Fingerprints play a central role in any field where person identification is required. In forensics and biometrics, three-dimensional fingerprint-based imaging technologies, and corresponding recognition methods, have been vastly investigated. In cultural heritage, prel...

Abstract This paper contributes to a growing literature on long-term trends and drivers of pre-industrial inequality by providing new stylized facts on the evolution of income inequality in Ghana from 1891 to 1960. Using newly constructed social tables, we estimate the ...

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), as an important industrial branch of the Internet of Things (IoT), has an essential purpose to improve intelligent industrial production. For this purpose, IIoT big data should be efficiently processed to mine valuable information. ...

International audience; Aghmat, medieval city of the Haouz region (Marrakech), is described by textual sources as a prosperous commercial city, surrounded by fertile lands. Located at the foot of the High Atlas, at the opening of the Ourika valley, it benefited from a g...

AbstractAlthough remote sensing techniques are increasingly becoming ubiquitous within archaeological research, their proper and ethical use has rarely been critically examined, particularly among Native American communities. Potential ethical challenges are outlined, a...

espanolEl paisaje de montana es reflejo de la interaccion historica entre los grupos humanos y su medio ambiente. Esta relacion se establece a traves de practicas, derivadas de relaciones sociales, que se orientan a la apropiacion y gestion de los recursos. Este trabajo...

Lighting is a critical component in a museum environment because, together with temperature, relative humidity and pollutants, it is one of the damaging factors able to produce long‐term, cumulative and irreversible photodegradation processes. To correctly preserve art...

The paper presents various collective instruments used in the labelling, certification and branding of cheeses in the southeastern Alps of Slovenia and Italy. Based on long term ethnography it discusses four case studies of Montasio, Bovec, Tolminc, and Mohant cheeses, ...

If prehistoric and historical time were placed into the time span of the existence of our universe, then the act of archaeology could be defined as the act of digging up what was only buried yesterday. So, conservation is about preserving a moment that has just become p...

The analysis of the neoliberal restructuring of Chilean port cities and their hinterland suggests there was a functional coupling of neoliberalisation, precarisation, reterritorialisation, extraction, and logistics. To address this process properly, we expanded the boun...