Hidden in the caves: a new troglobitic species of Spaeleoleptes and the type species redescription (Opiliones, Laniatores) by Maria Paula Pereira, Jonas E. Gallão, Maria E. Bichuette, Abel Pérez-González

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Traction Trebuchet by Siri Hjelsvold, Simon McCallum

“…The trebuchet, in all its forms, was very much in vogue in the reenactment and research community in the 1980s and 1990s. Several museums around the world have also built their own, with Middelaldercenteret in Nykøbing Falster in Denmark as one of the first modern examples of counterweight trebuchet (Hansen, 1989). …”
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Taxonomy of the Iberian species of Pseudochelidura (Dermaptera: Forficulidae) by Amonio David Cuesta-Segura, Pilar Jurado-Angulo, Yolanda Jiménez-Ruiz, Mario García-París

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Ophryotrocha (Dorvilleidae, Polychaeta, Annelida) from deep-sea hydrothermal vents, with the description of five new species by Dongsheng Zhang, Yadong Zhou, Nicole Yen, Avery S. Hiley, Greg W. Rouse

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Digital Library for Access to Rare Materials. From pilot projects to national digitisation programmes by Adolf Knoll

“…Successively, the digitisation programmes began to be used also by other Czech institutions holding rare collections of documents: other libraries, museums, archives, and even castle libraries and church institutions. …”
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Checklist and molecular phylogenetics reveal three taxonomic novelties in Habenaria (Orchidaceae, Orchidoideae) from Chapada dos Veadeiros, Goiás, Brazil by João A. N. Batista, Gabriela Cruz-Lustre, Aline A. do Vale, Luciano B. Bianchetti

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Slovak-Belarusian culture relations by I. Hopta, L. Hoptová

“…Currently, there is close cooperation between individual cultural institutions in the field of music, fine arts, literature, as well as intensive cooperation between museums, galleries and libraries. Cultural cooperation between the SR and BR is so actively supported not only by the Slovak and Belarusian ministries of culture, but also by diplomatic missions in both countries.An important milestone in the intensification of mutual cultural ties is the exhibition dedicated to O.P. …”
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Climate-change-induced range shifts of three allergenic ragweeds (Ambrosia L.) in Europe and their potential impact on human health by Karen Rasmussen, Jakob Thyrring, Robert Muscarella, Finn Borchsenius

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An integrative taxonomic study of north temperate Cotesia Cameron (Hymenoptera, Braconidae, Microgastrinae) that form silken cocoon balls, with the description of a new species by Vladimir Žikić, Milana Mitrović, Saša S. Stanković, José L. Fernández-Triana, Maja Lazarević, Kees van Achterberg, Dawid Marczak, Marijana Ilić Milošević, Mark R. Shaw

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The genus Lecithocera (Lepidoptera: Lecithoceridae) from China, with descriptions of twenty-one new species by Shuai Yu, Shuxia Wang

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Morphology and taxonomic assessment of eight genetic clades of Mercuria Boeters, 1971 (Caenogastropoda, Hydrobiidae), with the description of five new species by Jonathan P. Miller, Diana Delicado, Fernando García-Guerrero, Noureddine Khalloufi, Marian A. Ramos

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Temporality and Memory in Architecture: Hagia Sophia by Yüksel Burçin Nur, Yasemen Say Özer

“…The most important symbolic monument of the city, Ayasofya (Hagia Sophia), was found as the Church of the Byzantine Emperor in the year 360, then converted into the Mosque of the Ottoman Sultan, and now serves as one of the best-known museums of Turkey. With architectural additions requested by Byzantine emperors and Ottoman sultans, restorations and other functional changes; Hagia Sophia had become a monument witnessing its own changes as well as its surroundings while collecting memories. …”
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Overview of the ant genus Vollenhovia (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in India and Sri Lanka, with an illustrated key and the description of a new species by Shahid Ali Akbar, Himender Bharti, Enrico Schifani, Aijaz Ahmad Wachkoo

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Xiphocentronidae (Trichoptera: Psychomyioidea) from the Andean foothills: first species of Machairocentron and Xiphocentron described in the Peruvian Amazon by Albane Vilarino, Frederico F. Salles, Pitágoras C. Bispo

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I balsamari in pietra dura e cristallo di rocca di età romana. Una proposta di classificazione tipologica by Arianna Rosan

“…The few known examples rarely come from archaeological contexts: already hoarded in ancient times, they have merged into private collections or museums, generally devoid of data of discovery and almost always published together with vessels in hard stone, glass and jewelry.This work is an attempt to create a typological classification of these vessels, through the observation of the vascular shape, the comparison with the ones made of different materials and the analysis of the context data, in order to identify chronological intervals of reference.In general, it is an overview of the semi-precious stone toilet bottles of the Roman age as an "autonomous" category, investigating dating and distribution but also intended use and symbolic meaning, essential to understand the value attributed to these objects by the Ancients.…”
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Utilizing Marine Cultural Heritage for the Preservation of Coastal Systems in East Africa by Georgia Holly, Arturo Rey da Silva, Jon Henderson, Caesar Bita, Wes Forsythe, Zacarias Alexandre Ombe, Christopher Poonian, Hayley Roberts

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Further additions to the knowledge of Strumigenys (Formicidae: Myrmicinae) within South East Asia, with the descriptions of 20 new species by Kit Lam Tang, Benoit Guénard

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nestor Guideline for Preservation Planning – a Process Model by Sabine Schrimpf, Christian Keitel

“…The guideline is written from the point of view of representatives of memory institutions, i.e., libraries, archives, museums, and is primarily targeted at this context although it may be useful for other information preserving institutions too. …”
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Effects of selected solvents on PMMA after prolonged exposure: unilateral NMR and ATR-FTIR investigations by Stefani Kavda, Stavroula Golfomitsou, Emma Richardson

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Comparative and cladistic analyses of the species of the genus Pelodera Schneider, 1866 (Rhabditidae: Nematoda) belonging to the coarctata group by Mohammad Mahboob, Rehmat Jahan, Qudsia Tahseen

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