In ancient cultures all over the world, summer and winter solstices and equinoxes had a great importance. These astronomical events had been widely considered in the planning of monuments and other architectures. But in the zone of the Earth delimited by the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, we can see another relevant event, the zenith passage of the sun. In this paper we will show that several...

The fundraising activity initiated by the Birla family in India resulted construction of more than 20 Hindu temples, commonly referred to as Mandirs. Although they vary terms architectural forms and iconographic programs it seems, that one basic common theme remains - show reformed Hinduism a religion is pillar identity people New India. It understood at same time separate but also higher other...

Abstract. Nowadays professionals from the Cultural Heritage field make use of Digital technology in all its diversity as a tool to conduct various type work: archeological and architectural survey, monitoring, conservation programs, historic researches. This paper describes first steps PhD research aiming at exploring analog photographs French-Egyptian center for study Karnak Temples (CFEETK) p...

Skin aging is a multisystem degenerative process that involves the skin and skin support system. Young faces tend to be convex with full lips, sweeping jaw line with full temples and cheeks. Aged face tends to be concave with flat lips, sunken temples and cheeks, scalloped mandible and more shadows. Aging caused by the genes we inherit and depending on the passage of time per se is called chron...

Located in Qinghai Province of China, the Three Rivers Headwaters Region is the source region of the Yangtze, Yellow and Lantsang Rivers, and plays an important role in biodiversity conservation and regulating water supply. Despite many efforts on land use change in Qinghai, knowledge of the spatial variation of land use change is still lacking. This study examines the patterns of land use chan...

The Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture is a typical plateau area, and its ecological environment very fragile. It necessary to explore the terrain cultural factors for protection of local environment. We mainly investigated quantified effect two landscapes (temples villages) on spatiotemporal variation characteristics four types forest landscape in from 1990 2015 using remote sensing (RS) geog...