Sentences with phrase «of moa»

Successfully acting for major Japanese trading house in arbitration which concerned the termination of an MOA.

The «hockey stick» controversy reminds me of a quote by Jared Diamond about the Maori people and the extinction of the moa in New Zealand.

Now The Marsden Hartley Memorial Collection, this important part of the MoA holdings continues to grow, and includes over 100 Hartley drawings and sketches, several small paintings, art - making equipment, letters, photographs and other ephemera.

All of Moa's profile pictures are drawings of pigeons, and any signings Moa attends have a strict no - photos policy.

Now, a new genetic study of moa fossils points to humankind as the sole perpetrator of the birds» extinction.

Here you can find the bones of moa - nalo, the giant flightless ducks that once ruled Hawaii.

On occasion, he would run across the remains of moas, extinct birds that once populated the country.

Last of the moas.

For eco-artists such as Rupp, there is a haunting beauty in bringing the past back, of recreating the dead and gathering them together — in this picture, a pair of moas, a great auk, and a dodo, birds that never would have met while alive — so that those of us in the world of the living can learn from them.

Not exact matches

Bitcoin will double to $ 5,000 next year, and reach $ 25,000 to $ 50,000 in the next decade, the Miami Beach, Florida - based Moas said in a note to clients Wednesday, where he also disclosed he bought «a little bit» of litecoin, bitcoin and ethereum in a Coinbase.com account.

In an interview with Cointelegraph, Moas shared more about his perspective on prices, forks and Wall Street's entry into the market in the form of CME Group's futures trading next month.

Ronnie Moas, founder of Standpoint Research, is making the case cryptocurrencies will not only be a decade - long trend, but a viable asset class.

Are you forgetting about Hitler, Stalin, Chairman Moa, or Pol Pot of Cambodia?

While the student team from Lycksele school in Tannbergskolan — Johanna Eliasson, Ebba Wilhelmsson and Moa Isaksson — were named Sweden's Young Organic Chefs of the Year.

The MOA signing precedes the July 12 approval of the Union Cabinet, which is chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, for the establishment of the IRRI South Asia Regional Center (ISARC) at Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh.

IRRI's work in India is supported by contributions from ICAR, the DAC; state agricultural universities (SAUs); the Government of India and its Department of Biotechnology; state agriculture departments (MOA); Asian Development Bank (ADB); United States Agency for International Development (USAID); International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD); Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF); Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR); Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC); International Initiative for Impact Evaluation; SARMAP; German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ); CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF); CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security Research Program (CCAFS); Generation Challenge Programme (GCP); Japan's Ministry of Finance; the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the UK (BBSRC), the Department for International Development (DFID); and the European Commission (EC).

Light Rail MOA to TF is about 45 min from the time train leaves MOA to drop off at TF station outside LF corner of ballpark.

Additionally, for this grant opportunity, each Community Network must secure a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with a local postsecondary education institution, local business or community - based organization.

Asked to comment on the status of the initiative in Rensselaer County, a public affairs officer for ICE, Rachael Yong Yow, said the agency «does not comment on applications until an MOA [memorandum of agreement] is signed by both parties and a new program is established.»

Early human settlers probably did wipe out the moas of New Zealand.

Morten Allentoft of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues studied DNA from 281 fossils of four moa species.

New Zealand was home to nine species of flightless moa until humans arrived around AD 1300.

Moa genetic diversity was nearly constant for 3000 years before their extinction, a sign of a stable population (PNAS, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1314972111).

Moas were tall, flightless, and evidently tasty: In the space of 300 years, the native Maori had wiped them out.

As it happens, moas were also the subject of Cooper's first foray into ancient DNA: He spent a year in the late 1980s working on them at the University of California at Berkeley, when paleogenetics was still an embryonic field.

Taxonomists had long divided moas into two types, one of which, Dinornis, included three species: a 5 - foot - tall bird, a 3 - foot dwarf, and a 10 - foot - tall, 550 - pound «supermoa.»

Morten Erik Allentoft of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, an expert on moa DNA and other extinct genomes, called it «a significant step forward.»

To do that, Harvard's Alison Cloutier and the rest of the little bush moa team (which declined to talk about the work before its formal publication) took their 900 million nucleotides, scattered across millions of DNA pieces, and tried to match them to specific locations on the genome of the emu, a close relative of all nine moa species.

Scientists at Harvard University have assembled the first nearly complete genome of the little bush moa, a flightless bird that went extinct soon after Polynesians settled New Zealand in the late 13th century.

Statistical results also show that the mean optical absorption (MOA) of the cervical lesions is closely related to the severity of cervical cancer.

They show that the iconic survivors of this lost fauna — the tuataras, moas, kiwi, acanthisittid wrens, and leiopelmatid frogs — evolved in a far more complex community that hitherto thought.»

Many scientists think that the tree evolved these metamorphoses to avoid moas, the main herbivores on the islands and a relative of emus and ostriches that humans hunted to extinction.

If a moa tried to gulp down one of these leaves, Burns says, it would be like «swallowing an arrow backwards.»

This species, which scientists think evolved from lancewood, grows on the Chatham Islands 800 kilometers east of New Zealand, where moas didn't live.

Burns thinks that the adult lancewood stops morphing because its leaves would have been out of reach of even the largest moas.

To test the moa hypothesis, Kevin C. Burns, an evolutionary ecologist at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, and colleagues compared lancewood leaves with those from the similar tree Pseudopanax chathamicus.

Oskam and Bunce successfully isolated mitochondrial DNA from the eggshells of several extinct megafauna, including the giant moa of New Zealand and a 19,000 - year - old emu from Australia.

Others simply attributed the surprising results to sweeping statistical extrapolations being made from very small numbers of events, or to systematic weaknesses in the MOA survey's observations and analyses that the 2011 paper's authors had failed to account for.

The MOA survey is still ongoing, and according to Bennett the team is presently assembling a new analysis of its latest data that could be published as early as next year.

To explain the MOA results, some theorists guessed that many of the purported rogue giant planets were actually free - floating failed stars called brown dwarfs — intermediate objects that straddle the hazy line between being a planet and a sun.

(Those authors, it should be noted, include some members of the OGLE team, who used a handful of data points from OGLE to bolster the MOA result at the time.

For millions of years, nine species of large, flightless birds known as moas (Dinornithiformes) thrived in New Zealand.

But the team's analysis failed to find any sign that the moas» populations were on the verge of collapse.

As for Allentoft, he is not surprised that the Polynesian settlers killed off the moas; any other group of humans would have done the same, he suspects.

The moa bones were all between 600 and 8000 years old, and came from a 5 - kilometre - wide area of New Zealand's South Island, key factors for the researchers to identify a regular pattern of decay.

Their die - off coincided with the arrival of the first humans on the islands in the late 13th century, and scientists have long wondered what role hunting by Homo sapiens played in the moas» decline.

The moas present a particularly interesting case, researchers say, because they were the last of the giant species to vanish, and they did so recently, when a changing climate was no longer a factor.

Archaeologists know that the Polynesians who first settled New Zealand ate moas of all ages, as well as the birds» eggs.

The paper presents an «impressive amount of evidence» that humans alone drove the moa extinct, says Trevor Worthy, an evolutionary biologist and moa expert at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, who was not involved with the research.

Humans have driven thousands of species extinct over the millennia, ranging from moas — giant, flightless birds that lived in New Zealand — to most lemurs in Madagascar.