Sentence examples for death and decomposition from inspiring English sources

In Buddhism for example, the practice of Maranasati involves meditating on death and decomposition in all its stages (from fresh, to bloat, to consumption by animals, to bone).

Some carbon dioxide enters streams and rivers naturally as a result of the death and decomposition of trees' outgrowth and other plant material, of course.

Only a few jumbled skeletons hint at burials carried out some time after death and decomposition; those cases probably arose because bodies were found later on in buildings where every member of the household had died.

Regular harvesting of fish or plants from an under-restoration water body results in export of nutrients, but on-site death and decomposition may lead to recirculation of nutrients in the same environment.

His main themes are generally associated with death and decomposition and reanimation of the dead.

The human becOnes a demon, whish is itself an allegory of war: "You become a demon, you stay that way".

Endosomal TLRs recognize various conserved pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) such as viral derived RNA (TLR-3, -7 and -8) and DNA (TLR-9), as well as endogenous ligands released following tissue damage, cell death, oxidative stress and decomposition of extracellular matrix (ECM) [ 4- 6].

The carbon and nitrogen cycles are important natural processes that involve the uptake of nutrients from soil, the return of organic matter to the soil by tissue aging and death, the decomposition of organic matter by soil microbes (during which nutrients or toxins may be cycled within the microbial community), and the release of nutrients into soil for uptake once again.

The minimum requirements for estimating the carbon pool in stump systems at a national scale using the proposed methodology are that there should be: (i) a consistent time-series of harvest data, usually estimated as merchantable volume; (ii) conversion factors from merchantable volume to stump system biomass at death; and (iii) a representative decomposition model.

They decompose by cause of death and, in a separate decomposition, by age group.

Fossilization involves a number of processes including the action of scavengers and decomposition, after-death transportation, burial, compaction of sediments, and chemical changes affecting the remains of the organism.