Pudong new district, Shanghai, China.
By 1999, the number of small- and medium-scale sorghum mills had increased four-fold. The majority of these mills now buy grain for processing and sale through local retail shops and supermarkets. The status of sorghum has changed from being a food ... International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics.
The formal sector enterprises include the organized wood based industries such as sawmills, plywood mills, particleboard mills and furniture factories. The informal enterprises are small forest based enterprises operating without formal corporate entity, this include enterprises that engage in the production of firewood, charcoal, chewing stick ...
In India, the striped hyena occupies habitats located in arid and semi-arid regions to the wet zone of the southwestern coast (Rieger 1979), except the moist forests of the northeastern region (Prater 1971). This nocturnal carnivore is a long-ranging and solitary forager, living in small groups with unknown compositions (Mills and Hofer 1998).
Tellurium biogeochemistry has not been widely studied for three main reasons: (1) cycling of rare trace elements was not widely analysed until recently (Vriens et al., 2014, Liu et al., 2020a); (2) Te was a little used element in the 20th century (Goldfarb et al., 2017); and (3) the unusual chemical behaviour and low abundance of Te make it difficult to analyse (Schirmer et …
The flight mill works by utilizing a magnetic levitation mechanism with Teflon bearings minimizing friction as the flight spins. A sensor at the top of the Delrin rod detects the passage of a small magnet near the base of the Teflon bearing when the mill is in motion. The flight mill is a tool used in our laboratory to evaluate dispersal ...
The area around the steel mill, which was built in 1919, was tranformed into a destination for tourism and cultural events, hosting weddings, electronic music festivals and breweries. Engineering firm Arup, who redeveloped the site, claims it did so in a low-carbon way with green buildings, transport and energy.
C. Wright Mills was one of the most important critics of Talcott Parsons who succeeded in establishing the image of Parsons as a conservative "grand theorist" out of touch with the real world and its real problems, as passed on in sociological textbooks. In this essay, it is argued that Mills' "translation of Parsons into English" is a one-sided interpretation based on …
Water resources management is complex (Loucks 2008), especially in the western U.S. (Willardson 2005; Pease 2010).Adding to the natural water scarcity in the arid Southwest, urban centers continue to see population growth, increasing both water consumption and energy demand; energy production requires water, thus compounding the stressors on water …
Journal of Arid Land. 2022, 14 (1): 1-13. DOI: 10.1007/s40333-022-0001-4. As an important natural resource, forest land plays a key role in the maintenance of ecological security. However, variations of forest land in the agropastoral ecotone of northern China (AENC) have attracted little attention.
BAF250a and BAF250b are subunits of the SWI/SNF chromatin-remodeling complex that recruit the complex to chromatin allowing transcriptional activation of several genes. Despite being the central subunits of the SWI/SNF complex, the structural and functional annotation of BAF250a/b remains poorly understood. BAF250a (nearly 2200 residues protein) …
Completed in 2021 in Portugal. Images by Richard John Seymour. Lisbon-based architecture and design studio Atelier Data have completed work on a residential project in Portugal's Algarve region ...
We farm and mill in New York State—not the arid west or vast fields of the former tall-grass prairie. Because of our climate and relatively small farms, producing organic grain of milling quality is a challenge. Similar to farmers markets, mills can be …
The native arid-zone mammals that have generally benefitted from the biological control of rabbits, apart from mulgaras, appear to be either too large (kangaroos, wallabies, and wombats) or too small (rodents and smaller dasyurids) to fall within the critical weight range of animals most heavily preyed upon by cats and foxes.
We assessed whether the kaluta (Dasykaluta rosamondae), a small dasyurid endemic to the broader Pilbara region of Western Australia, has obligate male semelparity, multiple paternity within litters, and positive testis allometry in the wild. We documented complete die-off of males over two breeding seasons.
arid settings result in much longer timescales being represented by unsaturated sections in arid regions (up ... and at several uranium mill tailings sites [Reith and Thomson, 1992]. In addition, arid sites have been pro- ... we need detailed information at small scales (---0.3 m); however, results from small-scale studies may have im-
The encroachment of woody plants into grasslands, open woodlands and savannah has been widely reported over the past few decades. Overgrazing is a probable cause of shrub encroachment and could be a stronger driver of declining ecosystem structure and functioning in shrublands than encroachment per se.We examined the relative effects of changes in shrub …
1. Introduction. Fire is a common disturbance in many terrestrial ecosystems, especially those that experience high temperature, frequent drought, and long-term fuel buildup (Minnich and Bahre, 1995; Keeley and Brennan, 2012).This is especially true in Mediterranean-climate regions, where population growth and expansion (Venevsky et al., 2002; Marlon et al., 2008), policies of fire …
This 2800 ha arid-land forest contains 6.5 ± 1.2 kg C m−2, and continues to accumulate 0.13–0.24 kg C m−2 yr−1. The CO2 uptake is highest during the winter, out of phase with most ...
A work was carried out on the design and construction of a motorized grain milling machine. The machine was designed using auto-CAD, version 2012 and constructed in the Department of Agricultural and Environmental Resources Engineering, University of
Book captures impact animals have on us... including a crow from Youghal. A new book chronicles the stories of 43 unique pets and talks about how they have rescued us as people - including a crow in Youghal! CHRIS DUNNE chats to the author, artist and scientist, Susan Mills. Susan Mills, who has launched a new book called The Human Rescuers: By ...
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