Cloud seeding is a weather modification technique that improves a cloud’s ability to produce rain or snow by introducing tiny ice nuclei into certain types of subfreezing clouds. These nuclei provide a base for snowflakes to form. (Desert Research Institute, 2024. What is Cloud Seeding? https://www.dri.edu/cloud-seeding-program/what-is-cloud-seeding/)
Most commonly used parameters in coastal engineering are Significant wave height, Mean wave period, Peak wave period, Mean wave direction. (http://www.coastalwiki.org/wiki/Statistical_description_of_wave_parameters)
Cnidaria is a phylum under kingdom Animalia containing over 11,000 species of aquatic animals found both in freshwater and marine environments, predominantly the latter. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnidaria)
A group of related or unrelated genotypes from the same or different populations, which display similar combining ability and heterotic response when crossed with genotypes from other genetically distinct germplasm groups. (Melchinger, A.E. and Gumber, R.K. (1998) Overview of heterosis and heterotic groups in agronomic crops. pp. 29-44. In: K.R. Lamkey, J.E. Staub (Eds.), Concepts and Breeding of Heterosis in Crop Plants. CSSA, Madison, WI. https://doi.org/10.2135/cssaspecpub25.c3)
Migrating within oceans typically between spawning and different feeding areas, as tunas do. Migrations should be cyclical and predictable and cover more than 100 km. (https://www.fishbase.se/Glossary/Glossary.php?q=oceanodromous&language=english&sc=is)
The abrupt cessation of all vital bodily functions, manifested by the permanent loss of total cerebral, respiratory, and cardiovascular functions. Can occur in animals and humans. (Amended from MeSH, 2024. Death, Sudden http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003645)
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This does not refer to plant diseases such as soybean sudden death syndrome or sudden oak death.
The Caribbean islands of Bonaire, Sint Eustatius, and Saba have been special municipalities of the Netherlands since 2010, when public administration responsibilities were transferred from the Government of the Netherlands Antilles to the Netherlands. (https://www.paho.org/salud-en-las-americas-2017/?page_id=1694)
The cobweb model or cobweb theory is an economic model that explains why prices may be subjected to periodic fluctuations in certain types of markets. It describes cyclical supply and demand in a market where the amount produced must be chosen before prices are observed. Producers' expectations about prices are assumed to be based on observations of previous prices (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobweb_model)
Migration that occurs in compliance with the laws of the country of origin, transit and destination. (Sironi, A. C. Bauloz and M. Emmanuel (eds.), 2019. Glossary on Migration. International Migration Law, No. 34. International Organization for Migration (IOM), Geneva.
https://publications.iom.int/books/international-migration-law-ndeg34-glossary-migration)
A male chicken usually less than 18 months old or male turkey less than 12 months old. (RAMIRAN Glossary of terms on livestock and manure management 2011)
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Use only for chickens; for other poultry use <8489> plus the descriptor for the species
