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The process of making a fuel-air mixture richer by increasing the ratio of fuel in the mixture.
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Access to suitable enrichment materials is known to be one of the most important risk factors, and there is growing pressure to enforce not only the ban on routine tail docking but also making sure suitable enrichment materials are provided.
The first EU legislation regarding enrichment was produced 25 years ago and in 2008 the updated and more comprehensive Pig Directive specified that there should be "permanent access to a sufficient quantity" of material to enable proper investigation and manipulation activities.
These shoots are enrichment axes that end in lateral inflorescences generally similar to the terminal inflorescence (Vegetti & Weberling, 1996).
While this elegant approach was highly multiplexable and also led to minimal sample loss, it was limited given the requirement for multiplex PCR following enrichment, which could complicate assay optimization.
The objective of this paper is to explore the relationship between work-family conflict and work-family enrichment. Work-family interface has two primary experiences: work-family conflict and work-family enrichment, which are being studied by science.
"The enrichment of uranium to the level of 20 percent is continuing, and it will never be stopped," Abbasi said adding that "we will increase the amount of fuel (at the level of 20 percent) to save for Tehran research reactor."
Birks has succumbed to the siren song of [section] 812.I.1 of the German Burgerliches Gesetzbuch ('German Civil Code') and now suggests that all enrichments are prima facie unjust.
Therefore, enrichment methods are needed to allow for routine detection and molecular analysis of small numbers of exfoliated cells.
Second, they show an enrichment of odd isotopes, such ad deuterium and nitrogen-15.
Total body water (TBW) volume can by measured in humans by administering an oral dose of an isotope tracer, such as [sup.2][H.sub.2]O or [H.sub.2][sup.18]O, and measuring the isotope enrichment in saliva, urine, or serum samples.
Environmental enrichment by provision of objects or substrates capable of satisfying the behavioral needs of pigs, is a major method to combat animal welfare problems.
One of the most difficult is providing opportunities for foraging and enrichment behaviors.