Sentences with phrase «such as colony»

While most investors are still individuals like retirees and professionals seeking a side income, institutions have entered the market as well: real estate investment and private equity firms, such as Colony Capital and Blackstone Group, have purchased thousands of homes in the past year.

In 2014, President Obama issued a memorandum calling for an assessment of the state of honey and wild bees across the US, in the face of an increasing number of threats such as colony collapse disorder.

Best known for acclaimed franchises such as Colony Wars, Destruction Derby, and Wipeout, the company's output had two trademark elements: visuals that would push platforms to their technological limits and a challenge level that could induce even the most patient gamer to hurl their controller toward the nearest wall.

Best known for acclaimed franchises such as Colony Wars, Destruction Derby, and Wipeout, the...

While some research seeks a «magic bullet» solution to honeybee maladies such as Colony Collapse Disorder, «many of the problems are caused by human action and can only be mitigated by changes in human behavior,» Owen says.

Ritholtz has devised two indexes — the «Oligarch Index» that contains what he deems Trump - friendly companies, such as Colony Capital, CoreCivic, ExxonMobil, and Goldman Sachs — and the «Drain the Swamp Index,» which includes the New York Times, GM, Time Warner, and Amazon, among others.

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Many religious groups (such as the Quakers and Puritans) formed the first 13 colonies on the basis of their religious beliefs.

I have every respect to those angels and consider bringing such subject up as disrespect for what those do to our world with their kindness... Those nuns and popes were once my teachers in the kindergarden in Aden Colony of Southern Arabia although I was considered as Muslim from Muslim parents... so you can say I hold for them great respect although we are from different religions beliefs...!

A clonal colony, such as quaking aspen trees can live much longer, however.

Stil not evidence that those colonies of bactieria can become a complex multicelled organism such as a frog or a human.

Also, if your claim of Washington citizens were aware of such storms, then would not the British, who occupied much of the colonies and had recently fought a eight year war 30 years prior, would they not also be as aware as the citizens of Washington?

Having undertaken, for the Glory of God, and advancements of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the Northern parts of Virg = inia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic; for our better ordering, and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, and frame, such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony; unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.

The democratic societies have no one supreme or dominant member, with examples being such things possibly as stones and probably as some cell - colonies and even special forms of many - celled plants and animals.42 Monarchic societies, on the other hand, do have a supreme or dominant member which radically subordinates the parts to its ruling purpose but which can never completely rob the parts of all measure of control over themselves.

Deism spread to the English colonies in North America and had exponents in such influential figures as Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.

l) The main subdivisions of the class «societies of occasions» consist of the linear or «personally ordered» societies, the familiar example being a stream of consciousness» of a single person, and nonlinear societies, such as a tree considered as a colony of cells.

In colonies of social insects, workers perform a variety of tasks such as foraging, brood care and nest construction.

Its location in The Colony in Dallas, Texas, for example, highlights artists that resonate most in that area, such as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Janis Joplin.

Initially, this was to the other colonies Britain was establishing in the region, such as Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania), Western Australia, New Zealand and South Australia.

In his speech, peppered with references to African nationalists such as Nelson Mandela and Burkina's revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara, Mr. Macron promised a break with a past in which France often seemed to call the shots to former colonies.

Permanent organisations such as the Gold and Silver Smith's Association, the Colony and Ashanti Motor Union and the Carpenters and Masons Union were all founded in the 1920s.

Toay, researchers look to the microbiomes of people still living in traditional societies, such as the Yanomami, for clues about the bacterial colonies of our pre-industrial ancestors.

From scientists who feed their own blood to colonies of bed bugs (just to learn how to kill them) to extreme measures such as dousing the critters with DDT or setting mattresses ablaze, we'll do anything for clean sheets.

The researchers point out that the popularity of TNR in the U.S. has been in part due to a goal of maximizing feral cats» quality of life (e.g. extended life span, vaccinations, assessment for infectious disease) and reducing undesirable behaviors such as aggression and vocalization while still eliminating colonies over time.

As such it provides a public good from which all colony members benefit in terms of buffering extremes of temperature, supporting individual nest chambers and protecting from predators.

«With measures being taken to prevent alien species introductions and spread, there has been a decline in the proportions of newly emerging alien species from established sources, such as historical European colonies.

A «society» may even, though more by means of metaphor, refer to a social organism such as an ant colony or any cooperative aggregate such as, for example, in some formulations of artificial intelligence.

A self - sustaining colony could afford to unleash a planetwide attack, such as an unstoppable bioweapon, since the consequences on Earth would have no effect on the attackers.

Algae colonies, such as the Volvox one shown here, are propelled through water by the coordinated movements of their whip - like flagella.

Populations of branching coral colonies are often genetically identical, making them extremely susceptible to threats such as disease and temperature shock.

To address such concerns, Zayed and colleagues, as well as authors on the European study, conducted season - long monitoring of the use of neonicotinoids near bee colonies in agricultural settings in Ontario and Québec, Canada, and in 33 locations in Hungary, Germany and the U.K., respectively.

To feed such a colony, says entomologist Janusz Wojtusiak of the Zoological Museum in Kraków, Poland, the ants, each about three - tenths of an inch long, prey on relatively large insects as well as on birds, lizards, frogs, snakes, and even bats.

«The global reliance on honeybees for pollination is a risky strategy given the threats to the health of managed honeybee populations due to pests and diseases such as Varroa mites and colony collapse disorder.

For example, in response to extreme stress, such as starvation, most of the individual cells in a colony of the bacteria Bacillus subtilis will form spores.

A small number of federal researchers deemed essential by their agencies would still report to work, such as those involved in caring for patients at NIH's clinical research center, sustaining animal colonies in research laboratories, or handling weather data seen vital to public safety.

Other treatment options with limited effectiveness involve mechanical methods, such as drone - brood trapping or freezing, or natural methods, such as dusting colonies with powdered sugar to increase the bees» grooming behaviors, which results in mite removal.

Recent surveys have found more than 2,300 - year - old colony of deep - water black coral 1,480 feet (451 meters) below the surface off Oahu — and deep - sea fishing threatens the long - lived, slow - reproducing species that inhabit the sea bottom such as the Patagonian toothfish (better known as Chilean sea bass).

Unlike unaltered cancer cells, these new cells formed 30 percent fewer colonies and had decreased levels of other proteins, such as Nestin, by a third.

A K. intermedius colony gets started when a lone female lands on an acacia, such as an umbrella wattle, and starts feeding on one of its leaves.

Surprisingly, these conserved gene sets were also associated with several other biological traits, which evolved multiple times in ants, such as number of queens in a colony, whether an ant species is invasive or not, and the degree of worker sterility.

It therefore seems important to identify the causes of population decline in rural colonies such as Canna, and find ways to conserve the birds at these sites, especially since gulls that fail to breed successfully are known to seek breeding opportunities elsewhere, including in towns and cities.»

To establish that it happens in nature, too, Vargo and his colleagues collected 30 colonies of the destructive Reticulitermes speratus, a Japanese species related to most common termites in the U.S. Like bees and ants, termites are social insects that have different castes for different jobs (such as workers and royalty).

Other colony - based critters, such as bees and ants get around the inbreeding conundrum by creating new queens that leave to start their own colonies rather than stick around like the secondary termite queens.

«The formation of living structures such as the bridges is one of the most fascinating examples of the collective capabilities of ant colonies,» says Simon Garnier, a complex systems scientist with the New Jersey Institute of Technology, who was not involved with this study.

For example, historical, economic, language and cultural ties all play a part — population movements with former colonies had particular influence; such as Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya with the UK, and Mali, Niger and Chad with France.

So far, Dr Gross and his team have tested Turing Learning in robot swarms but the next step is to reveal the workings of some animal collectives such as schools of fish or colonies of bees.

They therefore exhibit a level of social organisation that is intermediate between solitary insects, such as houseflies, and the highly social honeybees, which have colonies of many thousands of individuals with queens that live for several years.

Also, inapparent infections by iridescent viruses may involve a low density of IIV particles in infected host cells [46], so without sensitive techniques such as MSP, it is not surprising that infections in CCD bee colonies were previously missed.

But a siphonophore colony is made up of many parts that are each equivalent to free living organisms such as sea anemones and «true» jellyfish.

These colonies adhere to surfaces and can have beneficial metabolic functions in, for example, environmental remediation; or detrimental functions, such as in human disease.

Other IIVs, such as IIV - 6, naturally infect various species of Lepidoptera and commercial colonies of Orthoptera.