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Public by design : auto-fabrication for a contemporary urban physiognomy
The revolution in modes of design and production anticipate a liberalization of material/fabrication that can potentially allow the masses to take control of the design of the urban space. Historically with each technical invention, writing, printing press, and video-cameras, came not only the …
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Facing The Animal : Physiognomy and Pathognomy in the Long Nineteenth Century
… are Johann Casper Lavater’s Essays on Physiognomy: For the Promotion of the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind (English translation published in 1789) and Charles Darwin’s The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals (1872). They mark a shift between discourses privileging …
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Does facial physiognomy in the context of anoccupational safety and health message predict outcomes?
Physiognomy, the practice of looking to another person’s outward facial appearance to unmask the inner character of that person, has had a diverse historical impact within art, medicine, theology, anthropology, law, criminology, political history, psychology, psychiatry, and popular culture, since …
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"Schattenhaft" in Mahler's Seventh and Ninth Symphonies: An Examination of a Passage in Adorno's Mahler: A Musical Physiognomy
The expressive marking "schattenhaft" appears twice in Gustav Mahler's symphonies: at the beginning of the scherzo in the Seventh and within the first movement of the Ninth. Theodor Adorno's observations regarding Mahler's use of this marking, which connect it to Schopenhauer and Romantic …
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Character Description and Physiognomy in the European Novel (1800-1860) in Relation to J. C. Lavater's 'Physiognomische Fragmente'
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Implicit And Explicit Racial Attitudes: Moderation Of Racial Typicality Evaluations
… interactive influences of skin tone and facial physiognomy on racial typicality evaluations, as well as the degree to which those effects were moderated by explicit and implicit racial attitudes, ethnicity of participants, and availability of cognitive resources. Using a 6-point scale ranging …
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William H. Sheldon's constitutional psychology: the somatotype as fiction
… had marked the science, or pseudo-science, of physiognomy. An integral aspect of physiognomy had been biological hierarchy and distinction, which had undergirded both the ancient and the European class systems, and which had provided a palpable benchmark for identifying nobility, heroism, and …
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Chinese-American and Japanese-American college students' perceptions and attitudes: Asian heritage in contact with the American cultural environment
… differences found were differentiation based on physiognomy, stereotyping based on generalizations of ""model minority,"" and racism from negative perceptions of ""those Orientals."""
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Animal-habitat relationships in the Knysna forest : discrimination between forest types by birds and invertebrates
… effects of forest plant species composition and physiognomy on bird and invertebrate communities in three discrete, relatively undisturbed forest types along a dry-wet soil moisture gradient. Using discriminant functions analysis, a 100% floristic and a 78% vegetation structural discrimination …
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Η ΕΚΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΕΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗΣ. ΚΟΜΜΑΤΑ ΚΑΙ ΥΠΟΨΗΦΙΟΙ
… BASIS WHICH DEFINES THE POLITICAL AND ELECTORAL PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE CITY. IN THIS FRAME WE EXAMINE THE DATA OF THE ELECTIONS OF OCTOBER 18TH 1981. MAIN POINTS OF THE RESEARCH ARE THE ELECTORAL CAMPAIGNS OF THE CANDIDATES OF THE POLITICAL PARTIES NEA DIMOCRATIA, PASOK, KKE ESPECIALLY CONCERNING THE …
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Louis Sebastien Mercier's Representation of Urban Space
… Zeitgeist of his time by representing the moral physiognomy of the moment but he also masterfully describes Paris, Parisians, and urban phenomena by revealing hidden realities of the city. He unveils the interconnectedness of urban life and illustrates how the detail relates to the whole and in …
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Betwixt and Between: Liminal Spaces and the Disabled Body in Burke’s Sublime and Beautiful, Burney’s Camilla, and Dacre’s Zofloya
… of eighteenth-century views of deformity and physiognomy to argue that both Eugenia’s and Victoria’s deformities—Eugenia’s smallpox scars and injured leg and Victoria’s beautiful but too boldly delineated features—challenge the prevailing structures of aesthetics and expectations of feminine …
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Demographics and ecology of an isolated population of the desert pocket mouse, Chaetodipus penicillatus sobrinus, in the Las Vegas Valley, Nevada
… intersexual and male intrasexual overlap. Plant physiognomy (canopy cover and height), soil particle size (>2.0 mm), soil bulk density and distance to the nearest food resource (mesquite and acacia) significantly contributed to microhabitat selection within this study population.
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Facial Expression Recognition: Fusion of A Human Vision System Model and A statistical framework
… complex in view of significant variations in the physiognomy of faces with respect to head pose, environment illumination and person-identity. Even assuming illumination and pose invariance in face images, recognition of facial expressions from novel persons always remains an interesting and also …
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Dualism and the Critical Languages of Portraiture
… artistic methodologies, such as that of the physiognomy (the definition of personality through facial characteristics) in the 19th century. That is, there is a failure to identify the complexities of dualism's relationship to the traditional honorific aspects of the portrait (the fact that …
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Papadiamantis’ Athenian short stories: social representation and characterization
… urban narratives sought to record the changing physiognomy of the capital. The second and third chapters focus on the texts and provide a close reading of the Athenian stories. In particular, the second chapter concentrates on the social context and brings to the fore the complex range of social …
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The body in question : some perceptions, problems and perspectives of the body in relation to character, c. 1750-1850
… to deal with a set of popular characterologies- physiognomy, phrenology, and organology- tracing the relations of each to a number of different discourses. In what is a long and complex series of arguments and expositions, the thesis is equipped with numerous general and particular summaries and …
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Algal resource depression by macro-invertebrate herbivores in a chalk stream: An empirical approach
… vary with herbivore identity, size, and biofilm physiognomy. Interactions across a diverse herbivore guild were investigated in a chalk stream, using mesocosms to determine the distribution of algal-herbivore interaction strengths. A series of experiments were used to assess: herbivore link …
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"THE DISTEMPER OF A GENTLEMAN": GROTESQUE VISUAL AND LITERARY DEPICTIONS OF GOUT IN GREAT BRITAIN 1744-1826
… riche character representative of the changing physiognomy of the upper classes; his over-consumption demonstrates the contagious nature of immoderation and the tragic effects that it has upon women, who are treated as commodities used to enable further aggregation and aggrandizement.'</p>
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Unfinished man : questioning difference through the pictorial recontextualisation of socio-medical documents
… are investigated with regard to: Lavater's physiognomy, Charcot's understanding of hysteria, the influence of photography on nineteenth century science, eugenics, degenerationism and racial definitions in South African law from 1948 to 1994. This section draws on scholarship and research …
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