The Children’s Museum teaches children about science and nature through productive play and by stimulating their imaginations. The Museum promotes science literacy and inquiry-based learning through a variety of programs including a Museum Pre-School ...
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Blindness, art and exclusion in museums and galleries [PDF]
, 2003 Drawing on interviews with blind people, this paper examines both their exclusion from museums and galleries and their responses to the art educational provision which is specifically designed to remedy that marginalisation.
Candlin, Fiona
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Education and Museum: Cultural Heritage and learning [PDF]
, 2017 Project description supported by Erasmus Plus KA2- The project proposal is connected to the promotion of initiatives, starting in primary school, for using ICT, the open educational resources and digital resources of cultural heritage for the improvement
Ferrara, Vincenza
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Presenting in Virtual Worlds: An Architecture for a 3D Anthropomorphic Presenter [PDF]
, 2006 Multiparty-interaction technology is changing entertainment, education, and training. Deployed examples of such technology include embodied agents and robots that act as a museum guide, a news presenter, a teacher, a receptionist, or someone trying to ...
Goren-Bar, D. +6 more
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Context Awareness and Human–Robot Interaction Optimization for Museum Intelligent Guide Robot
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.This study presents a context‐aware human–robot interaction framework designed for intelligent museum guide robots. The system features a three‐layer architecture—perception, understanding, and behavior execution—that enables adaptive and meaningful interactions with museum visitors.
Anna Zou, Yue Meng, Shijing Tong
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Tourist attraction? Or reverence – The Royal New Zealand Air Force Museum. A case study of the tensions between intent and presentation [PDF]
, 2007 The military museum has in the last quarter of the 20th Century undergone a transformation in Western societies. The military museum has become less concerned with remembrance and more concerned with education and analysis.
Cardow, Andrew, Emerson, Alistair
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Learning computing heritage through gaming – whilst teaching digital development through history [PDF]
, 2016 This paper analyses the potential of computer games and interactive projects within the learning programmes for cultural heritage institutions through our experiences working in partnership between higher education and a museum.
Briggs, Thomas, Liu, Haiming, Wood, Jim
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The Diagnosis That Arrived Decades Late: Living Without and Then With Myhre Syndrome
American Journal of Medical Genetics Part C: Seminars in Medical Genetics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Myhre syndrome (MIM #139210) is a rare multisystem disorder first described in 1981, characterized by short stature, neurodevelopmental delay, joint contractures, and cardiopulmonary complications. Its molecular basis, recurrent pathogenic variants in SMAD4, was not discovered until 2011. This narrative is based on a review of medical records,
Abdallah F. Elias
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The School Museum as a Catalyst for a Renewal of the Teaching of History of Education. Practices and experiences from the University of Macerata (Italy) [PDF]
, 2015 The article analyzes the educational activities which, since its creation, the School Museum of the University of Macerata has developed with particular regard to the audience of university students. As a result of a fruitful synthesis of the most recent
Brunelli, Marta
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Quantitative assessment of masticatory muscles based on skull muscle attachment areas in Carnivora
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Masticatory muscles are composed of the temporalis, masseter, and pterygoid muscles in mammals. Each muscle has a different origin on the skull and insertion on the mandible; thus, all masticatory muscles contract in different directions. Collecting in vivo data and directly measuring the masticatory muscles anatomically in various Carnivora ...
Kai Ito +4 more
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