressed by nation of Beauty. Obsession of the Beauty on the beginning of the 21st century, parallel to similar obsession on a beginning of 20th, might bring us some novel understandings and insights in our creative doctrine. Intentionally thesis studied, nation of Beauty rather than aesthetics. It is exploring kind of new, wild and brave Beauty. Similar to relation in-between art and culture, sits relation in-between aesthetics and Beauty. While culture a contrary to art, expresses continuity and coherence, art posses singularity of a wildness and surprising nature.
This thesis attempts to address question, whether architecture could be build out of nothing. Although it is important for architecture to be recognized and to recognize in its discourse the convergences of science, technology, biology computation or philosophy, this research still has more concern towards searching niche for or of possible architecture, somewhere which does not belong nether to any particular domain.
Part of this research focuses on how Beauty is inscribe possible life, that starving for merge between human and human, within artificial realm, and finally to be displaced elsewhere. It analyzes procedure and methods of decomposition of body of Beauty, to make it eligible to become part of possible world. Examinations of, literal and artistic creations, are relied on brave, unconventional and wild examples, rather than on architectural masterpieces.
Question to be answer is; can we Justify Beauty and is there any relevance in its justification and implications; is it important to create architecture with sensorium; and what sits out of relation between Beauty and sensorium? This has created a framework for further contributions, besides of rethinking of power of Beauty, to give an importance of Architectural Sensorium towards Global Sensorium.
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Sandy, Heather. "Beauty and the Synthetic." Thesis, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1591407.
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Brown, Elliot Morgan. "The Application of Synthetic Signals for ECG Beat Classification." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2019. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/8116.
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A brief overview of electrocardiogram (ECG) properties and the characteristics of various cardiac conditions is given. Two different models are used to generate synthetic ECG signals. Domain knowledge is used to create synthetic examples of 16 different heart beat types with these models. Other techniques for synthesizing ECG signals are explored. Various machine learning models with different combinations of real and synthetic data are used to classify individual heart beats. The performance of the different methods and models are compared, and synthetic data is shown to be useful in beat classification.
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Braun, Beate [Verfasser]. "Synthese, Metabolismus und Rezeption von Sexualsteroiden in ausgewählten reproduktiven Organen und Geweben von Feliden / Beate Braun." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2019. http://d-nb.info/1179778758/34.
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Klesken, Ashley. "Toward a Catholic Cosmocentric Theological Anthropology: A Synthesis from Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Love and Laudato Si'." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1596719880496661.
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Povalač, Aleš. "Řídicí mikroprocesorový systém s kmitočtovým syntezátorem pro KV radiostanici." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-218031.
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The thesis is focused on the development of a radioamateur short-wave transceiver. The basic functions, features and parameters are described in the introduction. The bandplan and appropriate types of emission are also included in the introductory part. The frequency synthesis module is discussed in the second part of the document. Emphasis is placed on the direct digital synthesis method (DDS) using modern Analog Devices circuits. The proposed DDS module includes a high-speed clock source. The description of an intermediate frequency module with a demodulator is also placed there. The final part in devoted to the design of a transceiver control panel with a graphical display, a keyboard and a rotary encoder. The firmware for an ATmega128 microcontroller is described in detail at the end of the thesis.
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Anderson, Lenore Wright. "Synthetic beauty: American women and cosmetic surgery." Thesis, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/16205.
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This dissertation constitutes an anthropological inquiry into the current American boom in facial and bodily cosmetic surgery. The exploration of this phenomenon utilizes the messages of the print media, the literature of the social and medical sciences, and the voices of women who tell their stories and interpret their experiences. The dissertation begins with a perspective on American society as a commercialized entity and also as a post-modern phenomenon. The commodification of American medicine is discussed as a related and yet distinct process. Chapter II provides an historical look at medical advertising in the United States and offers interpretive data on a collection of advertisements for cosmetic surgical procedures. Chapter III describes the conceptions of female beauty in the United States from the 1800s until 1989, and additionally supplies a feminist take on beauty and the viewpoints on female attractiveness held by cosmetic surgeons. Chapter IV overviews social science studies that discuss the importance of physical appearance, and psychological literature that establishes the nature of body-image over the life-cycle. This chapter also provides data on the interactions between plastic surgeons and their patients and discusses the potential psychiatric problems that might plague those who seek cosmetic surgery. Chapter V presents a discussion of the rhytidoplasty (facelift) and blepharoplasty (eyelift) operations, and outlines methods, side-effects, and complications. Additionally included are the stories and words of three women who have undergone these procedures and an analysis of the themes that recur and seem pivotal to the process of having a facelift. Chapter VI discusses augmentation mammoplasty (breast enlargement) procedures and presents an overview of how the operation is done and the common side-effects and complications. Once again the stories and quotes of three women who have had this operation are provided, and the recurrent and relevant themes found in their discourse are analyzed. The final chapter provides a gloss on cosmetic surgery using the scaffolding of symbolism, ritual, and myth. The surgical rituals of facelift and breast augmentation as well as other American beauty rites are compared with feminine rituals in other cultures and the elements of pain and danger are discussed as common to many beauty rituals, across several cultures.
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Müller, Beate [Verfasser]. "Synthesen und Reaktionen neuartiger Azidocyclopentadiene / vorgelegt von Beate Müller." 2002. http://d-nb.info/968763855/34.
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Beato, Pablo [Verfasser]. "Synthesis and characterization of realistic molybdenum oxide based model systems in heterogeneous catalysis / vorgelegt von Pablo Beato." 2005. http://d-nb.info/976464330/34.
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Netopilová, Barbora. "Sen o pozemském ráji v Dostojevského dílech." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-328135.
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The dream about an earthly paradise, rediscovery of an original, absolutely harmonic paradisal life is, in Dostoevskij's opinion, one of the deepest and the most valuable dreams of the human heart. The spiritual course of any human being has its own history, it is born from thesis (babtism), goes through antithesis (crises) and finishes in synthesis (beauty). A man comes from the Eden Paradise and aims at heaven. So, a man in course of his spiritual life is in a real split into two paradises: the Eden Paradise from which he is coming from and the Kingdom of God where he is aiming at. The midpoint of the life course is accompanied by a crisis, that can also be described as separation from the the paradise. The characters of novels by Dostoevskij failed due to the fact, that they were not able to admit their presence between two "paradise states" and so their ideas about earthly paradise establishment were being corrupted. In our piece of work we are going to follow four trends: 1. Time corruption, incorrectly understood sense of history. The tendency to return back where a man came from, in an origenestic, cyclic interpretation of a comeback is apparent in a story The Dream of a Ridiculous Man. Another extreme shows marxism ideas going around Europe which deny both the importance and the sense of...
Books on the topic "Synthesis of beauty"
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Case, Ted J., Martin L. Cody, and Exequiel Ezcurra. Island Biogeography in the Sea of Cortés II. Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195133462.001.0001.
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This updated and expanded A New Island Biogeography of the Sea of Cortés, first published nearly 20 years ago, integrates new and broader studies encompassing more taxa and more complete island coverage. The present synthesis provides a basis for further research and exploration in upcoming years of the biologically fascinating Sea of Cortés region. The Gulf region is increasingly being exploited, for its natural resources by way of marine fisheries, and for its stunning natural beauty by way of a burgeoning tourism industry. Further, the region's human population is increasing apace. It is appropriate, therefore, that this volume discusses these evolving circumstances, and the efforts of the Mexican government to regulate and manage them. The new Biogeography includes a section on the conservation issues in the Sea of Cortés, past accomplishments and conservation needs as yet outstanding. This book should be of strong interest to conservation biologists, ecologists, and evolutionary biologists more generally.
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Thagard, Paul. Brain-Mind. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190678715.001.0001.
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Minds enable people to perceive, imagine, solve problems, understand, learn, speak, reason, create, and be emotional and conscious. Competing explanations of how the mind works have identified it as soul, computer, brain, dynamical system, or social construction. This book explains minds in terms of interacting mechanisms operating at multiple levels, including the social, mental, neural, and molecular. Brain–Mind presents a unified, brain-based theory of cognition and emotion with applications to the most complex kinds of thinking, right up to consciousness and creativity. Unification comes from systematic application of Chris Eliasmith’s powerful new Semantic Pointer Architecture, a highly original synthesis of neural network and symbolic ideas about how the mind works. The book shows the relevance of semantic pointers to a full range of important kinds of mental representations, from sensations and imagery to concepts, rules, analogies, and emotions. Neural mechanisms are used to explain many phenomena concerning consciousness, action, intention, language, creativity, and the self. This book belongs to a trio that includes Mind–Society: From Brains to Social Sciences and Professions and Natural Philosophy: From Social Brains to Knowledge, Reality, Morality, and Beauty. They can be read independently, but together they make up a Treatise on Mind and Society that provides a unified and comprehensive treatment of the cognitive sciences, social sciences, professions, and humanities.
Book chapters on the topic "Synthesis of beauty"
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Sewell, Amanda. "The Last of the New (1985–1997)." In Wendy Carlos, 151–80. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190053468.003.0008.
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This chapter focuses on the last period in which Carlos created new music. She began restricting the number and type of interviews she gave following Allan Kozinn’s negative review of her album ciDigital Moonscapes and an article in People magazine that focused disproportionately on her gender. In 1986, she released Beauty in the Beast. Although she called it her “most important album,” Beauty in the Beast barely registered critically or commercially. She also teamed up with “Weird Al” Yankovic, known for his parodies of pop songs and his accordion playing, to record Sergei Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf. Struggling financially, Carlos returned to the repertoire of Switched-On Bach and created Switched-On Bach 2000 using digital synthesis.
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Fan, Xing. "Coda." In Staging Revolution. Hong Kong University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888455812.003.0011.
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The coda offers an analysis of how the five major artistic aspects work together in model jingju in communicating a particular type of aesthetics. Focusing on the nature and expression of beauty, the author examines three interrelated questions: Did the notion of beauty matter during the creative process? What is considered beautiful and therefore aesthetically favored? And how is this sense of beauty communicated? The author highlights two dominant aesthetic qualities in model jingju: the beauty of the sublime and the beauty of masculinity. The author analyzes imbalance as a primary aesthetic feature in two spheres: gender representation and aesthetic expectations. Finally, the author proposes that the deep roots of the imbalance in model jingju lie in the varied levels of association among the three traditional aesthetic principles—conventionalization, stylization, and synthesis—and each of the five major artistic aspects—playwriting, acting, music, design, and directing, and that, ultimately, the overarching creative directive, the Combination of Revolutionary Realism and Revolutionary Romanticism, was a flawed premise for model jingju.
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Bowman, William D. "Introduction: Historical Perspective and Significance of Alpine Ecosystem Studies." In Structure and Function of an Alpine Ecosystem. Oxford University Press, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195117288.003.0005.
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Alpine tundra is an intriguing ecosystem—for its beauty as well as for the harsh climate in which it exists. Contrasted against jagged rock precipices and snow and ice and subjected to rapid changes in weather, the tundra, with its proliferation of diminutive flowers, appears deceptively fragile. John Muir, in detailing the alpine of the Sierra Nevada, was at a loss to adequately describe “the exquisite beauty of these mountain carpets as they lie smoothly outspread in the savage wilderness” (Muir 1894). Despite this aesthetic fascination for the alpine, it is one of the least studied ecosystems in the world. Significant effort has been expended to describe the physiological ecology of alpine organisms (e.g., Bliss 1985; Carey 1993; Körner 1999) and community patterns (Komárková 1979; Billings 1988), but there have been no syntheses detailing alpine ecosystem processes and patterns to the degree that they have been described in the arctic (e.g., Chapin 1992) and forest (e.g., Likens and Bormann 1995) ecosystems. The goal of this book is to provide a description of the Niwot Ridge/Green Lakes Valley alpine ecosystem of the Front Range in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, including the spatial and temporal patterns of animals, plants, and microorganisms and the associated ecosystem processes. The book focuses on the strengths of the research carried out on Niwot Ridge during the past four decades, particularly physical factors influencing alpine ecology (climate and geomorphology), patterns and functions of the vegetation, and N biogeochemistry. While the book focuses on a particular site, the results can be extrapolated to much of the southern and central Rocky Mountains, and thus it pertains to a broader geographic and scientific scope and will be of direct interest to ecologists in general as well as to those interested in ecosystems in extreme environments. There are numerous justifications for a synthesis of alpine ecosystem studies. While alpine tundra occupies only about 3% of the global land surface (Körner 1995) and thus has little impact on atmosphere-biosphere exchange, its presence at the extreme climatic tolerance for many organisms and its presence on every continent make it a good “indicator” system for regional environmental change.
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Gailus, Andreas. "The Life of Cognition and the Cognition of Life (Kant)." In Forms of Life, 77–122. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501749803.003.0002.
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This chapter examines the conceptualization of life as formative form around 1800. Immanuel Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment is the first book in the German tradition to articulate the new dynamic notion of life as a convergence of mind and nature. For Kant, aesthetic experience is important because it involves an intensification of the life of the mind (including the social dimension of mind as sensus communis) and enables us to develop a regulative notion of organic life. Kant's claim is that to understand the peculiar organization of natural beings, we must view them as products of an intrinsic formative activity, and hence as in some way analogous to the mind's power of cognitive and perceptual synthesis, which we experience most vividly in our encounter with beauty. Aesthetic experience allows us to grasp the nature of human, or symbolic, life and its place within the natural world.
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Taber, Douglass F. "Preparation of Substituted Benzenes: The Beaudry Synthesis of Arundamine." In Organic Synthesis. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190646165.003.0064.
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Stephen G. DiMagno of the University of Nebraska developed (Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 6394) a protocol for the clean monoiodination of 1 to 2. The bromomethylation (or chloromethylation, with HCl) of a benzene derivative is straightforward with formaldehyde and HBr. Naofumi Tsukada of Shizuoka University designed (Organometallics 2015, 34, 1191) a Cu catalyst that mediated the coupling of an alkyne with the benzyl bromide so produced, effecting net propargylation of 3 with 4 to give 5. Triazenes such as 7, versatile intermediates for organic synthesis, are usually prepared by diazotization of the corresponding aniline. Kay Severin of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne established (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 302) an alternative route from the aryl Grignard reagent 6. Ping Lu and Yanguang Wang of Zhejiang University showed (Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 2840) that dimethylformamide could serve as the carbon source for the conversion of 8 to the nitrile 9. Junha Jeon of the University of Texas at Arlington effected (J. Org. Chem. 2015, 80, 4661; Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 3778) the reductive ortho silylation of 10 to give 11. Vladimir Gevorgyan of the University of Illinois at Chicago found (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 2255) that the phenol derivative 12 could be ortho carboxylated, leading to 13. Lutz Ackermann of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, starting (Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 8812) with the designed amide 14, effected ortho metalation followed by coupling, to give the methylated product 15. Tetsuya Satoh and Masahiro Miura of Osaka University used (Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 704) the dithiane of 16 to direct ortho metalation. Coupling with acrylate followed by reductive desulfurization led to the ester 17. Jin-Quan Yu of Scripps/La Jolla designed (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 888) the phenylacetamide 18 to direct selective meta metalation, leading to the unsaturated aldehyde 19. In an extension of the Catellani protocol, Guangbin Dong of the University of Texas prepared (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 5887) the biphenyl 21 by net meta metalation of the benzylamine 20. Several methods for the de novo assembly of benzene derivatives have recently been put forward. Rajeev S. Menon of the Indian Institute of Chemical Technology condensed (Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 1449) the unsaturated aldehyde 22 with the sulfonyl ester 23 to give 24.
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"13 / Simpson’s Cynodont-to-Smilodon Synthesis." In Beasts of Eden, 145–56. University of California Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520939400-016.
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Parkins, Ilya. "‘Eve Goes Synthetic’: Modernising Feminine Beauty, Renegotiating Masculinity in Britannia and Eve." In Women's Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474412537.003.0012.
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This chapter offers a close reading of the work of male writers on feminine beauty in Britannia and Eve, examining how authorial voice functions to make the masculine subject fully present in the magazine even where it is ostensibly marginal; men become the absent presence. The chapter considers these textual representations of feminine beauty against the visual field of the magazine, which, as would be expected, consists almost entirely of images of women: the present presence. It considers the mutually reinforcing effects of the feminization of visual spectacle and the masculinization of text, and how this formal tension might both shape and echo the arguments about women’s beauty being made by male journalists in the magazine.
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Thomas, Edmund. "Introduction." In Monumentality and the Roman Empire. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199288632.003.0008.
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Roman buildings are among the most impressive and conspicuous legacies of the ancient world. To the millions who visit their ruins and reconstructed forms every year they are an absorbing and fascinating sight, not only because of their physical size and beauty as works of art, but for their historical value as a suggestive reminder of the past. For Edward Gibbon, these architectural remains were evidence of cultural and economic prosperity and supported his conclusion that: ‘[i]f a man were called to fix the period during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would without hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian [AD 96] to the accession of Commodus [AD 180].’ Since Gibbon’s time, excavation and scholarly analysis have reinforced this impression. Most regions within the Roman Empire have produced archaeological evidence of imposing buildings from this period. Foundations, scattered finds of building materials and architectural decoration, and building inscriptions, together suggest that the volume of buildings erected at this time was substantially greater than the surviving structures might suggest. This book is about Roman monumental architecture erected under the Antonine emperors, particularly during the reigns of Antoninus Pius (AD 138–61) and Marcus Aurelius (AD 161–80). Although there have been many individual regional and site studies, there has never been a general synthesis which evaluates the architecture of the Antonine period as a whole in the light of the increasing quantity of evidence. The present book does not aim to provide that synthesis in the manner of a conventional art-historical analysis of forms and styles. Nor does it set out to analyse the technologies and materials of Roman buildings, the logistics or practicalities of their construction, or the processes of their design, aspects which have been well studied in recent years. It attempts, rather, to consider the significance of the architecture of this period for contemporaries. Its focus is the question of architectural meaning. In the ancient world, buildings were not only a backdrop and setting for social interaction but also a form of social language.
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Thomas, Edmund. "Principles of Monumental Form in Antiquity." In Monumentality and the Roman Empire. Oxford University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199288632.003.0010.
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Roman buildings are among the most impressive and conspicuous legacies of the ancient world. To the millions who visit their ruins and reconstructed forms every year they are an absorbing and fascinating sight, not only because of their physical size and beauty as works of art, but for their historical value as a suggestive reminder of the past. For Edward Gibbon, these architectural remains were evidence of cultural and economic prosperity and supported his conclusion that: ‘[i]f a man were called to fix the period during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would without hesitation name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian [AD 96] to the accession of Commodus [AD 180].’ Since Gibbon’s time, excavation and scholarly analysis have reinforced this impression. Most regions within the Roman Empire have produced archaeological evidence of imposing buildings from this period. Foundations, scattered finds of building materials and architectural decoration, and building inscriptions, together suggest that the volume of buildings erected at this time was substantially greater than the surviving structures might suggest. This book is about Roman monumental architecture erected under the Antonine emperors, particularly during the reigns of Antoninus Pius (AD 138–61) and Marcus Aurelius (AD 161–80). Although there have been many individual regional and site studies, there has never been a general synthesis which evaluates the architecture of the Antonine period as a whole in the light of the increasing quantity of evidence. The present book does not aim to provide that synthesis in the manner of a conventional art-historical analysis of forms and styles. Nor does it set out to analyse the technologies and materials of Roman buildings, the logistics or practicalities of their construction, or the processes of their design, aspects which have been well studied in recent years. It attempts, rather, to consider the significance of the architecture of this period for contemporaries. Its focus is the question of architectural meaning. In the ancient world, buildings were not only a backdrop and setting for social interaction but also a form of social language.
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Taber, Douglass F. "Organic Functional Group Protection and Deprotection." In Organic Synthesis. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199965724.003.0016.
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Corey R. J. Stephenson of Boston University devised (Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 5040) a protocol using visible light for removing the PMB group from 1 to give 2. John F. Hartwig, now at the University of California, Berkeley, developed (Science 2011, 332, 439) a Ni catalyst for the cleavage of the durable aryl ether of 3 to give 4. Mark S. Taylor of the University of Toronto devised (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2011, 133, 3724) the catalyst 6, which selectively mediated esterifi cation of 5 to 7. Jean-Marie Beau of the Université Paris-Sud added (Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 2146) Et3 SiH following the Fe-catalyzed deprotection-protection of 8, resulting in clean conversion to the bis ether 9. Mahmood Tajbakhsh of the University of Mazandaran showed (Tetrahedron Lett. 2011, 52, 1260) that guanidine HCl catalyzed the conversion of 10 to 11. Stephen W. Wright of Pfizer/Groton established (Tetrahedron Lett. 2011, 52, 3171) that the new urethane protecting group of 12, stable to many conditions, could be deprotected to 13 under conditions that spared even a Boc group. Matthias Beller of the Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis protected (Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 2152) the amine 14 as the readily hydrolyzed imidazole 16. Sentaro Okamoto of Kanagawa University found (Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 2626) a simple reagent combination for the removal of the sometimes reluctant sulfonamide from 17. Jordi Burés and Jaume Vilarrasa of the Universitat de Barcelona removed (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 3275) the oxime from 19 by Au-catalyzed exchange with 20. Pengfei Wang of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, designed (J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 2040) a range of photochemically removable protecting groups for aldehydes and ketones. Rafael Robles of the University of Granada selectively protected (J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 2277) the diol 24 using the reagent created by the activation of 25. Berit Olofsson of Stockholm University prepared (Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 3462) the phenyl ester 28 by exposing 27 to the diaryl iodonium triflate. Kannoth Manheri Muraleedharan of the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, selectively (Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 1932) esterified 29 to 30 with catalytic SmCl3.
Conference papers on the topic "Synthesis of beauty"
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Perez Mata, Marta, Saeema Ahmed-Kristensen, and Kristina Shea. "Spatial Grammar for Design Synthesis Targeting Perceptions: Case Study on Beauty." In ASME 2015 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2015-46449.
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Tools to aid designers achieve specific perceptions through the aesthetics of their products are needed in order to compete and stand out in the current consumer society. This research aims to develop a spatial grammar to include perceptions. This is conducted through a case study where rules from previous research are used to guide the spatial grammar development and generation of solutions. Results show that it is possible to develop a spatial grammar to design for perception rules extracted from consumers using Semantic Differential (SD) scales and advanced statistics. These elements combined can generate a tool that provides designers with many new aesthetically pleasing solutions. The Spapper module within the FreeCAD software is used for the implementation. Initial work examines only two perception rules (simplicity and tall), and shows the need for the third (curves) to obtain the expected results. Future work should focus on expanding the shapes available for generation (i.e. 3D primitives) to include spheres, ellipsoids, tori, revolved profiles and sweeps, which could increase the number of valid solutions.
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Flores-Caldero´n, Alejandro, Vicente Borja, Marcelo Lo´pez-Parra, and Alejandro Rami´rez-Reivich. "A Case Study in “Total Beauty” Design: An Experience Through Sustainable Product Design." In ASME 2010 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2010-39271.
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Recent research on ‘engineering design’ is expanding to consider methods, tools and frameworks aimed at assisting designers in the process of developing sustainable products. Some of these new approaches highlight the importance and advantages of applying biology, chemistry and human-environment health, concepts and principles at the design stage of the product development process. The successful application of these approaches also requires overcoming a number of challenges. Two particular issues currently being investigated are: 1) the contradictory and sometimes misleading use of concepts regarding what a sustainable product is; and 2) the lack of sustainable parameters to evaluate how sustainable a product is. This paper presents a synthesis of the Total-Beauty theoretical framework, based on the study reported in a previous paper. Then, a process to redesign products using BioThinking, is proposed followed by its application in the redesign of a product. The process is original because it shows how the core concepts are considered in all the steps of a design process and not just in the specification and evaluation steps. The redesign is used as a case study to show its utility. The paper includes the synthesis of evaluation parameters based on BioThinking to both assess the sustainability of products, and compare the redesigned product against the original design. In the end of the paper, a discussion of the design process and the results of the case study will be presented.
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Iranfar, Maryam, and Hourakhsh Ahmad Nia. "The Synthesis of Ethics and Aesthetics in Modern Movement of Architecture: ‘Truth’ Theory as an Assessment Tool." In 4th International Conference of Contemporary Affairs in Architecture and Urbanism – Full book proceedings of ICCAUA2020, 20-21 May 2021. Alanya Hamdullah Emin Paşa University, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.38027/iccaua2021235n17.
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Architects and designers are obligated to think comprehensively to create aesthetically pleasing buildings together with functional features. The modern movement of architecture represents a dramatic movement in the buildings design to create a different functional and new architecture. There is a debate about the priority of beauty (aesthetics) and functionality (ethics) in this architectural style and leads to ambiguity in evaluating ethics and aesthetics. Hence, the study aims to understand the relationship between ethics and aesthetics value in architecture's modern movement. This study hypothesizes that there is a significant relationship between ethical and aesthetical values through the functionality of modern architecture. The study has proposed a conceptual model to be applied in future studies on different case studies. This is through assessment tools to evaluate the presence of ethics and aesthetics in modern architectural style.
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Chang, Yin-ping, and Innchyn Her. "A Simple Proof of the Existence of the Collinearity Circle for a Force-Input Coupler-Driven Four-Bar." In ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2013-12110.
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This research investigates analytical analysis and synthesis problems of force-input and coupler-driven four-bar linkages. Very little bibliography can be found of this type of mechanism in contrast to the conventional torque-input crank-driven four-bars. Traditional four-bar mechanisms use the adjacent links jointed to the ground as input/output links; whereas a coupler-driven four-bar mechanism is actuated by applying the force or torque directly to the coupler link, the member has no direct connection to the base. In this paper, the transmission performance indices, TI (Transmissibility Index) and MI (Manipulability Index) are reviewed, Collinearity Points are defined, where both the MI and TI are unity and therefore the optimal motion transmission performance can be achieved. The Collinearity Circle, which is the locus of all Collinearity Points, is proposed, a novel performance indicator which is used to monitor the effectiveness of the transmission in a force-input coupler-driven four-bar. The beauty of this Collinearity Circle lies not only in its convenient shape, which is a circle, but also in its derivation that can be shown to be merely geometry-dependent. Just like the famous Instant Center, which is also only geometry-dependent, this new Collinearity Circle will prove to be a handy addition to the kinematics toolbox for its power to enable speedy construction and ballpark estimations on the transmission properties of force-input coupler-driven mechanisms. Observations and applications are presented.
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Mozzato, Alioscia. "Le Corbusier and the “Lection of the gondola”." In LC2015 - Le Corbusier, 50 years later. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica València, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/lc2015.2015.794.
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Abstract: In light of the reflections developed by Le Corbusier through the “oeuvre plastique” and his intense relationship with the city of Venice, the gondola became the paradigm of an "artistic creation" which, while having to bow to the principles of "utility" linked to the tangible world of the "machinist era" on the one hand, on the other met the expressive requirements of "beauty" connected to the spiritual needs of modern man. The encounter with the gondola describes this "duality" which pervades all the works of Le Corbusier always in search of a synthesis between "measure" and "lyricism", representing a "plastic manifestation" that points to some theoretical principles and foundations of artistic "action", outlined through the concept of “Outil”, the expression and instrument of a necessary "harmony" between mankind and the world. Resumen: A la luz de las reflexiones desarrolladas por Le Corbusier a través de la “obra plástica” y su intensa relación con la ciudad de Venecia, la góndola se convirtió en el paradigma de una "creación artística" que, si bien tiene que someterse, por un lado, a los principios de "utilidad" vinculados al mundo tangible de la "era mecánica", por otro lado cumplía los requisitos característicos de "belleza" relacionados con las necesidades espirituales del hombre moderno. El encuentro con la góndola describe esta "dualidad" que impregna toda la obra de Le Corbusier, siempre en busca de una síntesis entre "medida" y "lirismo", lo que representa una "manifestación plástica" que apunta a algunos de los principios teóricos y fundamentos de la "acción" artística perfilados a través del concepto de “Outil”, la expresión e instrumento de una necesaria "armonía" entre la humanidad y el mundo. Keywords: Le Corbusier; Gondola; Venice; Plastique acoustique; Outil; Oeuvre plastique; L'angle droit. Palabras clave: Le Corbusier; Gondola; Venecia; Plástica acústica; Outil; Obra plástica; El ángulo recto. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/LC2015.2015.794
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Kim, Tae-hoon, Sang Il Park, and Sung Yong Shin. "Rhythmic-motion synthesis based on motion-beat analysis." In ACM SIGGRAPH 2003 Papers. New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1201775.882283.
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Kotniak, Jacek K., and Wojciech P. Hunek. "Dead-beat control synthesis for multi-tank system." In 2019 23rd International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icstcc.2019.8885797.
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Zhou, Jun, and Weng-Fai Wong. "Resource Efficient Personalized ECG Beat Classification via Temporal Logic Synthesis." In 2019 IEEE 19th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/bibe.2019.00073.
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Gokhale, Kalyan P., Atsuo Kawamura, and Richard G. Hoft. "Dead beat microprocessor control of PWM inverter for sinusoidal output waveform synthesis." In 1985 IEEE Power Electronics Specialists Conference. IEEE, 1985. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/pesc.1985.7070926.
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Chujo, Wataru. "Incoherent, spatial power synthesis of two continuous microwave signals generated by two different optical beats." In 2015 Asia-Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC). IEEE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/apmc.2015.7413334.
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