This study aims to contribute knowledge about how an environmental issue is discursively forged notwithstanding the prevalence of significant scientific uncertainty. done by studying production news artificial turf as a microplastic pollutant in Sweden. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 journalists and editors, public officials, politicians, industry representatives experts, all...

Title of Document: TOWARDS AN AUTONOMOUS ALGAL TURF SCRUBBER: DEVELOPMENT OF AN ECOLOGICALLY-ENGINEERED TECHNOECOSYSTEM David M. Blersch, Ph.D., 2010 Directed By: Associate Professor Patrick C. Kangas, Department of Environmental Science and Technology The development of an autonomous and internally-controlled technoecological hybrid is explored. The technoecosystem is based on an algal turf sc...

tains more nitrogen than any other element. Fourth, nitrogen is a very dynamic element in the soil system. Its concentration is constantly changing, usually decreasing. The other essential elements are significantly more stable in soils. Nitrogen, therefore, must be routinely added to turfgrass to maintain a soil level sufficient for turfgrass growth. An ideal nitrogen fertilization maintenance...

The turf grass Sporobolus virginicus is halophyte and has high salinity tolerance. To investigate the molecular basis of its remarkable tolerance, we performed Illumina high-throughput RNA sequencing on roots and shoots of a S. virginicus genotype under normal and saline conditions. The 130 million short reads were assembled into 444,242 unigenes. A comparative analysis of the transcriptome wit...

A key focus of the racing industry is to reduce the number of race-day events where horses die suddenly or are euthanased due to catastrophic injury. The objective of this study was therefore to determine risk factors for race-day fatalities in Thoroughbred racehorses, using a cohort of all horses participating in flat racing in Great Britain between 2000 and 2013. Horse-, race- and course-leve...