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Evaluation of Patients’ Satisfaction after Class III Orthognathic Surgery [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2015
Background: Well-planned orthognathic surgery improves psychological health, aesthetics and function of patients. Aim: The present study aimed to investigate patients’ satisfaction after orthognathic surgery by means of a satisfaction questionnaire ...
Osvaldo Magro-Filho   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond words: Aesthetic knowledge and knowing in design [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Aesthetic knowledge comes from practitioners understanding the look, feel, smell, taste and sound of things. It is vital to work in many organizational contexts.
Barthes, Roland   +28 more
core   +1 more source

A Scalable, Durable, Fire‐Safe All‐Day Passive Radiative Cooling Coating for Sustainable Buildings

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study reports a scalable, durable coating that combines a fire‑retardant copolymer adhesive, hollow glass microspheres, and boron oxide to achieve passive radiative cooling with over 94% solar reflectance and >95% mid‑infrared emissivity. The coating maintains performance after UV and rain exposure and exhibits UL‑94 V‑0 fire resistance, enabling ...
Zhewen Ma   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

What “Real” Women Want: Alt-Right Femininity Vlogs as an Anti-Feminist Populist Aesthetic

open access: yesMedia and Communication, 2022
This article suggests that one reason for the resurgence of populism we see in the digital age is its resonance as a political aesthetic with the style and aesthetics of online culture.
Megan L. Zahay
doaj   +1 more source

Aesthetic value: beauty, ugliness and incoherence [PDF]

open access: yes, 1997
[FIRST PARAGRAPHS] From Plato through Aquinas to Kant and beyond beauty has traditionally been considered the paradigmatic aesthetic quality. Thus, quite naturally following Socrates' strategy in The Meno, we are tempted to generalize from our ...
Kieran, M.
core   +1 more source

Components of Aesthetic Experience: Aesthetic Fascination, Aesthetic Appraisal, and Aesthetic Emotion

open access: yesi-Perception, 2012
In this paper aesthetic experience is defined as an experience qualitatively different from everyday experience and similar to other exceptional states of mind. Three crucial characteristics of aesthetic experience are discussed: fascination with an aesthetic object (high arousal and attention), appraisal of the symbolic reality of an object (high ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Microplastics from Wearable Bioelectronic Devices: Sources, Risks, and Sustainable Solutions

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Bioelectronic devices (e.g., e‐skins) heavily rely on polymers that at the end of their life cycle will generate microplastics. For research, a holistic approach to viewing the full impact of such devices cannot be overlooked. The potential for devices as sources for microplastics is raised, with mitigation strategies surrounding polysaccharide and ...
Conor S. Boland
wiley   +1 more source

On the Aesthetic Ideal [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
How should we pursue aesthetic value, or incorporate it into our lives, if we want to? Is there an ideal of aesthetic life? Philosophers have proposed numerous answers to the analogous question in moral philosophy, but the aesthetic question has received
Riggle, Nick
core  

Aesthetic surgery and the expressive body [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In this paper we explore the relation between bodies and selves evident in the narratives surrounding aesthetic surgery. In much feminist work on aesthetic surgery such narratives have been discussed in terms of the normalising consequences of the ...
Alsop, Rachel, Lennon, Kathleen
core   +1 more source

Extensive Review of Materials for Next‐Generation Transparent Batteries and Their Design Strategies

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Review explores emerging materials and design strategies for transparent batteries, examining electrodes, electrolytes, separators, and device architectures optimized for high electrochemical performance, mechanical flexibility, and optical transparency.
Atul Kumar Mishra   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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