Our exploration is not a science-fiction essay. We do not try to imagine how music will be conceptualized, experienced and mediated by our yet-to-come research, technological achievements and music gizmos. Alternatively, we reflect on how the discipline should evolve to become consolidated as such, in order it may get an effective future instead of becoming, after a promising start, just a “wou...

This paper reviews studies of Tang and Song blue-and-white porcelains, both archaeologically scientifically, based on published data, compares with sancai, which represents the earliest use cobalt pigment in Chinese ceramics. Thirty-nine wares seven have been excavated from city sites, kilns, a tomb, shipwreck, pagodas. These findings identify as export ware related to Maritime Silk Road or sug...

Medieval pavements composed of lead-glazed tiles decorated with a variety techniques continue to inspire questions about the organisation glaze manufacture, and supply origin lead materials. The analysed in this study are from Suscinio I (a 13th-century pavement) II 14th-century pavement), at Château Brittany, also pavement fortified manor house Brain-sur-Allonnes, Anjou. Lead isotope analysis ...

Inferring AS-level end-to-end paths can be a valuable tool for both network operators and researchers. A widely known technique for inferring end-to-end paths is to perform traceroute from sources to destinations. Unfortunately, traceroute requires the access to source machines and is resource consuming. In this paper, we propose two algorithms for AS-level end-to-end path inference. The key id...