Sentences with phrase «of vegetative»

Measures to reduce traffic - related air pollution and noise, such as the upgrade of bus fleets, policies promoting the reduction of car and bus idling and the installation of vegetative barriers may help attenuate this environmental risk factor.

However, our planet has two hemispheres with different proportions of vegetative growth, and a TOA TSI difference in insolation of some 22 W / m2 January (max) to July (min).

Although you have lots of vegetative company in your garden, it can sometimes be an isolating experience.

5.1 Determining these performance characteristics of vegetative (green) roof systems provides information to facilitate the assessment of related engineering aspects of the facility.

5.2 Determining the performance characteristics of vegetative (green) roof systems provides information to facilitate the assessment of related engineering aspects of the facility.

5.2 Determining these performance characteristics of vegetative (green) roof systems provides information to facilitate assessment of the performance of one vegetative (green) roof system relative to one another.

1.1 This test method covers a procedure for determining the water permeability of coarse granular materials used in the drainage layers of vegetative (green) roof systems.

This morning the following piece («On CO2, Murdoch misses forest for the trees ``, The Age) appeared in Australia indicating that the effects of vegetative greening are offset by increases in atmospheric CO2, ergo Mr. Murdoch, who tweeted the article, had overreached by pointing out this piece of the scientific puzzle.

This requires ground - based meteorology in tandem with remotely sensed data for a series of variables, including information on precipitation, soils, land cover, surface radiation, status of the vegetative canopy, topography, floodplain extent, and inundation.

The selected materials should be suitable for occasional foot traffic and the weight of the vegetative module as well as a snow load, if applicable in the climate:

vernalization the act or process of hastening the flowering and fruiting of plants by treating seeds, bulbs, or seedlings so as to induce a shortening of the vegetative period

1.3 This practice also addresses the weight of the vegetative (green) roof system under two conditions: (1) weight under drained conditions after new water additions by rainfall or irrigation have ceased (this includes the weight of retained water and captured water), and (2) weight when rainfall or irrigation is actively occurring and the drain layer is completely filled with water.

ASTM E2399 / E2399M - 15, Standard Test Method for Maximum Media Density for Dead Load Analysis of Vegetative (Green) Roof Systems, ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA, 2015, www.astm.org

As designers and installers of vegetative roofing systems since 2006, GRASS took on an early role in collaborating with the Philadelphia Water Department in forwarding Philadelphia's storm water regulations and legislation.

On the other hand, once you realize that there is an enormous amount of vegetative uptake already (123 Pg) and you look at the amount of destruction of forest and grassland is occurring today, you will realize that if stop the destruction and begin the restoration a significant contribution could be made.

A range of canvases from dark and moody to fantastically bright with color, offer a world of vegetative life that seem at times both distant and familiar.

There was a delicate balance of vegetative, and true to nature, floral prints but with a glam touch (hence the city vibes) as sheer fabrics, tulle and elegant drapings.

However, this may be linked to previous observations suggesting a higher presence of vegetative cells when Clostridium is located in the human gut as compared to soil environments, where the conditions are stressful [28].

Andrews K, Murphy L, Munday R, Littlewood C. Misdiagnosis of the vegetative state: retrospective study in a rehabilitation unit.

If repeated examinations yield no evidence of a sustained, reproducible, purposeful, or voluntary behavioral response to visual, auditory, tactile, or noxious stimuli, a diagnosis of a vegetative state — or «wakefulness without awareness» — is made.1 - 5 Some patients remain in a vegetative state permanently.

If this was the case, then the clinical diagnosis of a vegetative state was entirely accurate in the sense that no behavioral markers of awareness were evident.

Recent research has revealed that about 40 percent of vegetative state diagnoses is incorrect.

Injections of, normally, 1 % Procaine at certain spots allow local pain treatments and especially the stimulation of the vegetative nervous system.

We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to demonstrate preserved conscious awareness in a patient fulfilling the criteria for a diagnosis of vegetative state.

The timing of snowmelt also influenced the timing of peak discharge from the North Slope river system and the start of the vegetative growing season, according to the researchers.

If the thalamus really is the door to consciousness, why don't physicians try stimulating it to bring back thousands of vegetative and minimally conscious patients?

«You need the right balance of the vegetative and reproductive phases,» says Bueckert.

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But last week, cactus specialists in Munich denied any knowledge of the vegetative inflagration.

It diminishes soil productivity, reduces food production, deprives the land of its vegetative cover, and negatively impacts areas not directly affected by its symptoms, by causing floods, soil salinization, deterioration of water quality, and silting of rivers, streams and reservoirs109.

[16] Andrews et al., «Misdiagnosis of the Vegetative State: Retrospective Study in a Rehabilitation Unit,» British Medical Journal, 313 (6 July 1996): 13 - 16, report on a study of forty PVS patients at Britain's Royal Hospital for Neurodisability.

Not exact matches

Throughout years of R&D and studying industrial agriculture, Bilton has come up with a way to keep the cannabis plants in an extended vegetative state.

Clearly the compassion of the courts is going to reach far and wide under the new dispensation, even unto those who can not speak for themselves because they are «in a vegetative state or a permanent and irreversible state of unconsciousness.»

By believing in sense life, vegetative life was able to tend toward it and in the process was radically transformed by the attainment of a new dimension.

Thus, the transition from instinct to reason results in the radical transformation of the animal into man; matter as it evolves toward the cell becomes radically transformed into living matter; and vegetative life becomes qualitatively changed into conscious life.

Many of us have read about people languishing in vegetative states, restrained in wheelchairs or totally unconscious, and have thought, «What a waste of money.»

Now those who accept the evolutionary perspective are generally agreed that the universe is one single process and that there are stages in the process: the evolution of matter, next the emergence of the first unicellular organisms, then a process of further evolution of life toward vegetative and animal life, and from this latter phase emerged man.

Veatch would declare dead anyone who is persistently «vegetative,» who, despite being in a deep coma, continues to breathe and have sleep - wake cycles, and who actually may be aware of external stimuli, though it may be difficult to detect their awareness except by complex neurophysiologic imaging.

How can we have a president who thinks birth control is satanic or rejects the use of science to detect early fetal issues to save the life of the mother and / or potentially prevent a baby born in a vegetative state?

But precisely the thing of not being conscious of oneself as spirit is despair, which is spiritlessness — whether the condition be that of complete deadness, a merely vegetative life, or a life of higher potency the secret of which is nevertheless despair.

Second, there are basically two organic forms: the vegetative and the animate, the lower of which manifests a type of «collective» individuality, («a tree is a democracy,» as Whitehead is fond of saying); and the higher animate form, in which the whole manifests a centrally unified field of experience wherein «subjective» individuality is the norm.

Childs, et al, «Accuracy of Diagnosis of Persistent Vegetative State,» Neurology, 43 (August 1993): 1465 - 67, report that «of the 49 patients referred in coma or PVS, 18 (37 \ %) received a change in diagnosis at or shortly after admission» (1466).

This brings us to the central issue of Callahan's essay, the proper care of persons in the so - called «persistent vegetative state.»

It is not only medicine that urges the continued treatment of patients like Jones or those in a persistent vegetative state.

At the beginning of the video we saw a mute, almost vegetative - state female patient being spoon - fed her meals.

And if so, surely similar denials of personhood could be applied to unborn children who are not yet «sentient», the severely mentally disabled, people in comas or persistent vegetative states, and indeed anyone in a very deep sleep.

Witness, for example, our treatment of those said to be in a «persistent vegetative state» (PVS, defined in 1972 as a condition of «wakefulness without awareness»).

The theological rationale for withdrawing feedings from the so «called «vegetative» person was first provided by such ethicists as Father Kevin O'Rourke, now director emeritus of The Center for Health Care Ethics in St. Louis.

We never use synthetic or inorganic fertilizers, relying instead upon parcel rotation, as well as the area's ideal climatic and vegetative characteristics, to minimize exposure to plagues and maximize the quality of our output.

Seedlings can be fertilized with fairly high levels of nitrogen to encourage strong vegetative growth, but after the plants have adjusted to the garden, fertilizers should not be applied unless the plants have low nitrogen symptoms, such as leaf yellowing and stunted growth.