Academic Articles & Research Papers

Nanotechnology in Textiles

Increasing customer demand for durable and functional apparel manufactured in a sustainable manner has created an opportunity for nanomaterials to be integrated into textile substrates. Nanomoieties can induce stain repellence, wrinkle-free...

Nanotechnology: The new perspective in precision agriculture

Nanotechnology is an interdisciplinary research field. In recent past efforts have been made to improve agricultural yield through exhaustive research in nanotechnology. The green revolution resulted in blind usage of pesticides and chemica...

Innovations in nanotechnology for water treatment

Important challenges in the global water situation, mainly resulting from worldwide population growth and climate change, require novel innovative water technologies in order to ensure a supply of drinking water and reduce global water poll...

Development of nanotechnologies

This article summarizes the key findings and recommendations of the Royal Society/Royal Academy of Engineering Report on Nanotechnology1. The report is enthusiastic about the great potential benefits of nanotechnologies. Uncertainties assoc...

DNA nanotechnology

Environmental Risks of Nanotechnology: National Nanotechnology Initiative Funding, 2000−2004

By considering risk in the early stages of a technology, costs of identifying important health and environmental impacts after a technology has widely diffused can be avoided. Nanotechnology, involving materials and objects less than 100 nm...

Introduction to Nanotechnology

By taking a new approach and focusing on functional applications, Deborah Chung gives an interesting account of what composite materials can do and achieve, says Yiu-Wing Mai....

Characterization of Ancient Tripitaka

Tripitaka is the world’s most comprehensive version of Buddhist sutra. There are limited numbers of Tripitaka currently preserved, most of them present various patterns of degradation. As little is known about the materials and crafts used...

Materiales para el estudio de la Edad del Bronce en el Valle Medio del Vinalopó (Alicante)

Se presenta un grupo de poblados del Bronce en el Valle Medio del Vinalopó, provincia de Alicante, y los materiales procedentes de ellos y conservados en colecciones privadas. Su conocimiento permite incluir esta comarca en la cultura del B...

Review of Novum Inventorium Sepulchrale: Kentish Anglo-Saxon Graves and Grave Goods in the Sonia Chadwick Hawkes Archive (Online Digital Corpus)

In 2007, the year in which the Society of Antiquaries of London celebrated its tercentenary, what more fitting tribute to those industrious individuals than that their work be made accessible to a new generation of students. One means was b...

Faisons parler les pierres

By the 13th century AD, Thule people - ancestors of today’s Inupiat - occupied most of Northwestern Alaska. Since then, and in a growing quantity after the 15th century and to the Contact Period in late 18th century, jade tools and objects ...

Conference Review: 2nd Experimental Archaeology Student Symposium

The Department of Archaeology at the University of Sheffield hosted the 2nd Experimental Archaeology Student Symposium (EAStS) between the 28th February and 1st March 2020, following on from the first successful meeting held in Newcastle in...

Photography and other Media at the Service of Ottoman Archaeology

From its earliest days, photography was linked to material remains of the past. Western pioneers of the medium were attracted to photographing Ottoman lands, especially the land of the Pharaohs, and the Holy Land. The Ottomans also seized u...

New Materials From Excavation «Orient» at Olbian Necropolis

At the excavation site in Olbia in 2010—2019 a new sector was investigated in wide areas, which was called the «Orient» after the name of the nearest benchmark. The specific features of this site were established, which was used for burials...

Photography and archaeology

Through photographs we preserve the past, and looking for the past is the very job of the archaeologist. But what are we looking at in an archaeological photograph? Archaeological photography is often largely deserted, to be scanned with a ...

Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice

The text is organized around the key questions that archaeologists ask about the past and details the practical and theoretical ways in which answers to those questions are sought. The seventh edition has been thoroughly revised and updated...

Time and Archaeology

The concept of time is salient to all human affairs and can be understood in a variety of different ways. This pioneering collection is the first comprehensive survey of time and archaeology. It includes chapters from a broad, international...

Materials Issues in Art and Archaeology

the purpose of this meeting is to present new and current research which: shares an empirical methodology of observation and measurement; concerns interdisciplinary studies of art, archaeology, architecture, ancient technology, and conserva...

The Archaeology of Ethnogenesis

List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Ethnogenesis and the Archaeology of Identity I. HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXTS 2. Spanish-Colonial San Francisco 3. From Casta to Californio, I: Who Lived at El Pr...

Models in Archaeology

This major study reflects the increasing significance of careful model formation and testing in those academic subjects that are struggling from intuitive and aesthetic obscurantism toward a more disciplined and integrated approach to their...