Pacific Island countries (PICs) are developing countries representing one of the culturally richest and most diverse regions worldwide. A decade ago, the realization evolved at international level that intangible cultural heritage (ICH) represents a development tool with an inherent commercial value. Regional initiatives are currently trying to balance objectives of development and protection o...

As once boldly stated, 'bad taxonomy can kill', highlighting the critical importance of accurate taxonomy for the conservation of endangered taxa. The concept continues to evolve almost 15 years later largely because most legal protections aimed at preserving biological diversity are based on formal taxonomic designations. In this paper we report unrecognized genetic divisions within the giant ...

Charlotte Priddle is Librarian for Printed Books in Fales Library & Special Collections of New York University Libraries; e-mail: [email protected]. Laura McCann is Conservation Librarian in the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation & Conservation Department at New York University Libraries; e-mail: [email protected]. © 2015 Charlotte Priddle and Laura McCann, Attribution-NonCommercial (htt...

The status of research methodology employed by studies on the application of AI techniques to solving problems in engineering design, analysis, and manufacturing is poor. There may be many reasons for this status including: unfortunate heritage from AI, poor educational system, and researchers' sloppiness. Understanding this status is a prerequisite for improvement. The study of research method...

Mathematics is a discipline—a domain of knowledge, an intellectual heritage with ancient roots, with language and methods for analysis and understanding of aspects of the worlds that we inhabit and experience. And mathematics is now as well a profession—an intellectual community dedicated to knowledge generation, application, conservation, and transmission, interacting with other domains and in...

integrity is among the fundamental concepts in the field of cultural heritage and the importance of knowing this concept and examining its status in the philosophical principles of perseverance is so great that achieving integrity is introduced as among the basic criteria of optimal preservation of historical monuments. integrity has always been open to discussion in different historical period...

In this paper, we propose various levels of non-photorealistic rendering(NPR) scheme for virtual heritage. The different levels of rendering are simple feature level, semantic level and imaginative level. At the simple feature level, simple facts or features are represented. Semantics generated from relations between features and/or environmental context are represented at the semantic level of...

This report describes unique surveillance system on a section of I-80 freeway in the city of Emeryville. The system, called the Berkeley Highway Laboratory (BHL), consists of eight dual loop detector stations along the freeway section, and 12 video cameras. Advanced machine vision algorithms were developed to process the video data to generate vehicle trajectories. Efforts are underway to fuse ...

Kamran Bashir’s The Qur’an in South Asia addresses the question of how Sunni Muslims India dealt with their intellectual heritage and identified past tradition wake European colonialism missionary activism. He focuses mainly on Muslim scholars Sayyid Aḥmad Khān (d. 1898), Ashraf ʿAlī Thānawī 1943) Ḥamīd al-Dīn Farāhī 1930), who wrote extensively approaches to understanding after mutiny/uprising...

Outside the established legal framework of intellectual property rights, countries have pursued multiple pathways to protect and promote traditional medicine. As Tibetan medicine is a late entrant into commercialization, the proposals to propertize generally fall within the rationale of existing sui-generis paradigms of Intellectual property. In this context, the article enquires the state of i...