From latest Neogene onwards these major landscape changes determined the composition of the montane and lowland forest in the Andes-Amazonian system.
The study determined the composition of e-cigarette mainstream vapour in terms of propylene glycol, glycerol, carbonyls and nicotine emissions using a smoking machine with adapted smoking parameters.
In the case of Kepler 62, said Natalie Batalha of San Jose State University, a Kepler scientist, the astronomers had determined the composition of the new planets by comparison to three earlier objects that had similar sizes and turned out to be rocky.
In research that could aid decisions about future asteroids on a collision course with Earth, MIT scientists have for the first time determined the composition of a near-Earth asteroid that has a very slight possibility of someday hitting our planet.
So the plaintiffs argued that the rating agencies, rather than Lehman, as listed in the offering documents "largely determined the composition of the securitized pool of loans, the amount and form of the certificates' levels of credit enhancement before the certificates were created and the ratings agencies were 'engaged' to rate the securities".
Srinivasan et al. (2010) has determined the composition of the dust shell of a typical, albeit only one, C-rich AGB star, without the MgS emission feature at 30 μm, and finds that about 12% (in a range of 10 16%) of the dust by mass is contained in SiC, and that the remainder is in the form of amorphous carbon.
