Significant Form Research Articles

Instructional Resources: The Significance of Form: Domestic Architecture

Instructional Resources: The Significance of Form: Domestic Architecture

Instructional Resources: The Significance of Form: Ceramics

Instructional Resources: The Significance of Form: Ceramics

The Significance of form and Decoration of Anglo-Saxon Cremation Urns. By J. D. Richards

The Significance of form and Decoration of Anglo-Saxon Cremation Urns. By J. D. R<scp>ichards</scp>

Instructional Resources: The Significance of Form: Sculpture

Instructional Resources: The Significance of Form: Sculpture

Two forms of rat brain glutamic acid decarboxylase differ in their dependence on free pyridoxal phosphate.

There are two forms of glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) found in the rat brain. One form (form A) does not require exogenous pyridoxal-5'-phosphate (PLP) for activity whereas another form (form B) requires exogenous PLP for activity. These two forms differ greatly in temperature sensitivity, inactivation, and reactivation by the removal and readdition of PLP, electrophoretic mobility, and regional distribution. For instance, forms A and B are inactivated to an extent of 91% and 10%, respectively, by the treatment at 45 degrees C for 30 min; form A is greatly inactivated (77%) by the removal of PLP by aminooxyacetic acid and the readdition of PLP, whereas form B is only slightly inactivated (7%). Forms A and B can be clearly separated by 5% polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in which form A migrates faster than form B. In all 10 brain regions studied, form A is present in smaller amounts than form B. This difference is greatest in the superior colliculus (the ratio of B to A is about 5), while in the locus coeruleus and cerebellum, forms A and B are present in nearly equal proportion. Forms A and B are similar with respect to relative abundance in hypotonic, isotonic, and hypertonic preparations, inhibition of catalytic activity by a carbonyl-trapping agent, immunochemical properties, and chromatographic patterns in a variety of systems. The significance of forms A and B and PLP in the regulation of gamma-amino-butyric acid (GABA) level is also discussed.

Alden L. Thompson, Responsibility for Evil in the Theodicy of IV Ezra. A Study Illustrating the Significance of Form and Structure for the Meaning of the Book: Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series 29 (Scholars Press, Missoula: 1977) 395 pages + xvi. $6.00

Alden L. Thompson, Responsibility for Evil in the Theodicy of IV Ezra. A Study Illustrating the Significance of Form and Structure for the Meaning of the Book: Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series 29 (Scholars Press, Missoula: 1977) 395 pages + xvi. $6.00

Alden L. THOMPSON, Responsibility for Evil in the Theodicy of IV Ezra. A Study Illustrating the Significance of Form and Structure for the Meaning of the Book (S.B.L. Dissertation Series 29), Scholars Press, Missoula, Montana 1977, XV + 395 pp., price $ 6.00 ($ 4.00 for members)

Alden L. THOMPSON, Responsibility for Evil in the Theodicy of IV Ezra. A Study Illustrating the Significance of Form and Structure for the Meaning of the Book (S.B.L. Dissertation Series 29), Scholars Press, Missoula, Montana 1977, XV + 395 pp., price $ 6.00 ($ 4.00 for members)

When do we know what a child knows?

In Assessing the individual’s knowledge involves sampling in areas of (1) the class of items and (2) the class of responses. If one samples an individual’s knowledge base with decontextualized items, the response is a better indication of knowledge since it is not dependent on extra dimensional support, i.e., reflects generalization not tied to a particular context. On the other hand, if tasks demand similar processes but vary in form of presentation, we should examine the meaning and significance of form. The context in which the item is presented alters the very nature of that item by a virtue of necessitated situational constraints or facilitators. Accordingly, our task is to define the context variables in order to discover what questions influence the expression of knowledge: why the child solves a problem in one context and not in another; and, how much of the context must be included in the evaluation and what that context should be. The answers must come from three kinds of considerations: (1) task-oriented criteria; (2) motivational elements, and (3) the relationship between personality and performance.

Meaning and the Congruence of Urban Form and Activity

Abstract Viewing the physical environment as a field of communications about activity systems gives the urban designer clues for the achievement of a more meaningful urban area. An environmental survey research approach is developed to examine relationships between physical form and activity organization. Correspondence or congruence between variables representing type, intensity, and significance of forms and activities is measured, and its impact on knowledge evaluated. It is concluded that by design of the environment itself—through establishment of a congruent and expressive system of forms—the city designer can significantly influence the achievement of a more meaningful environment.

The Discipline and Significance of Form in Vanity Fair

Almost all critics of Vanity Fair have assumed that Thackeray's novel had no very carefully worked out structure and have been content to make rather general comments on the form of the novel: it was loosely improvised along the line of a contrast between Becky and Amelia. J. Y. T. Greig, for example, believes that Thackeray not only lacked Fielding's ability to work out a highly detailed plot but also suffered from the additional handicap of being forced to compose hurriedly for monthly serialization. To Greig, “Vanity Fair is unified and shapely up to and including the episodes of Brussels and the Battle of Waterloo: for although it contains two heroines, the adventures and sufferings of the one are causally related to the adventures and sufferings of the other. It becomes unified and shapely again after Chapter xliii (Pumpernickel), and for the same reason. But in between—roughly 300 pages—the plot of the first and last sections of the book is suspended, and the unity of the novel disappears.”

Family Imagery in a Passage by Mao Tse-tung: An Essay in Psycho-Cultural Method

This article points out and analyzes some overt and implicit family imagery underlying political and economic discussion in one passage by Mao Tse-tung, and discusses the value of such analysis. Along the way, some methodological questions—the significance of form and content in such “content analysis,” and verification of the findings—are also considered.