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Kentucky Baptist Historical Society Publications No.4
, 1946 "Kentucky Baptist Historical Society Publications No.4." Scanned in cooperation with the Kentucky Baptist ...
Crismon, Leo T. +1 more
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Public Administration Review, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Many cities and municipalities aim to address climate change, yet their rigid administrative structures often constrain effective action. Therefore, local authorities must innovate to build administrative capacity and enable work across departmental silos. However, we lack knowledge of how such administrative innovations emerge and become more
Kai Schulze +2 more
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Evaluating the state of constructed infills in the Venice Lagoon through remote satellite imagery
Restoration Ecology, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction Salt‐marsh restoration is used to counter wetland loss, strengthen ecosystem resilience, and support dredged‐sediment reuse. In the Venice Lagoon, 63 constructed infills have been realized since the late 1980s, yet their eco‐geomorphological development and restoration performance remain incompletely assessed. Objectives The study
Amina Chouairi +4 more
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, there was no statutory difference between cartography, drawing and painting. These activities were performed then by craftsmen who were part of a vast group under the umbrella of ‘mechanical arts’ and fell under the ‘artifex’ category. Artifex were experts in any particular art, whether a craftsman,
Vasco Medeiros
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Editor in Chief Journal of Geography and Cartography ENPRESS
, 2019 Editor in Chief della rivista internazionale Journal of Geography and Cartography ...
Gemma Aiello
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
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Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
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DIGITAL CARTOGRAPHY AND HISTORICAL MAPS: TECHNIQUES, APPLICATIONS AND PECULIARITIES
Revista Brasileira de Cartografia, 2013 Através de exemplos concretos, apresentam-se alguns auxílios que a Cartografia digital presta à Cartografia histórica. Destacam-se as diferenças de tratamento entre os mapas históricos e os atuais, através de alguns casos típicos, com suas dificuldades ...
Jorge Pimentel Cintra
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Nathaniel Culverwell's stoic theory of common notions
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract This article takes a closer look at the theory of knowledge developed by Nathaniel Culverwell in his 1652 Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature. Based on Culverwell's endorsement of Edward Herbert of Cherbury against Plato and Aristotle, his critical reception of René Descartes, and his contributions to a controversy between ...
Mogens Lærke
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