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A Journey Between Science and the Arts: Templates for the Depiction of the Pineapple (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

open access: yesRenaissance 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
wiley   +1 more source

International conference “The Caucasus at the crossroads of international trade and cultural exchange (from ancient times to the present)”

open access: yesBanber Arevelagitut'yan Instituti
The International Conference "The Caucasus at the Crossroads of Internation-al Trade and Cultural Exchange (from ancient times to the present)" was held at the National Academy of Sciences of RA on September 5-6, 2022.
Monika Mirzoyan
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Jinkyo, a Japanese Traditional (Kampo) Medicine Concept That Is Analogous to Sarcopenia: Its Utility in Daily Practice and Its Physical Background

open access: yesTraditional &Kampo Medicine, Volume 13, Issue 1, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Background Early detection of sarcopenia is important to prevent frailty. In Japanese Traditional (Kampo) medicine (JTM), weakness of the lower abdominal region (WLAR) is considered a sign of the JTM concept jinkyo, which is similar to sarcopenia.
Koichi Ryu   +3 more
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The origin of the Tatars in Armenian historiography: the People of Magog or the clan of Тorgom?

open access: yesЗолотоордынское обозрение
This article analyzes the origins of the Tatars in Armenian historiography of the 13th–15th centuries. The aim of the study is to systematize and analyze known and previously unstudied references to the Tatars in Armenian written sources, as well as to ...
Margaryan G.
doaj   +1 more source

Enduring myths: smrang, rabs and ritual in the Dunhuang texts on Padmasambhava [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Revue d’Etudes Tibétaines Number 15, November ...
Cathy Cantwell, Mayer, Rob
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Malignant melanoma of the urethra: a rare histologic subdivision of vulvar cancer with a poor prognosis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Malignant melanoma of the urethra is a rare tumour that is difficult to diagnose and treat, resulting in a poor prognosis. In this paper, we present the case of a 65-year-old woman who was referred to a gynaecologist because of a urethral mass that ...
Alkatout, Ibrahim   +8 more
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Relative Constructions in Classical/Epic Sanskrit

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 53-90, March 2026.
Abstract While it is widely recognised that Sanskrit shows two major types of relative construction – one relative–correlative, the other similar to postnominal relative clauses in languages like English – it has not been established what the crucial syntactic distinctions are between these types, given the wide range of syntactic variation found in ...
John J. Lowe   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Small understory trees increase growth following sustained drought in the Amazon

open access: yesNew Phytologist, Volume 249, Issue 6, Page 2787-2799, March 2026.
Summary Droughts pose a major threat to the Amazon rainforest, yet the mechanisms enabling trees to maintain growth under prolonged drought remain poorly understood, particularly in the understory layer. We leveraged a 22‐yr Throughfall Exclusion (TFE) in a 1‐ha plot in eastern Amazonia, paired with a Control plot, to test whether small understory ...
Mateus C. Silva   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Traditionally utilization of Selaginella; field research and literature review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui manfaat Selaginella dalam pengobatan tradisional dan pemanfaatan lainnya, melalui penelitian lapangan dan telaah pustaka, khususnya di Jawa dan Kepulauan Nusantara. Sebanyak 200 dari 700-750 spesies Selaginella
SETYAWAN, AHMAD DWI
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Phylogenomics reveals the evolution of floral traits associated with pollinators and pollinator–prey conflict within the carnivorous Pinguicula subgenus Temnoceras

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Botany, Volume 113, Issue 2, February 2026.
Abstract Premise The carnivorous plant genus Pinguicula (Lentibulariaceae) exhibits remarkable floral diversity associated with pollination, particularly in the largest subgenus Temnoceras, which spans Mexico and Central America. Despite this diversity, the relationships between species and the evolution of key floral traits remain unresolved. Here, we
Yunjia Liu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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