LEAVES BIODIVERSITY HOTSPOTS? A. ELIZABETH ARNOLD1 AND F. LUTZONI Department of Biology‚ Duke University‚ Durham‚ North Carolina 27708 USA Abstract. Fungal endophytes are found in asymptomatic photosynthetic tissues of all major lineages of land plants. The ubiquity of these cryptic symbionts is clear‚ but the scale of their diversity‚ host range‚ and geographic distributions are unknown. To explore the putative hyperdiversity of tropical leaf endophytes‚ we compared endophyte communities along
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[diseases]’‚ where Ayurvedic uses are practiced. Ecologically‚ it survives well in similar environments to its own‚ for example replacing the babul acacia tree from India with Africanacacia species. USES Traditional medicinal use In India‚ the plant is variously known as "Sacred Tree‚" "Heal All‚" "Nature’s Drugstore‚" "Village Pharmacy" and "Panacea for all diseases". Products made from neem trees have been used in India for over two millennia for their medicinal properties: neem products are
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How to Grow Old Bertrand Russell In spite of the title，this article will really be on how not to grow old，which，at my time of life，is a much more important subject．My first advice would be to choose your ancestors carefully．Although both my parents died young，I have done well in this respect as regards my other ancestors． My maternal grandfather，it is true，was cut off in the flower of his youth at the age of sixty-seven，but my other three grandparents all lived to be over eighty．Of remoter
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PLANT LAYOUT Plant layout is a plan of the most effective arrangement of the physical facilities and manpower for the manufacture of the product. Plant layout encompasses much more than the mere planning of the arrangement of the production equipment and should include a careful study of the following: 1. External transportation facilities. 2. Receiving operations (unloading‚ inspection‚ stores) 3. Production activities. 4. Service & auxiliary operations.
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Table of Contents Introduction According to Net Market Share UNIX/Linux‚ Mac‚ and Windows collectively own 99.29% of the total desktop operating system market share (NetMarketShare‚ 2013). These operating systems run our home and work computers. Server versions of these operating systems run Internet web pages‚ corporate databases and file servers. Mobile versions of these operating systems run our personal smart phones and tablets. Soon‚ we may see a Linux-based ecosystem in vehicles
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Analyse the ‘Broken Window’ theory in relation to crime prevention. What are the main strengths and weaknesses of this theory. The Broken Windows theory was first proposed by two social scientists James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling in the 1982 article‚ "Broken Windows"‚ ( Wilson and Kelling‚ 1982). The analogy of broken windows used to explain this theory is that signs of disorder in a neighborhood inhibit the efforts of the residents to show social control. Any lack of social control makes
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January 24‚ 2011 Think & Grow Rich Most people in today’s society define success as someone who makes a lot of money or has done something important to help form today’s society. People such as Bill Gates or Donald Trump are considered successful because they have lots of money. Even actors whose lives are wrecked and destroyed are considered successful because of the money they have. Others‚ like Thomas Edison‚ are considered successful because of accomplishments they achieved in their lives
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I want to know if the “Broken Windows” theory as well as community policing works as it has been tested. This theory struck an interest to me since my father lives in Newark‚ NJ where this study was so popular at. I wanted to research this theory and get a nice understanding of it so that while in Newark I can recognize the style of policing in progress. If it does work than I would like to know why it works or which aspects work better than others. The same as the opposition‚ if it is not effective
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deforestation keeps on happening? I strongly believe that we need to stop deforestation before it is too late‚ or else we‚ humans‚ will suffer a lot from it. It has been told that forests are our world lungs. As many of us have known‚ every green plant can do photosynthesis‚ a process of producing oxygen from carbon dioxide. If deforestation keeps on happening‚ our oxygen supply will also deplete. That’s one thing I can guarantee. It means that we won’t have enough air to breathe with and it will
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This book is about Nelly and her mother hiding from the Nazis in a friend’s house. They hid in a little window that had been closed off to keep the house warmer in the winters. They only went into the window when someone came into the house‚ so no one would know that they were hiding there. For around three years Nelly and her mother hid there. Nelly was constantly wondering if her father would come and join them. For these three years they passed the time by talking with each other‚ knitting‚ or
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