This summer's fashion stars are inventive tops worn with narrow pants, like a stem supporting a flower.
Typically, the censer has a round pedestal base with molded patterns of the sea and sea animals, from which emerges a stem supporting the incense cup.
Second, increasing diversity in STEM supports cognitive growth and critical thinking, benefits problem solving, and contributes to increasing productivity, creativity, and global competitiveness.
Second, increasing diversity in STEM supports cognitive growth and critical thinking, benefits problem solving (Ferrini-Mundy 2013), and contributes to increasing productivity, creativity, and global competitiveness (Allen-Ramdial and Campbell 2014).
Before experimental analysis, the two-month-old seedlings of D. officinale were trimmed to provide uniformly sized materials, each consisting of a stem supporting three to five leaves and two to three roots of 20 mm in length.
At another Amazonian forest site, 1 cm and 10 cm diameter liana stems supported five and four times greater leaf mass then did trees of similar stem diameters (Gerwing and Farias, 2000).
Their slender, zigzagged stems support a mop of white flowers in early fall.
As Richard Hughes described it some 80 years before in "A High Wind in Jamaica"): "The greens more or less uniform: great tubular stems supporting thick leaves: no tree has an outline because it is crushed up against something else -- no room".
In the scrubby Coachella desert valley, oases of date palms rise from the gray-brown dust — acres of spiky green fronds on spindly stems supporting thousands of pounds of zahidis, barhis and other varieties.
The limited metaphyseal bone loss measured after implantation of ultra-short femoral stems supports this hypothesis (Albanese et al. 2009).
