amount of food

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In our experiment, copepods were supplied with a comparatively high amountoffood, and there was no competition for resources between the copepods.
Deforestation is reduced because the household requires less land to produce the needed amountoffood.
The amountoffood available in this instance being related to the relative fitness of the design solution as defined by the engineering system model.
On the other hand, birds have very high energetic requirements, meaning that they need to eat a great amountoffood daily.
The amountoffood provided varied slightly according to the rate of consumption and the consistency of the faeces.
Thus, what distinguishes between eat and overeat in this construal is nothing more than the amountoffood eaten.
At the end of their participation, boys were paid a small amountoffood or money for the time taken by the study.
Type of diet also affected the growth rates and amountoffood ingested by larvae but did not affect the duration of the instar.
When the fish approached the correct test field, a small amountoffood paste was given.
Amountoffood consumed and biomass gained were also analysed using a two-way analysis of covariance using initial larval weight as the covariate.
We found no effect of treatment on the amountoffood eaten or on caecal dropping production.
Economic inaccessibility is due to the inability of groups of farm households to establish entitlement over a requisite amountoffood.
In monetary terms this seems a very low figure but it is possible that the labourers who did cultivate gardens produced a substantial amountoffood.
We estimated the global organic food supply by multiplying the amountoffood in the current (2001) food supply by a ratio comparing average organic : non-organic yields.
Caregiver turnover and caregiver's assessments of duration and difficulty of assisted feeding and amountoffood received by the patient.
This view is correct if subsistence points are understood in a narrow sense such as the minimum amountoffood, clothing, and shelter necessary to sustain life.
How do these motivational control systems operate to ensure that we eat approximately the correct amountoffood to maintain our body weight or to quench our thirst?
It will be noticed that if only a tenth part of the maximum amountoffood be given the period for larval development is increased about six times.
To-day we are asking the farmers to do all that they can to provide us with the largest amountoffood.
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