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Updates in the flora of the Maltese Islands (Central Mediterranean)
No full textDuring the last 5 years, this author has been involved in the research and exploration of the flora of the
Maltese islands in order to create and update the website http://www.maltawildplants.com. This paper
consists of several important discoveries of new populations of very rare or endangered floral species for
the Maltese Islands which were recorded during field surveys to collect material for this website. It also
includes the species Calendula bicolor Rafin., which is a new record for the Maltese islands.peer-reviewe
Dorycnium pentaphyllum subsp. lagunae (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae), nueva subespecie para la flora espeñola
No full text[ES] Se describe un nuevo taxon Dorycnium pentaphyllum subsp. lagunae Ceresuela & Sanchis recolectado en la comarca de La Marina Baja de la
provincia de Alicante.[EN] A new taxon, Dorycnium pentaphyllum subsp. lagunae Ceresuela & Sanchis collected in the region of La Marina Baja (Alicante, SE Spain) is
here described.Sanchís Duato, EJ.; Ceresuela Soria, JL. (2011). Dorycnium pentaphyllum subsp. lagunae (Leguminosae, Papilionoideae), nueva subespecie para la flora espeñola. Flora Montibérica. 49:40-44. https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/30155S40444
Flora Tristan Life Stories
No full textFlora Tristan is best known as a nineteenth century French social critic and reformer. Her writings can be seen as a precursor to Marxism and Feminism. Flora Tristan: Life Sories by Susan Grogan, investigates the life of Flora Tristan through an exploration of the way she represented herself in her own writings. The author also examines the portrayal of Flora Tristan in paintings and literature. Rather than adopting a chronological approach, the author surveys the personae of Flora Tristan through thematic chapters on her roles as author, socialist, traveller and "Mother of the Workers". She places Flora Tristan in the context of contemporary debates and ideas, adding to our understanding of the times in which Flora Tristan lived. Flora Tristan: Life Stories argues that Flora Tristan's self-representations were attempts to claim a role of authority and significance not open to women in the nineteenth century. This authoritative study also engages with attempts to re-evaluate the writing of biography and to explore the meaning of an individual life in historical context.Book Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- ContentsFlora Tristan is best known as a nineteenth century French social critic and reformer. Her writings can be seen as a precursor to Marxism and Feminism. Flora Tristan: Life Sories by Susan Grogan, investigates the life of Flora Tristan through an exploration of the way she represented herself in her own writings. The author also examines the portrayal of Flora Tristan in paintings and literature. Rather than adopting a chronological approach, the author surveys the personae of Flora Tristan through thematic chapters on her roles as author, socialist, traveller and "Mother of the Workers". She places Flora Tristan in the context of contemporary debates and ideas, adding to our understanding of the times in which Flora Tristan lived. Flora Tristan: Life Stories argues that Flora Tristan's self-representations were attempts to claim a role of authority and significance not open to women in the nineteenth century. This authoritative study also engages with attempts to re-evaluate the writing of biography and to explore the meaning of an individual life in historical context.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
FLORA MCLEAN: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE BRITISH MILLINER AND HOUSE OF FLORA FOUNDER
No full textMarketing Manager Matt Bramford interviews Flora for their self-owned online publication Field Notes about her career and its trajectory over the last 24 years. This article is a written and visual capture of Flora's design, teaching and collaborative activities
Unscripted: Bruce & Flora McLean
No full textFrom the gallery information sheet: “One Paved Court and Terra-Arte are honoured to present UNSCRIPTED Bruce Mclean & Flora Mclean, their third exhibition together, and are proud to present you with a selection of finished work by this duet, sculptor and father Bruce and fashion designer and daughter Flora, set against drawings, sketchbooks, magazines, photos, catalogues and other pieces of studio work and materials that inform their practice. The show focuses on the dialogue between Bruce’s and Flora’s extraordinary creative minds; on the projects and objects that come out of their shared studio based in in West London, although each of them have a separate practice and work totally independently, thus offering a better understanding of their creative processes and tracing what goes into the process of making. … UNSCRIPTED provides a rare opportunity to experience the works and artistic vision of Bruce and Flora as they come from their studio and with the chance to understand a little bit about their shared lives. It encapsulates a lively and challenging relationship and work production between them while placing strong emphasis on the idea that contemporary conceptual works more often embrace interdisciplinary approaches than the historical Conceptual Art, that has in Bruce’s case, a predecessor in the 1960s. … It is these connections and unsettling spirits of both Mcleans, Bruce and Flora, and the traces of a shared interest between their works beyond the boundaries of art disciplines that this exhibition wants to capture. UNSCRIPTED is curated by Dr Paula Terra Neale and is the first in a series of exhibitions under her own curatorial practice TERRA-ARTE, exploring the relationship between duets of artists working and living alongside each other, exploring both art and life’s aspects.
A new way of editing a flora
No full textModern electronic tools have become common tools of most scientists. Flora writers and other botanists producing large manuscripts with a certain fixed structure may go even further and use the so-called Mail Merge option in a word processor such as Microsoft Word™. This tool allows structuring a document strictly, especially for the contributions of invited authors, to pre-format the final layout, and to simplify correspondence with contributors. Contributors fill in a structured Microsoft Excel™ spreadsheet with fixed headings, without any requirements for layout or formatting. The file is then used as data source for a merge document in the word processor. For completion of an entire Flora, such as the Flore Analytique du Bénin (Akoègninou et al., 2006), this iteration was done with 45 authors, producing over 180 different manuscripts, viz. one for each family. Final editing includes a check on correct language, insertion of separately produced keys, figures, references, etc
Bryophyte flora of Western Melanesia
No full textA project dealing with the hepatic and moss floras of New Guinea and the Solomon Islands has proceeded more than halfway. The revision of the flora is based on the study of ca 17000 specimens collected in 1981. Two new genera and ca 50 new species have been described in 33 published papers and seven manuscripts. Many families, genera and species not previously recorded for the area have been added to the flora. More than 300 names have been reduced to synonyms. The percentage of endemic species of liverworts (40 %) is higher than that of mosses (18 %). Most of the endemic species occur at elevations above 1700 m. The geological history of New Guinea suggests that these high altitude endemics may be relatively young, i.e. less than 10 million years old. The moss flora is more closely related to the floras of Indonesia and the Philippines and continental Asia than to that of Australia. This can be explained by plate tectonics. The altitudinal distribution of hepatic and moss floras partly coincides with the zonation of vegetation proposed earlier. Human influence on bryophyte floras is devastating but a part of the flora may survive in gardens and plantations
Notas sobre flora leonesa amenzada
No full textSe aportan citas nuevas para 34 taxones de flora vascular incluidos en el Catálogo de Flora Protegida de Castilla y León y/o en la Lista Roja de la Flora Vascular Española, de los que se conocían pocas (o ninguna) localidades leonesas.SUMMARY: We provide new records of 34 taxa included in the Catalogue of Protected Flora of Castilla y León and/or in the Red List of Spanish Vascular Flora. Some of them represent additions to the checklist of flora of the province of León and the distribution of the others is not well known
Adiciones a la flora alicantina, III
No full textSe dan a conocer algunas plantas que suponen nuevas citas o ampliaciones de área notables para la flora de la provincia de Alicante. En cada caso se acompañan comentarios sobre su comportamiento ecológico, fitosociológico y corológico. Además, se realizan consideraciones sobre el estado de conservación de cada población.Some plants which are poorly known or new records for the flora of Alicante province are reported. Comments on ecology, phytosociology and chorology of each of them are also included. Moreover, some considerations for conservation of each population are presented.Trabajo realizado en parte a cargo del proyecto LIFE B4/3200/93/766 (“Creación de la red de microrreservas de flora de la Comunidad Valenciana”), cofinanciado por la Generalitat Valenciana y la Comisión Europea
An innovative approach for reducing the seismic risk of existing buildings and historic sites.
No full textThe seismic risk is one of biggest challenges for civil engineers, and a number of mitigation
strategies have been developed in time with reference to existing or new buildings. Nowadays, refined techniques
based either on structural reinforcement or seismic isolation exist to protect new and existing structures
from seismic shaking. This paper presents some results of a research activity in progress at the University of
Napoli Federico II (Italy), aimed to check the effectiveness of an innovative approach for reducing the seismic
risk by using soft grouting mixtures installed at an optimum depth in the foundation soil. The basic idea is that
a thin grouted layer, with a dynamic impedance much smaller than that of the surrounding soil, will filter most
of the seismic ground motion, with very little energy being transmitted to the overlying soil. The effectiveness
of the insertion of a soft grouted layer in the range of frequency affecting the response of squat buildings was
numerically tested via a parametric analyses, with reference to a simplified one-dimensional scheme
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