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Nature, 1964
VARIOUS mechanisms have been proposed to explain the ability of the camel to survive the dehydration stresses of desert life. The use of the fatty hump as a water store has been excluded because calculations of the volume of water released from the metabolic breakdown of this amount of fat do not coincide with the measured losses of body water1 ...
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VARIOUS mechanisms have been proposed to explain the ability of the camel to survive the dehydration stresses of desert life. The use of the fatty hump as a water store has been excluded because calculations of the volume of water released from the metabolic breakdown of this amount of fat do not coincide with the measured losses of body water1 ...
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Camels and Camel Pastoralism in Arabia
The Biblical Archaeologist, 1993Camel-based pastoral societies make an archaeological appearance at the center of the Near East towards the end of the second millennium.
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Urbanizing Camels: Camels in Beijing, 1900-1937
Journal of Urban History, 2020This article investigates the history of camels in Beijing from 1900 to 1937. Since the Qing period, the camel living in the villages on the western outskirts of Beijing had become the beast of burden for carrying coal from the Western Hills to the city and stimulated interconnection between the urban and rural areas. The use of camels was scrutinized
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Nature, 1963
THE camel's ability to live without water for long periods is outstanding1,2,4,6. It can lose about 30 per cent of its body-weight during dehydration in the desert and still move about12. A dehydrated camel can regain its losses of water (about 30 gallons) in about 10 min and resume its normal appearance; despite the large flow of water into the ...
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THE camel's ability to live without water for long periods is outstanding1,2,4,6. It can lose about 30 per cent of its body-weight during dehydration in the desert and still move about12. A dehydrated camel can regain its losses of water (about 30 gallons) in about 10 min and resume its normal appearance; despite the large flow of water into the ...
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CAMEL to CAMELS: The risk of sensitivity
Journal of Banking Regulation, 2016Most bank regulatory regimes added interest rate risk or sensitivity to their examination focus in the mid-1990s. Interest rate risk significantly contributed to the demise of the US savings and loan industry in the 1980s and 1990s and that episode alone warranted additional focus on sensitivity. However, interest rate risk is not as important as asset
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Journal of Chemical Education, 1978
This paper is a summary of remarks made at a recent symposium on "New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Chemistry" in which the author took exception to both the claims made for the SI system and to the manner in which it has been promoted.
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This paper is a summary of remarks made at a recent symposium on "New Directions in the Teaching of Physical Chemistry" in which the author took exception to both the claims made for the SI system and to the manner in which it has been promoted.
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Boreas, 1981
Book reviewed in this article:Bjorn Kurttn & Elaine Anderson: Pleistocene Mammals of North ...
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Book reviewed in this article:Bjorn Kurttn & Elaine Anderson: Pleistocene Mammals of North ...
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Camel breeding in Anatolia and camel wrestles
2014Camels were used for many years, freight forwarding and transportation. Nowaday it breeds for sport and show. In Turkey the main aim of the camel breeding is for wrestling. As an ancient Turkish tradition the camel wresting carried out regularly in Western Anatolia every year between December and March.
ATASOY, Fatih, ÖZBAŞER, Fatma Tülin
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