today, rocky monuments are being exposed to different physical, chemical and biological factors and therefore going to be ruined. one of physical destructive factors is growing of fungus and lichens on the rocks. this research aims to make use of silver nano-particles produced through microbial method in order to prevent growth and progression of fungus detached from rocky surfaces in meymand h...

Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progres...

Models of cultural evolution study how the distribution of cultural traits changes over time. The dynamics of cultural evolution strongly depends on the way these traits are transmitted between individuals by social learning. Two prominent forms of social learning are payoff-based learning (imitating others that have higher payoffs) and conformist learning (imitating locally common behaviours)....

Through the centuries, numerous travellers and orientalists visited Persia (Iran) and described the country and its inhabitants in their travel writings. These travel accounts comprise valuable historical information about the people and their traditions. A literature on travel writings indicate that surprisingly, despite the importance of these recordings, the studies related to the different ...

In order to objectively and quantitatively diagnose the conservation status of painting cultural heritages, a digital image analysis program was used for Korean Buddhist painting. A technical method diagnosing by analyzing color space calculating shape information damage area suggested. To verify applicability program, standard chart on various ground materials produced. Color difference values...

Geotourism is a sustainable type of tourism that focuses on the geological and geomorphological heritages an area, associated cultural biodiversity features. Though popularity geotourism rapidly growing, research demand side, particularly segmenting tourists to geosites understanding their profiles, limited. This obviously makes designing effective policies aim at developing sustainably very di...