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Looking backward to move forward: Enhancing metadata in scientific collections through interdisciplinary collaboration

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Early modern herbaria house important and useful data on historic environments. However, their contents are often inhospitable to scientific use. Despite this challenge, once their contents have been deciphered, such specimens present novel research opportunities.
Madeline E. White, Stephen A. Harris
wiley   +1 more source

Current Overview of Environmental Disinfection and Decolonization of C. auris: A Systematic Review from 2020 to 2025

open access: yesTropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
Candida auris possesses distinctive features that facilitate its persistence and transmission in healthcare settings, causing outbreaks of infection that are difficult to treat.
María Guadalupe Frías-De-León   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Plants back: Re‐envisioning botanical garden collections management for indigenous crops

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Botanical gardens and other ex situ collections play a key role in preventing plant extinctions, yet the needs of Indigenous crop cultivars are not being met by conventional botanical collections management practices. Inspired by Indigenous land care restoration movements centering plant–human–society relationships, we propose a path toward reciprocal ...
Uala Working Group   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of novel β-lactams on Gut Decolonization in Haematological Patients with Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Infections

open access: yesInternational Journal of Infectious Diseases
Introduction: Gut colonization by multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacilli (MDR-GNB) is a common precursor to bacteraemia in haematological patients with malignancies.
Antonio Gallardo-Pizarro   +18 more
doaj   +1 more source

Two centuries of Begonia exploration in the Philippines: Progress and challenges associated with a megadiverse genus in the Global South

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Megadiverse genera represent the highest concentration of plant diversity, but these plants are also located primarily in countries in the Global South where huge gaps in botanical knowledge remain. This study summarized two centuries of Begonia collection records in the Philippines to show how historical events coincide with collection and taxonomic ...
Mark Angelo C. Bucay   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Two faces of transitional justice: Theorizing the incommensurability of transitional justice and decolonization in Canada

open access: yes, 2016
Transitional justice is a complex form of political and legal intervention used by state governments to redress state-sanctioned and large-scale harms (Balint, Evans, & McMillan, 2014).
Matsunaga, Jennifer
core   +2 more sources

Prophylaxis with nasal decolonization in patients submitted to total knee and hip arthroplasty: systematic review and meta-analysis

open access: yesRevista Brasileira de Ortopedia
Despite the evolution of the total knee and hip arthroplasty surgery, high postoperative complication rates in the short and long term still persist. Infection is one of the most challenging complications; due to its gravity and treatment difficulties ...
David Sadigursky   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrating Sustainability Through Socio‐Scientific Issues in Chile: Towards a Decolonial Chemistry Education

open access: yesScience Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how integrating sustainability through socio‐scientific issue (SSI) in secondary chemistry teaching shapes epistemic openness and closure from a decolonial perspective, as mediated through classroom discourse. Drawing on a co‐planned lesson on copper mining in Chile – a scientifically rich yet ethically and politically ...
Denise Quiroz‐Martínez
wiley   +1 more source

Hétérochronie et décolonisation

open access: yesSocio
Decolonization is often seen as a solution whose theoretical simplicity runs up against practical difficulties. My aim here is to show, on the contrary, how decolonization is a complex idea whose realization in practice must take account of decisive ...
Seloua Luste Boulbina
doaj   +1 more source

"DALAM Network Educates about Decolonization of Metadata"

open access: yes
The impact of colonization is immense, influencing everything from national governance to justice systems to the subject headings in our library catalogues.
Campbell, Sandy   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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