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Produção e consumo social da beleza

open access: yesHorizontes Antropológicos, 2001
Este artigo apresenta a argumentação básica a respeito da subjetividade e da objetividade na percepção da beleza e tem por preocupação central compreender as motivações para a produção e consumo da beleza humana e sua operacionalização.
Sérgio Alves Teixeira
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A Kantian Analytic of the Ugly [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Kant’s theory of taste, as expounded in the Critique of Judgment, deals exhaustively with judgments of beauty. Rarely does Kant mention ugliness. This omission has led to a debate among commentators about how judgments of ugliness should be explained in ...
Buckman, Christopher
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Prioritizing Feasible and Impactful Actions to Enable Secure AI Development and Use in Biology

open access: yesBiotechnology and Bioengineering, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As artificial intelligence continues to enhance biological innovation, the potential for misuse must be addressed to fully unlock the potential societal benefits. While significant work has been done to evaluate general‐purpose AI and specialized biological design tools (BDTs) for biothreat creation risks, actionable steps to mitigate the risk
Josh Dettman   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

"Sluta spela fin och gå loss"

open access: yesTidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap, 2019
The Polyphony of Original Dunder Zubbis: Ideology and Ugliness as Musical Protest Ideas of ugliness are closely intertwined with ideological practices.
Johan Örestig
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Micro/nanorobots for detecting and eliminating biological and chemical warfare agents

open access: yesBMEMat, EarlyView.
Fuel‐powered and field‐driven micro/nanorobots provide a cutting‐edge platform to safeguard national security and defense. This review reports the latest research progress in micro/nanorobots in sensing and detoxifying biological and chemical warfare agents.
Song Li   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beauty and lack thereof in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century travelogues [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Malta attracted several travellers, eager to discover this small State in the Mediterranean. In spite of the harsh travelling conditions, the traveller did not lose heart and bravely undertook the discovery
Micallef, Patricia
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Are the Ugly Truths Not Ugly Enough? [PDF]

open access: yesThe Open Fish Science Journal, 2009
In recent years there has been an increase in the number of papers, many of which have been published in high profile journals, that address real environmental or ecological problems, but with flawed, subjective, and frequently hy- perbolic arguments.
openaire   +1 more source

A review of the historic and present ecological role of aquatic and shoreline wood, from forest to deep sea

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The ecology of forests, their losses, and terrestrial wood decomposition dynamics have been intensively studied and reviewed. In the aquatic realm, reviews have concentrated on large wood (LW) in rivers and the transition from freshwater to marine environments in the Pacific Northwest of North America. However, a comprehensive global synthesis
Jon Dickson   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

L’Éloge de la laideur dans la littérature antipétrarquiste

open access: yesL'Atelier du CRH, 2013
On the basis of the analysis of an academic discourse from the philosopher Antonio Rocco in paradoxical praise of ugliness (1630), we distinguish several ways of dealing with ugliness within the Italian literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth ...
Jean-Pierre Cavaillé
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Image(s) de la ville de Tunis dans Les jalousies de la rue andalouse et La solitude des cités de béton de Ahmed Mahfoudh : entre beauté et laideur

open access: yesMultilinguales, 2023
Since antiquity, the dichotomy of the beautiful and the ugly structures our societies and our relationship to the world. The literature of the XXth and XXIst centuries does not escape this antithesis and opposes the beautiful and proper gesture to the ...
Sabrine Herzi 
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