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Thesedecoyrecordings were judged by the pre-test group to sound both "straight" and "masculine," and were used to keep the target recordings non-adjacent.
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Is it economic to cultivate thedecoyplant as a pest control measure compared to existing alternatives?
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Further, we determined thedecoyeffects on endogenous gene expression.
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Why does a plant act as adecoyfor an insect?
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They find it very hard to tell friend from foe, real targets from decoys, objectives that are worth combating from every kind of clutter.
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The other involved the employment ofdecoyfemale elephants to entice wild males.
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Trials for control of ixodid ticks using pheromoneacaricide tick decoys.
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All of the males were dead, presumably as a result of the lengthy exposure to the acaricide-emitting decoys.
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They passed base coin and acted as decoys for their partners.
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Attracted to the treated animals, the ticks formed aggregations on the animal body adjacent to, or near, the decoys, acquired lethal doses of the acaricides and died.
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These local transients acted as decoys and made it likely that attention would be attracted to an incorrect location instead of going to the true change location.
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Thedecoyrecordings, which were kept constant throughout, were samples of the same passage, this time read by two additional people, also otherwise unrelated to the project.
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Kerb-crawlers looking for a good time chatted up the attractivedecoyand were promptly arrested.
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It is the woman who decoys away for ever the girl who assists her when she faints.
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Thirdly, the use of nets for taking wild duck in a duckdecoyis illegal except for those already in use.
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