Losing Cultural Heritage due to Anthropic Environmental Disasters: An Application of the DPSIR Spiral Framework

Ofanto Valley - Cultural and Environmental Heritage Exploitation

a frame semantic approach to the study of translating cultural scripts in salingers franny and zooey

the frame semantic theory is a nascent approach in the area of translation studies which goes beyond the linguistic barriers and helps us to incorporate cognitive and cultural factors to the study of translation. based on rojos analytical model (2002b), which centered in the frames or knowledge structures activated in the text, the present research explores the various translation problems that...

Recommender Systems and Social Networks: an application in Cultural Heritage

In the last decade Recommender Systems have become useful tools helping users to find “what they need” from considerable amount of data. One of the more obvious applications of such systems in the Cultural Heritage domain is to assist users when visiting cultural environments (such as museums, archaeological sites, old town centers and so on), providing a multimedia guide that is able to dynami...

Anthropic effect on the lichen colonization in building stones from cultural heritage

In this study the effect of human urine on lithobiontic microorganisms colonizing dolostones from a historic quarry (Redueña, Madrid, Spain) was evaluated in situ by means of a field experiment. The application of the bioproduct was performed by directly spraying onto the rock surface of the quarry front during 8 weeks. After the treatment, the ultrastructure of Verrucaria nigrescens was analys...

Application of Driving force- Pressure- State- Impact- Response (DPSIR) framework for integrated environmental assessment of the climate change in city of Tehran

Climate change is a complicated issue with many factors playing role in its formation and distribution. Considering this complication, a comprehensive and holistic approach is needed for a better understanding and management of those factors. The causal frameworks are among systemic and integrated methods for addressing the causes of environmental problems and the relationships that exist betwe...