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Texas Nemo Program Fact Sheet

Freshwater coastal prairie wetlands once covered large expanses of the Houston-Galveston landscape. A complex wetland matrix of mima mounds and low wetland basins known as prairie potholes provided important ecological services including habitat, lood control and water cleansing. Many of these areas were land leveled for agricultural and development purposes, erasing these features from the coa...

Texas Nemo Program Fact Sheet

Freshwater coastal prairie wetlands once covered large expanses of the Houston-Galveston landscape. A complex wetland matrix of mima mounds and low wetland basins known as prairie potholes provided important ecological services including habitat, lood control and water cleansing. Many of these areas were land leveled for agricultural and development purposes, erasing these features from the coa...

HIV/AIDS and Rural Development Fact Sheet

Acceleration in dental development: fact or fiction.

The aim of this investigation was to determine whether an actual acceleration in dental development has taken place over the last 30 years in a European population group, as is so readily observable in relation to body height. In this study, radiographs of 1038 healthy European children, 516 boys and 522 girls, were evaluated. The methodology and norms given by Nolla (1960) for both sexes were ...

Building Technologies Program SOLID-STATE LIGHTING TECHNOLOGY FACT SHEET

LM-79 testing captures performance characteristics of products that feature solid-state lighting (SSL) technology, including light-emitting diodes (LEDs). This testing provides a snapshot of performance under specified operating conditions at some point in the life of a product, usually at the beginning of operation— these are referred to as initial measurements. It does not address lifetime ra...