Artificial Mosaic Generation with Gradient Vector Flow and Tile Cutting by Sebastiano Battiato, Alfredo Milone, Giovanni Puglisi

“…In this paper, we propose a mosaic generation technique based on gradient vector flow (GVF) together with a set of tile cutting heuristics evaluated according to aesthetic criteria. The effectiveness of the proposed approach has been confirmed by a series of tests and comparisons with state-of-the-art techniques.…”
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Voyager par l’image : la topographie dans la collection de Jehannin de Chamblanc (1722-1797) by Johanna Daniel

“…His portfolios contained images of varying nature and quality, in which the criterion of aesthetic quality does not seem to take precedence. …”
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Le monument naturel dans le mythe de l’Ouest chez Washington Irving, Mark Twain et Walt Whitman by Delphine Louis-Dimitrov

“…The purpose of this reflexion is to analyse jointly the aesthetic and political implications of its transposition onto the American soil. …”
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De ruptures en canon by Côme Martin

“…However, careful analysis shows how these comics were in dissonance with their contemporaries: by placing the concept of tearing at the centre of their formal aesthetic and by exploring it as a thematic subject, they are far from being a representative corpus of the times. …”
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De la médiation à la médiatisation du témoignage : formes du trauma et de sa transmission dans Maus d’Art Spiegelman by Audrey Bardizbanian

“…This study more precisely intends to highlight the aesthetic strategies used by the author to reconstruct his father’s testimony and the means whereby trauma comes to be inscribed in the artistic form of the medium itself. …”
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Replacing An Extracted Natural Tooth As A Pontic By Using Fiber-Reinforced Composite: A Case Report by Sabana Haq, Alia Ahmed, Dania Khan, Zarnab Rizwan, Khadija Sajid, Aqsa Zahid

“…The results were satisfying to the patient, both aesthetically and functionally. Long-term follow-up studies are needed to further evaluate this treatment option in the future. …”
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Congenital Infiltrating Lipomatosis of the Face: A Case Report by Asha Mahadevappa, Vanisri H. Raghavan, Sunila Ravishankar, Gubbanna V. Manjunath

“…Early diagnosis of this lesion provides better surgical approach to control the infiltrative nature of its growth with recurrence and aesthetic appearance.…”
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Les phalères aux tritons d’époque romaine : un nouvel exemplaire découvert dans la villa de Bulgnéville (Vosges) by Karine Boulanger, Patrick Galliou

“…Such phaleras, with their characteristic ternary animal decoration, attached to horse harnesses, are dated to the late second or early third century and attest to the continuity of aesthetic traditions rooted in the native cultural background during the Roman period.…”
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L’arbre urbain à Tunis : entre fonctionnalités et croyances by Myriam Bennour Azooz

“…The first relates to the environmental and aesthetic role played by trees, their useful contribution to the quality of life and health in the urban environment, and the need to preserve them to ensure the well-being of the population. …”
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Analysis of the usability of selected auction websites by Adrian Duwer, Mariusz Dzieńkowski

“… The selection and use of an e-commerce service can be conditioned by its properties such as ease of use, intuitiveness, productivity, offered functionalities, and aesthetic appeal. Within this study, the usability of three popular auction websites: eBay, Amazon, and Allegro, was examined. …”
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La promenade dans les jardins de Versailles : analyse d’une expérience spatiale by Catherine Szanto

“…Thus, the garden must be a constant invitation, a succession of proposals to the visitor. The aesthetic experience of the garden is that of its discovery in time, through the freely chosen itinerary of the visitor. …”
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BERCEUSES DU CHAT BY IGOR STRAVINSKY by Răzvan METEA

“…The timbral balance achieved between the voice and the instrumental ensemble, the lyrical manner of musical expression, the specific rhythmic-melodic typologies of writing, the chromatic versus diatonic dichotomy, the affiliation of the opuses to the comic aesthetic category are characteristics of this series of four micro-art-songs, cradle songs, dedicated to and apparently describing the characteristics of a cat. …”
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Flatid Planthopper, Oormenaria rufifascia (Walker) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Flatidae) by Forrest W. Howard, Susan Halbert

“…Although it is usually not a serious pest, it sometimes indirectly causes aesthetic damage when dense populations produce honeydew that supports extensive coatings of sootymold on the host plants. …”
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Toulouse/Tolosa, cité des Tolosates et Auch/Elimberris, cité des Ausques : des centres de pouvoir indigènes aux capitales romaines by Philippe Gardes

“…Thus one can observe not only the adoption of Italian building techniques, but also architectural and aesthetic models. The situation changes at the beginning of the Christian era, with the creation of capitals whose programme of urbanism responds to the new administrative and legal requirements of the Augustan reforms.…”
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Flatid Planthopper, Oormenaria rufifascia (Walker) (Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Flatidae) by Forrest W. Howard, Susan Halbert

“…Although it is usually not a serious pest, it sometimes indirectly causes aesthetic damage when dense populations produce honeydew that supports extensive coatings of sootymold on the host plants. …”
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The Feeling of Thought: T.S. Eliot’s Programmatic Poetry. by Amélie Ducroux

“…I will try to confront some of the theoretical assertions present in his essays and lectures with his aesthetic “theory” as it incarnates itself, or as it is “sung” in some of his poems, and attempt to show what theory can gain from this peculiar mode of discourse that only poetic writing can generate.…”
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Pour une ethno-trichologie tibétaine by Christian Bromberger

“…Head and body hair: these corporeal excrescences, which can be modified at no great risk, convey four types of information: on sexual statuses and differences between genders, as well as general differences established by societies; on ethnic, social and personal identities; on order and disorder, on the norm and the margin within a society; on the aesthetic trends in a given period. The author sketches the framework of a general ethno-trichology, and includes examples drawn from various cultural contexts. …”
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Art and the ‘Second Darkness’ by Catherine Lanone

“…He describes the Bloomsbury legacy in terms of aesthetic change, such as Virginia Woolf’s rhythmical sensuous prose or Lytton Strachey’s ironic, revolutionary biographies. …”
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The Performance of Beethoven’s “Diabelli Variations”. Continuity, Discontinuity, Cyclic Integration, Irony by William Kinderman

“…Numerous performance recommendations emerge from the integrated consideration of historical documents, musical analysis, and aesthetic reflection. Since the subject concerned here is animate rather than inanimate, it is not well grasped from just an objectivist, factual perspective. …”
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Über den »unisonierenden Dualismus« im ersten Satz von Schuberts Streichquartett G-Dur, D. 887 by Sebastian Urmoneit

“…Some fifty years ago Carl Dahlhaus had already attempted to address this with his distinction between analysis that proceeds with “theoretical intention” and analysis that enquires into “aesthetic intention.” But his study of Schubert’s last quartet, despite the many details it contains, remains caught up in theory and thus, as far as the “aesthetic intention” is concerned, “does not get off the ground,” to use Hegel’s words. …”
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