cranial trephination is a technique which was used by ancient people to trephine skulls with some instruments. there are different types of trephination, the most common and primitive of which were trianglular and quadrangular in shape. a group burial was found in an archeological excavation of burnt city in sistan province in 1977. out of the 13 skeletons, one skeleton belonged to a 13th years...

This study uses a municipal e-government services framework to evaluate the development of municipal electronic government (e-Government) in Peruvian cities by assessing the web sites and services provided by each city. The findings show that the degree of development of e-Government in Peru is incipient, with the need to improve not only the municipal websites but also the municipal e-Governme...

The identification of severely burnt human remains by genetic fingerprinting is a common task in forensic routine work. In cases of extreme fire impact, only hard tissues (bones, teeth) may be left for DNA analysis. DNA extracted from burnt bone fragments may be highly degraded, making an amplification of genetic markers difficult or even impossible. Furthermore, heavily burnt bones are very pr...

We claim that local e-services benchmarking studies summarized in indexes do little to enhance city managers’ and academics’ understanding of actual e-government performance, or to improve the e-services offered by cities. We undertook a different benchmarking approach, focused on learning best practices among cities, in late 2008 and early 2009. A benchlearning methodology (BLM) was developed,...

Thil deterioration of the plant cover of the ci ty water catchment in the upper Tiritea V,alley is causing some concern to the Palmiorston North City Council. Many areas form,'rly in forest have been reduced to scrub', tussock and turf. Although most of the catchment has a "burnt-over" appearance IIthere is no definite record of fires. The, :,Iegetation of the Tararuas has been 'descrIbed by Zo...

The effect of pellet chemical composition and burning temperature on pellets’ properties of the Gol-e-Gohar hematite recovery plant was investigated in this study. Green pellets of different sodium hydroxide ratio and hydrated lime were prepared as well. Then the pellets were burnt in a muffle kiln under different temperature conditions. The Design Expert software was employed to explore ...

A “Smart City” is intended as an urban environment which, supported by pervasive ICT systems, is able to offer advanced and innovative services to citizens in order to improve the overall quality of their life. In this context, the present contribution formulates a pioneering proposal, by drawing an advanced information centric platform for supporting the typical ICT services of a Smart City. I...

The large spreading of e-democracy and e-participatory tools and environments showed, and is still showing, that technologies offer new direction for dealing with the challenge of scaling the deliberative democracy perspective up to the urban governance scale [24] [37]. The recent growth of Urban Living Labs and Human Smart City initiatives is disclosing a promising bridge between the micro-sca...

Research on the creation and use of 3D city models has made rapid progress recently. An increasing number of cities and regions now own 3D city models or are planning to use them in the future. Especially planning departments see an enormous potential in the use of 3D city models to visually and algorithmically access environmental and spatial impacts of planning proposals. However, examples fo...