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Acoustics in the restoration of Italian historical opera houses: a review

, 2016
The cultural heritage of Italian historical opera houses is of paramount importance in terms of architecture, music and acoustics. Much is known about the development of their architectural design and the selection of materials that guided the ...
POMPOLI, Roberto, PRODI, Nicola
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The past has ears: acoustics for Cultural Heritage

Europhysics News
When we think about great architectural achievements in European history, such as ancient amphitheatres or Gothic cathedrals, their importance is strongly tied to their acoustic environment, an intangible consequence of the building’s tangible construction and furnishings.
Katz, Brian F.G., Murphy, Damian T.
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Perfluorohexanone for Clean Fire Suppression: Mechanisms, System Design, Applications, and Future Directions

Safety Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Driven by halon and high GWP agent phase out, perfluorohexanone is increasingly deployed in enclosures such as data centers, marine machinery spaces, and industrial process lines. This review summarizes application performance, discharge and distribution design, material compatibility, and byproduct control and maps practical gaps for large volume and ...
Zhilei Yu, Haibin Dong, Yanfeng Sheng, Xuelei Xian, Dehua Zhang, Feiran Li, Liang Liu, Junchao Zhao, Heping Zhang   +8 more
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Acoustic Reconstruction of Eszterháza Opera House Following New Archival Research

Applied Sciences, 2020
The Eszterháza Opera House was a theatre built by the will of the Hungarian Prince Nikolaus Esterházy in the second half of the 18th century that had to compete in greatness and grandeur against Austrian Empire.
Lamberto Tronchin, Francesca Merli, Marco Dolci   +2 more
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Acoustical Evaluation of Café in Heritage Building at Jonker Walk, Melaka

International Journal of Sustainable Construction Engineering and Technology, 2022
All the time, caféis an essential partof our daily life -a node where people socialize, work, or even where they got their inspiration of idea. Lately, there been booming of adaptive reuse of heritage buildings to become caféalong the Jonker Street Malacca; each caféis various in size and theme. All these projects mainly to restore historical visual
Desmond Lee Kok How, Nazli Che Din
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Concrete in architecture: Redefining form, space, function, and insights from bibliometric analysis

Structural Concrete, EarlyView.
Abstract Concrete has become a cornerstone in architectural and engineering innovation, as it seamlessly integrates structural performance with artistic expression. Its evolution from ancient opus caementicium to contemporary ultra‐high‐performance concrete illustrates its adaptability to the change in technological, environmental, and design paradigms.
Mouhcine Benaicha, Khalid El Harrouni, Samir Kabouss   +2 more
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Presenting Archaeoacoustics Results Using Multimedia and VR Technologies

Open Archaeology, 2023
Music and sound cannot be experienced through writing and numbers. Writing freezes time onto paper; as a time-based medium, sound cannot be heard without temporal motion, and acoustic metrics are silent data.
Till Rupert
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Acoustics of historic spaces as a form of intangible cultural heritage [PDF]

Antiquity, 2013
Archaeological interest in the study of the acoustics of important historic buildings is currently gaining in importance, and there are several areas where research is conducted. Among these I include music archaeology, archaeology of sound, archaeomusicology and archaeoacoustics (Watson & Keating 1999; Scarre & Lawson 2006; Knight 2010: 1 ...
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Critical Research Spaces as Scholarship: an Ethnography Lab as an Apparatus for the Experimental, the Imaginary, and the Relational

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The creation of critical research spaces, such as ethnography labs, studios, and other collaborative research environments, requires attention and attunement in anthropology to focus on the kinds of imaginative and generative spaces where creative ethnographic research can unfold as scholarship.
Fiona P. McDonald
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Environmental DNA detection of three threatened stream frog species suggests widespread presence of two species and widespread loss of one

Conservation Science and Practice, EarlyView.
We conducted eDNA surveys of stream water for three Endangered frog species. The Critically Endangered Armoured Mistfrog was only detected in one catchment. The two other species were detected more widely, increasing the known populations. Abstract Amphibians face severe threats globally, with the amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
Cecilia Villacorta‐Rath, Conrad J. Hoskin, Damien Burrows   +2 more
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