Brainstem Slurring dysarthria ( tongue weakness causing impaired speech ); dysphagia ( difficulty swallowing ); numbness, weakness ; all four limb paresthesia ; drop attacks from sudden loss of postural tone are basilar in origin ; a vertebrobasilar artery occlusion episode causes symptoms to be induced by abrupt position changes.

Something of this can be learned from `` The Way To The Churchyard '' ( 1901 ), an anecdote about an old failure whose fit of anger at a passing cyclist causes him to die of a stroke or seizure.

At any rate, the teacher who recognizes common causes of retardation and maladjustment can frequently do a great deal to eliminate the causes of pupil discouragement, failure, and maladjustment.

Perhaps the engineers can find out what causes all the congestion and suggest methods to eliminate it.

Axon dysfunction causes many inherited and acquired neurological disorders which can affect both the peripheral and central neurons.

The three types of ataxia have overlapping causes, and therefore can either coexist or occur in isolation.

The specific meaning of assault varies between countries, but can refer to an act that causes another to apprehend immediate and personal violence, or in the more limited sense of a threat of violence caused by an immediate show of force.

this introduces the possibility of another kind of skepticism: since our understanding of causality is that the same effect can be produced by multiple causes, there is a lack of determinacy about what one is really perceiving.

This can be caused by an autoimmune reaction, by certain infections or by some other rarer causes.

With the use of gel electrophoresis, it can be observed that OROV causes DNA fragmentation in HeLa cells.

Self-diagnosis of indigestion does carry some risk because the causes can vary from a minor dietary indiscretion to a peptic ulcer.

Excessive alcohol use causes damage to brain function, and psychological health can be increasingly affected over time.

Damage to DNA can cause mutations and possibly cancer, if not reversed by DNA repair mechanisms, while damage to proteins causes enzyme inhibition, denaturation and protein degradation.

It is one of five arguments from the " properties, causes, and effects " of true motion and rest that support his contention that, in general, true motion and rest cannot be defined as special instances of motion or rest relative to other bodies, but instead can be defined only by reference to absolute space.

In other words, it is not the relative motion of the pail and water that causes concavity of the water, contrary to the idea that motions can only be relative, and that there is no absolute motion.

Disorders of the coronary circulation can have devastating effects to the heart since damage to the heart can reduce coronary circulation which causes further damage.

This cardiac arrhythmia can be underlain by several causes, which are best divided into cardiac and noncardiac causes.

Noncardiac causes are usually secondary, and can involve recreational drug use or abuse ; metabolic or endocrine issues, especially in the thyroid ; an electrolyte imbalance ; neurologic factors ; autonomic reflexes ; situational factors such as prolonged bed rest ; and autoimmunity.

Modern climate classification methods can be broadly divided into genetic methods, which focus on the causes of climate, and empiric methods, which focus on the effects of climate.

They can also be affected by high concentrations of other macromolecules, which causes macromolecular crowding.

Monitoring and modeling of erosion processes can help us better understand the causes, make predictions, and plan how to implement preventative and restorative strategies.

Instead the differentiation process is studied using E. invadens, a reptilian parasite that causes a very simiilar disease to E. histolytica and which can be induced to encyst in vitro.

Tumors, atriovenous malformations, cavernous malformations, trauma, and cerebral infarcts can all be causes of epileptic foci in different brain regions.

Sturley's allusion probably explains why Greville took out the patent in the names of Best and Wells, for Sir Anthony Ashley described Best as `` a scrivener within Temple Bar, that deals in many matters for my L. Essex '' through Sir Gelly Merrick, especially in `` causes that he would not be known of ''.

The causes of retardation and maladjustment may be found in physical factors, such as defective speech or hearing, impaired vision, faulty motor coordination, a frail constitution, chronic disease, malnutrition, and glandular malfunctioning.

`` It is a duty '', said Hough, `` not to let pass this opportunity of protesting against the methods of taking and printing testimony in Equity, current in this circuit ( and probably others ), excused if not justified by the rules of the Supreme Court, especially to be found in patent causes, and flagrantly exemplified in this litigation.

An unlimited use of economic pressures for diametrically opposite causes could devastate the pre-conditions of any fellow humanity as surely as this would be destroyed by the use of more obviously brutal means.

But it strikes sparks on occasion and their light causes all else to be forgotten.

A number of causes are believed to be involved, including habitat destruction and modification, over-exploitation, pollution, introduced species, climate change, endocrine-disrupting pollutants, destruction of the ozone layer ( ultraviolet radiation has shown to be especially damaging to the skin, eyes, and eggs of amphibians ), and diseases like chytridiomycosis.

Considering the relative weight given to causes of the Civil War by contemporary actors, historians such as Chandra Manning argue that both Union and Confederate fighting soldiers believed slavery to be the cause of the Civil War.

In third grade, Warhol had chorea, the nervous system disease that causes involuntary movements of the extremities, which is believed to be a complication of scarlet fever and causes skin pigmentation blotchiness.

Proper weed control needs to be applied before the species successfully colonizes in the crop field and causes significant yield reductions.

Plato believed that for us to have a perception of beauty there must be a transcendent form for beauty in which beautiful objects partake and which causes them to be beautiful also.

When a positive voltage is applied to anode of the diode from the circuit, more holes are able to be transferred to the depleted region, and this causes the diode to become conductive, allowing current to flow through the circuit.

Apoptosis in some viruses is activated by extracellular stimuli, however, studies have demonstrated that the OROV infection causes apoptosis to be activated through intracellular stimuli and involves the mitochondria.

This causes gastric distension which may not be well tolerated.

An AVM lacks the dampening effect of capillaries on the blood flow ; it also causes the surrounding area to be deprived of the functions of the capillaries — removal of and delivery of nutrients to the cells.

However, dispersal from these taller stacks causes pollutants to be carried farther, causing widespread ecological damage.

Aluminium also causes a highly beneficial hard layer of aluminium oxide ( Al < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 3 </ sub >) to be formed on the surface that is thin, transparent and self-healing.

Neurons generate electrical signals that travel along their axon s. When a pulse of electricity reaches a junction called a synapse, it causes a neurotransmitter chemical to be released, which binds to receptors on other cells and thereby alters their electrical activity.

There are many causes for this change.

The causes of the decline of the commuter railroads are many and complex -- high taxes, losses of revenue to Government subsidized highway and air carriers, to name but two.

Without math the men who are continually seeking the causes of and the reasons for the many things that make the world go 'round would not have any means of analyzing, standardizing, and communicating the things they discover and learn.

While nowadays we recognize the fact that there are many causes for bleeding at the nose, not long ago a nosebleed was simply that, and treatment had little variation.

Topics like racism, slavery or human sacrifice, therefore, attract anthropological attention and theories ranging from nutritional deficiencies to genes to acculturation have been proposed, not to mention theories of colonialism and many others as root causes of Man's inhumanity to man.

However, many of the causes of amphibian declines are still poorly understood, and are a topic of ongoing discussion.

These activists also point out that heavy subsidization of developed nations ' agriculture and the aggressive use of export subsidies by some developed nations to make their agricultural products more attractive on the international market are major causes of declines in the agricultural sectors of many developing nations.

Lumbar puncture procedure, which is performed in many infectious disorders of the central nervous system is contraindicated in this condition ( as it is in all space-occupying lesions of the brain ) because removing a certain portion of the cerebrospinal fluid may alter the concrete intracranial pressure balances and causes the brain tissue to move across structures within the skull ( brain herniation ).

It was clearly unpopular in the parishes of Devon and Cornwall where, along with severe social problems, its introduction was one of the causes of the " commotions ", or rebellions in the summer of that year, partly because many Cornish people lacked sufficient English to understand it ,.

The constantly changing clock causes many components to switch regardless of whether they are being used at that time.

In many cases, this causes the structure of the material to become softer or more friable – meat becomes cooked and is more friable and less flexible.

For example, varicella zoster virus causes chickenpox in the acute phase ; after recovery from chickenpox, the virus may remain dormant in nerve cells for many years, and later cause herpes zoster ( shingles ).

Major flooding in Davenport causes many problems.

Professor of psychiatry Saul Levine suggests that it is doubtful that deprogramming helps many people and goes on to say that it actually causes harm to the victim by very nature of the deprogramming.

In many cases, it is unknown whether a particular " disease " has one, several, or no underlying biological causes, with controversy arising over whether some diseases are merely an artifact of the attempt to construct a unified classification scheme, rather than a " real " disease.

In addition to serving in political office, Elias supported many civic, religious, and educational causes during his life.

As in West syndrome, LGS result from idiopathic, symptomatic, or cryptogenic causes, and many patients first have West syndrome.

* Tuberous Sclerosis ( TSC ) is a genetic disorder that causes tumors to form in many different organs, primarily in the brain, eyes, heart, kidney, skin and lungs.

Although its causes are still being investigated, El Niño events begin when trade winds, part of the Walker circulation, falter for many months.

In more recent years, a greater understanding of the causes of food-borne illnesses has led to the development of more systematic approaches such as the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points ( HACCP ), which can identify and eliminate many risks.

Adherents of most historical models identify many of the same features of the Ancien Régime as being among the causes of the Revolution.

As civil authority rapidly deteriorated, with random acts of violence and theft breaking out across the country, members of the nobility, fearing for their safety, fled to neighboring countries ; many of these émigrés, as they were called, funded counter-revolutionary causes within France and urged foreign monarchs to offer military support to a counter-revolution.

The analytic techniques used for studying Lie groups must be replaced by techniques from algebraic geometry, where the relatively weak Zariski topology causes many technical complications.