Low agricultural productivity in the SNLs, repeated droughts, the devastating effect of HIV / AIDS and an overly large and inefficient government sector are likely contributing factors.

“ Low water and occasional drying of the wetland bottom during droughts ( dry marsh phase ) stimulate plant recruitment from a diverse seed bank and increase productivity by mobilizing nutrients.

Behind him lay the Low Countries, where men were still completing the cathedrals that a later Florentine would describe as `` a malediction of little tabernacles, one on top of the other, with so many pyramids and spires and leaves that it is a wonder they stand up at all, for they look as though they were made of paper instead of stone or marble '' ; ;

But there was terror in the thirties when the Nazis were on the loose and in those days Low struck like lightning.

Montgomery's training paid off when the Germans began their invasion of the Low Countries on 10 May 1940 and the 3rd Division advanced to the River Dijle and then withdrew to Dunkirk with great professionalism, entering the Dunkirk perimeter in a famous night-time march which placed his forces on the left flank which had been left exposed by the Belgian surrender.

Most brochs have scarcements ( ledges ) which would have allowed the construction of a very sturdy wooden first floor ( first spotted by the antiquary George Low in Shetland in 1774 ), and excavations at Loch na Berie on the Isle of Lewis show signs of a further, second floor ( e. g. stairs on the first floor, which head upwards ).

Many of the Class of ' 68 walked out of their graduation and held a countercommencement on Low Plaza with a picnic following at Morningside Park, the place where the protests began.

Low bandwidth animations transmitted via the internet ( e. g. 2D Flash, X3D ) often use software on the end-users computer to render in real time as an alternative to streaming or pre-loaded high bandwidth animations.

After completing Low and " Heroes ", Bowie spent much of 1978 on the Isolar II world tour, bringing the music of the first two Berlin Trilogy albums to almost a million people during 70 concerts in 12 countries.

Low income people generally spend a similar amount on food, while high income people may spend a very large amount or as little as low income people spend.

This is opposed to Low German, which is spoken on the lowlands and along the flat sea coasts of the north.

* boost phase: 3 to 5 minutes ( shorter for a solid rocket than for a liquid-propellant rocket ); altitude at the end of this phase is typically 150 to 400 km depending on the trajectory chosen, typical burnout speed is 7 km / s, up to the speed of Low Earth Orbit.

The Bourbons of France held a strong claim to Luxembourg, the Emperor of Austria on the other hand had controlled the duchy until the revolutionary forces had joined it to the French republic ( he reportedly was not enthusiastic about regaining Luxembourg and the Low Countries, being more interested in the Balkans ).

Since the introduction of a national minimum wage in the UK in 1999, its effects on employment were subject to extensive research and observation by the Low Pay Commission.

This can be further divided into categories depending on the details of the technique, for example, LPCVD ( Low Pressure chemical vapor deposition ) and PECVD ( Plasma Enhanced chemical vapor deposition ).

David Low ( cartoonist ) | David Low's cartoon, published in the Evening Standard on 20 September 1939, shows Hitler greeting Stalin, following their joint Invasion of Poland ( 1939 ) | invasion of Poland, with the words, " The scum of the earth, I believe ?".

The paper outlined an assault on England's eastern coast between The Wash and the River Thames by troops crossing the North Sea from Low Country ports.

The software-created " Fill Valve " contact latches the circuit so that even when the " Low Level " input goes away as the water begins to rise, the fill valve remains on.

He appears on the alternative hip-hop group A Tribe Called Quest's influential album The Low End Theory on a track called " Verses from the Abstract ".

The overall risk assessment is then Low, Medium or High, depending on the sub-range containing the calculated value of the Composite Index.

Low ratings prompted UPN to cancel Star Trek: Enterprise on February 2, 2005, but the network allowed the series to complete its fourth season.

Low voltage micrograph ( 300 V ) of distribution of adhesive droplets on Post-It ® note.

Externally, Columbia was the first orbiter in the fleet whose surface was mostly covered with High & Low Temperature Reusable Surface Insulation ( HRSI / LRSI ) tiles as its main thermal protection system ( TPS ), with white silicone rubber-painted Nomex — known as Felt Reusable Surface Insulation ( FRSI ) blankets — in some areas on the wings, fuselage and Payload Bay Doors.

Hamburg (;, local pronunciation ; Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg ), officially Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, is the second largest city in Germany, the fifteenth largest German state, and the sixth largest city in the European Union.

It is known in European history as a rather tumultuous year with the July Revolution, the Belgian Revolution and the November Uprising taking place in respectively France, the Low Countries and Poland.

Several dialects of Low Saxon ( Nedersaksisch in Dutch ) are spoken in much of the north and east and are recognized by the Netherlands as regional languages according to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

During the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, neither England nor the main maritime provinces of the Low Countries, Flanders and Holland, had been major European sea powers on par with Venice, Genoa, Portugal, Castile or Aragon.

Traditional English food, with its emphasis on ' meat-and-two-veg ' falls squarely into the north European tradition extending from Northern Germany to the Low Countries and Scandinavia, albeit with a French influence.

* A Blue Gene / P system is the central processor for the Low Frequency Array for Radio astronomy ( LOFAR ) project in the Netherlands and surrounding European countries.

Philip and the majority of the court returned to the Low Countries in the following year, leaving a pregnant Joanna in Madrid where she gave birth to her and Philip's fourth child, Ferdinand, later a central European monarch and Holy Roman Emperor as Ferdinand I.

Low Force is within the North Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty ( AONB ) and European Geopark

Two galleries running along the western side of the Small Hermitage from the Northern to Southern Pavilion house an exhibition of Western European decorative and applied art from the 12th to 15th century and the fine art of the Low Countries from the 15th and 16th centuries.

Low level of genetic variability in European bisons ( Bison bonasus ) from the Bialowieza National Park in Poland.

Norwegian is a member of European Low Fares Airline Association.

As of 2006, the Society for Low Temperature Biology had approximately 130 ( mostly British and European ) members and holds at least one Annual General Meeting.

* A Low Exercise Price Option ( LEPO ) is a European style call option with a low exercise price of $ 0. 01.

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* Donald Kessler and Phillip Anz-Meador, " Critical Number of Spacecraft in Low Earth Orbit: Using Fragmentation Data to Evaluate the Stability of the Orbital Debris Environment ", Presented and the Third European Conference on Space Debris, March 2001.

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Established on 22 February 1944 as a redesignation of VIII Bomber Command at High Wycombe Airdrome, England, 8 AF was a United States Army Air Forces combat air force in the European Theater of World War II, engaging in operations primarily in the Northern Europe AOR, carrying out strategic bombing of enemy targets in France, the Low countries and Germany and engaging in air to air fighter combat against enemy aircraft until the German Capitulation in May 1945.

" Low " refers to the flat plains and coastal area of the northern European lowlands, contrasted with the mountainous areas of central and southern Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, where High German is spoken.

Low German has been recognised by the Netherlands and by Germany ( since 1999 ) as a regional language according to the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.

( 2 ) ASP, featuring three independent sensors mounted on a Hitchhiker plate in the cargo bay -, Modular Star Sensor ( MOSS ), Yaw Earth Sensor ( YES ) and Low Altitude Conical Earth Sensor ( LACES ), all provided by the European Space Agency.

Germany was easily served by a number of European mediumwave stations, including the BBC and domestic stations in France, the Low Countries, Denmark and Sweden, and Poland.

This was greatly enhanced by the European Wars of Religion ( Eighty Years ' War, French Wars of Religion ); in 1567 Calvinist refugees from the Low Countries included many skilled serge weavers, while Huguenot refugees in the early eighteenth century included many silk and linen weavers.

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