In his famous discussion of the source of our duties concerning anirrals, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant approvingly mentions a series of engravings ( "The Four Stages of Cruelty") by the English artist William Hogarth as exemplifying one of his central contentions. [2] The approach to our duties regarding anirrals advocated by Kant holds that avoiding cruelty is the most fUndamental duty...

The scale dependence of the strength of virtually homogeneous rock is usually considered to be insignificant but the spectrum of discontinuities plays a very important role for the strength of differently sized rock elements and also controls the rock creep strain. Large-scale load tests comprised recording of the creep strain rate that was found to be strongly retarded and negligible for stres...

Locating the critical slip surface with the minimum factor of safety for a rock slope is a difficult problem. In recent years, some modern global optimization methods have been developed with success in treating various types of problems, but very few of such methods have been applied to rock mechanical problems. In this paper, use of hybrid model based on artificial immune system and cellular ...

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The preservation of rock art in open-air contexts is a global issue controlled by several environmental processes, which are less investigated than the cultural significance engravings and paintings. For that reason, we discuss age, preservation, palaeoenvironmental context petroglyphs discovered on flat, almost vertical face large boulder fallen along western slope Jabal Hammah, rocky hill bor...

The charnockitic and associated granitic rocks of Akure area were studied for their field and petrographic relationship's. The outcrops locations were plotted in Surfer 8. The granitic rock exhibits a porphyritic texture and outcrops in the north-eastern side of the study area while the charnockitics outcrop in the central/western part. An essentially dark coloured and fine grained intrusive ex...

The complex of Kamyana Mohyla is the westernmost rock art location Eurasian Steppe and largest accumulation cave sites in Eastern Europe. So far it has been believed that contains Upper Paleolithic images as well portable collection resemble instances worldview. Though this belief lacked support archaeological context chronological attribution remained neither proved nor disputed. However, appl...