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Visibility of selected public monuments in Belgrade area [PDF]

Nasleđe, 2018
The article analyzes a number of significant public monuments in Belgrade, in the context of their compromised visibility and presentation in their surroundings, with common problems being inappropriately planted vegetation facing the front side of the ...
Ristanović Aleksandra M.
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Synergistic efforts in specimen digitisation, curation and cataloguing of Brazil's megadiverse flora and funga

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The advancement of digital technologies has brought a rapid global information exchange, impacting all areas of our lives. This also applies to science. Knowledge, conservation and scientific innovation on global biodiversity are being strengthened and disseminated at unprecedented scales.
Ana Flávia Alves Versiane, Fabiana Ranzato Filardi, Thuane Bochorny, Paula Leitman, Mariana Taniguchi, Felipe Alves de Oliveira, Luís Alexandre Estevão da Silva, Rafael Oliveira Lima, Domingos Cardoso, Rafaela Campostrini Forzza   +9 more
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Contaminants of emerging concern in agricultural soils: Current understanding, overlooked issues, and future priorities

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Contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in agriculture represent a growing global challenge for food safety and public health. In this review, we synthesized evidence on how substances such as pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) enter soils, accumulate in crops, and affect ecological and human health. We found
Laura J. Carter, Evyatar Ben Mordechay, Benny Chefetz, Zeyou Chen, Xinyi Cui, Jay Gan, Hui Li, Audrey Moores, Xiaoyu Gao   +8 more
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A Cause Lost, a Story Being Written: Explaining Black and White Commemorative Difference in the Postbellum South

, 2019
This paper addresses the disparate commemorative modes and purposes employed by black and white Southerners following the Civil War, in their competing efforts to control the cultural narrative of the war’s legacy.
Covington, Bailey M
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Representativeness and Diversity in Photos via Crowd-Sourced Media Analysis [PDF]

, 2012
In this paper we present a hybrid three steps mechanism for automated-human media analysis employed for selecting a small number of representative and diverse images in the context of a noisy set of images.
Anca-Livia, Radu, Giunchiglia, Fausto, Ionescu, Bogdan, Menéndez, María, Stöttinger, Julian   +4 more
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Tracing change in the public perception of plants: insights from archives and social media in China

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As urbanization accelerates, historic gardens serve as vital cultural treasures that offer spiritual and cultural support to the public. This study proposes an innovative approach that merges historical records from the Qing Dynasty with contemporary social media data to explore changes in public perceptions of these gardens.
Dong Xu, Pei‐yan Wang, Ya‐nan Li, Nan Hu, Yun‐yuan Li   +4 more
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Solar farms can mitigate negative impacts of whiplash weather on plant communities in a dryland ecosystem

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Utility‐scale solar energy (USSE) development generates novel questions regarding coupling clean energy production with terrestrial ecosystem services (e.g., forage production, pollinator support). We found that a USSE array sited in a fallowed cropland maintained a reseeded native plant community even a decade post‐restoration and that the array ...
Caitlin Robertson, Amanda Gersoff, Seeta Sistla   +2 more
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Female Public Sculptures: Visibly Invisible

Social Sciences
Monuments and public sculptures embody collective memory, values, and identity. This study analyses the representation of women in public sculptures in Ibarra, Ecuador, and evaluates citizens’ recognition of the historical figures depicted.
Miguel Ángel Posso-Yépez, Gandhy Leonardo Godoy-Guevara, Ángela Mikaela Posso-Astudillo, Carlos Israel Almeida-Vargas   +3 more
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Epistemic diversity and the politics of knowledge in plant disease management: Insights from the Xylella fastidiosa epidemic in southern Italy

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Xylella fastidiosa is a major plant pathogen affecting crops such as grapes, citrus, almonds, and olives, with potentially severe consequences for agricultural production and rural livelihoods worldwide. This paper examines the conflict around the management of the X. fastidiosa outbreak affecting olive trees in southern Italy.
Fabio Gatti, David Ludwig, Phil Macnaghten   +2 more
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Making World Heritage Truly Global: The Culture Certificate Scheme [PDF]

Culture has attributes of a global public good that needs to be preserved for mankind as a whole. World Culture Certificates are proposed to efficiently preserve World Heritage.
Bruno S. Frey, Paolo Pamini
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