Because the body contains so much liquid, transmission of ultrasonic signals proceeds fairly well in muscles and blood vessels.

Because of its importance, and because the lack of price competition is well recognized, the industry is under considerable public pressure not to raise its price any more than could be justified by cost increases.

Because the clocks had been on average well above sea level, this meant that TAI slowed down, by about 10 < sup >− 12 </ sup >.

Because of its importance as a symbol of indigenous culture, its gluten-free palatability, easy to cook, and its protein particularly well suited to human nutritional needs, interest in grain amaranth ( especially A. cruentus and A. hypochondriacus ) revived in the 1970s.

Because Dürer left autobiographical writings and became very famous by his mid-twenties, his life is well documented by several sources.

Because scholastic acrylics use dyes as well as pigments, lightfastness may be poor.

Because of the wide variety of evidence, which can include artefacts as well as sites, there is no one way to practice archaeoastronomy.

Because of this, it has a transportation system which includes more than of roads, 10 major international airports, 300 smaller airports, of functioning railway track, and more than 300 commercial ports and harbours that provide access to the Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic oceans as well as the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence Seaway.

Because society needs people to do computing well, we must think of computing not only as a profession but also as a discipline.

Because of this policy, many former players were highly articulate and went on to have successful careers in commentary and broadcasting as well as the arts.

Because the cytochromes ( as well as other complexes ) are held within membranes in an organized way, the redox reactions are carried out in the proper sequence for maximum efficiency.

Because of consilience, the strength of evidence for any particular conclusion is related to how many independent methods are supporting the conclusion, as well as how different these methods are.

Because the variety of interpretation is virtually limitless, not only for different people but for the same person over time, readers do well to avoid making claims of objectivity or superiority.

Because the Army Distinguished Service Medal is principally awarded to general officers, a list of notable recipients would include nearly every general and admiral since 1918, many of whom received multiple awards, as well as a few civilians and sergeants major prominent for their contributions to national defense.

Because many of these reservoirs are found in sedimentary basins, they study the formation of these basins, as well as their sedimentary and tectonic evolution and the present-day positions of the rock units.

Because of his chronic illness, combined with the corticosteroids and other medications used to treat it, his growth was limited to, and his face retained a childlike appearance well into adulthood.

Because Halakha is developed and applied by various halakhic authorities, rather than one sole " official voice ", different individuals and communities may well have different answers to halakhic questions.

Because the climate was not well suited for growing grapes and nearby property was not available to expand their landholdings, the Harmonists submitted a petition to the U. S. government for assistance in purchasing land elsewhere.

Because they didn't fit well in people's wallets, almost all of the original notes have been removed from circulation.

Because his task was to construct the wilful choices of his Punch editors, who probably took their cue from The Times and would have felt the suggestions of political tensions from Parliament as well, Tenniel ’ s work, as was its design, could be scathing in effect.

Because the high peaks function as moisture catchers, Kyrgyzstan is relatively well watered by the streams that descend from them.

Because the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center, the body responsible for cataloguing minor planets in the Solar System, makes the distinction, the current editorial choice for Wikipedia articles on the trans-Neptunian region is to make this distinction as well.

Because a magnet and sensor is required for each key, as well as custom control electronics, they are very expensive.

Because of this, it is a good conductor of heat and electricity as well as a highly reactive element, though the least reactive of the alkali metals.

Because most of the kernel and supporting packages are free and open source software, Linux distributions have taken a wide variety of forms — from fully featured desktop, server, laptop, netbook, mobile phone, and tablet operating systems as well as minimal environments ( typically for use in embedded systems or for booting from a floppy disk ).

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 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 it is softer than most other metals in general use, brass is often used in situations where it is important that sparks not be struck, as in fittings and tools around explosive gases.

Because of the lack of worldwide knowledge about the order in general, very little is known about the order diversity.

Because of its origin, Capoeira never had unity or a general agreement.

Because " Hume's plan is to extend to philosophy in general the methodological limitations of Newtonian physics ", Hume is characterised as an empiricist.

Because children attend school longer now and have become much more familiar with the testing of school-related material, one might expect the greatest gains to occur on such school content-related tests as vocabulary, arithmetic or general information.

Because the diffeomorphism invariance of the theory does not allow any particular space-time background to be singled out as the " true " space-time background, general relativity is said to be background independent.

Because of its mission statement, Harvey Mudd College places an unusually strong emphasis on general science education, requiring a full one-third of math, science, and engineering courses, known as the " common core ," outside of one's major.

Because of the " Single Market " of the EC, any food – even if irradiated – must be allowed to be marketed in any other Member State even if a general ban of food irradiation prevails, under the condition that the food has been irradiated legally in the state of origin.

Because the existence of these points of space as such, that is, as truly indivisible unities, has its basis in the fact that the points are one with the bodies that fill them ; because, therefore, all possible space is coincident with the physical world ( as in Wycliffe's system, in general, reality and possibility correspond ), there can as little be a vacuum as bounding surfaces that are common to different bodies.

Because it requires no battery or other source of energy, the magneto is a compact and reliable self-contained ignition system, which is why it remains in use in many general aviation applications.

Because of this the general public valued it more for its comic relief than anything else, however It did find an audience in the rational dissenters who found it an attractive alternative to explain human motivations without the attached superstitions of religion.

Because the prime minister is, in practice, the most politically powerful member of the Canadian government, he or she is sometimes erroneously referred to as Canada's head of state, when, in fact, that post is held by the Canadian monarch, represented by the governor general.

Because of the confusion between different zebra species, particularly among the general public, the quagga had become extinct before it was realized that it may have been a separate species.

Because about 70 % of South Korea's land area is mountainous and the population is concentrated in the lowland areas, actual population densities were in general greater than the average.

Because of development difficulties the Sega VR remained only a prototype, and was never released to the general public.

Because of the remarkable hardness of sapphires, 9 in Mohs Scale, ( and of aluminium oxide in general ), sapphires are used in some non-ornamental applications, including infrared optical components, such as in scientific instruments ; high-durability windows ; wristwatch crystals and movement bearings ; and very thin electronic wafers, which are used as the insulating substrates of very special-purpose solid-state electronics ( most of which are integrated circuits ).

Because of his influence in the Thracian region, Thucydides wrote, he was sent as a strategos ( general ) to Thasos in 424 BC.

Because they were suspicious of the music business in general, the Replacements had not signed a written contract with Twin / Tone Records.

Because of their endearing ( if quirky ) personalities and widespread popularity, the characters have been described as positive international icons of both modern British culture in particular and the British people in general.

Because of its robust theoretical strength, a wormhole is also known as one of the great physics metaphors for teaching general relativity.

Because Zeno's ideas were built upon by Chrysippus and other Stoics, it can be difficult to determine, in some areas, precisely what he thought, but his general views can be outlined: