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“Uno di una serie di corti ... creati da Disney per introdurre i bambini in tenera età ad un modo di pensare più ecologico, tutto attraverso il gioco…”
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Et quod dictu mirabile est, in aetate tam tenera constitutus, nec vocem nec gemitum emittebat.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Note 109: Constantinus Africanus described this most succinctly in his Pantegni (the theoretical part of Hali Abbas's Liber regalis dispositionis): "Eorum ergo membra videntur esse tenera sed iam nata minus sunt tenera quam cum sint in matris vulva."
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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To Bartholomaeus, the child was "by nature" weak (tenera) and soft (mollis).
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Et sic vere illa parva gens illis magnis innocentibus, qui pro Christo occisi sunt, comparari creditur; quia et ipsa in tam tenera etate labores inmensos et mortem famis, que crudelior est gladio, subire meruit.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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Typically, for tenera fruit, 100 t of fresh fruit bunches will yield 21 t of red palm oil and 6 t of decorticated palm kernels.
Chapter 6 1995
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High-yielding varieties are a cross between aura and pisifera and produce fruits of the tenera type.
Chapter 6 1995
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According to the thickness of the nut shell (endocarp), three types are distinguished: aura with a shell thickness of 2 to 8 mm, tenera with 0.5 to 3 mm and pisifera without shell.
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Hybrid seeds for tenera varieties, however, have to be produced in specialized seed centres.
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The selection of high-yielding types and the breeding of hybrid seeds (tenera is a cross between aura and pisifera) have increased the average yields of oil palms enormously.
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