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By exploring the distinctive tasks and tools of the ecomuseum paradigm, the essay aims to evaluate the actual and potential role of these institutions within the present context, to investigate their efficiency in operating as progressive tools of ...
Elena Montanari
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This article concerns efforts to increase the accessibility of art through digital collections on the web. Features for display and comparison used by the platform of the Swedish artist Ivar Arosenius and by web projects such as Europeana and Google Art &
Karin Wagner
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Museums, exchanges, and their contribution to Joseph Nye’s concept of ‘soft power’
This paper discusses the role that museums and art institutions have in recent years played in international relations, and their contribution to the concept of soft power, coined by Joseph Nye; referring to a country’s ability to persuade rather than ...
Leanne Hoogwaerts
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This article argues that Pierre Bourdieu’s conceptual framework of habitus, field and symbolic capital has much to offer museum and heritage visitor studies.
Bella Dicks
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For the Record:[un] official voices at the V&A
This report gives an overview of the historical and affective value of oral history recordings drawing on my current research on curators at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Linda Sandino
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Samandrag Naturtilhøva og geografien i Kyst-Noreg har medført at ferjer for mange har vorte ein sjølvsagt del av kvardagen. I denne artikkelen er eg ute etter å analysere og forstå korleis folk handterer eit tilvære med avhengigheit av ferjer.
Heidi Richardson
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Presentation of Qatari Identity at National Museum of Qatar: Between Imagination and Reality
This article discusses the proposal of the presentation of a single homogenous identity at the new National Museum of Qatar (NMoQ), due to open in 2019, presenting a discussion of Qatari identity and the historical factors that create such an identity ...
Mariam I. Al-Hammadi
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The Watts Towers (WT), an iconic Los Angeles artwork created by Sabato Rodia in 1921–1954, is covered with mosaics whose elements include thousands of mollusk shells. Little is known about the diversity or sources of these shells.
Bruno Pernet +2 more
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Rice bran–derived neutral EQRPR (L‐Glu‐L‐Gln‐L‐Arg‐L‐Pro‐L‐Arg) pentapeptide was structurally and biologically characterized using DFT calculations, vibrational spectroscopy, molecular docking, and molecular dynamics simulations. The DFT/wb97xd/6–31++G(d,p) level of theory showed the best agreement with the experimental spectra.
Gozde Yilmaz +3 more
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The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2025/26: G protein‐coupled receptors
The Concise Guide to Pharmacology 2025/26 marks the seventh edition in this series of biennial publications in the British Journal of Pharmacology. Presented in landscape format, the guide provides a comparative overview of the pharmacology of drug target families. The concise nature of the Concise Guide refers to the style of presentation, being clear,
Stephen P. H. Alexander +206 more
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