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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
wiley   +1 more source

Bret/BRAT

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Nicholas Smart
wiley   +1 more source

A Natural History of ‘Annoyances’: Knowing Weeds and Weeding Knowledge in the Early Royal Society and its ‘Georgicall Committee’

open access: yesRenaissance Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Seventeenth‐century virtuosi often figured themselves as epistemic weeders, grubbing up rank thickets of accumulated error. In this article, I argue that these metaphors were unnerved by the shifting status of weeds—ostensibly unwanted plants from the margins of cultivated space, unploughed land or the disturbed soils between growing crops—in ...
Francis Taylor
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Christmas tree cataract

open access: yesIndian Journal of Ophthalmology. Case Reports, 2023
Shabana Bharathi
doaj   +1 more source

Indigenous Foodways in Transition: A Qualitative Study With Māori Elders in Aotearoa New Zealand

open access: yesKōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online, Volume 21, Issue 3, September 2026.
Purpose: This study explored how the Māori food landscape and foodways have changed over the last 70 years, centring the voices of Māori elders whose lived experiences provide critical insight into the nutrition transition. Methods: Guided by a Māori worldview and Kaupapa Māori research principles, we engaged in conversations (kōrero) with Māori elders
Nikki Renall, Lisa Te Morenga
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Research aids christmas tree industry

open access: yesCalifornia Agriculture, 1977
The production and marketing of Christmas trees in California can be described as a “growth” industry in more ways than one.
California Agriculture
doaj  

Queen Anne's Wardrobe: Fashion, Sartorial Politics, and the Representational Strategies of the Last Stuart Queen

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 309-341, September 2026.
Abstract The final Stuart monarch, Queen Anne, has often been overlooked in studies of visual and material culture, particularly of fashion and dress. This article is the first to undertake a qualitative and quantitative analysis of the wardrobe accounts of Queen Anne, situating her consumption within the context of the eighteenth‐century fashion ...
Sarah A. Bendall
wiley   +1 more source

Pinus clausa: Sand Pine

open access: yesEDIS, 2014
This native North American pine is usually seen as a scrubby tree, capable of reaching 100 feet in height but more often seen 15 to 40 feet tall, with a slow growth rate.
Edward Gilman, Dennis Watson
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Implementation intentions as an acceptable health behaviour change strategy? Insights from people with lower socio‐economic position in think‐aloud interviews

open access: yesBritish Journal of Health Psychology, Volume 31, Issue 3, September 2026.
Abstract Objectives Implementation intentions are simple action plans that may help people with lower socio‐economic position (SEP) to navigate their behaviour in environments that undermine their healthy intentions. Implementation intentions hold potential in being a relatively simple, but remarkably effective behaviour change technique.
Loes van den Bekerom   +4 more
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