Marsilae: Botanical Monograph No. 2

Botanical Record-Breakers (Part 2 of 2)

The old adage, "records are made to be broken," certainly applies to plants. Each year gardeners from throughout the world compete with their largest tomatoes and squash, largest potatoes and turnips, largest orchids, tallest sunflowers and dozens of other superlative categories. Authenticated records of their prized fruits, vegetables and blossoms appear in the latest editions of the Guinness ...

Medical Monograph Series No. 10, Cleft Palate and Harelip

the point. The advice given on the feeding of the child before operation is well worthy of attention ; the practice o? feeding children on one of the many much advertised " artificial foods" is inveighed against. Chapters V and VI are the most interesting and important, and discuss the advantages of the earlier operation on the palate; and the author's dictum is that " the most favourable time ...

No Citation Advantage for Monograph-Based Collaborations?1

It is widely believed that collaboration is advantageous in science, for example with collaboratively written articles tending to attract more citations than solo articles, and strong arguments that interdisciplinary collaboration can be particularly powerful. Nevertheless, it is not known whether the same is true for research that produces books. This article tests whether co-authored scholarl...

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