The 129 guitars in the exhibition "Dangerous Curves: The Art of the Guitar," which runs until Feb. 25 at the Museum of Fine Arts here, reflect four centuries of the instrument's evolution, from a handmade ornament built with an actual tortoise shell for a body, to a 1954 Fender Stratocaster styled like a car, to Ken Butler's 1999 Arte Povera coat hanger electric guitar.
This instrument, an evolution of an air-puff tonometer, measures the changes in the light intensity recorded on a detector that collects light reflected from the cornea during the applanation produced by an air-puff impinging the cornea.
Schelling established the prototype of the form, giving lively explanatory talks that were frequently illustrated by projected slides of composers (where they lived and how), or of instruments (their evolution and history).
Adaptability and variability are instruments of evolution, whereas its ontological content is the creation of the stable forms that are resistant not only to extinction but to further evolution as well.
The Measure of Acceptance of the Theory of Evolution instrument (Rutledge and Warden 1999) was used to determine participants' acceptance of evolutionary theory.
Here we describe the genesis of the survey instrument, and its evolution into the Headache-Attributed Restriction, Disability, Social Handicap and Impaired Participation (HARDSHIP) questionnaire.
The study began with a pre-visit questionnaire, a closed-ended instrument with four evolution scenarios based on four of the seven organisms featured in the exhibition (finch, virus, ant/fungus, and human/chimp) (see Table 1, for a summary).
However, we focused on our instrument only on evolution acceptance and did not include questions on the validity of science or the scientific process that are included in the MATE.
