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  2. Scientific writing - Wikipedia

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    Style conventions for scientific writing vary, with different focuses by different style guides on the use of passive versus active voice, personal pronoun use, and article sectioning. Much scientific writing is focused on scientific reports, traditionally structured as an abstract, introduction, methods, results, conclusions, and acknowledgments.

  3. Perspective (graphical) - Wikipedia

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    Linear or point-projection perspective (from Latin perspicere 'to see through') is one of two types of graphical projection perspective in the graphic arts; the other is parallel projection. [ citation needed ] [ dubious – discuss ] Linear perspective is an approximate representation, generally on a flat surface, of an image as it is seen by ...

  4. Emic and etic - Wikipedia

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    The emic approach is an insider's perspective, which looks at the beliefs, values, and practices of a particular culture from the perspective of the people who live within that culture. This approach aims to understand the cultural meaning and significance of a particular behavior or practice, as it is understood by the people who engage in it. [2]

  5. Review article - Wikipedia

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    A review article is an article that summarizes the current state of understanding on a topic within a certain discipline. [1] [2] A review article is generally considered a secondary source since it may analyze and discuss the method and conclusions in previously published studies.

  6. Viewpoints: Mathematical Perspective and Fractal Geometry in Art

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    The first seven chapters of the book concern perspectivity, while its final two concern fractals and their geometry. [1] [2] Topics covered within the chapters on perspectivity include coordinate systems for the plane and for Euclidean space, similarity, angles, and orthocenters, one-point and multi-point perspective, and anamorphic art.

  7. De prospectiva pingendi - Wikipedia

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    De prospectiva pingendi (On the Perspective of Painting) is the earliest and only pre-1500 Renaissance treatise solely devoted to the subject of perspective. [1] It was written by the Italian master Piero della Francesca in the mid-1470s to 1480s, [ 2 ] and possibly by about 1474. [ 3 ]

  8. Cognitivism (aesthetics) - Wikipedia

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    Cognitivism is a departure from methodologies that have dominated studies of art in the past, particularly in literary theory and film theory, which have not employed scientific research. In some cases, particularly since the rise in the 1970s of psychoanalytic, ideological, semiotic, and Marxist approaches to theory in humanities research in ...

  9. Scientific journal - Wikipedia

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    In academic publishing, a scientific journal is a periodical publication designed to further the progress of science by disseminating new research findings to the scientific community. [1] These journals serve as a platform for researchers, scholars, and scientists to share their latest discoveries, insights, and methodologies across a ...