Sentences with phrase «of field plots»

Scientists studying the Amazon Basin have revealed unprecedented detail of the size, age and species of trees across the region by comparing satellite maps with hundreds of field plots.

That's because experimental studies of field plots and smaller watersheds show that these assumptions are valid, he says.

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Moreover, whatever plot of dust becomes our grave one day, we sleep among the hopeful strangers who rest in the Field of Blood.

It is one of few firms in the industry to have a doctor of agronomy as well as a master agronomist conducting field test plots throughout the country as a long - term investment.

While the first day was dedicated to updates by HIA national and chapter leadership, the next day entailed a bus field trip first to the University of Kentucky's nearby hemp test plots, where researchers gave poster presentations followed by lunch, and then to visit two companies heavily engaged in growing the hemp industry in KY, Atalo Holdings and GenCanna.

It is one of a few firms in the industry to have a doctor of agronomy as well as a master agronomist conducting field test plots throughout the country as a long - term investment.

On the field in 2011, the Big 12 was a conference full of glorious plot twists and excitement.

ROLLING MEADOWS — Nearly two dozen gardeners and homeowners who live north of Central Road Elementary School appeared before the Rolling Meadows Park District Board this week to oppose a plan to convert a gardening plot into a soccer field.

It all began when the Naperville Cemetery Association, needing more burial plots, decided to end Naperville Unit School District 203's lease of 4.7 association - owned acres for two athletic fields for Naperville Central High School School officials sought nearby land to replace the fields so athletes would not be bused to a far - flung site.

Last month, the final three site possibilities were narrowed to the northern portion of Knoch Park west of the tennis courts, the southern half of Knoch Park near the baseball fields and the Garden Plots.

THAT»S how I ended up diving into John Toland's 1000 - page history of the Pacific War from the Japanese point of view (in paperback, thank god) while on the bus on a FIFTH - GRADE field trip... starting with 200 - odd pages of 1930s Japanese nationalist politics, which at least was full of plots, assassinations, coup attempts, ritual suicides, and other exciting stuff.

Landowners had complained to the Court about planes flying over their fields, appealing to a conception of property rights that said they owned all the air space above their plot of land stretching into the heavens.

While expressing confidence in the ability of the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie - Oyegun, to conduct credible primaries in Ekiti despite claims in some quarters that there was a plot to manipulate the process, the former Commissioner for Youth, Sports and Social Development in Lagos State said that the most acceptable aspirant must be fielded by the APC if it hoped to win the election.

GREENHOUSE GASSED In a long - running field experiment in Minnesota, scientists are studying the effects of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide levels on plots of grassland.

The team plotted the maximal intensities of volume current densities for specific trends of increasing magnetic field chaos, which provided a measure of the production of current sheets.

In fact, his analysis indicates that a football - sized field plot could yield 450 million doses of vaccine.

Botanist Richard Condit of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution in Balboa, Panama, and colleagues systematically worked through six plots of 25 or 50 hectares each — for a grand total of about 715 soccer fields worth of terrain — in rainforests of Asia and Central America, keying out every tree with a trunk thicker than 1 centimeter.

Chris Pelzer, Ann Bybee - Finley, and Casey McManus (L - R) clean up the edges of a cowpea plot about 30 days after planting the first field site for the experiment.

For decades Pluto, later joined by its moon Charon, had a wide swath to itself on astronomers» plots of the solar system — no other bodies were known to dwell beyond Neptune in the long - hypothesized debris field known as the Kuiper Belt.

Specifically, the horizon is obtained by plotting null geodesic lines on the so - called Schwarzschild metric, the solution to the field equations posed by Einstein for describing the gravitation field of a black hole.

Diamonds show the positions of the red aurora tangentially mapped to the flat plane of the 60 by 80 field - of - view, plotted every 100 km in east - west direction and every 10 km in vertical direction.

These are false - color plots of predicted hot spots of enhanced electrical fields.

For most of the past century, U.S. farmers drained such plots to increase their arable acreage or improve tillable but overly damp fields.

Travis Horton at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, plotted the migratory tracks from each species over a detailed magnetic map of Earth, which shows how the magnetic field's inclination and declination — the angular difference between the field lines and true north — vary from point to point.

The researchers found that the radiofrequency wave for the plasma production, called a helicon wave, is reflected by a local change of the refractive index (contour plot in Fig), which is introduced by the rapidly bent magnetic field structure (white arrows in Fig).

Two - dimensional profiles of the magnetic field vector (white arrows) and the axial refractive index (contour plot).

In a field experiment with thousands of plots, the Phenocart is a quick way to evaluate plant health.

In England, two tiers of environmental stewardship were in place between 2005 and 2014; Entry Level Stewardship (ELS) was open to all farmers, whereas Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) provided greater financial rewards for more substantial and rigorous schemes involving planting bee - friendly plots or strips along the sides of fields.

In fact, exoplanet researchers have made forecasts of the future informally, plotting the mass of planets against the date of discovery to see how the field is progressing.

For six summers from 2010 to 2015, Theobald tracked environmental conditions and plant behavior for 48 species at 70 field plots, each one square meter, along the southern slope of Mount Rainier.

As a consequence, the directions of polarization for stars in different parts of the sky make it possible to plot the direction of the magnetic field in the Milky Way.

This movement - field plot shows that the number of spikes in the burst (color code) varies systematically with saccade amplitude and direction.

Saccade endpoints of the responses in Figs. 2A and B (squares and circles, respectively) are plotted in Fig. 2C, together with a two - dimensional representation of the cell's movement field (Methods).

Kirk has been working diligently to assure our research plots have healthy plants and are free of weeds and other pests, which ensures high quality field data.»

-- Utilize classrooms, laboratories and field plots to educate the next generation of scientists who will move the wheat industry forward.

Great pride is taken to keep only real users on our site Jack Bauer, Director of Field Ops for the Counter-Terrorist Unit of Los Angeles, races against the clock to subvert terrorist plots and save his nation

The problem I have with so much writing about screenwriting is that it is often only about structure (Syd Field's plot points; the Hero's Journey, etc) without a lot of understanding of the nuances of character, tone, et al involved.

In it, Melissa McCarthy portrays a smart but under - appreciated CIA analyst who, following a massive security breach that leaves the regular agents (such as those played by Jason Statham and Jude Law) out of commission, winds up going out into the field herself to follow a bizarrely bewigged Bulgarian baddie (Rose Byrne) who is involved with a particularly nefarious plot with worldwide implications.

Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: PG - 13 Director: Steven Spielberg Actors: Daniel Day - Lewis, Sally Field, Tommy Lee Jones Plot: Steven Spielberg's long - in - the - work biography of the sixteenth President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, as he presides over nation, and family, during the Civil War.

The magic of Todd Field's In the Bedroom to me is how organically its turns of plot fall into place.

Then there's the out of left field plot point that some people have mutated to have telekinetic abilities, able to move things with their minds.

But the movie runs out of steam early, and only regains its kick via a laughable left - field, last - act plot twist that subverts nearly everything Cortés (who wrote and directed) had been suggesting about the importance of self - determination over faith.

Director: Stephen Spielberg Cast: Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Bob Peck, Wayne Knight, Martin Ferrero, Samuel L. Jackson and Richard Attenborough Plot: John Hammond (Attenborough) has dreams of opening up a dinosaur theme park, inviting several experts in the field to give it their approval and permission.

As each of the new faces is introduced, these neck biters showcase their various talents (an obvious attempt to draw out the movie's length) as the plot moves to the one and only notable event of the entire movie — the inevitable battle on a snow - covered field.

Curiously much of the stirring emotional moments comes, not from the romantic plot, but from the on - the - field «perfect game» drama.

The plot may draw on another creaky comic cliché — Batman inadvertently adopts adorable orphan Robin (Michael Cera) and has no idea what to do with him — but The LEGO Batman Movie is so jam - packed with ideas, asides and out - of - left - field cameos (Lord Voldemort!

A disastrous third act simply obliterates whatever tentative goodwill and tension «Felony» had been building up to by that point by severely undermining the integrity of the characters, introducing left - field plot twists and completely inexplicable motivations, leading to a head - scratcher of a climax.

to frog - march the plot along, but he's perhaps hampered in the source material from Johns, one of the most simplistic writers in the graphic field.

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In many ways, Michel Hazanavicius always had a tough job creating the follow - up to his Oscar conquering movie The Artist, though it's been 2 years since the silent movie dominated the field at the Hollywood and Highland Center Theatre in Los Angeles and the Frenchman has had plenty of time to plot his comeback.