1 day ago · City Life | As the flowers bloom in spring, an ancient temple in Guangdong is being expanded. With its square sporting a new look, the green space has also become beautiful. The East Square of the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall, located on the east side of the hall and above the subway concourse, had been sealed off for about 10 years due to subway ...

10 hours ago · Many sections of the canal, measuring 35–50 cm wide and 30–65 cm deep, were carved into living rock. These sections feature flow regulators designed in a zigzag pattern to reduce water speed and erosion, spillways, and numerous petroglyphs depicting the cosmogony of the ancient Caxamarcas, who built the canal.

10 hours ago · Abstract. The present study analysed archaeological pottery in the early Yayoi period of the prehistoric Japanese archipelago, i.e. Ongagawa style pottery, which has been traditionally regarded as an indicator of the spread of rice farming in the archipelago. ... SPHARM coefficients were estimated by minimizing the least-square errors of ...

10 hours ago · A square pyramid and the associated abstract polytope. Here, the elements of a square pyramid can be defined as the partially ordered set. One modern approach is based on the theory of abstract polyhedra. These can be defined as partially ordered sets whose elements are the vertices, edges, and faces of a polyhedron. A vertex or edge element is ...

10 hours ago · In ancient Greece, the serpent-haired Gorgon Medusa represented a terrifying force, while the serpent-entwined Caduceus symbolized healing and diplomacy. ... Contemporary art utilizes the snake motif in diverse ways, from abstract expressions of its form to symbolic representations of environmental issues or societal anxieties. The artistic ...

10 hours ago · The ancient Chinese conceived of the earth—the human realm—as a square, like a tool in the citation above, and the heavens—the non-human realm—as round, like the abovementioned hole. Using the purely human to affect an aspect of the necessarily non-human is thus like “…[using] a square tool to chisel out a round hole”.

10 hours ago · To Liu Yanjun, imperfection is absolute and eternal, just like sculpting. When he realized there could be a different interpretation of it. TOUWANG:This is an exhibition made of broken. porcelain pieces and stone wastes—things people already forgot and discarded.In the context of the beauty of anachronism, do you think they have individual values of their existence?

10 hours ago · Abstract. Aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) is the most widespread, toxic, and harmful mycotoxin, and maize is highly susceptible to AFB1 contamination, posing significant risks to human and animal health. ... model for AFB1 content was constructed by combining different levels of data fusion strategies with a partial least squares (PLS) regression algorithm ...

10 hours ago · Background Almost 10% of all known animal species belong to Lepidoptera: moths and butterflies. To understand how this incredible diversity evolved we assess the role of gene gain in driving early lepidopteran evolution. Here, we compared the complete genomes of 115 insect species, including 99 Lepidoptera, to search for novel genes coincident with the …

10 hours ago · Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel [a] (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher and one of the most influential figures of German idealism and 19th-century philosophy.His influence extends across the entire range of contemporary philosophical topics, from metaphysical issues in epistemology and ontology, to political philosophy, the philosophy …