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Summary: Field pea attained greater importance as a cultivated plant in Bulgaria at the beginning of the 20th century. Until 1964, only breeding for forage was in use, with developed winter varieties №5 and Pleven 2. Recently, fi eld pea... more
This paper is a review of the history of museums in the Republic of Benin which sheds light mainly on the specific history from 1920 to 1947. Museums in the country remain static in regards to their collections management and exhibitions... more
This article reflects on the process of digitising a collection of almost 1800 Victorian Valentines cards. The Museum of London’s card collection is only a fraction of an individual’s extensive collection of greetings cards. This article... more
Potentials of scientific research in general are obviously subject to changes in accordance with current digital information and communication environment, which is capable to give new, advanced performances, or those essentially... more
The von Hauenschild collection was one of the founding collections of the Museo de Antropología, a university museum at the Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, located in Cordoba Capital, central... more
Nonparametric estimators of the mean total cost have been proposed in a variety of settings. In clinical trials it is generally impractical to follow up patients until all have responded, and therefore censoring of patient outcomes and... more
The birds of paradise are a classic example of the way in which early modern European naturalists encountered New World exotics and struggled to incorporate them into existing knowledge. Images of perpetually floating, dew-drinking birds... more
We describe how we went about designing visualization tools for exploratory access to collections of multiple translations of a literary work. Collections of this kind are relatively small. But big collections are collections of small... more
Abstract: We propose new tests to detect a change in the mean of a time series. Like many existing tests, the new ones are based on the CUSUM process. Existing CUSUM tests require an estimator of a scale parameter to make them... more
In this review I 'pitch in' to a debate about the 'value' of European collections in South African museums; in relation to the the 'French Connections' exhibition (2012-2013), at the Johannesburg Art Gallery. This exhibition utilised the... more
An important parameter in the study of population evolution is θ=4Nν, where N is the effective population size and ν is the rate of mutation per locus per generation. Therefore, θ represents the mean number of mutations per site per... more
The Cambridge Inventory Project, sponsored by the Friedberg Genizah Project and carried out by a number of researchers at the Taylor-Schechter Genizah Research Unit, was the first attempt to provide accurate information regarding the size... more
The thesis examines the activities of Štefan Butkovič and the activities related to the establishment and operation of the Technical Museum in Košice in the context of the Czechoslovak socio-political conditions after World War II. It... more
In her last will and testament, educator-activist Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955) declared, “I LEAVE YOU LOVE. Love builds.” A direct descendant of former chattel slaves, Bethune believed in building from the bottom up: beginning with... more
Over the past decade, a multitude of digital platforms engaging with Indigenous collections of ancestral belongings have been developed for the public in an effort to reconsider and reconceptualize notions of access and Indigenous... more
Extensions of credit generally help both the debtor and creditor. However, a result of our credit-based economy is that individuals are free to make poor economic decisions, and that they should suffer the consequences of these poor... more
A storyteller panorama tour, The Story of the Markam Car Collection, was developed as an example for museums and cultural institutions concerning the use of panoramas combined with multimedia to tell stories of specific large objects... more
This article introduces the reader to the considerations that had to be taken when cleaning and refreshing two of its large display cases at the Jewish Museum of Greece. Those display cases contain a mixed collection of variable items... more