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TEACHING ANTHROPOLOGY WITH MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Teaching Anthropology, 2020 Material culture provides powerful teaching opportunities for core anthropological themes and issues. Based on experience in teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate students, teh authors provide examples and a framework for a class exercise which supports students to learn from objects and to think anthropologically about them.
Peers, L, Vitelli, G
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Tridacna maxima ‘Rediscovered’ in the Eastern Indian Ocean
DiversityGiant clams are ecologically important coral reef animals, with many species facing imminent local extinction. While many regions have undertaken recent assessments of their biodiversity assets, persistent gaps remain even in otherwise well-surveyed ...
Lisa Kirkendale +2 more
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Rethinking asexuality: the enigmatic case of functional sexual genes in Lepraria (Stereocaulaceae)
BMC GenomicsBackground The ubiquity of sex across eukaryotes, given its high costs, strongly suggests it is evolutionarily advantageous. Asexual lineages can avoid, for example, the risks and energetic costs of recombination, but suffer short-term reductions in ...
Meredith M. Doellman +4 more
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Geo&Bio, 2022 The article highlights the role of personality in the creation of museum exhibitions. Among the pleiad of prominent museum figures of the second half of the last century was Vira Franchuk (1916–2014).
Mariia Reshetnyk +2 more
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Scientific ReportsThe last two decades have reinvigorated systematic research on predatory sponges, mainly fuelled by advances in technology that have facilitated collection in deep-water habitats.
Merrick Ekins, Nerida G. Wilson
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Open-source software integration: A tutorial on species distribution mapping and ecological niche modelling [PDF]
Research Ideas and OutcomesOver the last decade, access to global data has become increasingly critical for research, allowing insights into diverse biological, environmental and societal questions at a macro scale.
Zoe Ryan +8 more
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PhytoKeys, 2018 Poa secunda J. Presl. s.l. is a morphologically highly variable bunchgrass that is a valuable forage species in western North America. There has been much controversy as to whether multiple taxa should be recognised and at what rank in this taxonomically
Robert John Soreng, Lynn J. Gillespie
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نظم تصنیف مقتنیات المتاحف :دراسة تحلیلیة تقییمة مقارنة [PDF]
المجلة الدولية لعلوم المكتبات والمعلومات, 2017 The study examined the classification systems of museum collections forbeing one of the tools and standards in documenting museum collections, withthe aim of monitoring the attributes and characteristics of the applicableclassification systems in museums,
د. سمیرة خلیل محمد
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Museum Collection Re-defined: A Case Study of TOGO Rural Art Museum, Taiwan [PDF]
Muzeológia a Kultúrne Dedičstvo, 2019 The value of collections to museums is not merely in using them for display, research and promotion, but also in establishing communication with public, as well as in the construction of meaning through collection and interpretation of collections ...
LAI Ying Ying
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Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, 1999 The aims of the project “Organization and Management of Brazilian prehistoric collections of the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology/University of São Paulo” were: define a methodology to apply to this kind of collections, organize the field and lab ...
Marisa Coutinho Afonso +2 more
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