Cuyp's drawings reveal him to be a draftsman of superior quality.

The collection of drawings covers the period from the 14th century to the present, and includes many works of the highest quality by the leading artists of the European schools.

The quality of his scripts and drawings earned him the nicknames The Duck Man and The Good Duck Artist.

It was also extremely important in that reproduction technology for dissemination of the plans as, like a high quality natural vellum, it could be produced in a thin enough sheet to be virtually transparent to strong light enabling a source drawing to be used directly in the reproduction of field-used drawings.

High quality typography is nowadays based on character drawings ( fonts ) which are typically stored as vector graphics, and as such are scalable to any size.

After his early years in Rome much of his work was self-designed, but for the most part executed by the workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality.

" Nevertheless, the portrait drawings he produced in such profusion during this period are of outstanding quality, and rank today among his most admired works.

Because the study of anatomy concerned observation and drawings, the popularity of the anatomist was equal to the quality of his drawing talents, and one need not be an expert in Latin to take part.

The quality workmanship in the carving would not have fit into the incorrect assessment of Hellenistic art and the plinth mysteriously disappeared shortly before the statue was presented to King Louis XVIII in 1821 and evidence of it only survives in two drawings and an early description.

The number and quality of the drawings, whether done for constructive purposes or to capture a spontaneous movement, underscored his explanation, " Colour always occupies me, but drawing preoccupies me.

# Identifying and developing appropriate solutions regarding the quality and use of the built environment in urban, suburban and rural areas and making designs, plans and working drawings, specifications of work, cost estimates and time schedules.

Many different quality measures have been defined for graph drawings, in an attempt to find objective means of evaluating their aesthetics and usability.

From his mid-teens, Bartram was noted for the quality of his botanic and ornithological drawings.

In Buffalo, New York, on July 17, 1902, in response to a quality problem experienced at the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing & Publishing Company of Brooklyn, Willis Carrier submitted drawings for what became recognized as the world's first modern air conditioning system.

There are also many surviving drawings of high quality.

There are medieval eccentricities, sometimes phantasmagoric, superfluous emotional detail and a misty non-linear, often jagged quality to his drawings, with primal tonality to his coloration that separates him from the classic Roman masters.

The wall drawings, executed on-site, generally exist for the duration of an exhibition ; they are then destroyed, giving the work in its physical form an ephemeral quality.

The role is primarily to represent the interests of the client in regard to ensuring the quality of both materials and workmanship are in accordance with the design information such as specification and engineering drawings, in addition to recognized quality standards.

Other responsibilities range from client relations to zoning and building code management, material specifications, maintaining quality control by checking and making revisions to shop drawings.

Petersen left about 60, 000 drawings and 100 paintings of varied quality.

However, Hergé, as editor-in-chief, set a very high quality standard for his magazine, and Vandersteen had to improve and stylize his drawings, and had to remove the more Flemish, popular aspects of his comics.

The Subscribers ' Edition reprints of 1975, 1977, 1979 and 1988 are not of the same quality as the editions of 1928 ; the watercolored paintings lack the vibrancy, sharpness and depth of color of those in the 1928 editions, and some of the fine detail in the line drawings has been lost ; the binding and cover mimic the original, but lacks its quality and varies in design ; the original 1928 edition is 1¾ " thick, while the reprint edition is 1¼ " thick because the paper is of lesser quality ; tan leather rather than vellum is used ; some editions were sewn, while others are perfect bound and lack the flexibility of a book with sewn signatures ; and some were issued with reproduction cases made from heavy fiberboard and covered with the same binding as the book.

Cultural diversity is the quality of diverse or different cultures, as opposed to monoculture, as in the global monoculture, or a homogenization of cultures, akin to cultural decay.

GAP offers package authors the opportunity to submit these packages for a process of peer review, hopefully improving the quality of the final packages, and providing recognition akin to an academic publication for their authors.

The word " upgrade " has spawned the noun upgraditis, used to describe a person's obsession, compulsion, or addiction ( akin to a disease ) to perpetually changing his / her hi-fi system components in order to obtain ever greater enjoyment and fulfillment through enhancements to sound quality.

ESP Edwards Series produces mid-to-high range guitars, at a quality near the ESP Standard series, whilst ESP Grass Roots Series cater towards a more value-oriented segment of the market and are more akin to the 200s series of LTDs, however this varies.

Curiosity ( from Latin curiosus " careful, diligent, curious ," akin to cura " care ") is a quality related to inquisitive thinking such as exploration, investigation, and learning, evident by observation in human and many animal species.

In the UK, this increased competition has led to significant improvements in the quality of properties on offer-so gone are the swirly carpets and tacky furniture of old, to be replaced by tasteful hues, character furnishings and quality appliances, in some cases providing a standard of accommodation more akin to a ' boutique ' hotel.

In recent years QIOs have undertaken to facilitate continual improvement of health care services within their constituent communities in addition to their original and ongoing statutory audit / inspection role of medical peer review, i. e., akin to the traditional function of quality assurance.

Unfortunately the original masters seem to have been lost ; most of the surviving episodes tend to suffer from scratched, wobbly or grainy picture quality and a muffled soundtrack.

Depending on the quality of the film stock and how much care has been taken of the film in the years since it was first recorded, film recordings can be very grainy, dirty and scratched.

The CD is a copy of a rather scratched original and its sound quality is pretty bad.

the rub arises from the fact that teachers are usually paid on the basis of time served rather than quality.

Here, as in all sectors of the economy, quality and justice are both dependent on the right of the individual to deal directly with his employer if he so chooses.

We are, as we know, utterly dependent on the quality of advice we get ; ;

This program is based on the policy of designing and building efficient machines which will help produce better textile values -- fabrics whose cost in relation to quality, fashion and utility provide the consumer with better textile products for the money.

The inner panels do not have to be weatherproof, and the choice will depend on the quality of finish desired.

Moreover, the larger and more aggressive mass distribution outlets and chain stores have insisted on high quality -- and the customer seems to have caught on.

Much of this lifelike quality results from Mussorgsky's care in basing his vocal line on natural speech inflections.

Check on the schools in the area, the quality of teaching, and the provision for transportation to and from them.

A study on the relationship happiness to various character strengths showed that “ a conscious focus on gratitude led to reductions in negative affect and increases in optimistic appraisals, positive affect, offering emotional support, sleep quality, and well-being .”

A matrix can have a considerable effect on the way a chemical analysis is conducted and the quality of its results.

Notably, each workshop inscribed its name on the part they manufactured to add traceability for quality construction.

Anisotropic filtering ( AF ) is a method of enhancing the image quality of textures on surfaces that are far away and steeply angled with respect to the point of view.

While one-third of alternative treatments have some published literature supporting their use, research on alternative medicine is frequently of low quality and methodologically flawed, which might cause these results to be exaggerated.

The quality of the Amiga's sound output, and the fact that the hardware is ubiquitous and easily addressed by software, were standout features of Amiga hardware unavailable on PC platforms for years.

André Weil (; 6 May 1906 – 6 August 1998 ) was an influential French mathematician of the 20th century, renowned for the breadth and quality of his research output, its influence on future work, and the elegance of his exposition.

Stand-alone, file based, multi-track recorders from Sound Devices, This of course results in a reduction in audio quality, but a variety of techniques are used, mainly by exploiting psychoacoustics, to remove the data that has least effect on perceived quality.

Analytical chemistry has played critical roles in the understanding of basic science to a variety of practical applications, such as biomedical applications, environmental monitoring, quality control of industrial manufacturing, forensic science and so on.

Subsequently, various modes of Chou's pseudo amino acid composition were developed for improving the quality of predicting subcellular localization of apoptosis proteins based on their sequence information alone.

It is responsible for regulations on foreign trade which includes regulations on technical measures, sanitary regulations, environment protection measures, quality control measures, automatic licensing measures, price control measures, monopolistic measures, as well as other measures.

It is perhaps the need to balance the social and scientific aspects of archaeoastronomy which led Clive Ruggles to describe it as: "... field with academic work of high quality at one end but uncontrolled speculation bordering on lunacy at the other.