To my family in China and my wife Yun ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I wish to thank Prof. Robert Dickinson for advising my thesis and providing support for my PhD study for the past five years. This dissertation would be impossible without his continuous encouragement and support. I am grateful to the support and help from and discussions with Prof. Albany). I also like to thank my current and past group me...

A new nonparametric method to correct model data is proposed. At any given point in space and time the correction is determined from “analogs” in a learning dataset. The learning dataset contains model data and simultaneous observations. The method is applied to the significant wave height dataset of the 45-yr European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Re-Analysis (ERA-40). Comparison o...

Ornamentation contributes greatly to the aesthetics of architecture as It also helps in organizing architectural form and enables it be read. In its relation architecture, addition aesthetic purposes, ornamentation Islamic translating space. changes appearance building material hides structural elements; covers entire surface order dissolve mass hate void which is an opportunity for ornament wi...

Abstract This paper brings in new and not-well-known archaeological evidence to the debate over Samarra Horizon, reviews some preconceptions of green splashed ware blue painted through Chinese ceramic imports found several sites Middle East from eighth tenth centuries CE . There has been mutual influence between Islamic ceramics early Abbasid period, there may be more than one explanation for t...

This text supplements another, a paper presented decade ago on the portrayal of Umayyad rulers in Chronography Theophanes Confessor (B. Cecota, Islam, Arabs and Rulers according to Confessor’s Chronography, “Studia Ceranea” 2, 2012, p. 97–111). I am limiting myself here discussing only those source remarks which directly concern one Abbasid Caliphs, or alternatively, narratives structured such ...