We extend these descriptive portraits with regression models, in which we test for the relative influence of cohort, region, and a number of potentially influential traits of each woman.
In such a way, the portraits in this project are both descriptive and symbolic". The portraits are interspersed with photographs of items found in the homes Yang visited which adds to the projects lack of narrative, something that works in its favour.
The descriptive analyses generally corroborate portraits that have recently been provided by neo-Marxists of how and where technical and bureaucratic controls evolved.
It is true that many of Mendelssohn's works are cameos, delightful portraits or descriptive pieces, held to lack the characteristic Romantic depth.
On Monday, Mr. Rajaratnam's lawyers began their defense by presenting an alternative portrait, and the descriptive word of the day was discipline.
Also included are the portrait name cards, descriptive plaques, and a visitor comment book.
Written with great immediacy and descriptive power, Alfred Wegener is a powerful portrait of the scientist who pioneered the modern concept of unified Earth science.
The force of his bent-wire caricature of form is still astonishing: no draftsman had a more fluid descriptive line; indeed, Calder's wire portraits are the first really new thing in the caricaturist's craft between Daumier and Dubuffet.
