Hygiene education for lasting health

Hygiene education for lasting healt

Female Figure Study

This graduate thesis deals with my feelings and interpretation of the nude female figure in my drawings, paintings, and sculpture pieces; as well as the representations of other artists. The unique aspect about this special object is the broad range of interest it has created through the years. Since the female figure has such great versatility it can be viewed from a realistic portrayal as well as from a complete abstraction, and still be creatively effective. My intentions in this paper are to discuss other artists and my own work in relation to the female figure. The main portion of the thesis is an expression and description of my own work. Pictures of my drawings, paintings, and sculptures are included. My interpretation of the nude female figure is different from that of other artists simply because each individual has different views, concepts, and moral values. I was amazed at the versatility in which other artists, past and present, have used the human form as a creative expression of their art. In my work I use the figure simply for design. My art works in drawing, painting, and sculpture have definite traits that are characteristic of my own style. There are many areas in my drawings that make up my particular style, the most prominent being the female figure. In most of my drawings only a frontal or backside view of the torso is showing. The torso, carefully placed in my drawings, is usually the focal point. The nude torso appears very sensual with the use of soft and delicate shadows which bring out the human quality in the figure. A surrounding atmosphere does much to complement the figure. Lines, textures, and open space provide good contrast up against the soft contour shape of the figure in the background of my drawings. Photographs of five pencil drawings are included in the paper. The style of my painting is developed from my drawings. Most of my paintings have some form of the female figure, usually centering on the torso. I simplify the figure by using less color, line, shape, and definition. My color schemes consist of four basic colors: blue, red, black, and white. White is added to all colors to develop a pastel effect. The main concern in my paintings was to develop a simple study of the female figure that captures the soft and rounded forms, and also creates a meaningful expression. Photographs of four of my paintings are included in the paper. I have also included in the paper pictures and descriptions of three sculptures: two redwood and one walnut figure studies. Artists have used the nude female figure as their theme for thousands of years. There are entirely too many of these artists to mention in detail. I have chosen a few in each of the three categories that I admire and whose work I could relate to. In the area of drawing I discuss the style of Alexander Archipenko, Pablo Picasso, Toulouse Lautrec, and Auguste Rodin. Picasso and Rodin, along with Pierre Renoir, are three artists whose paintings I greatly admire. Descriptions of their painting styles are included in the paper. Archipenko, Picasso, and Rodin influenced my style of sculpting. Characteristics of their sculptures are included in this work. Other artists, past and present, have motivated me to continue my creative feelings concerning the female figure as an art form. What I tried to acoomplish in my drawings, paintings, and sculpture pieces was a way of bringing out the human quality of the female figure; but more importantly was the way I wanted to do it. I wanted to develop a style that had a professional quality

An approach for community based sustainability

An approach for community based sustainabilit

Application of a special type of a volumenometer to the determination of the true clay volumes of briquets

Thesis (B.S.)--University of Illinois, 1914.Typescript.Leaves of plates are numbered as "3a", "4a", "4b", "7a" and "7b".Includes bibliographical references

Infiltration and Injection Sites and Example Experiments

The objectives of this paper are: (1) design a characterization and monitoring strategy for vadose zone infiltration and aquifer injection sites; and (2) track spatial and temporal evolution of water and reactive chemicals through vadose zone and aquifer

Status Report for Remediation Decision Support Project, Task 1, Activity 1.B ? Physical and Hydraulic Properties Database and Interpretation

The objective of Activity 1.B of the Remediation Decision Support (RDS) Project is to compile all available physical and hydraulic property data for sediments from the Hanford Site, to port these data into the Hanford Environmental Information System (HEIS), and to make the data web-accessible to anyone on the Hanford Local Area Network via the so-called Virtual Library. In past years efforts were made by RDS project staff to compile all available physical and hydraulic property data for Hanford sediments and to transfer these data into SoilVision{reg_sign}, a commercial geotechnical software package designed for storing, analyzing, and manipulating soils data. Although SoilVision{reg_sign} has proven to be useful, its access and use restrictions have been recognized as a limitation to the effective use of the physical and hydraulic property databases by the broader group of potential users involved in Hanford waste site issues. In order to make these data more widely available and useable, a decision was made to port them to HEIS and to make them web-accessible via a Virtual Library module. In FY08 the objectives of Activity 1.B of the RDS Project were to: (1) ensure traceability and defensibility of all physical and hydraulic property data currently residing in the SoilVision{reg_sign} database maintained by PNNL, (2) transfer the physical and hydraulic property data from the Microsoft Access database files used by SoilVision{reg_sign} into HEIS, which has most recently been maintained by Fluor-Hanford, Inc., (3) develop a Virtual Library module for accessing these data from HEIS, and (4) write a User's Manual for the Virtual Library module. The development of the Virtual Library module was to be performed by a third party under subcontract to Fluor. The intent of these activities is to make the available physical and hydraulic property data more readily accessible and useable by technical staff and operable unit managers involved in waste site assessments and remedial action decisions for Hanford. This status report describes the history of this development effort and progress to date

Characterization of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity at the Hanford Site

Call number: LD2668 .T4 AGRN 1988 R62Master of ScienceAgronom

In vivo antimuscarinic actions of the third generation antihistaminergic agent, desloratadine

BACKGROUND: Muscarinic receptor mediated adverse effects, such as sedation and xerostomia, significantly hinder the therapeutic usefulness of first generation antihistamines. Therefore, second and third generation antihistamines which effectively antagonize the H(1 )receptor without significant affinity for muscarinic receptors have been developed. However, both in vitro and in vivo experimentation indicates that the third generation antihistamine, desloratadine, antagonizes muscarinic receptors. To fully examine the in vivo antimuscarinic efficacy of desloratadine, two murine and two rat models were utilized. The murine models sought to determine the efficacy of desloratadine to antagonize muscarinic agonist induced salivation, lacrimation, and tremor. Desloratadine's effect on the cardiovascular system was explored in both rodent models. RESULTS: In the pithed rat, both desloratadine (1.0 mg/kg, i.v.) and the muscarinic M(2 )selective antagonist, methoctramine (0.5 mg/kg, i.v.), inhibited negative inotropic (left ventricular dP/dt) effects caused by oxotremorine, a nonselective muscarinic agonist (p < 0.05). Negative chronotropic effects caused by oxotremorine were inhibited by desloratadine, methoctramine, and the muscarinic M(3 )selective antagonist, 4-DAMP (1.0 mg/kg, i.v.). A late positive inotropic event observed after the initial decrease was inhibited by all three test compounds with desloratadine and 4-DAMP being the most efficacious. In the conscious animal, inhibition of baroreflex-mediated bradycardia was evaluated. Unlike atropine (0.5 mg/kg, i.v.), desloratadine did not alter this bradycardia. The antimuscarinic action of desloratadine on salivation, lacrimation, and tremor was also explored. In urethane-anesthetized (1.5 g/kg, i.p.) male ICR mice (25–35 g) desloratadine (1.0, 5.0 mg/kg) did not inhibit oxotremorine-induced (0.5 mg/kg, s.c.) salivation, unlike atropine (0.5 mg/kg) and 4-DAMP (1.0 mg/kg). In conscious mice, desloratadine failed to inhibit oxotremorine-induced (0.5 mg/kg, s.c.) salivation, lacrimation, and tremor. However, desloratadine did inhibit oxotremorine-induced tremor in phenylephrine pretreated animals. CONCLUSION: The presented data demonstrate that the third generation antihistamine, desloratadine, does not significantly antagonize peripheral muscarinic receptors mediating salivation and lacrimation, therefore, xerostomia and dry eyes should not be observed with therapeutic use of desloratadine. Our data also indicate when administered to a patient with a compromised blood-brain barrier, desloratadine may cause sedation. Patients with compromised cardiovascular systems should be closely monitored when administered desloratadine based on our results that desloratadine has the ability to interfere with normal cardiovascular function mediated by muscarinic receptors