MATOPIBA: a ocupação da nova fronteira agrícola nos quadros do padrão exportador de especialização produtiva by Glauber Lopes Xavier

“…In the last decade, the States of Maranhão, Tocantins, Piauí and Bahia (here alluded to through the acronym Matopiba) have undergone transformations in their economies, increasing participation in national agricultural production, especially of some products such as soybeans, corn, and cotton. With vast expanses covered by Cerrado, these States make up the territory of the so-called new agricultural frontier brazilian, subject of the article, and the production of commodities have been intended primarily to international markets. …”
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Design and Construction of Hydraulic Press. by Natukunda, Andrew

“…As a teacher in the making, I used nails, wood, syringes, tubes, cotton, empty battles, and a wand afterward to design a simple hydraulic press from locally available materials to transform theoretical work into practical skills for active teaching and learning.…”
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Effect of cover crops on phosphorus and trace metal leaching in agricultural soils by Vishawjot Sandhu, Jasmeet Lamba, Preetika Kaur, Kritika Malhotra, Thomas R. Way, Kipling S. Balkcom, Rishi Prasad

“…The main crop, planted the following spring, was strip-tillage cotton. Following cotton harvest, intact undisturbed cylindrical soil cores (15 cm diameter and 50 cm depth) were collected from cover crop (CC) and no cover (NC) parts of the field. …”
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Quantitative Performance Analysis of Respiratory Facemasks Using Atmospheric and Laboratory Generated Aerosols Following with Gamma Sterilization by Amit Kumar, D. N. Sangeetha, Ramani Yuvaraj, M. Menaka, Venkatesan Subramanian, Balasubramanian Venkatraman

“…N95, non-woven fabric and double layer cotton cloth are being used by the majority of the population across the world as an essential inhalation protective measure for suppressing the entry of virus-laden respiratory droplets. …”
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Management of Nematodes and Soil Fertility with Sunn Hemp Cover Crop by Koon-Hui Wang, Robert McSorley

“…Recently, there is a growing interest in rotating sunn hemp with cotton in the southern United States and in using sunn hemp as a summer cover crop in Florida and other southeastern states. …”
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Virtudes socioambientais e as razões capitalistas em empreendimentos capitalistas e de economia social by José Luiz Bica de Mélo, Monika Dowbor

“…These questions guided the case study in which we compared the forms of use of natural resources, notably water and soil, contrasting Social Economy enterprises - cooperative producing ecological rice in Rio Grande do Sul State and agroecological consortia based on the production of cotton in Ceará State - with capitalist companies of the same branches of agricultural production. …”
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Management of Nematodes and Soil Fertility with Sunn Hemp Cover Crop by Koon-Hui Wang, Robert McSorley

“…Recently, there is a growing interest in rotating sunn hemp with cotton in the southern United States and in using sunn hemp as a summer cover crop in Florida and other southeastern states. …”
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A truncated pre-F protein mRNA vaccine elicits an enhanced immune response and protection against respiratory syncytial virus by Min Lin, Yifan Yin, Xiaomeng Zhao, Chen Wang, Xueqing Zhu, Letao Zhan, Li Chen, Siling Wang, Xue Lin, Jun Zhang, Ningshao Xia, Zizheng Zheng

“…Importantly, when administered to pregnant female cotton rats, LC2DM-LNP ensured the transfer of pre-F-specific antibodies to the offspring and provided protection against RSV without increasing lung inflammation. …”
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Long-term impact of different prevalent cropping systems on soil physico-chemical characteristics under subtropical climate conditions of Punjab, Pakistan by Fahad Ali Fayyaz, Irfan Aziz, Muhammad Ansar, Muhammad Akmal, Saud Alamri, Alanoud T. Alfagham, Renata Gamrat, Abdul Qayyum

“…For crop yield and economic feasibility, the data collected for each crop were summed up and mean data for every cropping system were compared. Cotton-wheat cropping system had the highest mean value of EC (1.57 dS/m), while mix cropping showed the maximum level of OM (0.53%), TN (0.028%), AvP (5.16 mg kg−1), yield (10.09 t ha−1), gross revenue (PK Rs. 87,883) and benefit cost ratio (2.2). …”
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Mapping and monitoring of weeds using unmanned aircraft systems and remote sensing by A. Pon Arasan, S. Radhamani, S. Pazhanivelan, R. Kavitha, R. Raja, R. Kumaraperumal

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Clinical experiments with the topical applications of dmso (dimethylsulfoxide) in some traumatic lesions of small and large animals by Nuri YAVRU, Erdoğan SAMSAR, Faruk AKIN

“…DMSO was poured on the surface of the traumatic lesions by naked hand or piece of cotton or gause.<p> The lesions were recovered between 2 - 15 and 2 - 5 days in small and large animals respectively. …”
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Sharpshooters, Leafhoppers, Cicadellidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) by Chris Tipping, Russell F. Mizell, III

“…Riley and Howard (1893) first used 'sharpshooter' to describe the feeding damage of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca coagulata (Say), on cotton. This damage was caused by the piercing-sucking mouthparts of H. coagulata that appeared to be caused by a 'minute bullet.' …”
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Central Retinal Vein Occlusion with Three-Retinal Quadrant Involvement: Another Focus on Optic Disc Head Vascular Anatomy Variations by Narges Hassanpoor, Vahid Abdolrahimi, Mohamad Reza Niyousha

“…Three quadrants of retina were fully involved with central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) features including retinal hemorrhages, retinal edema obscuring retinal details, and cotton wool spots while sparing inferior temporal quadrant. …”
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Studies on Synthesis and Dyeing Preformance of Acid Dyes Based on 4,7-Dihydroxy-3,8-di-α-naphthylazo-1,10-phenanthroline-2,9-Dione by B. V. Patel, P. H. Dasondi

“…Their dyeing performance as acid dyes has been assessed on viscose rayon, wool and cotton fibres.…”
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Porosity Characteristics of Chars Derived from Different Lignocellulosic Materials by Laila B. Khalil

“…The precursors which were treated in this manner were fruit stones and nut shells (peach, apricot and olive stones; date pits, almond, hazel nut and pistacio shells), fibrous materials (sugar cane bagasse, date palm branches and leaves, cotton stalks and wood meal), corn cobs, rice husks, alkali-washed rice hulls and barbecue charcoal. …”
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Management Considerations for Wheat Production in Florida by David L. Wright, Ann R. Blount, Ron D. Barnett, Cheryl L. Mackowiak, Nicholas Dufault, James Marois

“…Planting wheat followed by cotton, peanut or grain sorghum has also become a common practice. …”
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Développement, crises et adaptation des territoires du soja au Mato Grosso: l'exemple de Sorriso by Damien Arvor, Vincent Dubreuil, Patricio Mendez del Villar, Carlos Magri Ferreira, Margareth Simões Penello Meirelles

“…Numerous efforts for the intensification and diversification of productions, especially by corn and cotton crops, were done. Furthermore, local sustainability projects based on environmental education and incentives to replantation are being developed. …”
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Sharpshooters, Leafhoppers, Cicadellidae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cicadellidae) by Chris Tipping, Russell F. Mizell, III

“…Riley and Howard (1893) first used 'sharpshooter' to describe the feeding damage of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, Homalodisca coagulata (Say), on cotton. This damage was caused by the piercing-sucking mouthparts of H. coagulata that appeared to be caused by a 'minute bullet.' …”
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Coliform contamination on faucet surface of water vending machines in Klang Valley by Yi-Mian Ang, Hong-Wai Tham

“…In this study, 100 water vending machines were randomly selected from 10 districts of Klang Valley. Sterile cotton swabs were used to collect swab samples from all selected subjects, with swab samples collected on the outer surface of water faucets. …”
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Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756–1832), agronome et chimiste by Fournier, Josette

“…The chemist is remembered for his work on wine, the bleaching and dyeing of cotton, and the extraction of beet sugar. This manuscript is divided into two main parts, dealing successively with Jean-Antoine Chaptal’s student years until his appointment to the Consulate’s Ministry of the Interior, and then with the period from the Consulate to the July Monarchy.…”
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