"We're not trying to hide the fact that we are in a train station and conceal our environment.
Re "Concealed Weapons Against the Environment," by Robert B. Semple Jr. (Annotation, editorial page, July 31): Inserting anti-environment riders on unrelated bills is a flagrant corruption of the mechanisms of our government, but as we have seen time and time again, there is no abuse of the legislative process too egregious for the current Congress.
Re "Concealed Weapons Against the Environment," by Robert B. Semple Jr. (Annotation, editorial page, July 31), about the House Republicans' use of anti-environmental legislative riders to change policy: If Republicans truly believed in the power of market forces, they would enforce and even strengthen environmental regulations, so that pricing reflects the true cost of a product.
Also, labile intermediates can be concealed from the bulk environment, preventing decay or interaction with other molecules.
Senator Chuck Schumer of New York urged the federal government to speed up its testing of machines that can detect concealed explosives in crowded environments.
This can be either due to reduced sensitivity of the SC itself, e.g., shortage of adequate receptors for environmental signals, or due to reduced "clarity" in the environment, concealing extracellular signals from the SC.
Ambush predation is characterized by an animal scanning the environment from a concealed position and then rapidly executing a surprise attack.
It has been estimated that once pollution enters the subsurface environment, it may remain concealed for many years, becoming dispersed over wide areas of groundwater aquifer and rendering groundwater supplies unsuitable for consumption and other uses (Nagarajan et al. 2010).
Research has been extended to the classification and identification of drugs (Cook et al. 2007, 2009; Cook 2008; Griffiths 2008; Koutalonis 2009; Pani 2009) in an environment in which the samples are concealed within a container.
Active supervision is relaxed within such environments, and where inadvertently interrupted, can be more readily concealed, reducing capacities for detection and intervention.
