abstract         sasanian dynasty, who governed as the last and the most glorious dynasty before islam in iran, has had an important role in enrichment of sasanian silver works and we owe the majority of silver works to this era. metalwork is one of the oldest arts iniranian civilization. the prominent metalwork crafts‚ left from different ages‚ acknowledge this fact. the art of this era has di...

The use of state-of-art immersive technologies enhanced undergraduate students’ motivation to learn. main variables for the comparative analysis are opinions surveyed students three academic terms and perception as an engine learning. data used this article comes from at a Mexican university, Tecnológico de Monterrey, during January 2019 up June 2020. virtual activity designed fostering is call...

Logistics Network Design includes network configuration decisions having long-standing influences on other tactical and operational decisions. Recently, regarding environmental issues and customer awareness and global warming closed-loop supply chain network design is taken into consideration. The proposed network for the integrated forward and reverse logistics is developed by formulating a cy...

There can be many places of excellence in an urban space, vital the city, such as squares. Telling their story also means defining a possible narrative site that, since ancient times, has represented crossroads functions, events, and human flows: moment city’s history, fulcrum soul cultural identity layout. But it is where significant architecture concentrated, both sacred civil, churches or pa...

glistening lofty peaks of perpetual snow piercing the azure blue firmament, and to have watched the lower Himalayas gleaming ?with gold, else softly changing colour from shades of radiant opal, steel blue, grey, peacock, copper or emerald green, to rose pink in the setting sun, as contrasted' with recollections of the stupendous grandeur of the roaring foaming falls of Niagara. During the past ...

In view of proliferation of digital technologies and increasing popularity of digital 3D documentation of cultural heritage — being a result of both digitization of existing artefacts and computer-based 3D reconstruction of lost art and architecture — the implementation of reliable standards is of growing importance. The paper considers potential benefits and inherent problems of digital recons...

Insect pests are responsible for substantial damage to museum objects, historic books and in buildings like palaces or historic houses. Different wood boring beetles (Anobium punctatum, Hylotrupes bajulus, Lyctus sp. or introduced species), the biscuit beetle (Stegobium paniceum), the cigarette beetle (Lasioderma serricorne), different Dermestides (Attagenus sp., Anthrenus sp., Dermestes sp., T...

One of the important compendiums of Jewish mystical lore, a composition known to scholars as 3 Enoch or the Book of the Heavenly Palaces (Sefer Hekhalot) offers a striking re-interpretation of the canonical account of Moses’ reception of Torah. In this text the supreme angel Metatron, also associated in Sefer Hekhalot with the seventh antediluvian patriarch Enoch, is depicted as the one who rev...