Because agricultural activities are seasonal and the areas of production and harvest of many foods are widely scattered geographically, and because of the high cost of transporting bulk food items any substantial distance to a central processing location, the use of large central processing stations, where low-cost radiation facilities approaching the megawatt range might be utilized, is inherently impracticable.

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 Tūmatauenga defeated his brothers, people can now, if they perform the appropriate rituals, kill and eat birds ( the children of Tāne ), fish ( the children of Tangaroa ), cultivate and harvest food plants ( the children of Rongo and Haumia-tiketike ), and generally harness the resources of the natural world.

Because of his link to the grape harvest, however, ' it is not surprising to see Dionysus associated with Demeter and Kore in the Eleusinian Mysteries.

Because tree farms are managed to enhance rapid growth, a tree farm tends to sequester carbon more quickly than an unmanaged forest, considering only the sequestration side of the equation and not the carbon release due to rot, fire, or harvest.

Because investments are illiquid and require the extended timeframe to harvest, venture capitalists are expected to carry out detailed due diligence prior to investment.

Because of the minuscule amounts of hirudin present in leeches, it is impractical to harvest the substance for widespread medical use.

Because corvée labour for agriculture tended to be demanded by the lord at exactly the same times that the peasants needed to attend to their own plots – e. g. planting and harvest – the corvée was an object of serious resentment.

Because of the product's short life after harvest, the sod may be washed clean of the soil down to the bare roots ( or sprigs ) which makes shipping lighter and cheaper.

Because diviners placed the cause on divine punishment by the Kamo deities, the Emperor sent his messenger with a retinue to the shrine to conduct various acts to appease the deities, in prayer for a bountiful harvest.

Because a new soil mixture is used to create the garden, and a few handfuls of compost are added with each harvest to maintain soil fertility over time, the state of the site's underlying soil is irrelevant.

Because this kind of harvest is labor intensive, and thus more costly, it is used primarily to harvest the finer arabica beans.

Because of its high reactivity, lithium never occurs freely in nature, and instead, only appears in compounds, which are usually ionic.

Because of its relatively short half-life, < sup > 53 </ sup > Mn occurs only in tiny amounts due to the action of cosmic rays on iron in rocks.

Because cytokinesis usually occurs in conjunction with mitosis, " mitosis " is often used interchangeably with " mitotic phase ".

Because so little information is available concerning what actually occurs inside of the country, the extent to which there is any rule of law is uncertain.

Because the light of the flash occurs too fast for the pupil to close, much of the very bright light from the flash passes into the eye through the pupil, reflects off the fundus at the back of the eyeball and out through the pupil.

Because of its extreme reactivity with oxygen and water, this element occurs naturally only in compounds with other elements, such as in the minerals strontianite and celestite.

Because this interaction takes place on atomic electrons it occurs with the same rate in both the heavy and light water.

) Because relatives share genes, genes causing altruism ( such as organ scale differentiation ) can spread if it occurs between relatives, see kin selection.

Because the brain is well protected by the skull, the early detection of a brain tumor occurs only when diagnostic tools are directed at the intracranial cavity.

Because of the curvature and downward tilt of Earth's magnetic field over the USA, the maximum EMP occurs south of the detonation and the minimum occurs to the north.

Because the temperature in the tropopause and lower stratosphere remains constant ( or slightly increases ) with increasing altitude, very little convective turbulence occurs at these altitudes.

DNA methylation frequently occurs in repeated sequences, and helps to suppress the expression and mobility of ' transposable elements ': Because 5-methylcytosine can be spontaneously deaminated ( replacing nitrogen by oxygen ) to thymidine, CpG sites are frequently mutated and become rare in the genome, except at CpG islands where they remain unmethylated.

Because of the wide variation in disease symptoms treatment typically occurs at specialist multidisciplinary centers, and is tailored to the individual.

Because so many small producers are involved, it is impractical to monitor all the farms and drying sites ( which is where aflatoxin contamination occurs ).

Because heliacal rising occurs in the east, and the sun's heat begins there daily, Sopdu was referred to as Lord of the East, and had his greatest cult centre at the easternmost nome of Lower Egypt, which was named Per-Sopdu, meaning place of Sopdu.

Because of its geology and the weathering that occurs here, there are frequent coastal collapses especially in winter.

Because of the subtraction that occurs in the quadratic equation, it does not constitute a stable algorithm to calculate the two roots.

Because the feast occurs during Lent, traditionally no meat was allowed on the celebration table.

Because corrosion is a diffusion-controlled process, it occurs on exposed surfaces.

" Because " x " ( the wind gusts ) then " y "( the leaves swirl on the porch ) occurs.

Because of the difficulties in quantifying how much crime actually occurs, researchers generally take two approaches to gathering statistics about crime.

Because there is no difference between what is predicted and what happens, no new learning occurs on the additional trials with CS1 + CS2, hence CS2 later yields no response.

Because the center arm of the triglyceride is shielded somewhat by the end fatty acids, most of the hydrogenation occurs on the end fatty acids, thus making the resulting fat more brittle.

Because very few minerals contain it in high concentration, germanium was discovered comparatively late in the history of chemistry.

Because the election of a three-year-old boy to be German king appeared likely to make orderly rule difficult, the boy's uncle, Duke Philip of Swabia, brother of late Henry VI, was designated to serve in his place.

Because of Netware's popularity through the late 1980s into the mid 1990s, IPX became a popular internetworking protocol.

Because of his war service, Governor Brown of Mississippi appointed Davis to fill out the senate term of the late Jesse Speight.

Because of the cost vs. revenue contracts within the PKA, many of the promoters also left the organization and formed the International Sport Karate Association ( ISKA ) in 1985, and in the late eighties a struggle for control of the PKA developed between the Quines and equal partner Joe Corley, leading to the decline of the organization as a business entity.

Because extensive European contact began so late in the country's history, the traditional social structure carried over into modern times with little change.

Because of the lengthy court process and appeals, the legal status of Parker Brothers ' trademarks on the game was not settled until the late 1970s.

Because of this, " Sniper 2 " didn't fire a single shot until late in the gunfight, when hostage-taker Khalid Jawad attempted to escape on foot and ran right at the exposed sniper.

Because of this feature the Lenco became popular in the late 1950s with dancing schools, because the dancing instructor could lead the dancing exercises at different speeds.

Because the key distinguishing characteristic Marsh noted for Pteranodon was its lack of teeth, any toothless pterosaur jaw fragment, wherever it was found in the world, tended to be attributed to Pteranodon during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Because of late industrialization, Russia's workers were highly concentrated.

Because of continued migration to urban areas, the figure was doubtless higher in the late 1980s.

Because his election came very late, however, Julius Nepos could not leave, as the ports were closed for the winter.

Because its orbit comes close to Earth's in two places, Halley's Comet is the parent body of two meteor showers: the Eta Aquariids in early May, and the Orionids in late October.

Because the skull was praying on a red cushion, was made an exhibition of the late Queen.

Because Triceratops teeth, horn fragments, frill fragments, and other skull fragments are such abundant fossils in the Lancian faunal stage of the late Maastrichtian ( late Cretaceous, 68 to 65 mya ) Period of western North America, it is regarded as among the dominant herbivores of the time, if not the most dominant herbivore.

Because dew is related to the temperature of surfaces, in late summer it is formed most easily on surfaces which are not warmed by conducted heat from deep ground, such as grass, leaves, railings, car roofs, and bridges.

Because of the late departure of the ships, the French expedition was doomed to failure from the outset.

Because his father was the brother of the late Philip IV, he was therefore a nephew of Philip IV and the cousin of Louis X, Philip V and Charles IV.

Because of Yeshiva's dual curriculum, most of the sports teams practice at night, sometimes even as late as 11: 00 pm.

Because he was showing up late and behaving erratically, producer John Wayne, after failing to obtain Humphrey Bogart as a replacement, took over the role himself.

Because he was the youngest, John began to suffer several beatings at the hands of Bowman ( who is said by Laurie Holmes in the John Holmes biography A Life Measured in Inches, 2008, to have had bipolar disorder ) that continued well into his late adolescence.

Because of significant Ku Klux Klan violence in the late 1860s, it was attached to a special district including Warren, Wilkes, and Oglethorpe counties.