Because the technique has allegedly been used to improve breathing and stamina in general, advocates also claim that athletes, people with asthma, tuberculosis, and panic attacks have also found improvements.

Because of their roles as aggressors in World War II, Germany and Japan were not invited to participate ; the USSR were invited but chose not to send any athletes.

Because popular lore has focused on “ regression toward the mean ” as an account of declining performance of athletes from one season to the next, it has usually overlooked the fact that such regression can also account for improved performance.

Because neither Soviet athletes nor journalists appeared in China following the appearance of the American players and journalists, one speculation is that the act showed the equal scorn of both countries towards the USSR.

Because the center fielder requires a good arm and fast legs, center field is generally the position where the team puts its best all-around athletes ; as a result, center fielders are often fine hitters as well.

Because of this, in ancient Christian literature, prominent mystics are often called " spiritual athletes ," an image which is also used several times in the New Testament to describe the Christian life.

Because their success is frequently measured by an score or statistics, perfectionist athletes may feel excessive pressure to succeed.

Because of this " do everything " role, most safeties are the best all-around athletes on the defense.

Because the Olympic Village is located within the Olympic Park, about 75 percent of athletes would be within 15 minutes of their venues ; this compact design, according to double Olympic decathlon gold medallist Daley Thompson, would " make experience so much more inspirating and real ".

Because the casualties included many of the top American coaches as well as the athletes, the crash was a devastating blow to the U. S. Figure Skating program, which had enjoyed a position of dominance in the sport in the 1950s.

Because this man is depicted naked, after the tradition of ancient Greek athletes, the trophy is most often photographed so that the man's arm is swooping down in front of him.

Because it originates as a soft, sticky tree resin, amber sometimes contains animal and plant material as inclusions.

Because of its bright green color when polished, amazonite is sometimes cut and used as a gemstone, although it is easily fractured.

Because of this, each of the infinitely many antiderivatives of a given function f is sometimes called the " general integral " or " indefinite integral " of f and is written using the integral symbol with no bounds:

Because of its relatively small size for a capital city, Bonn was sometimes referred to, jokingly, as the Bundeshauptstadt ohne nennenswertes Nachtleben ( Federal capital without noteworthy night-life ) or the Bundesdorf ( Federal Village ).

Because the result of performing the operation on a pair of elements of S is again an element of S, the operation is called a closed binary operation on S ( or sometimes expressed as having the property of closure ).

Because the size of the dispersed phase may be difficult to measure, and because colloids have the appearance of solutions, colloids are sometimes identified and characterized by their physico-chemical and transport properties.

Because Ω depends on the program encoding used, it is sometimes called Chaitin's construction instead of Chaitin's constant when not referring to any specific encoding.

Because of all these, the mere classification of Sireniki Eskimo language is not settled yet: Sireniki language is sometimes regarded as a third branch of Eskimo ( at least, its possibility is mentioned ), but sometimes it is regarded rather as a group belonging to the Yupik branch.

Because of his close relationship with his schoolmaster, Eusebius was sometimes called Eusebius Pamphili: " Eusebius, son of Pamphilus ".

Because a person's DNA contains information that has been passed down relatively unchanged from early ancestors, analysis of DNA is sometimes used for genealogical research.

Because most of these games feature the name of the designer prominently on the box, they are sometimes known as designer games.

Because the holiday comes in the wake of the annual apple harvest, candy apples ( known as toffee apples outside North America ), caramel or taffy apples are common Halloween treats made by rolling whole apples in a sticky sugar syrup, sometimes followed by rolling them in nuts.

Because the final chapter of his book is a song, it is sometimes assumed that he was a member of the tribe of Levi, which served as musicians in Solomon's Temple.

Because Japanese does not normally distinguish singular and plural in nouns, it is sometimes unclear whether kami refers to a single or multiple entities.

Because steam locomotives included one or more steam engines, they are sometimes referred to as " steam engines ".

Because there are about twelve lunations ( synodic months ) in a solar year, this period ( 354. 37 days ) is sometimes referred to as a lunar year.

Because linear algebra is such a well-developed theory, nonlinear mathematical models are sometimes approximated by linear ones.

Because of its Scottish theme, the play is sometimes said to have been written for, and perhaps debuted for, King James ; however, no external evidence supports this hypothesis.

Because mu-metal saturates at such low fields, sometimes the outer layer in such multilayer shields is made of ordinary steel.

Because mandrake contains deliriant hallucinogenic tropane alkaloids such as atropine, scopolamine, apoatropine, hyoscyamine and the roots sometimes contain bifurcations causing them to resemble human figures, their roots have long been used in magic rituals, today also in neopagan religions such as Wicca and Germanic revivalism religions such as Odinism.

Because of the solid form of the tiles, mahjong is sometimes classified as a domino game but plays similar to card games such as rummy.

Because of their position between the two main systems of law, these types of legal systems are sometimes referred to as " mixed " systems of law.

Because most of his literary work was written while he frequented various Viennese bars and coffeehouses, Altenberg is sometimes referred to as a cabaret or coffee house poet.

Because of its position in the periodic table, polonium is sometimes referred to as a metalloid, however others note that on the basis of its properties and behavior it is " unambiguously a metal ".

* Because rotary engines inject small quantities of motor oil into the combustion chamber to lubricate the apex seals, and burned synthetic oil causes gummy deposits on the apex seals, synthetic oils are not recommended in automotive rotary engines.

Because the fangs are only a fraction of an inch long in even the largest species these snakes must hang on, at least momentarily, as they inject their venom, the most toxic of all snakes.

Because they can also produce quite high but controlled pressures, they can inject controlled amounts of fluids subcutaneously ( beneath the skin ), or epidurally ( just within the surface of the central nervous system-a very popular local spinal anesthesia for childbirth ).

Because of the presence of these substances, Datura has been used for centuries in some cultures as a poison and as a hallucinogen.

Because alcohol consumption has been linked to violent behaviour in some individuals, some communities sought a safer alternative in substances such as kava, especially in the Northern Territory.

Because of the ability of some substances to supercool, the freezing point is not considered as a characteristic property of a substance.

Because substances are only experienced through their properties a substance itself is never directly experienced.

Because everything in the universe was interrelated, beneficial medical substances could be found in herbs, minerals and various alchemical combinations hereof.

Because of the remarkable coincidence of three cases of auto-immune disease in one household, the Secret Service tested the water in the White House, at Camp David, at the Vice President's residence, and at Walker's Point ( Bush's home in Maine ) for lithium and iodine, two substances " known to cause thyroid problems ".

The FDA supports the test, stating that " to date, no single test, or battery of tests, has been accepted by the scientific community as a replacement ... the Draize test " Because of its controversial nature, the use of the Draize test in the U. S. and Europe has declined in recent years and is sometimes modified so that anaesthetics are administered and lower doses of the test substances used.

Because heat capacities of materials tend to mirror the number of atoms or particles they contain, when intensive heat capacities of various substances are expressed directly or indirectly per particle number, they tend to vary within a much more narrow range.

Because of this, the ingredients of non-degu specific hard feed formulations given to captive degus should be checked for free-sugar substances, such as molasses, honey and glucose syrup.

Because the two substances were so visibly similar, a complex testing system was developed to make sure that each propellant was put into the correct tanks of the Messerschmitt Me 163.

Because of the high adsorption activity of the platinized platinum electrode, it's very important to protect electrode surface and solution from the presence of organic substances as well as from atmospheric oxygen.

Different parts of the snake are also prescribed to help alleviate ailments known as “ wind diseases .” Because these snakes move so quickly, it is theorized that substances from their bodies can easily treat these fast moving “ wind ” syndromes.

" Because they only exist in other things, Thomas holds that metaphysics is primarily the study of substances, as they are the primary mode of being.

Because organic substances are toxic to the bacteria, they are non-pathogenic and incapable of causing disease.

Because it is a computer-based system, IMDS recognizes hazardous substances by comparing the entered data with the lists of prohibited substances.

Because the ichor was similar in function to blood, poisons and other toxic substances that were circulated in its bloodstream would adversely affect a Vampire, although no dosage was large enough to cause death.

Because high levels of these substances are toxic to the brain and other organs, this accumulation leads to the serious medical problems associated with maple syrup urine disease.

Because a + b + c = K for all substances being graphed, any one variable is not independent of the others, so only two variables must be known to find a sample's point on the graph: for instance, c must be equal to K − a − b. Because the three proportions cannot vary independently-there are only two degrees of freedom-it is possible to graph the intersection of all three variables in only two dimensions.

" Because the health effects caused by the use of controlled substances exist regardless of the motivation of the user, the use of such substances, even for religious purposes, violates the very purpose of the laws that prohibit them.

Because they are made of the inorganic substances silica or calcium oxalate, phytoliths don't decay when the rest of the plant decays over time and can survive in conditions that would destroy organic residues.

Because of safety concerns and tighter regulation, consumer products such as clocks and watches now increasingly use phosphorescent rather than radioluminescent substances.