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World Heritage List: Does it Make Sense? [PDF]
The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured Sites of humanity’s culture and landscapes. The World Heritage List is beneficial where heritage sites are undetected, disregarded by national decision-makers, not commercially exploitable ...
Bruno S. Frey, Lasse Steiner
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Maintaining Cultural Heritage of Nusantara and its Relations to the World Heritage
, 2015 This writing is about the importance of maintaining the cultural heritage of Nusantara as the effort to maintain the heritage of the world. This writing argues that the culture of Nusantara is the result of the assimilation process of different advanced ...
Hakim, Lukmanul; University of Muhammadiyah Jakarta
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Evaluation of Varnishes to Slow Down the Aging of Plasticized PVC
Journal of Applied Polymer Science, EarlyView.Varnish effectiveness in plasticized PVC strongly depends on both formulation and degradation state. A polyurethane varnish effectively limits color change and plasticizer loss in unaged PVC without phosphate plasticizers, whereas no protective effect is observed for phosphate‐containing PVC.
Mathilde Larrieu +5 more
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Journal of Asian Architecture and Building EngineeringIndonesia is home to over 300 ethnicities, many of which have traditional communities living in rainforest settlements. Unfortunately, the number of traditional houses is decreasing because 20th century introduction to Christianity, post-independence ...
Fanitra Pedi Atmanti, Yasufumi Uekita
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ArchitectureThroughout history, humans have used the environment to build structures for defense. Fortifications are clear examples of buildings created to better protect important settlements and homes.
Doo Won Cho
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World Development Indicators 2011 [PDF]
, 2011 World development indicators 2011, the 15th edition in its current format, aims to provide relevant, high-quality, internationally comparable statistics about development and the quality of people's ...
World Bank
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BarnebyLives: An R package to create herbarium specimen labels and clean spreadsheets
Applications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Premise Accessioning herbarium specimens is labor intensive, yet remains vital for research in ecology, evolution, and conservation. As institutional support for herbaria declines, efficient tools are needed to streamline this process. The R package BarnebyLives was developed to assist collectors by supplementing collection notes, verifying ...
Reed Clark Benkendorf, Jeremie B. Fant
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, 2012 In the October 2007 edition of World Heritage, Jonathan Tourtellot of the National Geographic Society wrote of tourism as the 'biggest threat and benefactor' of World Heritage sites.
Ongkhluap, Somyot +1 more
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Applications in Plant Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Premise Advances in the digitization of herbarium collections are enabling open access to specimen data for research and conservation. In Brazil, the Herbário Virtual Reflora (HVR) hosts over 4.8 million high‐resolution images of botanical specimens and their associated data from 86 national and international herbaria.
Carlos Calderón del Cid +5 more
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An osteohistological analysis of Triceratops (Ornithischia: Ceratopsidae) cranial ornamentation
The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Ceratopsids are among the most distinctive and well known extinct Cretaceous vertebrates, yet many details regarding the growth and composition of their cranial features are still not fully anatomically described or understood. In particular, striking cranial adornments such as the postorbital horns and parietal‐squamosal frill of Triceratops ...
Kyle D. Obuszewski +2 more
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