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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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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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Sterling Chemicals
Sterling Chemicals styrene plant produces 1.7 billion pounds of 99 percent styrene monomer annually. Sterling deployed Pavilion’s APC solution to help improve the profitability and performance of its styrene production at the Texas City ...
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A delegation from India visit Israel & Tal-Ya
Visit of leading academic leaders from Punjab Agriculture University, India took place this month. The demonstration was held at The Arava R&D Center, where Tal-Ya’s Agro-platform has been mounted on young persimmons. ...
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The NALC Digital Mapping Toolkit
The National Association of Local Councils (NALC) has published the Digital Mapping Toolkit to help explain the importance of digital mapping. The guide aims to make it easier for local councils to understand how they could use the technology in order to benefit their community. In January Pear Technology and GeoXphere formed a partnership agreement to help NALC spread the word about digital ...
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Variation in the herd composition counts of sika deer
Herd composition counts (HCC) are commonly used to assess population status in deer. We evaluated the reliability of HCC of sika deer (Cervus nippon Temminck) using repeated counts and by comparing estimated sex ratios and calf-to-female ratios of marked deer on Nakanoshima Island, Hokkaido, Japan between April 1999 and October 2000. Although both total counts and sex and age ratios fluctuated ...
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Toward a sustainable bioeconomy: A first nations perspective
Dan George thanked the Lheidli T’enneh First Nation for “the opportunity to gather on their traditional territory.” George said his key message was articulated by Satsan, the Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief, who said, “People must understand that our activity on the land is not a result of the mountain pine beetle epidemic. It is a result of Aboriginal title and rights.” In September 2005, First ...
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Hwy E, Freedom, Wisconsin
Wisconsin winters are notorious for the damage they can cause to roads. An example of winter’s influence was seen on Highway E, a winding, two-lane asphalt road that serves commuters between Little Chute and Oneida. Once called the worst stretch of road in Outagamie County, it was plagued by cracking and heaving during the winter months. Similar problems occur elsewhere in the region where ...
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Book Review; Forests, People and Power: The Political Ecology of Reform in South Asia by Oliver Springate-Baginski and Piers Blaikie
Forests, People and Power: The Political Ecology of Reform in South Asia, by Oliver Springate-Baginski and Piers Blaikie. London, Earthscan, 2007. 394pp. ISBN-10: 1844073475; ISBN-13: 978-1844073474Keywords: book ...
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The energy triangle of Japan, China and Russia: the political economics of Tokyo, Beijing and the East Siberian pipeline
In the 1970s and 1980s, economic relations between Japan and China were based on energy commodities, beginning the phase of '(Japanese) technology for (Chinese) oil'. By the beginning of the 1990s, Japan had changed priorities in energy needs and aimed to wean off dependence on oil to less than 50% of its overall energy needs so Sino-Japanese political economic ties moved onto a new plateau of ...
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Sorption of Pb(II) by poly(hydroxamic acid) grafted oil palm empty fruit bunch
This paper describes the sorption of Pb(II) from aqueous solution. Oil palm empty fruit bunch (OPEFB) fiber was first grafted with poly(methylacrylate) and then treated with hydroxylammonium chloride in alkaline medium to produce hydroxamic acid (PHA) grafted OPEFB. Sorption of Pb(II) by PHA-OPEFB was maximum at pH 5. The sorption followed the Langmuir model with maximum capacityof 125.0 mg g−1 ...
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Influence of humic acid on the uptake of aqueous metals by the killifish Fundulus heteroclitus
The role of humicacids was investigated over a concentration range of 0 to 20 mg L−1 in the uptake of three metals (Cd, Cr, and Hg—as both inorganic Hg [Hg(II)] and methylmercury [MeHg]) and a metalloid (As) from the aqueous phase by the killifish (Fundulusheteroclitus). Cadmium uptake showed no relationship with humic acid concentration, whereas Cr, Hg(II), and MeHg uptake showed an inverse ...
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Over the hedge: hidden networks in knowledge transfer
This paper develops the Edinburgh knowledge hedge (Bent et al., 2010) to introduce the largely hidden role formal and informal networks in the process of linking SMEs and business support agencies, presenting a model to assist in identifying remaining barriers to knowledge exchange. The model is applied to a detailed case study of primary business support experience, laying the foundation for ...
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Ethical concerns in cosmetics retailing: a comparative study of consumer attitudes towards cosmetics purchase between Europe and Asia with particular reference to Bangladesh and the UK
The purpose of this paper is to explore the ethical concerns in cosmetics retailing and its implications on comparative consumers' purchase decisions of cosmetics in the UK and Bangladesh. Consumer response to ethical and green issues in the recent years appears to vary considerably between developed and developing economies. In particular, this paper also intends to identify how and to what ...
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Clustering analysis of regional reference evapotranspiration and its components based on climatic variables across northeast China, 1961–2010
Evapotranspiration integrates atmospheric demand and surface conditions. The Penman-Monteith equation was used to calculate annual and seasonal reference evapotranspiration (ET0) and thermodynamic and aerodynamic components (ETrad and ETaero) at 77 stations across northeast China, 1961–2010. The results were: (1) annual ETrad and ETaero had different regional distribution, annual ETrad values ...
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Ag Leader Software Hackathons Spur Innovation
Where do new products and existing product improvements come from? Sometimes they come from feature requests from our customers and dealers, sometimes from our own engineers, product managers and tech support who use our products on their farms. Other times they come from our engineers and developers through release planning and the product planning and development cycle. But once in a while, ...
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