ABSTRACT Numerous buildings, monuments, and infrastructural works in Verona were constructed during the Roman period using stone, a material abundantly available from quarrying areas located relatively close to the city. Petrographic investigations conducted by Transmitted Polarized Light Optical Microscopy (TPL‐OM) and complemented by colorimetric ...
Eliana Bridi +3 more
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Assessing the Veracity of Methods for Extracting Place Semantics from Flickr Tags [PDF]
The volume and potential value of user generated content (UGC) is ever growing. Multiply sourced, its value is greatly increased by the inclusion of metadata that adequately and accurately describes that content – particularly if such data are to be ...
Chaudhry, Omair, Mackaness, William
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Empty Justice: Ethnographic Court‐Witnessing in Authoritarian Times
ABSTRACT This article investigates the operations of United States immigration courts ethnographically, examining how law, politics, and bureaucracy converge in the everyday production of immigration adjudication. Based on over 500 h of observation in 36 courtrooms across 11 immigration courts, we document how life‐altering deportation decisions—often ...
Amelia Frank‐Vitale +2 more
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Функційність топоніма Москва в українському поетичному дискурсі [PDF]
У статті наведено результати дослідження функційного призначення топоніма Москва в українському поетичному дискурсі від давньої доби до сьогодні. Визначено, що найважливіша його функція – ідеологічна, вона є різновекторною та безпосередньо пов’язана з ...
Brailko, Yuliia
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The names of the town and villages of Gozo (Malta) [PDF]
The Maltese islands have been dominated by various rulers who left an imprint on the life, customs, and language of the inhabitants. This is evident also in the toponymy of the archipelago.
Zammit Ciantar, Joe
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Toponym-assisted map georeferencing: Evaluating the use of toponyms for the digitization of map collections. [PDF]
Bahgat K, Runfola D.
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The DIGMAP geo-temporal web gazetteer service [PDF]
This paper presents the DIGMAP geo-temporal Web gazetteer service, a system providing access to names of places, historical periods, and associated geo-temporal information.
Borbinha, José +3 more
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Towns conquer: a gamified application to collect geographical names (vernacular names/toponyms) [PDF]
The traditional model for geospatial crowd sourcing asks the public to use their free time collecting geospatial data for no obvious reward. This model has shown to work very well on projects such as Open Street Map, but comes with some clear ...
Brown, Michael +3 more
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Citizen science characterization of meanings of toponyms of Kenya: a shared heritage. [PDF]
Daniel N, Mátyás G.
europepmc +1 more source
Spatiotemporal Hotspots of Study Areas in Research of Gastric Cancer in China Based on Web-Crawled Literature. [PDF]
Wang Z, Ren H, Zhang A, Zhuang D.
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