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Showing 1 to 20 of 555 for “""To autumn""”.
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Progressive dark imagery in Keats and the ode "To Autumn"
… merely by his frequent and explicit references to death: "And that, alas! is death”; "Death had come sudden”; "Mutter'd ‘What lonely death am I to die’"; "I plung'd for death...” and so on. In fact, the words <em>death</em> and <em>dead</em> and their derivates—<em>deathly</em>, …
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Actual Causality in Autumn
… questions such as: did the pasta on the stove cause the fire alarm to go off or did the power outage cause the lights to turn off? Another example follows: If Suzie throws a rock at a bottle and later Billy throws a rock at the same bottle, a question of actual causality is, did Suzie …
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Another Word for Autumn and Other Stories
<p>The subject, style, and form of these stories are different from one another. At first glance, there seems to be no obvious thematic connection throughout this collection, no binding thread that ties them together. However, what allows these stories to exist side by side is their focus. The …
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Yield, Quality, and Botanical Composition of Autumn-Accumulated Grass-Legume Mixtures and Digestibility of Ensiled Autumn-Accumulated Orchardgrass and Alfalfa
… cattle producers in the southeastern US often stockpile forage in late summer to extend the grazing season and reduce feeding costs. Three stockpiled grass-legume mixtures were evaluated for winter grazing. In addition, stockpiled forages were ensiled and evaluated as livestock feed. Four …
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The Autumn Leaves Swirl in Crisp October Wind
The Autumn Leaves Swirl in Crisp October Wind is a programmatic work for wind ensemble consisting of five sections. Each section of the work takes the listener on a journey through my own childhood memories of autumn in Michigan. The first section is titled “Bursting with Color”, featuring the …
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Autumn performance of rhizomatous clovers after a summer drought, under different grazing treatments
… trial on a lowland medium fertility soil (Templeton silt loam) at Lincoln University, Canterbury. Each rhizomatous clover cultivar / seed line was sown (March, 1989) in plots with four rows 0.75m apart, 80m long. There were three replicates of these plots (1.5m apart), each replicate arranged as …
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Elk summer-autumn habitat selection in the Clearwater Basin of north-central Idaho
… (CBC) was formed with the goal of restoring healthy elk populations to the Clearwater Basin. They initiated this study by collaring 53 cow elk from four distinct areas. I analyzed elk detection and GIS-based habitat data from June 15-September 15 2014 to address one of the CBC's …
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Autumn Foraging and Staging Ecology of Eastern Population Sandhill Cranes (Antigone canadensis tabida)
… canadensis tabida; EP herein) likely began to recolonize Ontario and its historic range starting in the early 1900s and now relies on agricultural grain during migration. Accordingly, ecologists possess little knowledge of how EP crane behavioural ecology may be affected by grain. Thus, my …
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The effect of altering autumn grazing management on sward structural characteristics, morphology and nutritive value
Altering grazing management practices to increase the amount of herbage available on farm can help extend the grazing season, improve herbage utilization and, in turn, improve the sustainability and efficiency of pasture based dairy systems. Extended grazing happens at two pivotal time points - …
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The Affirmation of Life in Wallace Stevens' "The Auroras of Autumn" and T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
… life evident in Wallace Stevens' "The Auroras of Autumn" and T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets, defining the term affirmation by the expansive embrace of suffering demonstrated by Alyosha Karamazov in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. I maintain that, similar to Alyosha, Stevens affirms life by …
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Predicting the post-fire responses of two forest tree precursors after an autumn fire in mountain fynbos
… investigated; 1) is fire survival the (ability to resprout) related to concentrations of root stored nonstructural carbohydrates (TNC) or 2) the protection afforded to epicormic buds through the thermal properties associated with bark thickness. Different sized saplings (4-40mm in basal …
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Health of the older worker in Ireland - occupational physical and psychosocial factors in the autumn of work life
Introduction: Worldwide, governments are striving to keep people in work to an older age. However, little is known about the effects of work on an older workforce. This thesis aims to investigate the importance of job characteristics to the antecedents and evolution of cardiovascular disease and …
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Assessment of Factors Influencing Migratory Landbird Use of Forested Stopover Sites Along the Delmarva Peninsula During Autumn Migration
<p>Autumn migration is a time when billions of birds move from breeding grounds in North America to wintering grounds in Central and South America, with many individuals relying on stopover habitats en route for resting and refueling purposes. These stopover sites are critical to the survival of …
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Resource Selection, Survival, and Departure of Adult Female Mallards From The Lake St. Clair Region During Autumn And Winter
During autumn and winter, mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) maximize fitness through their spatiotemporal distribution to avoid mortality risks while balancing trade-offs to access foods to undergo migration and maintain homeostasis. Thousands of mallards use Lake St. Clair as it is an important, but …
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EFFECT OF HIGH-PRESSURE HOMOGENIZATION AND THERMAL PRETREATMENT ON THE RHEOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES OF AUTUMN CRISP APPLE PUREE
… non-thermal technology that can be applied to puree production to make smoother, drinkable foods, and was selected for the present study. Multiple pressures and passes of HPH treatment were utilized, and the effect of preheating prior to HPH was evaluated to comprehensively assess the effect …
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Responses of boreal vegetation to recent climate change
… few decades. Boreal ecosystems are responding to this rapid climatic change in complex ways and some times contrary to expectations, with large implications for the global climate system. This thesis investigates how boreal vegetation has responded to recent climate change, particularly to the …
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Toxigenic phytoplankton and concomitant toxicity in the mussel Choromytilus meridionalis off the west coast of South Africa in the autumn of 2007
… the west coast of South Africa in the summer and autumn months, and have a detrimental impact on human activities along the coast. Some harmful algal blooms are dominated by phytoplankton which produce toxins that can cause shellfish poisoning syndromes. The relationship between the abundance and …
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Plant to plant variation in harvest index in lentil (Lens culinaris L.) : A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Diploma of Agricultural Science in the University of Canterbury New Zealand
A field study was carried out to assess variation in the harvest index and yield components of lentils (Lens culinaris cv. Titore). Four levels of irrigation were imposed on the lentils. One trial was sown in autumn and the other in spring. The variation in the harvest index in response to sowing …
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The response of field bean (Vicia faba L.) to irrigation and sowing date
The response of autumn and spring sown crops of Vicia faba cv. 'Maris Bead' to irrigation applied during the vegetative, flowering and pod-filling phases was investigated during the 1981/82 and 1982/83 seasons on a Templeton silt-loam soil in Canterbury. During any phase trickle irrigation was …
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