Unlike the styles that preceded it, which often sprang up as one style moved gradually into or away from another, the origins of Cubism are rather succinct. ... While for the most part still sticking to the browns that had been so fundamental to earlier works of cubism, Braque would use a dazzling array of shades, many quite vibrant. ... In so doing, Braque grappled with depicting a purely two-dimensional thing such as alphabetical letters amidst his three-dimensional subject, which in turn he had represented (quite forcefully) onto his two dimensional canvas. In so doing, he stressed the i...

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Briefly (and loosely), a relational system is one in which: 1. ... Object systems: Object-oriented database systems (or object systems for short) are championed by some database experts (in particular, academic ones!) ... They have their origin in object-oriented programming languages such as C++, hence the key concepts in object systems are: objects (instances of classes), classes (object types), methods (operators on objects of a particular class), messages (which invoke methods) and inheritance (mechanism by which a more complex class is derived from a simpler one). ... Multi-di...

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In a raster scan display device, the screen is assumed to consists of a two dimensional matrix. ... This time the electron beam sweeps the whole screen, one scan-line at a time from top to bottom. ... Most television monitors are raster scan display devices: one scan-line at a time. ... You may think of frame buffer as a two dimensional array. Each element of the array keeps the intensity of the pixel corresponding to that element. ...

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I suppose, the version we know best is the one that was composed in the 15th century. ... If the name of King Arthur is mentioned, I suppose what comes to mind is not so much one person as a whole array of characters and themes, a montage so to speak. ... We think of the place where these people assembled, Camelot, Arthur's magnificent, personal castle and then, there are stranger things; the story of the quest for the Holy Grail, giving a spiritual dimension to the whole story. ... One cannot help but wonder about the part that fate played in the society where the legends of King Arthur ...

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Yet if someone goes into the light of sun and embraces true reality and then proceeds to tell the others still chained in the cave of the truth, they will laugh at and ridicule the enlightened one, for the only reality they have ever known were some fuzzy shadows on a wall. They could not possibly comprehend another dimension without experiencing it themselves, and therefore would label the enlightened one as mad. ... Darwin found a wide array of animals therein. ...

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On the wall, above the lovers heads is a 3-dimensional wheat branch. ... One arm is wrapped around his chest and torso, the other around his neck. ... Both lovers are gazing into one another's Mesopotamia like eyes. ... The cloulds and sky blend into one another vey freely creating an awesome array of blues to greens and white. ... The texture is rough and somehow the painting is two-dimensional as well as three-dimensional. ...

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One of the first insights from comparative genomics was unexpected, namely, that the majority of human genes have a single identifiable ortholog in other vertebrate species (3, 4). ... CCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) is an almost ubiquitously expressed DNA-binding protein that can divide transcriptional domains and appears to be involved in the three-dimensional organization of the genome (11, 12). There have been somewhat conflicting reports suggesting that the binding events of CTCF are considerably more conserved between mammals, whereas (at the same time) they appear to have evolved in the mou...

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Laser Printers Vs Inkjet Printers Subject: Laser Printers Vs Inkjet Printer Introductory Summary This report explains the advantages of the Laser printer over the Inkjet printer. The laser printer has many onboard features other than printing a standard 8.5 X 11 piece of paper that mo...

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As a side note, this work seems to be one of the earliest references to the spring-powered clock (Department of Medieval and Modern Europe). ... The piece is organized in a particularly open, uncluttered fashion common to the Gothic period, and a strong sense of three-dimensionality is also present. ... Three-dimensionality is evident everywhere in the piece, from the way the muse's hand is set upon the large clock's gear, the hang of fabrics, the tilted perspective of the table, and the wall behind - and visible through the workings of - the clocks. ... The two large clocks count...

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Fitzgerald's use of imagery, symbols, and time add a dimension of indescribable tangibility and vision. ... Even though he refers to a vast array of colors, they differ in prominence and influence. ... One possible meaning of the color green is envy. ... This leads one to believe that Gatsby is indeed "green with envy." ... There is an array of other symbols used in this novel; eyes seem to have a peculiar part. ...

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Although no one is perfectly sure, many attribute the invention of the camera obscura to Aristotle. ... It also had a 3-dimensional quality that gave it a depth and realism. Though the daguerreotype was only one of several photographic processes, Daguerre's method was the most successful and practical at that time. ... Though this seems as though it is a long and complicated process, at that time, it was considered one of the fastest methods to capture an image, as compared to the processes involving paper. ...

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Neuronal networks are computing mechanisms that effortlessly transform multi-dimensional vectors of one kind of mathematical value into other vectors of mathematical value. It is theorized, that an array of neuronal networks transforms the values of visual space into those of motor space by means of a mathematical tensor or formula, that that translates the multi-dimensional coordinates, or vectors, or visual space, into the vectors of motor space. ... Monism is the belief in one basic ontological category. ... Rene Descartes was one philosopher that dealt with the mind-body problem. ......

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This time in history has been called the urban revolution because of the enormous changes in how people lived and interacted with one another. ... "Some six hundred tablets belonging to the [Uruk IV stage] have been found at Uruk and one other at Kish" (Roaf 69). ... The predecessors of clay tablets are three-dimensional objects that were used for means of expression such as cones, disks, spheres, and cylinders. ... During these times clay had a vast array of uses such as for making pottery, mud-brick that would have been used in building and as tablets for use in writing. ... The abstract...

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One of these psychologists was Cynthia G. ... Her 24-year-old patient, Afice, had a personality which simply defied any kind of When Alice first came in, she displayed an array of symptoms from 3 separate conditions in the DSM. ... This way, Afice's problem could be narrowed down to one, more complex personality disorder. ... In 1963, Norman Cattett worked on composing a list of terms that could be used to describe each dimension of personality. ... In one case study, a 48-year-old man (Mr. ...

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The Seip Mound Group houses at least one hundred and twenty-two burials within its ceremonial structure. ... Material Culture Material culture is perhaps one of the most visible aspects of the Hopewell burial rituals. ... Ear spools are one of the most common uses of copper found at Hopewell sites. "Hopewell artisans employed an array of sheet metal working techniques to create these complex, three-dimensional objects, and developed a number of different construction plans to satisfy their functional requirements" (Ruhl 1998). ...

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The use of props in a play adds an extra visual dimension to the scene and helps to engage the audience in a way that aids willing suspension of disbelief. ... It is most common for there to be only one representational prop per person on stage and as the stage space is generally quite! ... Brechtian theatre on the other hand involved a varied array of technical aspects, to explain messages or reinforce ideas. ... As the audience of a Brechtian production was small compared to a Greek one such technical aspects worked to a great advantage. ...

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Art was one of the earliest manifestation of culture, this is because it fulfils human kinds need to interpret everything around them including their world and spiritual beliefs. ... Renaissance painters tried to create the illusion of reality in a two dimensional surface with the use of liner perspective and proportion. ... The boulevards of Paris play host to an exciting array of people, enjoying the flamboyant life style. ... One of these was Edward Manet [1832-83] described as being the rebel of the art world, the painter of modern Paris, though he himself was not considered an i...

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VBScript supports a modest set of data types like various numeric types, strings, dates, booleans, arrays, and object references. ... The newest version of VBScript also supports a dictionary object, an associative array for storing string data. ... It has strong text processing abilities, which has made it one of the most popular languages for writing CGI scripts. ... Hash tables used by arrays grow as necessary to prevent degraded performance. ...

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One review I read stated that OS/2 "falls short on gaming and M/Media support (DVD)-. ... One of the features that made Linux so popular is that it gives the user complete control over the system. ... The reviews I read were very one-sided. ... The warranty must be at least one year for parts and labor. ... Since one of my main issues was expandability, this system...

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Critical Review of Sources There are a number of sources one can use to study 18th century dress in France. ... Though very useful, these fashion plates did not give a three dimensional view of the dress and also did not provide a clear idea the construction and embroidery on the garments. ... It was easy to analyze color, patterns, fabric, construction and embroidery three dimensionally. ... Context French fashion saw an array of quick changes in the in the eighteenth century due to many political, economical, and social event that appeared around that time. ... The French revolution was ma...

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It is one of the starting points for establishing the relative differentiation of wage rates. REASONS FOR JOB EVALUATION  To establish an orderly, rational, systemic structure of jobs based on their worth to the organization.  To justify an existing pay structure or to develop one that provides for internal equity.  To assist in setting pay rates those are comparable with similar jobs in other organizations, to enable the organization to compete for the best talent.  To provide a rational basis for negotiating pay rates when bargaining collectively with...

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C++ has become one of the most popular programming languages in only a few short years. ... One reason is each language has a different keyword reserved list. ... C++ also uses its own type of string classes to replace the character array processing function declared in the C's cstring header file. ... No one knows exactly why Microsoft has done this. ... Texture mapping is the way games are made three dimensional. ...

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(Beidler 18) One has to wonder why then did Chaucer use the "La Vieilla" as a model for his Wife of Bath if it was not to make fun of women. ... (62) When Chaucer takes Jean's old woman and turns her into a three-dimensional figure with a trade, we begin to see her as a real person. ... The knight spends one year trying to discover the answer and finds that women's opinions vary: Wher as he mighte finde in this matere Two creatures according to fere. Some saiden women loven best richesse; Some daide honour, some saide jolinesse; Some riche array, some saiden lut abedde, A...

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Op Art: Op Art was an art movement in the artist was very much interested in the idea of creating movement on a two dimensional surface by tricking the eye with a series of optical illusions. ... The interesting point was that no one side of the color matched similar sides to the same color. ... A friend of mine who had gone with me to the museum started running off about how he saw a deck in some ones back yard over looking a marina. ... Images of boats floating on water were present amongst the vast array of colors. This is was one painting that seemed to come alive with the use of my...

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• Op Art: Op Art was an art movement in the artist was very much interested in the idea of creating movement on a two dimensional surface by tricking the eye with a series of optical illusions. ... The interesting point was that no one side of the color matched similar sides to the same color. ... A friend of mine who had gone with me to the museum started running off about how he saw a deck in some ones back yard over looking a marina. ... Images of boats floating on water were present amongst the vast array of colors. This is was one painting that seemed to come alive with the us...

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