In January 1905 an inter-colonial native affairs commission reported on the native question as it affected South Africa as a whole, proposals being made for an alteration of the laws in Cape Colony respecting the franchise exercised by natives.

A few native animals, however, thrive on them, notably the Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo which, although deprived of much of its natural diet by massive habitat alteration through clearing for agriculture, feeds on P. radiata seeds.

Local styles, whether native or imported, tended to be continued without alteration into the present.

Substantial residential and commercial development, involving excavation and alteration of native vegetation and natural watercourses in the lake catchment and hinterland, has given rise to siltation and changes in the make up of the lakebed and foreshore.

Some contributions to its decline include predation on its young by introduced species such as the common carp and walleye, pollution and turbidity, drought, alteration of water flow, and loss of some native vegetation.

In this case, the impact of humans ' alteration of the ecosystem has led to widespread and / or long-lasting consequences.

In this case, the impact of humans ' alteration of the ecosystem has led to widespread and / or long-lasting consequences.

These strategies risk alteration of ecosystem processes that may be difficult to restore, especially when applied at broad scales without adequate assessment of impacts.

Although alteration or transformation of jazz by new influences has often been initially criticized as a “ debasement ,” Andrew Gilbert argues that jazz has the “ ability to absorb and transform influences ” from diverse musical styles.

Since the alteration became known it has given rise to debates among scholars as to whether Tacitus deliberately used the term Chrestians, or if a scribe made an error during the Middle Ages.

Like all of the feline family, the Panthera genus has been subject to much alteration and debate, and the exact relations between the four species as well as the clouded leopard and snow leopard have not been effectively resolved.

A less destructive alternative of this theory suggests the death of the time traveller whether the history is altered or not ; an example would be in the first part of the Back to the Future trilogy, where the lead character's alteration of history results in a risk of his own disappearance, and he has to fix the alteration to preserve his own existence.

It embodies a design that survives in no modern instrument ; that is, the main tube has only the length of a typical woodwind, but the mouthpiece is of the brass type, relying on a combination of the player's lips and the alteration of the length of the sound column via the opening and closing of the finger holes to alter the pitch of the musical sound.

Since that time, only one major alteration has taken place in the Memorial's design.

John Coakley, for example, has developed a typology of the methods of conflict resolution that have been employed by states, which he lists as: indigenization, accommodation, assimilation, acculturation, population transfer, boundary alteration, genocide and ethnic suicide.

Meanwhile, Stor Gendibal, a prominent member of the Second Foundation, discovers a simple local — who lives on the same planet as the Second Foundation — has had a minor alteration made to her mind.

But since the 1990s, there has been a shift away from a stance that would tolerate no alteration of the article to allowing a revision that would resolve the discord between the JSDF and Article 9.

Modern Chinese has lost some of the synthetic features of Old Chinese, such as syllable modification ( modern tonal alteration being a relic ) for verbification and utilisation of the " s -" causative prefix found in many Sino-Tibetan languages.

It has been suggested by many authors that with the removal or alteration of traditional burning regimes many savannas are being replaced by forest and shrub thickets with little herbaceous layer.

It has responded well to human alteration of the landscape and is a common sight in urban lawns, parks, and gardens.

It has responded well to human alteration of the landscape and can often be seen hunting in open, grassed areas such as lawns, gardens, parkland, and sporting grounds.

In Marxian economics and some industries, the term is used in the sense of raw material that is ' subject of labor ', in other words, something that will be worked on by labor or that has already undergone some alteration by labor.

The radiation chemistry controls much of radiation biology as radiation has an effect on living things at the molecular scale, to explain it another way the radiation alters the biochemicals within an organism, the alteration of the biomolecules then changes the chemistry which occurs within the organism, this change in biochemistry then can lead to a biological outcome.

Normal and abnormal conditions The nuclear chemistry associated with the nuclear fuel cycle can be divided into two main areas, one area is concerned with operation under the intended conditions while the other area is concerned with maloperation conditions where some alteration from the normal operating conditions has occurred or ( more rarely ) an accident is occurring.

An intention to show that His Majesty has been misled or mistaken in his measures, or to point out errors or defects in the government or constitution as by law established, with a view to their reformation, or to excite His Majesty's subjects to attempt by lawful means the alteration of any matter in Church or State by law established, or to point out, in order to secure their removal, matters which are producing, or have a tendency to produce, feelings of hatred and ill-will between classes of His Majesty's subjects, is not a seditious intention.

Although much of the infrastructure related to the mining industry was demolished in the 1980s and early 1990s and the land changed to other uses, remnants of the coal mining heritage remain: large spoil heaps adorn the villages of Great Houghton and Thurnscoe very notably ; although landscaping has been attempted, no cosmetic alteration can disguise their size.

Every friend of science ought to be opposed to the introduction into a modern language of names of plants that are not already there, unless they are derived from a Latin botanical name that has undergone but a slight alteration.

The high rate of harvest, combined with habitat loss and alteration, has led to very severe population declines ; if this trend is unchecked, extinction is likely, but far from certain.

Unlike ordinary customary law, which has traditionally required consent and allows the alteration of its obligations between states through treaties, peremptory norms cannot be violated by any state " through international treaties or local or special customs or even general customary rules not endowed with the same normative force ".

Secondary alteration of this assemblage has produced idaite, Covellite and other Copper sulfides.

The council also condemned the alteration to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed.

Narcosis while diving ( also known as nitrogen narcosis, inert gas narcosis, raptures of the deep, Martini effect ), is a reversible alteration in consciousness that occurs while diving at depth.

This disbelief may also be the cause of alteration of Pytheas ' data.

The Kai element also strongly resembles the Sino-Japanese reading of the characters ( Sino-Japanese, Japanese kun ' yomi ), which have been used for over a thousand years in China and Japan as the standard orthographic form to be used when referring to Ainu and related peoples ; it is possible that Matsuura's Kai was actually an alteration, influenced by the Sino-Japanese reading of Ka-i, of the Nivkh exonym for the Ainu, namely Qoy or.

The name of Bislama ( also referred to, especially in French, as " Bichelamar ") comes via the early 19th century word " Beach-la-Mar " from pseudo-French " biche de mer " or " bêche de mer " sea cucumber, which itself comes from an alteration of the Portuguese " bicho do mar ".

They may also be excluded if the presence of the animal constitutes a fundamental alteration of the business or poses a direct threat.

John Gower also uses the story, with some alteration, as a cautionary tale in his Confessio Amantis, while Amoryus and Cleopes is a 15th century version.

This method can also be used to prove Euler's theorem, with a slight alteration in that 1 to ( p-1 ) is substituted for the numbers less than and relatively prime to some base m ( instead of p ).

In his second volume, on the Imperial Period, Teuffel initiated a slight alteration in approach, making it clearer that his terms applied to the Latin and not just to the age, and also changing his dating scheme from years AUC to modern.

Additionally it was also declared that no patents of arms or any ensigns of nobility should be granted and no augmentation, alteration, or addition should be made to arms without the consent of the Earl Marshal.

This formula also applies to tensor densities without alteration, because for the Levi-Civita ( not generic ) connection one gets:

It was Rabbenu Tam, however, who accounted for the alteration made by his father as already stated, and who also tried to change the perfects of the text, " which we have vowed ," " have sworn ," etc., to imperfects.

The switch to the T-38 also saw an alteration of the flight routine to exhibit the aircraft's maneuverability in tight turns, and also ended the era of the black tail on the # 4 slot plane, which would now be regularly cleaned and shined like the others.

Weathering and alteration by thermal waters are also responsible for the variety of colors represented there.

The new coins also contained a privy mark, small differences such as a rose on the king's breast, differences in the king's hair style, or an alteration in the size of the king's eyes, or the style of a letter — these differences were not caused by carelessness but to enable identification of the moneyer who produced the coin, in place of giving the moneyer's name.

The writings in these codices comprised fifty-two mostly Gnostic treatises, but they also include three works belonging to the Corpus Hermeticum and a partial translation / alteration of Plato's Republic.

The Bruce foil also produces increased drag as a result of the vertical component of force, as well as a yawing force due to the off-center placement of the foil, which may require alteration of the steering system to compensate.

The hydrated, low-density serpentinite formed by alteration of mantle material at subduction zones can also rise to the surface as diapirs.

The Assyrian Church of the East follows an Open Communion approach allowing any baptized Christian to receive its Eucharist, so there is also no alteration of Assyrian practice.

Artistic license ( also known as dramatic license, historical license, poetic license, narrative license, licentia poetica, or simply license ) is a colloquial term, sometimes euphemism, used to denote the distortion of fact, alteration of the conventions of grammar or language, or rewording of pre-existing text made by an artist to improve a piece of art.

In its name, Cevâhir Bedestan (; but also in Ottoman Turkish: Bezzâzistan-i-cedîd, meaning in ) the word " Bedesten " is an alteration of the Persian word bezestan ( bedesten ), derived from bez (" cloth "), and means " bazaar of the cloth sellers ".

Plastic change also results from the alteration of the number of receptors located on a synapse.

The colors in the canyon are also a result of hydrothermal alteration.