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This WG2 New Deliverable developed by Task Force 3 is a table summarising complementary methods (linked to D2.15) divided into 3 groups: -less applied geophysical methods in archaeology -airborne/remote sensing -geochemical & geotechnical methods AIM: Linked to WG2_D15 (review paper/white paper/integration in database) TASK Leader: Ekhine Garcia-Garcia TEAM: Jeroen, George, Jan, Andrei & Mahmut PROGRESS: The first draft was developed during the SAGA working group meeting and completed on 14 Feb 2020

Phoebe Apperson Hearst měla velmi úspěšného vlastního syna Williama, který byl ale více jako jeho otec: tvrdý obchodník. Našla však jemnou, uměleckou duši v malíři Orrinu Peckovi (1860–1921), který byl údajně gay a který ji, ještě za života své vlastní matky, začal oslovovat „má druhá mámo.“ Na základě podrobného výzkumu jejich vzájemné korespondence v Peckově pozůstalosti se můžeme ptát, jak moc si byla progresivní, bohatá žena 19. století, jakou byla Phoebe Hearst, vědoma Peckovy sexuality a pokud ano, jestli s tím neměla problém, nebo šlo o nevyřčené tajemství mezi nimi? Jejich příběh představí historik umění Ladislav Zikmund-Lender. Phoebe Apperson Hearst had a very successful son of William, but he was more like his father: a tough businessman. However, she found a delicate, artistic soul in the painter Orrin Peck (1860–1921), who was allegedly gay and who, while still his own mother's life, began to address her as “my second mother.” Based on a detailed study of their correspondence in Peck's estate, we may ask how much a progressive, rich 19th-century woman like Phoebe Hearst was aware of Peck's sexuality, and if so, if she had no problem with it, or was it an unspoken secret between them? Their story will be presented by art historian Ladislav Zikmund-Lender.

In the text, the authors demonstrate that a Czech open-air museum was founded in Prague in 1895, well ahead other European countries. It was the first open-air museum in the then Europe south of Scandinavia. It was far ahead of its time also through the connection with a large collection museum. The original exhibition village changed into a permanent open-air museum. The Czech „skansen”, likewise the Swedish one, meant an inspiration for further exhibition and museum projects. From the very beginning of the existence of an ethnographic village at the Czechoslavic Ethnographic Exhibition, it was planned to maintain it. For subsequent six years, the village was used for ethnographic and cultural purposes, just as current open-air museums are. Its spaces were not closed and non-functional. For this reason, we could consider the ethnographic village to be „wooden heritage ̋, which does no longer exist now. Despite its uniqueness, and scholar, social and cultural benefits, the ethnographic village from the year 1895 has not survived. Its extinction in the year 1901 was caused by a wood-decay fungus. The authors believe there is still a possibility of renewing this ethnographic village.

At the Kamenný rybník locality, it was possible to palynologically detect a significant settlement in the Mesolithic period with such a degree of deforestation that was not recorded throughout prehistoric times. Although according to archaeological evidence, it seems that the settlement could have been denser, palynological research did not confirm this (Hůrka bog, Merklín, Kamenný rybník). Poor sandy soils and peaty biotops were not attractive for settlement. Today's nutrient- and species-poor pine-oak forests developed in dependence on human settlement. The relict taiga, which would have persisted since the last Ice Age, was not confirmed in the case of the Pilsen Basin.

Special Interest Tourism is often seen as a form of ‘alternative’, ‘ethical’ or ‘environmentally responsible’ tourism and it occurs when the tourists’ motivation and decision-making are primarily determined by a particular special interest with a focus either on activities and/or destinations and settings and search for novel experiences (Novotná et al. 2019). \nOne of the types of sites are called geocultural sites (Reynard and Giusti 2018). Geoarcheological sites can be considered a type of geocultural sites and can be defined as sites where geological aspects are accompanied and closely related to archaeological issues. \nThe Holedná Hill (Brno, Czech Republic) can be considered an example of such geoarcheological site. It is important from the Earth-science point of view and it includes specific archaeological issues that are closely related to the geodiversity. This paper briefly sums the natural and cultural values of Holedná Hill and based on the geomorphosite assessment and SWOT analysis.\n

We consider echo state networks (ESNs) for text classification. More specifically, we investigate the learning capabilities of ESNs with pre-trained word embedding as input features, trained on the IMDb and TREC sentiment and question classification datasets, respectively. First, we introduce a customized training paradigm for the processing of multiple input time series (the inputs texts) associated with categorical targets (their corresponding classes). For sentiment tasks, we use an additional frozen attention mechanism which is based on an external lexicon, and hence requires only negligible computational cost. Within this paradigm, ESNs can be trained in tens of seconds on a GPU. We show that ESNs significantly outperform their Ridge regression baselines provided with the same embedded features. ESNs also compete with classical Bi-LSTM networks while keeping a training time of up to 23 times faster. These results show that ESNs can be considered as robust, efficient and fast candidates for text classification tasks. Overall, this study falls within the context of light and fast-to-train models for NLP.

The detailed obituary is devoted to the life and scientific contribution of Dr. Lyubomila Solenkova (1976–2019), a Bulgarian scholar in the field of history and Bulgarian-Czech cultural relations.

The detailed obituary is devoted to the life and scientific contribution of Ljubomila Simeonova Solenkova (1976–2019), a Bulgarian scholar in the field of history and Bulgarian-Czech relations.

Description and discussion of intentional Pavlovian burials, in contrast to isolated bones frome the same archaeological and taphonomical context.