Arbutus andrachne L., the strawberry tree, is an evergreen shrub or small tree in Turkish flora and has broad uses. The wood used for decorative purposes, packaging, manufacturing furniture. fruits are edible treating many kinds of diseases. However, global warming might affect abundance this symbolic plant's distribution, especially at higher latitudes. This study was conducted to determine ex...

Tattooing is a process of implantation of permanent pigment granules in the skin. Tattoos can be decorative, medical or accidental. There has been a exponential increase in decorative tattooing as a body art in teenagers and young adults. Unfortunately there are no legislations to promote safe tattooing, hence complications are quite common. Superficial and deep local infections, systemic infec...

A long tradition of cultural evolutionary studies has developed a rich repertoire of mathematical models of social learning. Early studies have laid the foundation of more recent endeavours to infer patterns of cultural transmission from observed frequencies of a variety of cultural data, from decorative motifs on potsherds to baby names and musical preferences. While this wide range of applica...

Piercings and tattoos have become very popular in western society in recent decades, particularly among younger generations. Reports of medical complications associated with these decorative techniques have increased in parallel with the rise in their popularity. Due to their high frequency, adverse cutaneous reactions are particularly important among these potential complications. Tattoo-relat...

The paper discusses the terminology behind batik crafting and showed the aspects of self-similarity in its ornaments. Even though a product of batik cannot be reduced merely into its decorative properties, it is shown that computation can capture some interesting aspects in the batik-making ornamentation. There are three methods that can be exploited to the generative batik, i.e.: using fractal...

This work focuses on integrated product design and computation, and proposes methodologies and tools to build product designs integrating CAD-CAM technologies. The designs belonging to different eras are generated automatically with the help of developed algorithms and their fabrication methodologies, thus, helping the designer to reach his objective. Although most of the designs that are produ...

tombstones have been mirrors of the culture and customs of traditional societies in iran. in pristine areas such as the city of the province of ilam; darreh-shahr, decorative motifs of tombstones are a gateway to the world of religious and cultural thoughts of the people of this land. the city darreh-shahr cemetery tombstones are similar to other iran regions and abdanan tombstones in ilam, ado...

The beauty of Kalasan Temple façade can be seen from its variety decorations known as the pearls Central Java art in 8th century AD. artwork manifests aesthetics and artistic value Kala-Makara, leaf tendrils (purnakalasa), paper paste, apsara-apsari figures. purpose this writing is to gain knowledge insight about decorative expressions carved on temples. method used qualitative research observi...

The variety of interactions between human cultures and herpetofauna is the subject matter of Ethnoherpetology, a subdivision of Ethnozoology. In the semi-arid region of Brazil, many reptiles interact with human communities because of their utility or because of the risks they represent. These interactions have obvious implications for the conservation of reptiles from this region. In this conte...

Maki-e is a traditional Japanese decorative technique that uses the natural lacquer Urushi and metal powders. In 2014, there exist only two companies that manufacture silver powder for the purpose of Maki-e, and this study focuses on comparing the powders manufactured by them. Gloss and color of each silver powder were measured after Maki-e decoration was finished, and EDS (energy-dispersive X-...