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How digitisation of herbaria reveals the botanical legacy of the First World War

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Digitisation of herbarium collections is bringing greater understanding to bear on the complexity of narratives relating to the First World War and its aftermath – scientific and societal. Plant collecting during the First World War was more widespread than previously understood, contributed to the psychological well‐being of those involved and ...
Christopher Kreuzer, James A. Wearn
wiley   +1 more source

Ashley Luskey, Assistant Director of the Civil War Institute

open access: yes, 2019
In this first Next Page column of the new academic year, Ashley Luskey, Assistant Director of the Civil War Institute, shares which weathered volume she reads each October, her favorite book from her 9th grade English class, and explains her long-time ...
Luskey, Ashley Whitehead   +1 more
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Digitisation as archival intermediary: Quantifying and qualifying Greta B. Stevenson's mycological collector networks

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Mass digitisation of natural science collections and archives has increasingly become a priority for scientific heritage institutions. Here, we explore the potential of mass digitisation to improve our understanding of the nature and history of scientific collaboration. Focusing on mycologist Greta B.
Christopher Kreuzer   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

İslâm'ın Erken Dönemi Arap Şiirinde Eş Olarak Kadın Algısı

open access: yesKocatepe İslami İlimler Dergisi
Bu çalışmanın konusu, İslâm’ın erken dönemi Arap şiirinde eş olarak kadın algısıdır. Problemi ise döneme ait Arap şiirine eş olarak kadın algısı yansımalarının sorgulanmasıdır.
Mehmet Yılmaz
doaj   +1 more source

Reflections on public service: An evening with Micheal and Kitty Dukakis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Discussion with Massachusetts governor and 1988 candidate for President, Michael Dukakis, and his wife, Kitty Dukakis, reflect on lives devoted to public service and politicsBoston University Howard Thurman Center for Common ...
Boston University Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground
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Capsicum chinense as an African traditional vegetable: Culture, resilience, and opportunity

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Capsicum chinense is central to everyday diets, cultural identity, and smallholder livelihoods across Sub‐Saharan Africa, yet remains overlooked in agricultural research and policy. This paper reframes C. chinense as a traditional, climate‐resilient vegetable shaped by centuries of farmer stewardship and cultural selection.
Derek W. Barchenger   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

According to whom? Spousal, household, and plot differences in improved cassava variety adoption in Nigeria

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Agricultural innovations underpin most investments that aim to increase agricultural productivity globally. Improved crop varieties have historically constituted the bulwark of agricultural innovation outputs and are credited with the success of large‐scale interventions such as the Green Revolution. Much research has shown, however, that gender shapes
Jing Yi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Censorship's Distortion of Narrative and Marital Relationships in Japanese War Period Fiction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The purpose of this paper is to challenge the notion that most Japanese writers only wrote nationalist fiction during the Pacific War with America. I analyzed two short stories published shortly after the start of the Pacific War, “December 8th” by Dazai
Scheele, Genevieve
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Gender, Social Reproduction and the Construction of Capabilities for Social Sustainability of Agriculture: A Relational Approach

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Farmers' capabilities, a core component of social sustainability, have been largely neglected in sustainable agriculture discourse. Using a relational approach to capabilities and autonomy, this study explores how women farmers translate the opportunity of agricultural innovation into their valued outcomes, and which factors shape their ...
Dawn D. Cheong, Bettina Bock
wiley   +1 more source

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