Maternities: Dorothea Tanning's Aesthetics of Touch

A Multiscale Region Detector ’ : DOROTHEA BLOSTEIN

A multiscale region detector is derived from properties of a v ‘G (Laplacian-of-Gaussian) scalespace. The detector finds all image regions that have small gray-level variation relative to a neighborhood of their size. These regions may he nested. Since the region detector is designed as a coarse estimator of region size and shape, it is better suited for texture element extraction than for gene...

Association between the rates of multiple maternities.

We analyze the association between the rates of multiple maternities. Correlation analysis is suitable if there are at least monotonic relationships between the variables. A decreasing tendency can be observed in the rates of multiple maternities in Sweden and in its 25 counties for the period 1751-1960 and the effect of external variables can be assumed to be monotonic. After 1960, the rates o...

Engineering Aesthetics and Ergo-Aesthetics:

Human factors researchers and practitioners have been focusing research attention on the easeof-use, productivity, safety, comfort, and effectiveness aspects of product and system design. This article argues that it is time that we add another important dimension to the fields of human factors research and practice—the aesthetic dimension. This article discusses the need for the establishment o...

Aesthetics of Everyday Life

Aesthetics of everyday life is one of the branches of aesthetic knowledge. Until the 20th century, classical aesthetics focused on the subject of visual arts and paid less attention to the formation of fine arts in the context of human and nature’s daily life experience. During the last few decades, a movement emerged that, by avoiding that one-sided art-oriented approach, tried to create a clo...

Darwinian Aesthetics Informs Traditional Aesthetics