COPD is a progressive, life-threatening respiratory disease commonly caused by cigarette smoke and other harmful fumes and particles, resulting in inflammation and narrowing of airways.
The use of a narrow wavelength range afforded by the solid-state light source results in an interference-free conversion of NO2 to NO at high efficiency.
This Kuwaiti landmark will therefore place more mass and usable space near its zenith compared to other towers, says Kuhne, to avoid the structure having too thin and flexible a tip.
Yet John Underhill of Edinburgh University has found evidence that the isthmus is full of landslide rubble, which could have tumbled into a narrow sea channel during an earthquake.
These crops have been cultivated for a long time and only few cultivated varieties have spreaded to great area. The genetic resources of these crops has become more and more limited.
Experienced swimmers know it is relatively easy to escape the narrow channel of the fast moving water by floating and allowing it to drag you further into the ocean or by swimming alongside the shore.
None of this should give succour to creationists, whose blinkered universe is doubtless already buzzing with the news that "new Scientist has announced Darwin was wrong".