Although there are landscapes in the show ( one of the strongest is a vista of `` Gloucester Harbor '' in 1915 ), the human element was the compelling factor in Sloan's art.

Artifacts, faunal remains, and human altered landscapes are evidence of the cultural and material lives of past societies.

After an earlier period of landscapes, in 1907 he turned his attention again to human figures and situations.

* The modern Environmental movement, which began in the 1960s with concern about air and water pollution, became broader in scope to including all landscapes and human activities.

Maritime archaeology ( also known as marine archaeology ) is a discipline within archaeology as a whole that specifically studies human interaction with the sea, lakes and rivers through the study of associated physical remains, be they vessels, shore side facilities, port-related structures, cargoes, human remains and submerged landscapes.

Overland migration as a biological process requires large connected landscapes, which is increasingly difficult to maintain, particularly over the long term, when human demands on the landscape compete, as well.

While .. entitlements of particular human beings may come and go, the underlying relationships between foundational Dreamings and certain landscapes are theoretically eternal ... the entitlements of people to places are usually regarded strongest when those people enjoy a relationship of identity with one or more Dreamings of that place.

Features such as ritual landscapes, battlefields and flint scatters are difficult to schedule ; recent amendment in Scotland ( see below ) has widened the definition to include " any site ... comprising any thing, or group of things, that evidences previous human activity ".

Combining both their physical origins and the cultural overlay of human presence, often created over millennia, landscapes reflect the living synthesis of people and place vital to local and national identity.

He had a distinctive style of painting and is best known for urban landscapes peopled with human figures often referred to as " matchstick men ".

Furthermore, placing suitable figures in a secular setting was a necessity of good landscape painting, to add human context and scale, and it was even more important in allegorical landscapes.

It is explicitly stated that landscapes are areas at a kilometres wide ‘‘ human scale ’’ of perception, modification, etc.

As human land use practices expand and continue to increase the proportion of edges in landscapes, the effects of this leakage across edges on assemblage integrity may become more significant in conservation.

Some species have readily adapted to human modified landscapes such as plantations, gardens and agricultural land.

It consists of a series of photographs of landscapes and wildlife, as well as of human communities that continue to live in accordance with their ancestral traditions and cultures.

This is one example of reconciliation ecology, or accommodating biodiversity within human landscapes.

His painting, however, was influenced at first by the densely forested, luxuriantly enveloping landscape settings for human figures of Adam Elsheimer, a German painter resident in Rome ; " there are few landscapes by Saraceni which have not been attributed to Elsheimer ," Malcolm Waddingham observed, and Anna Ottani Cavina has suggested the influences may have travelled both ways.

Cultural landscapes, on the other hand, are environments that have been altered in some manner by people ( including temporary structures and places, such as campsites, that are created by human beings ).

The term space has commonly been used in place of cultural landscape to describe landscapes that are " produced or mediated by human behavior to elicit certain behaviors ".

word / speech / discourse ) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of cultural and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes.

Deeply indebted to Surrealism, Moore's paintings frequently depict dream scenarios and futuristic landscapes, often with environmental sub-texts ( in a picture-postcard Niagara Falls, chemical signatures of pollutants drift in the mist ), or references to AIDS ( in Viral Romance, 1992, a reversed bouquet blooms human immunodeficiency virus ).

Characteristic of his work is a hushed and nearly melancholic reverie amidst pastoral landscapes largely devoid of human presence.

Although Greenpeace had stated that efficiency was its primary concern, as early as 2001, statements from March and April 2005 also continued to express concern over human health and environmental safety Greenpeace has opposed releasing golden rice to fields as opposed to farming in greenhouses, which according to golden rice developer Ingo Potrykus, limits the amount of material needed for human safety testing.

Potato, rice, wheat, and maize are major sources of starch in the human diet.

Globally, wheat is the leading source of vegetable protein in human food, having a higher protein content than either maize ( corn ) or rice, the other major cereals.

In terms of total production tonnages used for food, it is currently second to rice as the main human food crop and ahead of maize, after allowing for maize's more extensive use in animal feeds.

Since a large portion of maize crops are grown for purposes other than human consumption, rice is the most important grain with regard to human nutrition and caloric intake, providing more than one fifth of the calories consumed worldwide by the human species.

Ventria Bioscience has genetically modified rice to express lactoferrin, lysozyme, and human serum albumin, which are proteins usually found in breast milk.

Examples of unexpected but recently confirmed ancient genome duplications include baker's yeast ( Saccharomyces cerevisiae ), mustard weed / thale cress ( Arabidopsis thaliana ), rice ( Oryza sativa ), and an early evolutionary ancestor of the vertebrates ( which includes the human lineage ) and another near the origin of the teleost fishes.

The following year, Sir Frederick Hopkins postulated that some foods contained " accessory factors "— in addition to proteins, carbohydrates, fats, and salt — that were necessary for the functions of the human body .< ref > Christiaan Eijkman, Beriberi and Vitamin B < sub > 1 </ sub >, Official Web Site of the Nobel Foundation </ ref > In 1901, Gerrit Grijns ( May 28, 1865 – November 11, 1944 ), a Dutch physician and assistant to Christiaan Eijkman in the Netherlands correctly interpreted the disease as a deficiency syndrome, and between 1910 and 1913, Dr. Edward Bright Vedder established that an extract of rice bran is a treatment for beriberi.

Dedicated rice cookers date from long ago in human history.

Just 15 crop plants provide 90 percent of the world's food energy intake, with rice, maize and wheat comprising two-thirds of human food consumption.

Most of the global human population lives on a diet based on one or more of the following staples: rice, wheat, maize ( corn ), millet, sorghum, roots and tubers ( potatoes, cassava, yams and taro ), and animal products such as meat, milk, eggs, cheese and fish.

" Ricky also told a story ( which he declared would never make the broadcast ) of a friend of his who on moving out to the country was presented with a rice pudding made with his new neighbour's leftover human breast milk.

Rice bran is a byproduct of the rice milling process ( the conversion of brown rice to white rice ), and it contains various antioxidants that impart beneficial effects on human health.

In traditional Japanese construction, room sizes were often determined by combinations of standard rice mats called tatami ; the standard dimension of a mat was around 3 feet by 6 feet, which approximate the overall proportions of a reclining human figure.

Although it is associated with many human foods ( wheat, rice, corn, barley, oats, rye, and food colored with Monascus pigment ) its full significance for human health is unknown.

Recently, an efficient plant expression system was developed to produce biologically active recombinant human IGF-I ( rhIGF-I ) in transgenic rice grains.

The concept encompasses a wide range of procedures ( and history ) for modifying living organisms according to human purposes — going back to domestication of animals, cultivation of plants, and " improvements " to these through breeding programs that employ artificial selection and hybridization.

Eudaemonist theories ( Greek eudaimonia, " happiness ") hold that the goal of ethics consists in some function or activity appropriate to man as a human being, and thus tend to emphasize the cultivation of virtue or excellence in the agent as the end of all action.

All the views eventually lead to recognize the importance of human education and cultivation.

Historical materialism builds upon the idea that became current in philosophy from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries that the development of human society has moved through a series of stages, from hunting and gathering, through pastoralism and cultivation, to commercial society.

Li says that due to accumulation of karma the human spirit upon death will reincarnate over and over again, until the karma is paid off or eliminated through cultivation, or the person is destroyed due to the bad deeds he has done.

As with Nanook, Man of Aran showed human beings ' efforts to survive under extreme conditions: in this case, an island whose soils were so thin that the inhabitants carried seaweed up from the sea to construct fields for cultivation.

Millets have been important food staples in human history, particularly in Asia and Africa, and they have been in cultivation in East Asia for the last 10, 000 years.

* Horticulture – art, science, technology and business of intensive plant cultivation for human use.

Horticulture – art, science, technology and business of intensive plant cultivation for human use.

As a result of extensive cultivation of legumes ( particularly soy, alfalfa, and clover ), growing use of the Haber-Bosch process in the creation of chemical fertilizers, and pollution emitted by vehicles and industrial plants, human beings have more than doubled the annual transfer of nitrogen into biologically-available forms.

The environment is exposed to intense pressures from human activities: urbanization, dense transportation network, industry, extensive animal breeding and crop cultivation ; air and water pollution also have repercussions for neighboring countries ; uncertainties regarding federal and regional responsibilities ( now resolved ) have slowed progress in tackling environmental challenges.

Fukuoka saw farming not just as a means of producing food but as an aesthetic and spiritual approach to life, the ultimate goal of which was " the cultivation and perfection of human beings ".

* human cultivation of soil, plowing or tilling are unnecessary, as is the use of powered machines

* In the first year, the ground is prepared usually by the combination of burning, herbicide spraying, and / or cultivation and then saplings are planted by human crew or by machine.

Routine human interactions with animals and plants create selection pressures that cause adaptation as species adjust to human presence, use or cultivation.

The declines are almost entirely due to human activities, including disturbances from habitat destruction and cultivation, disturbances at the nesting site ( to which the species is reportedly quite sensitive ) and ingestion of pesticides, which are usually set out for jackals and other small mammalian carnivores.

The Court found that personal cultivation of marijuana fell within the scope of federal regulation by employing an expansive definition of economic activity, a definition described as " breathtaking " by Justice O ' Connor in her dissent because it " threatens to sweep all of productive human activity into federal regulatory reach.

The Grey Treepie is largely arboreal and is found in a wide range of habitats including forest, cultivation and human habitation.

Horticulture is the science, art, technology and business involved in intensive plant cultivation for human use.

A wider and more accurate definition will communicate effectively the importance of plants, their cultivation and their use for sustainable human existence.

It reached South Asia likely through human transportation and cultivation several thousand years prior to the Common Era.

The tree is most numerous in South Asia, where it is widely distributed and has a long history of human cultivation.

In folklore, it was the cultivated areas which were blessed in contrast to the pagan holiness residing in the awesome and forbidding features of raw nature, and evil hiisi could not step inside areas sanctified by human cultivation.