HistoryofCoalUse Americahasmorecoalresources,andreservesthananyotherfossilfuel.Coal •ItisburnedinpowerplantstoproducemorethanhalfoftheelectricityweuseintheUnitedStates•Eventhoughyoumayneverseeit,youeachuseseveraltonsofiteveryyear Plantmaterialsburied•Peatundersedimentsdecaytoformpeat,acompressedmassofplant...
Each chapter begins with a brie...: The green turtle Chelonia mydas is one of two marine turtle species to nest in Turkey. Its three main nesting beaches are in eastern Turkey, with possibly the densest congregation of nesting turtles in the Mediterranean being found at KazaMCCABE, Peter J...
"The concept of individual races (individual typology) which utilises the notion of the racial type to denote a group of human individuals irrespective their populational descent and resembling each other in a set of racial traits." (Wiercinski, 1975)Typology is polydimensional clustering, nothing...
The endomembrane system includes the nuclear envelope and other endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membranes and the Golgi apparatus, both topologically separate from each other and the cell surface membrane, the plasma membrane. The bacterial cytoplasmic membrane grows by the direct insertion of individual ...
where it was left stirring for a further 24 h to allow remaining oxygen to degas. The temperature was maintained at 25 +/− 1 oC. Each experiment was carried out in 1 L low-density polyethylene (LDPE) bottles which were triple wrapped in Al foil to prevent photolysis reactions...
Two young people attempt to share a kiss with each other while wearing gas masks during an Earth Day pollution protest march. Earth Day’s success helped spur action in Washington on behalf of the environment. Just eight months later, Congress authorized the creation of the Environmental Protectio...
shell periostracum. A gene tree of the Scaly-foot Snail DMBT1 shows that the paralogues segregate into two clades, with only one copy from each clade being present in the vetigastropodHaliotisgenome (Supplementary Fig. 5). Molluscan shell matrix proteins are commonly rich in repetitive low-...
Each of these nations and international organizations, such as the EU, has unique motivations for establishing and developing a hydrogen economy. The analysis reveals that major global economies such as Japan, the US, the EU, and China have implemented specific development plans and technology road...
In 1859, of course, almost nothing was known about the basis of anatomical variation and Darwin could only write "Whatever the cause may be of each slight difference in the offspring from their parents—and a cause for each must exist . . . .." [1]. Even today, things are not clear...
These fossil fuels are the remains of plants and animals that humans have extracted and converted into fuel. Moreover, the use of fossil fuels results in the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the Earth’s atmosphere. Manufacturing and industry generate emissions, primarily from the ...