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Codes of Conduct at Zoos
Zoos consistently implement codes of conduct in efforts to manage visitor behaviour. Zoos worldwide have implemented the use of codes of conduct to regulate and manage the activities and actions of visitors. Zoos have been an ethical ground for negotiating the relationship between people and animals. Codes of conduct in zoos are uniquely placed, manifesting this ethical dialogue between species.
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27 Feb 2024
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Artificial Intelligence for Digital Heritage Innovation
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a game changer in many fields, including cultural heritage. It supports the planning and preservation of heritage sites and cities, enables the creation of virtual experiences to enrich cultural tourism and engagement, supports research, and increases access and understanding of heritage objects. Despite some impressive examples, the full potential of AI for economic, social, and cultural change is not yet fully visible.
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27 Feb 2024
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Buildings’ Sustainability after COVID-19
The concept of sustainability, or sustainable development, was introduced in 1987 through the UN Brundtland Report, in which it is defined as "development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". The link between COVID-19 and sustainability is made up of a variety of psycho-sociological and perceptual aspects, such as the fact that the occupancy pattern of buildings is one of the determining factors in assessing the energy performance and sustainability of buildings.
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26 Feb 2024
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Eco-Sustainable Approaches for Fungal Biodeterioration on Easel Painting
Cultural Heritage (CH) materials are susceptible to being complexly damaged physically, chemically, and aesthetically by the growing and metabolic activities of living beings, as investigators know as biodeterioration. Historical easel paintings have a mixture of materials and layers, increasing their conservation complexity. Materials such as cellulose on the support, rabbit skin glue, egg yolk, linseed oil, or varnishes on the polychromy are some organic materials that can compound an easel painting, although the painting layer also contains inorganic pigments. These organic materials can be degraded by fungi if the environmental conditions are favorable. Eliminating and controlling fungal biodeterioration is one of the most important challenges of easel painting conservation.
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18 Feb 2024
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Virtual Heritage Dissemination and Immersive Learning
Lost architectural heritage refers to buildings, structures, or other physical features of the built environment that have been damaged or altered over time to such an extent that they are irretrievable through physical experience alone. This loss can occur for many reasons like neglect, disaster, demolition, or renovation works. Such heritage is commonly known to us through sparse sources of multiple and varied layers of the past that are often uncertain and contradictory. Each lost artifact uncovers cultural, social, and spiritual significances embedded within dynamic relations that are ambiguous from a contemporary mindset.
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18 Feb 2024
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Ubuntu in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Ubuntu has been defined as a moral quality of human beings, as a philosophy or an ethic, as African humanism, and as a worldview.
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17 Feb 2024
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Measuring the Soundscape Quality in Urban Spaces
The goals of a good soundscape are to create a sense of place, provide comfort to the users, and encourage intractability in a public space. At the same time, many public areas in cities are having problems due to the weakness in creating the opportunity for people to attend.
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17 Feb 2024
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Traditional Tujia Village Architecture in Southwest Hubei, China
A traditional village is a spatial unit comprising a community of farmers who live and reproduce in a specific area for generations. Traditional villages are a product of Chinese agricultural civilization and they have extremely high historical and cultural values. The rapid urbanization in China in the past four decades has significantly affected traditional villages, resulting in a series of problems such as limited space, damaged style, weak sense of place, and loss of skills.
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06 Feb 2024
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Irrigation in Al-Andalus
The Berber and Arab conquest of the Iberian Peninsula in 711 C.E. led to a profound transformation of the agricultural landscape. The layout of the irrigated areas, both rural and urban, is recognisable because it is the result of social and technological choices. But irrigated agriculture was not the only option in Al-Andalus.
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29 Jan 2024
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Urban Spatial Structures in Historic Cities
The role of culture in urban competitiveness is becoming increasingly important. How historic cities identify and protect the spatial structures formed since ancient times, which are the carriers of urban culture, has become an important issue.
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26 Jan 2024
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