Results 31 to 40 of about 358,768 (310)
Orientalism: From Expeditions to Colonialisation
The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between orientalism and colonialism. More specifically, it analyses orientalism in its various ways before and during the nineteenth century to the present day, as well as its actual aims.
Elhadji Bachir Sanı Hamet
doaj +1 more source
Confessions of a Poverty Researcher: My Journey Through the Foothills of Scholarship
ABSTRACT This paper describes the key events, experiences and ideas that influenced the author's career as a poverty researcher. He describes how his early disillusion with economics was replaced by a spark of interest in social issues and how his migration from the UK to Australia in the mid‐1970s provided the impetus to begin what became a lifetime ...
Peter Saunders
wiley +1 more source
Mobilization of plant genetic resources from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan
The article covers the issues of plant genetic resources mobilization to the VIR collection from the territories of Pakistan, Bangladesh (until 1947, British India), and Bhutan as a result of collection missions, seed requests, and germplasm exchange ...
N. P. Loskutova, T. M. Ozerskaya
doaj +1 more source
The Great Albatross Philippine Expedition and Its Fishes [PDF]
The Philippine Expedition of 1907-10 was the longest and most extensive assignment of the Albatross's 39-year career. It came about because the United States had acquired the Philippines following the Spanish-American War of 1898 and the bloody ...
Smith , David G., Williams, Jeffrey T.
core
Abstract Teleocichla comprises small cichlids that inhabit the rapid streams of Amazonian rivers; however, there has been limited research on their encephalon morphology. This study examined the neuroanatomy of four species, focusing on volumetric measurements of their encephalon subregions, and providing a histological description of the encephalon of
Renan Leão‐Reis +4 more
wiley +1 more source
The principal morphogenetic characteristics of kimberlite indicator minerals
The article provides information on the morphology and morphogenesis of minerals from kimberlites and their scattering halos. The principal morphogenetic characteristics of the main kimberlite indicator minerals are discussed in detail.
Khmelkov A. M., Chuguevskaya E. A.
doaj +1 more source
Abstract Studies investigating paleopathologies in sauropods remain scarce despite their relative abundance in the fossil record. In this study we report new occurrence of paleopathological features, corresponding to a neoplasm found in a middle caudal vertebra (MCT.R.2120) of an advanced titanosaur from the Presidente Prudente Formation (Bauru Basin ...
Maria Luiza Peres Bertolossi +5 more
wiley +1 more source
In 1847 Christian Ludwig Gerling, Marburg (Germany), suggested the solar parallax to be determined by measuring the position of Venus close to its inferior conjunction, especially at the stationary points, from observatories on nearly the same meridian ...
Schrimpf, Andreas
core +1 more source

