The Beautiful

2021 ◽  
pp. 30-53
Author(s):  
Tom Cochrane
Keyword(s):  
Initial Response ◽  
Significant Problem ◽  
Processing Fluency ◽  
Aesthetic Pleasure ◽  
The Face

This chapter links the value we take in beauty with our practical drive for knowledge. The contemporary ‘processing fluency’ account of aesthetic pleasure is examined and rejected. Instead, it is claimed that beautiful objects appear to be perfectly fitting together, which stimulates a rewarding sense that knowledge of the object is highly accessible. The nature of ugliness is then considered. On the face of it, ugliness presents a significant problem for Aestheticism, for how can everything be aesthetically valuable if some of it is ugly? As an initial response, the notion of ‘difficult beauty’ is appealed to.

scholarly journals Volatile Agents to Avoid Ventilating Asthmatics

2003 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 208-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Baigel
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Ventilation ◽  
Tracheal Intubation ◽  
Medical Treatment ◽  
Severe Asthma ◽  
Initial Response ◽  
Acute Severe Asthma ◽  
Inhalational Agent ◽  
The Face ◽  
Spontaneously Breathing ◽  
Volatile Agents

The management of six awake, spontaneously breathing patients with acute severe asthma who responded to a subanesthetic dose of an inhalational agent is described. All of these patients were on maximal medical treatment, the next intervention likely to be tracheal intubation and mechanical ventilation in the face of further deterioration. All six patients initially responded dramatically, although one required mechanical ventilation after initial response.

Evidence of negative implicit attitudes toward individuals with a tattoo near the face

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 186-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin A. Zestcott ◽  
Meghan G. Bean ◽  
Jeff Stone
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Implicit Association Test ◽  
Implicit Attitudes ◽  
Association Test ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Processing Fluency ◽  
Implicit Association ◽  
The Face

Three studies examined if people express negative implicit attitudes toward individuals with a tattoo near the face. In Study 1, participants who completed an Implicit Association Test (IAT) expressed moderately negative implicit attitudes toward individuals with a tribal tattoo on one side of the neck. Study 2 replicated Study 1 when the tattoo was symmetrical, suggesting that negative affect, and not processing fluency, underlies the implicit negative evaluation of individuals with a tribal tattoo near the face. Study 3 showed dissociation between explicit and implicit attitudes toward individuals with a tribal tattoo near the face, and that the negative implicit evaluation was attenuated if the tattoo image was an objectively positive symbol. The implications for displaying a tattoo near the face are discussed.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the Iraq Refugee Operation

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arafat Jamal
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Initial Response ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
Humanitarian Action ◽  
High Commissioner ◽  
The Face ◽  
Mass Displacement ◽  
The United Nations

This chapter examines the changing role of the United Nations in the Middle East by focusing on the Iraqi refugee situation and the actions of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) with respect to resettlement of the refugees. It first considers the pre-2007 context before discussing how the recognition of the existence of a massive refugee population, combined with the choice of UNHCR to recognize all Iraqis as prima facie refugees, enabled the agency— with support from donor countries, including the United States—to seize the initiative and stake out a new mode of operation involving both resettlement and new urban approaches. The chapter then considers how resettlement in the Middle East helped improve the general asylum climate for Iraqi refugees and was used by the UNHCR to begin carving out a larger space for international humanitarianism in the region. It also evaluates the initial response to the Syrian refugees (beginning in 2011), reflecting on the limitations of humanitarian action in the face of mass displacement and in the absence of political solutions.

scholarly journals Processing Fluency and Aesthetic Pleasure: Is Beauty in the Perceiver's Processing Experience?

2004 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 364-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rolf Reber ◽  
Norbert Schwarz ◽  
Piotr Winkielman
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Priming ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Processing Fluency ◽  
Taste Preferences ◽  
Aesthetic Response ◽  
Stimulus Repetition ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Aesthetic Pleasure ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Stimulus Features

We propose that aesthetic pleasure is a funnction of the perceiver's processing dynamics: The more fluently perceivers can process an object, the more positive their aesthetic response. We review variables known to influence aesthetic judgments, such as figural goodness, figure-ground contrast, stimulus repetition, symmetry, and prototypicality, and trace their effects to changes in processing fluency. Other variables that influence processing fluency, like visual or semantic priming, similarly increase judgments of aesthetic pleasure. Our proposal provides an integrative framework for the study of aesthetic pleasure and sheds light on the interplay between early preferences versus cultural influences on taste, preferences for both prototypical and abstracted forms, and the relation between beauty and truth. In contrast to theories that trace aesthetic pleasure to objective stimulus features per se, we propose that beauty is grounded in the processing experiences of the perceiver, which are in part a function of stimulus properties.

scholarly journals The Employment Ecosystem of Bizkaia as an Emerging Common in the Face of the Impact of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 407
Author(s):  
Ekhi Atutxa ◽  
Iñigo Calvo-Sotomayor ◽  
Teresa Laespada
Keyword(s):  
Basque Country ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Systemic Reaction ◽  
Initial Response ◽  
Community Identification ◽  
External Impact ◽  
The Face ◽  
Catalytic Role ◽  
Social Entities ◽  
The Impact

In the context of the impact of COVID-19 pandemic in Bizkaia (Basque Country, Spain), and from the renewed Commons paradigm, this research analyzes the initial response given by the region’s employment ecosystem. Based on extensive quantitative and qualitative methods, it empirically explores the catalytic role that local public and social entities could play in coordinating an organized and systemic response of the employment-related stakeholders to an external impact, such as the current pandemic. The study of databases specifically provided by the Public Administrations for this research, in combination with two survey processes conducted to the main agents of the ecosystem, led to a greater understanding of the benefits of an organized and systemic reaction. From the community identification of a priori unrecognized impacts by individual actors to the proposal of actions closely connected to their short and long-term needs, the article finally presents recommendations aimed at strengthening the resilience and collaboration of the collective action.

scholarly journals Fabricating A Maxillofacial Prosthesis with A Novel Suspension Technique for A Person with Exenteration: A Case Report

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Case Report ◽  
Nasal Cavity ◽  
New Method ◽  
Significant Problem ◽  
Clinical Report ◽  
Lesion Area ◽  
Case Presentation ◽  
Maxillofacial Prosthesis ◽  
The Face ◽  
Frontal Sinuses

Introduction: Making a prosthesis is challenging for people who have lost an eye and parts of their cheekbones and nasal tissues. Suspending the prosthesis is a significant problem because of the open nasal cavity and the vast lesion area on the face. Case Presentation: This case report describes a new suspension technique used for a maxillofacial prosthesis on a person who had an exenterated left eye and parts of his maxillary and frontal sinuses had been removed due to infection. Since the sinus and nasal cavities were exposed, we could not use the conventional methods (anatomical, mechanical, chemical, and surgical) for suspending the prosthesis. Therefore, a new prosthetic suspension technique was used to solve this problem. Conclusion: In this clinical report, we used an optimal and effective method to make a prosthesis that can be used in similar cases of eye loss and extensive loss of the face. This new method does not need adhesives and minimizes the donning and doffing time of the prosthesis.

Drugs in the Workplace: Overstating the Problems and the Cures

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 923-937 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen M. Crow ◽  
Sandra J. Hartman
Keyword(s):  
Human Resource ◽  
Significant Problem ◽  
Human Resource Professionals ◽  
Alcohol And Drugs ◽  
The Face

Generally speaking, the American workforce's productivity is not effected by alcohol and drugs. While this statement appears to fly in the face of the prevailing wisdom, we offer evidence that it is true, consider why there is a widespread perception that drugs are a significant problem in the American workplace, and suggest implications for managers and human resource professionals.

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