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Botanic garden visitors’ preference analysis - A case study of Chicago botanic garden
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Botanic Garden User Outcomes: A Means-End Investigation
<p>ABSTRACT</p> <p>Botanic Garden User Outcomes: A Means-End Investigation</p> <p>Christopher Lee Wassenberg</p> <p>This study explored the outcomes that <em>Leaning Pine</em> Arboretum users experience from visiting the botanic garden. Understanding visitor motivations and benefits has been a …
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British botanic gardens and the biodiversity crisis, c.1960 – c.2000
… governance, and outreach of four British botanic gardens: the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, the University of Oxford Botanic Garden and Cambridge University Botanic Garden. The project takes its start date from when Kew began to engage with the …
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An evaluation of free amino acids as chemotaxonomic markers in Protea L. species
One of the major functions of a Botanic Garden should be that of research. When a research laboratory was established at Kirstenbosch National Botanic Garden in 1984, it-was decided to start investigating chemical parameters of our indigenous plants, since this is a field that has not received …
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Examining the impact of multisensory language on perception and imagination: how can botanic gardens use audio description to enhance access for blind and partially sighted visitors?
… This project is focussed on how to describe botanic gardens, and the research took place at the Chelsea Physic Garden (CPG). This thesis redefines audio description (AD) within a cognitive linguistic (CL) model, focussed on its function as sensory description. The central hypothesis is that …
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A citação bibliográfica no contexto da comunicação científica: um estudo exploratório na área da Botânica
… analysis about the citation habits of the botanic researchers from "Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro" and "Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro" in the scientific community context, trying to identify the reasons with make them choose and quote a document instead of the others, and identify …
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Assessing the Role of 'Green Hay' in the Creation of Hay Meadows at the National Botanic Garden of Wales and the Implications for the Management of Amenity Land for Biodiversity.
… Waun Las National Nature Reserve at the National Botanic Garden of Wales to restore this important habitat. Meadow species can also be found growing along roadside verges and within parks and public spaces. The improved management for biodiversity of this land by local authorities and other …
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The distribution of free amino acids in Diastella Salisb., Leucospermum R. Br. and some other members of the Proteaceae
… phytochemical study being undertaken at National Botanic Gardens, Kirstenbosch, in which the non-protein amino acid complements and the presence of certain flavonoids have been compared in several members of the Proteaceae. This project will eventually be extended to other taxa and other chemical …
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Elandspoort 357-JR
… of the argument. The site is classified as a botanic garden. The programme of botany is informed by the site history; residential (1880-1914), botanic gardens (1914-1975), nursery (1915-1950), greenhouse (1918-1975) and entomology/plant pathology division (1914-2007). A further investigation …
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"The fidelity of a mirror" : the late 18th and early 19th century landscape at Middleton Hall.
… at Middleton Hall, now the site of the National Botanic Garden of Wales, during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Very little documentary evidence remains of Sir William Paxton’s improvements to the estate and there are no plans or letters confirming the involvement of various individuals. …
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Beyond the Legalization of Marijuana: Economics of Marijuana as a Drug and Herbal Supplement
… in: i) the cannabis market, which includes botanic cannabis and herbal supplements sold in retail nutrition stores; and ii) the FDA-approved ethical drug market. How does the drug industry's monopolistic pricing structure lend itself to strategic pricing for these new synthetic cannabinoids? …
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Designing a resource guide for horticultural therapy programs at botanical gardens and arboreta
Outreach programs in horticultural therapy at botanical gardens and arboreta are valuable resources to the community and to ongoing HT programs in nursing homes, special education classes, hospitals, psychiatric facilities, and other institutions and agencies. These outreach programs furnish …
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Predicting Pests: A History of International Plant Pest Reporting and Risk Analysis
… in the 2000s when new actors and institutions—botanic gardens and arboreta—were brought into surveillance systems intended to assist with pest risk analysis.
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Self-incompatibility in Cosmos atrosanauineus: a rare Mexican endemic species of Asteraceae
… Hooker (1785-1865), Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew initially identified the Roezl specimen as Cosmos diversifolius var. atrosanguineus, but it was classified as the distinct species, Cosmos atrosanguineus by Andreas Voss in 1894. Cosmos atrosanguineus is much prized in …
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Os jardins no Brasil do século xix: glaziou revisitado
… Auguste François Marie Glaziou, a French botanic landscaper, arrives in Brazil in 1858, invited by D. Pedro II to become "Diretor Geral das Matas e Jardins". lt is through his works and studies that European elements are fit to our flora. Glaziou's outstanding productions created in Rio de …
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