assimilatory


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Synonyms for assimilatory

capable of taking (gas, light, or liquids) into a solution

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The better assimilatory system owing to higher LAI and CGR resulted in taller plants, better stem diameter and leaves per plant.
Currently, little is known about archaeal assimilatory sulfur metabolism for biomolecule synthesis.
Leaves are the units of assimilatory system, therefore, reduced leaf area index and leaf area duration at terminal phase of cotton might be responsible of declined crop growth rate of both cultivars due to reduced accumulation of assimilates.
[For Gilbert Durand, the "anthropological dialectic (trajet anthropologique)" means "the ceaseless exchange taking place on the level of the imaginary between subjective assimilatory drives and objective pressures emanating from the cosmic and social milieu".] Given that independent modernity was sought through post-colonialism in Mansejeon, his confessional novel is differentiated from the Japanese I-novel, which usually illustrates a writer's private life in only a small space that is not connected to society.
In Chapter Two, Reznik grounds his research by providing the Anti-Semitic and assimilatory history of Jewish American racialization.
Arthurian romance, Campbell claims in the first chapter, is the pinnacle of a complex assimilatory process: It merges the Christian belief system with Pagan elements, translating quest-motifs from Celtic religion into stories about Arthur's knights and their adventures.
Research has attributed the majority of [N.sub.2]O emitted from soil to the following soil microbial processes: (i) nitrification, in which soil bacteria convert ammonium into nitrate (N[O.sub.3.sup.-]); (ii) denitrification, in which soil microbes consume soil N[O.sub.3.sup.-] under anaerobic conditions; (iii) assimilatory N[O.sub.3.sup.-] reduction, in which N[O.sub.3.sup.-] is converted to nitrite; and (iv) dissimilatory N[O.sub.3.sup.-] reduction, in which N[O.sub.3.sup.-] is converted to ammonium (Mosier et at.
In fact, building identity as a result of bilingualism in minority communities turns the mother tongue into a marginal activity in the development and planning of school subject content, which focuses mostly on the majority language and tends to be "naively assimilatory" or "culturally neutral" (Reid & Reich, 1992).
The assimilatory process of nitrogen may be limited by the activity of enzymes, and the accumulation of high concentrations of intracellular inorganic nitrogen may also be a consequence of this condition.
(61) Numerous American studies have emphasized the assimilatory characteristics of working-class movements, whether unions or left-wing political organizations.
This brand of liberalism, while still assimilatory in its application to First Nations, is nonetheless irreconcilable with the positive and negative discriminatory features of the Indian Act--precisely because the Indian Act has failed to assimilate First Nations and instead maintains a separate status for First Nations.
However, not all the chapters address questions of assimilatory trends or creative adaptations to life in Canada with an equally critical eye.