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Using art history to explore society's changing connections with agriculture

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Food insecurity is a looming challenge that especially affects those least fortunate. Consumer food choices have a substantial impact on the sustainability of current food systems. Here, we use art as a lens through which to consider our contemporary and historical relationship to one of the world's most crucial crops, the potato, in the context of the
Edward F. Hill‐King, Martin R. McAinsh, Michael R. Roberts   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Painting by Numbers: A Quantitative Approach to Roman Art

Theoretical Roman Archaeology Journal, 2019
Scholars of Roman artworks often make general statements regarding how often certain subjects occurred in certain areas within houses (for instance, Bacchus in dining areas, Venus in ‘bedrooms’ or cubicula) without quantifying them.
Carla Brain
doaj   +2 more sources

Environmental Identity, Social Openness and Economic Support for Sustainable Festivals: The Mediating Role of Attitudes Toward Sustainable Practices

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As sustainability pressures intensify across the global event and tourism industries, this study examines how environmental identity and social openness shape visitors' willingness to pay more for sustainable festivals and whether attitudes toward specific sustainability practices mediate these relationships.
László Kökény, Melinda Jászberényi, Gilda Hernández‐Maskivker, Levente Kökény   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Do Governance Arrangements Shape Community Empowerment in Rural Ecotourism? Evidence From Wuyuan, China

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how governance arrangements shape community empowerment in rural ecotourism in China. Drawing on the six dimensions of the community empowerment framework (CEF), the study analyses qualitative data from semi‐structured interviews with 30 villagers across four ecotourism‐oriented cases in Wuyuan.
Huihui Liu, Zixi Wan, Yan Yu, Mark Melchior, Carijn Beumer, Pim Martens, Madhura Rao   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Green's Function for Discrete Second-Order Problems with Nonlocal Boundary Conditions

Boundary Value Problems, 2011
We investigate a second-order discrete problem with two additional conditions which are described by a pair of linearly independent linear functionals.
Roman Svetlana, Štikonas Artūras   +1 more
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Charles Cournault’s Call for a ‘Persian Museum’ at the Louvre [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Archaeological Studies
In 1857, the French artist Charles Cournault published a plea for a French mission to Persepolis. The aimof the mission was to obtain examples of relief sculpture, like those he had seen in the British Museum, for theLouvre Museum.
Daniel Thomas Potts
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Practically Error‐Free Junctions Enable Solving Large Instances of Exact Cover Problems Using Network‐Based Biocomputation

Small, EarlyView.
Scaling nanofluidic channel geometries to sub‐200 nm is demonstrated to suppress junction guiding errors in network‐based biocomputing. The resulting increase in path fidelity enables experimental solution of Exact Cover instances with more than 33 million possible solutions, establishing a new benchmark for network‐based biocomputing. ABSTRACT Network‐
Eugene Christo V R, Christoph Robert Meinecke, Bert Nitzsche, Roman Lyttleton, Cordula Reuther, Danny Reuter, Heiner Linke, Till Korten, Stefan Diez   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Were the ancient Romans art forgers? [PDF]

Journal of Art Historiography, 2016
A popularly held tenet in the historical record on art is that the practice of forgery began in ancient Rome, where sculptures made by craftsmen of the day were passed off as classical Greek antiquities.
William Casemen
doaj  

Lakshmi, Bounty and Cultural Deification: A Review of Treasures of Lakshmi – The Goddess who Gives by Namita Gokhale and Malashri Lal [PDF]

Litinfinite
Indian mythology and cultural constructiveness have always seen Lakshmi as the goddess who gives, Lakshmi as the goddess of bounty and fortune. If we scrutinize the cross-cultural segments of Greek, Roman, and Indian mythology, we find that in the ...
Sreetanwi Chakraborty
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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
wiley   +1 more source