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Biographical Sketch of Spencer Fullerton Baird [PDF]
, 1996 Spencer Fullerton Baird was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, February 3, 1823. In 1834 he was sent to a Quaker boarding-school kept by Dr. McGraw, at Port Deposit, Maryland, and the year following to the Reading Grammar School. In 1836 he entered Dickinson
Goode, George Brown
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How digitisation of herbaria reveals the botanical legacy of the First World War
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Digitisation of herbarium collections is bringing greater understanding to bear on the complexity of narratives relating to the First World War and its aftermath – scientific and societal. Plant collecting during the First World War was more widespread than previously understood, contributed to the psychological well‐being of those involved and ...
Christopher Kreuzer, James A. Wearn
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A fotografia e seus duplos: um quadro na parede
História, Ciências, Saúde: Manguinhos, 2013 Hans Belting sugere que as ‘imagens são os nômades dos meios’, porque montam e desmontam acampamento a cada surgimento de uma nova mídia. Sempre que a fotografia retrata outra imagem (pintura, tela de tevê) encena um capítulo dessa história. A fotografia
Mauricio Lissovsky, Juliana Martins
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For scientists, for students or for the public? : the shifting roles of natural history museums [PDF]
, 2010 This article aims to discuss the main roles of natural history museums and to show how these purposes have evolved and adapted throughout the museums’ history, as a response to the development of natural sciences and societal change, from their creation ...
Delicado, Ana
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.The digitization of RBetno (JBRJ) represents a step forward for biodiversity conservation in Brazil. Aligned with the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (Target 2, 2020–2030), this project documents the use of plants, including traditional knowledge and vernacular names, with a focus on the Atlantic Forest and Amazon.
Viviane S. Fonseca‐Kruel +6 more
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A Comparative Study of the Demographic and Economic Consequences of the Spread of the Plague in the Urban Communities of Herat and Cairo in the 9th Century AH [PDF]
Journal of Research on History of MedicineThe persistent presence of the plague, following the first wave of the Black Death in the 14th century AD, continued to affect human societies. In the 15th century, this disease had destructive effects on the social situation of the cities of Herat ...
Sepideh Mohammadbeigi, Ahmad Fazlinejad
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The Cinderella tree, Quillaja saponaria – A soap story
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Our current understanding of plants has been shaped by the entwining of different cultures. The Chilean soapbark tree, traditionally valued as a source of natural soap, was shown by serendipitous research in France in the 1900s to produce compounds that can boost the immune response to vaccines.
Anne Osbourn
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Campus Update: March 1990 v. 2, no. 3 [PDF]
, 1990 Monthly newsletter of the BU Medical ...
Boston University Medical Center +1 more
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Wilderness medicine at high altitude: recent developments in the field. [PDF]
, 2015 Travel to high altitude is increasingly popular. With this comes an increased incidence of high-altitude illness and therefore an increased need to improve our strategies to prevent and accurately diagnose these.
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Botanical exploration, discovery and conservation rely heavily on access to herbarium collections. Recently, digital access to label information, including georeferenced locality data, and images of herbarium specimens available online have greatly increased usage of herbarium specimen data.
Ronell R. Klopper +9 more
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