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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"Palms"”.
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In the Hearts of Palms
In the Hearts of Palms is a novel, in which the alternating narratives of two characters' lives meet in the most consequential of circumstances. A young girl's coming of age journey collides with a man's grief and search for healing and reaches a tragic denouement within a week of the novel's …
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Remote Sensing and Spatial Distribution Patterns of Guyanese Resource Palms
Arecaceae (palms) are an essential resource for indigenous communities as well as fauna populations in the Amazon. The present study conducts an extensive examination of the application of remote sensing imagery for the detection of Arecaceae at both regional and local scales within the previously …
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An Experimental Assessment of Soil-Based Habitat Partitioning in Understory Palms
… of both adults and transplanted seedlings of palms indicated that soil nutrient availability was important in determining foliar N and nutrient conservation strategies, whereas soil texture may be important in determining water conservation strategies. Furthermore, susceptibility to herbivore …
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An Afro-Brazilian Landscape: African Oil Palms and Socioecological Change in Bahia, Brazil
… a biodiverse cultural landscape of African oil palms in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia has for centuries supplied local alimentary and spiritual demands for palm oil—an essential resource in Afro-Brazilian cultures. Drawing on fieldwork, ethnography, archives, GIScience, quantitative …
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Paleoseismologic Evidence for Holocene Activity on the Pinto Mountain Fault, Twentynine Palms, California
… across the Pinto Mountain fault in Twentynine Palms, California exposed faulted strata across a 32-m wide zone. Trench wall exposures revealed clear evidence for five ground-rupturing events during the Holocene, and two additional events in the late Pleistocene. Optically stimulated …
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Poems to Open Palms: Praise Performance and the State in the Sultanate of Oman
… and kinship. In this way, praise “opens palms” and induces continued elite distributions. However, unequal gifting is fraught with social hazard and threatens to trap communities in dependency relations with the state. By attending to the pragmatics of performance, however, I argue that …
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Examining reasons for participation in sport and exercise using the Physical Activity and Leisure Motivation Scale (PALMS)
… Physical Activity and Leisure Motivation Scale (PALMS). This included examining the internal consistency and criterion validity of the PALMS, as well as testing the proposed model of PALMS subscales in a confirmatory factor analysis. This study also looked at the various reasons people nominate …
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A Statistical Examination of Friction Ridge Skin Patterns in the Interdigital, Hypothenar, and Thenar Areas of the Palms
… skin, which is only located on the fingers, palms, and soles of the feet, has been used in the identification of individuals before the beginning of the twentieth century. A majority of the information known about friction ridge skin has been accumulated through the extensive research of …
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Comparison of the Biological Attributes, First and Second Level of Detail of Friction Ridge Skin of the Palms and Fingers
<p>Since the case of Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, the Daubert criteria is nothing new to forensic science. Today's practices and techniques presented in a court of law are held to high scientific scrutiny. For nearly 100 years, expert witness testimony concerning fingerprint …
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Plant Architecture, Photosynthetic Responses, and Population Biology in the Palms Socratea Durissima and Scheelea Zonensis on Barro Colorado Island, Panama (Physiological, Tropical)
… allocation in the population biology of the palms Socratea durissima and Scheelea zonensis on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Canopy architecture and biomass allocation change as plants mature, and can affect light interception and carbon budgets. Thus plant growth forms are expected to affect …
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The development of automated palmprint identification using major flexion creases
… used to compare palmar flexion creases from 100 palms, each modified 10 times to mimic some of the types of alterations that can be found in crime scene palmar marks. From these comparisons, using manual palmar flexion crease identification, results showed that when labelled within 10 pixels, or …
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Effects of high carbon dioxide concentration on oil palm growth and development
… bunch production and oil quality. The palms were grown in OTC with two types of CO2 levels; 600 ppm (CO2-enriched) and ambient CO2 level (control) and planted in the field under normal conditions (absolute control). After six years of observation, CO2-enriched palms showed a higher …
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Effects of nutrient limitation on understory communities in a tropical forest
… between terrestrial ferns and understory palms, since the extent to which their resource needs overlap has not been determined. Furthermore, ferns and palms are two essential components of forest understories that differ widely in physiology and reproductive traits, while competing for the …
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Measuring Wages and Inequality in South Africa Using Two Nationally Representative Data Series
… and the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series (PALMS) are two data sources frequently relied upon for research into earnings in South Africa. This paper contributes to the literature in three ways. Firstly, I show how NIDS data can be adjusted to account for item non-response using a bracket …
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Understanding the chemistry of atmospheric particles using single particle mass spectrometry
… Particle Analysis by Laser Mass Spectrometry (PALMS) instrument, an aircraft deployable mass spectrometer that uses intense (~10 9 Wcm -2 ) UV laser pulses to vaporize and ionize single particles and measures their mass spectra using a time-of-flight mass spectrometer. Near-term and long-term …
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Faulkner's Marginal Couple and the Community
… Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon, and The Wild Palms disturb that community's sense of itself. These alternative couples challenge mainstream Faulkner critics' assessment of gender, which derives largely from Cleanth Brooks's argument that Faulkner created active men who follow a code of honor …
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Faulkner And "The Football"
… of this study, then, focuses on the "Wild Palms" portion of The Wild Palms; If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (1939) to gain insight into Faulkner's complicated stance on the hotly debated issue of the professionalization of college football. The second chapter examines the curious Labove episode …
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Understanding the mechanism for response selection in compatibility tasks: Referential coding contrasted with biological properties of the hands
… – that biological properties of the hands/palms uniquely affect visual attention and response selection – can be compared to a <em>referential object coding</em> hypothesis – that objects are coded in relation to other salient objects – favored in explanations of many compatibility effects. …
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Dirge in Georgia Minor
… and are not so. Every day blued steel blackens palms, ashen knuckles wrung numb—the crossing and relaxing of so many pairs of fingers begging release, as we carry in one last finger-fold our will.
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Dirge in Georgia Minor
… and are not so. Every day blued steel blackens palms, ashen knuckles wrung numb—the crossing and relaxing of so many pairs of fingers begging release, as we carry in one last finger-fold our will.
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