Beauty is always an attractive topic in the human society, not only artists and psychologists, but also scientists have been searching for an answer – what is beautiful. This paper presents an approach to learning the human sense toward facial beauty. Different from previous study, the human sense is represented by a label distribution, which covers the full range of beauty ratings and indicate...

Aiming at the problem of tourism scenic route planning, this paper studies and analyzes the combined influence of terrain slope and surface properties on vehicle route planning. The “window moving method” is introduced to carry out early slope calculation and traffic ability analysis for the terrain, roughness evaluation index is established respectively for wheeled and tracked vehicles and the...

Our method is applicable for generating maps of scenicness at widely varying spatial scales. Figure 4 shows three examples of fine-grained high-resolution maps of scenicness from regions of different sizes around Great Britain. Figure 4 (top) shows a stretch of coast near Holywell, a coastal village in north Cornwall, England. Figure 4 (middle) shows a map centered over Caehopkin, a village in ...

Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that, consistent with theoretical expectations, being very attractive reduces a young adult’s (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it. A variety of tests suggest that this result is not likely because beauty is acting as a proxy for socioeconomic status, although we cannot rule out the possibility that s...

This paper presents an optimal control model to analyze reforestations with two different species, including commercial values, carbon sequestration and biodiversity or scenic values. We first solve the model qualitatively with general functions and then develop it assuming quadratic functions. We discuss the implications of partial or total internalization of environmental values and show that...

This paper starts with a critical view of beautiful female images in the mass media being frequently generated by a stereotypical Korean concept of beauty. Several female beauty myths have evolved in Korea during the present decade. Nearly all of them have formed due to a deeply-ingrained androcentric ideology which objectifies women. Mass media causes the public to hold a distorted concept abo...

aesthetics, nowadays, is regarded as a branch of philosophy which studies  beauty and art. this research is about aesthetics from mulla sadra's viewpoint. in the works of this philosopher, beauty in general means  possessing all the good properties. the special definition of beauty, which includes only sensible objects, is possessing the factors of order, good combination, moderation, and ...

Abstract The concept of geoheritage is related to places geological interest, generally aesthetic, cultural, socio-economic and/or scientific value. Many geosites are karstic nature, because their intrinsic beauty, singularity and high geodiversity. Caves among the most visited economically exploited landforms. They constitute as a whole, with scenic landscapes, hydrogeological importance prese...

Based on a feasibility analysis on the product and source market orientation of the Ailing River Drifting Scenic Spot, this article explores its product quality as well as market strategies in four aspects including product, price, promotion and place.

We present a scenic but practical guide through nuclear spaces and their dual spaces, examining useful, unexpected, and often unfamiliar results both for nuclear spaces and their strong and weak duals.