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Biologic Response With and Without Acellular Dermal Matrix in Breast Reconstruction

open access: yesPlastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open
Background:. Acellular dermal matrices (ADMs) are biologic meshes commonly used in implant-based breast reconstruction (IBBR) procedures to provide implant support and coverage.
Hani Sbitany, MD   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

On a Class of Polar Log-Aesthetic Curves [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
Curves are essential concepts that enable compounded aesthetic curves, e.g., to assemble complex silhouettes, match a specific curvature profile in industrial design, and construct smooth, comfortable, and safe trajectories in vehicle-robot navigation systems.
arxiv  

Re-Discovering Aesthetics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
The beginning of the 21st century has seen the renewed use of aesthetics as a critical and interpretive method within various discursive spheres. Particularly, and unsurprisingly, this move has been most pronounced in the discursive systems of philosophy
Halsall, Francis   +2 more
core  

Beyond Theological Aesthetics: Aesthetic Theology

open access: yesReligions, 2022
In this text, I explore what I have termed “aesthetic theology”. After noting the transference of religious content, function, etc., to art in Modernity, an act that has made art a locus theologicus once again, I analyse one of the main consequences of this phenomenon: art is progressively being considered through what was once purely theological ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Self‐Administered Taste Testing Without Water: Normative Data for the 53‐Item Waterless Empirical Taste Test (WETT)

open access: yesInternational Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background According to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), more than 20 million Americans suffer from chronic taste problems. Unfortunately, quantitative testing is rarely performed, self‐reports are inaccurate, and “taste” is often confused with olfaction‐dependent flavors.
Richard L. Doty   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Review of Exosomes in Regenerative Cosmetic Dermatology

open access: yesMolecular Frontiers Journal, 2023
Exosomes are the small extracellular vesicles secreted by almost all living cell types. They are a main component of cellular communication. To mediate intercellular communication, exosomes transport cellular cargo such as proteins, miRNA, nucleic acids,
Julia Miller, Grace Chen, Marie V Hayag
doaj   +1 more source

Aesthetic Attributes Assessment of Images with AMANv2 and DPC-CaptionsV2 [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
Image aesthetic quality assessment is popular during the last decade. Besides numerical assessment, nature language assessment (aesthetic captioning) has been proposed to describe the generally aesthetic impression of an image. In this paper, we propose aesthetic attribute assessment, which is the aesthetic attributes captioning, i.e., to assess the ...
arxiv  

Aesthetic Experience, Aesthetic Value

open access: yesEstetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics, 2017
This paper offers a critical analysis of Robert Stecker’s account of aesthetic experience and its relation to aesthetic and artistic values. The analysis will demonstrate that Stecker’s formulation of aesthetic experience as it stands is incompatible with his arguments for nonaesthetic artistic values. Rather than multiplying the values associated with
openaire   +5 more sources

Aesthetically Relevant Image Captioning [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2022
Image aesthetic quality assessment (AQA) aims to assign numerical aesthetic ratings to images whilst image aesthetic captioning (IAC) aims to generate textual descriptions of the aesthetic aspects of images. In this paper, we study image AQA and IAC together and present a new IAC method termed Aesthetically Relevant Image Captioning (ARIC).
arxiv  

VILA: Learning Image Aesthetics from User Comments with Vision-Language Pretraining [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Assessing the aesthetics of an image is challenging, as it is influenced by multiple factors including composition, color, style, and high-level semantics. Existing image aesthetic assessment (IAA) methods primarily rely on human-labeled rating scores, which oversimplify the visual aesthetic information that humans perceive.
arxiv  

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