Sentences with phrase «hardiness of»

Most of them are kept as pets now but they have not lost the hardiness of their cattle - herding ancestors.

However, the process of completely eliminating the infestation can take up to 12 months due to the hardiness of flea eggs and the time it takes to enter and complete the other phases of its maturation.

Due to the hardiness of Corgi, they do well when placed alongside horses.

This is due a phenomenon called «hybrid vigor,» which refers to the robust health and hardiness of animals from a wide and varied gene pool.

I love the hardiness of this vehicle; it can handle anything I throw at it.

As an evolutionary biologist, I've always been amazed at the hardiness of plants.

Steadiness and hardiness of digestion are very important for healthy blood sugar regulation since they help prevent both too quick digestion and release of sugars from food as well as too slow digestion of food that might cause unwanted dips in blood sugar in the hours following a meal.

Kale has been a part of the culinary tradition dating back to the ancient Greeks, and due to the hardiness of this plant, and its ability to grow in rather unfriendly conditions, it has been a staple food for numerous cultures, often being one of the last vegetables to be harvested before winter.

All this while improving the hardiness of cells and increasing resistance to illness and diseases.

Modern science tells us that exposing the body to intense cold improves the hardiness of our cells, improving our immune system and circulation.

But that consensus did not influence seismic risk assessments, tsunami preparedness, or a review of the hardiness of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

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

But last week the European Space Agency's engineering arm in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, confirmed that it has been commissioned to test the space hardiness of the capsule that will contain the Sefer Torah scroll.

As always, the people in the suits making decisions are more of a factor than the passion and hardiness of the fans.

They have nothing to compare it to so it must taste good if they like them so much, because they both have good pallets, but they like the hardiness of the substitutes.

Not exact matches

Entrepreneurs tend to be an action - oriented, onwards - and - upwards lot — a longitudinal study published by the Journal of Economic Psychology in 2014 associated successful entrepreneurs with higher - than - normal levels of hardiness, resourcefulness and optimism — meaning that when their venture fails, there's a pretty good chance they'll be able to rebound quickly, with a nifty second - act tale of adversity to slot into their narrative.

This of course tortures out of sin its utmost demoniac powers, bestowing upon it the ungodly hardiness or obduracy which must constantly regard everything which is of the nature of repentance and everything which is of the nature of grace not only as empty and meaningless but as its foe, as the thing which most of all it has to guard against, quite in the same way as the good guards itself against temptation.

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.

One of the biggest selling points of chicories is their hardiness.

They are popular home garden varieties because of their hardiness and the beautiful colors of yellow, orange, and red fruits on the same plant.

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

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

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.»

This finding provides new insight into the evolutionary origins of the DNA - packing process and the secret to archaea's hardiness, which enables some to live in acid, boiling water or other extreme environments.

Hardiness is a particular pattern of attitudes and skills that helps you be resilient, to survive and thrive under stress.

Familiar to anyone who has paged through a nursery catalogue, the USDA hardiness map divides North America into 11 latitudinal zones, each representing a 10 - degree (Fahrenheit) range of «average annual minimum temperature» — the coldest lows that can be expected in that area.

The task of saving them is difficult, but should be doable given the animal's hardiness — if the Mexican government would only engage with the process.

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.

Such hardiness in the face of locally tough conditions is a hallmark of the regional versions of various livestock breeds, such as worm - resistant Red Maasai sheep [see video here] and Sheko cattle with their immunity to sleeping sickness [see video here].

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

Weak and Wimpy The selection of these traits has taken a toll on the heirloom's hardiness: They are often plagued by fungal infections that cause the fruit to crack, split and otherwise rot quickly.

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.

Breeders tend to rely on large clusters of genes that are associated with specific traits such as hardiness, tree shape or flowering.

They grow year round in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 10 through 11.»

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.

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.

In a couple of decades, you would have an amazing crop of organic, non-GMO and heirloom plants that were optimized for the best growth, flavor, nutrients and hardiness.

Seasonal shifts would influence food supply, diets, and require times of hardiness and nomadic tendencies.

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

Camels have long been a valued part of Middle Eastern culture thanks to their hardiness and, in particular, their ability to remain active even when little water is available.

This hardiness is cemented by the central performances, which take the various stock characters and adapt them to their new surroundings to create a number of memorable turns.

Synthetic gems like these have many surprising and important uses in our everyday lives such as in lasers, smart phone screens, and watch faces — boasting hardiness close to that of natural diamonds.

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

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

As a measure of cold hardiness, we tested the supercooling points or freezing temperatures of individual hemlock woolly adelgids (Adelges tsugae Annand) collected from 15 locations across the north

Or ought it not rather to be alledged as a proof of our sense: Since it wou'd be rather fool - hardiness than courage to withstand brutes, who want the sense to be overcome by reason, and whom we want vigour to repel by force of arms?

Just a note: I don't buy a hardcover book for «how it looks on the shelf», but instead partially because of durability / hardiness and how it feels in my hands as compared to a paperback.

The sunshine factor As much as Canadians love to boast about our cold - hardiness, the fact is that most of us like mild temperatures and sun.

The variety of size, structure, color and hardiness in live plants far exceeds anything available on a gondola shelf.