scholarly journals Conservation of Metalic Objects: A Case Study of Old Silver Coin

2021 ◽  
pp. 127-133
Author(s):  
Danish Mahmood ◽  
Jahangeer . ◽  
Shainda Masroor
Keyword(s):  
Economic Value ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Great Role ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Natural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Silver Coin ◽  
Personal Collection

India is a land of rich cultural as well as natural heritage presents both in tangible and intangible forms. This rich heritage needs to be preserved and safeguarded for future generations. Lots of culture and many cultural objects testify this. These objects can be anything like metal, pottery leather or anything else which possesses cultural value, aesthetic value, economic value or historical value. These cultural objects can be beneficial only if they are taken care of properly so that they can be prevented from deterioration. Metal conservation is activity dedicated to the protection and preservation of historical and archaeological object made partly or entirely of metal. All methods cannot be applied to all objects as such. Research has to be done before the technique is applied in the conservation and restoration of metal objects. If we talk about the coins so these coins also play the great role in the various studies like Anthropological, Historical and other studies. Present paper is based on a case study of old and corroded silver coin from the personal collection of one of the authors. This study was carried out at home during Covid-19 Pandemic. In this paper we also talked about the documentation, complete conservation and restoration processes of silver coin.

Evaluation of Architectural Heritage by Various Multi-Criteria Decision-Making Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 336-370
Author(s):  
Partha Sarathi Mishra ◽  
Soumi Muhuri
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Architectural Heritage ◽  
Ecological Value ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Weighted Sum Method ◽  
Product Assessment

Selection of the architectural heritage (AH) for conservation considers many dimensions and parameters, which is a multitasking process. Many parameters can be valued directly, while others indirectly. The process of evaluation should be robust for all decision-makers. As such, the multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) process seems apt. This research evaluates various MCDM methods using Odishan temple architecture as the case study. Five dimensions as architectural and aesthetic value, economic value, environmental and ecological value, historical value, and socio-cultural value have been identified. The selected MCDM methods are weighted sum method, weighted product method, weighted aggregated sum product assessment, evaluation based on distance from average solutions, techniques for the order of preference by similarity to ideal solutions, additive ratio assessment, complex proportional assessment, combinative distance-based assessment, and VIKOR. This study compares different MCDA methods for the best AH using different dimensions.

scholarly journals Pîrvu Ionică, Patrimoniul UNESCO – himeră, panaceu sau formă de normalitate? / UNESCO heritage – a pipe dream, a panacea or normalcy?

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-195
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
The State ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Legal Representation ◽  
Good Case ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
Pipe Dream ◽  
Rosia Montana

A country’s cultural heritage is the burden of that country, namely of the legal representation of it, the state. Outstanding cultural heritage, relevant for the entire humanity, should be enlisted under UNESCO heritage. To have a cultural value enlisted by UNESCO is an opportunity, even economical one, whose valuation lies on the state where such cultural value is placed. Without coherent management plans and active valuation actions for the benefit of communities, culture itself becomes a reason for public refusal. Roșia Montana is a good case study on the conflict between cultural and economic value of cultural heritage.

CASE STUDY: Regional Cultural Differences Within and Across Four Western European Countries

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-47
Author(s):  
Nadine Waehning ◽  
Ibrahim Sirkeci ◽  
Stephan Dahl ◽  
Sinan Zeyneloglu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
Business Plans ◽  
Regional Markets ◽  
Gender Education ◽  
Western European

This case study examines and illustrates within country regional cultural differences and cross border cultural similarities across four western European countries. Drawing on the data from the World Values Survey (WVS), we refer to the Schwartz Cultural Values Inventory in the survey. The demographic variables of age, gender, education level, marital status and income vary across the regions and hence, have significant effects on the cultural value dimensions across regions. The findings help a better understanding of the homogeneity and heterogeneity of regions withinand across countries. Both researchers and managers will have to justify their sampling methods and generalisations more carefully when drawing conclusions for a whole country. This case study underlines the limited knowledge about regional within country cultural differences, while also illustrating the simplification of treating each country as culturally homogeneous. Cross-country business strategies connecting transnational regional markets based on cultural value characteristics need to take these similarities and differences into account when designating business plans.

Effective Altruism

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Animal Welfare ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Global Poverty ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Helping Others ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Effective Altruism

The effective altruism movement consists of a growing global community of people who organize significant parts of their lives around two key ideas, represented in its name. Altruism: If we use a significant portion of the resources in our possession—whether money, time, or talents—with a view to helping others, we can improve the world considerably. Effectiveness: When we do put such resources to altruistic use, it is crucial to focus on how much good this or that intervention is reasonably expected to do per unit of resource expended (for example, per dollar donated). While global poverty is a widely used case study in introducing and motivating effective altruism, if the ultimate aim is to do the most good one can with the resources expended, it is far from obvious that global poverty alleviation is highest priority cause area. In addition to ranking possible poverty-alleviation interventions against one another, we can also try to rank interventions aimed at very different types of outcome against one another. This includes, for example, interventions focusing on animal welfare or future generations. The scale and organization of the effective altruism movement encourage careful dialogue on questions that have perhaps long been there, throwing them into new and sharper relief, and giving rise to previously unnoticed questions. In the present volume, the first of its kind, a group of internationally recognized philosophers, economists, and political theorists contribute in-depth explorations of issues that arise once one takes seriously the twin ideas of altruistic commitment and effectiveness.

scholarly journals The Social Balance Sheet as Part of the Annual Report in Financial Institutions. A Case Study: Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3075
Author(s):  
Miguel Ángel Martín Valmayor ◽  
Beatriz Duarte Monedero ◽  
Luis A. Gil-Alana
Keyword(s):  
Annual Report ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Economic Value Added ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Balance ◽  
Corporate Social

In this paper, we examine the concept of the social balance sheet (SBS) and its evolution in corporate social reports that large companies have to issue today in their yearly statements. The SBS allows companies to evaluate their compliance with corporate social responsibility during a specific period and quantify its level of accomplishment. From a methodological perspective, this research analyzed the information that should be contained in the SBS report comparing economic value added (EVA) with other social value added statements (SVA), analyzing also in detail the case of Spain’s Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) bank as one of the pioneers in offering social reports. Along with this study, their metrics following EVA were recalculated and a more academic SVA statement was proposed for this specific case.

scholarly journals Can politically oriented interventions in built heritage contribute to its authenticity? Erbil Citadel’s Babylonian Gate as a case study

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammed Awadh Jasim ◽  
Laura Hanks ◽  
Katharina Borsi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Value ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Projection Screen ◽  
Conflicting Demands ◽  
Existential Issue ◽  
Over Time

AbstractToday, the concept of built heritage authenticity is a projection screen for conflicting demands and thus a ‘contested field’. Short-sighted readings started to drag the concept behind different ill-considered treatises, in which some heritage aspects loosely outweighed other aspects. Archaeological perspectives that tend to freeze heritage structures in time, such as those that are privileged upon other contemporary socio-cultural issues, while political takes also overshadowed other epistemological prospects, and vice versa. Repercussions have made inclusion of what is regarded as ‘inevitable changes’ within the built context problematic as to the re-interpretation and thus assessment of its authenticity. Despite their possible momentary threat to the latter, these changes may add to the cultural value of the context over time, granting new potential that may instead boost its authenticity. This paper investigates the potential continuity of Erbil Citadel’s Babylonian Gate as an inevitable change within the site’s built context by studying the Gate’s controversial political impacts on the context’s authenticity. This study affirms that authenticity is a transcendental value of an open-ended progressive nature, which cannot be reduced to a specific period or properties within the historical chronology of built heritage. Hence, authenticity should be approached as a meaningful existential issue, while revelation of its essence and thus its dimension entails precise scrutiny of both the tangibles and intangibles of the context. However, to be part of its authenticity, any change in the context should be adaptable and possibly incorporated as a new value within its cultural strata, thus enabling progressive support for site authenticity.

scholarly journals Performance Management for Growth: A Framework Based on EVA

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 102
Author(s):  
Mihaela Brindusa Tudose ◽  
Valentina Diana Rusu ◽  
Silvia Avasilcai
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Performance Appraisal ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Reference Model ◽  
Corporate Sustainability ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Research Perspectives

Some of the constructs in the field of performance management are intuitive or not empirically validated. This study provides a data-driven framework for measuring and improving the performance through synchronized strategies. The ultimate goal was to provide support for increasing business performance. Empirical research materializes in an exploratory case study and a statistical analysis with econometric models. The case study revealed that a company can improve its performance, even in periods of growth, being characterized by consistent investments. The statistical analysis, performed on a restricted sample of companies, confirmed the results that were provided by the case study. The measurement of performance was made by capitalizing on financial and non-financial data precisely to intensify the interest for corporate sustainability. The obtained results, contrary to previous research that showed that economic value added (EVA) is negatively influenced by the increase in invested capital, open up new research perspectives to find out whether, at the industry level, performance appraisal that is based on EVA stimulates the development of a business’s economic capital. The research has a double utility: scientific (by providing an overview of the state of the art in the field of performance management) and practical (by providing a reference model for measuring and monitoring performance).

Cultural Identity and Continuity - Case Study of Authentic Conservation of Xi'an Bei Yuan Men Historic District

2013 ◽  
Vol 357-360 ◽  
pp. 1840-1846
Author(s):  
Hong Yan Li ◽  
Fei Wang
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Historic District ◽  
Development Mode ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Core ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Authentic Development ◽  
Corresponding Analysis

This paper discusses cultural identity and continuity of historic district based on the principle of authenticity in conservation field. The objective is to find out appropriate solutions for a historic district and to keep its special cultural value. It develops corresponding analysis in both physical aspects and cultural aspects, emphasizing the living feature of a historic district. The author advocates that it is significant to keep local residents living in the district since they are the cultural carriers and the core to conserve their cultural identity. The paper advocates an authentic development mode in historic district.

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