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Bioinspired hydrophobic pseudo-hydrogel for programmable shape-morphing
Published 2025-01-01“…Abstract Inspired by counterintuitive water “swelling” ability of the hydrophobic moss of the genus Sphagnum (Peat moss), we prepared a hydrophobic pseudo-hydrogel (HPH), composed of a pure hydrophobic silicone elastomer with a tailored porous structure. …”
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Enhancing Acclimatization Conditions for <i>Vriesea splendens</i> ‘Fire’: A Comparative Analysis of Substrate Effects on Growth and Survival
Published 2025-01-01“…On the opposite side, substrates containing bark and moss showed a reduced effect on plant growth and survival, which indicated the vital role of substrates for best development. …”
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False Mating of Blackbirds (Turdus merula) and Fieldfares (Turdus pilaris)
Published 2025-01-01“…In three cases, birds (blackbirds twice and fieldfare once) try to copulate with fledglings of their own species, and in all other cases, the birds try to copulate with moss and sticks. In three cases copulation, attempts were done by adult birds (two blackbirds and one fieldfare), and in four cases, it was a fledgling.…”
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Factors accounting for limited sexual reproduction in a long-lived unisexual plant species
Published 2025-02-01“…In particular, we test the hypotheses that (i) sex-expressing males and females exhibit different ecological niches and (ii) environmental variation drives sex expression, sporophyte formation, and hence, dispersal capacities.MethodsWe scored 1,080 specimens of the unisexual moss Abietinella abietina across Sweden as non-sex expressing, expressing female or male, or sporophytic. …”
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Complex Dynamics of an Adnascent-Type Game Model
Published 2008-01-01“…(In biology, the term adnascent has only one sense, “growing to or on something else,” e.g., “moss is an adnascent plant.” See Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary published in 1913 by C. & G. …”
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Key Plant, Key Pests: Oak (Quercus spp.)
Published 2020-12-01“…This new 9-page publication provides information and general management recommendations for borers, caterpillars, insect-induced galls, twig girdlers, oak leaf blister, root and butt rot, Tubakia leaf spot, mistletoe, psocids, lace bugs, woolly aphids, powdery mildew, Spanish and ball moss, and lichens. Written by Juanita Popenoe, Caroline R. …”
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Key Plant, Key Pests: Oak (Quercus spp.)
Published 2020-12-01“…This new 9-page publication provides information and general management recommendations for borers, caterpillars, insect-induced galls, twig girdlers, oak leaf blister, root and butt rot, Tubakia leaf spot, mistletoe, psocids, lace bugs, woolly aphids, powdery mildew, Spanish and ball moss, and lichens. Written by Juanita Popenoe, Caroline R. …”
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Community of practice i indywidualizacja w nauczaniu
Published 2016-04-01“…The importance of the involvement of the whole local community in creating the educational environment has been shown on a basis of two ready for use models of community of practice proposed by P. Moss and R. Myers. The concept of individualization has been considered in the second part of the text. …”
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Integrative systematics with structural monophyly and ancestral signatures: Chionoloma (Bryophyta)
Published 2024-12-01“… The moss genus Chionoloma (Pottiaceae, Bryophyta), recently presented in a molecular analysis as a massive genus inflated by the synonymy of several heretofore accepted genera, is deframed and reformatted to internally define minimally monophyletic genera. …”
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A Basic Guide to Mushrooms Commonly Encountered in Potted Plants in Florida
Published 2024-09-01“…Many of these fungi are saprotrophic and feed on the organic matter contained in the potting soil itself and/or in the mulch, which varies in composition but often contains tree bark, wood chips, pine straw, moss, or leaves. These fungi are not necessarily harmful to the plants, but fungal fruiting bodies can make plants unmarketable. …”
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A new species of Sinarella Bryk, 1949 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Herminiinae) from Jiangxi, China
Published 2025-01-01“…All known larvae of this genus feed on fresh leaves of moss. This genus is widely distributed from the Himalayas to Southeast Asia, Japan, Borneo, Sulawesi and New Guinea.A new species of the genus Sinarella Bryk, 1949, S. jinggangshana sp. nov., is described from Jinggangshan National Nature Reserve, Jiangxi Province, China. …”
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Study of the Sorption of Divalent Metal Ions on to Peat
Published 2000-09-01“…A pseudo-second order rate equation describing the kinetics of sorption of divalent metal ions on to sphagnum moss peat at various initial metal ion concentrations and peat doses has been developed. …”
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“But lo the thing’s inside and can you guess his shape?”: the semiotic elaboration of Cormac McCarthy’s autotextual creature in his early novels and No Country for Old Men
Published 2023-02-01“…It appears to function through the construction of doubles who reveal the shape of the monsters within the main characters, beginning with Kenneth Rattner and Marion Sylder and climaxing with Moss and Chigurh. The darker double always then acts as a revealer of an extreme vision of what is possible, of the worst in man. …”
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Magnesium Oxide Nanoparticles Synthesized from Solanum elaeagnifolium and their Effect Against Mealybugs Phenacoccus solenopsis Tinsley
Published 2025-01-01“…Accordingly, the study was conducted in 2023 to investigate the efficiency of the nano- extract of the seeds and leaves of the nightshade Solanum elaeagnifolium Cav loaded on magnesium, producing MgO nanoparticles and the regular alcoholic seed extract with a concentration of 5% on the relative efficiency of killing the first and third nymph instars as well as the adults of the mealybug Phenacoccus solenopsis Tinsley, grown on moss rose seedlings. The results showed that the highest relative efficiency in killing the insects at the first instar was 100% three days after treatment with nano seed extract, 84% at the third instar, and 75% for mealybug adults after seven days of treatment. …”
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Kamera jako superego. „Dzienniki. 1971-1976” Eda Pincusa albo początki dokumentalizmu osobistego
Published 2011-03-01“…Dokumentalizm osobisty szybko stał się wiodącą poetyką bostońskiej grupy dokumentalistów (Alfred Guzetti, Ross McElwee czy Rob Moss). Wkrótce zaś forma ta stała się jedną z najczęściej uprawianych w praktyce dokumentalizmu, zwłaszcza niezależnego. …”
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A Comparison of Physical Soil Organic Matter Fractionation Methods for Amended Soils
Published 2019-01-01“…Using five different physical fractionation methods, on soils either nontreated or with a history of amendment with a range of exogenous organic matter inputs (Irish moss peat; composted horse manure; garden compost) and a resulting range of carbon contents (6.8 to 22.2%), we show that method selection had a significant impact on both the total C recovered and the distribution of the recovered C between unprotected, physically protected, or chemically protected conceptual pools. …”
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Training VGG16, MobileNetV1 and Simple CNN Models from Scratch for Balinese Inscription Recognition
Published 2025-01-01“…Damage to these inscriptions can be caused by natural disasters, overgrown with moss, algae and bacteria. Damage can also be caused by warfare, or deliberately erased. …”
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PLncWX: A Machine-Learning Algorithm for Plant lncRNA Identification Based on WOA-XGBoost
Published 2021-01-01“…We developed an identification model containing dicot, monocot, algae, moss, and fern. After comparing 20 feature selection methods (seven filter and thirteen wrapper methods) combined with seven classifiers, respectively, considering the correlation between features and model redundancy at the same time, we found that the WOA-XGBoost-based model had better performance with 91.55%, 96.78%, and 91.68% of accuracy, AUC, and F1_score. …”
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‘Modern gardeners’ with Rustic Ideals: Fruitful Congruencies between John Ruskin and William Robinson
Published 2020-06-01“…‘Corn for the granary, timber for the builder’s yard, flowers for the bride’s chamber, and moss for the grave’. In a word, food, shelter, and beauty for all of us, living or dead, are the sum total of a world’s vegetation’. …”
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