A coastal breeze blowing from land to sea, caused by the temperature difference when the sea surface is warmer than the adjacent land. A land breeze usually blows by night and alternates with sea breeze, which blows in the opposite direction by day. (SKYbrary. 2024. Land Breeze. https://skybrary.aero/articles/land-breeze)
MUSLE is a modification of the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE). MUSLE is similar to USLE except for the energy component. USLE depends strictly upon rainfall as the source of erosive energy. MUSLE uses storm-based runoff volumes and runoff peak flows to simulate erosion and sediment yield (Williams 1995). The use of runoff variables rather than rainfall erosivity as the driving force enables MUSLE to estimate sediment yields for individual storm events. (https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/nrcs143_013359.pdf)
A pesticide used to kill or control mites or ticks. (Glossary of Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering, FAO Research and Technology Paper No. 7, 1999.)
Flat-pressed or moulded panels manufactured from particles of wood or other ligno-cellulosic materials bonded by a suitable, usually organic, binder in the presence of heat and pressure. They may also be manufactured by extruding the materials into a mould under heat and pressure. Extruded particle board may be solid or with hollow cavities. The density of particle boards varies with the density of raw materials used and the binder, pressures and temperatures used in manufacture. (FAO. 2019. Forest products 2017, FAO Statistics. http://www.fao.org/3/ca5703m/ca5703m.pdf)
A disease of pregnant and lactating cows and ewes leading to generalized paresis and death. The disease, which is characterized by hypocalcemia, occurs at or shortly after parturition in cows and within weeks before or after parturition in ewes. (National Library of Medicine, MeSH. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/68010319 Cited 31 October 2023.)
Members of the family Parvoviridae are small, resilient, non-enveloped viruses with linear, single-stranded DNA genomes of4–6 kb. (Cotmore, Susan & Agbandje-McKenna, Mavis & Canuti, Marta & Chiorini, John & Eis-Hubinger, Anna-Maria & Hughes, Joseph & Mietzsch, Mario & Modha, Sejal & Ogliastro, Mylène & Pénzes, Judit & Pintel, David & Qiu, Jianming & Söderlund-Venermo, Maria & Tattersall, Peter & Tijssen, Peter. (2019). ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Parvoviridae. Journal of General Virology. 100. 10.1099/jgv.0.001212.)
