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Conservation Biology

open access: yesSpringer US, 2019
1257 Political transition and emergent forest-conservation issues in Myanmar Graham W. Prescott, William J. Sutherland, Daniel Aguirre, Matthew Baird, Vicky Bowman, Jake Brunner, Grant M. Connette, Martin Cosier, David Dapice, Jose Don T.
Aaron O’Dea   +46 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cleaning and Restoration of an Oil Painting with a Polymer Gel in Iran

open access: yesConservation Science in Cultural Heritage, 2018
One of the major stages in the conservation and restoration of a painting is to clean its colored surface of unwanted stains, and old and darkened varnishes.
Siyamak Alizadeh
doaj   +1 more source

Strong Relationships Result in Conservation Action

open access: yesOpen Rivers, 2019
In southeast Minnesota, we are fortunate to have an abundant supply of groundwater. It is the water we drink and the source of water in local trout streams. However, the unique geology of this region makes it vulnerable to contamination.
Jen Schaust, Kevin Kuehner, and Margaret Wagner
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Diagnostic investigation and historical-stylistic evaluation of oil painting on metal board. Example of “Christ Crucified with two mourning angels”

open access: yesConservation Science in Cultural Heritage, 2007
The oil painting on metal board (40 x 30 cm) under study was bought from the antiquarian French market and bears a very common representation that derives from one of Michelangelo’s designs: “Cristo Crocifisso con due angeli dolenti”.
Salvatore Lorusso   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

THE NATURAL FLOW REGIME. A PARADIGM FOR RIVER CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION

open access: yes, 1997
H umans have long been fascinated by the dynamism of free-flowing waters. Yet we have expended great effort to tame rivers for transportation, water supply, flood control, agriculture, and power generation. It is now recognized that harnessing of streams
N. Poff   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The façades along the Cassaro in Palermo: historical-building characterization, degradation, restoration norms for interventions

open access: yesConservation Science in Cultural Heritage, 2009
The good-will to operate in the old town privileging the history and the maintenance of historic buildings, is manifest in this study on the Vittorio Emanuele monumental street, the foundation axis of Palermo, and it’s architectural degraded and ...
Giovanni Fatta   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws: From Analysis to Algorithms

open access: yes, 2017
The modeling of many problems in the applied sciences and engineering is based on concepts of conservation of mass, momentum and energy, leading to systems of conservation laws.
J. Hesthaven
semanticscholar   +1 more source

ConSurf 2016: an improved methodology to estimate and visualize evolutionary conservation in macromolecules

open access: yesNucleic Acids Res., 2016
The degree of evolutionary conservation of an amino acid in a protein or a nucleic acid in DNA/RNA reflects a balance between its natural tendency to mutate and the overall need to retain the structural integrity and function of the macromolecule.
Haim Ashkenazy   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Conserving Historic Urban Landscape and Beautifying the City by Means of its History

open access: yesConservation Science in Cultural Heritage, 2014
This paper focuses on three issues concerning historic urban landscape conservation under the background of new urbanization: the first one is attaching great importance to cultural heritage conservation in rapid urbanization; the second one is laying ...
Guoping Wang
doaj   +1 more source

Emerging threats and persistent conservation challenges for freshwater biodiversity

open access: yesBiological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2018
In the 12 years since Dudgeon et al. (2006) reviewed major pressures on freshwater ecosystems, the biodiversity crisis in the world's lakes, reservoirs, rivers, streams and wetlands has deepened.
Andrea J. Reid   +15 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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