A Case of Hydrocele Stone with Its Composition Analysis by Masayoshi Zaitsu, Koji Mikami, Yuta Takeshima, Takumi Takeuchi

“…Crystallographical analysis of the hydrocele stone by a infrared spectrophotometer showed that the center was composed of 64% calcium carbonate and 36% calcium phosphate, while the outer portion was protein. …”
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Lemon Bacopa: Bacopa caroliniana by Lyn A. Gettys, Carl J. Della Torre

“… Lemon bacopa is a native aquatic and wetland plant that is a welcome inclusion in a variety of settings, including water gardens, aquatic ponds, and wetland restoration and mitigation sites. …”
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Fortunella spp., Kumquat by Michael G. Andreu, Melissa H. Friedman, Robert J. Northrop

“…Because kumquats generally require less care than other citrus trees, they may be a good choice for gardeners with less time or experience, but who still desire an attractive and tasty citrus tree. …”
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Le paysagisme : source et ressource pour l’urbanisme ? by Benoît Romeyer

“…It successively identifies and defines the urban design practises predominantly influenced by the “plant” component, and which involve the notions of the embellishment, re-enchantment and "re-naturing" of open spaces, and the practises that specifically concern the landscape component of the parks, “green and blue” infrastructures, and “extra-urban” spaces of different neighbourhoods, suburbs and garden cities. Whether analysed separately or together, these elements constitute resources that may be reconsidered and re-used in order to establish more balanced relationships with the elements surrounding us in our contemporary urban construct.…”
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Spectrphotometric Determination of Buclizine as Hydrochloride Using Various Chromogenic Reagents by V. Annapurna, G. Jyothi, A. V. Subbayamma, B. B. V. Sailaja

“…Method A involves the precipitation, charge transfer complex formation of BUCZ with tannic acid/ p-N-methyl aminophenol sulphate (PMAP)-Cr(VI), the complex formation with cobalt thiocyanate (CTC) in method B and inner complex formation of BUCZ with sodium nitroprusside hydroxylamine hydrochloride and sodium carbonate in method C were proposed. The optical characteristics such as Beers law limits, molar absorptivity and Sandell’s sensitivity for the methods (A-C) are given. …”
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Un siècle d’étude des relations sociétés-nature by Serge Bahuchet, Catherine Hoare

“…We discuss the study of “useful plants” from the origins of the Museum in the Royal Garden for medicinal plants, and then in its various services related to botany and agriculture. …”
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Les sociétés rurales européennes ont-elles accepté les politiques publiques paysagères ? by Pierre Donadieu

“…They face the risk to be divided in three categories of relations with the farming and wooded spaces : encouraging cultivation and gardening of local services for practices of residential, leisure and tourism ; encouraging the maintaining of agro-industries in intensive farming regions ; or in the two precedent cases, by involving values of sustainable development, implementing land project in the perspective of a localized and sustainable auto-development. …”
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Aquarium Setup and Maintainence by Ruth Francis-Floyd, Allen Riggs, Roy Yanong

“…They can be as simple as a betta bowl or as complex as a multi-million gallon commercial exhibit. When considering an aquarium it is important to contemplate where it will be located, which species will be maintained and what type of budget will be available. …”
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An Ambrosia Beetle Xyleborus affinis Eichhoff, 1868 (Insecta: Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Scolytinae) by Lanette Sobel, Andrea Lucky, Jiri Hulcr

“…Like other ambrosia beetles, it bores tunnels into the xylem of weakened, cut or injured trees and farms gardens of symbiotic fungus for food. Females lay eggs in the fungus-lined galleries and larvae feed exclusively on the fungi. …”
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«Se proçeda y haga justiçia»: artillería, pertrechos y bastimentos perdidos en la bahía de Cádiz en el saqueo anglo-holandés de 1596 by Antonio de la Cruz Sastre

“…La quema y pérdida de galeones, fragatas, pataches y mercaderías en julio de 1596, supuso un fuerte varapalo económico para la administración castellana que cayó inmersa en una nueva bancarrota. …”
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PREFERENSI ARTHROPODA TERHADAP TUMBUHAN LIAR DI AREA KEBUN TEH AFDELING WONOSARI, SINGOSARI KABUPATEN MALANG by Raras Setyo Retno

“…This research is a qualitative descriptive that tries to reveal and explain about the preferences or interests arthro in Poda against wild plants (weeds) Cambodgien Wonosari Tea Garden Area, Singosari Malang. The difference in the percentage interest in insects against wild plants affected by volatile compounds secreted by wild plants. …”
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How the General Public and Local Officials Prefer to Learn about Agricultural Water Use in Florida by Courtney T. Owens, Alexa J. Lamm, Ricky W. Telg

“…The amount of water being used daily in the state is estimated at 14.3 million gallons. Part of a series dedicated to describing the preferred ways of learning about agricultural water use in Florida, this study can be used to assist Extension educators and the agricultural industry at large in the development of strategies meant to inform people about the realities of water use. …”
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Status and Causes of Soil Salinization of Irrigated Agricultural Lands in Southern Baja California, Mexico by Tsuneyoshi Endo, Sadahiro Yamamoto, Juan A. Larrinaga, Hideyasu Fujiyama, Toshimasa Honna

“…Low EC and high pH levels were observed in the profiles of sandy fields, because the salt composition of these soils can easily change when salts are leached by irrigation water that contains carbonates of sodium. On the other hand, high levels of salinity and sodicity were observed in the soils of clayey fields. …”
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Managing Conflicts with Wildlife: Living with Frogs by Steven A. Johnson, Holly K. Ober, William M. Giuliano

“… Frogs control garden pests such as insects and slugs, and serve as a food source for many larger wildlife species. …”
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Nearly One in Three Lactating Mothers Is Suffering from Inadequate Dietary Diversity in Amhara Region, Northwest Ethiopia by Netsanet Fentahun, Elisabeth Alemu

“…Meal frequency, home gardening practices, pulses production, delivery at health center, practice of income generating activity, food insecurity, and mobile phone usage had significant association with dietary diversity. …”
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Mineralized Granitic Porphyry of the Yangla Copper Deposit, Western Yunnan, China: Geochemistry of Fluid Inclusions and H-O, S, and Pb Isotopes by Xinfu Wang, Bo Li, ShenJin Guan, Olivier Nadeau, Guo Tang

“…A model is proposed according to the early stage, a magmatic fluid reacted and replaced with the surrounding carbonate rocks and then formed skarn-type ore bodies. …”
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Charm fragmentation fractions and $$\mathbf {c\overline{c}}$$ c c ¯ cross section in p–Pb collisions at $$\mathbf {\sqrt{s _{NN}}=5.02 TeV}$$ s NN = 5.02 TeV by ALICE Collaboration

“…\pm 0.03\;\mathrm{(lumi.)}$$ R pPb ( c c ¯ ) = 0.91 ± 0.04 ( stat . ) - 0.09 + 0.08 ( syst . ) - 0.03 + 0.05 ( extr . ) ± 0.03 ( lumi . ) , is found to be consistent with unity and with theoretical predictions including nuclear modifications of the parton distribution functions.…”
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Graphene Oxide as a Nanocarrier for Controlled Loading and Targeted Delivery of Typhonium giganteum Drugs by Xiaohua Gu, Rui Cao, Fu Li, Yan Li, Hongge Jia, Hui Yu

“…In this study, Typhonium giganteum containing dual-function nanofibers composed of poly(butylene carbonate), polylactic acid, and graphene oxide (PBC/PLA/GO) were successfully fabricated by electrospinning. …”
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Le choix des espaces communs dans l’habité, support écologique et solidaire by Nicole Roux, Camille Noûs

“…The common spaces in housing, also called intermediary or common areas, are an in-between of the public and the private and contain a whole part of social life: from the garbage room to the bicycle garage, from the lift to the corridor, from the entrance hall to the car park, from the courtyard to the garden. So many places where behaviours can be analysed as markers of a relationship with the environment in its social and ecological dimensions. …”
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Pronósticos multivariados de poblaciones con series de tiempo: el caso de la ZMCM contrastado con datos del Censo 2010 by Eliud Silva, Manuel Ordorica

“…Se enuncia de manera general la metodología empleada para realizar los pronósticos partiendo de técnicas de desagre- gación, ajustes y estimación de pronósticos multivariados. …”
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