Creating smiles: a case study on the transformational power of dental CAD/CAM technology by Zeina Darwich, Atef Darwich, Marwan Al-Raeei, Chadi Azmeh

“…The study emphasizes the applications of CAD/CAM technology and showcases the state-of-the-art Medit i700 intraoral scanner for detailed dental impression scanning. …”
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Les merveilles du scepticisme : René Descartes et les superhéros de comics by Chris Gavaler, Nathaniel Goldberg

“…In his Meditations, Descartes introduces the idea of sceptical worries: I might be living in a dream or be the victim of an evil genius. …”
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The dental health and technology. Contributions and contradictions by Zhenia Véliz Águila, Virgina Pentón García, Bárbara Prado Lemus, Isabel Noriega Cabrera, Limaisi Brunet Herrera, Irma Sueiro Sánchez

“…Presently article is meditated on the narrow existent relationship between the terms information, technology and health in Stomatology and some contradictions that reveal the importance of understanding the techno-science, demonstrating the importance of this relationship as the basis and driving force which will result in the development related to health, which will help to improve every day functioning and quality of dental services.…”
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DIGITAL AND ESTHETIC APPROACHES TO THE ASSESSMENT OF GINGIVAL AND DENTAL PARAMETERS by Andra Ardelean, Roxana Buzatu, Otilia-Cornelia Bolos, Laura-Cristina Rusu, Anca Tudor, Marius Traian Leretter

“…Intraoral scans of the dental arches were performed using the Medit i700 scanner to obtain virtual 3D models. In the Medit Design application, measurements were taken of the distance between the zenith of the maxillary lateral incisor and the line connecting the zeniths of the maxillary central incisor and canine on the same hemi-arch, along with measurements of the width and height of the maxillary central incisor, calculating their proportions accordingly. …”
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LINEN SIEVES – THOUGHTS ON THE MARGIN OF ANGI ISTVÁN'S MUSICOLOGICAL WRITINGS (ANGI ISTVÁN: SITE DE IN, EDITURA MEDIA MUSICA, CLUJ-NAPOCA, 2014) by Attila FODOR

“…Both provocative and meditative, the title-metaphor invites the reader not only to explore the content of this book, but also to familiarize itself with the significant and original aesthetic view of the author, elaborated in a two-volume treatise, Lectures on Music Aesthetics (Oradea University Press, 2004.) …”
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O espaço dos possíveis, de Pierre Bourdieu by Maria Thereza Rosa Ribeiro

“…In the reference of participant objectification, the interface between phenomenology and “Pascalian meditations” is opposed to positivism and scientific rationalism.…”
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The Empty Stage in Edward Hopper’s Early Sunday Morning, Girlie Show, and Two Comedians by Philip Smith

“…By evoking the empty stage, Hopper’s work, I seek to demonstrate, invites meditations on the impermanence of stagecraft.…”
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Na pochybách. Pascal a Descartes by Gachonová, Kateřina

“…An attempt at the relativization of these compartmentalizing poles brings the author of the study to a starting point that is common to Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy and Pascal’s Pensées (Thoughts): the act of skepticism and radical doubt. …”

Mezi filosofií a medicínou. Ke Kantovu překonání karteziánského dualismu mysli a těla by Pech, Robin

“…Since its basic assumption is that the body and mind of a person, however different they might be, are mutually connected so that the diseases of the body can be cured by way of the mind, it is the author’s interpretation that this concept is a peculiar attempt to overcome the substantive dualism of mind and body seen in Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy (1641). At the same time, however, Kant follows on from what Descartes himself attempted.…”

Dark Aesthete: Gothic Elements in the Fiction of Walter Pater by Geoffrey Johnston Sadock

“…Walter Pater is today celebrated for his imaginary portraits, ekphrastic meditations on landscape, paintings, and sculpture; for his aesthetic method and prose style. …”
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DEKARTIŠKASIS DIEVO ĮRODYMAS: PRIELAIDOS IR INTENCIJOS by Skirmantas Jankauskas

“…DESCARTES' PROOF FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD: PREMISES AND INTENTIONS Skirmantas Jankauskas  Summary The article deals with Descartes’ Meditations, where his proof for the existence of God is taken as the starting point of the analysis. …”
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DEKARTIŠKASIS DIEVO ĮRODYMAS: PRIELAIDOS IR INTENCIJOS by Skirmantas Jankauskas

“…DESCARTES' PROOF FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD: PREMISES AND INTENTIONS Skirmantas Jankauskas  Summary The article deals with Descartes’ Meditations, where his proof for the existence of God is taken as the starting point of the analysis. …”
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“Virtuoso[S] Of Departure” by Sarah Bouttier

“…This paper reads three poems on absence in the light of current theories of the object, hoping to clarify various trends in contemporary poetry’s relation to absence. The three poems, “Meditations at Lagunitas” by Robert Hass (1979), “Silverfish, Moth” by Matthew Francis (2014), and “Pipistrelles” by Kathleen Jamie (2004) are extremely different in the functions and connotations they ascribe to absence. …”
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Contemplation and liturgy: The experience of St. Mary Magdalene De’ Pazzi (Florence, 1566-1607) by M. O'Neill

“…In the experience of the Italian mystic, the Word that was proclaimed in the Liturgy, particularly in the Eucharist, captured her whole attention, in mind and heart, when meditated upon when she had received Holy Communion. …”
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Bartleby à Belleville, ou quand les Malaussène invitent Isaac Sidel : le crossover fraternel de Daniel Pennac (Des chrétiens et des Maures) et Jerome Charyn (Appelez-moi Malaussène... by Sophie Vallas

“…"Bartleby the Scrivener" is the intertext that both authors draw on in order to twin their respective sagas : Melville’s tale allows them to weave their long-standing meditations on the issues of originality, identity, name, noire paternity and fictional fraternity.…”
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Les Diggers : une expérience singulière au cœur d’une décennie contestataire by Frank Noulin

“…Le free movement : une utopie à méditer, quand nos sociétés en proie aux tentations autoritaires s’adonnent à la marchandisation de tout et de tous.…”
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Imagining Oneself as Forming a Whole with Others: Descartes’s View of Love by Melanie Tate

“…Several commentators assume joining in volition is an act of judgment, since forming judgments is the primary function of the will in the Meditations. However, I argue joining in volition is an act of imagining a whole one forms with an object of love. …”
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Flowart, a physical activity at the level of hypermodernity, even hypomodernity by Romain Roult, Frédéric Martineau

“…It therefore seems necessary for some to indulge in more contemplative and meditative leisure and sporting activities that reconnect with the principles of otium and thus fall into a form of hypomodernity. …”
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Time-Images in Don DeLillo’s Writing: A Reading of The Body Artist, Point Omega and Zero K by Andrea Pitozzi

“…This article focuses on the most recent writings of Don DeLillo, and in particular it analyzes three of DeLillo’s later works, namely The Body Artist, Point Omega and Zero K, as examples of a more meditative and reflective attitude towards the themes of time and image in his recent production. …”
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The Discernment of the Deceits of the Devil in angelum lucis according to St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. John of the Cross by Juan Manuel Rossi

“…Ignatius of Loyola, in his Spiritual Exercises, gives fundamental Rules in this regard, and in other meditations helps to understand the need to clarify the thought and rectify the intention. …”
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