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Working from home: negotiations of domestic functionality and aesthetics

International Journal of Housing Policy, 2021
While ‘the home’ is omnipresent within studies of home-located work, the physical or material qualities of the home tend to be positioned as a stable setting within which occupants manage the social complications of home-work. By contrast, we discuss how
Brittany Goodwin, Nicholas Webber, T. Baker, Ann E. Bartos   +3 more
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Ruins of the Anthropocene: The Aesthetics of Arctic Climate Change

Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2020
In the Anthropocene, ruin appreciation is shifting its focus from crumbling architecture to the deteriorating planet. Whereas Romantic and modern ruin gazing privileged nature’s reconquest of the built environment, now, the carbon-intensive ...
M. Bennett
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Materiality and Aesthetics in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry

, 2021
This book formulates a novel way to comprehend the relationship between materiality and cognition by demonstrating how descriptions of objects in archaic and classical Greek texts reveal distinctive ways of conceptualizing human thought and perception ...
A. Lather
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Fluoride release from aesthetic dental materials

Journal of Oral Rehabilitation, 1999
The objective of the study was to compare the amounts of fluoride released by two glass–ionomer cements, a resin‐modified glass–ionomer cement, a compomer and a fluoride‐containing composite into deionized water and artificial saliva. Disc samples of each of the materials were fabricated and placed in either water or artificial saliva.
A J, Preston, L H, Mair, E A, Agalamanyi, S M, Higham   +3 more
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Fluoride recharge of aesthetic dental materials

Journal of Oral Rehabilitation, 1999
The objective of the study was to compare the potential for fluoride recharge of two glass–ionomer cements, a resin‐modified glass–ionomer cement, a compomer and a fluoride‐containing composite in artificial saliva. Disc samples of each of the materials were placed into artificial saliva.
A J, Preston, S M, Higham, E A, Agalamanyi, L H, Mair   +3 more
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Art and materiality in the global refugee crisis: Ai Weiwei’s artworks and the emerging aesthetics of mobilities

Mobilities, 2018
Prominent artists and activists have documented, collected and appropriated discarded materials of refugee journeys, such as life jackets, rafts and clothing, transforming them into largescale artworks.
Kaya Barry
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Aesthetic Plastic Restorative Materials

1982
There are four main groups of tooth-coloured plastic restorative material. Firstly, there is silicate cement and, in the same group, silicophosphate cement. Secondly, there are the self-polymerising resin restorative materials, thirdly the composite resin materials and, fourthly, alumino-silicate-polyacrylic acid cement (ASPA).
J. J. Messing, G. E. Ray
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Evaluating Large Language Models for Material Selection

Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering
Material selection is a crucial step in conceptual design due to its significant impact on the functionality, aesthetics, manufacturability, and sustainability impact of the final product. This study investigates the use of Large Language Models (LLMs)
Daniele Grandi, Yash Jain, Allin Groom, Brandon Cramer, Christopher McComb   +4 more
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Materialism and Aesthetics: Paul De Man's Aesthetic Ideology

Diacritics, 1997
Dans le cadre d'une reflexion sur la mort des theories annoncant la fin d'un phenomene, telle que la theorie de la deconstruction, l'A. defend la position selon laquelle l'ouvrage inacheve de Paul de Man intitule «Ideologie esthetique» participe a la construction d'une veritable these esthetique fondee sur l'affirmation du formalisme kantien, d'une ...
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The Aesthetics of Island Space

, 2019
The Aesthetics of Island Space discusses islands as central figures in the modern experience of space. It examines the spatial poetics of islands in literary texts (from The Tempest to The Hungry Tide), journals of explorers and scientists (such as ...
Johannes Riquet
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