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Showing 1 to 20 of 302 for “"Botanical"”.
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The Unthinkable Botanical Gardens: Poems
The Unthinkable Botanical Gardens is a book of poems in five sections. The first, third, and fifth sections present a speaker navigating a wondrous and often hostile world. The second and fourth sections are long poems: "Zodiac B," a sequence inspired by obsolete or forgotten constellations, and …
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Botanical processes in urban derelict spaces
This thesis set out to investigate the processes that determine the richness and composition of plant communities on derelict land in the West Midlands. Experimental work included vegetation surveys, soil seed bank investigation, field mapping and seed rain trapping methods. Interpretation of the …
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Pollen and pollinosis: medical and botanical aspects
Contains fulltext : mmubn000001_128960930.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Development of the Botanical Accessions Records System
… plant records systems are typical for most botanical gardens and arboreta. The few examples of records computerization now in use demonstrate that more efficient access to records increases productivity and leads to local planning opportunities. This study presents justification for …
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Dynamic Botanical Filtration System for Indoor Air Purification
<p>A dynamic botanical air filtration (DBAF) system was developed, tested and modeled for indoor air purification. The DBAF system consisted of an activated-carbon/hydroculture-based root bed for potted-plant, a fan for driving air through the root bed for purification, and an irrigation system for …
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Growing Gardens: Botanical Gardens, Public Space and Conservation
<p>This thesis examines the history of botanical gardens and their evolution </p> <p>from ancient spaces to the modern gardens of the 20th century. I provide a brief </p> <p>overview of botanical gardens, with a focus on the unique intersection of public </p> <p>participation and scientific study …
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Beyond Eden : cultivating spectacle in the Montreal Botanical Garden
The Montreal Botanical Garden, a 180-acre complex comprised of over thirty outdoor and ten indoor landscapes located in the city's east-end, is the product of a Depression-era government funded Public Works project. Its founding director, preeminent botanist Frère Marie-Victorin, drew from and …
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A Botanical Study of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana
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Paleoaltimetry incorporating atmospheric physics and botanical estimates of paleoclimate
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, 1996.
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Metabolism and disposition of active compounds of botanical dietary supplements.
Metabolism and disposition of active compounds of botanical dietary supplements.
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Using the University campus for botanical fieldwork at tertiary level
… and proposed learning resources used during botanical fieldwork at the University of Malta. Currently, students use a number of identification resources with the most common resources being field guides, the tutor (indicating passive participation on the field) and internet resources. …
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Botanical Biopolitics: The Sociopolitical Lives of Flowers in Victorian Britain
This thesis is an archivally grounded investigation of plant-human relations in Victorian Britain which considers how people engaged with and thought about the plants which surrounded them in everyday life. Seeking to position Victorian plant-thinking as a significant antecedent of contemporary …
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An External Communication Audit of the National Tropical Botanical Garden
… communication audit of the National Tropical Botanical Garden (NTBG), a congressionally chartered nonprofit organization dedicated to the conservation of tropical plant diversity. Information was gathered during the communication audit through interviews with NTBG's key decision makers, …
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MICROBIAL AND BOTANICAL STRATEGIES TO SUPPORT HUMAN DIGESTION AND GUT MICROBIOTA.
… (2) fungal enzyme supplements, and (3) botanical extracts. A central methodological approach was the application of standardized in vitro models, in particular the INFOGEST 2.0 protocol, which simulates the human gastrointestinal environment and provides reproducible digestion studies. …
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On actino-chemical reactions: J.F.W. Herschel’s photographic spectra with botanical matter
This thesis examines the experiments with botanical colours by John F. W. Herschel (1792–1871) between 1840 and 1842, and how photographic objects functioned in these experiments. The experiments became interpreted as an unsuccessful attempt to colour photography. This interpretation was derived …
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Preserving Traditional Botanical Knowledge in a Developing World: A Case Study.
<p>Traditional botanical knowledge is the knowledge of how plants are being cultivated and used by the indigenous cultures. Modern western culture exhibits a shortage of traditional and formal botanical knowledge. In this project I took 103 common edible plants found in the grocery store and …
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Efficacy of Botanical and Mineral Oils on Willamette Mite (Acari: Tetranychidae)
… Oils can be petroleum based (mineral oil) or botanical (from seeds of various plants). There has been a lot of interest of late in the use of botanical oils other than soybean, including those derived from the seeds of plants including spearmint, rosemary and clove. This project tested for …
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A critical assessment of botanical indicators as historic markers in wooded landscapes
… critically assessed the role and value of using botanical indicators as historic markers in wooded landscapes that comprise woodlands and hedgerows. These are linked by social history and ecology. In both habitat types, there have been recent attempts to determine their age and origins based on …
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“The Smallest Housewife in the Grass”: Women, Poetry, and American Botanical Culture
… I interrogate the ways in which women, plants, botanical study, and poetics by women were “othered” and delegitimized from the nineteenth century and beyond. Social, religious, and scientific systems associated with plants and gardens contributed to the development of an American poetic …
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