I think its the last one but I dont like history so
Counterbalanced designs allow the researcher to isolate the main effects due to condition and control for order and sequence effects only if there is no interaction between the procedural variables and the independent variables.
Considering you haven't given the actual excerpts, some help would be that direct characterization is as simple as saying "The man is wearing a broad-brimmed hat". It is literally "direct", straight to the point. Hope this helps.
If this is about H.D.'s poem "Sea Rose", then the answer is the olfactory sense (sense of smell).
In the last stanza, we've got the second contrast in the poem (the first one was "a wet rose single on a stem"): a "spice rose", which is a particular kind of rose, very lavish and beautiful. "Acrid fragrance" is a unique feature of the sea rose that the speaker talks to, and she doubts that this spice rose can have it. In other words, even though the sea rose is "harsh" and "marred", atrophied, destroyed by the sand and the winds, it still has a more distinct and beautiful smell (even though it is acrid) than a regular, nurtured, home-grown rose.
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the depletion of forest reserves is deforestation and therefore leads to desertification. this destructs the habitats of wildlife and can cause famine and drought