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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"smothered"”.
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Challenges to American Military and Economic Dominance in Space
… Leakage of any space-related technology has been smothered by regulation and attempts to formalise the governance of activities in space through international treaties have been vigorously resisted. The growing hubris of American foreign policy strategy has contributed to resistance to American …
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Epifaunal assemblage of a newly established oyster reef with two substrates
… loading on the reef. The sediment inundated and smothered the experimental trays over the course of the study, thereby converting the trays from hard substrate to soft bottom habitats. Any influence the different substrates might have had on community development was overwhelmed by sediment …
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Taphonomy, palaeoecology and taxonomy of an ophiuroid-stylophoran obrution deposit from the Lower Devonian Bokkeveld Group, South Africa
… obrution deposit formed due to rapid burial that smothered a potentially gregarious community during a single storm event. Additionally, the admixture of skeletal debris and intact echinoderms present in the Karbonaatjies obrution bed reflects a complex history with significant time-averaging. …
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Formation and evolution of hypernova progenitors in massive binary systems
… in the core of the star does not risk being smothered before it can escape from the star and expand outward to produce a gamma-ray burst. Physical processes which occur during the evolution of an isolated massive star will tend to diminish its initial angular momentum content, rendering it …
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High resolution sedimentologic and stratigraphic investigation of a storm-dominated carbonate ramp, Hoogland Platform (ca. 549 Ma), Nama Group, Namibia
… interval are shown to have been covered and smothered by heterolithic interbeds of shale and fine grained carbonate mud-dominated facies. Facies-scale microbial laminites are shown to posses paleogeographic dip position-dependent centimeter-scale roughness elements that increase in roughness …
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Nitrogen cycling in tall fescue turf with added clippings
… levels remained low until excessive clippings smothered the turf and caused a reduction in N uptake. Soil nitrate concentration tended to decrease with depth for all plots. Soil total Kjeldahl nitrogen (TKN) levels did not differ among treatments, suggesting that clipping-N was not being stored …
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Seeking Redemption and Sanctity: Seventeenth-Century Chinese Christian Literati and their Self-Writing
… seventeenth century Chinese Christians were smothered in the following two centuries, and how they were "rediscovered" by the first generation of Western-educated modern Chinese church leaders in the early twentieth century.</p>
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Sediment-effects on seagrass Zostera muelleri in New Zealand
… filamentous green algae Chaetomorpha ligustica smothered approximately half of the quadrats of one of the treatments. This is the first time, negative impacts of this species upon meadows of the New Zealand seagrass Zostera muelleri has been reported. Chaetomorpha ligustica can easily be …
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Global Discontents
My creative project explores toys as means to express economic issues of globalization. By exploiting the educational and imaginative aspects of toys for adults and children, I intend to reflect on the impact and pressures of globalization on employment, technology and environment. In creating …