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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Robert Adam"”.
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Saltram House: The Evolution of an Eighteenth-Century Country Estate
… Kent and Capability Brown landscape design. Robert Adam, one of the leading neo-classical architects of the eighteenth century and the lesser known Nathaniel Richmond, a student of the leading landscape designer Capability Brown and their involvement will also be examined. The Chinoiserie …
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Nature's objects : geology, aesthetics, and the understanding of materiality in eighteenth-century Britain and France
… and silversmiths. Late Enlightenment designers Robert Adam, William Chambers, and Batty Langley as well as intellectuals Denis Diderot and Louis Dutens explored some of the same materials that piqued the curiosity of silversmiths Pierre-Simon Augustin Dupre, Francois-Thomas Germain, and Jacques …
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Total Artifice: Neo-Gothic Literary and Visual Art in Britain 1750-1789
… refined neo-Gothic techniques of the architect Robert Adam, and the painter Benjamin West. Here I develop a broader, historical comparison. For both Adam and Walpole, I show that one resource for their thinking was precisely the marginality of the Gothic, in comparison to the classical. For them …
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Cat and monkey V1 neurons : comparison of the responses to sustained and transiently presented stimuli
Conventional stimulus presentation methods for the examination of the response properties of neurons in the primary visual cortices (V1) of cats and monkeys have employed extended presentations of luminance modulated sinusoidal grating patterns or spatiotemporal noise (lasting on the order of …
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Synthesis of novel quaternary alpha-amino acids and 2-imidazolines derived from oxazol-5(4H)-ones and evaluation of their proteasoman inhibition activity
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Chemistry, 2010
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A Critical Analysis of Human Ecology
This thesis proposes that a dynamical systems approach is a valuable means of understanding complex situations of human and ecological interrelationships. Such an approach forms a useful addition to the conceptual framework of human ecology because it enables understanding the dynamics of change in …
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A Critical Analysis of Human Ecology
This thesis proposes that a dynamical systems approach is a valuable means of understanding complex situations of human and ecological interrelationships. Such an approach forms a useful addition to the conceptual framework of human ecology because it enables understanding the dynamics of change in …
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The intended and unintended consequences of the 1990 Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Act Within-state Funding Formula Change: A Modified Policy Delphi Study
The purpose of this study was to identify the impact the 1990 amendments to Carl D. Perkins Career and Applied Technology Act within-state allocation of federal funds had on the operational infrastructure of career and technical education (CTE) in Virginia as specifically related to the overall …