which resembles a real lamb’s ear. The low-growing perennial is often used as a border plant or ground cover, and it bursts with spikes of pink-purple flowers in the spring. In addition to requiring little maintenance once established, Lamb’s-ear easily handles both drought and poor soil...
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Since the 1980’s, the average annual IR dose to the general population of the US, from all sources, has nearly doubled, predominantly because of the increase in medical radiation exposure, which now accounts for approximately half of the average annual IR dose (NCRP Report No, 160, 2009)...
2. To take as one's own; adopt: "[He] was determined to run with the idea and go public before it had been researched" (Betty Cuniberti).Idioms: a run for (one's) money Strong competition. in the long run In the final analysis or outcome. in the short run In the immediate fu...
While often purported to be an efficient means of producing animal protein, evidence exists to suggest that IFAP is responsible for significant public health and ecological burdens. In part due to the inputs required, but also due to the magnitude of waste produced by this system, IFAP facilitie...
Download: Download full-size image Introduction Guar [Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taub.] is a summer annual legume crop cultivated in India, Pakistan, and USA (Morris, 2010). It is a multi-purpose crop used as a green manure, vegetable and forage, but growing the crop for grain producti...
decreasing the influence of the ~20- and ~40-kyr cycles30; and (6) reduced precipitation during glacials on the CLP may have fallen below the threshold for magnetic enhancement, preventing MS from recording monsoon precipitation during glacials, although it remains recordable during interglacials14...
the Soviet space program’s Biosphere 3 (BIOS-3), an underground closed system of phytotrons, that consists of a crew area and an entirely enclosed greenhouse, growing wheat and vegetables as well as algae cultivators for air revitalization30; the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Micro-Ecologica...
Nevertheless, only a handful of microalgal strains are capable of growing luxuriantly at outdoor conditions, as the open system of cultivation has no control over the environmental parameters [5]. The efforts for the outdoor cultivation of microalgae are not always met with success due to the ...
However, there may be some factors which might have influenced this disease burden analysis and cannot be ignored as a source of uncertainty for future DALY’s estimation. These include lack of control group (unexposed to AFB1), breast feeding, wean age, birth weight, socioeconomic status, co...