Recently completed excavations at the site of El Palenque in Mexico's Valley of Oaxaca have recovered the well-preserved remains of a palace complex dated by associated radiocarbon samples and ceramics to the Late Formative period or Late Monte Albán I phase (300-100 BC), the period of archaic state emergence in the region. The El Palenque palace exhibits certain architectural and organizationa...

Since about 1630, the Imperial Palace has been biologically isolated from other habitats by the development and urbanization of Tokyo. We morphologically examined the skulls of the lesser Japanese mole (Mogera imaizumii) from the Imperial Palace and compared them with those from Kanto District, while the sequences of the cytochrome b and 12S rRNA genes were also analyzed to clarify the genetic ...

By connecting the fuzzy weighted average (FWA) and the generalized centroid (GC) of an interval type-2 fuzzy set we have arrived at a new αcut algorithm for solving the FWA problem, one that is monotonically and super-exponentially convergent. Our new algorithm uses the Karnik-Mendel (KM) algorithms to compute the FWA α-cut end-points. No faster algorithm for solving this problem exists to-date.

By connecting work from two different problems— the fuzzy weighted average (FWA) and the generalized centroid of an interval type-2 fuzzy set—a new -cut algorithm for solving the FWA problem has been obtained, one that is monotonically and superexponentially convergent. This new algorithm uses the Karnik–Mendel (KM) algorithms to compute the FWA -cut endpoints. It appears that the KM -cut algor...

Orangeries, palm houses and orchid houses, the peculiar cultural complexes usually consituting the variety of the palace setting, due to the assigned „brittle matter” to them, need the extraordinary and stable care. Deprived of the farmer they quickly undergo destruction. The condition of the orchid house of the palace-park compex of the Łańcut castle, was disastrous within the post-war period....

We present a coarse-grain protein model PaLaCe (Pasi-Lavery-Ceres) that has been developed principally to allow fast computational studies of protein mechanics and to clarify the links between mechanics and function. PaLaCe uses a two-tier protein representation with one to three pseudoatoms representing each amino acid for the main nonbonded interactions, combined with atomic-scale peptide gro...

INTRODUCTION: A "MONDE RENVERSE" Between its foundation by Sultan Mehemmed the Conqueror (reg. 1451-81) and its abandonment in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Saray, the Palace in Constantinople, served for more than 400 years not only as the residence of the Ottoman Sultans and their royal household, but also as the seat of their imperial rule. More than that, it determined the impri...

• The Middle Bronze (MB) IIB palace was found to be considerably larger than originally estimated by the previous excavators (3000-4000 sq. m. rather than 2000 sq. m.), extending further to the north, east and west. It may extend further to the south as well, but we did not excavate in that direction this season. • Destruction deposits, including restorable local pottery, burnt organic material...