Due to their position and function, feet are exposed to a variety of potential infections and injuries, including athlete's foot, bunions, ingrown toenails, Morton's neuroma, plantar fasciitis, plantar warts and stress fractures.

Due to their lack of protective fur, skin cancer may be a problem if exposed to sunlight for long durations of time.

Due to its exposed location in the north of Germany its peak lies above the natural tree line.

Due to its warm arid climate and geomorphological characteristics, the Savage Islands are exposed to strong coastal winds that reduce precipitation to less than 500 mm annually.

Due to the high kinetic energy of neutrons, this radiation is considered to be the most severe and dangerous radiation to the whole body when exposed to external radiation sources.

Due to a drought, the jetty re-emerged in 2002 and was completely exposed for almost a year.

Due to the volcanic nature of the Watchungs, zeolites, including prehnite, analcime, and stilbite, which form from a reaction of mafic rocks in alkaline environments, can be found along exposed ridge lines.

Due to the nature of MSMA, a shift in the direction of magnetization is produced when applying a stress to a fully strained element exposed to a bias field.

Due to evidence that Peribsen ’ s stelae were exposed to erasure of the Seth animals, it has been inferred that whatever reasons Peribsen had for substituting his falcon failed to win acceptance among future generations after Khasekhemwy.

Due to Taiwan ’ s strategic location along East Asian trade routes, Taiwanese were also exposed to cosmopolitan influences and the effects of European commerce.

Due in part to her well-connected mother who sang in the prestigious opera galas in Manila and abroad, Arenas was exposed early to Manila's high society.

Due to its exposed location and the nature of the straits the Ordnance Survey map for the point carries a warning " Public Rights of Way to Abermenai Point can be dangerous under tidal conditions.

Due to his father's career as a collegiate football coach, Skip was exposed to football from an early age.

Due to the crowded nature of Rome at the time, Octavius was taken to his father's home village at Velletri to be raised.

Due to the nature of the aggression from the machines, Zion is an example of a heavily fortified hyperstructure.

Due to acrylic's more flexible nature and more consistent drying time between colors, the painter does not have to follow the " fat over lean " rule of oil painting, where more medium must be applied to each layer to avoid cracking.

Due to the chronic nature of the treated disorders, antipsychotic medications, once started, are seldom discontinued, and the aim of the treatment is often to gradually reduce dosage to a minimum safe maintenance dose that is enough to control the symptoms.

Due to the extremely rugged, mountainous nature of Southeastern Alaska, almost all communities ( with the exception of Hyder, Skagway, and Haines ) have no road connections outside of their locale, so aircraft and boats are the major means of transport.

Due to the liturgical nature of the book of Habakkuk, there have been some scholars who think that the author may have been a temple prophet.

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 the Machiavellian and competitive nature within both industries, a vast amount of aspiring entertainers and athletes in the world, even some of the most talented may never be recognized and won't ever receive the opportunity to carve a name for themselves.

Due to the smallness of Planck's constant it is practically impossible to realize experiments that directly reveal the wave nature of any system bigger than a few atoms but, in general, quantum mechanics considers all matter as possessing both particle and wave behaviors.

Due to the matter wave nature of electrons and their smaller mass, they occupy a much larger amount of volume compared with the nuclei, and this volume occupied by the electrons keeps the atomic nuclei relatively far apart, as compared with the size of the nuclei themselves.

Due to its somewhat concealed, but very potent nature, this hypothetical idea is described by some experts as " banal imperialism.

Due to the iterative / recursive nature of the technique, complex objects are particularly slow to emulate.

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

Due to the inherently deceptive nature of doublespeak as well as its prominent use in politics, doublespeak has been linked to the sociological perspective known as conflict theory.

Due to the highly networked nature of the IT industry, this quickly led to problems for small companies dependent on contracts from operators.

Due to the empirical nature of electronics theory, laboratory experimentation is an important part of the study of electronics.

Due to their rocky nature and long lives, obsidimen are rather slow moving and deliberate in both speech and action, and can have difficulty understanding the smaller races ' need for haste.

Due to Freenet's anonymous nature the original publishing node or owner of any piece of data is unknown.

Due to the specialized nature of the exposure and the higher degree of control afforded by the film lab equipment, these intermediate and release stocks are specially designed solely for these applications and are generally not feasible for camera shooting.

Due to their fleeting nature, they are difficult to find to photograph and the locations of these Frost Flowers are elusive as terrain plays a big part in their formation as well.

Due to Martinique ’ s inhospitable nature, the duo resolved to settle in Guadeloupe in 1635, took possession of the island, and wiped out many of the Carib Amerindians.

Due to a perceived lack of scientific rigour in and overly descriptive nature of the discipline, and a continued separation of geography from geology and the two subfields of physical and human geography, geographers in the mid-20th century began to apply statistical and mathematical model methods to solving spatial problems.

Due to the problematic and enigmatic nature of these attestations, scholars have produced various theories about the nature of the god, including his apparent relation to rams, that he may be a personification of or connected to the world tree Yggdrasil, and potential Indo-European cognates.

Due to the political nature of the Commentarii, Caesar's purpose in publicizing his own achievements may have distorted the significance of events and the motives of those who participated.

Due to its lack of rail connection to the interior of the country and its shallow anchorage, it has lost its position as the primary port of Persia / Iran, to other ports such as Abadan, Khorramshahr, and as of late, to the deep water ports such as Bandar Abbas and Chabahar port complex.

Due to concerns about the force being attacked from the air, it was decided that the raid would take place under the cover of darkness and as a result additional assets in the form of the submarine and a detachment from the Folboat Troop ( later known as the Special Boat Section ) under Roger Courtney, were tasked with providing navigational assistance by marking both the anchorage and landing beach.

Due to the shallow anchorage ( which continues to require regular dredging ), installation of torpedo nets would have severely restricted the mobility of vessels in the harbor.

Due to the lack of anti-submarine precautions at the North Sea naval bases, it was some time before she reached Scapa Flow, the main fleet anchorage.

Due to the lower reef and large entrance, the anchorage at South Minerva can be rough at high tide if a swell is running.