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Long-term complex monitoring of horse populations: its advantages and problems

open access: yesNature Conservation Research: Заповедная наука, 2019
Complex monitoring of a feral horse population (Rostovsky State Nature Biosphere Reserve, Russia) started in 2006. Its main goal was to assess the state of the group and to forecast its future prospects.
Natalia N. Spasskaya
doaj   +1 more source

Development of Physics Applied to Medicine in the UK, 1945–90 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
Annotated and edited transcript of a Witness Seminar held on 5 July 2005. Introduction by Dr Jeff Hughes.First published by the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, 2006.©The Trustee of the Wellcome Trust, London, 2006.All volumes ...
Christie, DA, Tansey, EM
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Capacity building needed to reap the benefits of access to biodiversity collections

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Global conservation efforts increasingly depend on digitised natural history collections, yet the benefits of this digital data are not equally shared. We analysed biodiversity specimens and citation data from Montserrat and the Cayman Islands to assess who collected these specimens, how they are used, and by whom.
Quentin Groom   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biographic Method in Social Policy Assessment

open access: yesBulletin of Kemerovo State University. Series: Political, Sociological and Economic sciences, 2021
The article describes a case of applying biographical method to the study of the memory policy. The research featured archival sources, personal documents, and published family memoirs of foreign citizens repressed in the 1930s. The paper demonstrates advantages of using the method as part of interdisciplinary approach in a hybrid methodological ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Name Disambiguation from link data in a collaboration graph [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
poster abstractAbstract—The entity disambiguation task partitions the records belonging to multiple persons with the objective that each decomposed partition is composed of records of a unique person.
Al Hasan, Mohammad   +2 more
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Implementation of in Process Surface Metrology for R2R Flexible PV Barrier Films [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Thin functional barrier layers of aluminum oxide (Al2O3) that are used particularly in photovoltaic (PV) modules to prevent the possibility of water vapor ingress should be applied over the entire PV surface without any defects.
Blunt, Liam   +4 more
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Digitization connects scattered specimens and enables new historical research: Plants from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884)

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Widespread museum digitization initiatives have made the world's herbaria more accessible than ever, launching a renaissance of specimen use. We highlight the value of digitization to bolster both scientific and historical research using the specimens from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884) to the Canadian arctic, remembered for its tragedy ...
J. Mason Heberling, Jackson P. Wright
wiley   +1 more source

The biographical construction of Robert Fergusson, 1774-1900 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article traces the biographical construction of Robert Fergusson from his death to the nineteenth-century biography by A.B. Grosart. It explores the influence of Romanticism, the Burns cult and the literature of sensibility on the construction of ...
Brown, R.L.
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Digitisation as archival intermediary: Quantifying and qualifying Greta B. Stevenson's mycological collector networks

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Mass digitisation of natural science collections and archives has increasingly become a priority for scientific heritage institutions. Here, we explore the potential of mass digitisation to improve our understanding of the nature and history of scientific collaboration. Focusing on mycologist Greta B.
Christopher Kreuzer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

La biographie d’objet : une écriture et une méthode critique

open access: yesImages Re-Vues, 2018
Biographical method applied to material objects is introduced by Igor Kopytoff in his paper, “The cultural biography of things,” published in 1986. Such method arguably can be used with relevance in contemporary critical thought, with caution against ...
Thierry Bonnot   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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