Massive amounts of data are available in today’s Digital Libraries (DLs). The challenge is to find relevant information quickly and easily, and to use it effectively. A standard way to access DLs is via a text -based query issued by a single user. Typically, the query results in a potentially very long ordered list of matching documents, that makes it hard for users to find what they are lookin...

To support the maintenance and restoration of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria, as UNESCO World Heritage Site, an Integrated Facility and Asset Management System (IFAM) is designed. The IFAM will be based on a topologically and geometrically consistent data foundation. For that reason, an adequate method for data acquisition and modelling is essential. Conventional methods such as tachymetr...

Patent laws are designed to encourage inventive activity and to facilitate the adoption and diffusion of innovations. Using data on innovations at 19th-century world fairs, Moser (2005) finds that patent laws may fail to raise levels of innovation if inventors rely on alternative means to protect intellectual property, and that instead of raising the number of innovations, the introduction of p...

1613 I 1577, Peter Paul Rubens was born in Siegen, Germany, to Belgian parents from Antwerp. He lived there until he was 10 years old, when his father died and his mother moved the family back to Antwerp. By age 13, Rubens knew he wanted to be an artist. In 1600, he traveled to Italy where he studied firsthand Renaissance and classical works by masters such as Michelangelo, Bassano, Titian, and...

This article presents research results from the archaeological excavation in territory of Dominikonų St. 11 Vilnius Old Town. In order to present as thorough dietary reconstructions people who lived here possible, four groups evidence were combined together: artifacts, historical datasets, zooarchaeological and archaeobotanical investigation. The analyzed materials are covering a wide chronolog...

This paper analyses the acoustic behaviour of Palace Charles V from a room acoustics perspective but also ponders uniqueness space and its ability to engage enhance audience experience. The is relevant part historical heritage Granada. It has an architectural that deserves research. A measurement campaign was made calculate parameters such as T30, IACC, C80 or Gm, explain Palace. BQI quite high...