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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.
doaj  

Coloring Outside The Lines: A Response to Professor Seamon’s Dismantling Monuments [PDF]

, 2018
In Dismantling Monuments, Professor Richard H. Seamon defends President Donald Trump’s recent proclamations modifying the boundaries of two national monuments, Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears, that Presidents Clinton and Obama each designated at
Babcock, Hope M.
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Teutonic State Order’s Cultural Heritage in Towns of Warmia-Masuria Province in Poland [PDF]

, 2014
The area of contemporary Warmia-Masuria Province encompasses the major part of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights, founded in the Middle Ages on the southern coast of the Baltic Sea.
Musiaka, Łukasz
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Epistemic diversity and the politics of knowledge in plant disease management: Insights from the Xylella fastidiosa epidemic in southern Italy

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
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
wiley   +1 more source

A synthetic eco‐evolutionary proposal for the conservation of wild relatives of the olive tree

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Societal Impact Statement Crop wild relatives (CWR) are valuable sources of genetic diversity for plant breeding. However, the identification of wild untapped genetic resources (i.e., unexploited in crops) is not always straightforward. We propose a methodology to guide the identification and conservation of these resources that integrates both genetic
Andrés Barea‐Márquez, Guillaume Besnard, Miguel González Ximénez‐Embún, Carlos García‐Verdugo, Concepción M. Diez, José Carlos Pérez‐Girón, Rafael Rubio de Casas   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scottish Archaeological Research Framework: Future Thinking on Carved Stones [PDF]

, 2016
No abstract ...
Buckham, Susan, Forsyth, Katherine, Foster, Sally, Jeffrey, Stuart   +3 more
core  

From traditional practice to unsustainable exploitation: Fruit overharvesting on the endangered relict palm Jubaea chilensis

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Overharvesting of wild edible plants poses a growing threat to plant populations worldwide, particularly for slow‐growing species with limited regeneration. We quantified fruit extraction from the third‐largest known population of Jubaea chilensis—an endangered palm endemic to Chile—modeled the critical harvest threshold, and assessed consumer ...
Sebastián Cordero, Francisca Gálvez, Marisol Arriagada‐Honores, Andrés Jesús Garrido, Daniela Paredes‐Muñoz, Bastián Fuentes‐Valdés, Fernanda Torres‐Cifuentes, Francisco E. Fontúrbel   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multifaceted obscurity of Thismia abei (Thismiaceae): A fairy lantern with the protologue long disregarded in practice

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Tiny, leafless fairy lanterns are easily overlooked on the forest floor. Thismia abei, endemic to Japan, persists in small, unstable populations and is listed nationally as Critically Endangered. Our recent work has revealed another, less obvious form of obscurity.
Kenji Suetsugu, Alexander N. Sennikov, Maxim S. Nuraliev   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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Beggars as Rational Choosers

Southern Economic Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT American municipalities increasingly regulate panhandling. That regulation is controversial. The determinants of panhandling activeness are unknown, and it is doubted whether panhandling activity responds rationally to incentives. To shed light on these issues, we collect data on hundreds of panhandlers and the passersby they solicit at ...
Peter T. Leeson, R. August Hardy, Paola A. Suarez   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source