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Using art history to explore society's changing connections with agriculture

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Food insecurity is a looming challenge that especially affects those least fortunate. Consumer food choices have a substantial impact on the sustainability of current food systems. Here, we use art as a lens through which to consider our contemporary and historical relationship to one of the world's most crucial crops, the potato, in the context of the
Edward F. Hill‐King, Martin R. McAinsh, Michael R. Roberts   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

User Problems with Access to Fictional Characters and Personal Names in Online Public Access Catalogs

, 1991
Reference librarians in libraries with online public access catalogs were polled to determine what indexes they thought most patrons would use to look for fictional characters. Most thought users would choose a name index over a subject index, but that they would choose a subject index over an author index.
Yee, Martha M, Soto, Raymond
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The need for manual curation of the cotton proteome leads to a solution primed for undergraduate involvement

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Cotton is a global crop cultivated worldwide, yet a significant portion of the cotton genome remains functionally unannotated. Attempts have been made to automate this annotation but have been unable to completely bridge the gap. Human curation is still needed for accurate interpretations and predictions to be made.
Jonathan Zirkel, Amanda R. Storm, Grant T. Billings, Amanda M. Hulse‐Kemp   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Low Response Rate and Other Factors Render Academic Health Science Library System Study Ungeneralizable. A Review of: Folb, B. L., Wessel, C. B., & Czechowski, L. J. (2011). Clinical and academic use of electronic and print books: The Health Sciences Library System e-book study at the University of Pittsburgh. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 99(3), 218-228. doi:10.3163/1536-5050.99.3.009

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2012
Objective – To determine the factors, barriersand facilitators, preference, and intended useof e-book compared to print book usage by allpatrons in a health science library system,which serves a university with health sciencedegree programs and a ...
Maria Melssen
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Plants back: Re‐envisioning botanical garden collections management for indigenous crops

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Botanical gardens and other ex situ collections play a key role in preventing plant extinctions, yet the needs of Indigenous crop cultivars are not being met by conventional botanical collections management practices. Inspired by Indigenous land care restoration movements centering plant–human–society relationships, we propose a path toward reciprocal ...
Uala Working Group, Stacy Lynn Lucas, Aurora K. Kagawa‐Viviani, Bryceson Tugade, Penny Levin, Noa Kekuewa Lincoln, Tamara Sherrill, Jerry Koko, Michael Kantar   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Eight quick tips for requesting materials from natural history collections. [PDF]

PLoS Comput Biol
Scorsim Omura GY, Furr D, Jacob Machado D.   +2 more
europepmc   +1 more source

From settler gardens to digital naturalists: human aesthetic preferences and land use changes facilitate the biogeographical expansion of a wild plant–virus interaction

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Anthropogenic facilitation of wild plants based on aesthetic preferences for particular traits can change the biogeography and ecology of natural communities. We use a mixed‐methods socioecological approach to characterize the ways in which humans interact with a common, widely distributed plant and a generalist viral symbiont that induces an ...
Elizabeth M. Lombardi, Jasmine S. Peters, Juan Pablo Jordán, Alison G. Power   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Algorithmic advances in smart TV content recommendation: a structured evidence-mapping review. [PDF]

Front Big Data
Chen Z, He J, Gong Y, Liang J, Li J.
europepmc   +1 more source

Students’ Awareness and Usage of Koha – Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC)

British Journal of Multidisciplinary and Advanced Studies
The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic made a big impact towards the libraries. As face-to-face mode was constricted, the online digital marketing strategies became a tool to bridge the gap between the library and users through the promotion of online library services and resources.
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How many bromeliads are there? History and future perspectives of species scientific discovery in the pineapple family

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It remains unclear how many plant species are not yet recorded by science. We illustrated the process by which species of the pineapple family in tropical America have been newly described to science to date, and we estimated how many species may still await scientific discovery in this group.
Georg Zizka, Maria‐Judith Carmona‐Higuita, Eric Gouda, Elton M. C. Leme, Alexander Zizka   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source