Sentences with phrase «as locus»

Seven studies indicated a degree of direct association between experiencing CSA and later parenting stress, two studies found no association and five studies suggest that other variables such as locus of control and current stressors may affect the relationship between CSA and parenting stress.

Two of the 14 studies did not find any association between CSA and parenting stress and the remaining five studies suggest other variables may affect the relationship between CSA and parenting stress, such as locus of control and current stressors.

It measures six dimensions: (a) cause attributions such as locus, stability, globality of the cause for the transgressors» behaviors; and (b) blame attributions such as the motivation, intentionality, and justification for the transgressors» behaviors.

If the space will be used as a private home, the quotes could possibly be lower than if the property were to be used as the locus of a commercial enterprise.

These will accelerate as the locus of regulatory power is increasingly transnational, which is seen as presumptively illegitimate by locally entrenched actors.

Though we use that term as the locus of courage — pluck (which is also the word for the edible innards of animals)-- and to a lesser extent intuition, we tend not to speak of bowels in polite society anymore and very little of what takes place within them.

The Internet, in its ability to generate infinite knowledge and function as a medium for human interaction free from temporal and spatial boundaries, has been cast as the locus for civic debate in the 21st century.

But the G8 endorsed the World Bank as the locus of climate financing.

Her work blends Baroque opulence with images of colonialism and its resisters, often centering upon Vietnam as a locus of imperialism from French colonization to the American War.

Her work acts as a locus, documenting the human desire to contain the uncontainable, count the uncountable, limit the illimitable (falling snowflakes, stars in the sky, dandelion seeds, prismatic reflections, flowers petals).

Studio: Intersections also examines the studio as a locus of creativity, from Stieglitz's photographs of his gallery, 291, and James Van Der Zee's commercial studio portraits, to the manipulated images of Wallace Berman, Robert Heinecken, and Martha Rosler.

Just as painters had to adapt to the advent of photography, Goldsmith posits that writers must adapt to the rise of the internet as a locus for the consumption and distribution of literature.

For both artists, the body is a site in which labor is generated as well as focused, functioning ultimately as a locus for performance.

UNDER THE RUBRIC «The Encyclopedic Palace,» curator Massimiliano Gioni has proposed a tantalizing vision for the Venice Biennale: Forsaking the field of art as the locus and playground of commerce, financial speculation, and inflated economic value, the grand international exhibition's fifty - fifth iteration instead attends faithfully to the complex terrain of pure imaginative invention.

While Mark Rothko is revered for his studies of vibrant color as a locus for meditative contemplation, this was also explored by artists such as Tseng Yu - ho, Isami Doi, and Bumpei Akaji.

With an emphasis on the formal vocabulary of abstraction, Schoultz exposes the ways in which meaning is manipulated and perception skewed as the locus for civic debate has shifted from the town plaza to the isolated, anonymous realm of cyberspace.

This new body of work continues Gualdoni's interest in still life and interiors as the locus of multiplicities, emphasizing simultaneity of spaces, labors, and attentions.

Haunted Ethnography: new experimental documentary is a group exhibition and related indoor screening event showcasing several recent video and experimental film works by emerging artists exploring the rich but problematic genre of ethnographic documentary as a locus of aesthetic and conceptual innovation in the medium.

He was the greatest British landscape artist of the 20th century, and his deeply personal understanding of the countryside as the locus for forces that are ancient and mystical was as endemic as it was persistent.

Linda Mai Green, writing for A.i.A., described the show as «offering a refreshing dose of self - awareness and reflection on the museum as a locus for civic engagement.»

Jeong feeds her own energy back into these inanimate objects, positing the female body as the locus of reproductive responsibility within a gendered, exploitative economy.

This year's International deviates from previous ones by offering a refreshing dose of self - awareness and reflection on the museum as a locus for civic engagement.

NPDC serves as a locus for students of the Palyul tradition in the metropolitan area, and welcomes visitors from around the world to participate in all its activities.

Locus is Latin for «place» — «where it's happening,» in English — as in: «By the early 1950s, New York had emerged as the locus of Postwar abstraction.»

The landscapes look familiar enough from Western painting and Western narratives, for all their polar extremes — just as «Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair» is an American folk song, Kerry James Marshall has taken to the barber shop as the locus of African American community, and blackness has a dark place in America's history.

A pioneer of feminist art, Carolee Schneemann's work in performance, video, photography, and painting helped to define the human body as a locus for artistic production — as a medium, a surface, and a confrontational aesthetic site.

But in the last three decades the body, as a site of gender and sexual politics and as a locus of identity, has been a particularly popular and charged subject.

Drawing on the history of the readymade, as well as the legacy of Minimalism (with particular reference to the work of Robert Ryman), the canvases also serve as signifiers of how such institutions figure in art - world consciousness as a locus of desire.

It seems symptomatic of a broader reorientation in the pop - cultural landscape of early»90s Britain, away from the plaid - shirt nihilism of Generation X, towards a confident levity and engagement with a more localized pop sensibility — a loss of interest in the US as locus of artistic innovation.

As Robert Raczka, Professor of Art and Gallery Director at Allegheny College, has put it, «The beauty that Kyoung Ae Cho's work attains is a source of considerable pleasure as well as a locus of attention promoting a feeling of centeredness in the viewer — an experience that continues to be desired by many though it is increasingly rare in a culture spinning with information and spectacle.»

Bound by a dedication to alter the ways in which women's bodies are represented in both fine art and media, these artists worked independently of one another to create images that unabashedly portray the vagina as a locus of power.

A signature programme within the gallery, In Context activates the city of Johannesburg as a locus of contemporary art practice, ideas and discourses.

Using Hollywood film actors with exceptionally appealing features and physiques, Kelley and McCarthy set the video in a large Spanish - style home in the Hollywood Hills, an area of Los Angeles known as a locus of communal living and cult compounds in the 1960s and 1970s.

When artists look to recover something genuine in experience, they may recall Mannerism in another way as well: they may take the body as a locus of suffering.

These works, as with so much of Gormley's oeuvre, show the artist revitalizing the practice of figurative sculpture through his investigation of the body (often his own) as the locus of memory and transformation.

The studio's potential, not just as a locus for discussion and production, but as a material in and of itself, was echoed throughout this exhibition.

By symbolically portraying the gallery space as a talking vehicle, Baghramian evinces the importance of the venue — not only as a locus of idea generation, but also as a conduit that signifies the role of the viewer as a conveyor of ideas into the outside world.

Los Angeles - based artist Amanda Ross - Ho has built a career focusing on the studio as locus, metaphor, and container for the creative process.

One side plays as the COG forces trying to protect one of three E-Hole covers, while the other team play as the Locus horde hellbent on destroying the aforementioned covers.

Boneshaker also won the PNBA Award, as well as the Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel.

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Often turnaround programs focus on schools as the locus of intervention.

In a guest editorial in Educational Leadership 20 years ago (April 1989), Art Costa suggested five approaches to «reassessing assessment»: (1) reestablish the school as the locus of accountability; (2) expand the range and variety of the assessment techniques used; (3) systematize this variety of assessment procedures by developing schoolwide plans for collection and use of information; (4) reeducate legislators, parents, board members, and the community to help them understand that standardized test scores are inadequate indicators of the quality of schools, teachers, and students; and (5) remind ourselves that the purpose of evaluation is to enable students to evaluate themselves.

Student agency is a paradigm shift from the teacher as the locus of the classroom to one in which the teacher is the facilitator, guide, and coach, while the student is «doing» the learning.

As the locus of educational research, how can universities help inform teachers about innovations in educational research applicable to practice?

The mayors, a group that here also includes elected town administrators, view their offices as the locus of accountability, particularly for the efficient and effective use of tax dollars.

In 2008's The Dark Knight especially, Nolan toyed with the notion of Gotham City as a locus for international economic corruption by plugging public fears around the time of the 2007 - 2008 financial crisis into a subplot involving a self - preserving accountant who flees to Hong Kong with a small fortune.

It helps, of course, to have a man with the immense talent of JK Simmons in the film's splashiest role, just as much as it helps to have Miles Teller, a man who is brilliant as often as he is wasted in his young Hollywood career, as the locus of sympathy.

(Why does «taste,» and cinematic taste, so often function as the locus for the production and promotion of ego ideals and ideal egos?)

Using your belly / hip area as the locus point, lift off the ground and bring your arms and legs up as high as you can.