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Pak Biawak, a necrobot, embodies an unusual fusion of biology and robotics. Designed to repurpose natural structures after death, it challenges conventional boundaries between nature and engineering. Its movements are precise yet unsettling, raising questions about sustainability, ethics, and the untapped potential of biointegrated machines.
Leo Foulds +2 more
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When Generative AI Goes to the Museum: Visual Stereotyping of Curators and Museum Spaces
Based on 350 visualizations, this paper examines the depiction of museum curators by the popular generative artificial intelligence (AI) model, ChatGPT4o.
Dirk H. R. Spennemann, Wayne Robinson
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Expedition of BK-31 (History of the Volga Military Flotilla armored boat)
The article reveals the history of the discovery, recovery and restoration of the BK-31 armoured boat of the Volga Military Flotilla, which perished in October 1942 in the height of the Battle of Stalingrad.
Alexander E. Epifanov
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Review of Maia Wellington Gahtan, Eva-Maria Troelenberg, eds, Collecting and Empires: An Historical and Global Perspective (London and Turnhout: Harvey Miller Publishers, 2019)
Angelo Cattaneo
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Diverging Liquid–Liquid Phase Separation Behavior of Different Recombinant Major Ampullate Spidroins
Fibers spun from the MaSp1‐derivative as well as MaSp1‐MaSp2‐mixtures provide a deeper insight into the assembly process of the spidroins and how hierarchical architectures of spider silk fibers could be achieved. ABSTRACT Spider silk fibers show exceptional mechanical properties, based on their underlying spider silk proteins (spidroins) as well as a ...
Tim Schiller +2 more
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Palaeoproteomic Deconvolution of Physical and Genetic Collagen Mixtures
ClassiCOL_v2 uses a novel “peptide patching” framework that treats any collagen sample as a patchwork of peptide sequences derived from phylogenetically related species. This allows the algorithm to simultaneously resolve two previously intractable problems: multi‐species samples and/or database deficiencies.
Ian Engels +12 more
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The Spider: Anaylsis of an Automaton
[Editors' note: This paper is the 2017 winner of the Student Paper Award in Document(ation) Studies, http://documentacademy.org/award. Susannah Munson wrote the paper as a Kent State University, School of Information, Museum Studies student.] The ...
Susannah Munson
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ABSTRACT Cultural capital influences a wide range of social and economic outcomes, yet quantitative measures suitable for policy analysis remain limited. We develop county‐level cultural capital indices for the US based on Bourdieu's framework of objectified, embodied, and institutionalized cultural capital.
Pratyoosh Kashyap +2 more
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This article examines the activities of provincial and regional statistical committees as centers for the establishment of provincial museums in pre-revolutionary Russia.
E. V. Igumnov
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High‐elevation endemic plants predicted to lose habitat from changing climate in Washington State
Abstract Premise High‐elevation plants face unique challenges from potential climate change impacts that will likely require upslope migration into increasingly smaller suitable habitat. This situation is particularly acute for endemic species that by definition occupy small geographic ranges.
Nicholas L. Gjording +4 more
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