We present an overview of our project to construct a digital archive of cultural heritages. Among the efforts in our project, in this paper, we briefly overview our research on geometric and photometric preservation of cultural assets and restoration of their original appearance. Digital geometric modeling is achieved through a pipeline consisting of scanning, registering and merging multiple r...

Leaving a will is the best way to ensure that heirs or descendants may inherit from your estate. Issues of property distribution may arise when a birth parent or adoptive parent dies without making a valid will or without naming an heir to a particular property (referred to as intestacy). In these cases, State law determines who may inherit from whom. Laws in all 50 States, the District of Colu...

Colonies of the primitively eusocial wasp Ropalidia marginata consist of a single egg layer (queen) and a number of non-egg-laying workers. Although the queen is a docile individual, not at the top of the behavioral dominance hierarchy of the colony, she maintains complete reproductive monopoly. If the queen is lost or removed, one and only one of the workers [potential queen (PQ)] becomes hype...

This paper examines the role of creative milieu and cultural heritages in the development of Chinese cultural industry. Through case study of Beijing’s Nanluoguxiang, where several arts institutions and theaters concentrate, it depicts the birth and growth of a creative place for free artists in the institutional changing of Chinese cultural setting. Based on field survey data from artists, man...

The nonclassical symmetries method is applied to a class of reaction-diffusion equations with nonlinear source, i.e. ut=uxx+cux+R(u, x). Several cases are obtained by using suitable solutions the heir-equations as described in [M.C. Nucci, Nonclassical special heir-equations, J. Math. Anal. Appl. 279 (2003) 168–179].

Background and objective Recent research on cultural heritage has highlighted resident participation as an ideal method of managing local heritages. However, many studies have raised questions about the practicality this approach. This undertook case Jeoji-ri Handong-ri Jeju Island, South Korea focusing how increases based related stakeholders, heritages (natural, tangible intangible heritages)...