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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “""Real" and "declared" cultural property"”.
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To repatriate or not to repatriate: developing a guidance framework for assisting in the resolution of cultural property disputes
Repatriation is the process of returning cultural artefacts, sacred objects and human remains to countries, communities and indigenous peoples where a rightful claim has been established. Museums and other repositories may willingly repatriate items to those legitimately seeking their return and so …
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Commercial real estate debt security market in Japan : a comparative study with the U.S. CMBS market
… has been inactive over the past ten years. Land price has dropped drastically and Japanese commercial banks have a huge amount of NPLs. Many borrowers have over-borrowed and some of them have declared bankruptcy. Banks cannot make loans actively and many companies suffer from lack of capital. …
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From the lab to the real world : sources of error in UF6 gas enrichment monitoring
… to help keep up with the increasing size and complexity of todays gas centrifuge enrichment plants (GCEPs). One of the primary goals of the IAEA is to detect the production of uranium at levels greater than those an enrichment facility may have declared. In order to accomplish this goal, …
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Use of Molecular Methods to Authenticate Animal Species and Tissue in Bovine Liver Dietary Supplements
… methods available for processed animal tissues and premium pricing for dietary supplements. Therefore, the objective of this research was to use molecular methods to authenticate dietary supplements claiming to contain “bovine liver” or “beef liver” through the verification of species and animal …
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Modeling next generation air traffic control system with petri net
… higher workload than ever before. The FAA has declared that the existing ATC system will transition to a new system known as "Free Flight". "Free Flight" will change today's ATC system by giving pilots increased flexibility to choose and modify their routes in real time, thereby reducing cost …
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Effects and mitigation of natural hazards in retail networks
… been increasing over the last 10 years. Understanding the impact of natural hazards on retail networks is crucial to make effective planning against disruptions. We used daily sales and inventory data from a country-wide retail network and natural emergencies historic data to quantify the …
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La imagen fotográfica del patrimonio monumental declarado en La Rioja hasta 1936. El Fondo Fotográfico del Instituto de Estudios Riojanos
… photographic image of the monumental heritage declared in La Rioja until 1936 through the architectural photographs preserved in the digitized Photographic Fund of the Instituto de Estudios Riojanos. Based on the cataloguing of more than two hundred photographic images featuring seven of the …
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Achieving sustainable development on the Croatian waterfront ... : challenges and opportunities
Croatia stands true to its marketing slogan, "the Mediterranean as it once was", with tiny tiled-roof villages dotting the unspoiled coastline-- but for how long? Since it declared independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, Croatia has been on the rise attracting tourists to its Adriatic coastline and …
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An Archeology of Postmodern Architecture: A Reading of Charles Jencks' work
A powerful sense of discontinuity and rupture, a simultaneity of theory and practice as well as a critique of bourgeois art forms are some of the common features that modern and postmodern discourses share. Despite the similarities between the two movements, they tend to be portrayed and defined in …
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Uncommon work: Utopia, labor, and environment in late twentieth-century American fiction
… disappearance of any political economic system, real or imaginary, that could feasibly offer an alternative to liberal capitalism. Utopia, understood as the aesthetic expression of the desire for alternative social realities, has been declared impossible for political imagining since the late …
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Design, development and implementation of an object-oriented data model for small and medium sized winemaking enterprises in Australia.
… of the increased complexity of the market and the winemaking process itself. Accurate record keeping goes hand-in-hand with complex sequencing of processes required to efficiently operate these enterprises. Unfortunately, the record keeping aspect is often regarded as an added burden to the …
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A Study of Intra-Racial Violence Among Black Males: A Matter of "Diss"Respect
… their participation in violent confrontations and define the concept of disrespect. The purpose of this study is to glean whether or not a relationship exists between the rationales offered for participating in violent confrontations and being "dissed." This study also seeks to examine the …
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Il giudice costituzionale colombiano vis-à-vis dello sfollamento interno
… the fundamental rights of IDPs, both as a judge and a public political actor. Colombia has the second highest number of IDPs in the world, making it a crucial social problem for human rights and humanitarian law. The Colombian constitutional judge declared the “estado de cosas inconstitucional” …
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The psychasthenia of deep space: evaluating the ‘reassertion of space in critical social theory’
… the claimed ‘spatial turn’ in geographical and social theory. Section 1 examines this theoretical literature, drawing heavily on Soja as the self declared taxonomist of the genre, and also seeks parallels with more populist texts on cities and space, to suggest, following Williams, that …
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Simple strategies for variance uncertainty in meta-analysis
… estimate is crucial; a correct value of the standard error of the point estimate entails that the resulting significance of the analysis is correctly stated and that confidence intervals have correct coverage probabilities. Stating an incorrect precision, on the contrary, can often result in …
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Unheard Voices, Unlearned Lessons. Seeking to Belong in Adult Basic Education – a Grounded Theory Study
… in the learning system, although they had declared their intention to improve their literacy and made the very difficult first steps. Through listening to the stories of this, marginalised and frequently unheard, minority of Basic Education students, a number of factors have been noted …
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Simple Strategies for Variance Uncertainty in Meta-Analysis
… estimate is crucial; a correct value of the standard error of the point estimate entails that the resulting significance of the analysis is correctly stated and that confidence intervals have correct coverage probabilities. Stating an incorrect precision, on the contrary, can often result in …
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Convergence and collaboration : integrating cultural and natural resource management
… by conflicting priorities perpetuated by the real and perceived dichotomy between cultural and natural resource management, their practitioners, their disciplines, and their values. Current guidelines promote integrating cultural and natural resource management to ensure holistic management of …
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The politics of bargaining and negotiations in political conflicts with special reference to political settlements in Southern Africa
… to be illegal mass demonstrations were suddenly declared legal. Long feared security prisoners were released and restrictions on banned organizations uplifted. High expectations were raised for the possibility of a negotiated settlement. In response to this new political development, the African …
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Evaluation of seismic Vulnerability and Strengthening of heritage Buildings. Case Study: The Giralda of Seville
The preservation of the cultural heritage is a current and challenging issue for the sustainable development of countries. In the case of the European Union (EU), this is an important challenge due to its richness and diversity. Therefore, regional and local authorities of the EU member states are …
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