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Staging an Experience of Cultural Heritage Preservation: Consumers' Willingness to Pay for Heirloom Rice in the Philippines

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Cordillera Administrative Region in the Philippines is home to terraced rice embedded in centuries of cultural heritage. However, weak market incentives threaten sustained production, jeopardizing indigenous communities' cultural heritage and the in situ biodiversity of rice genetic resources.
Kofi Britwum, Matty Demont
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Defect engineering strategy to enhance the SO2 adsorption performance of Zr-based MOFs materials: potential application for purifying cultural heritage storage environments

Heritage Science
In this work, a novel Zr-based MOFs material (D-NH2-UiO-66) with multi-stage pore structure was prepared by introducing defects in NH2-UiO-66 through a ligand regulation strategy, aiming to enhance the SO2 adsorption performance and be applied to purify ...
Meirong Shi, Zejin, Yongjin Wang, Nan Jia, Zhongping Sha, Peng Fu   +5 more
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Formation of the Legal Basis for Anti-Religious Policy in the Soviet State (1917-1929)

Oriental Studies, 2018
The article deals with the formation of the legal basis for anti-religious policy in the Soviet State during 1917-1929. Having come to power in unstable political situation the Soviet government issued the first decrees and resolutions establishing the ...
D. A. Garyaeva
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High‐elevation endemic plants predicted to lose habitat from changing climate in Washington State

American Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Abstract Premise High‐elevation plants face unique challenges from potential climate change impacts that will likely require upslope migration into increasingly smaller suitable habitat. This situation is particularly acute for endemic species that by definition occupy small geographic ranges.
Nicholas L. Gjording, Erik W. Ertsgaard, David E. Giblin, Iris H. Dimpsey, Owen B. Bard   +4 more
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Globalization and Localization of Heritage Preservation in Taiwan – an Analysis Perspective under the Cultural Heritage Preservation Act [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015
The key contribution to the legislation of heritage preservation in Taiwan primarily derived from the historical monument movements in the 1970s.
C.-C. Chen, C.-C. Fu
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DEMOCRACY OUTBREAKS IN HERITAGE PRESERVATION

JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM, 2006
After the restoration of independence of Lithuania the legal basis and administrative structures of heritage preservation were changed many times, though the maintenance, use and state of heritage were not improved, and its decay did not decrease.
openaire   +3 more sources

Building Community Amidst the Institutional Whiteness of Graduate Study: Black Joy and Maroon Moves in an Academic Marronage

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the construction of a supportive community of Black Afro‐diasporic graduate students and their supervisors researching issues relating to race in the field of education in Australia. It draws on the concept of marronage—a term rooted in the fugitive act of becoming a maroon, where enslaved people enacted an escape in ...
Hellen Magoi, Casianus Gemoh, Denise Chapman, Edmund Hypolite, Simon Angok, Melanie Baak, Joel Windle   +6 more
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‘We Are Australia’: Unpacking Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People's Understandings and Experiences of Australian Identity

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the oldest living custodians in the world. However, Australian identity has been purposefully established to exclude Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, contributing to systemic oppression and harmful consequences. Understanding the perspectives and experiences of Aboriginal and Torres
Jack Farrugia, Jonathan Bullen
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Organogels for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage

Gels
The degradation of works of art, enhanced by climate change, needs to be counteracted to have Cultural Heritage express its full socioeconomic potential. Cleaning artifacts requires the confinement of fluids in retentive gel matrices to achieve safe, time-effective removal of soil, aged coatings, or vandalism from artistic/historical surfaces.
Bandelli, Damiano, Adamo, Céline, Poggi, Giovanna, Chelazzi, David, Baglioni, Piero   +4 more
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Functional models from limited data: A parametric and multimodal approach to anatomy and 3D kinematics of feeding in basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Basking sharks, Cetorhinus maximus (Gunnerus, Brugden [Squalus maximus], Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter, 1765, vol. 3, pp. 33–49), feed by gaping their mouths and gill slits, greatly reorienting their cranial skeletons to filter food from water.
Tairan Li, Mike Schindler, Martha Paskin, Venkata A. Surapaneni, Elliott Scott, Sabine Hauert, Nicholas Payne, David E. Cade, Jeremy A. Goldbogen, Frederik H. Mollen, Daniel Baum, Sean Hanna, Mason N. Dean   +12 more
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