The phrase "Aesthetic Computing" while taken literally applies the philosophical area of aesthetics to the field of computing and work in the area is broadly defined as such; however, in my operational definition for the work we do at the University of Florida, aesthetic computing is treated as embodied formal language. The purpose of aesthetic computing is to deliver knowledge and practice of ...

Kavita Beri speaks to Francesca Lake, Managing Editor. Kavita Beri is a board certified Internal Medicine physician in the United States, and is an active member of the American Society of Laser Medicine and Surgery. She is the medical director and owner of BE Skin & Laser Med Spa, an aesthetic medicine practice in NJ, USA. She holds a position as a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Bioma...

BACKGROUND Resident experience in aesthetic surgery is often deficient in many training programs around the country. OBJECTIVE This study is the first to review the 10-year experience of a resident aesthetic clinic and identifies important educational aspects necessary for residency training in aesthetic surgery. METHODS The operative experience of each chief resident from 1994 through 2004...

In the early 21st century, members of the medical community have been both witnesses to and participants in significant changes in the field of aesthetic surgery and medicine, including nonsurgical facial rejuvenation. Although some of dermal fillers were available prior to 2000, their indications were primarily therapeutic. Now, various categories of dermal fillers exist, including hyaluronic ...

BACKGROUND Valid tools to assess aesthetic outcomes after breast reconstructive surgery are scarce. Previously a professional aesthetic assessment scale was introduced, the Aesthetic Items Scale (AIS). We aim to determine if this method is a valid and reliable tool to assess aesthetic outcome after breast reconstructive surgery. METHODS The study population was consenting women who underwent ...

In this paper we investigate and compare four aesthetic measures within the context of evolutionary art. We evolve visual art with an unsupervised evolutionary art system using genetic programming and an aesthetic measure as the fitness function. We perform multiple experiments with different aesthetic measures and examine their influence on the evolved images. To this end we store the 5 fittes...

background combined procedures involving elective breast surgery at the time of abdominoplasty are frequently performed procedures in aesthetic plastic surgery. while found to be safe outpatient procedures, many surgeons elect to perform combined abdominoplasty/breast surgery as inpatient surgery. this study was performed to explore the practice of performing the combined procedure as an inpati...

There have been few studies of why some people are frequently involved in aesthetic activities such as going to the theatre, reading or playing musical instruments, whereas others are less involved. This study assesses the broad roles of education, personality and demographic factors such as social class, age and sex. More aesthetic activity was associated with music and art education, whereas ...

This paper extends the previous work of generating monotonic-rhythm log-aesthetic space curve segments so that compound-rhythm log-aesthetic space curve segments are interactively generated. A compound-rhythm log-aesthetic space curve segment is composed of two monotonic-rhythm log-aesthetic space curve segments whose logarithmic curvature and torsion graphs are represented by two connected lin...