Sentences with phrase «modern uses of the plant»

modern uses of the plant mainly focus on its effectiveness at reducing the symptoms of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), which is the medical term for the non-cancerous enlargement of the prostate.

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The full line system is based on modern processing technology using sanitary membrane plants and advanced evaporation and drying equipments from its Anhydro and APV product lines for large - scale production of WPC.

Jensen Meat, located in San Diego since 1958, has one of the newest, most modern meat processing plants west of the Mississippi and is proud to exceed USDA standards,» he said, noting that a local restaurant using a Jensen patty was voted «San Diego's # 1 Burger» at the 2016 San Diego Reader Burgers and Beer competition.

Garza uses them to create «plant - based versions of things that we have come to love,» the cheesy, meaty modern favorites associated with Latin cooking.

In fact, much of the overall decrease in energy consumption can be traced to the shift from coal to gas, because modern gas - fired plants may use up to 46 percent less energy to produce the same amount of electricity.»

While peyote and other plant hallucinogens had been used in shamanistic rites for centuries, the modern era of hallucinogenic research began in April 1943.

Finding modern uses for a heroic plant «What's really incomprehensible,» Bujak said, «is that the previous process of our planet cooling and CO2 dropping took 50 million years to unfold.

I think about that scene when I hear the way many of my environmentalist friends talk about genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, an ill - fitting term that has come to stand for plants, animals and other living things whose genes have been directly manipulated in the lab using the techniques of modern biotechnology.

Indeed, Williams and co-authors expanded the Brewbaker dataset by including 2,511 species for which they modeled trait evolution (tri - vs bicellular pollen) using a modern (2013) seed plant phylogeny and two different sets of analyses.

The researchers performed a number of tests to eliminate the possibility of contamination from modern wheat, including trying to sequence DNA from the chemical solutions it used in the experiments, but no plant sequences were detected.

As it turns out, despite the initial skepticism about the importance of gene flow, modern empirical and theoretical research using up - to - date molecular and DNA techniques have shown us not only how surprisingly far the flow of genes between distant plant populations can be, but also that the flow of alleles among populations is just as important, if not more so in some cases, as natural selection.

Not only are modern plant biotechnologists aware of the complicated interactions between genes and cell regulatory circuits, they are actively dissecting them and using them to develop more water efficient crops (Mentzen and Wurtele 2008, Oh and others (2005).

However, using modern and highly sensitive instrumentation, scientists have found they can detect and characterize trace amounts of a wide variety of compounds, including proteins, bacterial DNA, starch grains and other plant fibers in dental plaque.

Using plant biotechnology we have introduced two resistance genes of a wild potato into a modern potato variety.

When a plant like Camellia sinensis has been used for thousands of years to improve health, it's no surprise that it now has modern scientific research on its side.

Thanks to modern farming, and the use of potash — potassium based fertilizer — magnesium and calcium is lost in the plant as they are harder to absorb.

I'm all for eating plant - based but I can't help wondering about these studies — the eggs / meat they use is most likely from the diseased animals that are the result of modern farming methods.

These types of plants, vegetables, and fruits may have been grown during earlier periods in human history, but are not used in modern large - scale agriculture.

Long before the discovery of modern medicines, families used natural homemade remedies based on plants to treat everyday illness.

There's 88 - year - old Skip Gilson, who worked the last shift assembling Packard motor cars and was present in the theater, as well as modern - day associates from the Albert Kahn architecture firm unearthing hundreds of pages of designs, all done by hand in ink, and talking about how the plant was the first to use reinforced concrete.

Using the guise of a modern planter — which you can replace with any plant of your choice, you can use the space built within this pot, designed by Kokon, as a clever hideaway spot for your pet!

I remember reading about how it used to be done where animals (and plants and so forth) were classified almost always on looks alone, whereas in modern day people now know the real origins of the animals and can bestow them with names that better fit their countries of origin.

Because many of the vineyards in the Santa Rita Hills AVA have been planted only in the last 20 years, they use modern trellising and clones — or cultivars — of certain premier wine grapes.

While plenty of games rely on retro - style aesthetics to tug at the heartstrings of players who cut their teeth on the hits of the 1980's, developer Terrible Toybox have used their experience as industry veterans to craft a modern masterpiece that keeps its heart firmly planted in the genre's golden era.»

EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS / READINGS (* solo or two - person) Apparatus for a Utopian Image 2.0, Center and Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Prague, 2018 CV, YYZ Artist's Outlet, Toronto, 2017 * Artist's Rendering (DISTRESSED, RELAXED), AXENÉO7, Quebec, 2017 * You can tell that i'm alive and well because I weep continuously, Knockdown Center, New York, 2017 Apparatus for a Utopian Image, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York, 2016 Self - Titled (Materials for a 21st Century Room — or SWAMPED, EXHAUSTED, HESITATING), 8 - 11, Toronto, 2016 * Self - Titled (w / Aryen Hoesktra & Shane Krepakevich), Modern Fuel, Ontario, 2016 Local Tide (curated by PARALLELOGRAMS and Francesca Capone), S1, Portland OR, 2016 Double Visions, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York, 2015 From Line to Constellation, Granoff Center, Providence, 2015 Maximum Sideline: Postscript, Proxy, Providence, 2015 Use Values, SPRING / BREAK Art Show, New York, 2015 An Earthquake at the Race Tracks, Museo de la Cuidad, Santiago de Querétaro, Mexico, 2014 Classroom, NY Art Book Fair, PS1, New York, 2014 Almost Everything, Eric Arthur Gallery, Toronto, 2014 Milieu, Skol Centre des Arts Actuel, Montreal, 2013 * More Than Two (Let It Make Itself)[w / Josh Thorpe], The Power Plant, Toronto, 2013 Cultural Fluency, BRIC Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, 2013 Sediment, G Gallery, Toronto, 2012 Survive.Resist, CAFKA Biennial, Kitchener - Waterloo, Canada, 2011 On Printed Matter, [w / Josh Thorpe], Printed Matter, New York, 2011 * Around YYZ [w / Josh Thorpe], YYZ Artist's Outlet, Toronto, 2010 - 11 * House Broken, Flux Factory, NY 2010 Reading the Garden [w / Josh Thorpe], Toronto Sculpture Garden, Toronto, 2010 * Titles, Art Metropole, Toronto, 2009 On Convenience [w / Josh Thorpe], Convenience Gallery, Toronto, 2009 * Vehicle [organized by WayUpWayDown curatorial collective], Nuit Blanche, Toronto, 2008 ERI 3: Eyelevel Re-Shelving Initiative, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, 2008 AT WORK, Toronto Free Gallery, Toronto, 2007 Rip Current, Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, 2007 Tales from the Cyclop's Library, Third Space Gallery, Saint John, 2007 Unsurprising Geographies [w / Andrea Williamson], Eyelevel Gallery, Halifax, 2006 Alectric 3, Alectric Audio [online exhibition] 2006 a / s / l, Anna Leonowens Gallery, Halifax, 2006 * RESIDENCIES Interrupt 3, Brown University, Rhode Island 2015 SHIFT, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, 2014 - 15 Artist - in - Residence, Workspace, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, 2013 - 14 Visiting Scholar, NYU Advanced Media Studio, 2013 - 14 The Decapitated Museum, The Banff Centre, 2012 Making Artistic Inquiry Visible, The Banff Centre, 2008 AWARDS Canada Council for the Arts, Research and Creation, 2018 - 19 Banff Centre, Residency Scholarship — The Decapitated Museum, 2012 Foundation for Contemporary Art, Emergency Grant, 2011 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, 2011 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant, 2009 University of Toronto, Graduate Fellowship, 2007 - 09 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2007 - 08 Banff Centre, Residency Scholarship — Making Artistic Inquiry Visible, 2008 University of Toronto, David Buller Memorial Scholarship, 2007 NSCAD University, Simon Chang and Phyllis Levine Foundation Scholarship, 2006 New Brunswick Arts Board, Arts Scholarship, 2005 WRITING «Panorama of Our,» Plot, Claudia Weber, ed., 2015 «Anodyne: or X of Demarcation,» Rearviews II, Xenia Benivolski & Danielle St - Amour, eds., 2014 «On Printed Matter» Artefact:, C Magazine C122, 2014 «Lana Turner Has Collapsed!

Land - use requirements of modern wind power plants in the United States.

But modern software and data systems take what used to be a building - by - building approach and spread it across thousands of sites into a reliable, scalable virtual power plant, according to Sarah McAuley, senior director of marketing for EnerNOC, an energy software and services firm in Boston.

The NYT picked up on the Lockheed Martin press release about the grant from the US Department of Energy to «demonstrate a cold water pipe fabrication approach using modern fiberglass technology and recent low - cost composite material manufacturing methods at prototype and pilot plant scales ``.

The study responds to a request from the Group of Eight summit in 2005, asking the IEA to illustrate the efficiency achieved in modern plants in different parts of the world using various types and grades of fossil fuels.

Thinking of the here and now rather than flights of fancy, use gas fired power plants, modern technology coal fired power plants, invest in modular nuclear power plants research as for example Thorium reactors, and continue on the quest for power storage solutions.

This is probably a very good proxy for climate, with the caveat that modern frost resistant grape varieties, the general use of hardier American grape roots and modern planting techniques have probably pushed the line a bit to the north, even with slightly cooler climate.

Our analysis uses the modern distribution of where plants grow and assumes that climatic conditions at those locations are suitable.

This modern city garden is well equipped to become an atmospheric outdoor dining space at night thanks to the candles, and use of cleverly - placed lighting behind the plants and in the water feature.