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New tractor-driven emergency pump BA160L
BBA Pumps is expanding its range of tractor pumps with a new emergency pump designed for flood control. The BA160L is a dry prime centrifugal pump mounted on a robust tractor frame. With a capacity of 10 m3/min and a variety of user friendly features, it is a real must-have for water management ...
By BBA Pumps BV
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Homosassa Springs Dream Home - Case Study
Septic shouldn't be a nightmare for a Dream Home A single-family residence located upon the environmentally sensitive main basin of the Homosassa River in Homosassa Springs Florida (near Orlando) had big plans for their old Florida "vernacular" home design. They had major set-backs from the beginning due to the lot size and location; they also began construction without the proper permits and not ...
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Sub Surface Drip Irrigation
The Future of Agriculture: Exploring the Benefits of Sub Surface Drip Irrigation The future of agriculture is intertwined with advancements in irrigation methods, particularly those that prioritize efficiency and sustainability. A promising strategy is sub surface drip irrigation, a technique that directly delivers water to the root zone of plants. This method not only optimizes water usage but ...
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Tips for Outdoor Deck Maintenance
An outdoor deck is an extension of your home and this will provide a space for you to relax and entertain guests. But to ensure the safety and functionality of the deck along with its aesthetic appeal, you need to carry-out regular ...
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Natural Aroma Chemicals Are Taken from Nature, Such As Plants and Animals
Unlike aroma chemicals, which are produced through chemical synthesis, natural aroma chemicals are complex compounds derived from natural resources, including trees, flowers, plants and animals. Their origins can be traced back to the beginning of recorded time. The Egyptians used the tree resins frankincense (olibanum) and myrrh, burned as incense to appease the gods [1]. And the Classic Herbal, ...
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Case Study: Advancing Soil Health and Sustainability at Kunz Farm with Decisive Farming
Kunz Farm in Beiseker, Alta., is a multifaceted operation focused on a sustainable future. With Pat Kunz at the helm, alongside his family, the farm has embraced soil health as the foundation for long-term success in their wheat, canola, barley, and pea rotation, as well as their cow-calf and feedlot ...
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Child carers case study
The more time we spend on the ground visiting the villages, the clearer it becomes. In every home we meet incredible people who are caring for and cooking for large families. These people in particular women have spoken about the positive impacts our stoves have had on their lives, and even on the lives of their young girls who would otherwise be out in the field collecting ...
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World’s Largest Succinic Acid Plant Opened In Canada
On August 6, 2015, BioAmber Inc. and Mitsui & Co., Ltd announced the opening of their joint succinic acid plant in Sarnia, Ontario. This joint venture cost approximately $141.5 million to build and has a capacity of 30,000 tons of succinic acid per year, making it the world's largest succinic acid plant. The plant uses technology to produce succinic acid from sugar at a lower cost than ...
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Project : Thailand Supervision-Azrom - Case Study
Continent: Asia Location: 12 objects (60 k 60m each) Area: Bangkok, Thailand Service: Supervision ...
By Agrikol
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The differences between the flights of Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic
Last July saw the climax of the most recent space race, in which Richard Branson demonstrated the capacity of his company Virgin Galactic, and Jeff Bezos of Blue Origin flew in a rocket which took him to the edge of space only 9 days afterwards. Both companies form part of the New Space sector and are vying to capture the market of space travel for wealthy tourists who want to experience ...
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Restoration of Some Parameters in the Development of Benthos After Reduction of Anthropogenous Loading in the Ecosystem of the Sevastopol Bay in the Black Sea
Research on benthic communities have been carried out in the Sevastopol Bay of the Black Sea for a hundred years. The anthropogenous influence began to have an effect already in the 20–30th. In this period, all oyster-banks were lost and the mussel-silt and mellina-silt communities have begun to degrade and were not found during almost seventy years in the Bay. The worst state of benthic ...
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Neutral phenotypes as network keystone species
The concept of network keystone species is proposed. A set of phenotypes constitute a network that acts as a functional keystone. When an ecosystem forms a large, complex network that changes temporally, it is generally difficult to tell which will become a keystone species. Based on simulations of abstract ecosystems, phenotypes were classified to show that neutral phenotypes, or slowly ...
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The value of compost
Without ...
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Visual search and the importance of time in complex decision making by bees
Psychophysicists studying decision making in animals have overwhelmingly focused on choice accuracy, not speed. Results from human visual search, however, show that there might be a tight link between the two. Here we review both visual-sensory and cognitive mechanisms that affect decision speed in flower visiting bees. We show that decision times are affected by contrast of targets and ...
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A protein with similarity to pten regulates aggregation territory size by decreasing cyclic amp pulse size during dictyostelium discoideum development
An interesting but largely unanswered biological question is how eukaryotic organisms regulate the size of multicellular tissues. During development, a lawn of Dictyostelium cells breaks up into territories, and within the territories the cells aggregate in dendritic streams to form groups of ~20,000 cells. Using random insertional mutagenesis to search for genes involved in group size ...
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On the completeness of a constrained market
We show how the well-known Farkas Lemma, commonly used to characterise absence of arbitrages in perfect markets, is also exploitable to ascertain the completeness of a market with total short sales constraints. The generalisation of this lemma to convex cones also allows to characterise the completeness of a market with general conic constraints on investment strategies. Such results can be also ...
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How do self-employed Sami people perceive the impact of the EU and globalisation?
Free trade agreements and the decrease of barriers to trade have facilitated international business in many parts of the world. Simultaneously, globalisation has been beneficial for many. For Sami people, there have been two sides of globalisation; while globalisation has brought an increase in technology and consumer goods, there has also been an increased need for cash, pulling people from ...
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Technology transfer and implementation processes in developing countries
In their struggle to survive, enterprises in developing countries are rushing to keep abreast with the technological advancements. As the indigenous technological capabilities of developing countries are weak by default, they intend to import technology internationally. Experience showed that, in doing so, a number of obstacles might render the technology acquisition process by them, less ...
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Flexural wave propagation and dynamic stress concentration in a multi-stepped plate using acoustical wave propagator method
In this paper, we introduce an explicit acoustical wave propagator method to investigate the flexural wave propagation and dynamic stress concentration in a multi-stepped plate. To implement the operation of the acoustical wave propagator on an initial state, a new combined scheme with Chebyshev Polynomial Expansion and Fast Fourier Transformation is described in detail. Its numerical efficiency ...
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Does aggregate income influence satisfaction with the standard of living?
Sociologists have been arguing whether aggregate income enhances subjective well-being and, more specifically, satisfaction with the standard of living. The empirical results were mixed. This article suggests that aggregate income affects standard-of-living satisfaction not only directly but also indirectly. Using path analysis and a dataset from Germany, this study finds that absolute income, ...
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