Large-scale wildebeest migration is quite likely a consequence of decisions being made by individuals at multiple spatial scales, involving a balance of food abundance, food quality, local density of other wildebeest, social interactions, surface water, perceived predation risk, and culturally ( or possibly genetically ) learned routes and ranges.

At a statistical level, this can be understood as a consequence of detailed balance following from the presumed micro-reversibility ( unitarity ) of the interaction between the quantum states of the radiation field and the quantum states of the black hole.

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Thus, the crepuscular habit may both reduce predation pressure, thereby increasing the crepuscular populations, and in consequence offer better foraging opportunities to predators that increasingly focus their attention on crepuscular prey until a new balance is struck.

In consequence the spikes of fluid ride the field lines out into space until there is a balance of the forces involved.

The decline of the Crimean Khanate was a consequence of the weakening of the Ottoman empire and a change in the balance of power in Eastern Europe that favoured its neighbours.

The consequence was a deteriorating balance of trade.

It is the consequence of the system of ideas that constitutes the frame of our international -- and in some degree our domestic -- policy.

One consequence is the occurrence of occasional conflicts because private owners of some inholdings object to public programs of use on neighboring National Forest or other Federal land, or because such ownerships are developed for uses that are not compatible with use for the public of neighboring National Forest land.

In the event the total of rupees accruing to the Government of the United States of America as a consequence of sales made pursuant to this Agreement is different from the rupee equivalent of $1,276 million, the amounts available for the purposes specified in paragraph 1, Article 2, will be adjusted proportionately.

According to the theory proposed, this is a consequence of the severe condition of perceived threat that persists unabated for the anxious child in an ambiguous sort of school environment.

) Functionalism as a sociological credo is, therefore, not a direct consequence of observations, but rather an indirect consequence of philosophical inference and judgment.

The consequence of this is that the girls at Brooklyn College outnumber the boys and do somewhat better academically.

This last point is important because if high school pupils are aware that few, if any, graduates who have chosen a certain vocational program have obtained a job as a consequence of the training, the whole idea of relevance disappears.

Existence is created and willed by God and is not the consequence of a pre-existent rebellion or of a cosmic descent from eternity into history.

Nevertheless, the consequence of the policy proposed is everywhere subtly qualified: it is `` a possible result, however improbable '' ; ;

:: One consequence is that people are more cooperative if it is more likely that individuals will interact again in the future.

A simple illustration of such cause and effect is the case of experiencing the effects of what I cause: if I cause suffering, then as a natural consequence I will experience suffering ; if I cause happiness, then as a natural consequence I will experience happiness.

As a consequence, it is difficult to define concisely or precisely.

Each element has a specific set of chemical properties as a consequence of the number of electrons present in the neutral atom, which is Z ( the atomic number ).

A consequence of using waveforms to describe particles is that it is mathematically impossible to obtain precise values for both the position and momentum of a particle at the same time ; this became known as the uncertainty principle, formulated by Werner Heisenberg in 1926.

that is, for any statement that is a logical consequence of there actually exists a deduction of the statement from.

One consequence of the Hindu and Spiritist beliefs is that our current lives are both afterlife and a beforelife.

The outer surface of an agate, freed from its matrix, is often pitted and rough, apparently in consequence of the removal of the original coating.

The most common consequence of mushroom poisoning is simply gastrointestinal upset.

" The superiority of reward is not here the consequence of competition, but of its absence: not a compensation for disadvantages inherent in the employment, but an extra advantage ; a kind of monopoly price, the effect not of a legal, but of what has been termed a natural monopoly ... independently of ... artificial monopolies grants by government, there is a natural monopoly in favour of skilled labourers against the unskilled, which makes the difference of reward exceed, sometimes in a manifold proportion, what is sufficient merely to equalize their advantages.

The Hall's refusal to induct Rush may be a consequence of the band's insistence on remaining outside the mainstream of rock when it comes to self-promotion, in favour of maintaining a high degree of independence.

The Stockholm Bloodbath was a consequence of conflict between Swedish pro-unionists ( in favour of the Kalmar Union, then dominated by Denmark ) and anti-unionists ( supporters of Swedish independence ), and also between the anti-unionists and the Danish aristocracy, which in other aspects was opposed to King Christian.

Partly as a consequence of this favour, in late October 1957, the US McMahon Act was eased to facilitate nuclear co-operation between the two governments, initially with a view to producing cleaner weapons and reducing the need for duplicate testing.

One consequence was that the secularized plays were separated from the religious, and, as Carnival plays, held the public favour.

In consequence, the written language of the chancery of Saxony-Wittenberg rose in importance in the course of the 17th century, and the 1665 revision of the Zürich Bible abandoned its Alemannic idiom in favour of this standard.

As a consequence viewers deserted their primetime offerings in favour of the more traditional Saturday night viewing on the BBC.

David and Zweigert and Kotz argue that the old Chinese doctrines of Confucius, which emphasize social / group / community harmony rather than individual interests, have been very influential in the Japanese society, with the consequence that individuals tend to avoid litigation in favour of compromise and conciliation.

He was, however, in favour of accepting the kings terms at Newport in December, and in consequence was excluded from the House by Pride's Purge.

It was submitted on behalf of the father that it would be gender discrimination to decide residence in favour of the mother: if the roles were to be reversed, a father who proposed to abandon a lucrative career with the consequence that his wife and children would suffer a dramatic downturn in the standard of living, would not have the smallest chance of being given a residence order as his reward.

Dispossessed a second time, in consequence of a quarrel with his lieutenant, Juan Nuñez, Lopez voluntarily resigned in favour of Nuñez, who had taken his place ( 1328 ), on condition that he should keep the commandery of Zurita ; as this condition was violated, Lopez again, for the third time, took the title of Grand Master in Aragon, where he died in 1336.

He was received at first with the utmost favour, but soon gave offence to his new patron by his intrigues and ambitious demonstrations, and was in consequence thrown into prison and compelled to put an end to his life by poison, 309 BC.

De Pizan was greatly interested in history, from the Matter of Troy to the " founding of the royal house of France " ( for her the latter was a consequence of the former ).

Some of the most violent irredentist conflicts of recent times in Europe flared up as a consequence of the break-up of the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s.

Colonists of various ethnicities settled mainly in the area of the former colony, outside of the official boundaries, and as a consequence, in the first third of the 19th century, Moldavanka emerged as the dominant settlement.

As a consequence of the merger of the Eurocopter Group's former parents in 2000, the firm is now a wholly owned subsidiary of EADS.

Since many former monks had found employment as chantry priests, the consequence for these clerics was a double experience of dissolution, perhaps mitigated by being in receipt thereafter of a double pension.

As a consequence, the Cato Institute has criticized a number of decisions made by President Obama, just as it had regularly criticized decisions made by former President Bush.

However, in consequence of the partial failure on the right, it was considered necessary to recall all the troops and re-occupy the former position.

Moreover he never excluded the use of force to regain the eastern territories of former German Empire which had come under Polish control as a consequence of the Treaty of Versailles.

As a consequence of the former rule under the dukes of Württemberg, it has been for centuries one of the few Protestant ( specifically Lutheran ) enclaves in France.

The apparent distinctness of the species and the failure of the early introductions raises the question of whether the Heath Hen was uniquely ( by comparison with its relatives ) adapted to the more oceanic climate of its former area of occurrence, and in consequence, whether a future attempt to establish a population of the western birds on Martha's Vineyard could be bound to fail, possibly even by competing for funding and other resources jeopardizing the extant but much declined populations of the prairie-chickens.

As a consequence of these high flows, the areas of permanent swamp and seasonal floodplains have, together, increased to 2. 5 times their former size.

Hesse-Nassau was created as a consequence of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 by combining the previously independent Hesse-Kassel ( or Hesse-Cassel ), the Duchy of Nassau, the Free City of Frankfurt, areas gained from the Kingdom of Bavaria, and areas gained from the Grand Duchy of Hesse ( Hesse-Darmstadt ; including part of the former Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg ).

As a consequence of the local abattoirs and other industries which produced volumes of toxic waste, the residents of the neighbourhood are highly concerned about pollution issues, and the city of Toronto has put significant efforts into cleaning up former industrial sites.

As a consequence, loan repayments are only made when the former student has income to support the repayments.

Turkey's former status as a multiethnic empire which, de facto until the loss of Libya to the Kingdom of Italy in 1912 ( and de jure until the official loss of Egypt and Sudan to the British Empire in 1914, as a consequence of the Ottoman government's decision to join the First World War on the side of the Central Powers ) spanned three continents: Europe, Asia and Africa.

One piece of evidence presented to the inquest notes, " This insufficiency arises from the want of proper props in the workings & in the removal by Mr Barrat of the Middlings or partitions left by the former Company for supporting the workings-a feeling of this nature given expression to by almost all the workmen has existed for the last three years and a number of men left the work altogether in consequence, as they said, of the insecurity of the Mines-I knew this myself but I had either to submit to work there or starve-Necessity with me had no law-The other mines in which I had wrought are worked in a different, safer, principle & more attention paid to the security of the lives of the workmen.

When exposed to individuals from the normal universe, the Terran Empire began to reform itself for the better but was overthrown in the 24th century as a consequence and replaced with an equally barbaric Alliance of several alien species who took advantage of the Empire's self-weakening to enslave their former masters.

As the penalty provisions of the Act apply to the prior owner of the knife, and not to the inheritor or subsequent purchaser, it is possible that a person living in the U. K. could acquire an automatic-opening or gravity knife made after 13 June 1959 and keep it at home or on other private property without penalty to the new owner, though a zealous prosecutor might attempt to level a charge of abetting or facilitating an offence by the knife's former owner as a consequence of acquiring the knife in a prohibited post-1959 transaction.

The consequence is that if a CFG is transliterated directly to a PEG, any ambiguity in the former is resolved by deterministically picking one parse tree from the possible parses.

As a consequence, the local population had a long tradition of resistance to the former French colonial administration, while communist revolutionary elements later challenged repeated attempts by the South Vietnamese military to bring the province under the control of the central government in Saigon.

And as his objections were consequent and logical, and as he explained with equal consequence his former objections, while our reply met his objections foot to foot and by his own confession seemed equally supported by the testimony of the Scriptures, some of the bystanders requested me to preserve our disputes as likely to be of use to others in future.

Occasional ventures were made back to former territories in the gulf, sometimes not without consequence, as with when a local fishing party was attacked by at Motutapu by Ngapuhi with several casualties.

In consequence of the destructive motions in the former Reichstag, the draft implemented the constructive vote of no confidence, whereafter the Chancellor may only be removed from office by the Bundestag parliament if a prospective successor has the support of a majority.

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