It is presumed that the Dodo became flightless because of the ready availability of abundant food sources and a relative absence of predators on Mauritius.

As organisms exist at the same time period throughout the world, their presence or ( sometimes ) absence may be used to provide a relative age of the formations in which they are found.

This is usually justified by the fact that any one firm or consumer is so small relative to the whole market that their presence or absence leaves the equilibrium price very nearly unaffected.

( Characterised by relative absence of Kabbalistic elements :)

The absence of significant structural changes indicates that the relative motion of the electron and hole is frozen, which demonstrates that this is a Frenkel exciton.

* Crop safety, for selective herbicides, is the relative absence of damage or stress to the crop.

Although his administration was marked by a relative absence of major military or political conflicts, Titus faced a number of major disasters during his brief reign.

This is hotly disputed —- critics contend that, although government income tax receipts did rise, it was due to economic growth, not tax cuts, and would have risen more if the tax cuts had not occurred ; the Office of Tax Analysis estimates that the act lowered federal income tax revenue by 13 % relative to where it would have been in the bill's absence.

In the absence of written history, with its chronicles and king lists, late 19th century archaeologists found that they could develop relative chronologies based on pottery techniques and styles.

The relative presence or absence of these components form the subclasses of dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white chocolate.

The region was shaped by the relative absence of slavery ( except for Missouri ), pioneer settlement, education in one-room free public schools, democratic notions brought by American Revolutionary War veterans, Protestant faiths and experimentation, and agricultural wealth transported on the Ohio River riverboats, flatboats, canal boats, and railroads.

In an experiment by Hummer and McClintock, androstandienone or a control odor was put on the upper lips of fifty males and females and they were tested for four different effects of the pheromone: 1 ) automatic attention towards positive and negative facial expressions, 2 ) the strength of cognitive and emotional information as distracters in a simple reaction time task, 3 ) relative attention to social and nonsocial stimuli ( i. e. neutral faces ), and 4 ) mood and attentiveness in the absence of social interaction.

Mimeography, with its loose tolerances, relative absence of noxious solvents, and consequent open architecture ( which put its inky pads and rollers on display ), may simply have looked messier, and hence seemed more daunting.

Tracheal intubation is often required to restore patency ( the relative absence of blockage ) of the airway and protect the tracheobronchial tree from pulmonary aspiration of gastric contents.

Doping introduces additional electron energy levels into the band gap, that may or may not be populated by electrons, dependent on circumstances and temperature, and causes the Fermi level E < sub > F </ sub > to shift from the energy level ( relative to the band structure ) that it would have had in the absence of doping.

Others argue that belief in the ' absence ' of culture in NZ is a symptom of white privilege, allowing members of a dominant group to see their culture as ' normal ' or ' default ', rather than as a specific position of relative advantage.

In the low-rain period of from April to November, due to the absence of industry and its high elevation the skies above Salar de Uyuni are very clear, and the air is dry ( relative humidity is about 30 %, rainfall is roughly per month ).

The lizard-cuckoos of the Caribbean have, in the relative absence of birds of prey, specialised in taking lizards.

Adaptation to pesticides usually decreases relative fitness of organisms in the absence of pesticides.

In the absence of time-sharing, or if the quanta were large relative to the sizes of the jobs, a process that produced large jobs would be favoured over other processes.

Each method has unique strengths and weaknesses and relative comparison is limited by the absence of a widely accepted " gold standard " measurement.

In his Letters to Serena, Toland claimed that rest, or absence of motion, is not merely relative.

The state agency noted the following observations as a trend of decreasing activity: absence of ash ejections and relative weakness of steam emissions, majority of earthquakes caused by rockfalls and rolling fragments, and gradual decrease in sulfur dioxide emissions from a maximum of 8, 993 tons per day to 2, 621 tons per day.

After Mardil, in the absence of the Kings, the office by custom became hereditary, passing from father to son or nearest male relative, much like the Kingship.

Clarity of language, relative type size and proximity to the claim being qualified, and an absence of contrary claims that could undercut effectiveness, will maximize the likelihood that the qualifications and disclosures are appropriately clear and prominent.

Particulates ( or deliberately introduced seed material ) flowing along with air molecules near where the beam exits reflect, or backscatter, the light back into a detector, where it is measured relative to the original laser beam.

Germanium ranks near fiftieth in relative abundance of the elements in the Earth's crust.

Rousseau, a deteriorationist, proposed that, except perhaps for brief moments of balance, at or near its inception, when a relative equality among men prevailed, human civilization has always been artificial, creating inequality, envy, and unnatural desires.

The French Navy won some important victories near the end of the 17th century but a focus upon land forces led to the French Navy's relative neglect, which allowed the Royal Navy to emerge with an ever-growing advantage in size and quality, especially in tactics and experience, from 1695.

Such near resonances are dynamically insignificant even if the mismatch is quite small because ( unlike a true resonance ), after each cycle the relative position of the bodies shifts.

When averaged over astronomically short timescales, their relative position is random, just like bodies that are nowhere near resonance.

As a gift-giving occasion, it may not properly be hosted either by the guest of honor or the close relatives of the guest of honor, as requesting gifts from friends for a near relative is seen as either greedy or begging.

Furthermore, individuals may apply for nationality if they have a near relative with Chinese nationality, if they have settled in China, or if they present another legitimate reason.

A drone strike on 22 December 2011 near Zinjibar reportedly killed Abdulrahman al-Wuhayshi, a relative of Yemeni al-Qaeda leader Nasir al-Wuhayshi.

Hart was born in New York City and grew up at 74 East 105th Street in Manhattan, “ a neighborhood not of carriages and hansom cabs, but of dray wagons, pushcarts, and immigrants .” He was also raised, in relative poverty, by his English-born Jewish immigrant parents in the Bronx, New York, and in the Seagate area of Brooklyn, near Coney Island.

While this specie's relative, the Brown ( Norway ) Rat prefers to nest near the ground of a building the black rat will prefer the upper floors and roof.

On the basis of the verse: ' The soul of man is a candle of the Lord ', a special candle which burns twenty-four hours is kindled on the anniversary of the death of a near relative ( Yahrzeit ) and often two lighted candles are placed at the head of the corpse awaiting burial.

Brown also writes of how Bower described the king as capable of stabbing a near relative through the hand for creating a disturbance at court.

Forming process of light fog above a ditch, where there is a relative humidity near 100 %.

Fog normally occurs at a relative humidity near 100 %.

The Moon moves faster when it is closer to the Earth ( near perigee ) and slower when it is near apogee ( furthest distance ), thus periodically changing the timing of syzygies by up to ± 14 hours ( relative to their mean timing ), and changing the apparent lunar angular diameter by about ± 6 %.

Should the local institutions be inadequate for the purpose, the Occupying Power shall make arrangements for the maintenance and education, if possible by persons of their own nationality, language and religion, of children who are orphaned or separated from their parents as a result of the war and who cannot be adequately cared for by a near relative or friend.

In 1905, Bernarr Macfadden, the then-famous proponent of physical culture, came to the part of Monroe near Helmetta and Spotswood, and attempted to set up a camp called " Physical Culture City ", where he could teach his beliefs in relative peace.

The land on which this town stands was part of a tract purchased from John Haft on January 24, 1827, by Daniel Houston, a near relative of Gen. Sam Houston, leader of the Texans in their war for independence from Mexico.

Bordered by a mountain, Gate City is a small city relative to its neighbors and located on U. S. Routes 23 and 421 near the Tennessee state line.

One long going inconsistency between artists has been the relative size of the Guardians ' heads to their short bodies, most artists designing them with larger heads to suggest their larger brains and alien anatomy, whereas others have been shown to draw near enough human-like proportional heads.

Under Turkish rule, the Armenian Paulicians lived in relative safety in their ancient stronghold near Philippopolis, and further northward.

Since warmer air frequently contains more water vapor than colder air, this mixing will usually also transport water vapor into the air near the surface, causing the relative humidity of the near-surface air to increase.

If the relative humidity increase near the surface is large enough then ice crystals may form.