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BIOQUANT Life Science Selected Features Description: A Thick Line Histogram represents the average intensity of pixels along the height or width of a region of interest (ROI) box. On the title bar of the Horizontal Thick Line histogram, “Horiz Line: #1, Avg: #2,” the #1 represents the pixel width of the box, and #2 represents the number of pixels in the column averaged. On the title bar of the Vertical Thick Line histogram, “Vert Line: #1, Avg: #2,” the #1 represents the pixel height of the box, and #2 represents the number of pixels in the row averaged. www.bioquant.com /products.php?page=ls&content=features&sub=thickhistogram   (305 words)

Thick description - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thick description is a phrase used most famously by the anthropologist Clifford Geertz to describe his own specific mode of practice. A thin description would be of the wink itself, however accurately described. The task of the anthropologist, therefore, is to explain the context of the practices and discourse that take place within a society, such that these practices become meaningful to an 'outsider'. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thick_description   (208 words)

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Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for description thick description Intensive, small-scale, dense descriptions of social life from observation, through which broader cultural interpretations and generalizations can be made. The chief part of blazonry is the description of the escutcheon, or shield, the essential part of... Description of adult rolling movements and hypothesis of developmental sequences. www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=description   (815 words)

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Estabrook's - Gardening Catalog - Trees & Shrubs - Picea Description: Commonly known as "tiger tail spruce", this native of the volcanic soils of mainland Japan is rarely found in the trade. Description: Sharp, thick, intensely silver-blue needled is considered the bluest of all spruces. Description: A bright green, flattened mound that is densely branched and profusely budded. www.estabrooksonline.com /catalog/trees/nursery.asp?id=1201   (2204 words)

Wildlife & Natural History Q-line - Critter Field Guide - Snakes of Michigan Description: A slender gray or brown snake with a whitish or yellow stripe on each side of the body. Description: A slender, smooth-scaled snake with reddish or brown blotches on a gray or tan background. Description: A thick-bodied snake with an upturned "nose." Color is variable—some have dark spots and blotches on a yellow, orange, or brown background, but others are solid fl, brown, or olive with little or no visible pattern. critterguy.museum.msu.edu /FieldGuide/Snakes.html   (1163 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Description: Possesses Large leaves (5-12 inches long) with 5 deep palmated lobes that turn yellow-orange in autumn; sweet smelling, white flowers bloom in spring followed by 1 1/2-2 inch long, two-winged seeds called samaras; large, horizontally sprawling branches, a thick trunk, and milky sap. Description: Grows deciduous, leathery toothed leaves with hairy undersides and up to 4 inches long; arched crown of branches; stout trunk and pointed, conical shaped acorns up to 1.5 inches long; Habitat: Occurs on slopes and valleys near the coast. Description: Thick and leathery leaves (3-5 inches long) with hairy undersides; bark is gray and furrowed; acorn is up to 1 inch long with a shallow, bristly cup. www.sfsu.edu /~geog/bholzman/ptreyes/fieldgui.htm   (15399 words)

Learning to Look, Learning to See After completing observations, the observer would examine the thick description for behaviors that signal patterns in "peer entry" behaviors (e.g., waiting and hovering, using a nonlinguistic strategy as a prop to enter a peer group, and/or using a linguistic strategy to enter a peer group). Implementation of the thick description should parallel the practice: focus on what you see and hear (objective notes) and stay alert to your thoughts, feelings, and reactions (subjective notes). To learn thick description, students had to practice using objective language and to separate what they saw and heard from what they thought or felt in response to the events. www.asha.org /about/publications/leader-online/archives/2003/q1/030318b.htm   (2539 words)

Discovery Programs - Plants, Algea and Plankton Description: These tiny animals are often the larval forms of many of the marine invertebrates with which we are already familiar, such as crabs. Description: Eelgrass beds made of long grass like blades and roots in thick patches can be found growing on sandy or muddy bottoms. Description: Thin bright green transparent sheets or tube like strings that are attached to the bottom, on pilings, or floating in the water. www.ci.edmonds.wa.us /Discovery_programs_website/Plants_Algea_Plankton.html   (919 words)

Small Theaters Find Houses to Call Home / Aurora, Thick Description grow into larger spaces This week, two theater companies Thick Description on Potrero Hill and Aurora Theatre in Berkeley -- will open their seasons to all the magic of small theater meaning 65 to 85 seats in a room where it can be hard to tell who is onstage and who is in the audience. But it won't be a sellout: Thick Description's previews are always free, and $1 is paid to anyone who remains until the end. Thick Description is rehearsing ``Under Western Skies'' in the dank lobby of the old York movie theater. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/11/30/DD88513.DTL&type=printable   (1060 words)

Encyclopedia: Thick description Clifford James Geertz (born August 23, 1926 in San Francisco) is an American anthropologist serving as professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey. "Thick Description: Toward an Interpretative Theory of Culture." In The Interpretation of Cultures. This interpretation must be based on the "thick description" of a sign in order to see all the possible meanings. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Thick-description   (448 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) If ethnography is thick description and ethnographers those who are doing the describing, then the determining question for any given example of it, whether a field journal squib or a Malinowski-sized monograph, is whether it sorts winks from twitches and real winks from mimicked ones. As it is unseverable from the immediacies thick description presents, its freedom to shape itself in terms of its internal logic is rather limited. Although one starts any effort at thick description, beyond the obvious and superficial, from a state of general bewilderment as to what the devil is going on--trying to find one's feet--one does not start (or ought not) intellectually empty-handed. xroads.virginia.edu /~DRBR/geertz2.txt   (7693 words)

Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for thick egg-white The white of an egg is in three layers: an outer layer of thin white, a layer of thick white, richer in ovomucin, and an inner layer of thin white surrounding the yolk. The ratio of thick to thin white varies, depending on the individual hen. Thick Intervals of High Grade Iron to be included in First New Resource Calculation in 40 Years for Baffinland's Mary River Project. www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=thick   (637 words)

Clifford Geertz, “Description: Toward and Interpretive Theory of Culture,” The Interpretation of Culture, (NY: ... “Thick” is the meaning behind it and its symbolic import in society or between communicators. Thick description is, thus, much more that mere data collection although this is an inherent part of anthropological work as well. For the comparativist, “thick description” must be, at some level, generalizable over multiple unit analysis—such analysis will essentially include not simply an individual level analysis, but institutional, state levels. academic.csuohio.edu /as227/spring2003/geertz.htm   (1122 words)

Assignment #1 You will collect some ethnographic data ("thick description"--objective and subjective information), and from this "thick description," interpret patterns in performance and draw conclusions about the individual's speech and language. Remember, patterns fall from the thick description, and conclusions fall from the patterns. Your "thick description" may be the notes you take in class, just as long as they are legible. faculty.washington.edu /lolswang/html/500/assignment3.html   (518 words)

IngentaConnect Matching and thick description in an observational study of morta...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) A thick description entails a detailed, perhaps narrative, account of a patient's care, for instance, the account one might find in the ‘Case Reports from the Massachusetts General Hospital’ as published in the New England Journal of Medicine. Thick description of a few matched cases is used repeatedly to improve the matching and to design further data collection for the matched sample. Thick description aids matching by providing close examination of what the matching has actually accomplished, an examination that uses much more information than is available for use in matching. www.ingentaconnect.com /content/oup/biosts/2001/00000002/00000002/art00217   (402 words)

Thick clear crystal photostimulable phosphor plate for x-ray imaging patent invention Although this tradeoff is far less severe than it is for conventional and photostimulable powder phosphor screens, it is still present and puts a limit on the thickness of the crystal plate that can be used and still achieve high spatial resolution. High spatial resolution is obtained by ensuring that the laser beam follows the same path through the thick plate as the original x-ray beams from the x-ray accelerator. In a preferred embodiment, the path overlap is achieved by placing the laser readout on the exit side of the photostimulable phosphor plate and using an aspheric field lens or a Fresnel lens bonded to the phosphor plate. www.freshpatents.com /Thick-clear-crystal-photostimulable-phosphor-plate-for-x-ray-imaging-dt20060810ptan20060175562.php   (2227 words)

Nat' Academies Press, Exploring Innovation and Quality Improvement in Health Care Micro-Systems: A Cross-Case Analysis ... In qualitative research, it is important to separate the description of the data from the interpretation of the data. “Thick description” depends on presenting descriptive data or recording verbatim comments so that researchers can make their own interpretations later. For this research, thick description was used and later coded. www.nap.edu /openbook/NI000346/html/7.html   (760 words)

Thick Description If ethnography is thick description and ethnographers those who are doing the describing, then the determining question for any given example of it, whether a field journal squib or a Malinowski-sized monograph, is whether it sorts winks from twitches and real winks from mimicked ones. So, there are three characteristics of ethnographic description: it is interpretive; what it is interpretive of is the flow of social discourse; and the interpreting involved consists in trying to rescue the "said" of such discourse from its perishing occasions and fix it in perusable terms. As it is unseverable from the immediacies thick description presents, its freedom to shape itself in terms of its internal logic is rather limited. hypergeertz.jku.at /GeertzTexts/Thick_Description.htm   (8962 words)

Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Anti-Americanisms, Thick Description, and Collective Action Those committed to thick description, a term Geertz attributes to philosopher Gilbert Ryle, take for granted that even the simplest act can mean different things depending on the cultural codes at work. A "thin description" that just says that an eye opened and closed is not enough; assuming that every twitch is just a twitch will lead us astray in cultural analysis; what we need is a "thick description" that separates twitches from winks and one sort of wink from another. We also need to know, if we are to have a sufficiently "thick description" at our disposal, whether participants and observers have defined the event in differing ways when it comes to these goals. www.ssrc.org /sept11/essays/wasserstrom.htm   (3849 words)

Appendix 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Thick description, a concept first described by philosopher Gilbert Ryle (1949), is a level of data sufficient to provide correct understanding of an act. Geertz (1973) advocated the use of thick description in cultural anthropology because “Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. The Tohono O’odham say the mountain is sacred to them (thin) vs. they explain how the mountain is where they teach their children traditional knowledge, rituals, traditions, and ceremonies that can only be taught at the mountain at certain times and by certain people, consequently, without it, they lose their culture. sunsite.wits.ac.za /eco/vol7/iss1/art12/append4.html   (166 words)

Speciman Gallery Description: Green stringy strands, almost like sea grass, amassing into clumps of reddish green algae. Description: Flat large, brown to red leaf, with evenly distributed porous holes. Description: Striking, red, elegant flowing leaves growing from a strong stem. www.csupomona.edu /~jjussal/CIS311/CIS311Final/specimangallery.htm   (221 words)

Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) The term, "Thick Description Study" was based on Geertz, Clifford. "Thick Description: Toward an Interpretative Theory of Culture." In The Interpretation of Cultures. This interpretation must be based on the "thick description" of a sign in order to see all the possible meanings. www.yale.edu /oir/thickdescription.htm   (153 words)

The Ethnographic Essay The project will consist of several components including “thick description,” interviews, archival or secondary research, autobiography, the use of photographs and other available images, and general sleuthing around. Whatever approach you take, you will be writing a description of a place, interviewing at least three people in that place, writing a character sketch of one of these people, completing an analytical analysis of your observations, and writing a personal, autobiographical reaction to the subgroup in its environment. Remember that whatever approach you take, you will be writing a description of a place, interviewing at least three people in that place, writing a character sketch of one of these people, and writing a personal, autobiographical reaction to the subgroup in their environment. www.ccds.charlotte.nc.us /marquis/ethnographic_essay.htm   (1024 words)

Re: HES: DISC -- Graduate School Education in Economics Colander's thick history seems to be focusing on one specific tree as it were. While Geertz' thick description is about adding meaning and context to a "thinly described" set of facts. Geertz borrowed the term Thick description from the philosopher Gilbert Ryle. www.eh.net /lists/archives/hes/oct-2003/0118.php   (180 words)

CWF - Julie Queen Performance artist, singer, and filmmaker Julie Queen is collaborating with Thick Description and a team of artists to create and produce Ten Dollar Destiny, a multi-media production based on Queen’s research into psychics, fortune tellers, and psychology. Thick Description creates, produces, and presents new theater intended to reflect and engage the San Francisco Bay Area’s racially and culturally diverse audience community. To that end, Thick Description operates its venue, the Thick House, as a performing arts/community center—producing world-class, professional theater, presenting emerging performing groups, hosting neighborhood events, collaborating on community projects, and partnering with local businesses. www.creativeworkfund.org /pages/bios/julie_queen.html   (1518 words)

Amazon.com: Thick Face, Black Heart: The Warrior Philosophy for Conquering the Challenges of Business and Life: Books: ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) Thick Face, Black Heart is a profound distillation of ancient Chinese wisdom and experience filtered through a modern Asian business perspective. Thick Face, Black Heart describes the secret law of nature that governs successful behavior in every aspect of life. The book explains what it is to have a thick face (similar to a "thick skin" but more encompassing) and a fl heart (being ruthless in the pursuit of your goals). www.amazon.com /Thick-Face-Black-Heart-Philosophy/dp/0446670200   (1685 words)

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