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The Chinese-Indonesian Collections in the National Museum of World Cultures, the Netherlands [PDF]

, 2017
Among the more than 130,000 objects from Indonesia in the Dutch National Museum of World Cultures, many once belonged to or were used by the Chinese population of Indonesia.
Brinkgreve, F. (Francine), Leijfeldt, J. (Johanna)   +1 more
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The Global Museum: natural history collections and the future of evolutionary science and public education

PeerJ, 2020
Natural history museums are unique spaces for interdisciplinary research and educational innovation. Through extensive exhibits and public programming and by hosting rich communities of amateurs, students, and researchers at all stages of their careers ...
F. Bakker, A. Antonelli, J. Clarke, J. Cook, S. Edwards, P. Ericson, S. Faurby, N. Ferrand, Magnus Gelang, R. Gillespie, M. Irestedt, K. Lundin, E. Larsson, Pável Matos‐Maraví, Johannes Müller, Ted von Proschwitz, G. Roderick, Alexander Schliep, N. Wahlberg, John Wiedenhoeft, M. Källersjö   +20 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Colonization by tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus Skuse, 1894) of mountain areas over 600 m above sea level in the surroundings of Trento city, Northeast Italy

Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research
Originally from Southeast Asia, the tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) is now found almost everywhere in the world. Additionally, it spread throughout all of Northeastern Italy’s cities, including Trento, and settled in the Alpine regions.
Giulia Battistin, Alessandra Franceschini, Francesca Paoli, Valeria Lencioni   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Phenotype and animal domestication : A study of dental variation between domestic, wild, captive, hybrid and insular Sus scrofa [PDF]

, 2015
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work ...
Cucchi, Thomas, Dobney, Keith, Evin, Allowen, Larson, Greger, Owen, Joseph, Schafberg, Renate, Vidarsdottir, Una   +6 more
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The Deer Flies of Indiana (Diptera: Tabanidae: \u3ci\u3eChrysops\u3c/i\u3e) [PDF]

, 2017
(excerpt) The great majority of specimens, over 12,000 out of 13,185, which form the basis of this study, were collected by the writer during the flight season of the summer of 1963.
Burton, John J.S
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Art, nature and mental health: assessing the biopsychosocial effects of a ‘creative green prescription’ museum programme involving horticulture, artmaking and collections

Perspectives in Public Health, 2020
Aims: To assess the biopsychosocial effects of participation in a unique, combined arts- and nature-based museum intervention, involving engagement with horticulture, artmaking and museum collections, on adult mental health service users.
L. Thomson, Nuala Morse, E. Elsden, Helen J. Chatterjee   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

THE CERVANTES COLLECTION IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM [PDF]

The Library, 1908
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De-growing museum collections for new heritage futures

International Journal of Heritage Studies (IJHS), 2018
This article focuses on curators’ frustrations with (what we call) ‘the profusion struggle’. Curators express the difficulty of collecting the material culture of everyday life when faced with vast existing collections.
J. Morgan, S. Macdonald
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Toward a Species Search Engine: KISSE Offers a Rigorous Statistical Framework for Bone Collagen Tandem Mass Spectrometry Data

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The Species Search Engine (KISSE) is a novel statistical approach for identifying species from collagen peptides, using a curated library of sequences and their relative abundances derived from shotgun proteomics. Abstract DNA and bone collagen are two key sources of resilient molecular markers used to identify species from their remains.
Hassan Gharibi, Amir Ata Saei, Alexey L. Chernobrovkin, Susanna L. Lundstrom, Hezheng Lyu, Zhaowei Meng, Akos Vegvari, Massimilliano Gaetani, Roman A. Zubarev   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Australia’s marine fishes DNA barcode reference library for integrated taxonomy, metabarcoding & eDNA research

Scientific Data
Over 15 000 species of fishes are found globally in the marine environment and DNA barcodes are used extensively to describe, catalogue, understand and manage this diversity.
Sharon A. Appleyard, Robert D. Ward, John J. Pogonoski, Alastair Graham, Peter R. Last, Bruce E. Deagle, Bronwyn Holmes, Martin F. Gomon, Dianne J. Bray, Jeffrey W. Johnson, Amanda C. Hay, Glenn I. Moore, Michael P. Hammer, Barry Russell, Ken J. Graham   +14 more
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