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Connecting the Sacred: Network Analysis of Buddhist Images on Early Medieval Chinese Pagodas from Nannieshui, Shanxi

Religions, 2023
The production of stone sculptures in the form of statues, steles, and pagodas was arguably one of the most prominent forms of Buddhist devotion in early medieval China.
Jinchao Zhao
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Visual folklore in 1960s Greek popular cinema: Athens at the threshold of tradition and modernity [PDF]

Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2023
Despite its slow and ambivalent transformation, particularly after WWII, Greek society strived to present a novel and relatively modern face during the 1960s.
Kassaveti Ursula-Helen
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Filial Piety in Fluidity: The Tension between the Textual and Visual Traditions of Śyāma Jātaka in Early Medieval China

Religions, 2023
The Śyāma jātaka is renowned for its portrayal of a devoted son who cared for his blind parents. The story has been translated into various textual versions and depicted in reliefs and murals, gaining wide circulation in the Buddhist world.
Jinchao Zhao
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Performance-Based Fire Safety Assessment Mechanism for High-Rise Timber Ancient Pagoda Buildings Based on Fire Dynamics Simulator

Buildings
Fire protection remains one of the key challenges in the field of architectural heritage conservation, particularly for heritage buildings dominated by timber structures, which face greater difficulties in fire prevention and risk assessment.
Yangyang Wei, Yuer Wang, Yihan Wang, Yifei Sun, Peng Wan, Feijie Xia, Mingfei Li   +6 more
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Brexit and ‘Specialness’: Mapping the UK–US Relationship in the New York Times and The Guardian Newspapers

Journalism and Media, 2023
At a time of renewed power struggles among nations, especially with the rise of China and Russia, the UK’s loss of leverage as a key player in the European Union following Brexit makes its relationship with the United States more crucial than ever before.
Mercy Ette
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Spatial–temporal distribution characteristics and influencing factors of immovable cultural heritage in Hubei, China

Scientific Reports
Immovable cultural heritages are nonrenewable and irreplaceable excellent cultural resources. With the help of the GIS spatial analysis method, Geodetector and location entropy, this paper explores the spatial and temporal distribution characteristics ...
Wenyuan Zhang, Lihong Ma, Jiayu Xu, Yujie Peng   +3 more
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Structure‐forward targeting of claudins with synthetic binders

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Claudins form the paracellular barriers between epithelial and endothelial tissues at tight junctions and are targets for molecular binders with the goal of modulating barrier permeability. Claudin‐binding molecules are relevant in drug delivery or in altering claudin interactions with disease‐causing proteins.
Alex J. Vecchio
wiley   +1 more source

Narrative strategies in short videos for traditional craftsmanship in intangible cultural heritage: empirical evidence from Douyin

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
With the rapid expansion of the Internet, short videos have gradually developed as a new direction for disseminating intangible cultural heritage (ICH).
Beiruo He, Zheng Luo, Zhi Chai, Guoxin Tan   +3 more
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Harmonious and obsessive involvement, self-esteem, and well-being. A longitudinal study on MMORPG players

Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberpspace
Starting from the dualistic model of passion by Vallerand and colleagues (2003), this study aimed to identify “obsessive” and “harmonious” involvements in MMORPGs and to verify their relationships with players’ self-esteem and well-being.
Federica Sibilla, Alessandro Musetti, Tiziana Mancini   +2 more
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Design of security management model for communication networks in digital cultural consumption under Metaverse – The case of mobile game

Egyptian Informatics Journal, 2023
Under Metaverse, security management of communication networks in digital cultural consumption has attracted more and more attention. As we know, security risks of communication networks caused by non-human factors are becoming weaker and weaker due to ...
Wei Gao, Lin Li, Yingchun Xue, Yan Li, Jinlong Zhang   +4 more
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