Because a frequent side effect of digitalis is reduction of appetite, some individuals have used the drug as a weight-loss aid.

Because the sounds are transmitted electronically, an electronic stethoscope can be a wireless device, can be a recording device, and can provide noise reduction, signal enhancement, and both visual and audio output.

Because of the reduction in the barrel length, the overall " reach " of the new short rifles with attached bayonet was reduced.

Because golf course budgets are often quite tight, the reduction of fungicide applications required in a season for snow mold will result in more money elsewhere in the budget.

Because trees and plants remove carbon dioxide and emit oxygen into the atmosphere, the reduction of forests contribute to about 12 % of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions.

Because an aircraft's design must provide enough lift to overcome its own weight, a reduction of its L / D ratio at supersonic speeds requires additional thrust to maintain its airspeed and altitude.

Because the atmosphere is warmed by conduction from Earth's surface, this lapse or reduction in temperature normal with increasing distance from the conductive source.

Because pressure and temperature are strongly linked, knock can also be attenuated by controlling peak combustion chamber temperatures by compression ratio reduction, exhaust gas recirculation, appropriate calibration of the engine's ignition timing schedule, and careful design of the engine's combustion chambers and cooling system as well as controlling the initial air intake temperature.

Because of its high potency, the smallest lorazepam tablet strength of 0. 5 mg is also a significant dose reduction ( in the UK, the smallest tablet strength is 1. 0 mg, which further accentuates this difficulty ).

Because of the great reduction in ongoing costs that a drainage adit can provide, they have sometimes been driven for great distances just for this purpose, one such being the Milwr tunnel in North Wales, which is about ten miles ( 16 km ) long.

Because of the intense stylization and reduction of facial features into clean lines, generally the figures resemble each other, though Nagel worked with many models, including Playboy Playmates Cathy St. George, Tracy Vaccaro and Shannon Tweed.

Because of its homogeneous nature and very high speed, wire was relatively free of the noticeable background hiss which characterized tape recordings before the advent of noise reduction systems.

Because the size of the planes used varied according to the travel on that spoke, and since hubs allowed passenger travel to be consolidated in “ transfer stations ”, capacity utilization increased, allowing fare reduction.

Because the word " reduction " does not appear in the names of more specialized systems, in older texts reduction system is a synonym for ARS ).

An alternative reduction from the Hamiltonian cycle problem translates a graph G which is to be tested for Hamiltonicity into the pair of graphs G and H, where H is a cycle having the same number of vertices as G. Because the Hamiltonian cycle problem is NP-complete even for planar graphs, this shows that subgraph isomorphism remains NP-complete even in the planar case.

Because of this blurring, linear filters are seldom used in practice for noise reduction ; they are, however, often used as the basis for nonlinear noise reduction filters.

Because investment income ( like earned income ) is taxed at only 4 % under the new tax law, individuals with large amounts of investment income enjoyed a significant reduction in the amount of tax paid to Connecticut.

Because of its small crew, the introduction of the BMD led to a reduction in the number of soldiers in an airborne battalion, from 610 to 316 men.

Because of the prominence of the snare drum line in the piece, a snare drum is still called for in the piano reduction.

Because of a reduction of more than 95 % of the original 20 million bat population, as a result of vandalism, pollution, and uncontrolled tourism, the organization decided to buy the property to place it under conservation.

Because of a vowel reduction processes, the Russian phoneme may have a number of pronunciations in unstressed syllables, including and.

Because the soroban developed through a reduction in the number of beads from seven, to six, and then to the present five, these methods can be used on the suanpan as well as on soroban produced before the 1930s, which have five " earth " beads and one " heavenly " bead.

Because the capitalization was never completely consistent in actual usage, this article adopts the convention of using the all-caps FORTRAN in referring to versions of FORTRAN through FORTRAN 77 and the title-caps Fortran in referring to versions of Fortran from Fortran 90 onward.

Because of its emphasis on usage, communicative function, and the social context of language, functional grammar differs significantly from other linguistic theories which stress purely formal approaches to grammar, notably Chomskyan generative grammar.

The term Latino was officially adopted in 1997 by the United States Government in the ethnonym Hispanic or Latino, which replaced the single term Hispanic: " Because regional usage of the terms differs – Hispanic is commonly used in the eastern portion of the United States, whereas Latino is commonly used in the western portion.

Because this usage blurs the distinction between the compile-time process and the run-time process, this article will use linking for the former and loading for the latter.

Because of this, as well as its formatting and usage of emoticons, this novel is similar to what emerged a decade later as the blog format.

Because the folkloristic meaning of " myth " is often confused with this more pejorative usage, the original unambiguous term " mythos " may be a better word to distinguish the positive definition from the negative.

Because phase boundaries relate to changes in the organization of matter, such as a change from liquid to solid or a more subtle change from one crystal structure to another, this latter usage is similar to the use of " phase " as a synonym for state of matter.

Because language is not rigid and changes depending on the situation, the very usage of language is rhetorical.

Because of the long-standing usage of the term " unobtainium " within the space elevator research community to describe a material with the necessary characteristics, LiftPort Group President Michael Laine has advocated assigning the term as the generic name for cables woven of carbon nanotube fibers, which seem to satisfy the requirements for this application.

Because of their ability to harness the power of what is essentially a continuous nuclear fission explosion, NSWRs would have both very high thrust and very high exhaust velocity, a rare combination of traits in the rocket world, meaning that the rocket would be able to accelerate quickly as well as be extremely efficient in terms of propellant usage.

Because of this variation in usage, the term is best replaced by one with a more specific meaning ( e. g. opioid ).

Because of all these factors, optimization rarely produces " optimal " output in any sense, and in fact an " optimization " may impede performance in some cases ; rather, they are heuristic methods for improving resource usage in typical programs.

Because Internet Service Providers ( ISPs ) pay the long-distance carriers for access to their infrastructure, and share the circuits among many users through packet switching, the end Internet user avoids having to pay usage tolls to anyone other than their ISP.

Because the definition of a state of " war " may be debated, the term " war crime " itself has seen different usage under different systems of international and military law.

Because D uses garbage collection, in both versions, there is no need to track usage of variables as they are passed.

Because of that, usage of " White Russia " is a sensitive issue in Belarus, and could be seen as inappropriate.

Because of the persisting traditional usage and given that the alternative term Konfitüre ( originally used specifically for jam with visible pieces of fruit ) is foreign to Austrian German, a special exception has been granted for Austria where non-citrus-based preserves may continue to be marketed regionally as Marmelade.

Because the yumi is a very strong bow, and repeated usage tends to weaken the tsuru ( bowstring ), it is not uncommon for a tsuru to break during shooting.

Because of deregulation and the increased internet access and usage rates online community popularity has escalated.

Because the paper is mostly unaffected by microwaves, it will not heat to the point of combustion under normal usage.

Because roads in most places are free at the point of usage, there is little financial incentive for drivers not to over-use them, up to the point where traffic collapses into a jam, when demand becomes limited by opportunity cost.

Because of the low power usage and short range, LPFM is often seen as a niche radio station that plays things that relate more to the small surrounding community.

Because OSI does not have a registered trademark for the term " open source ", its legal ability to prevent such usage of the term is limited, but Tiemann advocates using public opinion from OSI, customers, and community members to pressure such organizations to change their license or to use a different term.

Because all living languages continually evolve, the book is now considered outdated in some respects, and some of the Fowlers ' opinions about correct English usage are at times incorrect with regard to contemporary standards.