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Timbral effects on consonance disentangle psychoacoustic mechanisms and suggest perceptual origins for musical scales

open access: yesNature Communications
The phenomenon of musical consonance is an essential feature in diverse musical styles. The traditional belief, supported by centuries of Western music theory and psychological studies, is that consonance derives from simple (harmonic) frequency ratios ...
Raja Marjieh   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A randomized, controlled, split-face, double-blind comparison of a multimodality pigment-correcting serum containing lotus sprout extract versus hydroquinone for moderate to severe facial hyperpigmentation, including melasma, in a diverse populationCapsule Summary

open access: yesJAAD International
Background: Hyperpigmentation results in uneven skin tone, with darker skin types disproportionately affected. Objective: Assess efficacy and safety of a novel, hydroquinone (HQ)-free, multimodal pigment-correcting serum (Advanced Brightening Treatment ...
Priscilla Huang, BA   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sonic Pictures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
Winning essay of the American Society for Aesthetics' inaugural Peter Kivy Prize. Extends Kivy's notion of sonic picturing through engagement with recent work in philosophy of perception.
Leddington, Jason P.
core  

VAE+DDPG: An Attention‐Enhanced Variational Autoencoder for Deep Reinforcement Learning‐Based Autonomous Navigation in Low‐Light Environments

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Variational Autoencoder+Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient addresses low‐light failures of infrared depth sensing for indoor robot navigation. Stage 1 pretrains an attention‐enhanced Variational Autoencoder (Convolutional Block Attention Module+Feature Pyramid Network) to map dark depth frames to a well‐lit reconstruction, yielding a 128‐D latent code ...
Uiseok Lee   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Non-surgical aesthetic procedures and eating behavior: A review of motivational and dietary changes associated with body image

open access: yesJournal of Behavior and Feeding
Non-surgical aesthetic procedures have expanded steadily and raise important questions about their links to eating behavior. This narrative review synthesizes evidence from PubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science (2014–2025) to examine how post-procedure ...
Jose Luis Fregoso Sandoval   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

AESTHETIC RISK [PDF]

open access: yesThink, 2018
Artists often emphasize the importance of risk to their work. But this raises a puzzle, as on a standard probabilistic account of risk we are obliged to treat some of these cases as not involving genuine risk at all. It is argued that the way to resolve this puzzle is to recognize a crucial shortcoming in the probabilistic account of risk.
openaire   +4 more sources

Choice experiments on land managers' participation in environmental programs: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of estimate validity

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Discrete choice experiments are increasingly being used to estimate land managers' willingness to accept participation in incentive‐based environmental programs. This is a specific application of discrete choice experiments: the estimation of willingness to accept for a private good (program participation) where respondents have to make trade ...
Anastasio J. Villanueva   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stakeholder Perspectives on Therapeutic and Safe Building Design in Residential Care

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Residential care is a form of out‐of‐home care that plays a critical role in supporting vulnerable young people in Australia. However, there is an evidence gap regarding the built environment in this context. This research aimed to explore the perspectives of key stakeholders in residential care in Victoria, Australia, regarding design that ...
Carmen Schroder   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The anticipation of events in time

open access: yesNature Communications, 2019
The brain predicts upcoming events—a fundamental operation assumed to depend on the event hazard rate and a linearly increasing uncertainty in time estimation.
Matthias Grabenhorst   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Label size design : aesthetics and effeciency [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Considering label as one of the important map component, this paper is an attempt to provide empirical evidence of label size design rules and frames which is based on the design aesthetics and efficiency.
De Maeyer, Philippe   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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