abstract this article tries to look at the jewels of the ancient luristan (nowadays luristan province and some parts of ilam and kermanshah provinces), and to have a survey on this precious art and its typology. these jewels have been gathered by way of many scientific and unscientific excavations at last decades in the ancient sites like: kalmakareh, varkaboud, kalvali, sorkh dom, kamtarlan (k...

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chempr.2017.01.012 The first record of hand pollination was in a relief from an Assyrian dynasty, 800 BC, now preserved in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. In the relief, shown in Figure 1A, two winged deities gingerly fertilize a date palm tree by using a male flower. Nearly 3,000 years later, pollination has been automated. In this issue of Chem, Chechetka et al. de...

“I a lover of nature. I have to paint from within .... As I used to tell my students, anything I do must be of a caliber that will live after me. That is really my credo, even now,” said Lois Jones when she was in her 80s. During an artistic career that spanned more than 6 decades and continued until the end of her life, she sought excellence and a place in art history. When, in her early effor...

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Most research activity concerned with building technology for museum visits is oriented toward the individual. Yet, people tend to visit museums in small groups. Ethnographic studies give a fundamental role for a successful small group visit to conversation among the members of the group, elaborating on their current experience. Can technology help fostering face-to face, natural conversation? ...

RAMA (Remote Access to Museum Archives) software permits simultaneous access to documentary multimedia databases of European museums. The challenge awaiting specialists in museums, universities, and cultural institutions when the cost of telecommunication go down, for the general public to access cultural heritage information, will lie in the use of common standards by the museum community. RAM...

A café table is a traditional setting for conversation. Tabletop displays may have an active role in this connection. In particular for a museum scenario, conversation after the visit is important for a joint elaboration of a small group visit experience. We propose the museum café as the location to introduce a tabletop display meant to foster and support conversation about the visit. The goal...

Department of Geosciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105, U.S.A. ([email protected]; [email protected]) Department of Earth Sciences, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, U.S.A. ([email protected]) 1930 Bunkhouse Drive, Jackson, WY 83001, U.S.A. ([email protected]) Plant Sciences and Biodiversity, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 3141 (david.cantr...

In line with a tradition dating back two hundred years, the role of The Orsay Museum, like all French museums, is not only to conserve and study the national heritage, but also to act as a centre of education and culture. Though the Orsay Museum may be def ied as a "museum of fine arts", its design and broad range of artistic disciplines have widened the scope of the model inherited from the la...