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Canada's economy, a microcosm of America's, makes it a good "test-bed" for execs.
This microcosm of nature reflecting the Taoist philosophy of yin and yang was landscaped by artists brought in from Suzhou, the great center of classical Chinese gardens.
We then added first instar C. pipiens larvae obtained from Carolina Biological Supply to each microcosm in such a way that the density of each microcosm would be relatively constant.
Our two habitat size hypotheses predicted: 1) an adverse effect of a lower wall area per unit volume, a possible artifact of microcosm design (compare B to CD and CW to CS - see Materials & Methods and Table 2), and 2) an adverse effect of a lower horizontal surface area to depth ratio (compare B to CW and CD to CS), which may be a factor in experimental design or in choice of oviposition site by females.
In the English-speaking dictionary microcosm The Oxford Thesaurus (1991), has clearly stolen a march over all its rivals in terms of size, structure, and depth of treatment.