Polychrome Marbles in Christian Churches: Examples from the Antependium of Baroque Altars in Apulia (Southern Italy)

The antependia, realized in polychrome marbles during the Baroque period in two Christian churches of Apulia (Southern Italy), were candle snuffer big w on-site petrographically investigated by the naked eye to obtain information regarding the types of used rocks; the precision in the making of the marble tesserae was also assessed.Most of the poly

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Landscape index for indicating water quality and application to master plan of regional lake cluster restoration

Understanding the relation between landscape pattern and water quality is essential to making a master plan for restoration of regional lake and wetland clusters, which has not yet been well resolved.Here, we studied deroyal finger spring the impacts of landscape pattern changes on water quality over lake clusters, taking the aquaculture area in th

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Genes divided according to the relative position of the longest intron show increased representation in different KEGG pathways

Abstract Despite the fact that introns mean an energy and time burden for eukaryotic cells, they play an irreplaceable role in the diversification and regulation of protein production.As a common feature of eukaryotic genomes, it has been reported that in protein-coding genes, the longest intron is usually one of the first introns.The goal of our w

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