Every urban area has some degree of vacant land that for one reason or another has not been developed, or that once was developed but has since been bulldozed or abandoned. Spontaneous vegetation quickly moves in to occupy these sites, and while some may see them as eyesores, their ...
Close inspection of a glochid (with the help of a microscope) reveals why you don’t want them anywhere near your skin. While the surface of a cactus spine is often smooth and free of barbs, glochids are covered in backwards-facing barbs. The miniscule size of glochids combined with th...
There is a need for a coordinated mechanoperceptive control of the degree of active auto-stressing of all the muscles acting about the different articulations. Moreover, mechanical perturbations such as transitory tilting should be damped so that the standing position remains stable. This has been ...
21, 22), thus mature flowers of Vochysia are epigynous to a small degree. In contrast, the ovary of Qualea and Callisthene does not appear to be inferior to any degree. In sections of flowers of these genera, the locules are not apparent until the ovary is completely free, and ...
The character of Omi in Black Fountains never really comes to life even to the same degree that of Mary of The Ginger Tree did – and that was one of my observations when I read that book – the characters are just a shade remote. So in this earlier novel we have an attempted depicti...
The difficulty at this stage lies in the degree of botanical knowledge of the people interviewed in identifying plant species and the need for translation from the vernacular name to the scientific name corresponding to the plant matrix indicated. As for the dried plant drugs used in traditional ...
extraction using microwave activation is successfully used in world practice to obtain plant extracts [43,44,45]; however, data on PV microwave extraction have not been found in any of the literature. In this regard, the study in this direction becomes promising and may have a high degree of...
This statistic quantifies the degree of overlap between two distribution ranges as the proportion of the smaller range that is contained in the larger range (Chesser and Zink 1994). Results Phylogenetic relationships and molecular dating The full plastid alignment comprised 155,347 bp, with ...
until it was broken in the early Eocene (Tiffney and Manchester2001). While a continuous land connection between North America and Europe was interrupted in the late Eocene at the latest, some degree of connectivity, probably through island chains, might have allowed floristic exchange of temperate...
This research highlights the significant number of co-occurring mental health problems, the degree of functional limitations, and the poor quality of life experienced by people with severe COVID anxiety stemming from COVID-19. Oncology (Target Therapy) Further investigation into the development of ...