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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"aesthetic quality"”.
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The Effects of Three Teaching Methods on The Aesthetic Quality of Art Products at The Eighth-Grade Level
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A study in housing for a low-income group
… of livability, structural soundness, pleasing aesthetic quality, and economy. 4. To investigate the financing of this housing project with several types of ownership in order to ascertain their feasibility, and to determine which offers the greater advantage to the group, to be housed.
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Selected environmental factors associated with attitude toward involvement in dormitory vandalism
… perceived general maintenance of the dormitory, aesthetic quality of the dormitory interior, and finally, perceived personal space in the dormitory. A questionnaire was developed including three scales previously used and proven valid and reliable as well as items added by the researcher to …
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Design and prototype of a partial window replacement to improve the energy efficiency of 90-year-old MIT buildings
… replacement's functionality and preservation of aesthetic quality. The analysis showed an expected decrease in energy consumption of more than 70% and cost savings of nearly $2 million a year. The analysis also showed that comfort levels are higher throughout the year.
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Content-based Image Understanding with Applications to Affective Computing and Person Recognition in Natural Settings
… to fashion photo analysis can understand the aesthetic quality of photos. Further, a bilinear model that takes into account the relative confidence of region proposals and the mutual relationship between multiple labels is developed to boost multi-label classification. It is evaluated both on …
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Engaging aesthetics: American poetry and politics, 1925-1950
… aside or pushed to the background questions of aesthetic quality in political poetry. But many poets active during the 1930's and 1940's saw political engagement and poetic accomplishment as mutually reinforcing. These poets recognized that effective political poetry must fashion imagined …
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The Effect of Steady-State Digestion Temperature on the Performance, Stability, and Biosolids Odor Production associated with Thermophilic Anaerobic Digestion
… factors such as operational stability and the aesthetic quality of biosolids. A series of experiments were carried out in which wastewater sludge was digested at a range of temperatures (35°C, 49°C, 51°C, 53°C, 55°C, 57.5°C). Each reactor was operated for a period at steady state in order to …
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Late Roman and Early Byzantine Floor Mosaics in Cilicia
… productions presenting representations in high aesthetic quality, as well as crudely rendered primitive examples. The variegated productions dispersed to numerous locations in the region denote existence of several mosaic workshops. The synthetic analysis of the mosaic corpus demonstrate that …
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Les carrières en fin d'activités: un potentiel paysager?
… landscape areas and (2) to assess the landscape aesthetic quality. To achieve these goals, two methods inspired by the Landscape Character Assessment (LCA) were tested. The first one is a field sheet and the second one a landscape perception survey with stakeholders. The results have emphasized …
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Biosolids as a source of soil conditioning and fertility for turfgrass
… are shifting towards producing exceptional quality (EQ) biosolids to increase recycling rates to land, especially urban areas. Other methods of improving the environmental impact of wastewater treatment includes additions of iron (Fe) to reduce phosphorus (P) concentrations in outgoing …
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Lifetime and effectiveness evaluation of ceramic pot filters
<p>"Poor water quality is a major contributing factor to disease in developing countries. Ceramic pot filters (CPFs) represent an effective and sustainable technology for poor communities, but the characterization of CPF lifetimes is on-going, and the water production seems to be the limiting …
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The Rhetoric of Literalism: Readings in American Minimal Art 1959-1966
… critics felt to be the impersonality and lack of aesthetic quality which such works seemed to them to exhibit, though my particular focus on the terms 'literal' and 'literalism' derives from the art critic Michael Fried's negative characterization of Minimalism as anti-modernist. I interrogate the …
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Sprinkler system performance and irrigation scheduling effects on turfgrass quality
… for six sprinkler types. Tests to determine the aesthetic quality of turfgrass at different levels of irrigation were run on small turf plots. The grass used in the plot was Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. (Common Bermudagrass). Data for cool season grasses were obtained from literature. The data …
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The City of Morro Bay, California Sign Ordinance Update and Tourism-Oriented Directional Sign Plan
… due to their effect on both economic and aesthetic issues in communities. This report documents research of scholarly articles, case studies, and community outreach efforts. This report includes survey results and analysis that reveal the opinions of Morro Bay business owners, and also …
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Chemical and biological control of silvery threadmoss on creeping bentgrass putting greens
… growing interspersed with turf, decreasing aesthetic quality and playability. Moss is typically controlled postemergence and currently only one herbicide, carfentrazone, is registered for silvery threadmoss control on greens. Carfentrazone controls moss up to 75% applied at a three week …
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Meissen Porcelain: Precision, Presentation, and Preservation. How Artistic and Technological Significance Influence Conservation Protocol
… and technical accomplishments, and an original aesthetic quality that initiated a new conceptual reframing of how ceramic media could be presented. Throughout the past three centuries, Meissen porcelain has continued to be coveted, collected, and exhibited. As a result, the work requires the aid …
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The establishment of performance criteria for the evaluation of procurement of senior staff and private housing projects in the state of Qatar
… overall satisfaction; client's rating on quality; aesthetic quality and technical quality. As this study is the first of its kind, exploratory interviews with industry participants were conducted to gain a better understanding of construction practice in Qatar as well as to firm up the …
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EXTREMELY VISUAL & INCREDIBLY COMMUNAL: TRAUMA, MULTIMODALITY, AND 9/11 LITERATURE
… novel is one of the few to fully encapsulate the aesthetic quality of September 11th while also accounting for the victims’ grief and their restorative process through community.
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EXTREMELY VISUAL & INCREDIBLY COMMUNAL: TRAUMA, MULTIMODALITY, AND 9/11 LITERATURE
… novel is one of the few to fully encapsulate the aesthetic quality of September 11th while also accounting for the victims’ grief and their restorative process through community.
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Environmental and agronomic aspects of municipal solid waste heavy fraction used for turfgrass production
… studies. Improved fertility resulted in greater aesthetic quality, clipping yields, and tissue N content for tall fescue (<i>Festuca arundinacea</i> Schreb.). Lysimeter studies indicated that the greatest environmental concern associated with the use of heavy fraction for turfgrass production …
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