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Silicate glasses have played a major role as structural and functional materials in human civilization since ancient Egypt. Despite their widespread use and importance in modern society, silica glasses with complex geometries are only fabricated in automat ...

Hoboken2024

From College to Campus: The Architecture of the College from the Middle Ages to Jefferson

Marson Korbi

Beyond monastic tradition, rules, statutes, and codes regulating conduct and behaviors gave origin to university colleges and the figure of the student. Since Middle Ages, plans on education were brought by reformers, moralists, and educators of different ...

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From College to Campus: The Architecture of Education from Medieval Europe to Jefferson

Marson Korbi

The rise of university colleges, like that in Paris and Oxford, and their territorial spread in scholastic Europe from the 13th century, the investment of patrons in building the so-called sapienza, and the hegemony of the Jesuit’s educational project, are ...

2023

Archery Rites: Remaking Confucian Rites

Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Yumeng Hou, Lillian Hibberd, Jeffrey Shaw

Ritual archery has a long and vital history in Chinese civilization. This chapter examines the current reenactment and digital reconstruction of the specific tradition of the Archery Rites embedded in the Confucian tradition, ritual practice and cosmology ...

Springer Nature Singapore2023

Performance of traditional nomadic yurts for living in extremes

Dolaana Khovalyg, Arnab Chatterjee

A round felt yurt is a traditional dwelling of Central Asian nomads that have survived over 2000 years. The structure and the use of the yurt have not changed over the centuries, making it a nomadic civilization's masterpiece. It has not lost its relevance ...

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Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022: ecological civilization as a new step for extended urbanization to enhance consumption

Florence Graezer Bideau, Thierry Marcel Theurillat

Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022: a new step for urbanization and consumption Florence Graezer Bideau, Thierry Theurillat The 2022 Beijing Winter Games is a multiscale state project involving Central, Provincial, Municipal and Districts Governments. It ai ...

2021

Reservoir Level Rise under Extreme Driftwood Blockage at Ogee Crest

Giovanni De Cesare, Michael Pfister, Loïc Bénet

Dams are civil structures essential to modern civilization. However, they can be a threat if not properly designed and operated. A particular risk that potentially can lead to dam failure is the blocking of the spillway inlet with driftwood or debris. This ...

2021

Atomistic Simulations of The Structure of Calcium Silicate Hydrates: Interlayer Positions, Water Content And A General Structural Brick Model

Aslam Kunhi Mohamed

Portland cement has been in use by human civilization for over a century. Yet, we do not fully understand its hydration reaction mechanisms due to the complexity of the system and its continued reaction over time making it hard to study it experimentally. ...

EPFL2018

Convergent genomic signatures of domestication in sheep and goats

Stéphane Joost, Pierre Taberlet

The evolutionary basis of domestication has been a longstanding question and its genetic architecture is becoming more tractable as more domestic species become genome-enabled. Before becoming established worldwide, sheep and goats were domesticated in the ...

Nature Publishing Group2018

Searching the Past: An Improved Shape Descriptor to Retrieve Maya Hieroglyphs.

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Archaeologists often spend significant time looking at traditional printed catalogues to identify and classify historical images. Our collaborative efforts between archaeologists and multimedia researchers seek to develop a tool to retrieve two specific ty ...

ACM2011

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