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Description: The patented ratchet design provides fingertip ratchet disengagement allowing smooth, ratchet-free grasping. The Series I Instrument program offers state-of-the-art quality in an instrument of extremely low profile, while maintaining strength and durability. Low profile cutting tips allow access...Douglas-fir, geoducks make strange bedfellows in studying climate change
...e next step was to use the longest-lived organisms trees and the geoduck to tell us about climate prior to the start of instrumental records," Black pointed out. Sea surface temperatures affect climate on land and when there is a spike in average yearly temperatures, such as during an El Nino year, it c...Experimental treatment halts hypoxic-ischemic brain injury in newborns
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...oduce a 64% lifecycle GHG emissions reduction compared to gasoline. In comments submitted to CARB, the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association pointed out that cane ethanol's carbon intensity is even lower than initially calculated by the state regulator. Though sugarcane ethanol was found to be the ...