Ten Strategies for Working With Your Home Owner Association to Convert to a Florida-Friendly Yard by Gail Hansen de Chapman, Claire Lewis

“…But over sixty million people now live in neighborhoods governed by Homeowner Associations, whose regulations can make it difficult to implement some changes by mandating types of plants, percentages of turf and plant material, location of plant materials, and restricting specialty gardens to back yards. More environmentally sound landscapes are possible with careful planning and design, and by using an educated and knowledgeable approach to working with the HOA board to gain approval for a new landscape. …”
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Consumers' Response to "Neonic-Free" and Other Insect Pollinator Promotions on Ornamental Plants by Hayk Khachatryan, Alicia Rihn

“…This 3-page fact sheet describes the results of a study investigating how consumers’ awareness of neonic insecticides influenced their preferences and purchasing behavior for plants and explores the marketing potential of using alternate pollinator promotions (besides neonic-free) in garden center retail outlets. Written by Hayk Khachatryan and Alicia Rihn, and published by the Food and Resource Economics Department, March 2016. …”
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Diversity and potential uses of legumes as animal feed in Zimbabwe by Alfred Maroyi

“…This study recorded 86 species that are used as fodder, forages, and pastures in Zimbabwe, and 27.9% of these species are exotic, either naturalized as weeds or cultivated in agricultural fields or home gardens. Major genera with at least two species used as animal feed in Zimbabwe include Albizia, Arachis, Brachystegia, Desmodium, Leucaena, Ormocarpum, Pterocarpus, Senegalia, Sesbania, Stylosanthes, Trifolium, and Vachellia. …”
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Preparation and characterization of low-cost ceramic microfiltration membranes for water treatment by Ghouil Boudjemaa, Khebli Zineb, Bouzerara Ferhat, Zermani Dounia, Zitouni Chahinez, Youla Keltoum, Idoui Tayeb, Khennouf Tarek

“…The supports were prepared from local Algerian clays and calcium carbonate, selected for their abundant availability. …”
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Consumers' Response to "Neonic-Free" and Other Insect Pollinator Promotions on Ornamental Plants by Hayk Khachatryan, Alicia Rihn

“…This 3-page fact sheet describes the results of a study investigating how consumers’ awareness of neonic insecticides influenced their preferences and purchasing behavior for plants and explores the marketing potential of using alternate pollinator promotions (besides neonic-free) in garden center retail outlets. Written by Hayk Khachatryan and Alicia Rihn, and published by the Food and Resource Economics Department, March 2016. …”
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Maximizing the Benefits of Reclaimed Water for Irrigating the Landscape and Protecting the Environment by George Hochmuth, Laurie Trenholm, Don Rainey, Esen Momol, Claire Lewis, Brian Niemann

“…Approximately 663 million gallons of reclaimed water are used daily in Florida. …”
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Study of the Catalytic Activity and Surface Properties of Manganese-Zinc Ferrite Prepared from Used Batteries by Katarzyna Winiarska, Roman Klimkiewicz, Włodzimierz Tylus, Agnieszka Sobianowska-Turek, Juliusz Winiarski, Bogdan Szczygieł, Irena Szczygieł

“…Depending on the ion precursor applied in the combustion process, a selective catalyst towards aldehyde (carbonate precursor) or ketone (hydroxide precursor) formation can be obtained. …”
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Consolidants in Salt-Weathered Masonry: Retention and Efficiency of DAP and TEOS by V A Anupama, Enrico Sassoni, Manu Santhanam

“…The short-term and long-term effects of carbonation condition, pore size distribution, mineralogy and hygric resistance on the consolidation are investigated through microstructural analysis. …”
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Review on the Durability of Polypropylene Fibre-Reinforced Concrete by Yanzhu Liu, Liang Wang, Ke Cao, Lei Sun

“…This paper summarizes the influence of polypropylene fibre on the durability of concrete, including drying shrinkage, creep, water absorption, permeability resistance, chloride ion penetration resistance, sulfate corrosion resistance, freeze-thaw cycle resistance, carbonation resistance, and fire resistance. The authors analysed the effects of fibre content, fibre diameter, and fibre hybrid ratio on these durability indexes. …”
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The Influence Of Seed Quantity Per Planting Hole On The Agronomics Of Soybean Variety Dena 1 Under Different Lighting Conditions by Nugraha Ramadhan

“…This study was conducted from August to November 2023 at the Experimental Garden of the Faculty of Agriculture, Andalas University. …”
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Professional Disease Management Guide for Ornamental Plants by Philip F. Harmon, S. D. Bledsoe

“…Florida’s warm, humid environment is a gardener’s paradise and a great location for ornamental plant producers to grow numerous plant species—but these conditions also are suitable for the development of a wide variety of plant pathogens and insects that can spread them. …”
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Evaluation of the Influence Caused by Tunnel Construction on Groundwater Environment: A Case Study of Tongluoshan Tunnel, China by Jian Liu, Dan Liu, Kai Song

“…This study presents an indicator system and quantifies each indicator of Tongluoshan tunnel, which is located in southwest China with a length of 5.2 km and mainly passes through carbonate rocks and sandstones, based on field investigation and related technological reports. …”
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MINERALOGICAL-GEOCHEMICAL FEATURES OF MAGNETITE OCCURRENCES IN SERPENTINITES OF THE KALKAN AREA (MAIN URALIAN FAULT ZONE, SOUTH URALS) by D.E. Saveliev

“…Abundant Cu minerals including native copper, Cu sulfides (covellite, bornite, minerals of the chalcocite-digenite series), chlorides (nantokite), Cu carbonates and Cu silicates are found in magnetite ores. …”
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Effects of Incorporation of Marble Powder Obtained by Recycling Waste Sludge and Limestone Powder on Rheology, Compressive Strength, and Durability of Self-Compacting Concrete by Rayed Alyousef, Omrane Benjeddou, Chokri Soussi, Mohamed Amine Khadimallah, Abdeliazim Mustafa Mohamed

“…Tests on hardened SCCs included compressive strength, homogeneity, and quality in terms of ultrasonic pulse velocity and durability against carbonation and water penetration. In addition, scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) were used to analyze the specimens.…”
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Investigating the durability enhancement of recycled construction concrete through the application of nano-montmorillonite by Wei Yuan, Jie Li, Ziwei Cai

“…At this dosage, the 28-day compressive strength of RCA concrete was only 3–4 % lower than the control mix, and at 90 days, it matched or exceeded the control by 1–2 %. Carbonation depth reduced by 49 %, drying shrinkage by 46 %, and chloride ion ingress showed over 51 % reduction compared to the RCA mix without NMT. …”
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Heavy Metal Pollution and Chemical Profile of Cauvery River Water by Abida Begum, M. Ramaiah, Harikrishna, Irfanulla Khan, K. Veena

“…Water samples have high carbonate hardness. Concentrations of all elements and ions increase in the downstream. …”
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Multimodality Imaging Evaluation of an Uncommon Entity: Esophageal Heterotopic Pancreas by Takman Mack, Debra Lowry, Peter Carbone, Brian Barbick, Joshua Kindelan, Robert Marks

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Preparation of strontium hexaferrite magnets from celestite and blue dust by mechanochemical route by Tiwary R.K., Narayan S.P., Pandey O.P.

“…The celestite after chemical upradation and physically upgraded blue dust alongwith sodium carbonate was taken for the preparation of strontium hexaferrite in this experiment. …”
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Underwater paleontology inside cenotes reveals the Miocene-Pliocene fish diversity in the Yucatan Peninsula, southeast Mexico. by Kleyton M Cantalice, Hugo E Salgado-Garrido, Erick Sosa-Rodríguez, Kay Vilchis-Zapata, Gerardo González-Barba, Underwater Archaeological Atlas project

“…This system is developed on a great Late Miocene to Early Pliocene carbonate platform belonging to the Carrillo Puerto Formation. …”
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Dynamical systems of modified Gauss–Bonnet gravity: cosmological implications by Ashutosh Singh

“…We utilize the dynamical system approach to study the cosmic dynamics of two different class of f(R, G) models composed of radiation and matter (cold dark matter and baryonic matter). The linear perturbations around the fixed points are studied to explore the corresponding stability of points. …”
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