Sentences with word «hardiness»

In order to learn how to better utilise the symbiosis in agriculture, the researchers have explored what causes the increased hardiness of plants.

The Arbor Day Foundation has recently completed an extensive updating of U.S. Hardiness Zones based upon data from 5,000 National Climatic Data Center cooperative stations across the continental United States.

Physiological Ecology Induction of Cold Hardiness in an Invasive Herbivore: The Case of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Hemiptera: Adelgidae)

But climate change is adding a new wrinkle, and now a standard reference — the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Plant Hardiness Zone Map — is about to make very clear how much rising temperatures have shifted planting zones northward.

An updated hardiness map for plants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture reveals just how much local climates are changing

Family hardiness demonstrated the strongest relationship with family adaptation (r =.76).

White represents purity, blue for vigilance, and red for hardiness and valor.

As worldwide development manager for California - based Intel, the world's largest semiconductor maker, Clarke extols the memory retention of flash chips — which can store data even when their power is off — and their other virtues, such as hardiness, high data density and low power consumption.

Induction of Cold Hardiness in an Invasive Herbivore: The Case of Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (Hemiptera: Adelgidae).

Many of the best outdoor speakers bulk up in an effort to improve hardiness and battery life, which makes it harder to tote the devices with you into the wilds.

It is used in landscaping in North America, where it is noted as a relatively rare native grass that thrives in partial shade; the plant is recommended for USDA hardiness zones 3 - 8 in acidic sands, loams, and clays.

For major outdoor activities a dog should be a certain size and have natural hardiness.

Only two other studies have investigated the impact of hardiness on mothers raising children with ASD.

Over 30 years of research with adults has shown that an 8 - weekcourse in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction decreases stress, depression, anxiety, and hostility, and enhances stress hardiness, sense of purpose and meaning, compassion, empathy and activity in the left prefrontal cortex (the area of the brain associated with positive emotion).

Lang and Goulet Hardiness Scale: development and testing on bereaved parents following the death of their fetus / infant

By studying these species now, Albright hopes to predict the future of coral reefs around the world, where hardiness may win out over biodiversity.

«What we're looking for all the time when developing new cultivars is increased hardiness; that's how to get passion flowers into British gardens.»

Because of the image of the wild horse of the west as possessing hardiness, grace, speed, and independence, the name «Mustang» is popular for high - performance products and for sports mascots.

Several years after the development of the white show bull terrier, pure pit bulldogs were bred back into some lines, for added mental and physical hardiness.

The Arbor Day Foundation developed this U.S. Hardiness Zone Map based upon data from 5,000 National Climatic Data Center cooperative stations across the continental United States.

Items were reverse coded and a total score for each subscale was computed, with higher scores indicating greater hardiness.

These mindfulness practices offer the opportunity to develop hardiness in the face of uncomfortable feelings that otherwise might provoke a response that could be harmful (e.g. acting out by taking drugs, displaying violent behavior or acting in by becoming more depressed).

Bayer explained that the studies were conducted in two different U.S. Department of Agriculture hardiness zones (Tifton 8b, Watkinsville 8a) to compare plant responses under different environmental conditions.

The other, a wild relative of sugarcane (Saccharum spontaneum), provides hardiness to harsh environments and the ability to ratoon or produce additional profitable crops from re-growth after harvest.

Ancient grains were bred for flavor, unlike modern wheat, which is grown mostly for industrial - strength hardiness.

His family has been selecting red - haired Tamworth pigs — a threatened breed — for generations for their good temperament and hardiness outdoors.

These portions of the spectrum both encourage growth and hardiness if you plan to transplant your plants outdoors eventually.

One of my resource materials was a great book called Resilience at Work by Dr. Salvatore Maddi and Dr. Deborah Khoshaba, the founders of an Institute devoted to what they call «hardiness training.»

They are cultivars of African super grasses, bred for enhanced nutrition and hardiness by researchers at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), less than 50 kilometers to the north.

Although it's significant when hardiness zones shift, gardening experts emphasize that they are guidelines, not blueprints.

This happened «in the absence of adequate information on the robustness, hardiness [and] appropriateness of native breeds versus imports.»

The plant's hardiness comes from a combination of its hollow, tubular macrostructure and porous, or cellular, microstructure.

With help from the sun, the inside of the tunnel becomes a region with what's called a good hardiness zone — a standard the USDA uses to describe places where certain plants grow best.

That may sound like the work of a mad scientist, but in truth it means growing crops more efficiently, without harsh pesticides, and with enough hardiness to resist both drought and famine.

The barley has a nice hardiness that you don't get with rice.

In addition, cultivars have been developed to enhance certain aspects of the fruit or the plant's hardiness against cold or pests.

If you want to bulk it up to meal hardiness, add some sliced tuna, chicken or serve alongside a nice burger.

You might ask such questions as Which hardiness zones can be found in Florida?

While some may choose a Jeep model for its luxurious interior appointments, and class - leading reputation, others may select one for its trail - rated hardiness.

Phelan offers lightly fictionalized graphic - format accounts of three nineteenth - century adventurers whose inner journeys displayed as much hardiness, courage, and resilience as their globe - trotting exploits.

The Irish water spaniel quickly gained popularity with Irish and English sportsmen for its bold and daring retrieves, its extreme hardiness in the cold North Sea waters, and its superb disposition.

Loyalty, independence, and hardiness set it apart from other breeds.

Additionally, Lu (2008) showed that hardiness moderates the relationship between stress and psychological symptoms.

Stressful life events, personality, and health: an inquiry into hardiness.