Animal metabolism refers to all physical reactions such as absorption, degradation, transformation, excretion and utilization of nutrients supplied to the animal by consuming food. (https://www.wellion.eu/en/diabetes/metabolism-in-animals/?no_cache=1)
Inventory of activities related to the design, organisation and planning of an education or training action, including definition of learning objectives, content, methods (including assessment) and material, as well as arrangements for training teachers and trainers. (CEDEFOP. 2014. Terminology of European education and training policy. 2nd ed. Luxemburg: Publications Office of the European Union. https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/en/publications/4117)
Rhanterium suaveolens is a desert plant endemic to North Africa. Due to their attractiveness for various human activities (grazing, clearing, and extensive cropping), the steppe formations are threatened with extinction, despite their low palatability. In arid rangelands, the production of Rhanterium suaveolens can represent a great part of fodder production. (https://www.icarda.org/publications/11709/managing-rangelands-promoting-native-shrub-species-rhanterium-suaveolens-desf)
Çökelek is dried cottage cheese. There are many regional varieties of çökelek. Some are eaten fresh while others are preserved, either by storage in goatskin bags or pottery jars, or by drying in the sun. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_cuisine)
Medicago turbinata or Southern medick is a plant species of the genus Medicago It is found throughout the Mediterranean basin. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicago_turbinata)
The Global Land Indicators Initiative (GLII) was established in 2012 with the aim to harmonize monitoring efforts around land tenure and governance. GLII seeks to derive a list of comparable and harmonized land indicators. (https://landportal.org/organization/global-land-indicator-initiative)
Shear stress is the stress component parallel to a given surface, such as a fault plane, that results from forces applied parallel to the surface or from remote forces transmitted through the surrounding rock. (https://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/glossary/?term=shear%20stress)
A group of RNA viruses whose positive single strand of viral RNA (5' to 3') contains the coding triplets, like mRNA, that can be directly translated into viral protein. (https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/2)
Land loan is the temporary cession of land use, normally without rent payable for its use. (Multilingual thesaurus on land tenure (English version)
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http://www.fao.org/3/a-x2038e.pdf)
Tuber magnatum, the white truffle or trifola d'Alba Madonna ("Truffle of the White Madonna" in Italian) is a species of truffle in the order Pezizales and family Tuberaceae; it is found in southern Europe. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuber_magnatum)
The principle that countries or private companies or even individuals should in some way compensate others for the effects of pollution that they (or their citizens) generate or have generated. (Pew Center, Global Climate Change, Glossary of Terms, 2009)
Inclusive growth is economic growth that is distributed fairly across society and creates opportunities for all. (https://www.oecd.org/inclusive-growth/#introduction)
A start-up is a business in the earliest stages of getting established. Companies may stay in start-up mode for as long as three years. (Business Development Bank of Canada, 2024. Glossary. Start-up. https://www.bdc.ca/en/articles-tools/entrepreneur-toolkit/templates-business-guides/glossary/start-up)
Detasseling corn (maize) is removing the pollen-producing flowers, the tassel, from the tops of corn (maize) plants and placing them on the ground. It is a form of pollination control, employed to cross-breed, or hybridize, two varieties of corn. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detasseling)
