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Scripta, 2020 I will read the fascination with collectors and collecting in Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001), Jeanette Winterson’s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985), Hilary Mantel’s Bring up the Bodies (2012), and David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (2004) regarding at ...
Luiz Fernando Ferreira Sá
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Colecionar arte: conversas a partir de coleções particulares
Midas: Museus e Estudos Interdisciplinares, 2016 In this article, we present the project “Collecting Art: Conversations about Private Collections” developed by the Associação Amigos do Museu do Chiado (Friends of the Museu do Chiado Association), consisting of an invitation to private collectors to ...
Adelaide Duarte
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In Situ, 2021 The Musée national de l’ Éducation in Rouen preserves approximately 950,000 items, of which a significant part concerns the history of lycées, France’s high schools. As an history museum and a social museum as well, it also takes interest in contemporary
Nicolas Coutant
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Retrospective Thinking: Decolonizing Minerals at National Museums Scotland
Museum & SocietyThis paper explores the mineral specimens held by the Science and Technology department at National Museums Scotland (NMS). It examines what these objects and their provenance reveal about the Museum’s collecting methods and how they reflect and ...
Georgina Grant, Ellie Swinbank
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THE CASE OF CAPOGROSSI IN ROME: COLLECTING DATA WITH DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGIES ON A CONTEMPORARY MURAL PAINTING [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2017 This paper focuses on the presentation of a part of the main thematic data documenting the pathologies and the degradation problems of a contemporary mural painting, which was designed and carried out by the italian artist Giuseppe Capogrossi in 1954 ...
P. Mezzadri, J. Russo
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Desiring the past and reimagining the present: contemporary collecting in Qatar
Museum & Society, 2017 The collecting processes in Qatar at state level is intimately linked with the construction of a new Qatari identity for global consumption and national cohesion.
Karen Exell
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Collecting Coins and Medals in 18th-Century Sweden
Artium Quaestiones, 2023 During the 18th century, collections of coins and medals were familiar sights. The collectors ranged from scholars to amateurs, men and women and the collectables tempted collectors for various reasons: they signified wealth and knowledge, they rendered ...
Ylva Haidenthaller
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Results of the Childhood Cancer and Leukaemia Group's United Kingdom Relapsed Wilms Tumour Trial
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background The United Kingdom relapsed Wilms tumour (UKW‐R) trial aimed to improve the historically low survival rates after relapse of Wilms tumour (WT) through a prospective national risk‐stratified protocol. The trial also evaluated efficacy and toxicity of high‐dose melphalan.
Sucheta J. Vaidya +10 more
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Reflecting the Now: Project Management and Contemporary Collecting in a Multi-disciplinary Museum
Museum & Society, 2018 Nearly two million visitors a year will pass through the new permanent galleries of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. This article reflects on the planning and collecting that presaged their redevelopment in the context of twenty-first ...
Samuel J M M Alberti +3 more
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Aggressive prostate cancer is associated with pericyte dysfunction
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.Tumor‐produced TGF‐β drives pericyte dysfunction in prostate cancer. This dysfunction is characterized by downregulation of some canonical pericyte markers (i.e., DES, CSPG4, and ACTA2) while maintaining the expression of others (i.e., PDGFRB, NOTCH3, and RGS5).
Anabel Martinez‐Romero +11 more
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