This article examines the socio-religious dynamics behind traditional sekaten held by two large palaces (keraton) of Javanese (Surakarta keraton and Yogyakarta keraton). phenomenon is unique. Sekaten a local cultural performance, which combines Islam with culture. The current acculturation make tourism opportunities. Using qualitative approach historical ethnographic methods, data were collecte...

This paper solves a pursuit–evasion problem in which a prince must find a princess who is constrained to move on each day from one vertex of a finite graph to another. Unlike the related and much studied ‘Cops and Robbers Game’, the prince has no knowledge of the position of the princess; he may, however, visit any single room he wishes on each day. We characterize the graphs for which the prin...

This paper presents a project on one of the very significant historical landmarks of Ottoman Culture and the most-visited touristic place in Istanbul, Dolmabahce Palace. In this project, a very famous public symbol gate, Saltanat Gate, is chosen with its historical and complex architecture to be reconstructed in 3D digital format by using various scanning techniques and computer graphics. In th...

We may be sure that representations of space have a practical impact, that they intervene in and modify spatial textures which are informed by effective knowledge and ideology. Representations of space must therefore have a substantial role and a specific influence in the production of space. Their intervention occurs by way of construction – in other words, by way of architecture, conceived of...

Museums need an interactive data collection and visualisation tool for their artefacts. This paper describes a study in which we enable access to Chinese and Japanese cultural heritage information from two history museums, the National Palace Museum in Taiwan and the Tokugawa Art Museum in Japan. Results from these museum databases were used to develop a prototype system to demonstrate advanced...

the 8th International Symposium on Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (ISIPTA’13). The symposium was organized by the Society for Imprecise Probability: Theories and Applications (SIPTA) at the University of Compiègne (France) in July 2013 (http://www.sipta.org/isipta13). The biennial ISIPTA meetings are well established among international conferences on generalized methods for u...

This paper argues that the goal of reducing the differences between features within a 3D model and the use of 3D haptic space of the force feedback device is not necessarily desirable. We present the idea of a non-realistic haptic rendering system. We examine in detail the mapping of 3D data structures onto 3D haptic space and show the use of information layers which are based on a logical deco...

Correspondence to: Dr Catherine Nelson-Piercy, Department of Obstetrics, Guys and St Thomas’ Hospitals, North Wing, St Thomas’ Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7EH, UK; catherine.nelson-piercy@ gstt.sthames.nhs.uk _________________________ H ypertension is the most common medical problem encountered in pregnancy and remains an important cause of maternal, and fetal, morbidity and morta...