The protection and management of pioneer cemetery prairies is a daunting challenge. As the public has become accus; tamed to highly manicured grass in their backyard lawns, neighborhood parks and cemeteries, prairie cemeteries, with grasses three; to six;feet ta ll , are often thought to be abandoned or unkept even though the cemeteries reta in their original vegetation. Caring for prairie plan...

Throughout most recorded history, human societies have used various types of cemeteries for burial purposes; this theme points to humanity’s need to construct a meaning behind death and reflect life into the places where the dead are interred. Whether the bodies of the deceased are placed in the ground, within elaborate tombs, or simply in the presence of ancient or contemporary monuments, thei...

The article describes two tombstones of the XIV century. in form high trapezoidal stone slabs (the lower end is narrower than upper part) from largest artistic center Dagestan - village Kubachi. They are located medieval Muslim cemetery "Bidakh Khuppe" (in lane with Kubach "Cemeteries on other side"), 1.5-2 km south old part Kubacha, half northern slope Mount Tsitsila. monuments under considera...

During the past decade, archaeological studies conducted in the Seymareh River catchment area have provided invaluable findings for analytical investigations and, thus, gaining insights into various fields such as pottery, architecture, and multifarious cultural artefacts. Amongst the most significant of such archaeological findings are cemeteries with their cultural implications, which provide...

Decomposition of organic matter is the primary function in the soil ecosystem, which involves bacteria and fungi. Soil microbial content depends on many factors, and secondary biological and chemical contaminations change and affect environmental feedback. Little work has been done to estimate the microbiological risk for cemetery employees and visitors. The potential risk of infection for peop...

Determining the origins of those buried within undocumented cemeteries is of incredible importance to historical archaeologists and, in many cases, the nearby communities. In the case of Avondale Burial Place, a cemetery in Bibb County, Georgia, in use from 1820 to 1950, all written documentation of those interred within it has been lost. Osteological and archaeological evidence alone could not...

Eventual consistency is a relaxation of strong consistency that guarantees that if no new updates are made to a replicated data object, then all replicas will converge. The conflict free replicated datatypes (CRDTs) of Shapiro et al. are data structures whose inherent mathematical structure guarantees eventual consistency. We investigate a fundamental CRDT called Observed-Remove Set (OR-Set) th...

introduction one of the major tasks of urban and regional planners is allocation of land to various urban utilizations according to the role and function of the city, urban economy, and also cross-effect of the land-uses with each other. this is the quantitative aspect of the subject, but what is more important is the qualitative aspect which means appropriate distribution and deployment of lan...

The study aims to use the approach of visual semiotics analyse ritual graphic signs Rezekne Jewish cemetery as a segment city in terms "signifier" and "signified", or “expression” “content”. Star David, dominant sign graphics, is gradually losing status sacred symbol series tombstones confirms structure symptom. paper devoted not only clarifying cultural social causes such changes but also mech...