Wyatt and Whipple, 1950 ), which is a retardation of the orbital motion of particles by the relativistic aberration of the repulsive force of the impinging solar radiation, causes the dust to spiral into the sun in times much shorter than the age of the Earth.

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.

In children it causes growth retardation, delayed sexual maturation, infection susceptibility, and diarrhea, contributing to the death of about 800, 000 children worldwide per year.

Other suggested causes of her failed pregnancies are listeriosis, rhesus incompatibility, diabetes, and intrauterine growth retardation.

The Colorado City / Hildale, Utah area has the world's highest incidence of fumarase deficiency, an extremely rare genetic condition which causes severe mental retardation.

However, there are various known causes of speech impediments, such as " hearing loss, neurological disorders, brain injury, mental retardation, drug abuse, physical impairments such as Cleft lip and palate, and vocal abuse or misuse.

Examples of other causes of shortness often treated with GH are Turner syndrome, chronic renal failure, Prader – Willi syndrome, intrauterine growth retardation, and severe idiopathic short stature.

Large testes ( macroorchidism ) can be a clue to one of the most common causes of mental retardation, fragile X syndrome.

As a " non-sedating " antihistamine, loratadine causes less ( but still significant, in some cases ) sedation and psychomotor retardation than the older antihistamines because it penetrates the blood brain barrier to a smaller extent.

Children born with Edwards syndrome may have some or all of the following characteristics: kidney malformations, structural heart defects at birth ( i. e., ventricular septal defect, atrial septal defect, patent ductus arteriosus ), intestines protruding outside the body ( omphalocele ), esophageal atresia, mental retardation, developmental delays, growth deficiency, feeding difficulties, breathing difficulties, and arthrogryposis ( a muscle disorder that causes multiple joint contractures at birth ).

Turner syndrome and chronic renal failure were the first of these “ nonGH-deficient causes of shortness ” to receive FDA approval for GH treatment, and Prader-Willi syndrome and intrauterine growth retardation followed.

Penrose went on to identify and study many of the genetic and chromosomal causes of mental retardation ( then called mental deficiency ).

Newborn screening originated with an amino acid disorder, phenylketonuria ( PKU ), which can be easily treated by dietary modifications, but causes severe mental retardation if not identified and treated early.

It is possible that the association between mental retardation and autism is not because they usually have common causes, but because the presence of both makes it more likely that both will be diagnosed.

Malouf syndrome ( also known as " congestive cardiomyopathy-hypergonadotropic hypogonadism syndrome ") is a congenital disorder that causes one or more of the following symptoms: mental retardation, ovarian dysgenesis, congestive cardiomyopathy, broad nasal base, blepharoptosis, and bone abnormalities, and occasionally marfanoid habitus ( tall stature with long and thin limbs, little subcutaneous fat, arachnodactyly, joint hyperextensibility, narrow face, small chin, large testes, and hypotonia ).

Adjustment is the process by which the non-technical aspects of a culture respond to invention, and any retardation of this adjustment process causes cultural lag.

In 1962, he won a Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation Award for his contributions to the understanding of the causes of mental retardation.

He may have died from natural causes, though there were unconfirmed rumors that his wife Livia poisoned him.

This causes gastric distension which may not be well tolerated.

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 ).

The actual cause of CCD remains unknown, and scientists believe that it may have multiple causes.

About two-thirds of people with chronic symptoms have cardiac damage, including dilated cardiomyopathy, which causes heart rhythm abnormalities and may result in sudden death.

The physical mechanism is uncertain, and cracking may possibly arise from several different causes.

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 ).

Other causes of contemporary deforestation may include corruption of government institutions, the inequitable distribution of wealth and power, population growth and overpopulation, and urbanization.

Further, a shared diagnosis or label may have different causes or require different treatments ; for this reason the DSM contains no information regarding treatment or cause.

Thus, the electromagnetic field may be viewed as a dynamic entity that causes other charges and currents to move, and which is also affected by them.

Just as if you were to see the lifeless corpse of a man lying far away, it would be fitting to list all the causes of death in order to make sure that the single cause of this death may be stated.

When investigating the causes of seizures, it is important to understand physiological conditions that may predispose the individual to a seizure occurrence.

West syndrome may arise from idiopathic, symptomatic, or cryptogenic causes.

There may be evolutionary causes for irrational beliefs — irrational beliefs may increase our ability to survive and reproduce.

In fact, a pair of false friends may be true cognates ( see false friends: causes ).

If there have been declines in national IQs this may have causes other than those proposed above.

In other cases, the same disease, such as some forms of cancer, may be caused by an inherited genetic condition in some people, by new mutations in other people, and by nongenetic causes in still other people.

Since passing current through a gel causes heating, gels may melt during electrophoresis.

Aristotle ( Metaphysics 983b – 987a ) believed that the question of first causes may even have started with Hesiod ( Theogony 116 – 53 ) and Homer ( Iliad 14. 201, 246 ).

Edward Gibbon, in his classic The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, discusses the topic in considerable detail in his famous Chapter Fifteen, summarizing the historical causes of the early success of Christianity as follows: "( 1 ) The inflexible, and, if we may use the expression, the intolerant zeal of the Christians, derived, it is true, from the Jewish religion, but purified from the narrow and unsocial spirit which, instead of inviting, had deterred the Gentiles from embracing the law of Moses.

Second, the remuneration model is attracting more managers, which may dilute the talent available in the industry, though these causes are disputed.

A few causes of impotence may be iatrogenic ( medically caused ).

Doctors may inject a " contrast agent " into the patient's bloodstream that causes vascular tissues to stand out against other tissues.

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.

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 ''.

`` 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.