Sentences with phrase «test plots in»

We further recommend that such research includes planting test plots in the United States using modern agricultural techniques.»

These resistant varieties, which include rapeseed, maize and sugar beet, are now growing in test plots in the US, France, Britain and Canada.

Kaiser's research team planted corn of different relative maturities at test plots in Minnesota at different spring dates to simulate early, on - time and late planting.

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In Charlotte Simmons, one finds all the features that have made Wolfe one of the greatest contemporary North American novelists: a plot that drives at breakneck speed through a major culture - shaping institution, an array of flawed yet yearning characters tested to the limits of their endurance, and startlingly authentic dialogue.

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.

In 2012, at the Central Institute for Cotton Research in Nagpur, I saw a new variety of GM cotton carrying two so - called «stacked» Bt genes in one test plot, while a nearby plot was testing a variety of cotton using organic methods — for some farmers the premium prices for organic cotton make it worthwhilIn 2012, at the Central Institute for Cotton Research in Nagpur, I saw a new variety of GM cotton carrying two so - called «stacked» Bt genes in one test plot, while a nearby plot was testing a variety of cotton using organic methods — for some farmers the premium prices for organic cotton make it worthwhilin Nagpur, I saw a new variety of GM cotton carrying two so - called «stacked» Bt genes in one test plot, while a nearby plot was testing a variety of cotton using organic methods — for some farmers the premium prices for organic cotton make it worthwhilin one test plot, while a nearby plot was testing a variety of cotton using organic methods — for some farmers the premium prices for organic cotton make it worthwhile.

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.

(Have seen both the pointed and round types) We are doing test plots here in Ecuador with both types and...

Winter wheat harvested from his test plot culminated in Breadworks» «Local's Loaf,» made entirely from the freshly ground wheat on Greg's countertop stone mill.

Funnel plots, the Egger (weighted regression) test, and the Begg and Mazumdar (rank correlation) tests for funnel plot asymmetry were conducted to examine the relation between sample size and observed mean differences in blood pressure by infant feeding group (21).

«But if you plot the same information as a function of the sample size, the datasets, in fact agree, and display the same general trend — the larger the indentation in the material tested, the weaker the olivine becomes.»

Thus far, no genetically modified animals have thrived in the wild — unlike some of the GMO plants that have spread beyond test plots.

NIST scientists estimate that a mobile PLOT unit could make it into the field in about a year, though we hope they do a little more field - testing.

«In test plots where crabs were excluded, we found that vegetation loss was significantly lower and many plants could survive the drought,» said Qiang He, a postdoctoral researcher in Silliman's laIn test plots where crabs were excluded, we found that vegetation loss was significantly lower and many plants could survive the drought,» said Qiang He, a postdoctoral researcher in Silliman's lain Silliman's lab.

When he tested soils from the experimental plots, he saw soil organic carbon concentrations rise gradually with increases in nitrogen fertilization at soil depths from 0 to 6 inches, although not at deeper ones.

* EPA scientists find engineered genes in wild grasses 13 miles away from a test plot of genetically modified creeping bent grass.

Working with Christopher Webster, a Michigan Tech University professor and Purdue alumnus, Jenkins and then - master's student Lindsay Jenkins (no relation) tested the effectiveness of the hunting program by comparing the amount of plant cover in 108 plots in state parks and historically hunted areas with 1996 - 97 levels.

The researchers also tested their prediction models on the validation set, and this resulted in ROC (receiver operating characteristic) plot points with an AUC (area under the curve) of 91.6 percent for general responsiveness, 89.7 percent for TNFi response and 85.7 percent for rituximab response.

The researcher's wind tunnel «in action» during a test on a camelina plot.

Among them: sizing up North Korea's nuclear tests, plotting the spread of radionuclides from the Fukushima nuclear accident, and tracking the spectacular Chelyabinsk meteorite as it broke up over Siberia in 2013.

«We're able to take our research findings and implement them in a park which is significantly larger than test plots or the traditional residential turf areas.

Aaron Mali (front) and Oulu Coquie (back) till biosolids into test plots, one of the first steps in transforming a blighted area into a functioning ecosystem.

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA — Just after midnight on 14 July, three female activists clad in white HAZMAT suits and wielding motorized grass trimmers broke into an agricultural test plot near the capital, Canberra, operated by CSIRO, Australia's preeminent research organization.

Bowman intentionally made mistakes on one test plot — «areas where we didn't apply enough nitrogen fertilizer, where we simulated mistakes in the applicator, where we shut the boom off for a short period of time or plugged it up and ran for a while,» Bowman said.

Researchers increased temperatures at the test plots by 3.4 degrees C, an increase that might happen by the end of the 21st century, and learned that plants grown and measured at those higher temperatures increased their leaf respiration by an average 5 percent, compared to plants in ambient temperatures.

This data produced a plot with a series of curves, each of which tracked how the organism changed in the size and number of units with age, enabling the researchers to produce a computer model to replicate growth in the organism and test previous hypotheses about where and how growth occurred.

Researchers tested the fungus — Verticillium nonalfalfae — by injecting it into tree - of - heaven, or Ailanthus, plots, according to Matthew Kasson, who recently received his doctorate in plant pathology and environmental microbiology from Penn State.

In 2012, at the Central Institute for Cotton Research in Nagpur, I saw a new variety of GM cotton carrying two so - called «stacked» Bt genes in one test plot, while a nearby plot was testing a variety of cotton using organic methods — for some farmers the premium prices for organic cotton make it worthwhilIn 2012, at the Central Institute for Cotton Research in Nagpur, I saw a new variety of GM cotton carrying two so - called «stacked» Bt genes in one test plot, while a nearby plot was testing a variety of cotton using organic methods — for some farmers the premium prices for organic cotton make it worthwhilin Nagpur, I saw a new variety of GM cotton carrying two so - called «stacked» Bt genes in one test plot, while a nearby plot was testing a variety of cotton using organic methods — for some farmers the premium prices for organic cotton make it worthwhilin one test plot, while a nearby plot was testing a variety of cotton using organic methods — for some farmers the premium prices for organic cotton make it worthwhile.

Most of the grains we are consuming now are likely tainted with GMOs in some way because Monsanto and other seed companies have test plots for these crops everywhere and contamination is eminent.

Director: Paul W. S Anderson Cast: Milla Jovovich, Aryana Engineer, Sienna Guillory, Li Bingbing, Michelle Rodriguez, Boris Kodjoe, Johann Urb, Kevin Durand Plot: Alice (Jovovich) finds herself trapped in an Umbrella testing facility, where old friends and enemies are out to get her.

That a peripheral plot involving Ava's husband Michael (Roger Davies) feels like it was mostly added in re-shoots is probably not a coincidence (it's well known that the film had disastrous test screenings a while back).

Uncle Buck bears the unmistakable feeling of a series that was market - tested to death in every predictable plot turn.

Both the final test of loyalty and the last straw of the machinations of the plot come to a head in the climax which pits Stitch against his potential captors from home.

Director: Matt Reeves Cast: Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Kirk Acevedo and Toby Kebbell Plot: The apes encounter humans for the first time in two years, sparking a debate about their plan of action, putting Caesar's (Serkis) leadership to the test.

Following the same process, I think Mindhunters has the dumbest whodunit thriller plot and the least plausible moves of any film I can think of (no stars): FBI trainees are sent by a stern instructor to a remote island to test their reflexes and sleuthing powers when putting together psychological profiles, but then each of them in turn gets baroquely bumped off.

The plot itself barely manages to pass the snicker test, especially since it smacks of Riddler's diabolical mind - control plot in Batman Forever.

In fact, «Tallulah» is «at its best when the plot [which involves Page's young drifter stealing a baby and moving in which her ex's mother] recedes and we get to see Page and Janney's characters testing their tolerance and eventual affection for one another.&raquIn fact, «Tallulah» is «at its best when the plot [which involves Page's young drifter stealing a baby and moving in which her ex's mother] recedes and we get to see Page and Janney's characters testing their tolerance and eventual affection for one another.&raquin which her ex's mother] recedes and we get to see Page and Janney's characters testing their tolerance and eventual affection for one another.»

A genre film is more about how the film works within the rules of the genre, how it inverts them, and how the plot and style and overall human bits and pieces splash out onto the screen (more a more succinct Ebert quote, «It's not what the film is about, but how it is about it») and by that test, Kick - Ass is pretty damn successful in my book.

Cop Out is close to watchable on the merits of its stars, but the script is so lazy — and it's so utterly impossible to invest in the characters or the nominal reality of the plot — that the movie becomes something of an endurance test.

In the middle of the movie, as the plot holes involving the nuclear testing are filled, the themes aren't particularly thought - provoking.

Like its central characters, at least Cave and Hillcoat are straightforward about their intentions (apart from the awkward placement of its female characters, who are mostly forgotten whenever they aren't necessary to the plot), and the story unfolds in a flurry of pummelings, shootings, and stabbings that punctuate the battle of wills between men with few moral qualms (One particularly gruesome episode really puts a character's legend to the test).

DVD release date: 07/17/2018 Theatrical release: 04/27/2018 Language: English Genre: Drama / Romance MPAA rating: R Director: Sebastián Lelio Actors: Rachel McAdams, Rachel Weisz, Alessandro Nivola Plot: Years after being shunned by a community for an attraction towards a childhood friend, a woman returns home only to find the passion rekindled in a relationship that will test the bounds of faith and sexuality.

This tests all types of plotting linear equation questions that can be found in the GCSE.

*** Includes 129 original reading passages and comprehension questions *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 11 Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency practice!

We examined five outcomes for students: knowledge of play plots and vocabulary, tolerance, Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET), desire to participate in theater, and interest in viewing theater.

This figure plots treatment - control differences in test score means against treatment - control differences in years in charter (Panel A) or pilot (Panel B).

Webs, concept maps, mind maps and plots such as stack plots and Venn diagrams are some of the types of graphic organizers used in visual learning to enhance thinking skills and improve academic performance on written papers, tests and homework assignments.

Figure 3 plots the average test score of students (compared to the national average) by the average union coverage rate of educators in all 50 states.

On the most recent nationwide U.S. math test, known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, an eighth grader might have been asked a question about stem - and - leaf plots (see the sample question in the graphic on this page or here).