as some say, an incurable and infectious disease.” ―Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote F the first half of the 20th century, Spanish artist Pablo Picasso dominated the art world in a great variety of creative styles and forms, creating more than 20,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, and other works. His widely recognized and now iconic black and white sketch of Don Quixote prov...

Introduction 'We can model the euphoria and the fear stage of the business cycle. Their parameters are quite different. We have never successfully modelled the transition from euphoria to fear.' Quantitative models have been a central part of the story of the present financial crisis. It was the models used in financial markets which provided the basis for an assessment of risk exposure which w...

A comparative analysis of geodetic versus seismic moment-rate estimations makes it possible to distinguish between and aseismic deformation, define the style also reveal potential gaps. This has been performed for Egypt where present-day tectonics seismicity result from long-lasting interaction Nubian, Eurasian, Arabian plates. The data used comprises all available geological tectonic informati...

Copper alloys interact with air pollutants to form corrosion products and, consequently, a patina on outdoor bronze sculptures. In this study, experiments were conducted clarify the behaviors of artificial sulfide in an urban–industrial environment quaternary alloy (Cu–Zn–Sn–Pb) composition and metallurgical properties similar those The correlation between chromaticity reflectance revealed incr...