The primary causes of the sudden decline of the Blue Crane are human population growth, the conversion of grasslands into commercial tree plantations, and poisoning: deliberate ( to protect crops ) or accidental ( baits intended for other species, and as a side-effect of crop dusting ).

Meaning that this employee distracts others, which causes output to decline ( classical output function ).

The leading causes of death – diarrheal and respiratory diseases – did not decline, indicating a growing public health problem.

As Polybius had narrated the events by which the Roman Empire had reached its greatness, so Zosimus undertook the task of developing the events and causes which led to its decline ( i. 57 ).

* An unknown event causes the decline of the Maya Classical Era.

Although the cause of the decline is not fully understood, habitat loss and conflicts with humans are currently the greatest causes of concern.

UPI's failure to develop a television presence or subsidiary television news service has also been cited as one of the causes of its decline.

Whilst this is, strictly speaking, true, it also disguises the fact that the decline had several different causes.

And as I told you, these are the two secondary causes of the decline of art ; the first being the loss of moral purpose.

When prey ( plants ) are numerous their predators ( herbivores ) increase in numbers, reducing the prey population, which in turn causes predator number to decline.

Some of them assert that the great power he wielded was not his own personal achievement, but that of the dynasty he represented ; they also argue that, since Byzantine imperial power declined catastrophically after Manuel's death, it is only natural to look for the causes of this decline in his reign.

In reality however, the decline in beaver numbers was because of habitat destruction and deforestation, as well as its continued persecution as a pest ( it causes flooding ).

The decline is believed " to have several underlying causes ".

Also, earlier symptoms of nervousness, hyperactivity, and a decline in school performance, may easily be attributed to other causes.

In the years that followed, these action-research projects increasingly challenged existing ideas about the causes of inner-city deprivation, arguing that the roots of poverty in such areas could be traced to changes in the political economy of inner-city areas, such as the withdrawal of private capital ( as characterised by the decline of manufacturing industries ).

Despite being legally protected in many countries, the main causes of population decline remain anthropogenic and include hunting, habitat degradation, and fishing-related fatalities.

The economic history of Argentina is one of the most studied, owing to the " Argentine paradox ", its unique condition as a country which had achieved advanced development in the early 20th century but experienced a reversal, which inspired a wealth of literature and analyses on the causes of this decline.

These events, along with other changes in the video game market towards action-based games, are seen as primary causes in the decline of the adventure game genre.

Further, she argues that the causes of the movement's decline are too complex to be blamed on one man.

Other causes of decline were the plague and the raid of Edward, the Black Prince, which caused much devastation.

The fall line causes rivers in the area to decline rapidly towards sea level, making it a good location for textile mills in the past.

In the episode " Unnatural Selection ", a highly-contagious disease which causes rapid aging and decline, followed by death is investigated by the Enterprise.

He has been held responsible for the decline of Spain, which was mainly due to organic causes largely beyond the control of any one ruler.

The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust is carrying out research at its Salmon & Trout Research Centre at East Stoke into the decline of Atlantic Salmon to understand the causes and how to reverse the decline.

** Illinois Central Gulf commuter rail crash-The accidental tripping of a signal at 27th Street Station on the Metra Electric system in Chicago, Illinois, causes an IC Electric express train to telescope another, killing 45 and injuring over 300.

* Trains News Wire, 10 killed, hundreds injured after parked vehicle on tracks causes derailment of two Metrolink commuter trains.

Long interested in social causes, he supported such progressive ideas as the single tax as advocated by Henry George in his book Progress and Poverty, free trade, women's suffrage and government ownership of railroads.

* February 6-A labor strike by United Mine Workers causes shortages of bituminous coal encouraging New England railroads to accelerate replacement of steam locomotives with diesel-electric locomotives.

There are many causes for this change.

I once heard a comedian say that if you are killed by a taxicab in New York, it is listed as `` death due to natural causes ''.

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.

Important as these differences are, they should not obscure the basic fact that by shifting the hypothalamic balance sufficiently to the parasympathetic side, we produce depressions, whereas a shift in the opposite direction causes excitatory effects and, eventually, maniclike changes.

There are several causes for this, one being rapid economic development with increasing numbers of of middle-class positions requiring engineering or scientific training.

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.

These, he said, are `` two of the principal underlying causes for family breakups leading to ADC ''.

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.

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

The elements of battery are ( 1 ) a volitional act ( 2 ) done for the purpose of causing a harmful or offensive contact with another person or under circumstances that make such contact substantially certain to occur and ( 3 ) which causes such contact.

( Hume 1974: 355-356 ) He also argues in brief against the idea that causes are mere occasions of the will of some god ( s ), a view associated with the philosopher Nicolas Malebranche.

If placing a tile causes three or four chains to merge, then the merger steps are handled between the largest and second-largest chain, then with the third-largest chain, and finally with the smallest chain.

It has been claimed by one study that abiotic stress causes the most crop loss of any other factor and that most major crops are reduced in their yield by more than 50 % from their potential yield.

Aldosterone's effects are on the distal convoluted tubule and collecting duct of the kidney where it causes increased reabsorption of sodium and increased excretion of both potassium ( by principal cells ) and hydrogen ions ( by intercalated cells of the collecting duct ).

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.

The Oropouche virus also causes disruption in cultured cells-cells which are cultivated in distinct and specific conditions.

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.

One argument often made by the opponents of the anti-globalization movement ( especially by The Economist ), is that one of the major causes of poverty amongst third-world farmers are the trade barriers put up by rich nations and poor nations alike.

In addition, proponents of inquisitorial systems argue that the plea bargain system causes the participants within the system to act in perverse ways, in that it encourages prosecutors to bring charges far in excess of what is warranted and defendants to plead guilty even when they believe that they are not.

Chronic infections, often caused by diabetes or decubitus ulcers in bedridden patients, are common causes of infections that lead to gangrene, which would then necessitate amputation.

Sections of the Una river and villages at the base of Mount Plješevica are in Croatia, while some are in Bosnia, which causes an excessive number of border crossings on a single route and impedes any serious development in the region.

Subviral particles are probably akin to cores derived in vitro from virions by physical or proteolytic treatments that remove the outer capsid and causes activation of the BTV transcriptase.