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 of the ocean's great capacity to store and release heat, maritime climates are more moderate and have less extreme seasonal variations than inland climates.

Because the sun's mean motion was used to calculate the jieqi, or seasonal markings, until 1645, this intercalary month was equally likely to occur after any month of the year.

Because of the relative difficulty reaching the park and its seasonal closing, fewer than 20, 000 people a year visit Isle Royale-fewer than the number of people who visit the most popular national parks in a single day.

Because of its wide range of latitude and seasonal winds, Japan has a variety of climates, with a latitude range often compared to that of the east coast of North America, from Nova Scotia to the U. S. state of Georgia.

Because of the seasonal overflow of the numerous westward-flowing streams, the lowland areas of the Paraneña region also experience poor drainage conditions, particularly in the Ñeembucú Plain in the southwest, where an almost impervious clay subsurface prevents the absorption of excess surface water into the aquifer.

Because of their limited number of breeding opportunities ( due to seasonal breeding cycles, limited litter sizes, and the amount of food available to bring up the offspring ) females have much more reason to be " picky ".

Because rhubarb is a seasonal plant, obtaining fresh rhubarb out of season is difficult in colder climates, such as in the UK, Ireland, Russia, etc.

Because Lake Chad is very shallow — only at its deepest — its area is particularly sensitive to small changes in average depth, and consequently it also shows seasonal fluctuations in size of about 1 m every year.

Because Uranus orbits the Sun almost on its side, and its moons orbit in the planet's equatorial plane, they ( including Oberon ) are subject to an extreme seasonal cycle.

Because they are located at a higher elevation than Lima, they receive more sunshine in winter months, something that the city of Lima frequently lacks under seasonal fog.

Because black-tailed prairie dogs do not hibernate, little seasonal change in black-footed ferret diet is necessary.

Because of its proximity to the university, the Annex has a high rate of seasonal tenant turnover, and its residents range from university students to older long-time residents.

Because the length of each Julian Calendar year was 11 minutes 48 seconds too long, over the centuries, seasonal changes gradually occurred on earlier and earlier dates.

Because they orbit Mars in low-inclination equatorial orbits, the shadows of Phobos or Deimos projected onto the surface of Mars exhibit a seasonal variation in latitude.

Because they are diurnal, they are also used as models for human seasonal affective disorder.

Because it does not represent a full year, this data can be skewed by seasonal trading patterns, say higher sales over Christmas, giving a less accurate picture of a company's fiscal health.

Because Odwalla uses fresh produce, some juices are seasonal.

Because its principal markets were tied to leisure-time activities mostly practiced on a seasonal basis, OMC sales sank to a 1961 low of $ 132. 3 million.

Because of the oceans ' great capacity for retaining heat, the climate of Heart's Content are moderate and free of extreme seasonal variations.

Because of the oceans ' great capacity for retaining heat, the climate of Victoria are moderate and free of extreme seasonal variations.

Because of the Metro works, its seasonal flow through the Kerameikos cemetery was disrupted, as the waters were apparently and inadvertently redirected to some new underground path.

Because the levels themselves are random variables, some assumptions and the method of contrasting the treatments ( a multi-variable generalization of simple differences ) differ from the fixed-effects model.

Because the differences between the prices are likely to be small ( and not to last very long ), this can be done profitably only with computers examining a large number of prices and automatically exercising a trade when the prices are far enough out of balance.

Because of these differences, corporate lawyers are often consulted in an effort to determine the most appropriate or advantageous state in which to incorporate, and a majority of public companies in the U. S. are Delaware corporations.

Because of differences in raw materials and manufacturing techniques, modern attempts to duplicate the metal have not been entirely successful.

Because these paired books had to fit a fixed total page length, one or both were usually abridged to fit, and Wollheim often made other editorial alterations — as witness the differences between Poul Anderson's Ace novel War of the Wing-Men and its definitive revised edition, The Man Who Counts.

Because of sociopolitical and cultural differences, there are various descriptions of Europe's boundary.

Because of the linguistic, ethnic, and cultural differences between Yupik and Inuit peoples there is uncertainty as to the acceptance of any term encompassing all Yupik and Inuit people.

Because of differences in molecular structure, the empirical formula remains different between hydrocarbons ; in linear, or " straight-run " alkanes, alkenes and alkynes, the amount of bonded hydrogen lessens in alkenes and alkynes due to the " self-bonding " or catenation of carbon preventing entire saturation of the hydrocarbon by the formation of double or triple bonds.

Because environmental factors affect brain activity and behavior, where differences are found, it can be difficult for researchers to assess whether or not the differences are innate.

Because the stars in an open cluster are all at roughly the same distance from Earth, and were born at roughly the same time from the same raw material, the differences in apparent brightness among cluster members is due only to their mass.

Because different vendors of Unix systems ( and in many cases, different versions of the Unix software ) implemented slightly different behavior and names for important functions, a system administrator was required to have sufficient programming expertise to edit the source code before building the program executables to account for these differences.

Because it presents essentially the same text in all three scripts ( with some minor differences between them ), it provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Because of differences in their written constitutions, the formal powers of monarchs, governors-general, and presidents vary greatly from one country to another.

Because of such differences, the rules determining biological injury differ widely according to the radioisotope, and sometimes also the nature of the chemical compound which contains the radioisotope.

Because of these differences in the theory and practice of development, there is also a wide range of quantitative measures used to describe quality of life.

Because of the differences in the European PAL and USA's NTSC systems two main versions of DOCSIS exist, DOCSIS and EuroDOCSIS.

Because of cultural and linguistic differences from other Comanche bands, they became the “( Yap ) Root-Eaters ”, in contrast to the Kʉhtsʉtʉhka (“ Buffalo-Eaters ”).

Because of performance differences across the hardware range and delays with software development, a whole family of operating systems were introduced instead of a single OS / 360.

Because the city is large with significant differences in elevation among various districts, the weather is often cooler in the hilly north than in the flat southern part of Tehran.

Because of the differences in international broadcasting, these copies had been converted to the North American NTSC television standard, and so one chunk of the series remained in its native PAL format, but the majority were found in a poorly-converted ( dating long before digital conversion methods ) NTSC state.

Because of differences in anatomy, manual dexterity, and visual limitations, every person must find the technique that works best for them.

Because apomictic plants are genetically identical from one generation to the next, each lineage has some of the characters of a true species, maintaining distinctions from other congeneric apomicts, while having much smaller differences than is normal between species of most genera.

Because of the substantial differences between real mode and even the rather limited 286 protected mode, programs written for real mode cannot run in protected mode without being rewritten.