The Impact of Zoroastrian Cultural-Religious Services on the Development of Iranian-Islamic Civilization [PDF]
No civilization is created in a void. Every civilization has its own heritage and has a substantial relationship with it. In essence, what is left from a past plays a decisive role in shaping the future.
Elahe Ziaei +3 more
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Exploring the effectiveness of the output-based aid voucher program to increase uptake of gender-based violence recovery services in Kenya: a qualitative evaluation [PDF]
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work ...
B Bellows +45 more
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We used tomographic analysis of MEG signals to characterize regional spectral changes in the brain at sleep onset and during light sleep. We identified two key processes that may causally link to loss of consciousness during the quiet or “core” periods ...
Andreas A. Ioannides +4 more
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The 21st century Museum Climatic Monitoring System [PDF]
Technology has provided us work convenience and shaped our quality of life; it has enabled an unprecedented level of access to knowledge by flipping screen of a hand-held electronic device without going elsewhere but stay connected wireless ...
W.-S. Liu
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Strategies for Promoting Chinese Public Libraries' Participation in Cultural Heritage Inheritance: Taking the Conservation of Ancient Books in Public Libraries as an Example [PDF]
[Purpose/Significance] As an important member of cultural memory institutions, public libraries shoulder the responsibility of protecting human cultural heritage and passing on civilization.
XU Kuiyi, LU Keqi, LU Hejian
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Social preferences for ecosystem services in a biodiversity hotspot in South America [PDF]
Identifying which ecosystem services are relevant to different stakeholders and understanding stakeholders’ perceptions of such services is useful for making informed decisions, especially in regions of the world where the achievement of biodiversity ...
Bidegain, Iñigo +4 more
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Identifying hotspots and management of critical ecosystem services in rapidly urbanizing Yangtze River Delta Region, China [PDF]
Rapid urbanization has altered many ecosystems, causing a decline in many ecosystem services, generating serious ecological crisis. To cope with these challenges, we presented a comprehensive framework comprising five core steps for identifying and ...
Cai, Wenbo +4 more
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The City of Espoo Develops as a Sustainable Learning City
This paper presents Espoo as a sustainable learning city, recognised by UNESCO as one of twelve pioneering Learning Cities in 2015. The vision of the city states that Espoo is a good place to live, learn, work and do business, and where residents can ...
Kristiina Erkkilä
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History and services of culture collections [PDF]
Microbial culture collections aim at collecting, maintaining and distributing microbial strains among microbiologists, and are considered to be a means to preserve microbial diversity ex situ. This article reviews the early history of culture collections, which were first set up in the late nineteenth century, with the introduction of pure culture ...
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Cultural basis of social ‘deficits’ in autism spectrum disorders [PDF]
There is very little research that specifically looks at how autism spectrum disorders are perceived in various communities. This qualitative research was conducted with parents who had children on the autistic spectrum belonging to four different ethnic
Atkin K. +16 more
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