concrete in a compelling and original way. In high culture, this is the challenge for the artist. In the world of the everyday, it is the challenge for the designer, and also for the lay person, the bricoleur who assembles his or her objects, laying them out or putting them on, as in DIY, or `do it yourself'. Consider the following conversation between two women who encounter each other on the ...

This article explores the labour and experiences of a hitherto entirely overlooked section of the dementia care workforce: care-based hairdressers. Reporting on findings from the ESRC-funded 'Hair and Care' project, the analysis and discussion focus upon the 'doing of hair' in the context of dementia care. The authors challenge existing assumptions and approaches to the management of appearance...

We review measurements of open beauty production at HERA, with emphasis on recent results based on lifetime signatures. The beauty cross sections in photoproduction and deep-inelastic scattering are found to be higher than expected in QCD at next-to-leading order. The discussion includes new results on beauty production in ee, γγ and p̄p interactions. An outlook on the potential for measurements...

Our aim with Beauty Technology is to transform our body in an interactive platform by hiding technology into beauty products for creating muscle based interfaces that don’t give the wearer a cyborg look. FX e-makeup is a Beauty Technology prototype that applies FX makeup materials embedded with electronics for sensing the face’s muscles. This work presents Winkymote and Kinisi as proof of conce...

I describe in this paper a solution to the Sleeping Beauty problem. I begin with the consensual emerald case and I also discuss Bostrom's Incubator gedanken. I address then the Sleeping Beauty problem. I argue that the root cause of the flaw in the argument for 1/3 is an erroneous assimilation with a repeated experiment. Lastly, I present an informative variant of the original Sleeping Beauty e...

Successful positive psychology counseling for increasing well-being and decreasing depression have often focused on clients reflecting about their experiences of forgiveness, gratitude, or hope. Would reflecting on experiences of beauty also decrease depressive symptoms? A quasiexperimental group logged biweekly reflections on natural, artistic, and moral beauty for 10 weeks; two comparison gro...

U članku se razmatraju okolnosti osnutka izložbe Salon mladih ujesen 1968. te uloga manifestacije u profiliranju društveno-političkoga identiteta umjetnika idućem razdoblju. Osvrće na reformska nastojanja području kulturne politike drugoj polovini šezdesetih godina, analizira jačanje interesa za problematiku kulturi razini Socijalističkoga saveza omladine Hrvatske. Objašnjava materijalni i prof...

this study tries to review the reasons for which young girls tend to perform beauty surgeries on their faces, within the framework of veblen’s “theory of the leisure class” and his “social models” such as fiscal ownership. the statistical society has been the girl students of the university of tehran selected through snow ball sampling and discourse analysis was applied to analyze the semi-stru...