Factors causing loss of habitat include: conversion of wetlands for agriculture, using chemical fertilizers, using pesticides in rice production, and an increase in the population of cattle.

Factors within a businesses ’ control include:

If default models are biased to include arbitrary default data and " Ratings Factors are biased low compared to the true level of expected defaults, the Moody ’ s will not generate an appropriate level of average defaults in its default distribution process.

The company ’ s core disciplines include Industrial Design, Design strategy, Service Design, Human Factors, Interaction Design, Sustainable Design, Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering.

The Confidential Human Factors Incident Reporting Programme ( CHIRP ), an experimental, voluntary, anonymous and informal system of reporting hazardous air events introduced within BEA in the late 1960s ( and later adopted by the Civil Aviation Authority and NASA ), brought to light two earlier near-accidents, the " Orly " and " Naples " incidents: these involved flight crew error in the first case and suspicion of the Trident ’ s control layout in the second.

Factors influencing the passage or failure of these bills include: lawmakers ’ unwillingness to infringe on young people ’ s freedom of choice, and the glamorization of a tan leading to inadequate skin protection.

Factors associated with the individual's valence for outcomes are values, needs, goals, preferences and Sources of Motivation Strength of an individual ’ s preference for a particular outcome.

Dr. Currie has also served as the chief of the Astronaut Office Robotics and Payloads-Habitability branches and the Habitability and Human Factors Office in JSC ’ s Space and Life Sciences Directorate.

She has assisted the Johnson Space Center ’ s Automation, Robotics, and Simulation Division in the development of advanced robotics systems and is a consultant to NASA ’ s Space Human Factors Engineering Project.

The Wheel series includes Ledi Sayadaw ’ s Manual of Insight ( Vipassana Dipani ), The Requisites of Enlightenment ( Bodhipakkhiya Dipani ), The Noble Eightfold Path and Its Factors ( Magganga Dipani ), The Buddhist Philosophy of Relations ( Patthanuddesa Dipani ) and the Manual of Mindfulness of Breathing ( Anapana Dipani ).

Proceedings of ACM SIG-CHI ’ 83 Human Factors in Computing systems ( Boston, 12 – 15 December 1983 ), New York: ACM, pp. 193-196.

In CHI ’ 06 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems ( Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 22 – 27, 2006 ).

Factors contributing to a currency's hard status might include the long-term stability of its purchasing power, the associated country's political and fiscal condition and outlook, and the policy posture of the issuing central bank.

Factors influencing maximum size attainment can be size of the aqaurium relative to population density or the size of the tank relative to the maximum size potential of the fish, water condition and availability of food.

Finally, new brakes are prone to a phenomenon termed " green fade ", where resin on the brake pad evaporates at the high temperatures involved in heavy braking and the resulting pressurised gas forces the brake lining away from the disk, reducing friction < sup >-conflicting with " Factors contributing to fade " above </ sup >.

Factors that may had reduced pedestrian fatalities included more and better sidewalks, pedestrian paths, playgrounds away from streets, one-way traffic flow, and restricted on-street parking.

Factors including late intake valve closure ( relatively speaking for camshaft profiles outside of typical production car range, but not necessarily into the realm of competition engines ) can produce a misleadingly low figure from this test.

Factors that have been cited as leading to the decline of disco in the United States include economic and political changes at the end of the 1970s as well as burnout from the hedonistic lifestyles led by participants.

Harry Nyquist's 1924 paper, Certain Factors Affecting Telegraph Speed, contains a theoretical section quantifying " intelligence " and the " line speed " at which it can be transmitted by a communication system, giving the relation, where W is the speed of transmission of intelligence, m is the number of different voltage levels to choose from at each time step, and K is a constant.

Several broad disciplines including Psychology, Human Factors and Cognitive Science subsume usability engineering, but the theoretical foundations of the field come from more specific domains: human perception and action ; human cognition ; behavioral research methodologies ; and, to a lesser extent, quantitative and statistical analysis techniques.

In addition, it activates Factors VIII and V and their inhibitor protein C ( in the presence of thrombomodulin ), and it activates Factor XIII, which forms covalent bonds that crosslink the fibrin polymers that form from activated monomers.

** Court employs 4 " Fairness Factors " from Parklane Hosiery Co., Inc. v. Shore, 439 U. S. 322 ( 1979 ), to determine validity of the Offensive Non-Mutual Collateral Estoppel:

Factors that distinguish health economics from other areas include extensive government intervention, intractable uncertainty in several dimensions, asymmetric information, barriers to entry, externalities and the presence of a third-party agent.

The number ' Three Thousand ' is derived from the Ten Worlds, multiplied by ten of the Mutual Possession of the Ten Worlds, which gives 100, multiplied by ten Ten Factors listed in Ch.

* Cachectic syndrome maintained by tumor-derived factors: Factors, such as lipid mobilizing factor extracted from the urine of cachectic patients, were suspected to induce protein degradation in skeletal muscle by upregulation of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway and lipolysis in adipocytes.

MacGill's paper, Factors Affecting the Mass Production of Aeroplanes, won the Gzowski Medal from the Engineering Institute of Canada in 1941.

A 2007 field study revealed little correlation between the abundance of fruit bodies and presence of its mycelia below ground, even when soil samples were taken from directly beneath the mushroom ; the study concluded " Factors triggering formation of mycorrhizae and fructification of porcini appear to be too complex to be simply explained on the basis of the amount of fungal mycelia in the soil.

Factors such as the oil shocks of 1973, increased competition from foreign markets ( especially Southeast Asia ) due to globalization, the end of the post-World War II boom, and increasing privatization made the old system of mass producing identical, cheap goods through division of labor uncompetitive.

Factors contributing to the decision include transport guidance, central government planning guidelines, existing athletic facilities, isolation from residential areas, and council ownership.

Factors introduced into the discussion include: a breakdown of the transmission in artistic skills due to the political and economic disruption of the Crisis of the Third Century, influence from Eastern and other pre-classical regional styles from around the Empire ( a view promoted by Josef Strzygowski ( 1862-1941 ), and now mostly discounted ), the emergence into high-status public art of a simpler " popular " or " Italic " style that had been used by the less wealthy throughout the reign of Greek models, an active ideological turning against what classical styles had come to represent, and a deliberate preference for seeing the world simply and exploiting the expressive possibilities that a simpler style gave.

Factors in designing also include subjective qualities such as: genius loci ( the special site qualities to emphasize ); client's needs and preferences ; desirable plants and elements to retain on site, modify, or replace, and available to use as borrowed scenery from beyond ; artistic composition from perspectives of both looking upon and being in the * gardens ; spatial development and definition ; plant palettes in designed layouts, and artistic focal points for enjoyment.

* Factors Which Influence Individual's Decisions When Considering Female-To-Male Genital Reconstructive Surgery by Katherine Rachlin from the International Journal of Transgenderism.

Its concept is closely related to the Heart, and its stipulated main function is to protect the Heart from attacks by Exterior Pathogenic Factors.

His findings were published from time to time in professional journals, then summed up in book form in The Mechanical Factors of Digestion, published in 1911.

Factors of wear come mostly from on / off cycles versus the total on time.

Due to an ill-advised agreement between Parker and Presley that gave RCA sole ownership of all his recording royalties prior to 1973, the estate was relying heavily on the income from Factors Etc.

Factors influencing this decision are the optimal reach ( how many physicians to see ) and frequency ( how often to see them ) for each individual physician, how many patients suffer from that disease state, how many sales representatives to devote to office and group practice and how many to devote to hospital accounts if needed.

Previous recipients of the Sir Frederic Bartlett award include Dr Christine Haslegrave and Professor John Wilson from the Human Factors Research Group ( HFRG ), University of Nottingham.

Factors that can affect the balance of trade include:

Factors that can cause nitrate buildup in plants are frost, hail damage, drought, hot dry winds, pesticide damage, herbicide damage and any other plant stunting environmental causes.

Factors that can shape climate are called climate forcings or " forcing mechanisms ".

Factors that can degrade thermal performance:

Factors such as temperament, social structure and ability to breed in captivity play a role in determining whether a species can be successfully domesticated.

Factors including genetics, environment and random chance can all contribute to the variation between individuals in their observable characteristics ( in their " phenotypes ").

Some of the Factors that can determine admissibility include:

Factors that can cause male as well as female infertility are:

Factors that can contribute to GERD:

Factors such as transcription may or may not be needed if the virus is able to integrate its genomic information in the cell's nucleus, or if the virus can replicate itself directly within the cell's cytoplasm.

Factors that contribute to inconsistency: features of the individual or the situation that can affect test scores but have nothing to do with the attribute being measured

Harry Nyquist's 1924 paper, Certain Factors Affecting Telegraph Speed, contains a theoretical section quantifying " intelligence " and the " line speed " at which it can be transmitted by a communication system.

Factors such as how different the two interacting cultures are, and how easily individuals can integrate these two cultures ( bicultural identity integration ) may partially explain why general statements about approaches to acculturation are not sufficient in predicting successful adaptation.

Factors influencing ionospheric radio signal propagation can include sporadic-E, spread-F, solar flares, geomagnetic storms, ionospheric layer tilts, and solar proton events.

Factors of cultural expectation in the genesis of koro can be built upon ideas of sex physiology in the traditional Chinese medicine, with free play of imagination which links fatality with genital retraction.

Factors associated with loads are normally independent on the type of material involved, but can be influenced by the type of construction.

Factors that trigger vasoconstriction can be of exogenous or endogenous origin.

Factors such as borrowing, tradition and taboo can skew the results, as with other methods.

Factors such as altitude, aspect and sunlight exposure can have a pronounced effect not only one the resulting quality of the wine but also whether or not the Riesling grape will even ripen at all.

Factors such as E-layer skip propagation, tropospheric enhancement, and knife-edge diffraction can extend the useful range of signals.

Factors that induce cyst formation can include food deprivation, crowding, desiccation, accumulation of waste products, and cold temperatures.

Factors that can affect the distribution of impacts include location, ethnicity, income, and occupation.