Heat Shock Lipolysis: Radiofrequency Combined with Cryolipolysis for the Reduction of Localized Subcutaneous Fat by S. Abboud, J. P. Hachem

“…Pictures (n = 24), taken before and after treatment, were used to clinically assess the physician Global Aesthetic Improvement Scale (PhGAIS). In parallel, patients were asked to subjectively evaluate the efficacy of the treatment using the same scale (PaGIAS). …”
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Transports of Translation: Creativity and Healing by Sara GREAVES

“…Along with the numerous cultural, religious or political functions of translation (establishing religious authority or nation-building, for instance, as with the King James Version of the Bible), along with its didactic use in language-learning and its intercultural one in aesthetic transmission and appropriation, translation can also play a healing role. …”
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Souvenirs rétrospectifs de l’Anthropocène : la ville dans la cli‑fi italienne by Lucia Della Fontana

“…Since the beginning of the century, the urgency of environmental awareness has marked a turning point in the Western philosophical and aesthetic landscape. In order to rethink our cognitive and affective structures, from the 2000s onwards, many writers have moved away from realism to adopt estranging devices. …”
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At the Meetin’ Tree: Reading, Storytelling, and Transculturation in Daniel Black’s They Tell Me of a Home by Pekka Kilpeläinen

“…This is articulated in the novel at the aesthetic level as the tension between the oral storytelling tradition of the black community and the literary expression favored by T.L. …”
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Another Genealogy: Art philosophy, politics and personalism. The case of Edgar De Bruyne by Rajesh Heynickx

“…I will argue that a better understanding of this innovative aesthetical theory can help to uncover a forgotten dimension of interwar personalism: art philosophical thinking which did function as a science pilote because it helped to define the role of creative individuals and creativity in a rapidly changing world.…”
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Cinematic Mythmaking in Andrey Zvyagintsev's The Return and The Banishment by Louis Samuel Mealing

“…However, in doing so, there has been a tendency to overlook a form and aesthetic that seeks to avoid these categorisations. …”
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Hyperperformer le stéréotype : l’écriture d’une scène de sexe dans The Compleat Purge de Trisha Low by Anne-Lise Solanilla

“…Her practice performs a form of hyper-identification with the very cultural and aesthetic codes she pastiches. As opposed to aiming at another type of representation separated from the dominant masculine ideology, her strategy aims rather at exaggerating normative scripts – an exaggeration which ends up in exhausting them.…”
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La représentation des paysages d’exil dans les arts visuels contemporains : l’exemple du film Parmi nous de Clément Cogitore by Ann Epoudry

“…But it is also, and above all, an aesthetic invention (Roger, 1997) that directs and organises how the world is perceived. …”
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Dwelling in the Abyss: Society in Werner Herzog and Martin Heidegger by Haotian Wu

“…Heidegger’s philosophical thought enables a creative and insightful reading of overlooked yet significant aesthetic forms in Herzog’s films: the motif of tears in Kaspar Hauser and the jump cuts and close-ups in Abyss. …”
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The Third Finger Middle Phalanx Maturation (MPM) Method to Assess Timing of Functional Treatment for Skeletal Class II Malocclusion: Report of Three Cases by Giuseppe Perinetti

“…In all the cases, noteworthy skeletal effects have been achieved in terms of mandibular elongation, with relevant occlusal and aesthetic outcomes. It has also been showed that results are stable or slightly improved after functional treatment. …”
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Das Hören sehen lassen . Anregungen zu Kulturtheorie und Geschichte musiktheoretischer Graphiken by Burkhard Meischein

“…Graphics are both an aesthetically effective illustration and a technological aid to explanation. …”
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Du dépouillement surgit le silence : une adaptation sous couvert de minimalisme audiovisuel by Louis Daubresse

“…Thanks to this film aesthetic which relies on a very limited number of attributes, our ears are pricked up, tracking down the slightest signal, while our eyes are focused on faces, bodies and setting elements which then take over the entire frame, reverting to cinematic foundations. …”
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Relating Ø/to/in the desert: Scottish World War II Poets in North Africa and the Middle-East by Stéphanie NOIRARD

“…“Relating” meaning both recounting and connecting, it is a suitable term to describe war literature which is, at the same time, aesthetic and testimonial. Scottish poets were sent to the African front during the Second World War and their poems, letters or diaries reflect their experience in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, offering sharp contrasts with what is commonly believed or imagined of desert landscapes and the Desert War. …”
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"Recalling-ls-Greatest": Personal Memory and Lyricism in Toyin Falola's A Mouth Sweeter than Salt and Counting the Tiger's Teeth by Felicia Ohwovoriole

“…Personal memory is also often employed aesthetically to mirror what is embedded in the past. …”
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SCIENTIFIC, ARTISTIC AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF THE CONCEPTUALIZATION OF SPACE IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT by Marina A. Vasilyeva

“…The author suggests considering the Enlightenment (the 18th century and the first half of the 19th century) as the beginning of a great deal of work on creating effective methods and techniques for creating spaces in which social and political goals were realized through aesthetic techniques.…”
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Beyond Conflicts and Borders: Reconciliation and Latinotopia by Karin Ikas

“…Increasingly, the region is extending its influence to all parts of the United States and is gaining greater importance as an in-between space – in the sense of a glocal, geo-political and transcultural as well as aesthetic space beyond a third space – not only in the Americas but internationally. …”
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Taking Place and Finding One’s Place: Unhomely Events in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007) and Exit West (2017) by Maëlle Jeanniard du Dot

“…Hamid's subtle mingling of realism and fantasy offers an aesthetic vantage point from which the event can be addressed and identities can be negotiated.…”
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The Culture as System, the System of Culture: Aleksandr Bogdanov on Proletarian Culture and Proletarian Art by Soboleva Maja

“…The category of culture appears to be a form of organization of a social group, and the category of art is a form of aesthetic self-understanding and self-expression of a social group. …”
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The (In)Human Condition by Vicky Angelaki

“…As the article goes on to demonstrate, Stephens, Nübling and their international team of collaborators arrive at a staging method that is both aesthetically intuitive and politically astute in order to offer rigorous stage commentary on the state of sex trade - and especially sex slavery - in our time. …”
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Melville’s Obsessional Form: Disjunction and Refusal in “Benito Cereno” by Matthew Scully

“…The perpetual turning motion constitutive of obsessional form thus helps redescribe the competing narrative styles of “Benito Cereno,” as well as the aesthetic and political implications of Babo’s resistance to the anti-Black structures of Delano and Cereno’s world. …”
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