El Retouching Scientific Photography – The Glass Plate Negatives Collection at the Natural History and Science Museum – University of Porto by Catarina Luísa Cortes Pereira, Carolina Barata, Rita Gaspar, Laura Castro

“…Mendes Correia Anthropology Institute, of the Natural History and Science Museum - University of Porto (MHNC-UP). …”
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Exhibitions as learning environments: a review of empirical research on students’ science learning at Natural History Museums, Science Museums and Science Centres by Nils Petter Hauan, Stein Dankert Kolstø

“…One aim for many natural history museums, science museums and science centres is to contribute to school-related learning in science. …”
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Old Prints, Published in Italy in the XVI-XIX centuries from the Collection Berdychiv Social and Historical Museum (1926-1954) by Didora Larysa

Subjects: “…bibliography, book history, library science, museum, old print, balleoniana, remondiana, italian studies.…”
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أسطرلاب محمد بن أحمد البطوطي بمتحف تاريخ العلوم بجامعة أكسفورد دراسة آثارية فنية(ينشر لأول مرة) The astrolabe of Muhammad Ibn Ahmed Al-Battûtî in the History of Science Museum at the University of Oxford Archaeological and Artistic study (Published for the First Time) by Amira Emad Fathy Mohamed El-Sebaiy

“…This research studies a remarkable astrolabe of the Astronomer Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Battûtî from Maghrib, made of brass and silver, preserved in the History of Science Museum at the University of Oxford in England. …”
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Life canvas: biological illustration as biographical evidence of illustrators’ and researchers’ careers by Simão Mateus, Cristiana Vieira

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Notes on the original materials of the three western Mediterranean oaks (Quercus, Fagaceae) described by Desfontaines by Carlos Martins Vila-Viçosa, Cristiana Vieira, Francisco Márquez, Rubim Almeida, Francisco María Vázquez

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DNA Barcoding of Fish, Insects, and Shellfish in Korea by Dae-Won Kim, Won Gi Yoo, Hyun Chul Park, Hye Sook Yoo, Dong Won Kang, Seon Deok Jin, Hong Ki Min, Woon Kee Paek, Jeongheui Lim

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Dinosaurs, Racial Anxiety, and Curatorial Intervention: Whiteness and Performative Historiography in the Museum by Scott Magelssen

“…This essay argues that the staged encounters between museum visitors and dioramic display of dinosaur fossils in natural history and science museum spaces have been designed to capitalize on and performatively reify white anxiety about the exotic other using the same practices reserved for representing other historic threats to white safety and purity, such as primitive “savages” indigenous to the American West, sub-Saharan Africa, the Amazon, and other untamed wildernesses through survival-of-the-fittest tropes persisting over the last century. …”
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Handbook of Research on Interdisciplinarity Between Science and Mathematics in Education / by Cavadas, Bento, editor 651771, Branco, Neusa, editor 651772, IGI Global (Online service) 631983

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Envisaging a global infrastructure to exploit the potential of digitised collections by Quentin Groom, Mathias Dillen, Wouter Addink, Arturo H. Ariño, Christian Bölling, Pierre Bonnet, Lorenzo Cecchi, Elizabeth R. Ellwood, Rui Figueira, Pierre-Yves Gagnier, Olwen Grace, Anton Güntsch, Helen Hardy, Pieter Huybrechts, Roger Hyam, Alexis Joly, Vamsi Krishna Kommineni, Isabel Larridon, Laurence Livermore, Ricardo Jorge Lopes, Sofie Meeus, Jeremy Miller, Kenzo Milleville, Renato Panda, Marc Pignal, Jorrit Poelen, Blagoj Ristevski, Tim Robertson, Ana Rufino, Joaquim Santos, Maarten Schermer, Ben Scott, Katja Seltmann, Heliana Teixeira, Maarten Trekels, Jitendra Gaikwad

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A New annotated checklist of the Portuguese oaks (Quercus L., Fagaceae) by Carlos Martins Vila-Viçosa, Jorge Henrique Capelo, Paulo Alves, Rubim Silva Almeida, Francisco Maria Vázquez

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Study of the Materials and Techniques of a Rare Papier-Mâché Mushroom Model Crafted in H. Arnoldi Factory by Maria J. Melo, Ana Freitas, Cristiana Vieira, Márcia Vilarigues, Márcia Vieira, Paula Nabais, Sílvia Sequeira, Mónica Lourenço, Gabriel Oliveira, Ana Rita Correia

“…The Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto houses a collection of 45 models of fungi in papier-mâché from the 19th-century, which were used at the university until 2015 as didactic models. …”
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The Wildlife Malaria Research network (WIMANET): Meeting report on the 1st WIMANET workshop by Rafael Gutiérrez-López, Martina Ferraguti, Kasun H. Bodawatta, Carolina R.F. Chagas, Nayden Chakarov, Mélanie Duc, Tamara Emmenegger, Luz García-Longoria, Ricardo J. Lopes, Josué Martínez-de la Puente, Swen C. Renner, Diego Santiago-Alarcon, Ravinder N.M. Sehgal, Daliborka Stankovic, Alfonso Marzal, Jenny C. Dunn

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The InBIO Barcoding Initiative Database: DNA barcodes of Iberian Bees by Thomas Wood, Hugo Gaspar, Romain Le Divelec, Andreia Penado, Teresa Luísa Silva, Vanessa Mata, Joana Veríssimo, Denis Michez, Sílvia Castro, João Loureiro, Pedro Beja, Sónia Ferreira

“…Specimens were collected between 2014 and 2022 and are deposited in the research collection of Thomas Wood (Naturalis Biodiversity Center, The Netherlands), in the FLOWer Lab collection at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), in the Andreia Penado collection at the Natural History and Science Museum of the University of Porto (MHNC-UP) (Portugal) and in the InBIO Barcoding Initiative (IBI) reference collection (Vairão, Portugal).Of the 514 species sequenced, 75 species from five different families are new additions to the Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD) and 112 new BINs were added. …”
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Evolution of immune genes in island birds: reduction in population sizes can explain island syndrome by Barthe, Mathilde, Doutrelant, Claire, Covas, Rita, Melo, Martim, Illera, Juan Carlos, Tilak, Marie-Ka, Colombier, Constance, Leroy, Thibault, Loiseau, Claire, Nabholz, Benoit

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Table for two: Diet composition differences of allopatric and sympatric populations of island geckos by Catarina J. Pinho, Bárbara Santos, Vanessa A. Mata, Ricardo J. Lopes, Maria M. Romeiras, Evandro P. Lopes, Paulo C. Alves, Brent C. Emerson, Raquel Vasconcelos

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Taxons dedicated to Grigore Antipa by Ana-Maria Petrescu, Melania Stan, Iorgu Petrescu

“…A comprehensive list of the taxons dedicated to Grigore Antipa by collaborators, science personalities who appreciated his work was constituted from surveying the natural history or science museums or university collections from several countries (Romania, Germany, Australia, Israel and United States). …”
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From natural history to science: display and the transformation of American museums of science and nature by Karen A. Rader, Victoria E. M. Cain

“…Thus, we suggest, in the mid-twentieth century natural history and science museums were more important in both the history of biology and the history of science’s public culture than has previously been acknowledged.…”
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