Today much knowledge – scientific, technological, and cultural – is shared worldwide. The extent to which globalized knowledge existed also in the past is an open question and moreover a question that is important for understanding present processes of globalization. Considering for instance the rapid spread in pre-history of the wheel throughout Eurasia, the spreading of Roman law to such dive...

In this research project we created systems that can scan images and video to locate items of interest. For example, such a system should be able to scan a travel documentary for images of distinct locations and objects, like ``Buddhist temples'', ``gothic cathedrals'', or ``statues on horseback''. We believe that by leveraging our existing work in this area, we can play a key role in setting t...

M3art database contains data about colours behaviour in VIS and NIR spectral bands. The database is open, publicly available and should serve as the knowledge base for further study of optical properties of pigments, drawing materials and canvases. The content of database consists of FORS and digital camera data collected in range 400-1050nm. Measurements were made on up to three layer samples ...

Extensive durability problems such as weathering and degradation are found in historic Scandinavian brick masonry buildings, especially from the neo-Gothic period. These largely due to crystallization of salts frost action bricks mortars. This article aims show illustrate which crystals buildings describe their appearance behavior. An additional aim is explore possibilities preventing salt-rela...

The cyborg inscribes itself nearly everywhere, forcing us to re-examine discourses of humanity, modernity, Japan, and technology. I will trace the early history of the cyborg, from its hidden roots and precursors in fin de siècle Gothic fiction to its fully formed conception in 1990s science fiction and Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto. I will then move beyond the well-known cyborg genealogy to...

In “Literature and Economy in Portuguese-speaking Southern Africa”, Thomas Waller offers a comparative reading of literary responses to neoliberalization southern Africa. Reading the proliferation spectral effects Mozambican literature late 1980s alongside dystopian depictions societal collapse contemporary Angolan fiction, he suggests that writers two states have used distinctive aesthetic idi...

Abstract In 2014, as a cost-saving measure, Flint, Michigan, switched its water supply to the Flint River — unofficial toxic waste disposal site for meatpacking plants, car factories, and lumber paper mills, well city's depository of agricultural urban runoff untreated raw sewage. what may be viewed Gothic trope “poisoned well,” crisis has directly affected mostly African American population wh...