The Start of a Journey I am riding in the front seat of a tiny Ford Icon, taking in the leftsided passenger view as we bump along narrow dirt roads. The driver is cheerfully unperturbed as he navigates various obstacles in our path: children, motorists, stray dogs, cycle rickshaws, carts of bright red tomatoes. By the end of my trip, my mind—and stomach—will be desensitized to the labyrinth of ...

The peculiarities of conventional techniques in textile processing make a significant contribution to the artwork’s value terms aesthetics and originality. woodcut relief printing technique, also known as block printing, is surface design technique with its characteristics technical work resulting visual effects. character chiaroscuro can be built composition color values different intensities ...

We read with great interest the paper “What Are Primary Cost Drivers of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction in United States? A Cost-Minimization Analysis 14,713 Patients” by Bokshan et al.1Bokshan S.L. Mehta S. DeFroda S.F. Owens B.D. What are primary cost drivers anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction cost-minimization analysis patients.Arthroscopy. 2019; 35: 1576-1581Abstract Full T...

It is a great pleasure and honor, as well as a somewhat daunting task, to introduce the 2010 ARVO Weisenfeld Award recipient—daunting in that George L. Spaeth, MD, manages somehow to be not one but many men, much as a Hindu god comprises many entities or avatars. First among these avatars is George Spaeth, the quintessential Philadelphian. Steeped in the Quaker culture of collegiality and indep...

Ongoing dialogues between customers and web-based virtual advisors (e.g., Kelley Blue Book’s Auto Choice Advisor) are an untapped source of marketing research data for new product opportunities based on new combinations of customer needs. These data provide the scale necessary for complex products (148 trucks and 129 customer needs in our application). The tracking data are available at little ...

This study examined the network of relationships between sport ability beliefs, achievement goals, self-determination and female students’ enjoyment in school physical education (PE). Female secondary students (n = 343) from a single-sex secondary school in Singapore participated in the survey. They were assessed on sport ability beliefs, goal orientations, relative autonomy, perceived competen...

In this paper we present our videodisc project (a videodisc of multinational print advertisements) asking the question, "Who will be the audience?" In order to answer it we engage in a comparative analysis of the construction of the readerlconsumer (audience) in French and American advertisements. Our first comparison takes into consideration the imaging of men and women in perfume and cosmetic...

International competition and the rapidly global economy, unified by improved communication and transportation, offer to the consumers an enormous choice of goods and services. The result is that companies now require quality, value, time to market and innovation to be successful in order to win the increasing competition. In the engineering sector this is traduced in need of optimization of th...

At the closing of the second millennium our civilization can boast a remarkable progress in technological developments which have been growing at an exponential pace. Telecommunications, jumbo-jets and personal computers have become ubiquitous in many countries in recent decades. In the "softer" area of managing complex systems, and even more so in economic, social and ethical aspects, our achi...

Humans naturally dispose of objects that disgust them. Is this phenomenon so deeply embedded that even incidental disgust – i.e., where the source of disgust is unrelated to a possessed object – triggers disposal? Two experiments were designed to answer this question. Two film clips served as disgust and neutral primes; the objects were routine commodities (boxes of office supplies). Results re...