The painting was on wheels and partially transparent — it was half abstract, with the other half looking like
a figure study of a reclining man.
The nude figure drawing or
figure study of a live model rapidly became an important part of artistic practice and training, and remained so until the 20th century.
This red - chalk
figure study of Hercules by the Italian Baroque artist Guercino belonged to the Swedish art collector and diplomat Count Carl Gustaf Tessin during the 18th century.
At Christie's, the market for the Nigerian - born Los Angeles artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby, whose limited output of new works is exclusively being bought by museums, reached a new level when her 2012 mixed - media standing
figure study of a young girl, «The Beautyful Ones» was pushed by six telephone bidders to # 2.5 million.
His earliest New York paintings are
figure studies of working - class urban denizens painted with loose brushwork.
This is the first of three similar works which can be seen as the culmination of Hepworth's
figure studies of the late 1940s and early 1950s (Alan Bowness,
This is the first of three similar works which can be seen as the culmination of Hepworth's
figure studies of the late 1940s and early 1950s (Alan Bowness, Barbara Hepworth: Drawings from a Sculptor's Landscape, 1966, pp.20 - 1).
Not exact matches
To
figure out when the more social among us flourish and when they struggle, the team
studied 162 Belgian business students who were separated into 27 teams as part
of a class project.
The bad news is that only half
of the companies in the
study reported having an organization - wide mobile strategy, while the rest are still
figuring out how to put the technology to use.
Michael Dillon, a Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researcher, crunched the numbers and helped
figure out just that in a 2014
study published in the journal Proceedings
of the Royal Society A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
The international
figures aren't much better: According to a 142 - country
study conducted by Gallup in 2013, only 13 %
of global workers feel engaged and committed to their work.
To
figure this out, the research team asked the friends
of 417
study subjects to rate their level
of charisma.
In between, they were treated to case
studies, models and examples backed up with tons
of figures and detailed explanations.
Check out the Case
Study from our current issue about about Able Planet, a Colorado - based audio technology company that had to
figure out what to do when its bank suddenly changed the terms
of its $ 2.5 million line
of credit.
According to a fascinating recent Nature article by Tom Clynes, science has been hard at work trying to
figure out the answer to that question for more than four decades with the the
Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth.
«Tomes
of studies show human beings typically make decisions based on emotions first (Pathos); then, we look for the facts and
figures to justify it (Logos).
Lots
of studies have worked toward
figuring out what exactly goes on in our brains when we're participating in social media — specifically, Facebook.
Hoffman cites a staggering
figure from a Deloitte
study that found only 8 percent
of organizations said annual performance reviews were worth the effort they require.
In a large review
of studies published in the Journal
of Nutrition, Purdue University scientists found that whole tree nuts and peanuts have roughly 15 % fewer calories than the
figure calculated using the Atwater method.
Once you have received a set
of suggestions and you have
figured out where the key issues are in your business, realistically
study them to determine what adjustments will best suit your business.
Studies shows that when people are presented with facts and
figures, smaller areas
of the brain are activated which indicates that information is being processed.
A new
study puts the
figure into stark numerical terms: while as many as 2,070 adults used e-cigs to quit in 2015, another 168,000 young people who used the devices went on to become smokers
of conventional cigarettes.
The price
of the Angola 5 prosecution has
figured prominently in an ongoing
study of death penalty costs by a committee
of Louisiana lawmakers, which is expected to conclude by the end
of the year.
While 38 %
of meals were eaten alone in 2012, by 2015 that
figure had grown to 42 %, according to the
study.
Sophos's
figures echo those released last week from a McAfee
study, which warned
of the growing threat
of cyberattack on critical systems.
A
study last year by the C.D. Howe Institute suggested that one out
of every 10 mortgage - indebted households in Canada was «extremely vulnerable» to an economic or financial shock — a
figure that's likely only increased since.
The students spent hours during the winter quarter
studying the economics
of restaurant takeout, trying to
figure out how many orders they needed to deliver per hour to run a profitable business.
The number one industry set be transformed by A.I. appears to be healthcare, with $ 400 million invested by health care companies in the technology as
of last year, a
figure that's projected to grow to $ 3 billion or more by 2020, according to data from the Beacon Center for the
Study of Evolution in Action.
To
figure out how best to handle life's shoulda - coulda - wouldas, the research team asked
study volunteers to try one
of three interventions.
This year's list is the product
of old - fashioned reporting, boosted by data and insight supplied by a trio
of independent research firms: Sageworks, which performs financial analyses
of privately held companies; Plunkett Research, a business intelligence firm that
studies trends affecting the world's most vital industries; and IBISWorld, which provides industry growth
figures, five - year revenue projections, employment growth, profit margin averages, and industry competition ratings.
These are great for building case
studies and your reputation; but at some point, if you want to rapidly grow your business, you have to
figure out a scalable source
of lead generation, like Facebook or Google advertising.
I still don't have a lot
of this
figured out, but the more I
study people who have had a great deal
of success, the more I think that it's possible to be happy and driven.
«We didn't spend a lot
of time
studying how other companies were involved in their branding, or the looks
of other brands and try to
figure out where we fit in to this puzzle,» Krim admits.
The research team
of international scientists wanted to
figure out if the Milky Way matches the spiral shape observed in other galaxies, as part
of a larger
study that aims to sharpen our image
of our galaxy.
«This is a nice
study that adds to the body
of literature trying to
figure out exactly the conditions under which bilingualism improves cognitive function,» said Dr. Ellen Bialystok, a professor and bilingualism expert at York University in Toronto, who was not involved in this research.
While we can try throwing different antibiotics at any number
of strange and unfamiliar bacterial infections, we have no similar sledgehammer for mysterious viral diseases, which each have to be
studied carefully before we can even begin to
figure out how to fight or prevent them.
To
figure out what can relieve our sense
of time pressure, Norton conducted a series
of experiments that gave some
study subjects an unexpected block
of free time, by sending them home 15 minutes early from an experiment they were told would take an hour for example.
«If you're a digital native, you should be aware that the Internet may have partially re-wired your brain in such a way that when you meet people face to face, you're less capable
of figuring out what they're thinking,» John Mullen recently wrote on the HBR blogs, citing a handful
of fairly alarming
studies.
Neither
of these articles was selected to represent the respective outcome in the summary
figures, and all references for
studies not included in the summary tables are available on request.
The first
figure shows the Duke
studies measure
of steel capacity and production, along with the difference, which is overcapacity.
And if you
study them, you can
figure out what it is, and you can learn and adopt their patterns and save yourself decades
of trial and error.
«It's a protocol unto itself,» one former staffer at the firm recently said about the method, noting that the business development team
studies published rankings
of top agents to
figure out their next targets.
A new
study by the Asia Pacific Foundation
of Canada suggests that Canadian services exports are two and a half times larger than official
figures, and that the stock
of Canadian investment in India is at least twice as large as shown by Statistics Canada.
Yale University Professor Robert Shiller
studied a diverse group
of U.S. companies and found that from 1900 to 1980, they paid out an average
of 61 percent
of profits in dividends — that
figure dwarfs combined dividends paid and share buybacks combined today by any measure.
Figuring out what customers like is the eternal challenge for every retailer, and there's a lot
of contradictory info out there: on the one hand,
studies confirm that everyone is drawn to novelty, with many people operating under the assumption that the newest product must be the best (and they're often right, but not always).
There have been countless
studies and articles trying to
figure out how marketers can connect with these «plugged - in and fickle kids,» but it all boils down to one simple fact: the days
of brand - driven shopping journeys are over.
His share
of the leading contenders» coverage, summed across the news outlets we
studied is shown in
Figure 4.
Nearly 16 percent
of the IRA owners in the EBRI
study were age 71 and up, a
figure that looks promising when measured against EBRI s sprawling IRA database.
The stock market has a psychology all
of its own — so much that countless books have been written and
studies performed trying to
figure out how the market «thinks» and «behaves».
I don't spend time in my
study figuring out how to save the world, how to grow the church, how to get more money out
of people's pockets, how to promote this church's ministry, how to enthrall our people more with sexy worship music, how to make myself more awesome before my people, how to get more people to hear about and come to our church.