Introduction: One of the major problems the industrialized world is facing today is the contamination of soil‚ groundwater‚ sediments‚ surface water and air with hazardous and toxic chemicals. The long-term production and use of different petroleum derivatives have caused widespreadcontamination of soil around facilities handling them (Barbee et al.‚ 1992). The need to remedy these contaminated environments has led to the development of a number of technologies such as bioremediation (Head‚ 1998)
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Outline for Life History Section 1: Introduction to Life Histories Name the ways that a population can increase its overall growth rate. 1) Reduction in age at first reproduction 2) Increase number of progeny at each reproductive event 3) Increase number of reproductive events (and longevity!) 4) Increase in birth rate (b) 5) Decrease in death rate (d) 6) Decrease in generation time (T) 7) Increase in net reproductive rates (R0) What is the connection between age
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Introduction Emerging infectious diseases have been increasing incidence and are a key threat to wildlife and human health. Influenza is one of the most common diseases‚ causing millions of severe illnesses and huge number of deaths per years. Recent concerns were focused on H5N1 avian influenza virus that was first isolated in a domestic goose in China in 1997 due to its high case of death rate (Lucchetti‚ Roy & Martchvae‚ 2008). Influenza viruses are single-stranded RNA viruses of which 3 types
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Unit 8 Essay Prompts Sorry guys that this is so late... I just had to go to sleep. Anyways‚ this guide is to help inspire you about the essay prompts and provide a little info‚ you’ll have to do additional research on your own. Also‚ I’ll try to bring up better examples. 1) Explain and illustrate with one specific example of each of the following concepts: a) competitive exclusion (Gause’s principle) 1. definition = states that when two species with the same resource needs are put
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Vol 455 | 11 September 2008 | doi:10.1038/nature07271 ARTICLES Strigolactone inhibition of shoot branching ` Victoria Gomez-Roldan1‚ Soraya Fermas2‚ Philip B. Brewer3‚ Virginie Puech-Pages1‚ Elizabeth A. Dun3‚ Jean-Paul Pillot2‚ Fabien Letisse4‚ Radoslava Matusova5‚ Saida Danoun1‚ Jean-Charles Portais4‚ ´ Harro Bouwmeester5‚6‚ Guillaume Becard1‚ Christine A. Beveridge3‚7*‚ Catherine Rameau2* & Soizic F. Rochange1* A carotenoid-derived hormonal signal that inhibits shoot branching in plants
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AP English Language & Composition A satire is a work that is intended to ridicule or mock ideas‚ persons‚ events or doctrines‚ or to make fun of human faults or weaknesses. The Onion News Network is a network that features satirical reporting on international‚ national‚ and local news. The Onion created an article called MagnaSoles‚ and this is a satire. It speaks about this so-called “MagnaSole product” and really tries to advertise and sell it. Many rhetorical strategies and appeals show up
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alan katz AP Euro Age of European Explorations The renaissance’s curiosity helped pave the way for the European age of exploration‚ which took place from 1450 to 1525. There were many factors‚ including technological‚ economic‚ political‚ and religious ones. The age was promoted by many specific factors‚ including the invention of caravels and other nautical inventions‚ the commercial and price revolutions‚ the new monarchs‚ and the constant growth that the Catholic faith wanted. “God‚ glory
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species 3. Fit of form and function Evolutionary Ecology relation between ecological processes and adaptive evolution. Examples of ecological processes are predation‚ competition‚ disease‚ mutualism‚ etc. Adaptation: Fitness – per capita growth rate of species‚ gene‚ a phenotypic strategy ‚ it is a rate Guiding bedrock Principles: 1. Population of all organism can grow exponentially under ideal conditions: a. 1st Law of Ecology: “everything is connected to everything else”; Ecosystems
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An AP U.S. History Document-Based Question (DBQ) Packet What is a DBQ? {Material borrowed from Collegboard.com} The AP U.S. History test consists of a multiple-choice section and an essay section. There are three essays to answer on the test‚ one of which is the DBQ. The DBQ an essay question that requires you to answer the question using the sources provided. You are given a mandatory 15-minute reading period at the beginning of the free-response section‚ and most of that time is
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Biophysical Ecology and Pattern Recognition Abstract: This study was undertaken to investigate behavioral adaptations of a lizard‚ Lacertilia‚ to its environment. Twelve peeps‚ representing the lizards‚ were placed in a habitat with two microhabitats of different temperatures. Six peeps were placed in one microhabitat‚ and six in the other. The internal temperature of these “lizards” was measured over a period of 20 minutes to see if their body temperatures matched that of their environment and
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