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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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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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Improved secondary cooling for continous casting
The use of modern air mist nozzle technology in existing continuous casting machines has helped to reduce the incidence of strand surface cracking and centre segregation, and bring down costs by incorporation of maintenance friendly nozzle mountings and pipe deisgns. Larger nozzle control ratios are often necesray to match the various casting speeds for new formats and steel grades to be added to ...
By Lechler Inc.
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True vs. Predicted Trunk Cross-Sections for Five Different Decayed Hardwoods - Case Study
Five different hardwoods, each with suspected or confirmed decay and scheduled for removal, were scanned by TRU. The true vs. predicted cross-sections at the dbh elevation are shown in the figure. All five trees were decayed at this elevation, including four with near-surface ...
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The New Curbside Economy: Tools Breweries Can Use
Our nation and the world will look back on March 2020 and describe the situation in ways we cannot yet script. In terms of this ever-unfolding story, we are only at the beginning and urgency is a must. It is not lost on us that forced shutdowns are greatly impacting breweries and lives in exponential ways. Here are some tools you can quickly use to get the word out about your curbside sales: ...
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Optimal estimation of atmospheric 14C production over the Holocene: paleoclimate implications
A tree-ring 14C record and a simple box model of the global 14C cycle are combined using a method of optimal estimation theory (Rauch-Tung-Striebel smoother). The combination is used to infer information about the time evolution of 14C production in the atmosphere for the period 9400 year BC to AD 1900 year. Unlike previous attempts to infer changes from the tree-ring record, the errors in both ...
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GM technology in forestry: lessons from the GM food 'debate'
This paper aims to demonstrate the important lessons to be learnt from the Genetically Modified (GM) food 'debate', by examining the similarities of, and differences between, it and GM technology in forestry. Through consideration of a range of issues, such as technological applications, public concerns and the role of protest groups, it is concluded that the commercialisation of GM trees is ...
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Consumer affinity to wooden framehouses: a typology of German consumers
This paper presents a cluster analysis defining eight consumer types with regard to their disposition of choosing timber as predominant construction material for newly constructed houses in Germany. This typology is based on findings from a representative survey among the German population about people's attitudes towards general social issues, environment, wood, forestry, timber as construction ...
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Differentiation of meat species by means of Polymerase Chain Reaction technique
The present study was designed to investigate the efficiency of random amplified polymorphic DNA-polymerase chain reaction (RAPD-PCR) technique in differentiating meat species viz cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig and chicken. Different random primers were screened with DNA extracted from meat samples of cattle, buffalo, sheep, goat, pig and chicken. Characteristic species-specific bands of ...
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Effects of inbreeding on mouthpart deformities of Chironomus riparius under sublethal pesticide exposure
Mouthpart deformities in chironomids have been reported to indicate adverse effects of environmental pollutants. The authors assessed rates of mouthpart deformities in tributyltin‐exposed, inbred, and outcrossed Chironomus riparius larvae over multiple generations. The authros found that the occurrence of mouthpart deformities was significantly correlated with inbreeding, whereas no correlation ...
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Safeguarding the forest case study
The Aberdares region contains a rich diversity of vegetation. There are several ancient forests in the region like Kereita Forest which is at the core of the project area; this forest is at the southern-most end of the Aberdare range and several kilometres from Kimende, the local centre of population and shopping centre. This forest is credited with the largest scale of destruction related to ...
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Analysis of industrial upgrading in TNC subsidiary: the case study of Japanese TNC transplant in Samoa
Most global literature on topic of 'industrial upgrading' (transfer of knowledge and skills) to firms in developing countries generally assert that overseas buyers (TNC firms) upgrade firms operating in developing countries and argue that all firms in developing countries are being upgraded irrespective of whether they are domestic or TNC owned subsidiaries. This is not always the case. The ...
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How transfer of R&D to emerging markets nurtures global innovation performance
In the context of global R&D, we connect literature on knowledge management to a network-based theoretical framework helpful to explain the impact of R&D globalisation on innovation performance. This framework is applied to two case companies, both global leaders within their respective industries, in order to analyse the extent to which their strategic globalisation of R&D activities, from ...
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Can Insects Feed A Hungry Planet?
Around the world two billion people eat insects on a regular basis. The current hotbeds — or should we say, hot pots — of consumption include Latin America, central Africa and Southeast Asia. As we look for new ways to feed a burgeoning global population, will entomophagy spread to other corners of the ...
By Ensia
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Irrigation planning for sustainable rain-fed agriculture in the drought-prone Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh, India
The recent spells of recurrent and consecutive droughts in the Bundelkhand region in Central India have led to uncertain rain-fed agriculture and its sustainability. Adequate knowledge of starting dates and lengths of dry spells has a considerable importance in rain-fed agriculture, irrigation planning, and various decision-making processes. The long dry spells incur heavy costs to the affected ...
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What's the most popular crate product in the market?
Which is the most porpular crate product in the market? There are many porpular shape of crate. We are talking with europe standard fruit crate, vergertable crate, milk crate, bread crate, and thinwall crate, folding crate, stackable crate, bulk crate containers, collapsible crate, europe pool crate, nestable crate containers. Now we can start one by one to analysis for each crate molding ...
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