Because investments in hedge funds can add diversification to investment portfolios, investors may use them as a tool to reduce their overall portfolio risk exposures.

Because of the very long exposures needed to capture relatively faint astronomical objects, many technological problems had to be overcome.

Because the incident-light reading is independent of the subject's reflectance, it is less likely to lead to incorrect exposures for subjects with unusual average reflectance.

Because of the light loss due to all the filtering, Autochrome plates required much longer exposures than black-and-white plates and films, which meant that a tripod or other stand had to be used and that it was not practical to photograph moving subjects.

Because of the different susceptibilities and exposures, this risk will vary within a population.

Because the photographic material of his time needed long exposures, he was only able to produce pictures of unmoving objects, mostly posed pictures ; he avoided making pictures of dead, injured or mutilated soldiers.

Because Kodak targeted 828 at a lower-end consumer market, the film was much shorter, at a standard 8 exposures per roll.

Because he couldn't hear them, he was more convinced they were there.

Because Bright's speeches were so much a part of him, there are long and numerous quotations, which, far from making the biography diffuse, help to give us the feel of the man.

Because they were new men and to be sure that they didn't get lost, Prevot had placed Warren and White in the center of the patrol as it filed out.

Because of the authentic homogeneity of his early Nationalistic materials, and his flair for orchestrations -- his brilliant Petruchka, his savage Sacre Du Printemps, his incisive Les Noces -- the world kept hoping that he could recapture the historical direction for which his native talents were predisposed.

Because Holstein cattle weren't a beef breed, they were rarely seen on a ranch, though one might be found now and then for the milk supply.

Because he interprets the primitive state of man as one of mere potentiality or capacity and believes that Adam and Eve were created as children, Irenaeus often seems inclined to extenuate their disobedience as being `` due, no doubt, to carelessness, but still wicked ''.

Because he spoke openly with what Channing had prophesied someone might -- with daring hyperbole -- Parker vindicated Channing's further prophecy that he who committed this infraction of taste would promptly discover how little mercy liberals were disposed to allow to libertarians who appeared to them libertines.

Because of this centrist position, and despite their rejection of Arius, they were called " semi-Arians " by their opponents.

Because unlike the Hawaiians, Cubans and Puerto Ricans, the Filipinos were willing to fight for their independence, Carnegie believed that the conquest of the islands is a denial of the fundamental democratic principle, and he also urged William McKinley to withdraw American troops and allow the Filipinos to live with their independence.

Because the characters were 8 x 12 pixels this meant that video resolutions of 512 x 192 pixels ( in 64x16 character mode ), or 640 x 300 pixels ( in 80x24 character mode ) were created, which was quite high for the time.

Because Aediles were not reimbursed for any of their public expenditures, most individuals who sought the office were independently wealthy.

Because of the market success of the NES, companies chose to develop for it first and were thus barred from developing the same games on competing systems for two years.

According to Capp, who loved to relate the story, Kelly's two perfectly logical reasons for doing so were: a. to cement diplomatic relations between Argentina and the United States, and b. " Because you can't play the piano, anyway!

Because the markets were already nervous due to the Asian financial crisis, investors began selling non-U. S. treasury debt and buying U. S. treasuries, which were considered a safe investment.

Because Bush's approval ratings were in the 80 % range during the Gulf War, he was described as unbeatable.

Because the pole pieces of the coils were reversed with respect to each other, and the leads were also reversed with respect to each other, the two coils, wired in series, produced a humbucking effect ( the same effect is achieved if the coils are wired in parallel ).

Because of this superstition, bongos were less harmed in their native ranges than expected.

Because of this property, the collapsed stars were called " frozen stars ," because an outside observer would see the surface of the star frozen in time at the instant where its collapse takes it inside the Schwarzschild radius.

Because Berlin was located within the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany and the other occupying powers had previously relied on Soviet good will for access to Berlin, the only available methods of supplying the city were three limited air corridors.

Because far less motion was involved than in a conventional dot matrix printer, these printers were very fast compared to dot matrix printers and were competitive in speed with formed-character line printers while also being able to print dot matrix graphics.

Because sabre is such a fast weapon, the window of time each fencer is allowed to get their light on during electric fencing ( to score a simultaneous hit after being hit by an opponent ) is very, very small.

Because the pairs of putatively simultaneous moments are identified differently by different observers ( as illustrated in the twin paradox article ), each can treat the other clock as being the slow one without relativity being self-contradictory.

Because of a simultaneous " crochet " observed in the Kew Observatory magnetometer record by Balfour Stewart and a geomagnetic storm observed the following day, Carrington suspected a solar-terrestrial connection.

Because the systemic circulation is powered by the left ventricle ( which is very muscular ), one advantage of this form of circulation-as opposed to open circulation, or the gill system that fish use to breathe-is that there is simultaneous high-pressure oxygenated blood delivered to all parts of the body ( except for the inner epithelial lining of the lungs which receive their oxygen during the exchange of the gases themselves-Dr. Matayoshi )

Because it lacked sufficient troops and those of the 26th VG Division were near exhaustion, the XLVII Panzer Corps concentrated its assault on several individual locations on the west side of perimeter in sequence rather than launching one simultaneous attack on all sides.

Because of the nearly simultaneous discovery, the is the only elementary particle to have a two-letter name.

Because of its theme, proximity, and simultaneous construction, College Ten maintains close affiliation with the Social Sciences departments.

Because the NaI has a much faster response time (~ 0. 25 μsec ) than the CsI (~ 1 μsec ), electronic pulse shape discriminators could distinguish good events ×× 3 in NaI in the NaI from mixed events accompanied by a simultaneous interaction in the CsI.

* Because the league does not generally schedule simultaneous games for the Giants and Jets, the only way 3 Sunday afternoon games can be shown in the New York primary media market is if one team has a primetime game or bye while the other team plays its game on the network that has the scheduled doubleheader, or if the teams play head-to-head either on the network with the scheduled doubleheader or in primetime.

Because simultaneous closure of all dampers might harm the furnace or air handler, this style of damper is often designed to only obstruct a portion of the air duct, for example, 75 %.

Because PA may affect the spinal cord, symptoms may also include impaired urination, loss of sensation in the feet, unsteady gait, weakness, and clumsiness.

Because they are always genetically identical, the group of four young provides a good subject for scientific, behavioral or medical tests that need consistent biological and genetic makeup in the test subjects.

Because of their size and fictional power, mecha are quite popular subjects for games, both tabletop and electronic.

Because the subjects were non-human, and because the experimental environment was mostly automated, his successful experiments avoided criticism concerning experimenter effects, and removed the question of the subject's belief as an influence on the outcome.

Because of his introspective self-loathing of Melnibonéan traditions, his subjects find him odd and unfathomable, and his cousin Yyrkoon ( next in the line of succession, as Elric has no heirs ) interprets his behavior as weakness and plots Elric's death.

Because of the importance of the dramatic aspects of opera to the composer, Verdi was especially selective in his choice of subjects.

Because of the interstate, and often international, nature of Internet communications, state laws addressing internet-related subjects such as spam, online sales or online pornography can often trigger Dormant Commerce Clause issues.

" Because theology was thought to be the highest of the subjects, the doctorate came to be thought of as higher than the master's.

Because of the inability to adjust focus, the small lens aperture and the low sensitivity of the sensitive materials available, these cameras work best in brightly lit daylit scenes when the subject is within the hyperfocal distance for the lens and of subjects that move little during the exposure -- snapshots.

Because of the inevitably lurid and sometimes offensive subjects that it would cover, newsgroup administrators objected to the inclusion of one or more newsgroups covering sexual topics in the Big Seven ( including the existing rec. arts. erotica ), fearing that they may prevent the major news hierarchies from being widely distributed.

Because Alec and his parents were British subjects, they were evacuated to Malta by British Royal Marines in September 1922, ahead of the Great Fire of Smyrna and the Turkish re-possession of Smyrna at the end of the Greco-Turkish War ( 1919 – 1922 ).

Because of the population of British subjects there, officials believed colonisation was now inevitable and at the end of 1838 the decision was made to appoint a Consul as a prelude to the declaration of British sovereignty over New Zealand.

Because of abuse of the system, which included lying to recruits and even shanghaiing them, the British Parliament enacted laws protecting British subjects from the worst abuses.

Because history and mythology were considered as plays or dialectics of ideas, a fertile ground for important allegory, using themes from these subjects was considered the most serious form of painting.

Because the free association test was not related to the hypnotic susceptibility of the subjects shows that amnesia presented after hypnosis determined the memory for the word-events that occurred in the study phase.

Because resistance varies from one individual to another, the ' lethal dose ' represents a dose ( usually recorded as dose per kilogram of subject body weight ) at which a given percentage of subjects will die.

Because much of The Cartoon History covers evolutionary science, physics, astronomy, and ancient history, Gonick has referenced original writings on these subjects, rather than relying on secondary sources or anthologies.

Because of this, those sciences that systematically explicate the intuitive knowledge of competent subjects by reconstructing the pre-theoretical know-how of certain human capabilities can be seen as representative of this procedure of rational reconstruction.

Because all organisms perceive and react to sensory data as signs, Uexküll argued that they were to be considered as living subjects.

Because Humphreys was able to confirm that over 50 % of his subjects were outwardly heterosexual men with unsuspecting wives at home, a primary thesis of Tearoom Trade is the incongruence between the private self and the social self for many of the men engaging in this form of homosexual activity.

Because the DoD refused to acknowledge the program, surviving test subjects have been unable to obtain disability payments for health issues related to the project.

Because getting a 1 ( 2 in the old system ) in any subject means that the student has to repeat the year, including all subjects that were passed, the teachers are very reluctant to give a failing grade and usually allow some form of special examination in the last weeks of the year to correct the grade to 2 ( or 3 respectively ).

Because of her personal knowledge of her subjects, her books on Paul Robeson and Kwame Nkrumah are considered especially interesting.