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Living Reference Work Entry In depth
Hero Label: Distortion and Propaganda
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Lesbian and Bisexual Women’s Experience of Emergency Management
As climate change exacerbates exposure to disasters, a growing body of scholarship provides evidence that some groups experience significant barriers in accessing and participating in emergency services. This ...
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Earthworm invasions of ecosystems devoid of earthworms: effects on soil microbes
Recent studies document North American earthworm invasions and their profound effects on the structure of the soil profile, which is the habitat for soil microorganisms (mainly fungi and bacteria). Dramatic al...
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Earthworm invasions of ecosystems devoid of earthworms: effects on soil microbes
Recent studies document North American earthworm invasions and their profound effects on the structure of the soil profile, which is the habitat for soil microorganisms (mainly fungi and bacteria). Dramatic al...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Application of HPC to medium-size stochastic systems with non-linear constraints in finance
This paper presents results of multi-stage numerical optimisation of medium sized financial portfolios using High Performance Computing. Linear and non-linear constraints are applied and the optimisation proce...
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Successional changes in microbial biomass, respiration and nutrient status during litter decomposition in an aspen and pine forest
Microbial biomass, microbial respiration, metabolic quotient (qCO2), Cmic/Corg ratio and nutrient status of the microflora was investigated in different layers of an aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) and pine fo...
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Interspecific competitive interactions between pairs of fungal species in natural substrates
The role of interspecific competition in fungal communities in natural substrates is poorly understood because fungi do not form easily definable populations. A new approach to investigating fungal competition...
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Immobilization and availability of N and P in the forest floors of fertilized Rocky Mountain coniferous forests
The rates of key processes related to the recycling of nutrients in the forest floor were monitored for four years following the application of ammonium phosphate sulphate to small plots in mature stands of lo...
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Relative importance of the effect of 2,4-D, glyphosate, and environmental variables on the soil microbial biomass
Two post-emergence herbicides (glyphosate and 2,4-D) were applied at field application levels to tilled field plots in a mixed crop** area in south-central Alberta. The effects of these chemicals on certain ...
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Interactions between microclimatic variables and the soil microbial biomass
Soil moisture, temperature, microbial substrate-induced respiration and basal respiration were monitored in two plots in an agricultural field from April 30 to September 25, 1987, and in a further two plots fr...
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Influence of the herbicide glyphosate on soil microbial community structure
The side effects of glyphosate on the soil microflora were monitored by applying a range of glyphosate concentrations (0, 2, 20, and 200 μg g−1 herbicide) to incubated soil samples, and following changes in vario...
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Effects of three herbicides on soil microbial biomass and activity
Three post-emergence herbicides (2,4-D, picloram and glyphosate) were applied to samples of an Alberta agricultural soil at concentrations of 0, 2, 20, and 200 μg g−1. The effects of these chemicals on certain mi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Super Parallel Algorithms
Serial algorithmic design concentrates on how to solve a single instance of a given task on a single processor. The natural extension for parallel processing usually concentrates on how to solve the given sing...
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Evidence for a nicotinic component to the actions of acetylcholine in cat visual cortex
Radioligand binding assays, receptor autoradiography and iontophoresis have been used to look for evidence of a nicotinic component to the actions of acetylcholine in cat visual cortex. [3H]Nicotine bound to a un...
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Rhizosphere interactions with special reference to vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae
A brief review is presented of the positive and negative effects of several types of interaction between VA mycorrhizae and other groups of organisms found in the root regions of various plants. Interactions b...
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Carotid cavernous fistula. History and anatomy
The parasellar compartment commonly known as the “cavernous sinus” contains a more compact complexity of gross anatomy than any other structure, a veritable anatomic jewel box. The orbit, a much larger cavity,...
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Monitoring the impact of acid deposition on the soil microbiota, using glucose and vanillin decomposition
Samples of organic (F/H) and mineral soil (to approximately 8 cm depth) were collected from three ‘ecologically analogous’ sites in a boreal forest at intervals of 2.8 km (site 1), 6.0 km (site 2) and 9.6 km (...
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Computers: More parallel than others
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Topsoil storage effects on primary production and rates of vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal development inAgropyron trachycaulum
A greenhouse study was conducted to determine the effects of stockpiling prairie grassland topsoil for 3 years on mycorrhizal development and root and shoot production of slender wheatgrass. The vesicular-arbu...
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Effect of topsoil storage on microbial activity, primary production and decomposition potential
The effects of disturbing (cultivating) and stockpiling prairie grassland topsoil on microbial activity, microbial biomass C, plant production and decomposition potentials were studied by measuring CO2 efflux fro...
