. We compiled a suite of 490 heat flow measurements from the Pacific Ocean in areas with less than 85 m of sediment. Heat flow patterns at different basement ages vary with topographic relief. Areas with reliefs < 300 meters are conductively blanketed at 40-60 m.y. and may stop convecting at 70-90 m.y. Areas with reliefs > 300 meters are conductively blanketed at70-90 m.y. and convect out to > ...

Decorative reliefs are widely used for e.g. packaging and porcelain design. In periodic reliefs, the relief repeats a pattern, for example all the way around an underlying surface of revolution. Reverseengineering of existing reliefs allows them to be re-applied to different base surfaces; we show here how to segment a single repeat unit of a periodic relief starting from a scanned triangle mes...

BACKGROUND Nigerian parturients desire, but experience unsatisfactory pain relief as labour analgesia is underutilised and unpopular among skilled-birth attendants. OBJECTIVES To assess pregnant women's knowledge and willingness to use non-pharmacological labour pain reliefs. METHODS Using a descriptive cross-sectional design, a pre-tested, structured questionnaire was interviewer administe...

Surfaces play an important role in visual perception. They are perceived as ‘(perceptual) reliefs’. that are surfaces in 2 + 1D perceptual space, that is the product space of the 2D visual field and the ID ‘depth dimension’. It is in many respects irrelevant whether the observer views a true 3D scene or a flat (2D) picture of a scene. In both cases, the percepts are reliefs in 2 + ID perceptual...

We introduce a concept for a relief-printer, a novel produc­ tion method for tactile reliefs, that allows to reproduce bas-reliefs of several centimeters height difference. In contrast to available methods, this printer will have a much smaller preparation time, and does not consume material nor produce waste, since it is based on a re-usable medium, suitable for temporary printouts. Second, we...

Bas-reliefs are widely used in the world around us, for example, on coinage, for branding products, and for sculptural decoration. Reverse engineering of reliefs—extracting existing reliefs from input surfaces—makes it possible to apply them to new items; relief editing tools allow modification of reverseengineered reliefs. This paper presents a novel approach to relief extraction based on diff...

During the surface surveys conducted in Şanlıurfa recent years, a large number of reliefs dating back to timeframe from 2 th B.C. 1th were discovered. Dağyamacı reliefs, located 500 m east Harran Plain within Tek Mountains region, are Said unearthed at some quarry-like location. The location where discovered is only limestone quarry that has been dated region. Orthostatic relief sketches, embos...

Taşkesen (Dashkasan), located in the Zanjan region Iran, 15 km from center of city Sultaniye, was built on rocky slope a hill overlooking Safid Mountain and plains below. The structure, which by carving into rock, has monumental appearance is quite ruined today. There are iwans niches with muqarnas side walls building, consists square courtyard rectangular section. In addition, east, west south...

The coinage of the Sasanian Empire (224-651 CE) is not only the most important primary source for its monetary and economic history, but also of greatest relevance for its history and art history.Coin hoards are of pivotal importance for studying Sasanian coinage. On August 29,2007,two jars were unearthed during the construction work for the new border sentry post of “Havār-Barxāh-loh” in the P...