Some are blest with an abundance of good health -- some are in poor health and many are invalids.

However, the element abundance in intergalactic space can still closely resemble primordial conditions, unless it has been enriched by some means.

With an abundance of water and a hot, humid climate, rice could be grown practically anywhere in the region, and grew wild in some areas.

Although passive cable theory offers insights regarding input propagation along dendrite segments, it is important to remember that dendrite membranes are host to an abundance of proteins some of which may help amplify or attenuate synaptic input.

Nitrogen is particularly suspect in this regard, and may be causing measurable changes to the distribution and abundance of some Ericaceous species.

Other apotropaic rites include, in some areas of the country, people washing their faces with the morning dew ( for good health ) and adorning the gates for good luck and abundance with green branches or with birch saplings ( for the houses with maiden girls ).

This has some consequences on nucleosynthesis and the abundance of the chemical elements.

In " Famine, Affluence, and Morality ", one of Singer's best-known philosophical essays, he argues that some people living in abundance while others starve is morally indefensible.

In areas with an abundance of timber, wooden shingles are used, while in some countries the bark of certain trees can be peeled off in thick, heavy sheets and used for roofing.

However, some stable isotopes also show abundance variations in the earth as a result of decay from long-lived radioactive nuclides.

For example, some stable isotopes like neon-21 and neon-22 are produced in several routes of nucleogenic synthesis, and thus only part of their abundance is primordial.

So, it was argued, the Mediterranean had once opened a passage for itself by the Columns of Hercules into the Atlantic, and perhaps the abundance of sea-shells in Africa, near the Temple of Jupiter Ammon, might also be the deposit of some former inland sea, which had at length forced a passage and escaped .</ p >

Resource conservation programs established during the war were continued in some countries without an abundance of natural resources, such as Japan, after the war ended.

These may be found in abundance throughout every course, lying around, floating in bubbles, and even carried by some enemies.

The cornucopia ( in Latin also cornu copiae ) or horn of plenty is a symbol of abundance and nourishment, commonly a large horn-shaped container overflowing with produce, flowers, nuts, other edibles, or wealth in some form.

By 1895, Red River was a booming mining camp, with gold, silver, copper, and molybdenum in some abundance, and a population estimated at three thousand.

The competitive nature of the lumber barons, the abundance of lumber and craftsmen, led to the construction in New Bern of some of the finest homes in the South, many of which have survived.

Manumission contracts found in some abundance at Delphi specify in detail the prerequisites for liberation.

Volcanic ash of different hues is in great abundance, and there are some interesting botanic species of Canary Islands origin.

While an abundance of illusions, disguises, and magic that repels attention make certain parts of Witch World look like parallel worlds, some are clearly parallel in that time runs differently in them, and such gates pose a repeated problem in Witch World.

This has been due to the abundance of quality clay in the region, drawing some of the best artisans.

As with planetary nebulae, determinations of the abundance of elements in H II regions are subject to some uncertainty.

In historical times, the introduction of man-made stone structures such as barns and bridges, together with forest clearance, has led to an abundance of colony sites around the globe, significantly increasing the breeding ranges of some species.

The origin of the name Selangor is lost in history, although some sources claim the name to have come from the Malay word selangau, ' a large fly ', most probably due to the abundance of flies in the marshes along the Selangor River in the state's northwest.

In 2007, S. Elizabeth Alter used a genetic approach to estimate prewhaling abundance based on samples from 42 California gray whales, and reported DNA variability at 10 genetic loci consistent with a population size of 76, 000 – 118, 000 individuals, three to five times larger than the average census size as measured through 2007.

Together with proteins, nucleic acids are the most important biological macromolecules ; each is found in abundance in all living things, where they function in encoding, transmitting and expressing genetic information.

RT-PCR is widely used in the diagnosis of genetic diseases and, semiquantitatively, in the determination of the abundance of specific different RNA molecules within a cell or tissue as a measure of gene expression.

Eastern freshwater cod recovered from this event and were in abundance by the time of European settlement, but appear to have lost much of their genetic diversity in this event.

Hence, DGGE banding patterns can be used to visualize variations in microbial genetic diversity and provide a rough estimate of the richness and abundance of predominant microbial community members.

In high southern hemisphere latitudes, such as New Zealand and Antarctica the mass die-off of flora caused no significant turnover in species, but dramatic and short-term changes in the relative abundance of plant groups.

For the past hundred years there has been an abundance of evidence that psychological and physiological changes could be produced by hypnotism which were worth study on their own account, and also that such changes might be of great service in the treatment of patients.

ATP levels differ at various stages of the cell cycle suggesting that there is a relationship between the abundance of ATP and the cell's ability to enter a new cell cyle .< ref name = Sweet1999 > ATP ’ s role in the basic functions of the cell make the cell cycle sensitive to changes in the availability of mitochondrial derived ATP.

Most observed effects are due not to toxicity, but to habitat changes and the decreases in abundance of species on which birds rely for food or shelter.

# Direct biological effects – involves changes in the abundance and distribution of species caused directly by the physical conditions near the edge

The size, shape and relative abundance of these patches changes from year to year in response to the various factors that favor one type of patch over another.

Despite the relative low number of Polynesian languages, and the relative abundance of data already available on many of them, the comparative method was often reduced to comparisons of vocabulary, its shared sporadic sound changes and, as Wilson did in 1985, comparison of pronominal systems which is perhaps the second most commonly described aspect of " minor " languages often available for comparison after the lexicostatistical lists.

These shifts may even correlate to seasonal changes, reflecting phytoplankton abundance.

There is little evidence of coevolution driving large-scale changes in Earth's history, since abiotic factors such as mass extinction and expansion into ecospace seem to guide the shifts in the abundance of major groups.

By contrast, the abundance of < sup > 4 </ sup > He in Big Bang models is very insensitive to assumptions about baryon density, changing only a few percent as the baryon density changes by several orders of magnitude.

The show's early jokes at the expense of Board of Standards and Practices came from frustration encountered by the show's makers by an abundance of script and editing changes that were imposed upon Mainframe before episodes were allowed to air.

Any changes in their abundance and diversity will influence the abundance and diversity of the prevailing plant species.

Heavy rains, changes in fish abundance, and temporal proximity to the Pacific El Niño have been observed ; however, the causes and effects of the Benguela Niño are not well understood.

# a keystone species, which is a species whose addition to or loss from an ecosystem leads to major changes in abundance or occurrence of at least one other species

These influences include: the extent of reef surface sand accumulations, changes in ocean waves, currents, tides, sea levels and weather conditions, the shape of the underlying reef, the types and abundance of carbonate producing biota and other organisms such as binders, bioeroders and bioturbators ( creatures which bind, erode and mix sediments ) living in surrounding reef ecosystems ( Harney and Fletcher 2003, Hart and Kench 2007 ).

However, the abundance of rainfall changes throughout the year creating distinct wet and dry seasons.

There is also an abundance of mediaeval ' lost villages ' - settlements abandoned due to changes in land use, soil exhaustion and disease.

A 2011 study argues that previous assumptions that oil abundance is a curse were based on methodologies which failed to take into account cross-country differences and dependencies arising from global shocks, such as changes in technology and the price of oil.

Typically, varve refers to lake or glacial sediment ), as temperature induced changes in the isotopic ratios for oxygen isotopes in sediments, and in the relative abundance of fossils.

In recent years, the direct and indirect effects of overfishing and pollution from agriculture and land development have been the major drivers of massive and accelerating decreases in abundance of coral reef species, causing widespread changes in reef ecosystems.