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Children’s books as a historical source: flooding in 20th century dutch children’s books
In this paper 89 Dutch 20th century children’s books on flooding are analysed to show how children’s books can be used as a historical source of...
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Assessment of microbiological contamination in the work environments of museums, archives and libraries
Museums, archives and libraries have large working environments. The goal of this study was to determine microbial contamination in these work places...
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Embedding Sustainability Across the Curriculum via Collaboration: A Review of Progress in the University of the West of England
Students, the Higher Education Academy (HEA), the Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) and the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) have...
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Alternative approaches to assessing scientific results
Alternative metrics (altmetrics) as a possible substitute for or addition to the traditional methods of assessing scientific results based on...
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What are the environmental impacts of property rights regimes in forests, fisheries and rangelands? a systematic review protocol
BackgroundProperty rights to natural resources comprise a major policy instrument for those seeking to advance sustainable resource use and...
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Interactive zones: On the prehistory of the scientific laboratory
Today, study of the infrastructure of new knowledge production is of philosophical, theoretical, and world-view, as well as of strictly practical,...
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Sustainability and emerging issues in scholarly (self-)publishing
In American academic circles, peer-reviewed hard-copy book publishing remains a crucial part of the tenure and promotion process as well as a method...
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The Evolution of Science Communication Research in Australia
The strength of science communication in Australia has until now been in practice rather than theory, driven by a demand for practical solutions to...
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An Experience of Science Communication in Korea: The Space-Sharing Project with Mass Media
Korea’s success is attributed to outstanding human resources and highly competitive science & technology (S&T). However, two serious social issues...
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The meaning of the 'impact factor' in the case of an open-access journal
The dominant model of journal evaluation emerged at the time when there were no open-access journals, and nobody has assessed yet whether this model...
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Milestones and Impact Factors
Environmental Health has just received its first Impact Factor by Thomson ISI. At a level of 2.48, this achievement is quite satisfactory and places...
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Possible cause of allergy for the librarians: books manipulation and ventilation as sources of fungus spores spreading
The objective of this study was to investigate the airborne viable spore concentrations and identify the fungal species in all indoor spaces from the...
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Building a freshman-year foundation for sustainability studies: Terrascope, a case study
Terrascope is a freshman learning community at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in which teams of students work to find solutions to...
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The influence of working conditions and individual factors on the incidence of neck and upper limb symptoms among professional computer users
ObjectivesTo assess the influence of working conditions and individual factors on the incidence of neck and upper limb symptoms among professional...
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Staggered nested designs to assess scales of variability: the advantages of a spatially explicit analysis
A staggered nested sampling design was used to identify spatial scales of variation in the abundance of an intertidal clam Austrovenus ...
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Effect of an EBM course in combination with case method learning sessions: an RCT on professional performance, job satisfaction, and self-efficacy of occupational physicians
ObjectiveAn intervention existing of an evidence-based medicine (EBM) course in combination with case method learning sessions (CMLSs) was designed...
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Economic activities and occupations at high risk for workplace bullying: results from a large-scale cross-sectional survey in the general working population in France
ObjectivesTo evaluate the prevalence of workplace bullying in the general working population in France, and explore this prevalence across economic...