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Semi-Postal Stamps as Health Promotion Tools. Breast Cancer [PDF]

Journal of IMAB
Introduction: The World Health Organization (WHO) launched the Global Breast Cancer Initiative (GBCI) in 2021 with a goal to reduce breast cancer (BC) mortality by 2.5% per year, saving the lives of 2.5 million women by 2040.
Desislava Vankova
exaly   +3 more sources

Estimating the Stock of Postwar Dutch Postal Stamps [PDF]

Applied Economics, 2007
This paper seeks to find an answer to the question: "How many stamps are still around, given that we know their prices at issue, the current price and the amount then issued?" For this purpose, I develop a simple statistical model, the parameters of which are estimated for over 1000 postwar Dutch stamps. One finding is that some stamps are very scarce,
Philip Hans Franses
exaly   +4 more sources

Evolution of Functional Hand Prostheses on the Postal Stamps. [PDF]

J Hand Microsurg, 2017
Afshar A.
europepmc   +4 more sources

Popularization of health in Polish philately

Health Promotion & Physical Activity, 2022
The article constitutes an attempt of presenting the phenomenon of popularization of health, health protection, achievements in medicine and people connected to medicine through a postal stamp.
Marek Smoła
doaj   +1 more source

The Egyptian Post Museum: a Strategic Plan to Develop and Activate its Role in Presenting the Heritage of Egypt [PDF]

المجلة العلمیة لکلیة السیاحة والفنادق جامعة الأسکندریة, 2021
Collecting stamps and documents that record the history of post service in Egypt was credited to King Fouad who started his private collection in1866. The idea of establishing a Post Museum came up during the 10th International Postal Conference, which ...
Heba Mahmoud Saad, Sara Ragab
doaj   +1 more source

The Study of Stamp Functions in Qajar and the 1st Pahlavi [PDF]

پژوهش های تاریخی, 2018
The reign of Naser al-Din Shah brought upon political and social reformations in Iran. The changes that happened in the structure of the postal system was one of such reformations.
Abdollah Motevalli, shabnam HosseinAbadi Farahani   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Heroes in Miniature

Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur, 2022
This paper examines the five different Thule postal stamps which circulated from 1935 to 1936 between the trading post of Thule (which is the Danish name for the settlement of Uummannaq in Northwest Greenland, today Thule Air Base) and the Cape York post
Anne Hemkendreis
doaj   +1 more source

Using Innovative Decorative Designs for securing The Egyptian Universities Temporary Graduation Certificate Stamps

Journal of Architecture, Art & Humanistic Science, 2021
A postage stamp is a piece of artwork which proficiently designed and printed and issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage. (Glossary of Terms, 2017).
Mahmoud Farouk Mahmoud Ameen Elfeky , Salwa Zahran   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Formation, development and curation of the Tapling Collection at the British Museum Library in the Nineteenth Century

Electronic British Library Journal, 2021
In 1891 Thomas Keay Tapling bequeathed his near complete, worldwide collection of stamps and postal stationery to the British Museum Library. To celebrate the 130th anniversary of this event which created the British Library's Philatelic Collections ...
Richard Scott Morel
doaj   +1 more source

An historical analysis of united states experiences using stamp-based revenues for wildlife conservation and habitat protection

Discover Sustainability, 2021
In the United States, the transition from unchecked hunting, habitat loss, and species endangerment to an ongoing environmental awakening has been examined through various lenses. Despite this gradual perspective shift, recent reports continue to warn of
Joel I. Cohen, Steven Altman
doaj   +1 more source