(1) In the past, he explains, 'encroachers' failed to respect the park's boundaries, sneaking into the forest to gather firewood and fell trees for timber.
(2) In 1977 the Green Belt Movement began with Maathai organizing women to plant trees for firewood.
(3) The animals were hunted and trapped for their meat and fur and the trees provided the firewood that littered the forest floor.
(4) Adolescent girls are then asked to fulfill the adult woman's functions in gathering firewood and fetching water.
(5) A programme that aims to supply firewood in a sustainable manner, which started in 1998, has been undermined by unauthorised exploitation of its plantations by traders from the camps, found the impact study.
(6) When the Roman empire collapsed, he said, large parts of Europe had been deforested for farmland and to provide firewood.
(7) "I try to boil it but if I don't have firewood we drink it as it is," she says.
(8) It is estimated to be worth £72- £124m annually in social and environmental benefits and is famously good for burning, known in poems as a firewood fit for a queen.
(9) Now, if they wish to gather firewood, medicinal plants or building materials they must approach their parish council for a permit and pay a small fee - anywhere from 200 to 500UGS (60p-£1.50).
(10) Sompasauna shacks are free to use and maintained by volunteers; visitors may have to chop their own firewood with the saw from blocks of wood provided.
(11) He also realised that the commercialisation of the baobab could provide rural communities with a financial incentive to protect their woodlands and act as a bulwark against deforestation in a country that is losing its trees at a rate of around 3% a year as people clear land for firewood and farming.
(12) "I'm not used to chopping firewood and my body aches but then doing it this way we only spend €300 on heating our home."
(13) There were "small incidents" with Roma accused of pilfering firewood or vegetables and other petty crime, but only 12 "petty larcenies" were reported to police during the first four months of 2011.
(14) "Seventy years of growth and now good for firewood only," sighs Olrik.
(15) Socioeconomic factors contributing to the injuries included the use of firewood for cooking at ground-level and for warming the house and body during the cold season; loose indigenous garments; thatch-roofed huts and the post-partum rituals of mud-bed heating and hot baths.
(16) A trip through Dalsland’s Lake District in Sweden can be adapted according to paddlers’ lust for adventure, with camping spots and firewood provided, as they navigate their way through scenic waterways surrounded by rich woodland.
(17) "I really want to go to school, I like school," he says, now balancing a basket full of firewood.
(18) Now when we see each other we ask, ‘Were you raped today?’ ” The report says: “Armed assailants, including members of state security forces, operating with complete impunity, sexually assault, rape, beat, shoot, and stab women and girls inside camps for the displaced and as they walk to market, tend to their fields, or forage for firewood.” It suggests five areas in which measures to protect women and children from sexual violence should be taken: physical protection, emergency health services, access to justice, legal and policy reform, and promotion of women’s equality.
(19) It is hard to convince them to listen to us.” Mir Fatteh Khan, a burly man of 40, worries about his 10 children, many of whom have taken to wandering the foothills in search of firewood.
(20) The fund is intended to provide African governments and people living in the rainforest with a viable alternative to logging, mining, and felling trees for firewood and subsistence farming.
Log
Definition:
(n.) A Hebrew measure of liquids, containing 2.37 gills.
(n.) A bulky piece of wood which has not been shaped by hewing or sawing.
(n.) An apparatus for measuring the rate of a ship's motion through the water.
(n.) Hence: The record of the rate of ship's speed or of her daily progress; also, the full nautical record of a ship's cruise or voyage; a log slate; a log book.
(n.) A record and tabulated statement of the work done by an engine, as of a steamship, of the coal consumed, and of other items relating to the performance of machinery during a given time.
(n.) A weight or block near the free end of a hoisting rope to prevent it from being drawn through the sheave.
(v. t.) To enter in a ship's log book; as, to log the miles run.
(v. i.) To engage in the business of cutting or transporting logs for timber; to get out logs.
(v. i.) To move to and fro; to rock.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was found that linear extrapolations of log k' versus ET(30) plots to the polarity of unmodified aqueous mobile phase gave a more reliable value of log k'w than linear regressions of log k' versus volume percent.
(2) The ED50 and ED95 of mivacurium in each group were estimated from linear regression plots of log dose vs probit of maximum percentage depression of neuromuscular function.
(3) Probability distributions are fitted to these data and it is shown that the log-series distribution best fits the data for two subgroups.
(4) Each line exhibited 1-4 log differences in sensitivities to the two toxins.
(5) At a concentration of 10 microM, tetraamine 4 did not affect histamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors of guinea pig ileum or alpha-adrenoreceptors of guinea pig atria whereas it inhibited postsynaptic alpha-adrenoreceptors of rat vas deferens with a -log K value of 5.23 and nicotinic receptors of frog rectus abdominis with an IC50 value of 0.23 microM.
(6) The best compound was trans-alpha-[[(4-bromotetrahydro-2H-pyran-3-yl) amino]methyl]-2-nitro-1H-imidazole-1-ethanol (18), which, due to its activity and log P value, is a candidate for additional in vivo studies.
(7) The final approved log contained 72 problems, 64 of which received importance ratings greater than or equal to 2 on the three-point scale.
(8) All are satisfied by [Formula: see text], where N is the size of rod signal, constant for threshold; theta, theta(D) are steady backgrounds of light and receptor noise; varphi is the threshold flash with sigma a constant of about 2.5 log td sec; B the fraction of pigment in the bleached state.
(9) The results clearly demonstrate local separability in this log frequency and orientation discrimination domain.
(10) Positive correlations were observed between mean log fasting insulin concentration and all parameters of obesity except log triceps skinfold thickness in men.
(11) Cocaine, 3 microM, shifted the noradrenaline concentration response curve to the left about 0.4 log units in all renal vessel groups, thus renal vascular smooth muscle sensitivity to noradrenaline was significantly greater in vessels from rats receiving CyA than in vessels from control rats.
(12) Details of sexual activity and experience were followed by the use of daily logs.
(13) The results should be analysed by the Kaplan-Meier estimator, and patency rates should be compared by the log-rank test or Gehan's test.
(14) There was a significant negative correlation between propranolol level (log-transformed) and glycemic responses, suggesting that propranolol has direct effect on the latter.
(15) Evaluation of lymphocyte phenotype frequencies, functional responses, serum immunoglobulin levels, and autoantibodies was completed for 38 individuals (i.e., 10 families) who were exposed to pentachlorophenol (PCP) in manufacturer-treated log houses.
(16) Spatial summation was found to decrease by 30-50% as the cell was light-adapted to a threshold some 4 log units above the dark-adapted one.
(17) The difference in binding capacity was of the same order of magnitude as the difference in sodium content, indicating that the excess sodium in the thoracic aortas from the hypertensive rats was osmotically inactive and thus unable to cause water logging.
(18) The equations of best fit of log(wax esters) vs age suggested that sebum secretion declines about 23% per decade in men and 32% per decade in women.
(19) Challenge studies using the standard National Veterinary Services Laboratory laryngotracheitis (LT) challenge virus (Log 10(6.7) EID50 per ml) were conducted to assess the presence of maternal protection in chicks of various ages (1, 7, 14, 21, and 28 days).
(20) In lymph node-positive patients a trend between high TA1 reactivity and a worse overall survival was also noted (log rank P = 0.128; Wilcoxon P = 0.054), with a 6-year survival of 42% in the strongly reactive tumors (n = 16) and 65% in the negative to weakly reactive carcinomas (n = 105).