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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is a country in West Asia, situated at the eastern end of the Arabian Peninsula. (Wikipedia. 2026. United Arab Emirates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Arab_Emirates)

The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945. Currently made up of 193 Member States, the UN and its work are guided by the purposes and principles contained in its founding Charter. (United Nations, 2024. About Us https://www.un.org/en/about-us)

In sedimentology and geology, a nodule is a small, irregularly rounded knot, mass, or lump of a mineral or mineral aggregate that typically has a contrasting composition, such as a pyrite nodule in coal, a chert nodule in limestone, or a phosphorite nodule in marine shale, from the enclosing sediment or sedimentary rock. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodule_(geology))

Neutral detergent fibre (NDF) estimates the content in cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, cutine and insoluble minerals in the cell wall, and is determined as being the residue remaining after extraction with the neutral detergent solution (made up of sodium lauryl sulphate and EDTA). (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6770578/)

Application method where the fertilizer is applied in concentrated strips, either on the surface or sub-surface. (Government of Alberta. Getting the Most Out of Commercial Fertilizer Applications. https://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/epw11920/$FILE/5-1.pdf)

A feeding system in which the animal is able to eat a component of the ration or a feed mixture continuously and in sufficient quantities as desired. (Translated from https://sozluk.gov.tr/)

Upland rice is grown in rainfed, naturally well-drained soils with bunded or unbunded fields without surface water accumulation. Upland rice varieties are mostly grown as a low-yielding subsistence crop to give stable yields under the adverse environmental conditions of the uplands. (http://www.knowledgebank.irri.org/step-by-step-production/growth/water-management/faqs-about-water-management/item/what-is-the-difference-between-aerobic-rice-and-upland-rice)

Those people at the top of a social hierarchy. (Wiktionary. 2025. Upper class. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/upper_class)

The Banda Sea is one of four seas that surround the Maluku Islands of Indonesia, connected to the Pacific Ocean, but surrounded by hundreds of islands, including Timor, as well as the Halmahera and Ceram Seas. (Wikipedia. 2025. Banda Sea. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banda_Sea)

Upper Normandy (called Haute-Normandie in French) is a former region of France. It is now part of the administrative region of Normandy. (Wikipedia. 2025. Upper Normandy https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Normandy)

Sovereign state in Africa. (Wikidata. 2026. Burkina Faso (Q965) https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q965)

Uracil (U) is one of the four nucleotide bases in RNA, with the other three being adenine (A), cytosine (C) and guanine (G). (National Human Genome Research Institute, 2024. Talking Glossary of Genomic and Genetic Terms. https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Uracil)