Due to the low level of investment in cross-border railway projects, the city has preserved a slot within the Thalys high-speed train network which uses existing tracks on its last 70 km from Belgium to Cologne.

* Due to the energy gap, the specific heat of the superconductor is suppressed strongly ( exponentially ) at low temperatures, there being no thermal excitations left.

Due to its invasiveness, biopsy will not be done if clinical suspicion is sufficiently high or low.

Due to the low wounding power of a single round, personal defense weapons depend on high volumes of fire for effectiveness.

Due to the high carrier concentration, tunnel diodes are very fast, may be used at low ( mK ) temperatures, high magnetic fields, and in high radiation environments.

Due to the use of pot stills, the alcohol content of the distillate is relatively low ( e. g. 68 % ABV ).

Due to the low ambient pressures, these eruptions consist of vapor without liquid ; they are made more easily visible by particles of dust and ice carried aloft by the gas.

Due to the low cost of modern plastic shotshells, and the additional complexity of reloading fired shells, shotshell handloading is not as popular as cartridge handloading.

Due to the low molecular mass and hence high thermal velocity of hydrogen these engines are at least twice as fuel efficient as chemical engines, even after including the weight of the reactor.

Due to intermarriage and low birth rates, the Jewish population in the US shrank from 5. 5 million in 1990 to 5. 1 million in 2001.

Due to the low abundance of irons in collection areas such as Antarctica, where most of the meteoric material that has fallen can be recovered, it is possible that the actual percentage of iron-meteorite falls is lower than 5 %.

Due to the low reflectivity of polished metal, these mirrors also gave a darker image than modern ones, making them unsuitable for indoor use with the artificial lighting of the time ( candles or lanterns ).

Due to low traffic volumes the majority of roads are not tarred.

; Low throughput: Due to varying load from other users sharing the same network resources, the bit rate ( the maximum throughput ) that can be provided to a certain data stream may be too low for realtime multimedia services if all data streams get the same scheduling priority.

Due to the small size of San Marino and its low population, it is difficult for any party to gain a pure majority and most of the time the government is run by a coalition.

Due to the combination of high life expectancy and low fertility rate, there is a serious aging problem among Shanghai's registered residents: as of 2009 only 8. 3 % of the total were under the age of 14, while 22. 54 % were over 60.

Due to their low energy, these electrons originate within a few nanometers from the sample surface.

Due to the limited size of the SNO detector in comparison with Super-K the low cosmic ray neutrino signal is not statistically significant at neutrino energies below 1 GeV.

Due to the Forester's low center of gravity, it meets the United States federal safety standards for passenger vehicles, and does not require a risk of rollover warning label on the driver's visor.

Due to the low level of demand, the country's existing transit potential and advantageous geographical position is not fully utilised.

Due to this requirement their available operational time can be unacceptably short in low and high vacuums, thus limiting their use to ultrahigh vacuums.

Due to the compact size and low weight of a Wankel engine, it has found its way into electric vehicles as range extenders.

Due to the extremely short cavity length, and correspondingly thin gain medium, these devices exhibit very low single-pass gain ( typically on the order of a few percent ) and also a very large free spectral range ( FSR ).

Due to low ratings it was not renewed for a second season.

Due to the absence of extracellular matrix and basal lamina, the development potential of these animals, very successful in their ecological niche, was of course limited, which would explain the low rate of evolution, referred to as bradytely, of their phenotype, their outward form as adults.

Due to the difference in salinity, a sub-surface layer of more saline water moving in the opposite direction brings in 475 km³ per year.

Due to the river influx, the areas near the coasts have low salinity especially in the vicinity of the mouth of the Pasig River in the eastern part of the bay.

Due to its salinity, he believed it to be an arm of the Pacific Ocean.

Due to coastal erosion this is only five metres from the sea and is at threat from increased salinity.

Due to drought and increased demands for agricultural water in the lake's basin, the salinity of the lake has risen to more than 300 g / L during recent years, and large areas of the lake bed have been desiccated.

Due to complete utilization of river water in the upstream river basin area, the water quality in the reservoir has high salinity / total dissolved salts which is unsafe for human and cattle consumption.

Due to the efforts of general Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, who fended the Russians off with smaller forces in the battles of Gemäuerthof and Jakobstadt, most of the Baltic provinces held by Sweden remained under her control.

Due to its geographic location in the north of Germany, the southeast of the Jutland peninsula, and the southwestern shore of the Baltic Sea, Kiel has become one of the major maritime centres of Germany.

Due to the fact that at the time the Baltic, Belgian / Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish seasons were all traveling together in order to conserve and pool their resources, there is no way to determine which production team came up with the idea of the twist ( though it's unlikely to be the Baltic's or Norway's as neither edition has ever used this twist ).

Due to this commercial growth and strategic commercial position, Ommen eventually joined the prosperous Hanseatic League-although most of its trade was not directly with the Baltic Sea region, but with fellow Hanseatic cities Zwolle, Kampen, Zutphen and especially Deventer, of which it was a subsidiary city.

Due to its advantageous proximity to the entrance to the Baltic Sea, Frederikshavn has historically been a naval base of some strategic importance.

Due to the Elven-based Norwegian presence in the seas around the south of Sweden and into the Baltic Sea, Norway increasingly relied on Baltic grain from Lübeck.

Due to its geographical location, Kiel has special links with the neighbouring countries of Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea region.

Due to the abundance of sunshine, year-round tropical temperatures moderated by the almost constant trade winds, and the great variety of scenic destinations to visit, during the second half of the 20th century on into the 21st, the Caribbean Sea became a popular place for tourism.

Due to its strategic location at the mouth of the Bab el Mandeb gateway to the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, Djibouti also hosts various foreign military bases.

Due to the popularity of the sea's therapeutic and healing properties, several companies have also shown interest in the manufacturing and supplying of Dead Sea salts as raw materials for body and skin care products.

" Due to Arctic shrinkage, the Beluga group of Bremen, Germany, sent the first Western commercial vessels through the Northern Sea Route ( Northeast Passage ) in 2009.

Due to the differing ages of the rocks that constitute the majority of the Blue and White Nile, catchment areas of the changing provenance of sediment reaching the River Nile delta and East Mediterranean Sea can be discerned through Sr isotopic studies.

* Thousands Of Walruses Crowd Ashore Due To Melting Sea Ice – video by National Geographic

Due to her attributes as a protector and mother, as well as a lusty aspect gained when she absorbed some aspects of Hathor, she became the patron goddess of sailors, who spread her worship with the trading ships circulating the Mediterranean Sea.

Due to its size and proximity to the Mediterranean Sea shore it has been studied for its potential to generate hydroelectricity.

Due to its strategic position in the Mediterranean Sea, Alghero was built around a fortified port, founded around 1102 by the Genoese Doria family.

Due to the shallow mud of Strangford Lough, Newtown never developed as a port, with goods instead transported from the nearby town of Donaghadee on the Irish Sea coast of the Ards Peninsula.

Due to their garrisons on the various islands of the Aegean, the Germans had maintained control over the Aegean Sea long after they had lost other areas of the Mediterranean to Allied control.

Due to its wide range, as many as ten subspecies have been described .< ref name = amano2002 > Currently, five distinct subspecies are recognized: P. h. hispida in the Arctic Ocean and Bering Sea, P. h. ochotensis in the Sea of Okhotsk, P. h. saimensis in Lake Saimaa in Finland, P. h. ladogensis in nearby Lake Ladoga in Russia and P. h.

Due to operational constraints imposed by its low-level location and proximity to the Arabian Sea coastline making it vulnerable during the monsoon season, a move further inland became necessary.

Due to steady post-glacial rebound it became connected with the mainland during the early Littorina Sea stage.

Due to his numerous functions and responsibilities as Commanding General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines ' Southern Command ( SouthCom ), South Sulu Sea Frontiers Command, over all military supervisor of Mindanao, Deputy Chief of Staff of the AFP and Regional Commissioner for Islamic Affairs in Region IX, Adm. Espaldon could not possibly attend to his duties as Military Governor of Basilan.

Due to this, some define " Lappland " as coterminus with Sápmi, the entire traditional area of the Sámi-on the North bounded by the Barents Sea, on the West by the Norwegian Sea and on the East by the White Sea.

Due to its proximity to the border to neighboring Yamaguchi, many tourists who come to Tsuwano also visit Hagi on the Sea of Japan and Yamaguchi at the same time, and Tsuwano is often mistaken as being located in Yamaguchi prefecture for this reason.