The brick ornamentation in Islamic architecture represents the unique skill of the architectural artists and we have seen the perfection of this kind of art during the Seljuk period. There is little information about the process of developing brick art in the architecture of Islamic mosque in Iran, and it has not yet been dealt with as it is worthy of this precious art. Therefore, it is necessa...

Abstract In this paper, a new masonry construction is proposed based on honey beehive cell internal geometry as unique structure and hydrostatic pressure principle. The considered experimental program involved suggestion, manufacturing, testing analysis of specimens units’ arrangement well corresponding custom arrangement, two classes cementations bonding mortars are used. Plan strain concept S...

the study, the second-year females’ choice of mate showed no effect of bower treatment, but they did in year 2, when even more decorations were added. An age-biased effect is not restricted to female responses to bower decorations, but also applies to male display intensity. The more intense the male display during the second stage of courtship, the more likely were older females to visit a mal...

success because in this highly competitive business, many males’ bowers are rarely visited by females. The researchers assessed the quality of the bowers in terms of the density and thickness of the sticks used in its construction and also its symmetry. They also checked the decorations on display and grouped them into five categories: artificial and yellow, brown, blue and white natural. The b...

Anthocyanins are some of the most widely occurring secondary metabolites in plants, responsible for the orange, red, purple, and blue colors of flowers and fruits and red colors of autumn leaves. These pigments accumulate in vacuoles, and their color is influenced by chemical decorations, vacuolar pH, the presence of copigments, and metal ions. Anthocyanins are usually soluble in the vacuole, b...