Environmentalist B (Straw Man): “You want to destroy jobs in the fossil fuel industry and leave thousands unemployed.” In this example, Environmentalist B distorts Environmentalist A’s argument by portraying it as a job-destroying agenda, which wasn’t the main point of the original argument...
There is a growing interest in low-tech technologies, drawing on the tradition of building with organic and unprocessed materials. One such technology is straw bale constructions. This paper presents an example of a timber-frame building in which straw bales were used as wall filling. The buildin...
compared to more lightweight materials, LSC is only a moderately good insulator per inch of thickness. For example, to get the equivalent of R=12 insulation (which is what you would get from a 3.5" thick batt of fiberglass, cotton, or wool)...
For example, it is becoming increasingly important to address the need for: new and better ways for accessing networked resources; management of personal information and ensuring privacy; and the secure storage of data connected with the full range of Oxfords activities. ICT is an essential part ...
To avoid the negative impacts and reduce the environmental footprint of rice production, a range of rice straw management options are currently being developed and in some cases adopted in various Asian countries. Rice straw management and use vary. For example, in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam ...
Applying biochar to soil has been proposed as a strategy to enhance soil quality and crop productivity. To further evaluate the influence of biochar and straw application on soil fertility and crop yield, a five-year fixed site field experiment was condu
5). As an example, density on the Ricco Fire ranged from 0 to 102 stems ha−1 (median of 37 stems ha−1), with only ponderosa pine present. In contrast, on the Myrtle Creek Fire, tree seedling density ranged from 0 to 23 000 stems ha−1 (median of 6535 stems ha−1), ...
In the coastal region of the Ganges Delta, rice is the predominant crop during the wet/kharif season and most of the land remains fallow during dry/rabi se
Response Act (FFCRA), which took effect in mid-March, limited the ability of states to involuntarily disenroll or terminate people from the Medicaid project if they didn't reaffirm their eligibility. That alone is adding between three to four million people to the Medicaid rolls, Hammelman ...
in Buenos Aires. Germany quickly moved to distance themselves from the man in question, but it was too late. Just as the sinking of theLusitaniatwo years earlier had set off a wave of anti-German sentiment in the United States, now the people of Argentina took to the streets to express ...