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Mergin’ Mode: Mixed Reality and Geoinformatics for Monument Demonstration

open access: yesApplied Sciences, 2020
Since smart devices are becoming the primary technological means for daily human activities related to user-location, location-based services constitute a crucial component of the related smart applications.
K. Evangelidis   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Monumental patience [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 2020
Next week marks the 60th anniversary of Jane Goodall's arrival in what is now Tanzania's Gombe National Park to study wild chimpanzees.* Although her story is a familiar one to many scientists, it has taken on a new importance in this era when climate change, racism, and a rapidly spreading coronavirus ravage the globe.
openaire   +2 more sources

A Scientific Basis for Designation of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2020
The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument (NECSMNM) was designated by President Barack Obama in 2016, using his authority under the Antiquities Act of 1906.
P. Auster   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Perpetuation of a Military Feat in the USSR

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Public Administration, 2023
This article presents a study of the various forms of memorialization in the former USSR, tracing their roots back to ancient Russia and examining their prevalence in modern times.
Ilia V. Akulenko
doaj   +1 more source

Reading the Transformations of an Urban Edge: From Liberty Era Palermo to the City of Today [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
To honour the battle of 27 May 1860, in 1910 the Palermo City Government decided to realise a commemorative monument. A position at the centre of a large circular plaza was of have afforded the monument a greater solemnity.
Vincenza Garofalo
core   +1 more source

Mass coral bleaching due to unprecedented marine heatwave in Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (Northwestern Hawaiian Islands)

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
2014 marked the sixth and most widespread mass bleaching event reported in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, home to the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument (PMNM), the world’s second largest marine reserve.
Courtney S. Couch   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

East Anglian early Neolithic monument burial linked to contemporary Megaliths

open access: yesAnnals of Human Biology, 2019
In the fourth millennium BCE a cultural phenomenon of monumental burial structures spread along the Atlantic façade. Megalithic burials have been targeted for aDNA analyses, but a gap remains in East Anglia, where Neolithic structures were generally ...
C. Scheib   +11 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Le Désert comme scène de l’avoir lieu : Robert Smithson et Noah Purifoy

open access: yesSillages Critiques, 2019
This article looks at the works of two American artists from the second half of the 20th century : Noah Purifoy and Robert Smithson. These two sculptors question the notion of place in very similar ways, erecting their sculptures in the desert.
Antonia Rigaud
doaj   +1 more source

Rapa Nui (Easter Island) monument (ahu) locations explained by freshwater sources

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2019
Explaining the processes underlying the emergence of monument construction is a major theme in contemporary anthropological archaeology, and recent studies have employed spatially-explicit modeling to explain these patterns.
R. DiNapoli   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Monument Project (Si Monumentum Reqiuis Circumspice) Leonardo article [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This paper describes the concepts, ideas, background and operations of The Monument Project (Si Monumentum Requiris Circumspice), a digital video installation that produces a continuous stream of weather-responsive panoramic images from the top of the ...
Cariani Peter   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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