Achromatic Markings as Male Quality Indicators in a Crepuscular Bird [PDF]
BiologySecondary sexual traits, such as specific body parts or colouration, play an important role in mating interactions. It has been proposed that they function as quality indicators driven by sexual selection.
Richard Schnürmacher +6 more
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Collar making in ancient Iran A Comparative Study of the Decorative and Practical Properties of Two Parthian and Sassanian Collar in Reza Abbasi Museum [PDF]
Dānishhā-yi būmī-i Īrān, 2022 The making of ornaments is one of the industries that has always been considered in ancient Iran. Among the outstanding works in this field are the golden collars belonging to the Sassanid and Parthian periods of the Reza Abbasi Museum.
Masoumeh Yousefi +2 more
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Slavia Antiqua, 2023 In this article, the author takes a closer look at the finds of sea shell ornaments in the early Middle Ages, based on artefacts discovered at two sites (Nos. 2 and 4) in Kruszwica.
Aldona Kurzawska, Anna Głód
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, 2020 This is an essay about rust. Iron usually plays the part of strength, stubbornness, and impenetrability, but rust registers the dimension of time in the material, reminding us that it always carries the potential for its own decomposition. While great expense is incurred to stave off iron’s oxidization, we read the uselessness that rust precipitates as
Amelia Groom, M. Ty
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Crafting of Ornaments and Their Accessories in Folktales and Folksongs among the Nagas
Cracow Indological Studies, 2023 Ornaments play a very important and specific role in the life of every Naga tribe; therefore in this paper, I refer to their differentiated meanings and roles. Focusing on the cultural meanings of ornaments, I also examine their crafting and accessories
Iris Odyuo
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Settlement Phenotypes: Social Selection and Immigration in a Common Kestrel Population
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Dispersal decisions are affected by the internal state of the individual and the external environment. Immigrants entering a new population are phenotypically different from residents due to selection that mitigate costs of dispersal and facilitate ...
Juan Antonio Fargallo +1 more
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Light`s effect on the appearance of the structural design in the lighting units with multi parts
Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2018 The light plays a role in enriching the relation between the form and the purpose of designing the industrial lighting unit. This relation is fundamental and reciprocal.
Ragab Amesh, Gamal El Ahwal, Hala Ali
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The folk heritage and the origination of an Egyptian national identity in jewelry design
Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2018 The Egyptian identity is an accumulation of multilayer of civilizations starting from the ancient Egyptian to the Greco-Roman followed by the Coptic then the Islamic periods.
Samaa Wahed
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Historical Grammatical Analysis of Exodus 33:1-6 as a response to Contemporary Interpretations of Ornaments [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2022 Exodus 33:1-6 stands as one of the Old Testament texts that have been used by some scholars and believers as a biblical basis to prohibit the use of ornaments and other fashion-related discourse.
Ochenia Faith Opade
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Participatory Design in the Design of Domestic Cookware
Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2018 Product design aims specifically to determining and setting specifications of products that control the relation between all parts of the product to each other.
Samaa Wahed
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