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Editorial: Waist-to-height ratio is a simple tool for assessing central obesity and consequent health risk. [PDF]
Louie JCY, Wall-Medrano A.
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Canons of Proportion and the Laws of Nature: Observations on a Permanent and Unresolved Conflict
The mind of the artist always seems to oscillate between two poles: on one side, reality as represented by nature in all its aspects, and on the other, the dream of absolute perfection.
Mario Curti
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Data users note: Apollo 17 lunar photography [PDF]
The availability of Apollo 17 pictorial data is announced as an aid to the selection of the photographs for study. Brief descriptions are presented of the Apollo 17 flight, and the photographic equipment used during the flight. The following descriptions
Cameron, W. S. +3 more
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Cartography and iconography as diachronic analysis tools of the urban fabric ─ Évora and Setúbal [PDF]
The evolution of cities can be interpreted through graphic elements, such as that recommended by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (1st century bC.) (Maciel, 2006), whose forms of expression were plans, elevations and perspectives, which prove to be precious and ...
Monteiro, Maria +2 more
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Computer Analysis of Architecture Using Automatic Image Understanding
In the past few years, computer vision and pattern recognition systems have been becoming increasingly more powerful, expanding the range of automatic tasks enabled by machine vision.
Li, Yuan, Shamir, Lior, Wei, Fan
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Endocrine disruptors in ancient times and Greek mythology: the spring of Salmacis and the curse of Hermaphroditus. [PDF]
Vasileiou V +3 more
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From Vitruvius' ceramic powder additives to modern restoration
The text aims at giving a general view of the use of lime mortars additivated with ceramic powder taking advantage of its pozzolanic reactions. It emphasizes the main explicit references of this technique in the ancient writers, starting from Vitruvius ...
Mário Mendonça de Oliveira
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In order to address architectural heritage conservation, we must be familiar with the medium with which we will be working, its function and response to incidents or external actions (natural or anthropogenic) and how the buildings were conceived and ...
Fernando Da Casa +2 more
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Luigi Vagnetti (ed.): 2000 anni di Vitruvio. Luigi Vagnetti: Prospettiva [PDF]
The review, here reprinted in a full text version, discusses two books by Luigi Vagnetti published in 1978 and 1979. The first book, 2000 anni di Vitruvio, constitutes a complete bibliography of editions of Vitruvius’ treatise on architecture, with ...
Davis, Charles
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Das erste wissenschaftliche Übersetzungprojekt?
Während es Übersetzungen der De Architectura Libri Decem des antiken Autors Vitruv bereits zuvor gab, entwickelte ein erst jüngst als Accademia de lo Studio de l’Architettura identifizierter Kreis vieler Gelehrter und Architekten ab ca.
Bernd Kulawik
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