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Cromohs: Cyber Review of Modern Historiography, 2021 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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Using field photography to study avian moult [PDF]
, 2017 Methods to obtain moult data from wild birds have not changed much over the last century and most studies still depend on checking museum specimens or capturing birds.
Furness, Robert W. +2 more
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The Spider: Anaylsis of an Automaton
Proceedings from the Document Academy, 2017 [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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Converting Family Into Fans: How the Comtemporary Jewish Museum Expanded Its Reach [PDF]
, 2016 The last in a series of 10 case studies explores how The Contemporary Jewish Museum in SanFrancisco worked to attract families of all backgrounds and build the next generation of museum supporters.
Bob Harlow, Cindy Cox Roman
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Examining Museum Visits as Literacy Events: the role of mediators [PDF]
, 2013 Museum exhibitions are literacy rich environments. Visitors may engage with a range of texts including texts that constitute the exhibition objects themselves, those that convey information about the objects and those that instruct visitors about how the
Aubusson, PJ +6 more
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Grip and Grasp: Lizard Claw Inspired Robotic Manipulators
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Our study identifies the most effective lizard claw shape for use as an end effector in a bioinspired robotic manipulator. By examining key geometric features and combining them into comparative indices, the Crotaphytus collaris claw is found to be the best fit.
Hyeon Lee +4 more
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What Can Museum Anthropology Do in the Twenty-first Century?
Museum & SocietyThis article sets out to tackle the question: ‘what can museum anthropology do in the twenty-first century?’ It does so by focusing on the doing in a double-sense: on what museum anthropology can do, as in affecting, impacting and achieving, as well as ...
Philipp Schorch
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Colonel Wily’s Brainchild: The Origins of the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa’s Cartier Square Drill Hall, 1880–1896 [PDF]
, 2012 Since 1996 the Canadian War Museum (CWM) has been a major partner with the Wilfrid Laurier Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies in the production of Canadian Military History.
Pulsifer, Cameron
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.We investigate whether Montessori and traditional schooling systems shape the developmental trajectory of large‐scale brain dynamics in different ways. We quantify the arrow of time (“non‐reversibility”) in neural activity during resting state and movie‐watching, revealing distinct maturational patterns.
Elvira del Agua +6 more
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Building the field of museum studies in Portugal: the role of publications
Midas: Museus e Estudos Interdisciplinares, 2020 In recent decades we have seen the field of museum studies expand. This development has been supported by the contribution of several actors, in various ways.
Ana Carvalho
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