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The Development of a Methodology to Understand Climate-induced Damage in Decorated Oak Wood Panels [PDF]
Climate-induced damage in decorated oak wood panels is considered to be a high risk for pre-eminent museum collections. To advise museums on the development of sustainable future preservation strategies and rational guidelines for indoor climate ...
Ankersmit, H.A.+8 more
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Purchasing Storage Furniture to Rehouse and Make Collections Accessible [PDF]
The National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library (NCSML) seeks NEH support in the preservation of its humanities collections following a natural disaster by purchasing and installing new storage furniture and environmental and light monitoring equipment ...
Stefanie Kohn, Stefanie Kohn
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Open-source software integration: A tutorial on species distribution mapping and ecological niche modelling [PDF]
Over 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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Copyright for Museum Collections
This article investigates whether museums are shifting from having users respect the copyright to their collections towards becoming intellectual property managers.
Anna Pluszyńska
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Abstract Premise Establishment of long‐lived perennial plants is a pivotal event that often leads to reproductive maturity. The population dynamics of the giant saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) have been investigated over large spatial areas, but establishment patterns have not been studied at the microsite (1 m) scale.
Peter B. Breslin+6 more
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Chronology or Context: Temporality and Artificiality of Museum Collections
Although museum collections represent a temporary assemblage of “affiliated objects”, aimed at facilitating the responsible curation of the museum funds, in practice they are treated as an obligatory unit, without which the museum object itself does not ...
Tatjana Cvjetićanin
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ABSTRACT Development of cultural identity is understood to be central to well‐being; however, it is not always prioritised for children in out‐of‐home care (OOHC). This paper examines current policy and practice designed to support the cultural identity and connection of non‐Indigenous culturally and linguistically diverse children (CALD) in OOHC, who ...
Rebekah Grace+8 more
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The Chinese-Indonesian Collections in the National Museum of World Cultures, the Netherlands [PDF]
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)+1 more
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Rethinking asexuality: the enigmatic case of functional sexual genes in Lepraria (Stereocaulaceae)
Background 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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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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