The art of second wave positive psychology: Harnessing Zen aesthetics to explore the dialectics of flourishing

In recent years, a “second wave” of positive psychology has been emerging, characterised, above all, by an awareness and appreciation of the dialectical nature of flourishing. This paper offers a philosophical foundation for this second wave, based on Eastern philosophy, and, in particular, Zen aesthetics. Part one introduces Zen, including its key philosophical ideas and practices, as well as two antecedent traditions that helped to form it, namely, Buddhism and Taoism. Part two then elucidates three aesthetic principles that are integral to Zen: mono no aware (pathos of life), wabi-sabi (desolate beauty), and yūgen (profound grace). The paper discusses how these principles could be of value to positive psychology in fostering dialectical understanding and appreciation, thus highlighting future directions for the field.

Building Jobs in Iowa: New Deal Dams of the Wapsipinicon River Watershed in Northeast Iowa, February 4, 2015

The Wapsipinicon River, affectionately known as the “Wapsi,” flows nearly 300 miles through northeastern Iowa to the Mississippi. Strung throughout its drainage basin is a series of dams that are highly valued by their communities as places of recreation and scenic beauty. The Wapsipinicon has long had a reputation as a fishing stream, known for catfish, northern pike, carp, sunfish, walleye, and smallmouth bass. It is not uncommon to find anglers of all ages gathered at one of the Wapsipinicon’s dams to enjoy a day of fishing and possibly take home a prize catch. As time passes, however, a dam may outlive its original function, impede fish passage, and pose a safety hazard. But the idea of demolishing an outdated dam often rallies the community in an attempt to preserve the landmark.

Good looks and good practice: the attitudes of career practitioners to attractiveness and appearance

Empirical evidence attests the impact that career image has on objective career success, yet little is known of how career practitioners conceptualise and operationalise this information. This article presents the quantitative findings of an online survey of career practitioners (n=399, 74% female, 89% white, 75% from the UK) exploring their attitudes and practices towards issues of appearance and attractiveness. Career practitioners who participated in this survey acknowledged that beauty, self-presentation and interpersonal skills influence career success, and 96% of them considered conversations about career image as part of their professional remit. The career practitioners felt relatively comfortable and well informed in their discussions in this arena, but would welcome further guidance and training to inform their practice. Ethical and practical implications for the profession are considered.

A influência da comunicação de Marketing na Indústria da Beleza

O presente trabalho situa-se entre compreender o papel que a comunicação realizada pelo marketing da indústria de beleza desempenha, para o desenvolvimento e crescimento em suas vendas, por meio da influência constituída e disseminada pelos padrões de beleza, impostos pela mídia por meio da visão dos profissionais, que contribuem diretamente em sua atualização e divulgação de informações dessa mesma indústria da beleza. E por outro lado, os consumidores se mantêm informados acerca dos lançamentos de produtos e serviços. Nesta perspectiva, a influência apresentada por meio dos padrões de beleza, que vão sendo constituídos pela indústria de beleza e impostos por seu próprio marketing, mostra-se como o nosso objetivo de investigação, que em nossa pesquisa pretendemos apresentar um estudo a respeito da importância dada à influência desta comunicação do marketing para os profissionais de vários segmentos desta grande área da beleza e a relação com os seus profissionais e consumidores. Levamos em consideração aprioristicamente que a comunicação realizada pelo marketing é um recurso extremamente eficaz, para gerar influência a partir de sua divulgação. Estas informações por sua vez são reproduzidas pelos profissionais, que atuam na área da beleza por meio de seus vários segmentos. Eles constituem o objeto desta pesquisa. Há constatações evidentes da influência da comunicação constituída pelo marketing na indústria da beleza, porém, este trabalho investigativo toma como foco empírico, estes profissionais que estão diretamente ligados e atuantes na área da beleza e são agentes que materializam para os clientes o que há de mais inovador no mercado de produtos e serviços de beleza. Por ambicionar investigar a comunicação via o marketing, os profissionais da indústria da beleza e os clientes, esta investigação possui uma perspectiva transversal, que constitui o nosso objetivo.

Competition-related factors directly influence preferences for facial cues of dominance in allies

Alliance formation is a critical dimension of social intelligence in political, social and biological systems. As some allies may provide greater ‘leverage’ than others during social conflict, the cognitive architecture that supports alliance formation in humans may be shaped by recent experience, for example in light of the outcomes of violent or non-violent forms intrasexual competition. Here we used experimental priming techniques to explore this issue. Consistent with our predictions, while men’s preference for dominant allies strengthened following losses (compared to victories) in violent intrasexual contests, women’s preferences for dominant allies weakened following losses (compared to victories) in violent intrasexual contests. Our findings suggest that while men may prefer dominant (i.e. masculine) allies following losses in violent confrontation in order to facilitate successful resource competition, women may ‘tend and befriend’ following this scenario and seek support from prosocial (i.e. feminine) allies and/or avoid the potential costs of dominant allies as long-term social partners. Moreover, they demonstrate facultative responses to signals related to dominance in allies, which may shape sex differences in sociality in light of recent experience and suggest that intrasexual selection has shaped social intelligence in humans.

The Museum of Atheism.

It is Christmas Eve in a mountainous, isolated prison community, the day of the baby beauty pageant. Ava is the star attraction. She's six years old. Ava's older brother Jonny hears strange noises in the attic and sees his father go out late at night with a gun with their lodger, prison warden Leo. Daniel, a man who repairs sex dolls for a living, has just moved into the area and he is Ava's biggest fan. There are rabid, wild foxes roaming the area, terrorising the community. The action culminates in a bizarre fetish party at the local strip club, a fox cull and the death of Ava. Finally, the secrets of her life are revealed.

Writing Violence: the legal, moral and aesthetic Implications of creative non-fiction.

This essay began as a hybrid critical/creative paper that was presented as part of an all-female panel discussing the intersections between writing and extreme violence. My own paper was on the relationship between my creative nonfiction novel The Museum of Atheism and the real life murder of six-year-old beauty queen, JonBenet Ramsey. This essay is an attempt to represent the writing process of the creative nonfiction author, and to consider the ways in which critical theory can be used to highlight, or conversely obscure, fictional writing. In addition to considering the effect of using a real story, a true crime, as the basis for a semi-fictional work, this essay will also consider the relationship I had as a writer to my publisher, editor and agent, and their interventions in the writing process to ensure that facts were deliberately skewed or warped in order to avoid litigation. Finally, I will consider my own relationship to the material, and the impact that this had on the writing process.

Desechos líquidos: el caso de las salas de belleza

El objetivo principal de este estudio preliminar consistió en el análisis de las fortalezas y las debilidades en el manejo de desechos líquidos en cinco salas de belleza para apoyar estudios posteriores. Adicionalmente, se realizó un muestreo de aguas residuales en dos de los salones de belleza, S1 y S2, en los que se recolectaron muestras compuestas durante un día laboral. Los valores promedio de pH, amonio, DQO y grasas y aceites superaron los límites permitidos en la legislación costarricense, estos fueron respectivamente: 7,96 ± 0,01; 0,38 ± 0,01 mg N/L; 77 ± 13 mg O2/L y 1905,0 ± 0,1 mg/L, para S1 y 8,88 ± 0,01, 57,4 ±0,2 mg N/L; 240 ± 128 mg O2/L y 2775,0 ± 0,1 mg/L, para S2. Se evidenció que la calidad del agua y el cumplimiento de la normativa vigente son dependientes del tipo de productos utilizados (biodegradables o no, con o sin amoniaco). Aunque los volúmenes de vertido son intermitentes y pequeños, estos desechos pueden impactar negativamenteel ambiente.

Poema en prosa y mundos especulativos : en torno a Les chasseurs du temps de Daniel Walther

The prose poem has traditionally been considered above all a lyrical genre. Nevertheless, there are short fictions showing the main features of the prose poem, such as brevity, intensity, autonomy, importance of connotation, visionary character and, above all, the dominance of description. The fictional prose poem gives shape to an imaginary world which is poetically described, rather than narrated. The fictional character of this kind of prose poem is especially clear when what is described is a future reality, as it is the case in Stéphane Mallarmé’s «Le Phénomène futur» and in later series of prose poems which create prospective universes. Among them, the series collected by Daniel Walther in 2010 under the title of Les Chasseurs du temps stands out for its mysterious force, its fictional coherence and the beauty of its ima¬ges.

Entre o cartão-postal e a cidade real: um estudo sobre paisagem e produção imobiliária em Natal/RN

Recent studies concerning the landscape have investigated the most important activities that contribute for its modification and have tried to better understand the society through the marks left by its quotidian. It is understood that singular landscapes constitute the cultural patrimonies of the cities, once they are part of the daily life of the citizens and are present in their social representations. Some contemporary authors defend the preservation of the natural and urban landscape trying, specially, to keep its importance for the local population. Natal is a city where the ambient qualities are well defined and known by the beauty of the area where it is located. Situated just between a river and the sea, the city grew following its geographic characteristics. The Potengi River, the Atlantic Ocean and the vast dunes ecosystem represented natural limits to the urban expansion; at the same time they have favored the development of a landscape pattern marked by the dialectic between the natural elements and the human interventions. However, this relationship changed after the intensification of the high rising development process that took place since the 1960s. The urban legislation tried to preserve the features of the local landscape delimiting Areas for Controlling Building High , destined to protect the scenic value of some parts of the city. On the other hand, the civil construction sector has made constant pressure in sense to abolish or to modify this legal instrument, aiming profits that have increased, in the 1990s, because of the consumption and the qualification of the urban space for tourist activities. It is necessary the raising of new elements to stimulate the quarrel about the landscape preservation, the process of the urban space production and the best way for the legislation implementation. This work tries to raise elements about the subject at local level, in sense to use Natal City experience to contribute for the formulation of indicators to raise the question about the lack of measure for subjective values, for example the cultural and affective value of the landscape. The natural elements inserted in the urban profile, represent strong visual references and supply identity to the town; they are part of the collective imaginary and are detached in the social context of the city. Then, why the preservation of the landscape, that estimates the improvement in the quality of life, is not enough to justify the controlling building high already previewed as part of Natal City Legislation? These questions send us to the approach of the landscape, as a community patrimony, alerting that some of its significant esthetics attributes must be preserved as a legacy for the future generations

Interação genótipo-ambiente na densidade de gemas e comprimento de ramos de pessegueiro

The instability of environment between years in climates of subtropical regions difficult to obtain peach trees genotypes with wide adaptation and stable production, contributing to poor crop. The climate instability can affect development stages as flower bud and vegetative bud formation. The factors understanding that control the bud formation, presents elementary importance for effective solutions search to these problems. The objective this work is verify the temperature effect, relative humidity and rainfall on bud density and length shoot (Brindilas) and identify genotypes with more adaptability and stability for this character. Was used 12 peach trees genotypes growing in experimental orchard in the Technology Federal of Paraná State University, Campus Pato Branco with Cfa Köppen climate according to the classification. Data of rainfall, hourly temperature were collected by the weather station of Simepar. They were used three plants for genotype (rehearsal), identify five shoots per tree, in May of each year. Were carried analyzes of length shoot CR (cm), count number of flower bud (GF) and vegetative bud (GV). Also calculated the relationship between GF/GV and flower bud density and vegetative bud density. Evaluations were performer annual 2007-2014. With these data adaptability and stability analyzes were performed using Biplot methodology and correlations analyzes (Pearson) with climates variables. They used the weather data to calculate the sums of hours with temperatures below 20 °C, temperatures between 20-25 °C, temperature between 25-30 °C and temperature above 30 °C, considering the period of August 1fst of the previous period to February 28 of the following year. Pearson correlation coefficients were used for path analysis, GF and DGF as basic variables. For CR, GV and GF the highest average occurred in 2009/10 period. The genotypes ‘BRS Kampai’ and ‘BRS Libra’ highest CR. They are considered stable and adapted as the CR genotypes ‘Casc. 967’ and ‘BRS Kampai’. There was negative correlation between CR and GV for Σh <20 ° C, Σh> 30 °C and Σh with URA <50% and positive correlation between these variables and Σh 25-30 °C and Σh with URA> 70%. The evaluation of GV ‘Cons. 681’ and ‘Casc. 1055’ can be considered adapted and stable. The lowest average was presented by the genotype ‘Sta. Áurea’ though the genotype is also stable. In GF evaluation genotypes are considered adapted ‘BRS Bonão’, ‘Casc. 1055’, ‘Cons. 681’ with adaptability to all evaluated period. In path analysis was direct effect Σh 25-30 °C on flower bud density. In evaluating DGV and DGF and the variations are due to genetic effect. The most adapted and stable genotypes for DGV were ‘T. Beauty’, ‘T. Snow’, ‘Casc. 1055’ and ‘Cons. 681’. CR and GV variables are strongly affected by environment. GF is strongly affected by genetic conditions and moderately affected by environment. DGV and DGF are affected basically by genetic conditions.

Silk Butterflies

The first section of this unfinished novel, titled Silk Butterflies is a diptych about a woman named Sarah, and her desire to acquire ancestral truth regarding her identity to negate the pain she feels from losing her unborn child. Her story, told in a guarded, first person point-of-view is paralleled with Ling’s story, an unconventional, ninety-two year old Shanghainese woman who, against her desires, had her feet bound in China during the early 1920’s. Ling’s story is also told from a lyrical first-person perspective that focuses especially on sensory details, and delves into the sacrifices we make to attain standards of beauty, and the loss Ling has never recovered from. As this historical fiction progresses, their stories overlap in an unexpected way, as both Sarah and Ling attempt to revitalize forgotten histories, including how Sarah’s grandparents fled to Shanghai in the 1930’s to escape Nazi persecution during World War II.

Vulnerabilidad de las consumidoras adolescentes: un estudio en un entorno virtual

El principal objetivo de este estudio fue investigar lo que produce la vulnerabilidad de las consumidoras adolescentes en un ambiente virtual. Se eligió un enfoque cualitativo, utilizando como método la investigación documental. Los datos fueron recolectados en el entorno virtual de la Revista Capricho, específicamente en las secciones de Moda y Belleza entre enero de 2013 y junio de 2014. Los resultados de la investigación identificaron como factores agravantes de la vulnerabilidad de las consumidoras adolescentes: el género; autoconcepto; condición socioeconómica; la falta de conocimiento y la poca experiencia en el consumo; motivación; el estigma y la discriminación; las normas de la subcultura adolescente; el exceso de información; y el uso excesivo de internet. Las características de vulnerabilidad más relevantes fueron: no tienen confianza en términos de autoimagen; materialismo; inseguridad; perdida de bienestar; incapacidad de resistir a las presiones de grupo; estado de confusión y vicio en internet

De bestias, monstruos y príncipes encantados: Una mirada cultural a la adaptación cinematográfica del cuento de la Bella y la Bestia

Esta investigación ofrecerá una reflexión sobre el uso de los cuentos de hadas como fuente para el historiador, mostrando de esa forma la aproximación que tiene el cuento de la Bella y la Bestia, con los conceptos de la belleza/fealdad y la civilización/barbarie.Así, el análisis se basará, en la relación que tienen las adaptaciones cinematográficas con dicho cuento; también, podemos observar aquella dicotomía con el lenguaje cinematográfico, donde Bella un personaje civilizador, intenta domar a aquel monstruo (La Bestia).No obstante, se tomará como base el cuento escrito por Jeanne- Marie LePrince de Beaumont, para mirar cuáles son las características de estas dos dualidades antes mencionadas y, de esa manera, analizar en las adaptaciones cinematográficas que se realizaron en Estados Unidos entre 1960 hasta el 1991, las transformaciones que ha tenido esta historia, para comprender la forma en que la sociedad destaca, en las representaciones de los personajes, las virtudes o los defectos.

O texto literário para a infância na educação de crianças surdas do 1.ª Ciclo

Dissertação apresentada à Escola Superior de Educação de Paula Frassinetti para obtenção do grau de Mestre em Ciências da Educação – Especialização em Educação Especial