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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

Multilinguales, 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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‘Too Close to Eat?’ Exploring Consumer Responses to Edible Packaging Through the Lens of Food Neophobia and Construal Level Theory

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The rapid growth of packaging waste has recently intensified the search for sustainable alternatives. Edible packaging, developed from biodegradable materials safe for consumption, represents a promising innovation that combines environmental responsibility with food preservation.
Donata Tania Vergura, Cristina Zerbini, Settimio Ziccarelli   +2 more
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Reconceptualizing “Ugliness”:

Crossings
The socio-cultural construction of beauty simultaneously generates a normative understanding of unattractiveness as well, since these properties exist in binary within popular perceptions.
Ahmed Abdullah Bin Farooqi Rayhan
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Supply Chain Innovations for Food Waste and Loss: Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Agenda

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Food waste and loss (FWL) remains a critical challenge across food supply chains (SCs) globally, with approximately one‐third of all food produced for human consumption discarded or lost each year. This study systematically reviews how supply chain innovation (SCI) can mitigate FWL.
Ilias Vlachos
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The Influence of Aesthetic Liking on Product Evaluation: How and When It Differs With Brand Strength and Product Type

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research provides comprehensive insight into the influence of aesthetic liking on product preference across different types of durable product categories by uncovering the underlying process. Distinguishing a direct expressive influence of aesthetic liking and an indirect influence as a quality signal, referring to signaling theory, we ...
Mariëlle E. H. Creusen, Ruth Mugge, Jan P. L. Schoormans   +2 more
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Ugliness as a Prototype Category: Cognitive-and-Semantic Analysis

RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and Semantics
The study proposes a cognitive-and-semantic approach to the study of the category ‘urodstvo’ (‘ugliness’). This approach allowed, using a component analysis of the meanings of words - denote main lexical representatives of the category of ugliness in the
Anastasia M. Mudrovskaya, Zifa K. Temirgazina, Rumaniyat O. Aselderova   +2 more
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Potential Risks of Virtual Influencer Diversity in Charitable Endorsements: A Cognitive Dissonance Perspective

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Highlighting diversity‐related attributes has become an increasingly prominent marketing communication strategy in virtual influencer endorsement practices. Prior research has largely focused on commercial endorsement contexts, conceptualized diversity as a homogeneous and single‐dimensional construct, and emphasized its predominantly positive
Chi‐Cheng Luan, Su Zhang, I‐Lien Li
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The ugly in fine arts. The sensory nature of terror in the tales of the Brothers Grimm

Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Litteraria Polonica, 2017
The author, inspired by philosophical aesthetic reflection, presents one of the aesthetic qualities: ugliness. Based on the assumption that “Grimms’ Fairy Tales” directly reach the realm of the unconscious, utilising towards that end not only symbolic ...
Anita Szwajkowska
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Spre o înţelegere a categoriilor estetice de Frumos şi Sublim

The Annals of "Dunărea de Jos" University of Galaţi. Fascicle XVIII, Philosophy, 2020
The main goal of this paper is to emphasize the philosophical importance of the Beautiful and the Sublime, in the light of the meaning of life. In addition, some of their opposite categories such as ugliness, kitsch or grotesque will be analyzed as well.
Liviu Iulian COCEI
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Cobalt Single‐Atom Sites Engineered in Poly(Heptazine Imide) Photocathodes as Benchmark for Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution: A Comparative Transition Metal Study

ENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
Cobalt single‐atoms in poly(heptazine imide) photocathodes maximize active‐site availability and outperform Fe, Cu, and Na in alkaline hydrogen evolution. Atomic precision (not bulk loading) proves predominance, establishing a design principle for the next generation of solar fuel devices.
Izadora F. Reis, Gabriel A. A. Diab, Sachin Nenaniya, Marcos A. R. da Silva, Rayse M. Ferreira, Heer Shah, Geraldo M. G. da Silva, Andreas Hutzler, Mark Isaacs, Christian W. Lopes, Ivo F. Teixeira, Pablo Jiménez‐Calvo   +11 more
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