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The Dandelion diary : die perdeblom kalender
In essensie is die manuskrip wat volg 'n versameling van my gedigte in Afrikaans en Engels. Verder word die digterlike stemme van Antjie Krog en Ingrid Jonker verken met die oog daarop om my eie poesie te verstaan. The thesis also focuses on the impact of illness and disability on my own creative …
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Phenological and Cultural Studies of Common Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale Weber)
Phenological and cultural studies of common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale Weber) were conducted from 1969 to 1971 at Bowling Green, Kentucky. The phenological studies were based upon dandelion plants which were found growing in a Kentucky bluegrass lawn or in open lots. At this location the …
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Combination effect of ACP 2100, imazaquin and triclopyr on common dandelion and three Kentucky bluegrass turf types
… triclopyr and imazaquin for control of common dandelion (<i>Taraxacum officinale</i> Weber in Wigger). Addition of imazaquin at 276 g ha⁻¹ to triclopyr at 138 g ha⁻¹ resulted in less dandelion control than 138 plus 138 g ha⁻¹, respectively. Greenhouse and laboratory studies indicated a …
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Monitoring Metal Containing Particulates Distribution on a College Campus Using Dandelion (<em>Taraxacum officinale</em>) Leaves as Receptors.
… at selected sites on a college campus using dandelion leaves as collectors. As a comparison, sites far away from the campus surrounding Bristol Motor Speedway Car Racing Stadium were also monitored. To reduce the probability of memory effects from the long-term atmospheric deposition or …
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Anticancer Activity of Natural Health Products (Dandelion Root, Lemongrass, and Hibiscus Extracts); A Study of Efficacy, Interaction, and Mechanism of Action
… investigated the anti-cancer efficacy of dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) root, lemongrass (Cymbopogon citratus), and hibiscus (Hibiscus syriacus) extracts. However, their efficacy on prostate, colorectal, and breast cancer as well as their interactions with standard chemotherapeutics have …
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Shadows of the Ravine: Mortality-Themed Discards from Bradbury's Illinois Novels
… published a portion of the original project as Dandelion Wine in 1957. As that novelized story cycle is perhaps the best-known of all Bradbury’s “Green Town” books, I intend to use it as a springboard for identifying and examining those stories that were discarded, left unfinished, or eventually …
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Factors Associated with Pollinator Foraging and Floral Morphology of Lawn Weeds
… of bulbous buttercup (Ranunculus bulbosus L.), dandelion (Taraxacum officinale G. H. Weber ex Wiggers), foxglove beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis Nutt. ex Sims), white clover (Trifolium repens L.), and associated pollinator foraging. Several herbicides, including halosulfuron, sulfentrazone, …
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Christian belief in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers): a response to the claim that British Friends are post-Christian
In 1996 British Quaker Pink Dandelion published his PhD thesis, an extensive sociological survey of British Quakers. In his thesis Dandelion claimed that the Religious Society of Friends in Britain had become post-Christian. In response to Dandelion’s claim that Quakers are post-Christian, in 2005 …
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Influence of Isoxaben Application Timing on Dissipation and Broadleaf Weed Control in Turf
… 0.013, 0.010, 0.008, 0.008, and 0.007 ppm for dandelion, buckhorn plantain, white clover, black medic, and common lespedeza, respectively. In greenhouse experiments, isoxaben applied POST at 2.24 kg ai/ha suppressed the growth of Florida betony, black medic and white clover by 45, 65, and 66%, …
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Understanding Development of Human Immunity One Cell at a Time
… 3 is dedicated to a new computational tool, Dandelion, that we developed for single cell antigen receptor sequencing (scVDJ-seq) data analysis. We also devised a novel strategy to leverage scVDJ-seq data in pseudotime trajectory inference. The application of Dandelion improved the alignment …
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Food Habits of the Sharp-Tailed Grouse (Pedioecetes Phasianellus Jamesi) and The Greater Prairie Chicken (Tymphanuchus Cupido Pinnauts) In Western South Dakota
… fall, and winter for prairie grouse. Common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) ranked first (72.2 percent) in importance by volume for 63 sharptai8ls during spring. Short-horned grasshoppers (Acrididas) were the most important insect item by volume for summer, fall, and winter. Preference …
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Use of stable isotopes to assess phytoremediation of soils contaminated with cadmium and zinc.
… alpine penny cress (T. caerulescens), dandelion (T. officinale) and spring barley (H. vulgare). The available pool of Cd and Zn for plant uptake was determined to be the same for the 3 different plant species examined although plant species had markedly different abilities to uptake …
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Production of Biobutanol from inulin-rich biomass and industrial food processing wastes
… Taraxacum Kok-saghyz, also known as TKS (Kazak dandelion, Russian dandelion or Buckeye Gold). Four different strains, namely, C. beijerinckii NCIMB 8052, C. acetobutylicum ATCC 824, C. saccharobutylicum P262, and C. beijerinckii NRRL B592 were investigated for their ability to use raw …
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Elders and Knowledge Keepers Perspectives on Practices to Support Indigenous Students’ Educational Well-Being: A Holistic Study
… practices of the medicine wheel and the dandelion metaphor was utilized for content analysis to analyze the data, and findings are represented by five themes, (1) residential schools and education, (2) education, (3) family/responsibility/relationship/belonging, (4) identity, and (5) …
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Investigation of the assessment and remediation of land contaminated with heavy metals
… extraction procedure. Taraxacum officianale (dandelion) was grown in soil contaminated with zinc. The experiment was designed to study the ability of the plant to accumulate metals and also to study the effect of the addition of the chelator EDTA and the effect of the addition of a fertiliser. …
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Life cycle of a common weed : reciprocity, anxiety and the aesthetics of noncatharsis
… this exchange: blood from a human body nourishes dandelions with nitrogen and the root and leaves of the dandelion provide nutritious and medicinal sustenance to the human. Liminally present in the exchange are pathogenic viruses and empathy. Life Cycle of a Common Weed is not an object-based …
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Comparison of nucleoproteins and nucleic acids of five isolates of tomato ringspot virus
… G4NR), a seed-borne soybean isolate (S1B), and a dandelion isolate (D4WR) from the second location were compared. The three grape isolates could be categorized as a single strain even though collected from two different locations. They had middle (M) and bottom (B) nucleoproteins with identical …
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Disturbance impacts on non-native plant colonization in black spruce forests of interior Alaska
… to Alaska (bird vetch (Vicia cracca), common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), and white sweetclover (Melilotus officinalis) in burned and mature black spruce forest to determine if fire facilitates invasive plant germination. To determine the effect of substrate type on invasive plant …
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Evaluation of Cattle Use of A Deer Winter Range in the Black Hills
… heath aster (Aster ericoides), and mountain-dandelion (Agoseris glauca). Grazing of browse was not considered severe on any site throughout the grazing season. Grazing by cattle was negligible on open slope and open forest sites. Use by cattle, measured by counts of cow chips per day of …
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