L’héritage paysager pour penser la transition écoclimatique d’un vignoble by Myriam Laidet, Patrick Moquay, Isabelle La Jeunesse

“…The aim is to explore a new relationship to the landscape, combining ethics and aesthetics at the service of an agroecological viticultural approach.…”
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The Grace Machine: Of Turns, Wheels and Limbs by Lars Spuybroek

“…The first part establishes the concept of grace within gift exchange where the aesthetics of gracefulness is not defined by gesture or action, but by the combination of a cyclical rhythm and the verticality of stance. …”
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Au son d’un savoir impossible : Bouvard et Pécuchet à la télévision, avec la musique de Michel Portal by Dario Cecchi

“…The method used to analyze the role played by music and sound in the montage of this adaptation is borrowed from aesthetics. In particular, the article argues that Portal’s work does not follow the idea of an ‘harmonious’ intertwining between pictures and sound theorized and practiced by Eisenstein in his theoretical writings, as well as in his movies. …”
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Columbia / New York: The Ruins of the Civil War by Thomas Constantinesco

“…This essay explores the political aesthetics of visual and textual representations of ruins following episodes of urban destruction during the Civil War. …”
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The Action Mode: Mile 22 and the Tension of Hypermediated Embodiment by Jonah Jeng

“…The film Mile 22 (Peter Berg, 2018), by combining the action mode with an aesthetic and thematic exploration of extreme hypermediacy, exemplifies the action mode’s potential in this way.…”
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Re-performing African Literature: A Review of Owonibi’s Translation of three Yoruba Literary works into English – Chief Gaa, Delusion of Grandeur and The Tight Game by Titilope Oluwaseun Oriola

“… Re-performance, the way works of arts are translated into another language with distinct rules and principles yet preserving the aesthetics and values of the original texts, is a major aesthetic resource used by writers to establish their perspectives on translation. …”
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Protected areas for environmental sustainability in Nigeria by OI Imasuen, JN Oshodi, TUS Onyeobi

“…In this regard we have identified some parks and other areas of special interests within our environment that may have been preserved for aesthetics and environmental sustainability. The historical background of protected areas in Nigeria was examined particularly in relation to the development drive and industrial growth. …”
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Climate change in reclamation landscapes – Adaptation between module and modularity by Carla Brisotto, Jeff Carney, Ina Macaione, Alessandro Raffa

“…Today, these autonomous territorial machines face the effects of climate change, a challenge that will require significant changes and a paradigm shift leading to new ecologies and aesthetics. Through an unexplored comparison of reclamation landscapes between the Everglades, Florida (US) and Metaponto, Basilicata (Italy), this contribution reflects on the limits and possibilities of adaptation through the concepts of module and modularity. …”
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The Costs of Managing an Urban Forest by Francisco Escobedo, Jennifer Seitz

“…Urban forests provide benefits to society often referred to as ecosystem services: they improve human health, environmental quality, and local economies by increasing property values and aesthetics in communities. They help cities control storm water, reduce air pollution and energy costs, and offset carbon dioxide emissions. …”
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Recreating Place: Charles Fothergill and the Limits of Travel Writing by Pam Perkins

“…His surviving manuscripts, which range from a rough working journal covering one part of his journey to some comments on botany that seem ready to go to press, suggest some of the difficulties that he might have found both in constructing a coherent narrative of his travels and in recreating a version of Pennant’s antiquarian and scientific travels at a time when tastes in travel writing were shifting to focus more on the pleasures of landscape and aesthetics.…”
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Dimples as Desired Outcomes: Rethinking Their Role in Thread Lifting Procedures by Kyu-Ho Yi, MD, PhD, Deborah Chua, MBChB

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Celebrating a Heterogeneous Community: The Ebibi Festival of the Epe People by Babatunde Olanrewaju Adebua

“…Other areas of focus include the aesthetics and didacticism of oral performances, moral codes and communal self-reliance. …”
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I will not find this image beautiful I will not find this image beautiful I will not find this image beautiful (An unfinished monument) by Omar Mismar

“…They were stunning and my engagement with them, so far away from the event, was based on purely flat aesthetic grounds– which is uncannily perverse. Attempting to deface the image, I insert the names of the victims of the attack into its script code. …”
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Prawo karne jako narzędzie przeciwko wulgaryzacji języka by Marek Derlatka

“…Beauty lovers who appreciate the aesthetics and richness of language will stand up for its protection, even with the use of criminal law. …”
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Mathematical model to support pathological assessment and its integration into a web tool by Rafael Otal, Pedro Enrique Pérez

“…This mathematical model evaluates various quality requirements such as safety, habitability, functionality and even aesthetics. In its development, it was intended to be understandable for the greatest number of users. …”
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Values and Ecosystem Services Provided by Gainesville's Urban Forest in 2016 by Michael G Andreu, Caroline A Hament, David A. Fox, Robert J. Northrop

“… The urban forest is a crucial factor in the well-being of a community because of the aesthetics, health benefits, and cost-savings that it provides. …”
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Protected areas for environmental sustainability in Nigeria by OI Imasuen, JN Oshodi, TUS Onyeobi

“…In this regard we have identified some parks and other areas of special interests within our environment that may have been preserved for aesthetics and environmental sustainability. The historical background of protected areas in Nigeria was examined particularly in relation to the development drive and industrial growth. …”
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Building Bodies, Constructing Selves by Sandra Louise Kaji-O'Grady, Sarah Manderson

“…We analyse the richly diverse aesthetics of several commercial chains of gymnasiums and explore the affective experiences established through the manipulation of atmospheric qualities.…”
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Black Twig Borer, Xylosandrus compactus (Eichhoff) (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scolytidae) by Wayne N. Dixon, Robert E. Woodruff, John L. Foltz

“…Although ornamental shrubs and shade trees seldom die from beetle infestations, the loss of growth and aesthetics can be substantial. Elsewhere, the black twig borer is a serious pest of coffee, Coffea canephora Pierre (esp. var. robusta Ineac) (Brader 1964). …”
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Sutures génériques et fêlures intérieures chez Charles Burns by Jean-Paul Gabilliet

“…Charles Burns’ comics typify an aesthetics of the in-between unfolding on several levels. …”
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