with the development of the silk road in early islam, the pottery art of northern and north-eastern parts of iran were affected by imported chinese pottery. at that time, the most common way of glaze decoration in china was a method called “sancai” which found its way to iran through this business route and became a source of imitation for iranian artists. in this technique, known as glaze, the...

The classification of pottery as found in many archaeological sites around the world is a time consuming and often tedious task which can take months and even years for a single site. Many of the seemingly less interesting artifacts simply disappear into storage unclassified. Automating the classification of pottery would hence be a welcome help for many archaeologists, freeing them from routin...

present data showing that the regulator of the A-factor cascade in Streptomyces griseus , AdpA, possesses related family members, and they determine both the sites to which AdpA binds and a consensus DNA-binding sequence. Sequence homologues and consensus DNA binding sites of regulatory proteins were first reported more than 20 years ago, so why is this new work notewor-thy? The answer is that ...

Origins are proposed for certain well-known traditions at the Marktoberdorf advanced courses in programming methodology. The evolution of these traditions, over the years, is also discussed.

Nepal is a small developing mountainous country in South Asia. A variety of ethnic, cultural and religious groups inhabit Nepal. Traditional healthcare providers can be divided into medical providers and faith healers. Ayurveda, an ancient system of medicine is based on the tridosha theory of disease. Ayurvedic medicine is inherent to Nepal and was strongly encouraged in the medieval period of ...

this study examined the adsorption behavior of two cationic dyes used in textile industries (cibasic red 46 and ci basic blue 3) on tunisian clay used in pottery. the ability of pottery clay to remove thebasic dyes from aqueous solution was compared to that of the commercial powdered activated carbon (pac)and raw clay. physicochemical characteristics of these adsorbents were performed by boehm ...