Flood deficits influenced by major eruptions in 247 and 244 BCE contributed to Ptolemy III's decision to curb his ambitions of military conquest in order to buy grain to compensate for his own empire's crop failures, and stave off a revolt stoked by famine.
The post-flood deficit, however, was largely confined to the second half of the post-flood year.
This possibility is of course entirely speculative, and without any direct evidence, but it cannot be disregarded until there is clearer evidence to demonstrate that the post-flood deficit of deaths observed in our analyses is the result of an artefact of evacuation or other bias.
"In unleashing a flood of deficit spending and avoiding tax increases, the legislation didn't threaten moneyed interests, didn't alter the existing economic topography, and therefore didn't attract the withering hostility from business groups that typically prevents 'hope' from becoming 'change,'" David Sirota writes for Salon.
Moreover, ethylene and its metabolic process are important for activating plant responses to flooding and water deficit [ 47, 48].
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Besides temperature fluctuation examined in the present study, solar ultraviolet radiation, soil water deficit and flooding, hypoxia and hyperoxia, tillage, and herbicide may also affect non-microbial CH4 production.
The results of that survey could be construed to mean that post-bailout America is truly 'best symbolized' by a power-sotted corporation that exploits its workers, drains our manufacturing base, hammers our trade deficit, and floods our markets with cheap sweatshop products from China.
They had to expand their traditional coping mechanisms in order to make up their severe deficit from floods.
In fact, the plants were switched from flooding stress to water deficit stress, possibly activating different responses that substituted for the normal water deficit responses because we observed the differential expression of many genes even before the stress was administered.
