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Mapping Materials and Dyes on Historic Tapestries Using Hyperspectral Imaging

open access: yesHeritage, 2023
Hyperspectral imaging has emerged as a promising analytical method of artwork due to its potential in combining non-invasive analytical capabilities and imaging allowing the survey of the entire (or of a large area of the) surface of an artwork, which is
Constantina Vlachou-Mogire   +3 more
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Quantifying Housekeeping Challenge and Conservation Need

open access: yesHeritage, 2023
This simple model, developed by conservators, assists in the challenge of making preventive conservation, housekeeping, and care of historic interiors and collections, physically and economically sustainable, in historic houses welcoming increasing ...
Helen Lloyd
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A poorly known high-latitude parasitoid wasp community: unexpected diversity and dramatic changes through time. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2011
Climate change will have profound and unanticipated effects on species distributions. The pace and nature of this change is largely unstudied, especially for the most diverse elements of terrestrial communities--the arthropods--here we have only limited ...
Jose Fernandez-Triana   +6 more
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After the mammoths: The ecological legacy of late Pleistocene megafauna extinctions

open access: yesCambridge Prisms: Extinction, 2023
The significant extinctions in Earth history have largely been unpredictable in terms of what species perish and what traits make species susceptible.
Felisa A. Smith   +5 more
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Heritage Science Contribution to the Understanding of Meaningful Khipu Colours

open access: yesHeritage, 2023
This work is the first scientific study of khipu dyes and inorganic mordants and auxiliaries, paving the way for a new approach to understanding khipus’ meaningful materiality, technology, and colours.
Lucrezia Milillo   +5 more
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Revisiting traditional Chinese materia medica from European historical collections and perspective for current use

open access: yesJournal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine, 2022
Background and aim: Chinese Materia Medica (CMM) is subject to changes over time. Investigating changes in botanical ingredients, applications, plant parts used as well as name changes over time, contribute to the understanding of the history and ...
Yusheng Jia, Mei Wang, Tinde van Andel
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Pollen metabarcoding of museum specimens and recently collected bumblebees (Bombus) indicates foraging shifts [PDF]

open access: yesMetabarcoding and Metagenomics, 2023
Landscape changes, over time, lead to changes of floral resources available to pollinators, which in turn may result in the disappearance of ecologically specialized species.
Andreas Kolter   +3 more
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Developing a non-invasive tool to assess the impact of oxidation on the structural integrity of historic wool in Tudor tapestries

open access: yesHeritage Science, 2017
Near infrared spectroscopy (NIR) can be a useful diagnostic tool in the assessment of quality in textile, agricultural and various other industries.
Nanette Kissi   +4 more
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Lectotypification of Cavanilles’ names in Solanum (Solanaceae)

open access: yesAnales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid, 2007
Lectotypes are confirmed or designated here for the 13 names coined by Antonio José Cavanilles that were either described, or today are recognised as, members of the large genus Solanum (Solanaceae): Solanum betaceum, S. elaeagnifolium, S. fructotecto, S.
Sandra Knapp
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Typification of names published by Schultz “Bipontinus” in the Andryala pinnatifida complex (Cichorieae, Asteraceae), from the Canary Islands

open access: yesAnales del Jardín Botánico de Madrid, 2020
Schultz “Bipontinus” (1805-1867) described, in the Histoire Naturelle des Îles Canaries published by Webb and Berthelot in 1849, several forms of the Andryala pinnatifida complex, endemic to the Canary Islands, based on plant material collected by E ...
Maria Zita Ferreira   +2 more
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