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Impact of environmental drivers on ecosystem service-delivery of small garden trees in a temperate climate

Frontiers in Environmental Science
Green infrastructure has an increasingly important role in mitigating urban environmental concerns such as heat island effect, localised flooding, pollution and biodiversity loss.
Elisabeth K. Larsen, Tijana Blanusa, Tijana Blanusa, Rachael Tanner, Joseph Barker, Nick Dunn, Mark B. Gush   +6 more
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Taxonomic status of Pelargonium reniforme Curt.

Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation, 2014
Background: Pelargonium reniforme Curt. is a morphologically variable species that many authors have attempted to split or combine. Confusion relating to the differences between the two subspecies currently included under P.
Janine E. Victor, Mmamphe Aphane
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Phenotypic variability and genome-wide association studies in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) for phosphorus efficiency

BMC Plant Biology
Background Potatoes require phosphorus (P) for growth, tuber production and starch quality, but their small and shallow root system limits the nutrient acquisition.
Mousumi Hazarika, Klaus J. Dehmer, Ralf Uptmoor, Mareike Kavka, Julian Kirchgesser, Doerte Harpke, Silvia Bachmann-Pfabe   +6 more
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The collections concept at the University of Sheffield: a varied approach to the role of research library collections

Insights: The UKSG Journal
This article discusses the development of the Library collections concept at the University of Sheffield. It draws together several wider themes of collection management and seeks to conceive of library content as serving differing functions through ...
Peter Barr
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Speculative practices : utilizing InfoVis to explore untapped literary collections

, 2015
Funding: Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research CouncilIn this paper we exemplify how information visualization supports speculative thinking, hypotheses testing, and preliminary interpretation processes as part of literary research.
Hinrichs, Uta, Forlini, Stefania, Stefania Forlini, Uta Hinrichs, Moynihan, Bridget, Bridget Moynihan   +5 more
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Privacy issues for online personal photograph collections [PDF]

, 2010
Technological developments now allow community groups, clubs, and even ordinary individuals to create their own, publicly accessible online digital multi-media collections. However, it is unclear as to whether the users of such collection are fully aware
Sally Jo Cunningham, Masoodian, Masood, Cunningham, Sally Jo, Masood, Masoodian, Anne Adams, Masood Masoodian, Adams, Anne   +6 more
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Preservation through access: the AHDS performing arts collections in ECLAP and Europeana [PDF]

, 2012
This poster provides an overview of the ongoing rescue of valuable digital collections that had been taken down and consequently lost to general access.
Innocenti, P., Richards, John, Innocenti, Perla, Richards, J.   +3 more
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Power to the people: end-user building of digital library collections

, 2001
Naturally, digital library systems focus principally on the reader: th e consumer of the material that constitutes the library. In contrast, this paper describes an interface that makes it easy for people to build their own library collections ...
Boddie, Stefan J., Ian H. Witten, Bainbridge, David, David Bainbridge, Witten, Ian H., Stefan J. Boddie   +5 more
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Considerations on policies of university digital collections [PDF]

, 2004
We examine the factors (creation type of the material, acquisition method, copyright ownership etc.) and the access and reproduction policies of the digital collections of ten leading university digital libraries.
Kapidakis, Sarantos, Koulouris, Alexandros   +1 more
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Promoting the past, preserving the future : British university heritage collections and identity marketing

, 2008
Collections of tangible heritage and material culture found in university museums present both challenges and opportunities for their parent institutions.
Kozak, Zenobia
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