Due partly to the nature of the terrain and evolution in transportation systems, rail travel has suffered greatly at the hands of bus and air competition.

( Due to air convection between two panes of glass, the bottom part of the glazing unit is always colder than the top part.

Due to Mozambique's history, the air force has a history of using former Portuguese aircraft, ever since its setting-up after independence in 1975, supported by Cuba and the USSR.

Due to the rotary engine's large rotational inertia, it was possible to adjust the appropriate fuel / air mixture by trial and error without stalling it, although this varied between different types of engine, and in any case it required a good deal of practice to acquire the necessary " knack ".

Due to the economics of television production in Canada, relatively few daily soap operas have been produced on English Canadian television, with most Canadian stations that do air soap operas airing American or British ones.

Due to the United Kingdom's island nature, before the Channel Tunnel and the advent of air travel the only way to enter or leave the country was on water, except at the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

Due to its clean air and it idyllic setting, medical tourism has become a notable tourism sector in the region.

Due to the sheer volume and speed of air movement required, the fans may be powered by stationary turbofan engines rather than electric motors.

Due to the different refractive index of water and air, refraction and reflection occur on the surfaces of raindrops, leading to rainbow formation.

Due to the dangers of lightning, aircraft operating in U. S. airspace have been required to have static discharge wicks to reduce the possibility of attracting a lightning strike, as well as to mitigate radio interference due to static buildup through friction with the air, but these measures may be insufficient for positive lightning.

Due to the very difficult terrain that prevented access to the enemy held areas of operation, troops were often deployed by air assault.

Due to the high energy usage, they are a major source of the pollution that causes urban air quality problems and pollutants that contribute to climate change.

Due to lack of studies, it is not known whether increased fluid intake improves symptoms or shortens respiratory illness and a similar lack of data exists for the use of heated humidified air.

Due to the association with air, calm, and thus Ma ' at ( truth, justice and order ), Shu was portrayed in art as wearing an ostrich feather.

Due to the marine air currents off of the Pacific Ocean, Moss Beach experiences above average fog levels, but also superior ambient air quality.

Due to the show's long production cycle, season five did not air until the following September.

Due to the continuance of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, Grand Forks AFB was originally built as an Air Defense Command ( ADC ) fighter-interceptor air base.

Station 321 has a Ladder, Medic and Engine and other apparatus and is located on Liberty Road, Station 322 has an engine medic and air unit, they are located off of Sawmill Parkway, they have a distinct slogan " First Due At The Zoo ", because the Columbus Zoo is located almost a mile away.

Due to the adoption of a conventional offensive ( and the logistical effort needed to support it ), PAVN placed itself squarely in the sights of U. S. air power and the casualties were high.

Due to the strong drop in air traffic after 1999 and the crisis in the aviation sector in 2001 many charter operations from Girona and Reus were diverted to El Prat, which helped the airport to survive the crisis.

Due to the combined nature of the Canadian Forces, however, it is not impossible for an air force Chief Warrant Officer or a naval Chief Petty Officer 1st Class ( CPO1 ) to rise to that post, especially in units with a high number of support trades personnel ; examples might include a Logistics Branch CPO1 being appointed RSM of a service battalion, or an air force Communications and Electronics Branch CWO appointed to the position in a Communication Regiment.

Due to their extreme reactivity and flammability in air, boron hydrides could not be purified until his development of methods for separation using high-vacuum manifolds around 1912.

Due to the nature of lossy algorithms, audio quality suffers when a file is decompressed and recompressed ( digital generation loss ).

Due to song selection and quality of recordings, CD + G is the most popular format for English and Spanish.

Due to their effects typically having a " down " quality to them, depressants are also occasionally referred to as " downers ".

Due to their effects typically having an " up " quality to them, stimulants are also occasionally referred to as " uppers ".

Due to the complexity and financial and time requirements around this activity, some organizations now employ tools that can monitor and create production-like conditions ( also referred as " noise ") in their performance testing environments ( PTE ) to understand capacity and resource requirements and verify / validate quality attributes.

Due to Daimler's reluctance to allow Chrysler to continue development and use quality materials, Chrysler vehicles suffered lower fit and finish quality as well as sub-standard parts being supplied and used in spite of concerns.

Due to their poor color quality and increased operating expense, color impact models never replaced their monochrome counterparts.

Due to the poor road quality the vehicle will jerk too much giving a sense of severe motion to the inner ear, but due to the slow speed the eye doesn't sense a proportional amount of motion.

Due to their effects typically having an " up " quality to them, stimulants are also occasionally referred to as " uppers ".

Due to health concerns over the quality of the meat contained in many commercially produced sausages ( heightened by the BSE crisis in the 1990s ) there has been a marked improvement in the quality of meat content in commonly available British sausages with a return to the artisanal production of high quality traditional recipes, which had previously been in decline.

Due to their connection with the Lisbon girls, many of the objects are seen as having an almost magical, fetishistic quality.

Due to exclusively sand-bottom beaches, wave shape in Aptos is typically not as high quality as in neighboring Capitola and Santa Cruz.

Due to its relative economic vitality, high quality of life, and proximity to world-class outdoor recreation, it is often featured in various publications ' lists of " best places to live.

Due to its high quality as well as the landscape where are located, the most important ones are:

Due to the relatively low quality of television broadcasts ( when compared with a DVD or Blu-ray release of the same show ), fansubs done from television video sources do not have the high quality video of official releases.

Due to the source of funding, the quality of this Boston University study comes into question.

Due to their reputation for producing high quality products, along with speculation in the press and amongst gamers, anticipation for each release would be high.

Due to the poor picture quality, only NBC carries the transmission, and on tape-delay, not live.

Due to vehicular noise, residents in the Woods of Washington want sound barriers to be installed along the Turnpike.

Due to the uncertainty principle, arriving photons create noise in the circuit.

Due to loose BBs in the reservoir, they often make a rattling noise when running or walking.

Due to budget constraints, he used an older handheld camera that was not soundproof, so blankets were frequently employed to dampen the camera noise.

Due in part to the impact of aircraft noise on the urban environment of south Minneapolis and surrounding suburbs, Northwest Airlines and others had proposed moving out of MSP and building a new airport on the fringes of the Twin Cities metro area to handle more large jets and more international traffic.

Due to noise protection treaties, the overall number of aircraft stands at Tegel airport is restricted, thus aircraft stands on the apron ( serving Terminals A and D ) had to be removed for compensation.

Due to high sound levels generated from this highway and the relatively dense urban development in the highway corridor, Caltrans has conducted numerous studies to retrofit the right-of-way with noise barriers.

Due to their noise and smell, papermills were required by medieval law to be erected some distance from the city walls.

Due to the noise caused by imperfect and finite data, the noise reduction from Welch's method is often desired.

Due to increased noise from the metallic quarter scraping the table and clanking off tile or wooden floors, this method was often avoided in classrooms and study halls.

Due to their variety of colors and the resultant clicking noise, children would often use bread clips as ad-hoc bicycle spoke clips.

Due to its distance from the city centre, there are no noise restrictions enforced on the airport.

Due to its urban location, concerns surrounding training flights over residential areas causing noise, air pollution and endangering public safety have become controversial issues in Ginowan City.

Due to the use of dbx Type-II noise reduction, MCA eliminated the standard Academy Filter traditionally used on optical prints, thus giving Sensurround an increased frequency response of 16 Hz to 16 kHz and a dynamic range of 86 dB, superior to 70mm magnetic prints of the time.

Due to noise regulations, Toyota recalled them for a flash of the PCM to up their output to classify them in the more lenient " sports car " noise category.

Due to International Civil Aviation Organization " Stage III " aircraft noise restrictions this aircraft was withdrawn from service the following year and the current Boeing 727-200 was acquired.

Due to the presence of spatial autocorrelation, in nature gradients are generally found at the global level, whereas patches represent intermediate ( regional ) scales, and noise at local scales.

Due to the statistics of photon shot noise, the desirable properties of signal-to-noise ratio ( SNR ) and sensor unity gain both scale with the square root of pixel area.

Due to its central location in Manhattan and the inversion of the usual relationship between street noise and height, the Sixth Avenue El attracted artists ; in addition to being the subject of several paintings by John French Sloan, it was also painted by Francis Criss and others.

Due to its almost perfect regularity, it was at first assumed to be spurious noise, but this hypothesis was promptly discarded.