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Aesthetics

Physical beauty. It is an important concept in marketing because consumers may be more inclined to buy a product they find aesthetically pleasing.
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These practices are less interested in a relational aesthetic than in the creative rewards of collaborative activity--whether in the form of working with preexisting communities or establishing one's own interdisciplinary network.
The social turn: collaboration and its discontents
Nasdaq:ELOS) manufactures and distributes medical aesthetic devices that are powered by the proprietary, patented elos combined-energy technology of bi-polar radio frequency and light.
SFDA GRANTS MIRACLE LASER APPROVAL TO SELL SYNERON PRODUCTS
4) Aesthetic Realism, the philosophy founded by American poet and educator Eli Siegel (1902-78), is based on the principle, "All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.
Philip Rose: a Broadway journey against racism
By removing it from its accustomed channels--that of the corporate realm--and placing it in an aesthetic context, genetic engineering, devoid of its utilitarian hegemony, produces the Glofish: a gratuitous and convivial use of technology.
The atomic fish: the rising controversy of genetically modified pets
the body's kinesthetic and aesthetic modes of learning, thus ushering plural modes of consciousness and plural modes of knowing into our scholarly and pedagogical work.
Introducing Islam through Qur'anic recitation
I hope to persuade you that this aesthetic absorption of evangelical eschatology decisively transforms it into an experience of The Present.
From dogma to aesthetica: evangelical eschatology gets a makeover
Even more ambitious is Eddy Zemach's essay, "What is an Aesthetic Property?
Brady, Emily, and Jerrold Levinson, editors. Aesthetic Concepts: Essays after Sibley
Aesthetic Frame & Art plans to continue to support both lines with independent product design and distribution.
Aesthetic Frame & Art Acquires Windsor/Vanguard
Tomko asserts that the "functionalization of dance for establishing Americans' sense of a national heritage has proven largely unique to the Progressive era" (211), but that dance remains the most accessible form of aesthetic expression for the greatest number of people in our society.
Dancing Class: Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Divides in American Dance, 1890-1920
Aesthetic attention is attention directed toward aesthetic objects, events or properties.
Defining the aesthetic
Ethical questions, he maintains, are better tackled from within aesthetic philosophy as a result of the alleged shortcomings of universalist ethics.
Aesthetic Experience and Moral Judgment
Scientists sometimes choose between theories on the grounds of aesthetic judgements about those theories.
Beauty and Revolution in Space
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