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Maine Library History

open access: yesMaine Policy Review, 2013
From the earliest small private and university libraries of the 1700s to today’s high-speed Internet-connected institutions, the history of Maine’s libraries mirrors the development of the state and provides a sense of the concerns people had for access to information and education.
Melora Norman
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Digitisation of historical specimens from the Hog Island Audubon Camp Natural History Collection, Maine [PDF]

open access: yesBiodiversity Data Journal
Natural history collections serve as invaluable records of biological complexity across time and space. However, only a small fraction of these collections has been digitised globally, leaving the majority of specimen data inaccessible for research and ...
Stephen Mason, Jr.   +10 more
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Geographic Variation in Life-History Traits of Black Sea Bass (Centropristis striata) During a Rapid Range Expansion

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2020
The warming of the world’s oceans has resulted in the redistribution of many marine species globally. As species undergo range shifts, the expanding edge of the population often experiences novel environmental and demographic conditions that may result ...
Marissa D. McMahan   +3 more
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Forgotten whales, fading codfish: Perceptions of ‘natural’ ecosystems inform visions of future recovery

open access: yesPeople and Nature, 2023
Perceptions of past ecological change affect views of current ecosystem state, but how do baselines help to shape stakeholders' visions of an idealized future?
Loren McClenachan, Benjamin Neal
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Ranked Choice Voting in Australia and America: Do Voters Follow Party Cues?

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2021
Ranked choice voting (RCV) is experiencing a surge of interest in the United States, highlighted by its 2018 use for Congressional elections in Maine, the first application of a ranked ballot for national-level elections in American history.
Benjamin Reilly
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How do human actions affect fisheries? Differences in perceptions between fishers and scientists in the Maine lobster fishery

open access: yesFACETS, 2022
The degree to which human actions affect marine fisheries has been a fundamental question shaping people’s relationship with the sea. Today, divergences in stakeholder views about the impacts of human activities such as fishing, climate change, pollution,
Loren McClenachan   +2 more
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History of Surgery in Maine [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Surgery, 2001
The history of surgery, especially in New England, has been and continues to be inexorably linked to medical schools and teaching hospitals. There has not been a medical school in Maine for more than 80 years. Bowdoin Medical School, Brunswick, Me, founded in 1820, was the ninth in the United States.
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"Who Are We? Where Are We?": Contact and Literary Navigation in The Maine Woods [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This essay argues that Thoreau witnesses a series of clashes across the three essays collected in "The Maine Woods" and that Thoreau positions himself with a variety of contact zones, enabling him both to navigate the landscapes of northern Maine and ...
James S. Finley
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Candidate Species for Florida Aquaculture: American Horseshoe Crab Limulus polyphemus

open access: yesEDIS, 2022
The American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, is a member of the phylum Arthropoda, subphylum Chelicerata, and class Merostomata. Although there are four horseshoe crab species worldwide, the American horseshoe crab is primarily found in the Atlantic
Lena Donnarumma   +3 more
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Next‐generation ice core technology reveals true minimum natural levels of lead (Pb) in the atmosphere: Insights from the Black Death

open access: yesGeoHealth, 2017
Contrary to widespread assumptions, next‐generation high (annual to multiannual) and ultra‐high (subannual) resolution analyses of an Alpine glacier reveal that true historical minimum natural levels of lead in the atmosphere occurred only once in the ...
Alexander F. More   +10 more
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