Quarries represent ‘landscapes archives’ as they supplied the stone required for historical buildings. Among them, Caumont ancient quarry stands out in northern France, with its huge dimensions and role, providing building stones at a regional scale since least Middle Ages. The present study aims to approach quarrying methods used over time by means of an optimized methodological approach. desi...

Natural stone has been used since the dawn of civilization as a construction material for buildings that are historical and cultural monuments. The Zagreb Cathedral is an example such building data regarding extraction its reconstruction scientifically underestimated. Based on review previously published literature investigation current state sites where was quarried, this paper presents system...

Humanities scholars increasingly rely on digital archives for their research instead of time-consuming visits to physical archives. This shift in research method has the hidden cost of working with digitally processed historical documents: how much trust can a scholar place in noisy representations of source texts? In a series of interviews with historians about their use of digital archives, w...

The assessment of past sea-level positions requires a multidisciplinary approach that involves both scientific and historical humanistic fields. use allows us to obtain reliable information on the relative position, determination which evaluation eustatic steric components as well an vertical ground displacements, such isostatic adjustments tectonic movements. In this context, coastal geoarchae...

Increasing construction and demolition (C&D) waste generation has faced serious challenges in the metropolitan areas of Iran. The objective this research is to present a system dynamics model for C&D management Tehran. In particular, variables such as energy consumption carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions city Tehran horizon 2041 are studied predicted. rate housing urban infrastructure will ...

Evaluation and prediction of performance of diamond wire saw is one of the most important factors involved in planning the dimension stone quarries. The wear rate of diamond wire saw can be investigated as a major criterion to evaluate its performance. The wear rate of diamond wire saw depends upon non-controlled parameters related to rock characteristics and controlled parameters related to ch...

Restoration of lands disturbed by anthropogenic impact is currently the most urgent issue in light gradually decreasing area commercially valuable plantations. Reclamation quarries includes restoration artificial landscape carrying out various kinds measures. We have surveyed located northern districts Arkhangelsk region. These were used for sand mining construction roads federal and regional i...

This paper examines the effects of strategic alliances on non-financial firms’ bank loan financing. We construct several measures to capture firms’ alliance activities using the frequency of alliance activities, the prominence of the alliance partner and the relative networking position in the overall alliance network. We find that firms with active alliance involvement experience a lower cost ...

This paper proposes a novel method for document enhancement. The method is based on the combination of two state-of-the-art filters through the construction of a mask. The mask is applied to a TV (Total Variation) regularized image where background noise has been reduced. The masked image is then filtered by NLmeans (Non Local Means) which reduces the noise in the text areas located by the mask...

We present richer typesetting models that extend the unsupervised historical document recognition system of BergKirkpatrick et al. (2013). The first model breaks the independence assumption between vertical offsets of neighboring glyphs and, in experiments, substantially decreases transcription error rates. The second model simultaneously learns multiple font styles and, as a result, is able to...