We examine an application of Acoustic Emission (AE) technique for a probabilistic analysis in time and space of earthquakes, in order to preserve the valuable Italian Renaissance Architectural Complex named "The Sacred Mountain of Varallo." Among the forty-five chapels of the Renaissance Complex, the structure of the Chapel XVII is of particular concern due to its uncertain structural condition...

To utilize the notion of a sacred and a profane is to suggest an explanation and ordering of the world encountered that looks back to the Judeo-Christian traditions often claimed as the foundations of Western society. The term " sacred and profane " , bound together often as a figure of speech, suggests the defining differences between a number of oppositions: good and evil, Godly and Godless o...

In his 1954 poem, “Church Going,” Phillip Larkin anticipated the end of religion and ruination Britain’s churches. “What remains,” asked “when disbelief has gone? Grass, weedy pavement, brambles, buttress, sky.” one respect, was right: decline traditional worship in West did produce scores redundant But he also wrong: tendency to view abandoned churches as proof that ultimately “belief must die...

Supplementary Fig 1. Distribution of predicted proteins in ESTs of sacred lotus based on Gene Ontology classifications. (a) Cellular component; and (b) Biological process. The x-axis indicates the percentage of each category. 0 5 10 15 20 25 membrane intracellular cytoplasm nucleus plastid plasma membrane cytosol mitochondrion thylakoid endoplasmic reticulum Golgi apparatus vacuole extracellula...

‘‘Our land is sacred, and not tradable.’’ ‘‘Jerusalem is not up for discussion.’’ ‘‘As a matter of principle, I will not give that crook a dime!’’ ‘‘Human life cannot be given a dollar value.’’ Each of these statements suggests that the actor places a sacred value on some issue. But, what does sacred mean? One possible answer is that it is a constraint and that the issue is truly not open for d...

This article surveys the beliefs concerning the supernatural characteristics and powers of sacred trees in Israel; it is based on a field study as well as a survey of the literature and includes 118 interviews with Muslims and Druze. Both the Muslims and Druze in this study attribute supernatural dimensions to sacred trees which are directly related to ancient, deep-rooted pagan traditions. The...

In this paper, using the tight-binding model, we extend the real-space renormalization group method to time-dependent Hamiltonians. We drive the time-dependent recursion relations for the renormalized tight-binding Hamiltonian by decimating selective sites of lattice iteratively. The formalism is then used for the calculation of the local density of electronic states for a one dimensional quant...