Between Form and Function

In 1968, the first cinema unit of the Palestinian liberation movement was founded in Amman by Mustafa Abu Ali, Sulafa Jadallah and Hany Jawhariyyeh. Affiliated with Yasser Arafat’s rapidly ascendant Fateh movement, from 1969 to 1974 this organization completed a stylistically eclectic series of films addressing revolutionary changes in Palestinian society and politics. This essay identifies some of the more striking formal experiments undertaken in these early works, reading these in contact with historical and political conditions. It links a reading of the Fateh movement’s response to questions of political form or definition in this period, with an account of the aesthetic and structural innovations through which these early filmmakers pursued a cinema suited to the revolutionary moment. By distinguishing works of this early period from those that followed, and by highlighting the stylistic variations occurring in them, the essay shows filmmaking by militants affiliated with the liberation movement’s political establishment to have been more adventurous and formally unstable than has previously been suggested.

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Five Year Safety and Satisfaction With the Lightweight Breast Implant

Aesthetic Surgery Journal ◽

10.1093/asj/sjab054 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Orel Govrin-Yehudain ◽

Noam Calderon ◽

Jacky Govrin-Yehudain

Keyword(s):

Breast Implant ◽

Capsular Contracture ◽

Surgical Techniques ◽

Silicone Implants ◽

Form And Function ◽

Kaplan Meier ◽

And Performance ◽

The Aesthetic ◽

And Function ◽

Surgeon Satisfaction

Abstract Background The B-Lite® lightweight breast implant (LWBI), weighs ~ 30% less than traditional silicone implants, while maintaining an equivalent size, form and function. The LWBI thus places less stress on breast tissues, preserves tissue stability and integrity over time, reducing weight-related complications and reoperation rates. Objectives To assess the long-term (over 5 year) safety and performance of the LWBI in primary and revision augmentation procedures. Methods Retrospective single-center, single surgeon analysis of prospectively collected data, was performed on 827 consecutive primary and revision augmentation patients operated between December 2013 and January 2019. 1653 implants (250-835 cc, mostly round, textured, extra high-profile) were implanted using standard surgical techniques. Direct physician-to-patient follow-up ranged from 6 to 67 months. Chart data on reoperations and overall complications as well as patient and surgeon satisfaction, were analyzed. Results The 5 year Per Patient Kaplan–Meier reoperation free rate was very high (97.1%). Only 2 out of 5 total cases of capsular contracture grade III required reoperation (KM rate 0.2%, CI- 0.1-1.0). No cases of rupture or BIA-ALCL were recorded. 94.9% of patients rated the aesthetic outcome, and 95.5% of patients rated the natural look and feel of their breasts, at 4-5 (Satisfied-Very Satisfied). Similarly, the surgeon rated 4-5 on 95.4% of the patients’ aesthetic outcomes. Conclusions The extremely favorable safety profile, high patient and surgeon satisfaction, and inherent benefits of reduced weight, in the largest known study of B-Lite® implant surgeries, should make the LWBI a strongly considered strategic alternative to traditional implants.

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Understanding Design Aesthetics beyond Functional Beauty Accounts

Laocoonte Revista de Estética y Teoría de las Artes ◽

10.7203/laocoonte.0.6.15327 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 137

Author(s):

Lucía Jiménez Sánchez

Keyword(s):

Integral Model ◽

Aesthetic Appreciation ◽

Aesthetic Value ◽

Form And Function ◽

Form Function ◽

Actual Design ◽

Design Objects ◽

The Aesthetic ◽

And Function ◽

The Relationship

Abstract: Design is presented as an apt object of aesthetic appreciation. The nature of its aesthetic dimension will be developed in terms of the relationship between form and function. Specially, by looking at the role that knowledge about function plays in our design aesthetic judgements. Then, I will present the dominant view about the aesthetic value of design coming from functional beauty accounts. Finally, in the last section, I will focus upon some problems derived from the aforementioned integral model form-function in design aesthetics. By means of practical cases, I will point to the narrowness of functional beauty accounts and its inability to include a broader range of actual design objects and their relevant design aesthetic properties.

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Restorations with Bulk Fill restorative system: case report

RGO - Revista Gaúcha de Odontologia ◽

10.1590/1981-8637201800040000143505 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 66 (4) ◽

pp. 391-397

Author(s):

Mirella Aline Batista da COSTA ◽

Juliana Raposo Souto MAIOR ◽

Renata Pedrosa GUIMARÃES ◽

Daene Patrícia Tenório Salvador da COSTA ◽

Paulo Fonseca MENEZES FILHO ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Adhesive System ◽

Composite Resins ◽

Functional Rehabilitation ◽

Posterior Teeth ◽

Aesthetic Result ◽

Restorative Treatment ◽

Form And Function ◽

The Aesthetic ◽

And Function ◽

Low Tension

ABSTRACT Bulk Fill Composite resins are restorative materials that present low tension and polymerization shrinkage, allowing them to be inserted in a single increment of up to 4 mm of thickness, in a restorative cavity. This paper aims to report a clinical case of restorations done on posterior teeth with Bulk Fill restorative system, using selective acid-etching with self-etch adhesive system. Patient, male, 24 years old, presented a carious lesion on the occlusal surface of dental element 37 and an occlusal unsatisfactory amalgam restoration, on element 36. A restorative treatment with Universal Bond 3M / ESPE and bulk fill composite resin (3M / ESPE) was done. According to the case described, it was possible to observe that the materials and techniques used restored the form and function of the teeth involved, preserving pulp vitality with a satisfactory aesthetic result. The bulk fill resins employed offer practicality and decrease clinical time, with satisfactory clinical applicability in the aesthetic and functional rehabilitation of posterior teeth.

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The Growth of Indonesian Aesthetic Value of Kriya (Handicrafts) in the 21st Century

Journal of Social Science Studies ◽

10.5296/jsss.v3i2.8586 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 62

Author(s):

Dheni Harmaen

Keyword(s):

21St Century ◽

Information Science ◽

Aesthetic Value ◽

Form And Function ◽

Work Related ◽

The Status ◽

Artistic Achievement ◽

Craft Industry ◽

The Aesthetic ◽

And Function

<p>The development of aesthetic values in the handicraft have been changing in terms of function, shape, appearance and even in terms of its significance, the changes will appear also to changes in the aesthetic value of a work of craft, because the essence of the aesthetic is beauty. In terms of language, the term <em>kriya</em> used in Indonesian language derived from Sanskrit, the word Kriya, when transferred to the Java language has a meaning work or action, and in particular the work related to religious ceremonies. Aesthetic value in a craft covered elements of line, shape, texture, color, composition and so on. The growth of aesthetic value to the craft woven eve of the 21st century can be traced starting from animist civilizations, until the civilization Ekotek Dynamic information (science and technology), or what we call the global community that positions the craft as a commodity. This development is an inter-linkages which always affect one aspect with other aspects including its aesthetic elements. Art craft is one branch or twig arts is undergoing a transformation, both form and function that are often lengthy conversations or discussions, regarding the status and position in the art developments in Indonesia. The development of craft capable of evolving to position itself in three directions, each of which has different interests, they are: 1) preservation oriented, 2) development to economic or commercial interests (craft industry) oriented, and 3) personal expression (artistic achievement) oriented.</p>

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Form und Funktion

Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie ◽

10.1515/dzph-2020-0027 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 68 (3) ◽

pp. 410-424

Author(s):

Julia-Constance Dissel

Keyword(s):

Design Theory ◽

Design Methodology ◽

Everyday Objects ◽

Form And Function ◽

Basic Concepts ◽

The Aesthetic ◽

And Function ◽

Common Understanding ◽

Initial Change ◽

Philosophical Understanding

AbstractThis essay deals with the terms “form” and “function” as well as their relationship insofar as they are still used in philosophical and design-theory discourse to determine the aesthetic dimension of designed artefacts, especially of everyday objects, and often also to distinguish them from objects of art. I discuss whether our common understanding of these terms and their relationship is an appropriate instrument for such determinations. What is up for discussion here are not only conceptions of functional beauty with regard to design methodology and the philosophical discourse on aesthetics, in which form and function become thematic, but also basic concepts of philosophical aesthetics itself. It is shown that the philosophical understanding of design aesthetics and the concepts of form and function are determined by profound preliminary decisions that restrict our access to the aesthetic dimension of designed artefacts, and a conceptualisation of an initial change in thinking is proposed.

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Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) of DNA and RNA

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100152148 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 47 ◽

pp. 34-35

Author(s):

Patricia G. Arscott ◽

Gil Lee ◽

Victor A. Bloomfield ◽

D. Fennell Evans

Keyword(s):

Molecular Structures ◽

Inorganic Materials ◽

Resolving Power ◽

Scanning Tunneling ◽

Tunneling Microscopy ◽

Form And Function ◽

Dna And Rna ◽

Calf Thymus ◽

And Function ◽

The Relationship

STM is one of the most promising techniques available for visualizing the fine details of biomolecular structure. It has been used to map the surface topography of inorganic materials in atomic dimensions, and thus has the resolving power not only to determine the conformation of small molecules but to distinguish site-specific features within a molecule. That level of detail is of critical importance in understanding the relationship between form and function in biological systems. The size, shape, and accessibility of molecular structures can be determined much more accurately by STM than by electron microscopy since no staining, shadowing or labeling with heavy metals is required, and there is no exposure to damaging radiation by electrons. Crystallography and most other physical techniques do not give information about individual molecules.We have obtained striking images of DNA and RNA, using calf thymus DNA and two synthetic polynucleotides, poly(dG-me5dC)·poly(dG-me5dC) and poly(rA)·poly(rU).

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