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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"PLUMS"”.
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Clockwork Plums
… additional lyrics by Joshua Bradford, Clockwork Plums is an original musical work that integrates techniques and ideas from composers and different cultures. The accompanying essay about the work includes a summary of the story, "Clockwork Plums," some historical background covering 30 years of …
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Shifts in suitability distribution of deciduous and citrus fruit trees under climate change in South Africa: a large-scale empirical study
… mandarins, grapefruit, apples, pears, peaches, plums, and table grapes) over South Africa in each of these scenarios. Ecocrop is an empirical model, suited to this large-scale analysis despite known and acceptable point scale inaccuracies, and driven by changes in monthly minimum and mean …
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Control of green June beetle larvae attacking pastures, and residues resulting from insecticidal treatments
… as grapes, peaches, raspberries, apples, pears, plums and in particular figs, hence the common name fig-eater. A definite affinity also is shown towards certain grains such as corn and sorghum.
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Food and Pleasure in Modern American Literature
… the present. From infamous poetic instances of plums and memorialized moveable feasts in the early twentieth century to present-day preoccupations with overdetermined foods and bodies, food scenes in literature help develop character, play out cultural or social dynamics, or dramatize appetite …
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Produce condition after holding at a range of storage temperatures
… Two or three cultivars or peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots, strawberries, grapes, pears, peppers, one cultivar of blackberries, tomatoes, and cabbages were chosen for the experiment. The storage temperatures (21°C, 15°C, 10°C, 4°C, 0°C) and humidity (about 80% RH) were maintained during the …
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Victoria’s street trees : planning for climate change through species selection and arboricultural maintenance practices
… requirement. The Prunus genus (cherries and plums) in particular, which comprises 29% of all COV street trees, was rated at 54% fair to dead condition which is 20% higher than all COV street trees. Current summer precipitation from June to early October totals 105 mm and evapotranspiration …
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The killing of plant tissue by low temperature
… It is focused on Missouri apples, peaches, plums, and cherries.
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A Tender Head
… is more loosely defined. The still lifes (from “Plums in America”) pertain to items, moments, or experiences suspended in space and time. </p> <p>In addition to its varied contextual elements, A Tender Head hosts many visual and formal design choices, focusing on personal experiences working with …
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Anticancer activity of peach and plum extracts against human breast cancer in vitro and in vivo
Commercial varieties of peaches and plums contain a mixture of phenolics that may possess anticancer activity. Our objectives were to evaluate extracts from a commercial variety of yellow fleshed peach "Rich Lady" (RL) and of the red fleshed plum "Black Splendor" (BS) on tumor breast cells in vitro …
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Archaeological seeds and local varieties of edible fruits: morphology through time
… associated with grapes and other fruits, as plums, sloes, and junipers, which may have played a role in meat preservation. Other fruits and nuts found in the same contexts, such as watermelon, bottle gourd, hazelnuts, walnuts, pine nuts, almonds and olives were probably related to food trade. …