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Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Global efforts to protect biodiversity depend on fair access to key plant specimens. This study examines the distribution of 119,361 holotypes—unique herbarium specimens used to formally describe new plant species. By linking collection and storage data, we found that holotypes are increasingly held closer to their places of origin, particularly in ...
Dominik Tomaszewski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing the evolutionary distinctiveness of a highly threatened plant group: The urgency to preserve a unique lineage of evolution in Brazil

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Brazil's diverse flora is under several threats, with many unique lineages facing extinction, particularly in biodiverse regions like the Cerrado and campo rupestre. This study sheds light on the conservation needs of Cambessedesia (Melastomataceae), an endemic genus with 95% of its species endangered, using an approach to rank and prioritise species ...
Najla Bastos Scheidegger   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digitising biological collections to advance National Species Inventories: A case study from the flora of Chile

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
In response to Chile's public policy to establish a national biodiversity inventory and monitoring system, we launched the HerbarioDigital.cl portal. We have digitised over 120,000 specimens representing more than 3,900 species from two Chilean herbaria, integrating them through a curated local taxonomic index.
Ricardo A. Segovia   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hospice and Palliative Care‐Related Policy in the United States and Germany in the Context of Recent Governmental Changes

open access: yesWorld Medical &Health Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Population aging is a problem that countries around the globe are facing; it comes with complex healthcare needs. Different countries take different approaches to solving these issues. In the United States, proposed legislation related to hospice and palliative care emerged from a history of hospice fraud and specialty physician shortages.
Edith‐Marie Green
wiley   +1 more source

Las elecciones de 2015, entre la crisis política y las nuevas reglas electorales [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
A partir de un análisis en el que se comparan y describen algunos signos de la crisis política y social detonada a raíz de la desaparición de 43 estudiantes de la normal rural de Ayotzinapa, el autor sitúa a las elecciones de 2015 en un horizonte ...
Rocha-Quintero, Jorge E.
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Designing Deliberative Lobbying: Three Institutional Solutions for an Open Lobby Democracy

open access: yesThe Political Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Debates on lobbying regulation have focused overwhelmingly on transparency, yet disclosure alone does little to address the deeper democratic challenges of unequal power, narrow representation and public distrust. This article argues that lobbying regulation should be designed not only to make influence visible, but also to make it fairer and ...
Alberto Bitonti
wiley   +1 more source

‘Work locally but think globally’: The Alliance Against Women's Oppression and transnational multiracial grassroots activism in the 1980s

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the transnational history of the Alliance Against Women's Oppression (AAWO), a multiracial and Marxist US women's organisation founded in California in 1979. By focusing on the political connection between the AAWO, the so‐called ‘Third World’ and other international organisations such as the Women International ...
Bruno Walter Renato Toscano
wiley   +1 more source

Os sujeitos de direitos na proteção social básica do SUAS: percepções sobre a assistência social [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
TCC (Graduação) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Centro Socioeconômico. Serviço Social.Este Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso propõe-se a analisar a percepção dos usuários da Proteção Social Básica do Centro de Referência em Assistência Social ...
Schmitt, Yolanda Flores
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Virility, fascism and regeneration in post‐Civil War Spain: On interpretations of literary Romanticism under the Franco regime

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
wiley   +1 more source

RETOMANDO AS REFLEXÕES SOBRE O CONTROLE SOCIAL DEMOCRÁTICO NO SUAS: fragmentos de uma pesquisa documental [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Neste trabalho socializamos as reflexões teóricas e fragmentos das análises de uma pesquisa documental sobre as discussões que emergiram de um fórum de debates realizado num Curso sobre o Exercício do Controle Social no ano de 2016 no Brasil. Partimos do
Fernandes, Rosa Maria Castilhos   +2 more
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