Sentences with phrase «as a crop of»

Moctezuma also takes his students to botanical gardens, where «a lot of the exhibits are set up very similar to the... lectures that I teach,» illustrating topics such as the crops of the world, or different biomes and ecosystems.

I would love to see more progress on New World as well as the crop of games coming from Asia.

Even as bee populations around the world are being threatened by colony collapse disorder, beekeeping is nevertheless enjoying a bit of a renaissance as hobbyists benefit from today's ease of sharing the skills via online sources, the popularization of urban beekeeping, as well as a crop of new technological innovations that help beekeepers better maintain their hives.

It's certainly not as comfortable as an actual tablet, like the Microsoft Surface Pro or the Apple iPad Pro, but neither is it as unwieldy as the crop of 15 - inch convertibles — including a 15 - inch version of the Yoga 720 — that manufacturers strangely continue to sell.

Not exact matches

Regular biofuel production works by fermenting the sugars stored in crops such as sugar cane or corn, but the team's idea is to instead transform the sugar found in the cellulose of the residual crop material — the stalks, stems and leaves.

Colorado and Washington have now begun to offer real - world case studies of how to legalize pot — and whether to treat it as a drug, a crop or a vice.

Even with a change of Directors, as has been mentioned above, the next «crop» will have been well trained, to continue the successful business into the future!

Bayer has agreed to sell more of its crop science businesses to BASF as it seeks to wrap up its pending $ 62.5 billion acquisition of Monsanto, St.Louis Business Journal reports.

A better place to invest R&D dollars might be in turning crops, such as corn, wheat and soybeans, into headrests, door panels and other parts of cars.

For starters, Canada should tap into one of the hottest research topics among agricultural scientists: transforming annual crops, such as wheat, soybeans and corn, into perennial ones.

The Pacific nation of Vanuatu is preparing to permanently evacuate the entire population of one of its islands as thick ash spewing from a volcano kills crops, dirties water supplies and fouls the air.

And, getting a reputation as a place with a revolving door and constant turnover will make it harder and harder to attract the best talent, never mind the cream of the crop.

Canada's latest crop of tech startups is heavy on business - to - business software - as - a-service (SaaS) companies.

Crops that usually take 30 to 45 days to grow, like the leafy gourmet greens that make up most of the company's output, take as little as 12.

As the newspaper notes, the promotion of a genetically modified crop's potential health effects by a company is a new development.

These kinds of foods are arguably more eco-friendly than meat but - whatever your thoughts about gluten - free eating - it will change how protein crops are distributed globally and may divert pulses or increase the price of them for countries such as India that depend of non-livestock proteins.

Canada's largest wind farm entered service in 2009, one of many facilities that cropped up as the province looked to replace its dirty coal fleet.

In particular, «agricultural commodities are supported by the dynamics of water shortages in Asia and the Western United States, the declining payback from the green revolution in terms of improving crop yields and the increasing demand from Asia for a diet based more on grains and meat as the population becomes wealthier,» the group responded by e-mail.

But now, as energy companies vie to exploit vast reserves west of the Mississippi, fracking's new frontier is expanding to the same lands where crops have shriveled and waterways have dried up due to severe drought.

As The Economist pointed out in 2006, when you look at the cream of capitalism's self - made crop, you are hard - pressed to find anyone who has «done more than deliver a speech at a business school.»

Startups to watch: Led by a crop of firms such as Long Island City - based Aereo, which provides over-the-air television for mobile devices, startups are capitalizing on the myriad industries headquartered in Queens.

More of the current crop of CEOs plan to stay just where they are — as CEO.

There Friedberg observed that most farmers plant corn and soybeans because they make can make the most money through those crops, in large part because of their role as animal feed that supports humans» massive appetite for meat.

Luxturna is the first of a crop of treatments that target diseases caused by mutations in specific genes, and thus is referred to by many as the first gene therapy in the U.S.

While some remain defiant and plan to continue their work, one party in particular stands to benefit if the new policy restricts legal sales and pushes prices up — Mexican drug traffickers who see marijuana as a kind of cash crop.

Only now, he says, they are hoping to attract a new crop of entrepreneurs as a way to create their own Silicon Valley — like pipelines.

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Dismissing the latest crop of twentysomethings as navel - gazing screen - a-holics is a mistake.

Until the perfect role crops up, her 760,000 followers watch as she travels the world — usually with her boyfriend, who also has a big following — sharing stunning snaps of destinations like Santorini and the Taj Mahal.

An entirely new crop of companies was also working to combine music and social networking, such as Spotify, Pandora and Last.fm.

FRANKFURT, May 3 (Reuters)- German drug and crop chemical Bayer on Thursday cut its full - year guidance as a stronger euro weighs on the value of overseas revenues.

The company said it would have to adjust its earnings as a result of the negative revenue outlook stemming from its Brazilian crop science business.

If anything — as a recent crop of books about Apple, Google, Amazon and Twitter makes plain — they mark the sly triumph of old - style corporate manners in a bright new skin.

As often happens with a breakout product, Away now has a crop of competitors — each with its own take on smart suitcases.

However, Rainforest QA has now released their mobile app testing platform («Quality Assurance as a Service»), along with an ebook about scaling mobile testing itself, using their crop of over 50,000 crowdsourced testers to zero in on specific issues (and they get into this in detail in a recent eBook).

Vanilla helps mellow out the taste of unsweetened chocolate, but as with any agricultural product, its taste can vary depending on the crop.

As Bloomberg reported earlier this summer, a «sea of dudes» climate among AI developers has some concerned about gender bias cropping up in AI programs even before those programs start interacting with users.

Many also have commented about the former and current crop of «anonymous» apps, such as the two now - dead startups Formspring and Secret.

The new program is similar to others cropping up at colleges around the country, as student grapple with the rising costs of earning a degree.

While every drop of urban citizens» water is measured and most residential lawns are nearly grassless and brown, farmers — including non-U.S. farmers — can essentially divert river water or other natural water sources as much as they like to grow their crops, even if these crops are then exported to feed foreign cows.

It's still early for 2016's crop of flagship smartphones, but as it stands now, Samsung's Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge have gotten the most right.

As AP reports, Almarai is by no means the only company taking advantage of favorable legislation in the U.S. Companies from the UAE, China, and Japan, have also jumped on this bandwagon, buying up farmland in the U.S. and elsewhere and then exporting the crops back home.

Developers have been launching new Bitcoin projects at a rapid pace, and now a crop of incubators such as 500 Startups and Boost has emerged hoping to discover the next great idea in the space.

Guest blogging services are cropping up everywhere (including here, at AudienceBloom) as the industry begins to realize that guest blogging, as a link building tactic, is one of the few safe havens left after Penguin demolished many of the lower - cost, higher quantity tactics that SEOs came to rely upon over the course of the past several years.

And I mean as the delicious irony of this business, we're worried about what the crop's going to be this year and when it's going to yield and we're already talking about pricing for the spring of» 13.

Along with established international brands such as Louis Vuitton and Burberry moving in, a crop of homegrown fashion houses has emerged, including Maki Oh, a Nigerian womenswear label that showed at New York Fashion Week in March, has been featured in Vogue and is worn by American singer Azealia Banks.

On the flip side, agriculture - linked funds were again some of the best - performing ETFs this past week, as the commodities markets continued to rally on deteriorating crop yield prospects due to the ongoing droughtlike weather across the U.S. grain belt.

Cannabis is often described as the «cash crop» of Mexican cartels because it grows abundantly in the Sierras and requires no processing.

It is also approved for crops that don't retain high levels of pesticide residue as they grow.

He then described the current crop of prognosticators as falling into two camps; those that believe current volatility is an aberration and periods of relatively low volatility — like 1995 — were the norm.