o We further analyse a sub-set of commodity-related goods jewellery, fuel and metals. These goods offer a clean quasi-experimental setting to look at the effects of a pure change in price on criminal activity. Specifically, they are homogenous in their quality and supported by efficient resale markets (for example, the scrap metal recycling industry). Price changes for these goods are also exog...

The study aimed to identify the factors affecting preference, choice, and selection of jewelry among Saudi women. employed a descriptive research design examine consumers’ preferences, choices, attitudes toward buying products. For purpose, 500 consumers were randomly selected from different regions Arabia. data collected using structured questionnaire based on; consumer recommendatio...

Biological treatments to degrade cyanide are a powerful technology for cyanide removal from industrial wastewaters. It has been previously demonstrated that the alkaliphilic bacterium Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes CECT5344 is able to use free cyanide and several metal-cyanide complexes as the sole nitrogen source. In this work, the strain CECT5344 has been used for detoxification of the differe...

Traditionally, toolmark test exemplars are produced by applying a tool's working surface to a piece of soft metal such as lead. Soft, pliable metals are primarily used for this purpose because they will replicate the microscopic grooves present on a tool's working surface without damaging the tool. In this paper the authors present an alternative material for the preparation of test toolmarks. ...

Ubiquitous computing technologies are defining an emerging cultural fabric that is becoming interwoven into everyday life and giving form to ‘digital culture’, through which human meaning and communication derives from the potentials of such technologies. As the pervasive and ambient computing agendas move forward, the possible augmentation of both physical space and the human body with small l...

The purpose: to analyze the specifics of Dali's creative search for figurative solutions in jewelry; present a project jewelry based on works S. Dali.
 Methodology. Historical-typological, analytical, comparative, iconographic methods were applied; during analysis Dali’s works, formal and figurative-stylistic applied.
 Results. heritage art its influence modern masters are analyzed. t...

Abstract This article is dedicated to study of the jewelry craft Staraya Ryazan’. It has been prepared for 200th anniversary discovery first hoard there (1822), which marked beginning ancient Russian towns, most important area in science antiquities. The marks individual style a craftsman who served representatives princely family (interpretation images animals, birds, anthropomorphic figures, ...