It is a standardized length, anthropometrically related to the distance between the height of a bench or tabletop (on which the microscope stands) and the position of the seated observer's eyes.
The hands were placed on the tabletop, one to each side of the participant's midline, at one of two possible eccentricities.
The tabletop on saw horses, the crumpled paint tubes, the art postcards tacked to the wall, the art books on the book shelves, the pressed-tin ceiling, the paint-splattered floor: everywhere you look there are details to examine.
In 2005 an art historian at the University of Pennsylvania, Christine Poggi, inquired whether the sculpture, as MoMA had exhibited it, was missing a component, a round slice of cardboard that had originally formed a "tabletop" on which the guitar had rested.
Martin is from Saskatchewan, up north on the tabletop of the Great Plains.
One tactile stimulator was attached to each index finger so that a small, blunt, metal rod could strike the medial surface (hand positioned palm-down on the tabletop) of the middle phalanx.
The objective of this study was to assess the attitudes of emergency medical technicians (EMTs) toward tabletop drills to determine the effect of tabletop simulation on the EMT student perception of disaster preparedness and management.
It's the cold half-pint sweating on the Formica tabletop of the elementary school cafeteria, and it's the psychic link back to our mother's breast.
The mural, which was subsequently scrubbed off, pictured several apparently Jewish bankers playing a game of Monopoly, with their tabletop resting on the bowed naked backs of several workers.
The grant, to George Miley, a nuclear engineer at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, was intended to fund tabletop experiments on the feasibility of converting nuclear waste to harmless byproducts, using electric fields and thin metallic films to produce "low-energy nuclear reactions".
