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result and populations
When bacterial populations have these resistant subgroups, treatment with β-lactam can result in the resistant strain becoming more prevalent and so more virulent.
The project established unique mechanisms for World Bank, private sector, government, and civil society collaboration to guarantee that future oil revenues benefit local populations and result in poverty alleviation.
Most candidial infections result in minimal complications such as redness, itching and discomfort, though complications may be severe or fatal if left untreated in certain populations.
Over time, this process can result in populations that specialize for particular ecological niches and may eventually result in the emergence of new species.
Natural populations of bacteria contain, among their vast numbers of individual members, considerable variation in their genetic material, primarily as the result of mutations.
The end result of natural selection is two populations that are both optimally adapted to their specific environment, while both perform substandard in the other environment.
As few as two mutations can result in speciation: if each mutation has a neutral or positive effect on fitness when they occur separately, but a negative effect when they occur together, then fixation of these genes in the respective subgroups will lead to two reproductively isolated populations.
As a result, prairie dog habitat has been affected by direct removal by ranchers and farmers, as well as the more obvious encroachment of urban development, which has greatly reduced their populations.
It was further argued that some groups may be the result of mixture between formerly distinct populations, but that careful study could distinguish the ancestral races that had combined to produce admixed groups.
It has been argued that because Snowball Earth would undoubtedly have decimated the population size of any given species, the extremely small populations that resulted would all have been descended from a small number of individuals ( see founder effect ), and consequently the average relatedness between any two individuals ( in this case individual cells ) would have been exceptionally high as a result of glaciations.
All existing populations are at extreme risk from poaching, prey depletion as a result of poaching of primary prey species such as deer and wild pigs, habitat fragmentation and inbreeding.
The admixture may be the result of a continuous gene flow from populations of European and Asian descent, or may be formed by a single event of admixture during a short period of time ( the hybrid isolation model ).
Present-day Fallow deer populations in Europe are a result of historic man-made introductions of this species first to the Mediterranean regions of Europe, then eventually to the rest of Europe.
Many species also have naturally low population densities and closely restricted geographic ranges ; as a result, relatively small localised disturbances of important ecosystems can lead to the extinction of entire populations or species.
It is suspected that a variety of biological consequences such as increases in skin cancer, cataracts, damage to plants, and reduction of plankton populations in the ocean's photic zone may result from the increased UV exposure due to ozone depletion.
The following figures do not include deaths of enslaved Africans as a result of their actual labor, slave revolts or diseases they caught while living among New World populations.
These settlers intermarried with the local population leading to mixed populations, and, as a result of this intermarriage, an English pidgin was created.
It is unclear if some islands ' populations are natural or the result of trade in young birds by natives.
Human populations can be inflicted with frostbites when exposed for extended periods of time to cold and may result in the loss of limbs or damage to internal organs.
This can result in reductions in water quality, fish, and other animal populations.
Some populations of Z. m. mexicana display Vavilovian mimicry within cultivated maize fields, having evolved a maize-like form as a result of the farmers ' selective weeding pressure.
As a result of the conflict, today the local Croat and Serb populations live separate lives side by side.
It has become extinct in eastern North America, and populations there are hybrids as a result of reintroductions of birds from elsewhere.

result and will
Whether any of us remain in it long will depend on what happens as a result of the technological and economic revolutions now going on in the countries of Asia and Africa, and also of course on how long the cold war remains cold.
Just as now anyone may hurl insults at a citizen of Mars, or even of Tikopia, and no senatorial investigation will result.
By the same test predispositions destructive of human personality exercise their most sinister impact, with the result that men of good will are often trapped and nullified.
What is in doubt as the free Germans and their allies consider the voting trends is the nature of the coalition that will result.
The Government of India agrees that it will take all possible measures to prevent the resale or transshipment to other countries or the use for other than domestic purposes ( except where such resale, transshipment or use is specifically approved by the Government of the United States of America ), of the surplus agricultural commodities purchased pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, and to assure that the purchase of such commodities does not result in increased availability of these or like commodities for export from India.
The result will be the same regardless of the order used.
Shortening the results in this manner will not have any detrimental effect on the accuracy of the final result.
Too much pressure will force the tool beyond its cutting capacity and result in rough cuts and jammed or broken tools.
As a result, the proportion of males ( which leave the nest ) increases, and eventually the old colony will die out completely.
If, as I suspect, the problem is largely of the second sort, then development of a theory better able to handle tone will result automatically in better theory for all phonologic subsystems.
However, to the extent that the monetary authorities, in their effort to ease credit in the next several months, conduct their open market operations in longer-term Government bonds, they will certainly act to accentuate any tendency for long-term interest rates to ease as a result of market forces.
that on the immediate horizon, if further large-scale ( relatively speaking ) desegregation comes, it will result from court orders on suits filed in several Middle-South states.
These are arranged approximately in the order of the vociferousness of their proponents but will be discussed in the reverse order in the hope that the true order of importance will result.
Therefore, improved intelligence will result in reduced force requirements and, as it supports all other elements, rates a top priority.
Because the rake angle Af at the tip of the knife is very much smaller ( or even negative ) when compared to the value of **yc for the major portion of the knife, a very rapid increase in cutting force with thickness will result.
This will result in a value Af of the objective function, and when Af is chosen correctly this will give Af, the maximum of the objective function.
A board of health spokesman said there is no reason to believe that an increase in the level here will occur as a result of the detonation.
The Kennedy hope is that, at the conference or through bilateral talks, the low-wage textile-producing countries in Asia and Europe will see that `` dumping '' practices cause friction all around and may result in import quotas.
As a result, Suchet will have filmed adaptations of every Poirot novel, and all but one Poirot short story.
This will result in a web browser that will enable the manual or automatic stopping of malicious applets.
Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — By what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?
" The result of the crisis produced by the result of Alfonso I's will was a major reorientation of the peninsula's kingdoms: the separation of Aragon and Navarre, the union of Aragon and Catalonia and — a moot point but stressed particularly by some Castilian historians — the affirmation of ' Castilian hegemony ' in Spain " by the rendering of homage for Zaragoza by Alfonso's eventual heir, Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona.

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