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Slow Violence, Bergsonian Time and Climate Change. Contemporary Photographs of the Rhône Glacier

open access: yesParse Journal, 2023
Climate change is facing a crisis of representation. Visual culture has a temporal bias towards spectacular violence, instantaneous and explosive, leaving no means with which to document slow-moving disasters in the image-driven world.
Ruby Gilding
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Protocol for the Analysis of Cross-Sections from Gilded Surfaces

open access: yesHeritage, 2021
This paper describes the protocol currently used at the Victoria and Albert Museum for the scientific analysis of water, oil and lacquer gilding in cultural heritage objects.
Lucia Burgio, Thomas Gregory
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The internet, E-commerce and older people: an actor-network approach to researching reasons for adoption and use [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
Many older people are discovering the Internet, and some are also making good use of electronic commerce and all that goes with it. Others, however, are not adopting these technologies.
Lepa, Jerzy, Tatnall, Arthur
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Gilding Technique and Conservation of A Gilded Greco-Roman Cartonnage in Hurghada Museum

open access: yesJournal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2020
Hurghada museum includes a gilded cartonnage related to Greco-roman period from Hawara, Fayoum governorate. This gilded cartonnage suffers from many deterioration phenomena, for example presence of cracks, micro cracks, completing of missing parts using ...
Gehan Adel
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Investigating gilding techniques on Gandharan stone sculptures and architectural components: a preliminary note

open access: yesRestauro Archeologico, 2019
Taking into account the reports on archaeological excavation and the resulting successive publications, the present article wants to define the exact place of origin and an accurate dating for a schist bracket showing traces of gilding, currently ...
Claudia Ramasso
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Gold and Silver joining technologies in the Moche Tombs “Señor de Sipán” and “Señora de Cao jewelery [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
About 200 gold and silver funerary ornaments from the Moche tombs “Señor de Sipán” and “Señora de Cao” were analyzed to determine their metallurgic characteristics. Of particular interest was the question about the gold-silver joining process.
Brunetti, Antonio   +7 more
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Machines and machinations: The integrated care record service in the UK national health service [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
This paper examines the use of Actor Network Theory (ANT) as a lens to get a better understanding of the implementation of the Integrated Care Record Service (ICRS) in the UK National Health Service (NHS).
Atkinson, C   +3 more
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New Evidence about the Polychromy of Early Imperial Cycle from the Augusteum of Rusellae (Tuscany)

open access: yesHeritage, 2023
This study is concerned with recent analyses of seven marble statues from the imperial cycle of the Augusteum of Rusellae, in the south of Tuscany, Italy.
Paolo Liverani   +4 more
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Some Remarks on the Significance of Gold Based on Byzantine Ekphraseis of Works of Art

open access: yesStudia Ceranea, 2020
The abundance of gilding is considered to be a particularly characteristic feature of Byzantine art. This attribute can be confirmed by even a cursory analysis of works of art.
Magdalena Garnczarska
doaj   +1 more source

Ornamented stirrup from the elite early Medieval burial at Balyk-Sook (Central Altai) [PDF]

open access: yesВестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии
The article presents an ornamented iron stirrup from a rich and noble early Medieval burial in the Balyk-Sook area in the central part of the Russian Altai. This burial is unique not only for South Siberia, but also for neighborring regions, as within it,
Kubarev G.V.
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