A race against time: monitoring the necropolis and the territory of Cyrene and Giarabub through protocols of remote sensing and collaboration with Libyan colleagues

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 69-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oliva Menozzi ◽  
Eugenio Di Valerio ◽  
Clara Tamburrino ◽  
Abdulrahim Saleh Shariff ◽  
Vincenzo d'Ercole ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Local People ◽  
Core Area ◽  
The Core ◽  
Psychological Barrier ◽  
Police Control ◽  
Large Sections

AbstractThe core area of Cyrene, despite recent upheavals, benefits from well-managed controls and fences that so far seem to have stopped the looting, although not the vandalism. These fences act mainly as a psychological barrier; for the local people, everything inside the fences is seen as ‘more important’ than what is outside. However, it is impossible to enclose all the monumental tombs, rock-cut sanctuaries and ancient farms and fortifications. The first type of damage we see is due to looting, which is increasing, and acts of vandalism. The lack of regulation and police control as well as increased urbanisation have caused a lot of uncontrolled building, causing the further destruction of large sections of the necropolis. A second type of damage is due to the lack of maintenance. In order to help restore the sites, the Universities of Urbino, Chieti, Roma 3, Naples 2 and the Mission of the MIBACT at Giarabub, in collaboration with the DoA, have organised courses on ‘Rescue restoration in emergency’. Despite the growing number of inspectors and technicians in Cyrene, there are still not enough archaeologists, guards or restorers. This paper explains these general issues and, as a case study, the remote but important area of Giarabub.

Creating continuous areas of old forest in long-term forest planning

2000 ◽  
Vol 30 (11) ◽  
pp. 1817-1823 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Öhman
Keyword(s):  
Net Present Value ◽  
Problem Formulation ◽  
Core Area ◽  
Northern Sweden ◽  
Present Value ◽  
The Core ◽  
Long Range Planning ◽  
The Cost

Harvest activities tend often to create landscapes where the old forest is fragmented into isolated patches that provide marginal conditions for species that inhabit forest interiors. This paper presents a long-range planning model designed to maximize the net present value and to create continuous patches of old forest. In this model, the spatial structure of old forest is controlled by core area and edge habitats. Core area is defined as the area of old forest that is free of edge effects from surrounding habitats. The core area requirement is set to a fixed value for each of a number of time periods, whereas the area of edge habitats, which should be as small as possible, is weighted against the net present value. The model is applied in a case study to an actual landscape consisting of 755 stands of forest in northern Sweden and solved using simulated annealing. The results show that distinct continuous patches of old forest are created when both a core area requirement and consideration of the amount of edge habitats are included in the problem formulation. The cost of creating continuous areas of old forest was found to be significant.

Tracking Coastal Sharks with small boats: Hammerhead Shark Pups as a case study

1992 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
KN Holland ◽  
CG Lowe ◽  
JD Peterson ◽  
A Gill
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Telemetry ◽  
Core Area ◽  
Operating Costs ◽  
Viable Option ◽  
Hammerhead Shark ◽  
The Core ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Communication Equipment

Acoustic telemetry techniques have been adapted for use with small boats to facilitate tracking of nearshore reef species. In addition to permitting tracking in areas where manoeuvrability and quick responses are required, the system has modest operating costs that make tracking experiments a viable option for a wide range of researchers. Tracking and communication equipment can be powered for several days by a single 12-V 8D truck battery. Current topics in shark biology that are amenable to these tracking techniques are discussed. For instance, hammerhead pups have been tracked on their natal grounds for periods of up to 13 days. Their daytime movements appeared to be restricted to a well defined 'core area' where a school of sharks hovered between 1 and 3 m off the lagoon floor. At night, the sharks became more active, expanding their range of movements before returning to the core area the next morning.

scholarly journals Network Modeling and Dynamic Mechanisms of Multi-Hazards—A Case Study of Typhoon Mangkhut

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 2198
Author(s):  
Yilong Niu ◽  
Jiayi Fang ◽  
Ruishan Chen ◽  
Zilong Xia ◽  
Hanqing Xu
Keyword(s):  
Heavy Rain ◽  
Economic Loss ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Core Area ◽  
Bipartite Network ◽  
Time Dimension ◽  
Damage Area ◽  
The Core ◽  
Disaster Loss

Coastal areas are home to billions of people and assets that are prone to natural disasters and climate change. In this study, we established a disaster network to assess the multi-hazards (gale and heavy rain) of typhoon disasters, specifically Typhoon Mangkhut of 2018 in coastal China, by applying the methodology of a bipartite network in both time dimension and spatial dimension. In this network, the edge set and adjacent matrix are based on the connection between an hour and a city with a multi-hazards impact that includes gales and heavy rain. We analyze the characteristics and structure of this disaster network and assess the multi-hazards that arose from Typhoon Mangkhut in different areas. The result shows that there are 14 cities in the core area and 21 cities in the periphery area, based on core–periphery classification in the disaster network. Although more damage area belongs to the periphery area, the percentage of the population affected by the typhoon and direct economic loss in GDP in the core area was 69.68% and 0.22% respectively, which is much higher than in the periphery area (55.58% and 0.06%, respectively) The core area suffered more from multi-hazards and had more disaster loss. This study shows that it is feasible to assess multiple hazards with a disaster network based on the bipartite network.

Patchwork of Industrial Neighborhoods around São Paulo Core Area: Mooca’s Case Study

2017 ◽  
Vol 03 (05) ◽  
pp. 314-324
Author(s):  
Adilson Costa Macedo ◽  
Gastão Santos Sales ◽  
Maria Isabel Imbronito
Keyword(s):  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Core Area ◽  
São Paulo

Possessing the Iconic Book

2012 ◽  
Vol 6 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 309-329
Author(s):  
Claudia V. Camp
Keyword(s):  
Second Century ◽  
Religious Literature ◽  
Ben Sira ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Iconic Status ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Woman Wisdom ◽  
Martin Marty

I propose that the notion of possession adds an important ideological nuance to the analyses of iconic books set forth by Martin Marty (1980) and, more recently, by James Watts (2006). Using the early second century BCE book of Sirach as a case study, I tease out some of the symbolic dynamics through which the Bible achieved iconic status in the first place, that is, the conditions in which significance was attached to its material, finite shape. For Ben Sira, this symbolism was deeply tied to his honor-shame ethos in which women posed a threat to the honor of his eternal name, a threat resolved through his possession of Torah figured as the Woman Wisdom. What my analysis suggests is that the conflicted perceptions of gender in Ben Sira’s text is fundamental to his appropriation of, and attempt to produce, authoritative religious literature, and thus essential for understanding his relationship to this emerging canon. Torah, conceived as female, was the core of this canon, but Ben Sira adds his own literary production to this female “body” (or feminized corpus, if you will), becoming the voice of both through the experience of perfect possession.

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