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Property-Specific Aesthetic Assessment With Unsupervised Aesthetic Property Discovery [PDF]

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2019
We propose the property-specific aesthetic assessment (PSAA) algorithm with unsupervised aesthetic property discovery. The proposed PSAA algorithm uses an aesthetic feature extractor, an aesthetic property classifier, and multiple property-specific ...
Jun-Tae Lee, Chul Lee, Chang-Su Kim
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Mechanical Properties of Different Aesthetic Archwires

open access: yesTurkish Journal of Orthodontics, 2014
Objectives:In response to patient demands for better aesthetics in orthodontics, manufacturers have developed different aesthetic wires and brackets. The aim of this study were to evaluate the mechanical properties of archwires.
Mehmet Akın   +3 more
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Development and Validation of the Latvian Version of the Orofacial Esthetic Scale in Dental Patients with Aesthetic, Functional and No Treatment Needs [PDF]

open access: yesMedicina
Background and Objectives: This study was conducted in order to develop and validate the Latvian version of the Orofacial Aesthetic Scale (OES-LV) and to assess its psychometric properties in patients with aesthetic, functional or no treatment needs ...
Mara Gaile   +5 more
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Can Food Be Art in Virtue of Its Savour Alone?

open access: yesCrítica, 2021
Food has savour: a collection of properties (including appearance, aroma, mouth-feel) connected with the pleasure (or displeasure) of eating. This paper argues that savour is aesthetically evaluable —it is not merely “agreeable”.
Mohan Matthen
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Controlling (Mental) Images and the Aesthetic Perception of Racialized Bodies

open access: yesErgo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2023
Aesthetic evaluations of human bodies have important implications for moral recognition and for individuals’ access to social and material goods. Unfortunately, there is a widespread aesthetic disregard for non-white bodies.
Adriana Clavel-Vázquez
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Ugliness Is in the Gut of the Beholder

open access: yesErgo, An Open Access Journal of Philosophy, 2022
I offer the first sustained defence of the claim that ugliness is constituted by the disposition to disgust. I advance three main lines of argument in support of this thesis.
Ryan P. Doran
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A Survey of Artistic Value: From Analytic Philosophy to Neurobiology

open access: yesAisthesis, 2013
Analytic philosophers have disputed the nature of “artistic value” for over six decades, bringing much needed clarity and rigor to a subject discussed with fashionable obscurity in other disciplines.
Zachary P. Norwood
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Frictional properties of aesthetic brackets [PDF]

open access: yesThe European Journal of Orthodontics, 2007
The purpose of this study was to compare the frictional properties of two self-ligating aesthetic brackets, Opal (Ultradent Products) and Oyster (Gestenco Int.), with those of four conventionally ligated aesthetic brackets, Transcend (3M Unitek), Inspire (Ormco), Allure (GAC Int.), and Image (Gestenco Int.).
C A, Reicheneder   +5 more
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Aesthetic Properties of the Art of Painting: Subjective or Objective? [PDF]

open access: yesAthens Journal of Humanities & Arts, 2019
In this text, the ongoing debate about the realization of aesthetic properties in artworks, focusing primarily on painting as an exemplary kind of art, is reviewed. The question is whether the aesthetic properties are objective properties of the artworks
Davor Pećnjak
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Methodological approaches to assessment of aesthetic properties of landscapes

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Ecology and Life Safety, 2022
Aesthetic properties are important characteristics of any territory. Currently, there are quite a few methodological developments for evaluating the aesthetic properties of landscapes.
Elina A. Lozbeneva
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