Dryland ecosystems are already very fragile, and can rarely sustain the increased pressures that result from intense population growth.

There is ample evidence that the intense radiation emitted by certain kinds of astronomical objects is due to black holes ; for example, microquasars and active galactic nuclei result from the presence of stellar black holes and black holes of a much more massive type, respectively.

However as a result of intense pressure from the U. S. authorities, widespread efforts are currently being made to introduce systematic anti-money laundering initiatives on a global scale, to better curb the activities of the financiers of terrorism and those engaged in laundering the profits of drug smuggling.

The rainy season of Nigeria brings in cooler weather to the country as a result of an increased cloud cover that acts as a blockage to the intense sunshine of the tropics by blocking much of the suns rays in the rainy season ; this in turn cools the land, and the winds above the ground remains cool thereby making for cooler temperatures during the rainy season.

The rocks formed at that time were stained red by iron oxides, the result of intense heating by the sun of a surface devoid of vegetation cover.

If the subject cannot, for whatever reason, get access to the device, intense depression can result, often to the point of madness or suicide.

As a result, he decided on a life of intense exploration.

This is the result of Q's sending the Enterprise to system J-25, which then intensified the Borg's interest in humanity, prompting them to make a much more intense effort to capture the Federation's capital world ( Earth ).

Farther east, the Indus Valley civilization was in a period of decline, possibly as a result of intense, ruinous flooding.

Erosional glacis occur mostly in arid regions, and result from intense weathering and surface transport via laminar, episodic water flow.

As a result, scientists had to develop a number of techniques for creating and handling intense beams of antiprotons.

His acting quality, usually playing a powerful character, such as Scarface, was partly a result of his intense preparation for his parts, often immersing himself in study of the real character's traits and mannerisms.

Many of the creoles known today arose in the last 500 years, as a result of the worldwide expansion in European maritime power and trade in the Age of Discovery, which led to extensive European colonial empires and an intense slave trade.

Among them are cases of severe beatings ; psychological torment, corporal punishment and forced intense, heavy-burden hard labor and stress positions ; solitary confinement in squalid conditions ; " heat treatment " including burning and freezing ; electric shocks delivered to sensitive parts of the body that may result in nausea, convulsions, or fainting ; " devastative " forced feeding ; sticking bamboo strips into fingernails ; deprivation of food, sleep, and use of toilet ; rape and gang rape ; asphyxiation ; and threat, extortion, and termination of employment and student status.

Spontaneous Raman scattering is typically very weak, and as a result the main difficulty of Raman spectroscopy is separating the weak inelastically scattered light from the intense Rayleigh scattered laser light.

Extreme flood events often result from coincidence such as unusually intense, warm rainfall melting heavy snow pack, producing channel obstructions from floating ice, and releasing small impoundments like beaver dams.

Once this has been achieved, loss of control causing fecal incontinence may be caused by physical injury – such as damage to the anal sphincter that may result from an episiotomy, intense fright, excessive pressure placed upon the abdomen, inflammatory bowel disease, impaired water absorption in the colon ( diarrhea ), and psychological or neurological factors.

As a result, the appropriately named fort experienced intense fighting, culminating in two attacks, one in 1856 and another in 1860.

For example, a slow paced parent may be irritated by a highly active child ; or if both parent and child are highly active and intense, conflict could result.

As a result, people with BPD often evoke intense emotions in those around them.

In addition to ( and as a direct result of ) Saatchi's patronage, the Young British Artists benefited from intense media coverage.

Earlier critics of the 1933 Banking Act, and of other restrictive banking regulation, argued it did not prevent the return of financial instability beginning in the mid-1960s. Hyman Minsky, a supporter of traditional banking regulation, described the 1966 return of financial instability ( and its increasingly intense return in 1970, 1974, and 1980 ) as the inevitable result of private financial markets, previously repressed by memories of the Great Depression.

The Camp David Accords were the result of 18 months of intense diplomatic efforts by Egypt, Israel, and the United States that began after Jimmy Carter became President.

Cropping and " zooming-in ", techniques which are also commonly found in Caillebotte's oeuvre, may also be the result of his interest in photography, but may just as likely derive from his intense interest in perspective effects.

Where a lake has formed within the basin, the water body is usually saline as a result of the internal drainage — the water has no outlet to the sea.

Other forms of agate include Lake Superior agate, carnelian agate ( exhibiting reddish hues ), Botswana agate, blue lace agate, plume agates, moss agate, tube agate ( with visible flow channels or pinhole-sized ' tubes '), fortification agate ( which exhibit little or no banding structure ), fire agate ( which has internal flash or ' fire ', the result of a layer of clear agate over a layer of hydrothermally-deposited hematite ), Mexican crazy-lace agate, which often exhibits a brightly colored, complexly banded pattern ( also called Rodeo Agate and Rosetta Stone depending on who owned the mine at the time ).

The result of this policy was an aura of mystery, even a decade after the cabal mailing list disbanded in late 1988 following an internal fight.

Surface forces or contact forces, expressed as force per unit area, can act either on the bounding surface of the body, as a result of mechanical contact with other bodies, or on imaginary internal surfaces that bound portions of the body, as a result of the mechanical interaction between the parts of the body to either side of the surface ( Euler-Cauchy's stress principle ).

In contrast to volcanic craters, which result from explosion or internal collapse, impact craters typically have raised rims and floors that are lower in elevation than the surrounding terrain.

External use of detergents or douches or internal disturbances ( hormonal or physiological ) can perturb the normal vaginal flora, consisting of lactic acid bacteria, such as lactobacilli, and result in an overgrowth of Candida cells, causing symptoms of infection, such as local inflammation.

Other researchers believe that individuals with an internal locus of control-that is, people who believe that the gambling outcomes are the result of their own skill-are more susceptible to the gambler's fallacy because they reject the idea that chance could overcome skill or talent.

As a result, Mattel Electronics set up a competing internal engineering team whose stated mission was to produce an inexpensive add-on called the BASIC Development System, or BDS, to be sold as an educational device to introduce kids to the concepts of computer programming.

Taking advantage of this internal conflict, the Persians seized the city of Kandahar and as a result of this loss, the Mughals lost control over the trade routes to Afghanistan, Persian and Central Asia and also exposed India to invasions from the north-west.

No known extensions attacks have been found against the current HMAC specification which is defined as H ( key1 ∥ H ( key2 ∥ message )) because the outer application of the hash function masks the intermediate result of the internal hash.

The city's population is estimated to be growing at about 5 % per year ( mainly as a result of internal rural-urban migration ), including an estimated 45, 000 migrant workers coming to the city every month from different parts of Pakistan.

The empire later declined as a result of internal intrigue, ultimately being supplanted by the Songhai Empire.

Genetic variation is the result of mutations, recombinations and alterations in the karyotype ( the number, shape, size and internal arrangement of the chromosomes ).

This development may be the result of internal structural issues or the result of resentment by an existing group or groups towards other communities, especially foreign powers that are deemed to be controlling them.

When nonselective COX-1 / COX-2 inhibitors ( such as aspirin, ibuprofen, and naproxen ) lower stomach prostaglandin levels, ulcers of the stomach or duodenum internal bleeding can result.

Subsequently both the statehood faction and the commonwealth shared control on a 50-50 basis from 1984 to 1988 and lost control that year as a result of their defeat in an internal primary that year between PDP forces led by then Senate president Miguel Hernández Agosto and NPP forces led by former Gov.

The sole exception is the region directly under a tiny geostationary moon of the internal sun ; that region as a result is under a perpetual eclipse and is known as the Land of Awful Shadow.

Diagnostic hints that another disorder is responsible include the absence of Raynaud's phenomenon, a lack of abnormalities in the skin on the hands, a lack of internal organ involvement, and a normal antinuclear antibodies test result.

In a direct bandgap material, recombination of these electron-hole pairs will result in cathodoluminescence ; if the sample contains an internal electric field, such as is present at a p-n junction, the SEM beam injection of carriers will cause electron beam induced current ( EBIC ) to flow.

As a result of conquest or internal ethnic differentiation, a ruling class is often ethnically homogenous and particular races or ethnic groups in some societies are legally or customarily restricted to occupying particular class positions.

He also said that Cambodia was interfering in Thai internal affairs and as a result bi-lateral co-operation agreements would be reviewed.

Where a lake has formed within the basin, the water body is usually saline as a result of the internal drainage — the water has no outlet to the sea.