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Journal of African Christian Biography: v. 4, no. 1 [PDF]

, 2019
A publication of the Dictionary of African Christian Biography with U.S. offices located at the Center for Global Christianity and Mission at Boston University. This issue focuses on: 1. Introducing African Christian Biography. 2.
Bonk, Jonathan J., Egbunu, Emmanuel A.S., Hable-Selassie, Sergew, Irvine, A.K., Millard, J.A., Ntantal, Phillis, Restrick, Beth, Robert, Dana L., Sigg, Michele   +8 more
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Capacity building needed to reap the benefits of access to biodiversity collections

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Global conservation efforts increasingly depend on digitised natural history collections, yet the benefits of this digital data are not equally shared. We analysed biodiversity specimens and citation data from Montserrat and the Cayman Islands to assess who collected these specimens, how they are used, and by whom.
Quentin Groom, Sofie Meeus, Sara Bárrios, Catherine Childs, Colin Clubbe, Ernestine Corbett, Sarita Francis, Alan Gray, Luke Harding, Annick Jackman, Rebecca Machin, Andrew McGovern, Mike Pienkowski, Delmaude Ryan, Chris Sealys, Catherine Wensink, Jodey Peyton   +16 more
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Digitization connects scattered specimens and enables new historical research: Plants from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884)

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Widespread museum digitization initiatives have made the world's herbaria more accessible than ever, launching a renaissance of specimen use. We highlight the value of digitization to bolster both scientific and historical research using the specimens from the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition (1881–1884) to the Canadian arctic, remembered for its tragedy ...
J. Mason Heberling, Jackson P. Wright
wiley   +1 more source

Digitisation as archival intermediary: Quantifying and qualifying Greta B. Stevenson's mycological collector networks

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Mass digitisation of natural science collections and archives has increasingly become a priority for scientific heritage institutions. Here, we explore the potential of mass digitisation to improve our understanding of the nature and history of scientific collaboration. Focusing on mycologist Greta B.
Christopher Kreuzer, Geoff S. Ridley, Nathan E. C. Smith   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

When William Met Mary: The Rewriting of Mary Lamb’S and William-Henry Ireland’S Stories in Peter Ackroyd’S The Lambs Of London

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia, 2012
Peter Ackroyd’s London novels represent a distinctive component in his project of composing a literary-historical biography of the city. Understanding London as a multilayered palimpsest of texts, Ackroyd adds to this ongoing process by rewriting the ...
Chalupský Petr
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Displaying Lives: the Narrative of Objects in Biographical Exhibitions [PDF]

, 2007
Biographical exhibitions are a museum practice that asks for critical consideration. Grounding the argument in critical theory, social studies and museum theory, the article explores the narrative function of objects in biographical exhibitions by ...
Albano, Caterina
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Resource reallocation across successive systemic innovations: How Rolls‐Royce shaped the evolution of the turbojet, turboprop, and turbofan

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary Despite the importance of resource reallocation in shaping a variety of strategic outcomes, strategy scholars have paid only limited attention to the processes by which firms reallocate their resources across successive systemic innovations.
Gino Cattani, Mariano Mastrogiorgio, Giuseppe Carignani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

William Shakespeare as a Purveyor of Re-Productions: Understanding Shakespeare’s Plays as Profitable Products [PDF]

, 2017
This project, “Recasting William Shakespeare in The Business of Playwriting,” works to reinvigorate the value gained by reading Shakespeare by: Beginning with espousing the importance of reading Shakespeare as a practical businessman first, instead of ...
Ong, Giannina
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Abortion restriction laws and mobility of scientists

Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Research Summary We track the enactment of targeted regulation of abortion providers (TRAP) laws in the United States and analyze 4.98 million person‐year mobility records for 535,568 biomedical scientists from 1990 to 2018. Our estimations reveal a 0.8–1.6 percentage‐point increase in scientists' relocation probability after states enacted ...
Beril Yalcinkaya, Waverly W. Ding
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The Thousand-Year Spiritual Tradition of Lesnovo Monastery in Macedonia

, 2017
Through the rich Christian tradition in Macedonia from the early Christian, medieval and up to the modern period numerous churches and monasteries were built, where all forms of development of spiritual and cultural life took place.
Velev, Ilija
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