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The present overview answers the need of evaluating the current state of the art concerning the application of principal components analysis (PCA) to Raman spectroscopy studies of cultural heritage materials. Painting materials, both colouring and binding ones, were considered, together with natural and synthetic glasses, biogenic and mineral ...
Alessia Coccato, Maria Cristina Caggiani
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Resisting the Temptation of Perfection [PDF]
With the advance of CRISPR technology, parents will be tempted to create superior offspring who are healthier, smarter, and stronger. In addition to the fact that many of these procedures are considered immoral for Catholics, they could change human ...
Tham, Joseph
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Life funds, urban development, and the experimental practices of financial sociology
Abstract How did the Norwich Union, a life and general insurance company, come to see itself as a ‘local developer with people always at the centre of our planning’? This article explores how a small number of insurance companies, capitalising on their long history of property investment, used their investment funds, or ‘life funds’, to transform the ...
Liz McFall
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A Survey of Geometric Analysis in Cultural Heritage [PDF]
We present a review of recent techniques for performing geometric analysis in cultural heritage (CH) applications. The survey is aimed at researchers in the areas of computer graphics, computer vision and CH computing, as well as to scholars and ...
Addison +139 more
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Urbanism and Identity at Classical Morgantina [PDF]
The site of Morgantina, located on a ridge in the rolling landscape of east-central Sicily about 60 km from the Ionian Sea coast, has been the locus of continuous archaeological investigation since 1955 (fig.
Justin Walsh
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Unsupervised Segmentation for Terracotta Warrior Point Cloud (SRG-Net)
The repairing work of terracotta warriors in Emperor Qinshihuang Mausoleum Site Museum is handcrafted by experts, and the increasing amounts of unearthed pieces of terracotta warriors make the archaeologists too challenging to conduct the restoration of terracotta warriors efficiently.
Hu, Yao +3 more
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Gifts for the afterlife: Evidence of mortuary practices on the necropolis at Marina el-Alamein [PDF]
The paper considers the evidence for mortuary practices in the form of grave accompaniments and grave offerings recorded during excavations of the Graeco-Roman necropolis at Marina el-Alamein.
Zych, Iwona
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James C.S. Lin and Xiuzhen Li (2018). China’s First Emperor and the Terracotta Warriors.
In February 2018 a new exhibition entitled China’s First Emperor and the Terracotta Warriors opened at the World Museum, in Liverpool. Organised in collaboration with the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau and Shaanxi History Museum, this did not ...
Craig P. Barclay
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On the challenges and benefits of indoor archaeology: 15 years at the Archeodome (Mitchell Prehistoric Indian Village, South Dakota) [PDF]
© Trustees of Boston University 2015. Author's Accepted Manuscript deposited in accordance with SHERPA RoMEO guidelines. The definitive version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/0093469015Z.000000000115.Field archaeology is normally associated ...
Hannus, LA +2 more
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Diffusion Transformer for point cloud registration: digital modeling of cultural heritage
Digital modeling is an essential means for preserving and passing down historical culture within cultural heritage. Point cloud registration technology, by aligning point cloud data captured from multiple perspectives, enhances the accuracy of ...
Li An +4 more
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