Ricerc@Sapienza

OBJECTIVES The procedure of warping, usually and interchangeably called morphing, elicit profile aesthetic preferences in orthodontic patients using the most common cephalometric softwares. It’s a method makes it easy to construct a prediction picture of the face based on changes to the soft-tissue profile effected by orthodontic or surgical treatment. In the age of new generations increasingly influenced by selfies and photo editing applications on smartphones, this study aims to determine general aesthetic preference and to find out whether it was affected by sex, age or real profile.

The scientific community has been increasingly focusing on development opportunities for rural areas, most notably with the identification of attractiveness factors such as potential drivers of growth and improvement of “quality of life”. This paper contributes to the debate by proposing the adoption of a post-rurality approach in the interpretation of local development paths and social relations among local socio-economic stakeholders, as well as their participation in local area governance. The Chianti Classico wine-growing area in Tuscany, Italy, is presented as a case study