The Grass Is Greener
Is Grass Greener on the Other Side?: A Glimpse of the Worker Camps in UAE
... More than a million Indians work in UAE, and a third of them lives in worker camps. It is the expectation of higher wages that makes the ‘grass greener’ in UAE. But the wage differential, if it exists, does ...
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The grass is greener on the other side: understanding the effects of green spaces on Twitter user sentiments
... Using this methodology, we perform an empirical study on the effects of green spaces on user sentiments and emotions in Melbourne, Australia and our main findings are: i tweets in green [r] ...
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The grass isn’t always greener: The effects of cannabis on embryological development
... Studying the expression of genes involved in the differentiation pathways suggested that activation of the CB1 receptor by endocannabinoids increased expres- sion of genes promoting neur[r] ...
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The grass is always greener on the other side – but who says green takes it all? : An exploratory study on how greenwashing affects purchase intention, word of mouth and brand credibility
... a greener image of the organization than is reality – has shown in previous studies to cause more negative consequences throughout latest years, amongst others due to the latest generation of ethical ...
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Where is the grass greener? A micro-founded model of migration with application to Guangdong
... Figure 1 (Figure 1 location rank) shows the utility available to different individuals from locating in each of four different locations i = 1, ..4. Locations 3 and 4 are dominated and o[r] ...
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Grass is not always greener: rodenticide exposure of a threatened species near marijuana growing operations
... In association with a long-term demographic study, we report on brodifacoum exposure in a northern spotted owl found freshly dead in the vicinity of at least 7 active MGOs on private inh[r] ...
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Which grass is greener? Personal stories from PhDs about their careers within and outside academia
... Outside the university, I was told that I should leave these things to the programme assistant: “We don’t want you to spend time on that kind of thing; we want you to go think and be c[r] ...
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The grass is not always greener: a multi-institutional pilot study of marijuana use and acute pain management following traumatic injury
... Background: Widespread legislative efforts to legalize marijuana have increased the prevalence of marijuana use and abuse. The effects of marijuana on pain tolerance and analgesic pain m[r] ...
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Is the grass really greener on the other side? The intricacies of getting the green light on sustainable education for Sri Lankan International schools.
... development requires constant collaboration between different social groups, different governing bodies at global, national, regional and local scales as well as public a[r] ...
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Is the Grass Always Greener on the Other Side of the fence? Composite Index of Well Being Taking into Account the Local Relative Appreciations in Better Life Index
... Rank acceptability indices obtained with different sets of weights Random, Global, and Local are then used to explore the relationship between relative performances and people’s preferen[r] ...
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Towards greener pastures—Pathogens and pasture pests
... Amber disease is caused by strains of the bacteria Serratia entomophila Grimont et al. and S. proteamaculans (Paine and Stansfield) Grimont et al. which are found throughout the New Zealand pasture environment. These ...
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Phytoremediation: A Green Technology to Remove Environmental Pollutants
... Vetiver grass is highly suitable for phytoremedial ap- plication due to its extraordinary features. These include a massive and deep root system, tolerance to extreme climatic variations such as prolonged drought, ...
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Calcium Ferrite, an Efficient Catalyst for Knoevenagel Condensation (A Green Approach)
... a greener approach towards synthesis of Knoevenagel condensation products using a highly efficient, cheaper, reusable, biocompatible and environment friendly heterogeneous nano catalyst yielding the products in ...
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A Greener Way to Screen Toothpaste for Diethylene Glycol
... a greener alternative to acetonitrile and without sacrificing ...a greener and more cost ef- fective solvent (ethanol) identified, but also a more col- umn friendly sample ...
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Assessment of Decay Coefficients of Allochthonous Litter for Sustainable Riparian Forage Agriculture and Environmental Monitoring: A Study in River Nyangores, Kenya
... Diversification of forage crops utilization has resulted in their continuous uptake and adoption in Bomet region, accounting for over 5000 acres in Bomet district alone [22]. Being a high potential agricultural area with ...
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The resistance of Lolium perenne L. × hybridum Poa pratensis Festuca rubra F. arundinacea Phleum pratense and Dactylis glomerata to soil pollution by diesel oil and petroleum
... few grass species to the effects of petroleum-based products and to the remediation of soils polluted with these ...effective grass species in removing hydrocar- bons from these ...
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Vegetational Changes on a 25 Year Susere in the Loess Hill Region.
... Sand dropseed. Buff alo grass. Wheatgrass Three awn grass. Tumblegrass Hairy chess. grass and hairy chess, steadily decreased. The great- est change in the vegetation [r] ...
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A comparative study of voluntary intake and rumen digestion by deer, goats and sheep : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Animal Science at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
... ( Mehrez , 0rskov and McOon al d , 1 97 7 ) . Th i s i mp l i es th at on l ow qual i ty forage s , wi th a s l ow rate of fermentat i on of the cel l -wal l carbo hydrate s , s uc h as the l ow qual i ty prai r i e ...
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New Greener Alternative for Biocondensation of Aldehydes and Indoles Using Lemon Juice: Formation of Bis , Tris , and Tetraindoles
... Among the challenges for chemists including discov- ery and development of inexpensive, non-hazardous and simple environmentally safe chemical processes for se- lective synthesis by identifying alternative reaction con- ...
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Industrial Applications of Green Chemistry to Prevent Environmental Pollution and to Sustain the Earth (A Review)
... 322 | P a g e produced just a quarter of the waste of the original process. Pfizer has also improved the process to make its well-known Lipitor (atorvastatin), a drug for reducing blood cholesterol, so that it uses an ...
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