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    Maria Sibylla Merian\u27s Frogs

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    Maria Sibylla Merian (German, 1647-1717) is best known for her magnificent 1705 publication, Metamorphosis insectorum surinamensium, although she published earlier works on insect metamorphosis. Merian wrote the text and painted all of the illustrations for her books, and for the early volumes she produced most of the engravings. Contemporary scholarship has focused primarily on Merian\u27s detailed images of lepidopteran and host plant life cycles, but Merian\u27s Surinam album also portrays anuram metamorphosis, including the first European depiction of Pipa pipa

    Tax Metamorphosis

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    My favorite course ever, fourth-year high school Latin, was also the most demanding. We translated all twelve books of Virgils epic poem, The _Eneid, line by dactylic hexameter line, and large chunks of Ovids Metamorphoses besides. The course was valuable in many ways, not least of which was that only my youthful reading of Ovid\u27s Metamorphoses later enabled me to make sense of the U.S. Tax Court\u27s otherwise inscrutable decision in Edwards v. Commissioner

    STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF THE METAMORPHOSIS GROUP : TOWARDS A METAECONOMIC THEORY OF METAMORPHOSIS

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    As a case study of metaeconomic analysis we discuss Marx.s economic thinking on .metamorphosis.. Our aim is to extend the coverage of the concept beyond the ordinary sphere of economic analysis. For that purpose, the formal structure of metamorphosis is represented by the algebraic structures of group and semigroup. Such a conceptual formalization of metamorphosis enables us to investigate various aspects of socio-economic and physical phenomena. A few examples of its application are presented in the later part of this article.metaeconomics, group, semigroup, metamorphosis

    Project: Screenplay Metamorphosis

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    This paper explains the processes and the result of my final project in a form of screenplay entitled Metamorphosis. The screenplay is a story of a man, Johan Tanuwijaya who transforms from a psychologically sound man to a psychologically disturbed man. To develop my story, I used trauma as one of the themes and the theories. At first, he experienced traumatic childhood, then he recovered until his adulthood and marriage life, where he married his dire attention-seeker wife, Renata. Slowly, he was thrown back to his childhood trauma and that drove him insane. Eventually, he killed his wife and he created another himself in his daughter. From this screenplay I expect that people will have new principles and views about domestic violence and abuse, so that Indonesian society will have improvements in the futur

    Morphological shape generation through user-controlled group metamorphosis

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    Morphological shape design is interpreted in this paper as a search for new shapes from a particular application domain represented by a set of selected shape instances. This paper proposes a new foundation for morphological shape design and generation. In contrast to existing generative procedures, an approach based on a user-controlled metamorphosis between functionally based shape models is presented. A formulation of the pairwise metamorphosis is proposed with a variety of functions described for the stages of deformation, morphing and offsetting. This formulation is then extended to the metamorphosis between groups of shapes with user-defined, dynamically correlated and weighted feature elements. A practical system was implemented in the form of plugin to Maya and tested by an industrial designer on a group of representative shapes from a particular domain. Ā© 2013 Elsevier Ltd
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