Search results for "Beauty"
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Jaffa shared and shattered: contrived coexistence in Israel/Palestine, by Daniel Monterescu
2019
Jaffa means “the beautiful (city)”. Being perhaps the oldest harbour town in the world (or at least one of the oldest), this town and her beauty has always fascinated people. A beautiful old city i...
From the Worship of God to the Worship of Beauty? The Reception of Italian Catholic Religious Paintings in the Private Chapels of English Country Hou…
2010
This study discusses the shifting reception of Italian Catholic religious paintings in the private chapels of English country houses. It first investigates how the practice of art collecting and patronage informs the strategies deployed by the English aristocracy to expunge from these pictures all Catholic overtones. It moves on to assess the impact of this ideological reinterpretation on works of art, whose original religious message was thus gradually displaced. The article concludes that these paintings came, effectively, to extol a religiosity of splendour, representative of a desire to glorify both the host's good taste and God's greatness.
Rural and Gastronomical Tourism in Baltic Countries
2018
The Baltic countries are apparently similar but actually very different not only concerning their language and culture but also their lifestyle. Regarding rural tourism, Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania have many common points: given the care for the remarkable natural environment and for preserving traditions and rural tourism practiced in each of the Baltic countries, filled with recreation and active desire for knowledge, traditional life, and beauty of nature in protected areas. Rural tourism also contributes to preserving the cultural heritage, and youth people are encouraged to know and keep the traditions alive. The rural tourist offer is complemented by the variety of gastronomy, whic…
Tratamiento jurídico de una enfermedad social. Los trastornos de la conducta alimentaria (TCA)
2018
The boundless increase of people suffering from an Eating Disorder (ED), makes necessary to develop measures related to other factors, in order to overcome the ones characterized of being strictly sanitary. The disease has become a social and cultural phenomenon. The exaltation of the cult to the body, with the stereotype of the extreme thinness linked with beauty and success is causing that, particularly young people, try to achieve an image which, in many cases, can jeopardize their health, that is the reason why the rearrangement of values has become an objective of paramount importance. Therefore, the fight against this social illness requires legal actions in order to prevent it from g…
The development of aesthetic responses to music and their underlying neural and psychological mechanisms.
2011
In the field of psychology, the first studies in experimental aesthetics were conducted approximately 140 years ago. Since then, research has mainly concentrated on aesthetic responses to visual art. Both the aesthetic experience of music and, especially, its development have received rather limited attention. Moreover, until now, very little attention has been paid to the investigation of the aesthetic experience of music using neuroscientific methods. Aesthetic experiences are multidimensional and include inter alia sensory, perceptual, affective, and cognitive components. Aesthetic processes are usually experienced as pleasing and rewarding and are, thus, important and valuable experienc…
Estimation of selected skin parameters during a series of beauty treatments in women with acne: a pilot study
2021
Background: Acne vulgaris occurs most often in young people and can significantly decrease the quality of life. Properly selected dermatological therapy and cosmetic procedures can effectively improve the skin condition of acne patients. Aim of the study: The aim of this study was to examine how various cosmetics treatments affect facial sebum levels, skin hydration, and desquamation in young women with acne vulgaris. Material and Methods: 101 women with acne aged 19–29 (M = 22.5 years, SD = 2.3 years) were included in the study. The following cosmetic treatments were used over a 12-week period: intensive pulsing light, alpha-hydroxy acids, cavitation peeling, non-needle mesotherapy, diamon…
Combating Caustic Communication with Truth and Beauty: Christianity Today, Beautiful Orthodoxy, and US Culture
2021
Embedded within a discussion of problems of definition and demographics, this chapter, this chapter highlights how Christianity Today Inc., one of the foremost evangelical periodical publishers in the United States, used communication etiquette both to appoint itself leader and custodian of evangelicalism and as a means of distinguishing evangelicalism from US American culture. Taking the financial crisis of 2008 as an opportunity, Christianity Today Inc. implemented a new policy, “One CT,” to streamline its products and rebrand journalistic fairness as an evangelical maxim. This chapter uses editorial material and interviews to discuss the policy’s overarching vision of Beautiful Orthodoxy…
Music, Architecture, Proportion and the Renaissance Way of Thinking
2020
During the Renaissance, the language of proportion became a unified theory capable of encompassing the understanding of the world within a coherent theological, philosophical and artistic framework. Music, with its harmonic paradigm, plays a key role in this construction. From the fifteenth century through to the end of the sixteenth century, architects and architectural theorists made reference, both in new treatises and commentaries to Vitruvius, to musical matters, transforming architecture into the summa of knowledge. The affinity to music was grounded on both a common mathematical and rhetoric gnosiology. Formerly conceived of as ideal, numbers became eloquent, reinforcing the quantita…
History of Modern Genetics in Germany
2002
The history of modern genetics in Germany during the 20th century is a story of missed chances. In the USA the genetic revolution opened a fascinating new field for ambitious scientists and created a rapidly growing new industry. Meanwhile Germany stood aside, combating with political and social restrictions. Promising young scientists who wanted to work in the field left Germany for the US, and big companies moved their facilities out of the country. Up until the middle of the 1990s molecular biology in Germany remained a “sleeping beauty” even though many brilliant scientists did their jobs very well. Then a somewhat funny idea changed everything: the German minister for education and sci…
Sleeping Beauty transposon system – future trend in T-cell-based gene therapies?
2006
Evaluation of: Huang X, Wilber AC, Bao L et al.: Stable gene transfer and expression in human primary T cells by the Sleeping Beauty transposon system. Blood 107, 483–491 (2006). The Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon system can mediate stable gene transfer and expression in primary human T cells. Optimal in vitro conditions for maximum gene transfer efficiencies have been developed with regard to further application of the SB transposon system in T cell based gene therapies. This raises the question of whether or not the SB transposon system is a convincing alternative for virus-mediated gene transfer based on the currently available data. Here, we will discuss controversial safety and effic…