The pendant from Luka-Kavetchyna, dwelling 25 (fig. 2: 1; 3) is the earliest find Slavs sites da­ting to second quarter — end of 5th century. adornment was made a shell genus Murex and «legacy» Cherniakhіv culture. In area that culture are known pendants shells this (type 2 by O. Hopkalo).
 appear in use since half 6th Their varieties were used until first 8th century, although assemblages...

In this work, we describe a set of coordinates on the PU(2,1)-representation variety of the fundamental group of an oriented punctured surface Σ with negative Euler characteristic. The main technical tool we use is a set of geometric invariants of a triple of flags in the complex hyperpolic plane H C . We establish a bijection between a set of decorations of an ideal triangulation of Σ and a su...

Based on atomistic calculations of electron and phonon transport, we propose to use surface-decorated silicon nanowires for thermoelectric applications. Two examples of surface decorations are studied to illustrate the underlying ideas: nanotrees and alkyl functionalized silicon nanowires. For both systems we find (i) that the phonon conductance is significantly reduced compared to the electron...

Abstract Anna Lisa Schwartz analyses the rites and expressions surrounding death funeral of Prince Willem IV on 22 October 1751. Schwartz’s essay clearly illustrates that Protestant Reformation did not see an end to lavish ceremonies, funerary decorations, or mourning chapels. died a stadtholder all seven provinces Dutch Republic, position he had achieved only four years before as first scion b...

Many real-world hand-crafted objects are decorated with elements that packed onto the object’s surface and deformed to cover it as much possible. Examples artisanal ceramics metal jewelry. Inspired by these objects, we present a method enrich surfaces volumetric decorations. Our algorithm works first determining locations in which add decorative then removing non-physical overlap between them w...

A key objective for ubiquitous environments is to enable system interoperability between system’s components that are highly heterogeneous. In particular, the challenge is to embed in the system architecture the necessary support to cope with behavioral diversity in order to allow components to coordinate and communicate. The continuously evolving environment further asks for an automated and o...