The Bronze Statue from Cerigotto

Etruscan women’s clothing and its decoration: the polychrome gypsum statue from the ‘Isis Tomb’ at Vulci

I Comici Roboti: Performing the Lazzo of the Statue from the Commedia Dell'Arte

We are combining robotics and puppetry to build a multirobot team that performs a lazzo from the Commedia dell’Arte. The robots are built on lego bases using a Handyboard processor. The robots communicate with each other and with a human director via radio links. Our robot hardware and software are described, as our experiences at AAAI-02.

Automated Modeling of the Great Buddha Statue in Bamiyan, Afghanistan

In the great valley of Bamiyan, Afghanistan, two big standing Buddha statues were carved out of the sedimen-tary rock of the region around the second to fourth centu-ries AD. The larger statue was 53 meters high while the smaller Buddha measured 35 m. The two colossal statues were demolished in March 2001 by the Taleban, using mortars, dynamite and rockets. After the destruction, a consortium w...

the effect of traffic density on the accident externality from driving the case study of tehran

در این پژوهش به بررسی اثر افزایش ترافیک بر روی تعداد تصادفات پرداخته شده است. به این منظور 30 تقاطع در شهر تهران بطور تصادفی انتخاب گردید و تعداد تصادفات ماهیانه در این تقاطعات در طول سالهای 89-90 از سازمان کنترل ترافیک شهر تهران استخراج گردید و با استفاده از مدل داده های تابلویی و نرم افزار eviews مدل خطی و درجه دوم تخمین زده شد و در نهایت این نتیجه حاصل شد که تقاطعات پر ترافیک تر تعداد تصادفا...

Memories of the Bronze Night

In the past decades of the history of Estonia, there have occurred few events which have profoundly affected and touched more or less the entire population of the country. One of these events was undoubtedly the loss of the motor vessel “Estonia” on September 28th 1994 on its way from Tallinn to Stockholm with 989 persons on board, of whom over 800 died1. More recently, the events which took pl...