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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"food supplies"”.
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Food Supplies and Demand Reliant on Large Irrigation Dams
Water is an integral part of agricultural practices, with agriculture being the largest user of surface water in the United States. Agriculture's reliance on surface water is strengthening as climate change and growing populations are stressing irrigated croplands. This surface water is primarily …
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The extension of co-operative principles to agriculture in western Canada
… to the agricultural position and question of food supplies within the Empire, must be held, in part at least, accountable for the development of a condition fraught with grave danger, not only to the general life of the people, but also to the industrial and commercial situation, upon which …
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Development of bioanalytical approaches as model tools for the rapid detection of pesticides
… around the world monitor pesticide levels in food supplies and update maximum residue levels as needed. As part of addressing the concerns of pesticide presence in food stocks, rapid, sensitive and cheap methods for sample preparation and early detection systems need to be developed to detect …
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Descriptive and comparative study of the Gunwingguan languages, Northern Territory
… group ranges is usually defined by water and food supplies, and by informal agreement between groups.^ In Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, the traditional language territories are mainly located along rivers, creeks and the coast. As European settlement of the Territory increased, Aboriginal …
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Descriptive and comparative study of the Gunwingguan languages, Northern Territory
… group ranges is usually defined by water and food supplies, and by informal agreement between groups.^ In Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, the traditional language territories are mainly located along rivers, creeks and the coast. As European settlement of the Territory increased, Aboriginal …
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Small mammal use of abandoned surface mines in southwestern Virginia
… more extensively utilized during the winter when food supplies in the forest are low. Peromyscus abundance, as measured by trapping success, was positively associated with the development of forested habitats possessing a diverse vegetative profile on the mines. Areas where Peromyscus was captured …
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A GIS-Based Landscape Scale Model for Native Bee Habitat
… This decline is concerning because it threatens food supplies and global biodiversity. An alternative to alleviating the effect of a honey bee shortage could be to use native bees. Problems with adoption of native bees in agriculture occur because of a lack of large scale analysis methods for …
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Intraspecific and Interspecific Agonistic Behavior in Chipmunks, TAMIAS MERRIAMI, T. OBSCURUS, and T. SPECIOSUS (Rodentia: Sciuridae)
… selected for by both species to protect scarce food supplies, serve to maintain existing isolated distributions.</p>
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A comparative analysis of C3 and C4 photosynthesis under dynamic light conditions
… to require to a 100-110% rise in global food production, and since traditional targets for crop advancement are falling behind rising demand, improving photosynthesis to increase crop yield has become a major global effort. The response of plants to changes in light intensity has been …
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Drivers of a Temporal Change in the Adult Sex Ratio of a Population of Roosevelt elk (Cervus elaphus roosevelti)
… least squares model indicated declining food supplies across years when female abundance increased. My empirical findings were consistent with the female-substitution hypothesis.
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Living differently
… authorities who devise systems for living (eg: food supply, energy sources) that are not necessarily in keeping with sustainable processes. South Africa is facing a severe energy crisis and the current solution to this problem is to build more energy plants that are heavily dependent on …
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Single-molecule detection of molecular beacons generated from LDR on thermoplastic microfluidic device for bioanalysis
… pathogenic bacteria or viruses into water and/or food supplies, demand fast detection strategies. In this work, a pair of strain-specific primers was designed based on the 16S rRNA gene and were end-labeled with a donor (Cy5) and acceptor (Cy5.5) dyes. In the presence of the target bacterium, the …
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Accounting for taste : regulating food labeling in the "affluent society," 1945-1995
… dissertation traces a transformation in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's governance of food markets during the second half of the 20th century. In response to new correlations between diet and risk of disease, anxieties about (over)abundant food supplies, and changing notions of personal …
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An economic analysis of dietary diversification in the developing world
… with few fruits, vegetables and animal-sourced foods. Improving children’s diets is therefore an important step towards solving the nutrition problem in low-income settings and reducing its debilitating symptoms such as stunting. Despite the importance that nutritionists attach to early …
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Allotments and alternative food networks: the case of Plymouth, UK
Alternative food networks (AFNs) are the focus of an ‘explosive growth’ of research in Europe (Goodman 2004), and the term covers a wide range of activities, from food banks, community gardens, and farmers’ markets, to community supported or organic agriculture. However, there is an impasse in …
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Creating healthier populations: an assessment of the use of data on social determinants of health to inform decision-making in eight countries
… employment insecurity, financial insecurity, and food/supplies insecurity. The income gradient of SDoH disruptions persisted after controlling for government income support policies. Experiencing Covid-19 SDoH disruptions was then associated with a higher burden of both depression symptoms and …
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Bioenergetics and Life History of Rainbow Smelt in Lake Oahe, South Dakota
… Investigations Team. Production of fish-food biota in Lake Oahe increased substantially during its first years while the lake inundated terrestrial areas (Aggus 1971). Rapidly rising waters submersed terrestrial vegetation increasing invertebrate food supplies (Ploskey 1985). Changes in …
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Natural flood management applications (NFM): the role of local institutions
… regions, contributing massively to national food supplies. Stakeholder engagement and resilience planning underpin this research.<br/><br/>The study explores dimensions of participation using the self-reliance and self –help approach to develop a methodology that facilitates reflections of …
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Food Supply Early in the Plant Growing Season: Influences from Elk Abundance and Precipitation
… for plant growth differ. I measured the entire food supply for a non-migratory population of elk (Cervus elaphus) in a temperate rainforest over a 15-year period when population abundance and total precipitation varied. The food supply was a 50-hectare meadow complex that was divided into 7 …
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