Today, the system is used in therapy and education, and can have a strong spiritual dimension -- but one of the first and major fields of use is business, where it has been adapted as a way of bringing insight into oneself and others.
By knowing the size and shape of their fields, farmers can then use correct amounts of fertilizer and plan for future soil improvements. eDairy in Sri Lanka also allows farmers to send text messages to a network of veterinarians and extension workers requesting services.
Eradication teams in Colombia talk of finding high-density coca fields in new areas, and more use of fertiliser by growers.
Given the vagaries of aerial spraying, this would bar the use of tebuthiuron in many coca fields.
Before joining Linear, he taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he used a surplus flight computer from an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile to research the control of fermentation for use in fields such as pharmaceutical production.
It recommends they use rice and wheat straw for mulch instead of burning it, rotate their crops, use a range of different seeds, manure their fields, and so on.
Thus, researchers use complicated systems of magnetic fields to contain antimatter.
It started on the ground with seizures of airfields in the west of Iraq -- to prevent their use as launch pads for Scud missiles -- and of oil fields, to prevent them from being ignited.
Globally, the use of depleting oil and gas fields for purposes of CO2 sequestration can be very helpful to the environment.
That increased use of technology in more mainstream fields is evident in the wide variety of tech start-ups looking to grow in New York.
You know the sorts of things, leaving verges on fields, low pesticide use, perhaps even fallow periods and so on.
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Mr. Stryjewski likes to use long-grain Louisiana rice sourced from fields west of the city and around Lafayette.
But beware: The discount carriers often use out-of-the-way air fields and you can find yourself with long bus or train transfers between airports.
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Use of the K computer is expected to have a groundbreaking impact in fields ranging from global climate research, meteorology, disaster prevention, and medicine, thereby contributing to the creation of a prosperous and secure society.
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As Turner Investments points out, in an era when a farmer can take his iPhone into the fields and use the data it generates to customize and modify his decisions to fertilize a particular corner of a specific field, and produce crops more efficiently and profitably, the companies that enable him to do so are likely to remain out-performers.
One solution might be to allow local state schools to use facilities such as theatres, swimming pools and playing fields, and even to send some of their students for lessons.
In Caithness, LiDAR revealed fields where medieval and later rig and furrow systems overlie much earlier agricultural use as well as the remains of 3, 000-year-old low-walled, thatched roofed houses called hut circles.
The product metabolizes into inactive compounds within hours of being ingested, she said, a feature crucial to its development for use in rice fields in Asia, where farmers needed something that wouldn't sicken other animals and children.
Many other factors that have been studied do not seem to affect the risk of breast cancer (dietary fat intake, cigarette smoking, past oral contraceptive use, exposure to electromagnetic fields).
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