Factors that can cause hearing loss, which can be difficult to distinguish or separate from presbycusis, include:

Factors such as clean water and air, adequate housing, and safe communities and roads all have been found to contribute to good health, especially to the health of infants and children.

Factors leading to the magnitude of the gas leak mainly included problems such as ; storing MIC in large tanks and filling beyond recommended levels, poor maintenance after the plant ceased MIC production at the end of 1984, failure of several safety systems due to poor maintenance, and safety systems being switched off to save money — including the MIC tank refrigeration system which could have mitigated the disaster severity The situation was worsened by the mushrooming of slums in the vicinity of the plant, non-existent catastrophe plans, and shortcomings in health care and socio-economic rehabilitation.

Factors that have led to the increasing popularity of medical travel include the high cost of health care, long wait times for certain procedures, the ease and affordability of international travel, and improvements in both technology and standards of care in many countries.

Factors that drive demand for medical services abroad in First World countries include: large populations, comparatively high wealth, the high expense of health care or lack of health care options locally, and increasingly high expectations of their populations with respect to health care.

Factors monitored include blood pressure, pulse, temperature, total protein, protein electrophoresis, health history screening similar to that for whole blood, as well as an annual physical exam with a licensed physician or an approved physician substitute under the supervision of the physician.

Factors that contribute to health and happiness have long been recognized, at least since the time of Ancient Greeks.

Factors such as host susceptibility, genetics and immune function, health care and co-infections as well as viral genetic variability may affect the rate of progression to the point of needing to take medication in order not to develop AIDS.

Factors such as economics, logistics, intelligence, and technology receive the attention once accorded solely to battles and campaigns and casualty counts.

Factors he assessed included economics, language, and religion.

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.

Factors causing an organism ’ s condition to waver away from homeostasis can be interpreted as stress.

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:

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

There were also other transportation and time travel opportunities the crew were not able to use (" Prime Factors ", " Future's End ").

Factors other than the potential causative variable of interest are controlled for by including them as regressors in addition to the regressor representing the variable of interest.

Factors which contributed to this process included, among other issues, eligibility rules for College Bowl ( which limited the number of graduate students who could compete and required a minimum courseload ), higher participation costs for College Bowl relative to these other formats, and concerns regarding the quality and difficulty of the questions used in College Bowl competitions.

Factors may include: recent cessation of tobacco smoking ; recent administration of large doses of iron or vitamin B6 ; hydrogen peroxide in enemas or other procedures.

Factors including one's speed made good and the nature of heading and other course changes, and the navigator's judgment determine when dead reckoning positions are calculated.

Factors that acutely affect leptin levels are also factors that influence other markers of inflammation, e. g., testosterone, sleep, emotional stress, caloric restriction, and body fat levels.

Factors such as community involvement, personal character, extracurricular activities and references are sometimes taken into account, but the LSAT remains far more determinative of admission than comparable standardized tests for other disciplines, such as the MCAT or GMAT.

Factors to be considered include comparability of tested and independent items, reliability of available data and assumptions under the method, and validation of the results of the method by other methods.

Factors suggested for Red-headed Woodpecker declines include: loss of overall habitat and, within habitats, standing dead wood required for nest sites, limitations of food supply, and possible nest-site competition with other cavity nesters such as European Starlings or Red-bellied Woodpeckers.

Factors such as age or genetic differences between individuals, the level of virulence of the individual strain of virus, as well as exogenous influences such as co-infection with other microbes may determine the rate and severity of HIV disease expression.

Factors hindering full-speed electronic collection include significant non-participation, entailing lines in manual lanes and disorderly traffic patterns as the electronic-and manual-collection cars " sort themselves out " into their respective lanes ; problems with pursuing toll evaders ; need, in at least some current ( barrier ) systems, to confine vehicles in lanes, while interacting with the collection devices, and the dangers of high-speed collisions with the confinement structures ; vehicle hazards to toll employees present in some electronic-collection areas ; the fact that in some areas at some times, long lines form even to pass through the electronic-collection lanes ; and costs and other issues raised when retrofitting existing toll collection facilities.

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

Factors affecting cycling levels may include: town planning ( including quality of infrastructure: cyclist " friendly " vs. cyclist " hostile "), trip-end facilities ( particularly secure parking ), retail policy, marketing the public image of cycling, integration with other transport modes, cycle training, terrain ( hilly vs. flat ), distance to destinations, levels of motorized transport and climate.

Factors such as sex, age, population size or other variables may make the equations invalid and unusable, and,, Durnin and Wormersley's equations remain only estimates of a person's true level of fatness.

* have lower levels of psychopathology and delinquency ( and is a better predictor over all other Big Five Factors )

In 1952, along with five other island families, Hiram Fong started Finance Factors, one of the first industrial and consumer loan companies, to service the growing minorities who were seeking to start new businesses and buy homes.

Factors such as wind direction, the position of the sun, and other conditions may affect the decision.

Factors in designing include objective qualities ; such as the climate and microclimates ; topography and orientation, site drainage and groundwater recharge ; municipal and resource building codes, soils and irrigation, human and vehicular access and circulation, recreational amenities ( i. e.: sports and water ), furnishings and lighting, native plant habitat botany when present, property safety and security, construction detailing, and other measurable considerations.

" Factors other than obesity, however, perhaps genetic and / or environmental ones, are needed to explain the higher prevalence of early puberty in black versus white girls.

Factors influencing walkability include the presence or absence and quality of footpaths, sidewalks or other pedestrian right-of-ways, traffic and road conditions, land use patterns, building accessibility, and safety, among others.

Factors that influence the length of the asymptomatic stage include the pathogenicity of the infecting virus and FIV subtype ( A-E ), the age of the cat, and exposure to other pathogens.