ABSTRACT Native to America, the pineapple—Ananas comosus (L.) Merr.—delighted the Europeans who came across it. The fruit was mentioned by the voyagers and missionaries who observed and tasted it in the Americas and, from the 1500s onwards, infused reports, chronicles and natural history treatises with colour and flavour.
Teresa Nobre de Carvalho
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Redescription of the rare, incompletely described <i>Mongolodiaptomus rarus</i> (Ranga Reddy, Sanoamuang & Dumont, 1998) (Copepoda, Calanoida, Diaptomidae), from freshwater habitats in northeast Thailand, with comments on conservation status. [PDF]
Sanoamuang L, Dabseepai P, Koompoot K.
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Nathaniel Culverwell's stoic theory of common notions
Abstract This article takes a closer look at the theory of knowledge developed by Nathaniel Culverwell in his 1652 Elegant and Learned Discourse of the Light of Nature. Based on Culverwell's endorsement of Edward Herbert of Cherbury against Plato and Aristotle, his critical reception of René Descartes, and his contributions to a controversy between ...
Mogens Lærke
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Comparative Validation of the fBrake Method with the Conventional Brake Efficiency Test Under UNE 26110 Using Roller Brake Tester Data. [PDF]
Romero-Gómez V, San Román JL.
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Topological Jackiw-Rebbi states in photonic Van der Waals heterostructures. [PDF]
Randerson SA +11 more
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Actively Induced Supercoiling Can Slow Down Plasmid Solutions by Trapping the Threading Entanglements. [PDF]
Staňo R, Rusková R, Račko D, Smrek J.
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Discovery of a Roman Quarry for Pozzolanic aggregates in the Euganean Hills Magmatic District, Northeast Italy: A stepwise archaeometric approach. [PDF]
Dilaria S +8 more
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Biochemical Profiling and Ecotoxicological Assessment of <i>Prunus spinosa</i> L. Fruits from the Cluj Region: Phytochemical Composition, Contaminant Load, and Antioxidant Potential. [PDF]
Băbălău-Fuss V +6 more
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Woodlands of Antiquity: A millennium of dendrochronological data on forest exploitation and timber economy between the Alps and the Atlantic. [PDF]
Muigg B +24 more
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