familiar pine cone‚ are complex whorls of leaflike‚ woody scales around a central axis. The smallest cones include those of the junipers (Juniperus) which have flesh scales fused into a structure resembling a berry. The larger cones may weigh 45 kg and are produced by cycads. In most gymnosperm species‚ the female megastrobilus is larger and distinctive from the male microstrobilus. MATERIALS: 1. Living or preserved specimens of * Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) * Cycad (Cycad sp.) * Pine (Pinus
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Bioresource Technology 36 ( 1991 ) 77-82 Common Aspects of Acid Prehydrolysis and Steam Explosion for Pretreating Wood Hans E. Grethlein Michigan Biotechnology Institute‚ PO Box 27609‚ Lansing‚ Michigan 48909‚ USA & Alvin O. Converse Thayer School of Engineering‚ Dartmouth College‚ Hanover‚ New Hampshire 03755‚ USA Abstract The initial rate of hydrolysis using cellulase from Trichoderma reesei for various wood samples is directly proportional to the surface area available to the enzyme
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In both plays Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett and A Streetcar named Desire by Tennessee Williams there is a void-like depression [due to the fact they have not fulfilled there dreams] in the lives of the main characters which they attempt to fill with meaningless belongings; entertainment‚ baths‚ alcohol and storytelling to one’s self. In Waiting for Godot the main characters Vladimir and Estragon converse on various topics while waiting for a man they don’t know and who never shows; Godot.
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Case Study: Pine Street Capital By George Chacko‚ Eli Peter Strick Harvard Business Publishing Product number: 201071-PDF-ENG‚ Length: 17p To purchase the case‚ please visit: http://hbr.org/product/pine-street-capital/an/201071-PDF-ENG Due date: December 05‚ 2013 Questions: 1- What risks does PSC face? How has it hedged these risks historically? Should it continue to hedge these risks? - Market neutral fund – fund hedged out all market risk - In the past‚ they hedged this
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I then began to climb up the mountain in hope of surmounting the top. The sound of the boots treading on the many pine cones and sticks on the ground echoed throughout the mountain. When I reached the top I looked back down and saw all the marvels of wildlife I thought to be my loyal subjects staring up at me. The wind whispered around me and almost lifted me into
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is on the other. The speaker conveys the difference between his neighbor and himself. The wall symbolizes the split of personalities and properties between the neighbors. "He is all pine and I am [an] apple orchard‚" the speaker says. He also says that "my apple trees will never get across and eat his pines." Referring to the wall‚ the speaker means that nothing on his property will be any harm to his neighbor’s property or belongings. When the neighbor says "Good Fences make good Neighbors
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grandpa’s arm was ice cold. Me With A Ski Leash My uncle Garrott had ahold of the ski leash. On the Galloping Goose we were doing fine.Until My uncle tripped on a stump.He fell over and was saying STOP RYAN.I couldn’t stop.Will we stopped with two pine trees.He wasn’t happy after that.My grandpa kept ahold of me for the rest of the day.If that were you what would you have
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the center of my sinful earth‚ Lord of these rebel powers that thee array‚ Why dost thou pine within and suffer dearth‚ Painting thy outward walls so costly gay? Why so large cost‚ having so short a lease‚ Dost thou upon thy fading mansion spend? Shall worms‚ inheritors of this excess‚ Eat up thy charge? is this thy body’s end? Then soul‚ live thou upon thy servant’s loss‚ And let that pine to aggravate thy store; Buy terms divine in selling hours of dross; Within be fed‚ without
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Lower Vascular Plants Lower vascular plants include divisions Lycophyta‚ Sphenophyta‚ and Pterophyta. Division Lycophyta includes club mosses and ground pines. Sporophytes of these have stems covered with small‚ scaly leaves. Sporangia appear on the upper surface of the leaves and are structures that produce spores. Lycopods have small leaves that each contains one vein that brings water to the leaf from the roots and carries away extra food. Division Sphenophyta is made up of horsetails or scouring
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five years I was there. A carbon atom in a carbon dioxide molecule was what I was. A Pinyon pine tree going through photosynthesis took me from the atmosphere. After I left my home‚ I converted into a tissue in a Pinyon pine needle. This was only the first part of the cycle‚ and I was going to the biosphere-plant. A new territory‚ the biosphere-plant. Accordingly‚ I existed as a tissue in a Pinyon pine needle. For two months I stayed like that. Then a deer came by and chomped up my entire branch
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