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Capacity building needed to reap the benefits of access to biodiversity collections
PLANTS, 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
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Social InclusionTransnational research settings create shared linguistic spaces between researchers and participants that are framed by global power relations, postcolonial constellations, and unequal access to resources.
Gwendolyn Gilliéron, Marie Hoppe
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A new biographical studies for educational leadership : challenges from a postcolonial and globalizing world [PDF]
, 2017 This paper examines the nature, role and development of biographical studies in educational administration and leadership, how it has changed under neo-liberalism and the challenges posed by postcolonial studies. It first examines the nature and value of
Samier, Eugenie A.
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PLANTS, 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
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The Interview Archive "Youth in the 20th Century" at the POSOPA e.V.
Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2000 The first part of the contribution briefly describes POSOPA e.V., the organizing institution of the archives and its corpus of interviews. The POSOPA e.V.
Roland Gröschel
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Biographical research in social work
Human Affairs, 2014 Abstract This paper looks at the possibilities of using biographical research in social work focusing on the elderly. Social work with the elderly uses or should use biographical data to create individual plans for clients or for the purpose of sensory activation. Narrative interviews are a form of interaction between a senior client and
Lucie Kozlová, Martina Hrušková
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The 43rd Parliament: traits and trends [PDF]
Drawing on the statistical tables featured in the 32nd edition of the Parliamentary Handbook, this paper examines the biographical details of the senators and members of Australia\u27s 43rd Parliament.IntroductionIn recent years, academics and media ...
Martin Lumb
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Coping Difficulties After Hospitalization [PDF]
, 2008 Coping difficulties of 113 adults 3 weeks after hospital discharge were identified using the Post-Discharge Coping Difficulty Scale and a brief focused telephone interview (11-item guide). Overall, low difficulty scores were reported (M = 23.9, SD = 18.2,
Miller, Judith Fitzgerald +2 more
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PLANTS, 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
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International student subjectivities: biographical investments for liquid times [PDF]
, 2005 The international student as an object of study has typically been understood through the frame of cultural identity, mapped back to notions of fixed, static notions of cultural difference.
Doherty, Catherine A., Singh, Parlo
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