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drug abuse; minorities (people); disease prevention; medical treatment; disease control programs; cocaine; rural health care; multicultural diversity; Blacks; qualitative analysis; Erythroxylum coca var. coca; focus groups; Florida
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... Context: Cocaine is a major problem in the rural South, but knowledge is limited regarding the impact on African American populations. Purpose: This study of 18-39-year-old black drug users assessed perceptions of contributing factors to drug use and possible interventions. Methods: The study design was qualitative-descriptive, utilizing 4 focus groups with 5 rural women and 14 small-city resident ...
... Premise of the study: Research on the subject of heterostyly is often traced back to 1877 when Charles Darwin published the landmark book The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species. This book synthesized heterostyly research at the time, much of which Darwin conducted, and it continues to be a major contribution to the study of the breeding system. In this book, Darwin discussed ...
... Both missionaries and government policymakers in colonial Zimbabwe consciously identified agriculture as an important avenue in establishing broader paradigms of explanation. Missionary promotion of new farming practices inevitably challenged the existing spiritual landscape by insisting that rationalized individual labor could overcome powerful natural forces. This article examines various facets ...
agricultural education; boiling; developed countries; extension education; farmers; models; professionals; volunteers; Afghanistan; California
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... For nearly four decades the University of California, Davis, International Programs Office has worked with global partners to build the agricultural capacity of countries in terms of research, extension, and education. With a focus on extension in lesser developed countries, we have developed an innovative framework for teaching extension professionals how to effectively encourage adoption of much ...
... Evidence is presented to support the notion that the 16 kDa thylakoid polypeptide, called CF₀II, is an essential subunit of the photosynthetic ATP-synthase complex CF₀CF₁: It is co-isolated with the other subunits of CF₀CF₁ in preparations either using octylgluco- side/cholate or Triton X-100. It is co-precipitated by antibodies together with the other CF₀CF₁ subunits. It is immunochemically not r ...
Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994; Food and Drug Administration; androstenedione; business enterprises; dietary supplements; ingredients; marketing; sports nutrition
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... On March 11, 2004, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pronounced that dietary supplement products containing androstenedione were adulterated new dietary ingredients under the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994 (DSHEA). The FDA issued a press release, held a news conference, and sent warning letters to 23 companies that had manufactured, marketed or distributed the products co ...
... Floral organs of yellow passion fruit were chosen as experimental materials; flower shape, corolla colour, nectar ingredients and nectar content of yellow passion fruit were investigated. The research results indicated that passion fruit is creative in flower design. Appropriate arrangement of various representative elements – flower morphology, flower colour, nectar-create an excellent self-endor ...
... We describe here a new approach for the identification of affinity-bound proteins by proteolytic generation and mass spectrometric analysis of their antibody bound epitope peptides (epitope excision). The cardiac muscle protein troponin T was chosen as a protein antigen because of its diagnostic importance in myocardial infarct, and its previously characterised epitope structure. Two monoclonal an ...
laws and regulations; politics; exports; imports; case studies; agricultural history; economic policy; agricultural policy; international cooperation; Germany; United Kingdom; United States; Poland
European Union; agricultural land; brownfields; buildings; case studies; cities; climate; climate change; ecosystems; floods; food production; food safety; heat; hydroponics; infrastructure; land use; models; quality of life; soil; urbanization
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... The tissue of cities is getting increasingly dense and compact, however, according to the current development models, the demand for living space per person, for industrial and commercial activities, for the transport infrastructure, requires more and more land, often to the detriment of agricultural fields, that surround cities. The occupation of agricultural lands has significant impact on the r ...
sexual reproduction; mating behavior; animals; insects; hormones; pheromones; sexual selection
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... During close bodily contact, many species transfer substances that influence the behaviour or physiology of conspecifics. Such transfer is especially common during courtship and copulation. When this is the case the involved bioactive substances are favoured by sexual selection because their effects include increased egg production, inhibited remating, and changed sperm transport or storage in the ...
Escherichia coli; active sites; carbon nitride; cooling; crystal structure; disinfection; electron transfer; freezing; graphene; heat; humic acids; irradiation; light; microwave treatment; nanosheets; photocatalysis; photolysis; physicochemical properties; surface area; water purification
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... Highly-crystalline 2-dimensional (2D) graphitic carbon nitride (g-C₃N₄) nanosheets with low structural imperfection usually possess high photocatalytic activity that benefits from the suppressed electron–hole recombination. However, the conventional exfoliation strategy is incapable for fast and clean preparation of such highly-quality g-C₃N₄ nanosheets from their bulk-type counterparts. Herein, h ...
mentoring; college students; agricultural education; Indiana
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... The concept of mentoring is central to many educational programs in agriculture and natural resources. A mentor has been defined as one who fosters personal, educational, and professional growth in another person (the "mentee"). Within this definition, the mentee is often assumed to be younger than, or junior to, her or his mentor. This article presents a memoir of the author's experiences with hi ...
geographical distribution; soil water storage; plant available water; water conservation; terracing; soil water content; subsoil; drought; water stress; infiltration (hydrology); crop yield; rain; rain intensity; food security; soil fertility; field experimentation; terraces; water erosion; Mali
mathematical models; quantitative analysis; General Circulation Models; isotopes; evaporation; rain; temperature; water vapor; Japan
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... A numerical model is proposed that describes the interaction between raindrops and water vapour near the planetary boundary layer to explain the "amount effect". This model relates the intensity to the isotopic composition of precipitation. The model resolves raindrop sizes, and explicitly includes: (1) the isotopic equilibration time of raindrops that is drop-size dependent; (2) raindrop transit ...
... Thermal modification of wood by immersion in high temperature vegetable oils and other additives impart significant decay and mould fungi resistance, water repellency and dimensional stability. ...
... 'Angelys' is a new pear variety resulting from the cross 'Doyenné d’Hiver' x 'Doyenné du Comice'. This cross is part of a large breeding programme initiated by B. Thibault and L. Hermann at the INRA Fruit Breeding Station; this programme is a half-diallel involving 12 parents, 68 progenies and 10,626 seedlings with the aim to select late maturing cultivars with long storage ability. The female par ...
natural resource management; agricultural education; alternative crops; alternative farming; marketing strategies; decision support systems; decision making; buckwheat; Fagopyrum esculentum; Minnesota
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... Decision cases have been used in the USA for both classroom and extension education within agriculture and natural resources. Use of cases has sometimes been limited by the extensive amount of time that may be required to assign and analyze conventional, text-based cases. Availability of video decision cases, which are visual and do not necessarily require reading, could foster the use of cases on ...
Amaranthaceae; Turkey (country); botany; diploidy; flora; new species; Northern Africa; Persian Gulf; Sardinia; Sicily
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... A new species of Arthrocaulon Piirainen & G. Kadereit, A. meridionalis is described. This diploid taxon is known from the islands of Sicily and Sardinia and from circum-Mediterranean territories (from North Africa to the Anatolian Peninsula in Turkey and as far as the Persian Gulf on the Asian continent). The distinctive macro-, micromorphological and chorological features of this taxon are given. ...
Bucephala; Lontra canadensis; birds of prey; forage; lakes; rivers; spring; waterfowl; Newfoundland and Labrador
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... This is the first documented incident of River Otter (Lutra canadensis) feeding on Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) in a little studied region, southern Labrador. Our observations were made during spring staging when waterfowl aggregate at open water sites in frozen lakes and rivers, locally known as ashkui. We suggest that otters and raptors opportunistically forage on staging waterfowl at a ...
... To determine the role that a secondary school garden backyard (productive patio), played in the integration and development of one scholar community, we conducted this study to promote and introduce ecological and urban horticulture at the “Liceo Bolivariano Don Vicente Amengual Villonga” in the Palavecino municipality, Cabudare City of Lara state, Venezuela. This research was done in three steps; ...