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Body Politics: Revolt and City Celebration [PDF]

, 2019
This chapter attends to somaesthetic expressions occurring irrespective of knowledge of the movement, using Mandalay’s Water Festival and Cairo’s Arab Spring as case studies.
Crippen, Matthew
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THE ROLE OF INTELLIGENCE IN CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROTECTION: SECURING THE METRO RAILWAY AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

The Journal of Intelligence, Conflict and Warfare
On November 13, 2023, Chief Officer Dave Jones presented The Role of Intelligence in Critical Infrastructure Protection: Securing the Metro Railway and Public Transportation for this year’s West Coast Security Conference.
Dave Jones
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Les couleurs de Moscou et de Saint-Pétersbourg

Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2002
Moscow and Saint Petersburg experienced similar evolutions in colour, but the differences in their plans, urbanity and cultural influences, and their alternating roles as capitals, determined the particularities of their palettes.
Andrey Efimov
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Visually-aware Recommendation with Aesthetic Features [PDF]

arXiv, 2019
Visual information plays a critical role in human decision-making process. While recent developments on visually-aware recommender systems have taken the product image into account, none of them has considered the aesthetic aspect. We argue that the aesthetic factor is very important in modeling and predicting users' preferences, especially for some ...
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Sensory Screens, Digitized Desires: Dancing Rasa From Bombay Cinema To Reality TV [PDF]

, 2016
Bombay cinema incorporated songs, dances, choreography, staging, and costumes from a variety of traditional forms to mark a modern national identity. The pioneering figure for using dance in films was Uday Shankar in his experimental film Kalpana. Bombay’
Chakravorty, Pallabi
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The political aesthetic of the British city‐state: Class formation through the global city [PDF]

Constellations, 2018
A critical analysis of the strategic reconfiguration of social relations in the British state.
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Neural Aesthetic Image Reviewer [PDF]

arXiv, 2018
Recently, there is a rising interest in perceiving image aesthetics. The existing works deal with image aesthetics as a classification or regression problem. To extend the cognition from rating to reasoning, a deeper understanding of aesthetics should be based on revealing why a high- or low-aesthetic score should be assigned to an image.
arxiv  

MC-curves and aesthetic measurements for pseudospiral curve segments [PDF]

Mathematical Design & Technical Aesthetics 1(1), 6-17, 2013, 2013
This article studies families of curves with monotonic curvature function (MC-curves) and their applications in geometric modelling and aesthetic design. Aesthetic analysis and assessment of the structure and plastic qualities of pseudospirals, which are curves with monotonic curvature function, are conducted for the first time in the field of ...
arxiv  

Ruin, allegory, melancholy. On the critical aesthetics of W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants and The Rings of Saturn

, 2016
While ruins have been a popular object for nostalgic yearnings of a better past, they also harbour an ambivalent potential for moral and historical critique. This article unpacks the variety of meanings ruins embody in W.G. Sebald’s The Emigrants and The
Vandevoordt, Robin
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AesExpert: Towards Multi-modality Foundation Model for Image Aesthetics Perception [PDF]

arXiv
The highly abstract nature of image aesthetics perception (IAP) poses significant challenge for current multimodal large language models (MLLMs). The lack of human-annotated multi-modality aesthetic data further exacerbates this dilemma, resulting in MLLMs falling short of aesthetics perception capabilities.
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