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Feature-Enhanced Visualization of 3D Point Clouds of Cultural Heritage in Transparent Virtual Reality [PDF]

open access: yesThe International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
While virtual reality (VR) has been increasingly adopted for the digital archiving of cultural heritage, most existing systems focus on visual appreciation rather than structural analysis.
T. Matsuo, S. Takatori, L. Li, S. Tanaka
doaj   +1 more source

New Climate Change Center of Saudi Arabia: Advancing Understanding and Prediction for the Arabian Peninsula Climate

open access: yesEarth's Future, Volume 13, Issue 12, December 2025.
Abstract The desert climate of the Arabian Peninsula (AP), marked by sparse rainfall, extreme temperatures, and frequent dust events, significantly impacts its 80‐million population, environment, and economy. Rising temperatures and dust incursions exacerbate these harsh conditions, yet the AP's climate is underrepresented in global climate research ...
Ibrahim Hoteit   +49 more
wiley   +1 more source

Religeopolitics and the Affective Spatialities of Faith: Rethinking Religion in Geopolitical Analysis

open access: yesGeography Compass, Volume 19, Issue 12, December 2025.
ABSTRACT This article introduces religeopolitics as a conceptual framework for analyzing how religious actors participate in the production of geopolitical space through affective, embodied, and relational practices. It positions religion as a constitutive element of geopolitical analysis rather than an exceptional or marginal category within it. While
Tanner Morrison
wiley   +1 more source

An Ambitious Itinerary: Journey Across the Medieval Buddhist World in a Book, CUL Add.1643 (1015 CE)

open access: yesReligions
A Sanskrit manuscript of the Prajñāpāramitā or Perfection of Wisdom in eight thousand verses, now in the Cambridge University Library, Add.1643, is one of the most ambitiously designed South Asian manuscripts from the eleventh century, with the highest ...
Jinah Kim
doaj   +1 more source

Virtual Reenactment of the Itaewon Crowd Crush Using Kinodynamic Simulation

open access: yesComputer Animation and Virtual Worlds, Volume 36, Issue 6, November/December 2025.
ABSTRACT We propose new crowd simulation methods to virtually reenact the Itaewon disaster that occurred in 2022 due to the extreme crowd density. Conventional techniques make it challenging to simulate diverse, extremely dense crowd behaviors such as crowd surge, fluidization, and falls observed at the Itaewon disaster.
Juyi Hwang, Young J. Kim
wiley   +1 more source

Posting the Journey to Juquila: Pilgrimage, Digital Devotion, and Social Media in Mexico

open access: yesLatin American Research Review
At the crossroads of scholarship scrutinizing digital religion and pilgrimage, this article analyzes the use of Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram by devotees of Our Lady of Juquila, a Marian image in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Edward Wright-Ríos   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cross‐sectoral collaboration in times of crisis: Comparing the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland

open access: yesPublic Administration, Volume 103, Issue 3, Page 828-854, September 2025.
Abstract The Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland, with their shared political histories, have confronted the compounded challenges of the COVID‐19 pandemic and the Ukraine war. These difficulties spurred the emergence of public–nonprofit collaboration in all three countries, each taking distinct paths.
Michal Plaček   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Art as a Channel and Embodiment of Symbolic Interaction Between Migrants and Non‐Migrants

open access: yesSymbolic Interaction, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 410-440, August 2025.
Many non‐migrant politicians, journalists, and scholars in migrant‐destination societies often represent migrants with self‐interested objectives and in specific instrumental ways based on stereotypes. Yet research on symbolic interaction reveals migrants are not passive victims.
Jacob Thomas
wiley   +1 more source

Moral Drift and Sacred Reconfigurations: Rethinking Values and Religious Practices in Digitally Mediated Worlds

open access: yesMedya ve Din Araştırmaları Dergisi
This study examines how digitalization—particularly through immersive environments such as the metaverse—transforms moral values and religious practices.
Kübra Cevherli
doaj   +1 more source

Navigating Tensions Between Indigeneity and Social Media Participation: A Case Study of the Guarani Community in South America

open access: yesInformation Systems Journal, Volume 35, Issue 4, Page 1198-1217, July 2025.
ABSTRACT This study investigates inherent tensions between social media participation and the ways of life in an Indigenous community and subsequent navigation approaches. Relying on an in‐depth qualitative study and the notion of two‐eyed seeing as a theoretical approach, the study focuses on the complex relationship between social media platform ...
Edin Smailhodzic   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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