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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"Esthetic"”.
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Emerson, Greenough, and the transcendental esthetic
… and foremost as the founders and champions of an esthetic philosophy in America. They were ministers, most of them, ostensibly concerned more with man's prospects of salvation than with the contemplation of Beauty. Nevertheless, any serious study of New England transcendentalism must take into …
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Edmund Burke as Literary Critic and Esthetic Theorist
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Esthetic Posterior Stainless Steel Crowns and their Relative Shear Strengths
… The purpose of this study was to evaluate esthetic posterior stainless steel crowns (EP-SSC) and compare their relative shear strengths.Methods: Sixty EP-SSC were compared. 15 crowns from NuSmile® Primary Crowns, Kinder Krowns, and Dental Innovators 1UP and EC Crowns were studied. The …
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Esthetic Theory and the Appraisal of Practices in Music Education
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Esthetic Benefit of Orthodontic Treatments in Patients of Different Racial Backgrounds
… associations between viewer race, case race, and esthetic preference. All statistical tests were two-sided with statistical significance of p < .05. Results: Significant associations were found between viewer race and esthetic preference in four scenarios. Esthetic preferences also varied …
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Utilization of the vacuum form machine: Custom mouthguards versus esthetic bleaching trays
Purpose: This study analyzed the percentage of Virginia practitioners utilizing vacuum form machines, types of appliances recommended, and types of patient information provided.Methods: Questionnaires were constructed and mailed to 2500 dentists.Results: 80% of dentists utilized vacuum form …
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Factors Affecting Gingival Recession in the Esthetic Zone: A Human Cadaver Study
<p>The purpose of this study was to assess the correlation of gingival recession to the following parameters in fresh cadavers: gingival thickness, buccal bone loss, buccal bone thickness, shape of bony dehiscence defect, and age. A secondary aim was to evaluate predictors for gingival …
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The Prevalence of the Need for Esthetic Crown Lengthening in Post Orthodontically Treated Subjects
Prevalence information on excessive gingival display in post-orthodontic patients is limited. By studying one aspect, namely the size relationship of the clinical crowns of teeth, in an orthodontic population, we can begin to quantify their need for periodontal plastic surgery. In this two part …
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Esthetic Evaluation of Edgewise Orthodontic Treatment in Matched Class II, Division 1 Subjects, with and without a MARA
<p>Orthodontics’ concern about facial esthetics has motivated the investigation of treatment options, and their effects, in hopes of discerning the optimal treatment for patients, both esthetically and functionally. In our efforts to determine the optimal treatment option for patients with Class …
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Influence of Bracket System on Smile Esthetics
… determine which bracket system produces the most esthetic outcome when used as prescribed. METHODS: A survey compared Pitts™, Damon™, and 3M MBT™ prescription brackets. Photos of 18 treated cases (3 male and 3 female per system) were shown to 160 participants (100 laypeople and 60 orthodontists), …
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Peirce's Semeiotic and the Implications for Aesthetics in the Visual Arts: a study of the sketchbook and its positions in the hierarchies of making, collecting and exhibiting
The thesis argues that a particular aesthetic theory (Esthetics), is implied by Peirce's Semeiotic, and that they have both been clarified when tested from the perspective of a visual art practice involving sketchbooks. This research also constructs and lays out the first 'user friendly' guide to …
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Talking through the text : Rakugo and the oral/literal interface
… and thus they possess an insignificant esthetic value. This study attempts to re-examine the validity of such traditional claims by examining the coexistence and interaction between orality and literacy in a Japanese traditional narrative art known as rakugo. Rakugo is a highly stylized …
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Rockin' the Comstock: Exploring the Unlikely and Underappreciated Role of a Mid-Nineteenth Century Northern Nevada Ghost Town (Virginia City) in the Development of the 1960s Psychedelic Esthetic and "San Francisco Sound"
Virginia City, Nevada, epitomized and continues to epitomize a liminal community -- existing on the very limen of the civilized and uncivilized, legitimate and illegitimate, parochial frontier and cosmopolitan metropolis. Throughout a 150-year history, its theaters attracted performers of national …
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How to Use Local Clays in School Ceramics
… clays. The use of local clays has a definite esthetic value, especially when the teacher makes use of all of the instructional aids associated with the geology and industrial–ceramic aspects which may be incorporated with field trips and the experimentation and processing necessary to make the …
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From Orientalism to Japonisme: Hugo, Baudelaire and Mallarme
… the arts? This thesis visualizes the esthetics of the Orientalist poetry of Hugo, Baudelaire and Mallarme through a parallel study of nineteenth-century Orientalist painting. The results of these Orientalist analyses are compared to the esthetic effects of the movement of Japonisme …
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"Solo és mãe gentil": a questão de pintura de paisagem : caráter e natureza do Brasil
… He materialized the discovery of nature as an esthetic phenomenon in his pictures. However, in the 19th century, with the implementation of the official teaching by the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, landscape painting was required to be subordinated to the principal themes of paintings and …
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An analytical study of selected works for solo clarinet by composers in Wales
… carried out to reveal whether or not any common esthetic or compositional questions were being addressed by these composers, and if so, whether any of these could be considered characteristically Welsh."
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Esthetics of Dedalus and Bloom: nineteenth century roots, structural metaphors, and resolutions
<p>This study explores James Joyce's use of esthetics as a structuring source in <em>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man</em>, especially as those esthetics derive from similarities and references to and analogues from the nineteenth century tradition of English poets, novelists, and essayists …
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Alfred Schnittke’s quest for a universal musical language in the Penitential Psalms (1987–88)
… Russian folkloric tradition with his own unique esthetic goals and personal compositional style to produce a blended, universal musical language.
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