Sentences with phrase «other leaf material»

Sheep also eat cover crops, dry grasses and other leaf material that can fuel wildfires, making the property more fire - resistant.

Not exact matches

Leaving aside materiality — and I guess there's some question as to whether a court would find it material that Jana Partners is building an activist stake, though maybe not much of one — there's no breach of a duty if Jana «officially» decides to leak its information to other hedge funds.

He finds current expressions of both to be internally divisive as well as at odds with each other, usually based on a conservative / liberal split that weakens the effectiveness of both «civil religions,» and leaves the way open for secular ideologies including material success, radical individual freedom, and an amoral pragmatism.

Novels that have been inspired by the likes of Stephen King and others will prove to be a great and very powerfully saught after material after the Rapture for those who are left behind.

It also brought roofing materials and supported others with the delivery of more than 65 tonnes of food to people who had been unable to leave the town.

If I should throw down a thousand beans at random upon a table, I could doubtless, by eliminating a sufficient number of them, leave the rest in almost any geometrical pattern you might propose to me, and you might then say that that pattern was the thing prefigured beforehand, and that the other beans were mere irrelevance and packing material.

The two that come immediately to mind are material benefits and emotional benefits (the extension to other social relationships would end in the same, so I leave out further social benefits).

««Tis inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should (without the mediation of something else which is not material) operate and affect other matter without mutual contact... Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this agent be material or immaterial is a question I left to the consideration of my readers.»

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There is too much nitrogen, so add sawdust, dry leaves, or other high - carbon materials, and turn the pile.

Preschool activities range from drawing shapes and images using crayons, water color and other resourceful materials such as leaves and flowers, to story telling.

Identifying trainers who understand the material, know how to train and motivate adults, and leave trainees feeling satisfied by the experience — and sharing this information with other school districts in the area.

Never leave pillows, comforters and other soft, porous materials inside of a crib, warns the American Academy of Pediatric's website, HealthyChildren.org.

She relies heavily on «binning,» strategically sorting data and other materials into rows and columns, a seeming maze of information that reflects how she thinks and allows her to put down work and pick it up later without forgetting where she left off.

Asexual whiptails have a special trick for making spermless reproduction work: The egg cells in other animals first double their choromosomes once and then divide twice, leaving them as haploid cells, with half the normal number of genetic material.

Herbivore coprolites are rare in the fossil record because a diet of leaves and other green plant material doesn't leave a lot of hard material to preserve (unlike bones in carnivore dung).

The traditional approach to harvesting begins with burning the fields to remove straw and other materials, leaving the cane to be cut by hand.

Hazardous material may be stored for the eons, while other components may be left in place for lack of another purpose.

A tiny aerial bot about the size of a bee (nicknamed RoboBee) uses static electricity to cling to the underside of a leaf and perch on other materials, study coauthor Robert Wood of Harvard University and colleagues report in the May 20...

Also keep away from dry leaves and other flammable materials.

The supercapacitive properties of the porous carbon microspheres made from phoenix tree leaves are higher than those reported for carbon powders derived from other biowaste materials.

Earthworms, however, are able to digest fallen leaves and other plant material, thanks to the ability of drilodefensins to counteract polyphenols.

Scientists have discovered how earthworms can digest plant material, such as fallen leaves, that would defeat most other herbivores.

This research helps bridge the gap between studies of how leaves and other plant litter decompose and soil organic matter, which contains decomposed litter and other bio-based materials.

Still, other than adding a bit of watermark DNA, the researchers left the genetic material in their initial synthetic organism, Syn 1.0, unchanged from the parent.

They drag fallen leaves and other plant material down from the surface and eat them, enriching the soil, and they do this in spite of toxic chemicals produced by plants to deter herbivores.

How much tissue to remove is a balancing act between the Scylla of leaving remnants of cancerous or seizure - prone material and the Charybdis of removing regions that are critical for speech or other near - essential operations.

Certain ants are soldiers, and others are farmers; leaf cutter ants famously haul large chunks of plant material to their colony, upon which they grow a fungus they like to eat.

At each site where these chicken wire — like fences have been installed, leaves, twigs, and other plant materials are caught in the barriers, build up at the base, and enrich the ground between shrubs.

Astronomers believe this region, called the Oort cloud, contains a vast collection of icy debris left over from material that came together to form the sun, Earth, and the other major planets 4.6 billion years ago.

Herbivores (species that eat plants; e.g. caterpillars) consume more non-native (introduced from other places) oak leaf material in areas with diverse native plant communities than in less diverse communities.

Theorists had predicted that such a material might reorganize the extra holes so as to achieve minimal energy, leaving some regions doped, or superconducting, and others undoped, or non-superconducting.

So bioenergy only reduces greenhouse gases if it results from additional plant growth or in some other way uses carbon that would not otherwise be stored (for example, by using the waste material left after timber harvest that would decompose rapidly anyway).

Each time it rains, runoff carries an earthy tea steeped from leaf litter, crop residue, soil, and other organic materials into the storm drains and streams that feed Chesapeake Bay.

Compared to other types of hydrogels being developed (left), a new hydrogel (right) can form crosslinks after injection into the heart, making the material stiffer and longer - lasting.

Before worms invade, the soil in a typical northern forest is blanketed by a thick layer of leaf litter and other organic material.

A tiny aerial bot about the size of a bee (nicknamed RoboBee) uses static electricity to cling to the underside of a leaf and perch on other materials, study coauthor Robert Wood of Harvard University and colleagues report in the May 20 Science.

Small ponds have a high perimeter - to - surface - area ratio, for example, and accumulate a higher load of terrestrial carbon — so - called «leaf litter,» sediment particles and other material.

The stylized painting, derived from Asian principles, uses gold leaf, aluminum, acrylic dye and other materials to uncover the beauty of microscopic cells in the brain.

«What most interested me was how these earthworms would change the forest floor, especially the litter layer on top of the soil — dead leaves and twigs and other materials,» says Qiu.

The failure to provide an physical barrier between the tailings and water, solids, or other material leaves the tailings vulnerable to extensive penetration of the tailings by plant roots and animals as well as disturbance by freeze and thaw and ice formation and break up impacts.

As a result of strenuous efforts to suppress wildfire and other land - management practices such as livestock grazing, logging, and land - type conversion, 8,9 many forests have experienced fire deficits, becoming overgrown and littered with flammable material such as leaf litter and saplings.

Still other moons were probably formed from material left over when the planets were formed in the early days of the solar system.

When plants drop leaves, twigs, and other material to the ground, it piles up.

compost The end product in the breakdown, or decomposition, of leaves, plants, vegetables, manure and other once - living material.

Shells, tree branches, roots and other organic materials often decay away to leave a void for the formation of mineral materials.

The boiling kills all bacteria, virus, parasite, and pathogens, and as the steam rises, it leaves behind waste material, useless and harmful inorganic minerals such as calcium, oestradiol, heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, organic and inorganic chemicals, radioactive chemicals and other heavier contaminants.

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Decorate your home inside and outside with gourds, leaves, pumpkins, nuts and other seasonal materials for beautiful fall DIY centerpieces.

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