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Chickens prefer beautiful humans [PDF]
, 2002 We trained chickens to react to an average human female face but not to an average male face (or vice-versa). In a subsequent test, the animals showed preferences for faces consistent with human sexual preferences (obtained from university students ...
Enquist, Magnus +2 more
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Transition Across the Incalculable Abyss between the Domain of Nature and the Domain of Morality; the Meaning of such Transition and its Realization in Kant’s Aesthetics [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2019 In the first Critique, Kant delineated the principles of metaphysics of nature and in the second Critique, those of metaphysics of morality. Since these two kinds of principles were essentially distinguished, there appeared an absolute gap between nature
Ali Akbar Ahmadi Afarmejani +1 more
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“Beautiful” or “ugly”? Civic education pills for aware citizens
Didattica della storia, 2023 The following pages aim to be an account and a proposal for reflecting on how educating teenagers to observe our heritage more carefully, even its smallest, daily examples, can stimulate them to know and take care of what belongs to all of us, and is an ...
Rita Belenghi
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Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.Ultrafast broadband transient absorption spectroscopy and multireference excited‐state nonadiabatic calculations in an open‐shell Fe(III) complex unveil the rich electronic and vibrational dynamics detailing the key reactive modes driving the spin‐crossover process.
Soumyajit Mitra +8 more
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Brain. Conscious and Unconscious Mechanisms of Cognition, Emotions, and Language
Brain Sciences, 2012 Conscious and unconscious brain mechanisms, including cognition, emotions and language are considered in this review. The fundamental mechanisms of cognition include interactions between bottom-up and top-down signals.
Roman Ilin, Leonid Perlovsky
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Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.We have established a set of design rules which combine Pd(II) metal coordination, complementary geometries, complementary interligand hydrogen bonding and π─π interactions for predictable self‐assembly of Pd(II)‐based species such as metallo‐foldamers, cyclic species a metallo‐interlocked clippane. The species persist in a combinatorial mixture due to
Jess L. Algar +2 more
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The Perfect Bikini Body: Can We All Really Have It? Loving Gaze as an Antioppressive Beauty Ideal [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper, I ask whether there is a defensible philosophical view according to which everybody is beautiful. I review two purely aesthetical versions of this claim. The No Standards View claims that everybody is maximally and equally beautiful.
Protasi, Sara
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Topos of inexpressible: Contribution to fundamental assumptions underlying the painting-language relationship [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Akademije Umetnosti, 2017 The paper analyses some of the fundamental assumptions about understanding the painter's work. The first one is the physical separation of the artwork and the viewer.
Bučan Jagor
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Layers of rotting wood: a meditation on the curricular value of the ugly
Cogent Education, 2018 In this piece, I argue that the marginalized status of ugliness in the field of aesthetics, particularly in aesthetic conversations in the broader field of curriculum, is indicative of an as-of-yet unexplored source for understanding our societal values.
James Grant
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Beauty standards: beauty patterns
Journal of Textile Engineering & Fashion Technology, 2023 The purpose of the work presented here is to carry out a study on the beauty standards of modern society, by conducting a case study. Initially, the research is based on the definition of what beauty would be and how it has been perpetuated throughout the history of civilization, with a special focus on how changes in the social context.
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