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Evolving stories of self: Informational transitions and tattoos

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract Throughout history, tattoos have served as a means of expressing identity, culture, and preserving information. Beyond their visual appeal, tattoos continue to be used in the modern world as a way for individuals to showcase their identity, honor and remember others, and mark significant events. In this paper, we explore the connection between
Maja Krtalić   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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  

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

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
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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  

Activism in the arts: Co‐researching cultural inequalities with young people during the COVID‐19 pandemic

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper explores the growing influence of young people's activism in UK museums and its educational implications. It draws on a five‐year collaborative programme (2019–2023) with young people of colour (16–28) in a university museum setting, focusing on a Young Collective established to address cultural inequalities.
Sadia Habib
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

Restoration of human tooth enamel

open access: yesBMEMat, EarlyView.
Human tooth enamel has remarkable properties but lacks self‐repair ability. Existing restorative materials cannot fully replicate enamel's microstructure and function, resulting in low restorative efficiency. This review summarizes the formation process and characteristics of enamel, and current restorative materials and future research directions are ...
Hanlin Liu   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social processing distorts physical distance perception

open access: yesScientific Reports
Psychopathy is traditionally linked to higher-level cognitive processes, but its impact on low-level cognitive functions has remained largely unexplored.
Georgios Michalareas   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Experimental Philosophical Aesthetics as Public Philosophy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Experimental philosophy offers an alternative mode of engagement for public philosophy, in which the public can play a participatory role. We organized two public events on the aesthetics of coffee that explored this alternative mode of engagement.
Liao, Shen-yi, Meskin, Aaron
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