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Direction-aware Spatial Context Features for Shadow Detection
, 2018 Shadow detection is a fundamental and challenging task, since it requires an understanding of global image semantics and there are various backgrounds around shadows.
Fu, Chi-Wing +4 more
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The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology: Characters and Collections [PDF]
, 2015 The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology first opened its doors in 1915, and since then has attracted visitors from all over the world as well as providing valuable teaching resources. Named after its founder, the pioneering archaeologist Flinders Petrie,
Stevenson, AE
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Sanctions, National Security, and Free Speech
Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A fundamental, but largely overlooked, aspect of the New Washington Consensus is the use of national security arguments to restrict speech and punish disfavored speakers. Although the United States has a longer history of using sanctions to restrict speech in the terrorism context, it has recently applied sanctions to restrict political speech,
Joshua Andresen
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Three Bone Artefacts from Room R.23 of the East Portico at the Agora in Nea Paphos, Cyprus
Studies in Ancient Art and CivilizationIn 2011-2019, during the research of the Jagiellonian University’s expedition at the Agora of Nea Paphos (Cyprus), more than 50 artefacts made of bone and related materials were discovered. This article presents an analysis of three objects unearthed in
Aleksandra Milczuk, Jarosław Bodzek
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Symmetries in Images on Ancient Seals [PDF]
, 2009 We discuss the presence of symmetries in images engraved on ancient seals, in particular on stamp seals. Used to stamp decorations, to secure the containers from tampering and for owner's identification, we can find seals that can be dated from Neolithic
Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
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Anthropology of Consciousness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Combining different theoretical frameworks can lead to new insights into the role of material things in shaping human experience in the Paleolithic period. This paper first presents a historical review of three theoretical approaches in archaeology, anthropology, and the philosophy of mind: Material culture and materiality studies, the ...
Bar Efrati
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Scientists in the MIST: Simplifying Interface Design for End Users [PDF]
, 2006 We are building a Malleable Interactive Software Toolkit (MIST), a tool set and infrastructure to simplify the design and construction of dynamically-reconfigurable (malleable) interactive software.
Bhatia, Saurabh +4 more
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Provenance reconstruction using strontium and lead stable isotopes can produce complex multidimensional fingerprints, challenging traditional methods. Identifying nonlocals, who migrated between sites, is a major task. Migrants are identifiable by divergent multi‐isotope fingerprints due to isotopic mixing between origin and destination sites.
Andrea Göhring +8 more
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Hrobka muže bez tváře. Předběžná zpráva o výzkumu hrobky Anchirese (AS 98), inspektora kadeřníků královského paláce // Tomb of a faceless man. Preliminary report on the excavations of the tomb of Ankhires (AS 98), the inspector of hairdressers of the Great House [PDF]
Pražské Egyptologické Studie, 2018 During the autumn season of 2016, the tomb of an inspector of hairdressers of the Great House, Ankhires (AS 98), commenced excavation. The works were finished in the autumn season of 2017.
Veronika Dulíková +3 more
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Religion, culture and politics in the Philippines [PDF]
, 2007 This essay addresses two questions with regard to the contemporary Philippines: the question of political violence and the question of status and hierarchy or, as some would have it, class.
Tremlett, Paul-Francois
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