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32 examples of Nutrient in a sentence

You can't farm the same piece of ground for 40 centuries without understanding nutrient flow.
In ecosystems, the waste from one organism becomes the nutrient for something else in that system.
And that's what we're doing on the next project I'm going to talk about, the Mobius Project, where we're trying to bring together a number of activities, all within one building, so that the waste from one can be the nutrient for another.
Is it thinking lamprey eel thoughts, sitting there in its nutrient medium?
There's a big pipe with the blood flowing through it, and around that pipe are the nerves drawing their nutrient supply from the blood.
There's one called TOR, which is another nutrient sensor, like the insulin pathway.
Phosphorus, a nutrient essential to life, which is becoming increasingly scarce, yet nobody is talking about it.
Or we don't know if that fabric is a technological or manufacturing nutrient; it can be reused or does it just end up at landfill?
So the circulatory system solves the nutrient delivery problem by sending blood vessels to supply nutrients and oxygen to every corner of our body.
So clearly, whales are really important in nutrient cycling, both horizontally and vertically, through the oceans.
The frontal lobes are so sensitive to drops in glucose, in fact, that a change in mental function is one of the primary signals of nutrient deficiency.
When cracks finally appear and water trickles into the concrete, the spores germinate, grow, and consume the nutrient soup that surrounds them, modifying their local environment to create the perfect conditions for calcium carbonate to grow.
And they become like nutrient pumps.
So I hope I've showed you that canopy-dwellers are not just insignificant bits of green up high in the canopy that Tarzan and Jane were interested in, but rather that they foster biodiversity contribute to ecosystem nutrient cycles, and they also help to keep our global climate stable.
This is key, because many reefs are overgrown with algae due to nutrient pollution from sewage and fertilizer that runs off of land.
Another unique aspects about these farms is that they use a precise nutrient formula that is circulated and recycled throughout the facility, and this is pumped directly to the vegetables' root zone to promote plant growth.
Maybe the thing that they really want, the nutrient that they want, is time.
List of priorities, outcome document from Copenhagen Consensus by UN ambassadors, June 16-17 2006 at Georgetown University:challengeopportunity1Communicable DiseasesScaled-up basic health services2Sanitation and WaterCommunity-managed water supply and sanitation3EducationPhysical expansion4Malnutrition and HungerImproving infant and child nutrition5Malnutrition and HungerInvestment in technology in developing country agriculture6Communicable DiseasesControl of HIV/AIDS7Communicable DiseasesControl of malaria8Malnutrition and HungerReducing micro nutrient deficiencies9Subsidies and Trade BarriersOptimistic Doha: 50% liberalization10EducationImprove quality / Systemic reforms11Sanitation and WaterSmall-scale water technology for livelihoods12EducationExpand demand for schooling13Malnutrition and HungerReducing Low Birth Weight for high risk pregnancies14EducationReductions in the cost of schooling to increase demand15Sanitation and WaterResearch to increase water productivity in food production16MigrationMigration for development17CorruptionProcurement reform18ConflictsAid post-conflict to reduce the risk of repeat conflict19Sanitation and WaterRe-using waste water for agriculture20MigrationGuest worker policies21Sanitation and WaterSustainable food and fish production in wetlands22CorruptionGrassroots monitoring and service delivery23CorruptionTechnical assistance to develop monitoring and transparency initiatives24MigrationActive immigration policies25Subsidies and Trade BarriersPessimistic Doha: 25% liberalization26CorruptionReduction in the state-imposed costs of business/government relations27Climate ChangeThe Kyoto Protocol28ConflictsAid as conflict prevention29CorruptionReform of revenue collection30Financial InstabilityInternational solution to the currency-mismatch problem31ConflictsTransparency in natural resource rents as conflict prevention32ConflictsMilitary spending post-conflict to reduce the risk of repeat conflict33Financial InstabilityRe-regulate domestic financial markets34ConflictsShortening conflicts: Natural resource tracking35Financial InstabilityReimpose capital controls36Financial InstabilityAdopt a common currency37Subsidies and Trade BarriersFull reform: 100% liberalization38Climate ChangeOptimal carbon tax39Climate ChangeValue-at-risk carbon tax40Climate ChangeA carbon tax starting at $2 and ending at $20The Eurozone According to MerkelBRUSSELS – We had almost given up waiting for them, but then they came in a quasi-clandestine form.
For example, we found that increased agricultural production can damage the oceans if it adds to nutrient run-off and other forms of pollution; and this, in turn, could undermine health and long-term food security.
Conversely, fructose, while also an energy source, is a vestigial nutrient for humans; our cells do not need it to function.
They are the great biological pump of global atmospheric and thermal regulation, and the driver of the water and nutrient cycles.
Moreover, pigs and poultry are ideal food-waste processors, and their effluents can serve again as nutrient and energy sources, turning future food chains into interconnected production cycles.
In the coral reef example, both the nutrient and fish thresholds fall as sea temperatures rise and the oceans become more acidic.
So, as climate change proceeds, smaller incremental rises in nutrient levels and drops in fish stocks will flip coral reefs to algal states.
Worse yet, other than the ephemeral pleasure that it provides, there is not a single biochemical process that requires dietary fructose; it is a vestigial nutrient, left over from the evolutionary differentiation between plants and animals.
Another potential pitfall of agricultural development is environmental damage, including land degradation, soil nutrient mining, excessive water use, and water pollution.
Continent-wide, 65% of land has been degraded, and 3% of agricultural GDP is lost annually, owing to soil and nutrient loss on farmland.
In fact, there is already a life-extension drug for mice: inhibiting another nutrient sensor, called Tor, increases lifespan in all animal species examined so far (though the jury is still out for humans).
Poor waste management allowed the capital city of Harare’s main water source, Lake Chivero, to become heavily polluted from sewage effluent, causing eutrophication (when nutrient buildup causes excessive vegetation growth).
The IPBES report highlights several sustainable agricultural practices, such as integrated pest and nutrient management, organic farming, soil and water conservation, and measures to improve animal welfare.