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Frei Otto
Frei Otto , 1925-, German architect. Most notable for his tensile and pneumatic structures, Otto is among the first major architects to experiment with lightweight design. He is a noted designer of exhibition tents and sports arenas. Otto has also experimented with pneumatic membranes stabilized and... Read more
Sir George Cayley
Sir George Cayley 1773-1857, British scientist. He is recognized as the founder of aerodynamics on the basis of his pioneering experiments and studies of the principles of flight. He experimented with wing design, distinguished between lift and drag, formulated the concepts of vertical tail surface... Read more
ethology
ethology study of animal behavior based on the systematic observation, recording, and analysis of how animals function, with special attention to physiological, ecological, and evolutionary aspects. Laboratory or field experiments designed to test a proposed explanation must be rigorous, repeatable... Read more
Oskar Schlemmer
Oskar Schlemmer , 1888-1943, German painter and stage designer. Known for his mechanical, geometricized forms, Schlemmer taught painting, sculpture, and stage design at the Bauhaus (1920-29). He created the Triadic Ballet to Hindemith's music. In sculpture he experimented with plastic relief in ... Read more
Kenneth Noland
Kenneth Noland , 1924-, American painter, b. Asheville, N.C. Noland first experimented with bands of pure color in bull's-eye and chevron motifs and horizontal parallel stripes. He emphasized the flatness of his canvas by staining paint into raw canvas and using uniform color values. In his work col... Read more
Sanctorius
Sanctorius , Ital. Santorio, 1561-1636, Italian physiologist. He was a professor at Padua (1611-24). By his quantitative experiments in temperature, respiration, and weight, he measured what he called "insensible perspiration" and laid the foundation for the study of metabolism. Among the inst... Read more
experience
experience living through events and the impression on a person or animal of events. In epistemology, a distinction is made between things known inductively, from experience, and those known deductively or theoretically, from a priori principles. The ancients, under the influence of Plato and of Eu... Read more
László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy , 1895-1946, Hungarian painter, designer, and experimental photographer. He turned to art after studying law. While living in Berlin he was one of the founders of constructivism , experimenting with photograms and translucent materials. As a professor in the newly o... Read more
phenomenon
phenomenon an observable fact or event; in philosophy the definitions and uses of the term have varied. In the philosophy of Aristotle phenomena were the objects of the senses (e.g., sights and sounds), as opposed to the real objects understood by the mind. Later, phenomena were considered the ob... Read more
Thomas Savery
Thomas Savery c.1650-1715, English engineer. He became a military engineer, rising to the rank of captain by 1702. He spent his free time performing experiments in mechanics, inventing such devices as a machine for polishing plate glass and a contrivance employing paddle wheels to move becalmed shi... Read more

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Experiments, Controlled
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...is the placebo condition in experiments on the causal effects of medications. The goal of these experiments is to isolate the effects...in the outcome. Controlled experiments often include more than one...x201D; to create a factorial design. In factorial designs, units...
Income Maintenance Experiments
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...Overall, the data from the experiments showed a mixed pattern of effects...that statistical flaws in the experiments ’ design led to this result. But the...researchers conducting the experiments also gathered data on other...
Experiments, Human
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...pioneers conducted simple experiments involving human perception...twentieth century. Today human experiments are widely accepted as an...other specialized fields. Experiments using human subjects can assume...reading comprehension may design an experiment where students...
Head Start Experiments
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Head Start Experiments With growing concern about...implementation of such experiments may not be compatible...services. For example, such experiments require resources that...randomized experimental design. Early evaluation efforts...
Experimental Design
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology Experimental design Careful and detailed...simple psychological experiments, one characteristic...the experimenter must design a test that will test...called multivariate experiments, and their design requires sophisticated...
Otto Lilienthal
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...became a professional design engineer, but aerospace...results of his early experiments, which he later published...children. Early Flight Experiments Lilienthal subscribed...machines. His early experiments in 1874 with the forces...apparatuses of his own design. In their zeal for...
Campbell, Donald
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...1959). Representative design requires that experiments be conducted in settings...ecology. Representative design is a fundamental departure...controls. Representative design is appropriate when social experiments are carried out in uncertain...
Richter, Burton
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...Richter pursued his QED experiments for nearly ten years, finally...to involve himself in the design and building of high–...conducted his successful QED experiments, became the forerunner of...Specifically, he wanted to design a colliding beam machine that...
Lindquist, E. F. (1901–1978)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Education ...methodology. His textbooks on design of experiments and statistical analysis...also was responsible for the design and construction of the first...last chapter in his textbook Design and Analysis of Experiments in Psychology and Education...
Wright Brothers
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...study of flying and the design of flying machines...interested in gliding experiments. They then decided...new and more thorough experiments. The Wrights decided...as the site of their experiments. In September 1900...discover the most suitable design. They also discovered...

Dictionary entries related to "Design of experiments"

Participatory Design
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture Participatory Design. During the 1960s and 1970s architects and planners, mostly in the...housing and the environment. In the USA and the UK there were many such experiments. Bibliography F. Becker (1977); Cross (ed.) (1972)
Pacinotti, Antonio
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...similar ring armature design was developed, apparently...he began his armature experiments in 1858. His work was...His paper on armature design, “ Correnti...Pacinotti ’ s design and the results of thompson ’ s experiments comparing the electrical...
Fleming, John Ambrose
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...and he repeated some of the experiments, with both direct and alternating...with Marconi in many of his experiments and helped to design the transmitter employed by...1904 that he returned to his experiments on the Edison effect, with...
Graham, George
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...In 1715 Graham began experiments to overcome the effects...overall success of his experiments. The combination of...Graham ’ s design was also deadbeat and...brass from his pendulum experiments, the graduations were...replaced by one of the same design, but all brass, made...
Boyle, Robert
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...was on pneumatics: New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching...Hooke ’ s successful design permitted Boyle to devise...out a brilliant series of experiments upon the physical nature of...the second edition of New Experiments (1662), he developed this...
Canton, John
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...he learned of the French experiments confirming Franklin ’...first in England to repeat the experiments successfully; and in the...charge apparently led Canton to design the well-known experiments on electrostatic induction...
Nairne, Edward
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...the first of many papers on experiments in optics, pneumatics, and...between them on a possible design for a hygrometer. After the...Nairne also reported on his experiments on the specific gravity and...x2013; 256; “ Experiments With the Air-pump...
Knight, Thomas Andrew
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...result of his early experiments on breeding fruit...He worked on the design of hothouses, control...Mendel ’ s experiments of half a century later...developing fruit led him to design careful experiments on the translocation...
Kennedy, Alexander Blackie William
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...concerned with marine steam engine design and construction in their embryonic...a leading authority in the design and construction of electric...He was responsible for the design of numerous systems installed...of the paper; “ Experiments Upon the Transmission of Power...
Poynting, John Henry
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Poynting performed painstaking experiments to measure the mean density...that instrument in his later experiments on radiation pressure. In...in electricity included the design of electrical instruments...field. Poynting also did experiments on radiation pressure. At...

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Design experiments that combine mixture components with process factors
Magazine article from: Chemical Engineering Progress; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...typical strategy for design of experiments (DOE) in the chemical...formulation via mixture design (1); and 2. Optimize...crossed mixture/ process design, we present a relatively...simple case study from "Experiments with Mixtures" by Cornell...
Analysis of parameter design experiments for signal-response systems
Magazine article from: Journal of Quality Technology; 4/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; Robust parameter design experiments for signal-response...analyze data from such experiments is still in the formative...of robust parameter design (RPD) methodology...extent possible. Thus, experiments should be designed to...
Modeling and analysis of dynamic robust design experiments.(Statistical Data Included)
Magazine article from: IIE Transactions; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...system's ideal function, then using designed experiments to search for an "optimal" design which minimizes deviations from this ideal...conditions for the system. In analyzing the experiments where the response of interest has a dynamic...
Design experiments with ease.
Magazine article from: IIE Solutions; 10/1/2001; 349 words ; Design-Ease 6.0 is an entry-level statistical software package...improve products or processes through the use of experimental design tools. This design-of-experiments software features standard two-level and fractional factorials...
On formative and design experiments; approaches to language and literacy research.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 2/1/2008; 546 words ; 9780807748428 On formative and design experiments; approaches to language and literacy research...education, U. of Kansas) focuses on formative and design experiments, which they explain are grounded in an orientation...
Handling uncertainty in analysis of robust design experiments
Magazine article from: Journal of Quality Technology; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; In the analysis of robust design experiments, a model is typically fit to experimental...variables). The purpose of a robust design experiment is to adjust the parameters...are two basic stages in a robust design experiment. The first stage...
Lifting off the ground to return anew: mediated praxis, transformative learning, and social design experiments.(Report)
Magazine article from: Journal of Teacher Education; 1/1/2010; ; 700+ words ; ...participating in what we term "social design experiments"--cultural historical formations...nondominant communities, the social design experiment provides persistent...learning processes at work. Social Design Experiments: Some Context The literature...
Design of experiments with two- and four level factors
Magazine article from: Journal of Quality Technology; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...presented to allow for the design of experiments with two-level and four...guide experimenters in the design of experiments with two-level and four...demonstrate the experimental design problems encountered in experiments with two-level and four...
Understanding Design of Experiments: A Primer for Technologists.(Review)
Magazine article from: Technometrics; 8/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; Understanding Design of Experiments: A Primer for Technologists...in the understanding of basic design of Experiments methodology" (p. x). This...the large field that makes up Design of Experiments" (p. x). Chapter 17 covers...
New Frontiers In the Design Of Experiments
Magazine article from: Quality Progress; 8/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...s 1935 book, The Design of Experiments, revolutionized agricultural...often known as the design and analysis of computer experiments (DACE), also the...reduced weight by 40%. Design and Noise Factors Simulation experiments also provide an effective...