But not a single human life was lost, and property damage in the Hawaiian Islands did not exceed $800,000.

Acid rain has been shown to have adverse impacts on forests, freshwaters and soils, killing insect and aquatic life-forms as well as causing damage to buildings and having impacts on human health.

The most important is brain disease and the effects of brain damage, covered in the human brain article because the most common diseases of the human brain either do not show up in other species, or else manifest themselves in different ways.

poaching threatens wildlife populations ( for example, the Painted Hunting Dog, Lycaon pictus is now considered extinct in the Congo due to human overpopulation and poaching ); water pollution ; deforestation ( chiefly due to land conversion to agriculture by indigenous farmers ); refugees responsible for significant deforestation, soil erosion, and wildlife poaching ; mining of minerals ( coltan — a mineral used in creating capacitors, diamonds, and gold ) causing environmental damage

A more comprehensive approach to measuring cost-effectiveness or efficacy of malarial control would not only measure the cost in dollars of the project, as well as the number of people saved, but would also consider ecological damage and negative aspects of insecticide use on human health.

The types of accidents vary from relatively minor cases where doors cause damage to other objects, such as walls, to serious cases resulting in human injury, particularly to fingers.

It is also a major source of land degradation, evaporation, desertification, harmful airborne dust, and crop damage — especially after being increased far above natural rates by human activities such as deforestation, urbanization, and agriculture.

There are many proposals to save coastal areas by reducing human damage, including restoring natural floods from the Mississippi.

However, it may have been for religious reasons, and would coincide with the development of religious practices thought to have occurred during the Upper Paleolithic .< ref > Nonetheless, it remains possible that Paleolithic societies never practiced cannibalism, and that the damage to recovered human bones was either the result of ritual post-mortem bone cleaning or predation by carnivores such as saber tooth cats, lions and hyenas.

A pollutant may cause long-or short-term damage by changing the growth rate of plant or animal species, or by interfering with human amenities, comfort, health, or property values.

Studies of human embryonic stem cells ( hESCs ) commonly describe the nonfunctional p53-p21 axis of the G1 / S checkpoint pathway with subsequent relevance for cell cycle regulation and the DNA damage response ( DDR ).

When ultraviolet radiation is not absorbed by the atmosphere or other protective coating, it can cause damage to the skin known as sunburn or trigger an adaptive change in human skin pigmentation.

According to some Kabbalists, only a mystic, who is able to sense and elevate the reincarnated human souls and " divine sparks ", is permitted to consume meat, though eating the flesh of an animal might still cause spiritual damage to the soul.

These groups cite studies showing the psychological damage caused by working in the meat industry, especially in factory and industrialised settings, and argue that the meat industry violates its labourers ' human rights by assigning difficult and distressing tasks without adequate counselling, training and debriefing.

Muddy-debris flows in alpine areas cause severe damage to structures and infrastructure and often claim human lives.

Those accidents cause about 150 human deaths and $ 1. 1 billion in property damage annually.

Hunting gives resource managers an important tool in managing populations that might exceed the carrying capacity of their habitat and threaten the well-being of other species, or, in some instances, damage human health or safety.

In the measurement of gamma rays or other ionising radiation, a radiation monitor or dosimeter will commonly use a filter to attenuate those energy levels or wavelengths that cause the least damage to the human body, while letting through those that do the most damage, so that any source of radiation may be measured in terms of its true danger rather than just its ' strength '.

In a 2004 study designed to evaluate whether modern ECT techniques lead to identifiable brain damage, twelve monkeys underwent daily electroshock for six weeks under conditions meant to simulate human ECT ; the animals were then sacrificed and their brains were compared to monkeys undergoing anesthesia alone.

Although decreases in stratospheric ozone are well-tied to CFCs and there are good theoretical reasons to believe that decreases in ozone will lead to increases in surface UVB, there is no direct observational evidence linking ozone depletion to higher incidence of skin cancer and eye damage in human beings.

Property damage caused by persons is generally categorized by its cause: neglect ( including oversight and human error ), and intentional damage.

The hull of the mature bean is hard, water-resistant, and protects the cotyledon and hypocotyl ( or " germ ") from damage.

With the rapid rate of closure, the approach from below, the side, and ahead, there would be only a moment when damage could be done.

The long-range objective is to hold the damage from destructive agencies below the level which would seriously interfere with intensive management of the National Forest System under principles of multiple use and high-level sustained yield of products and services.

The simple mechanical strain of overweight, says New York's Dr. Norman Jolliffe, can overburden and damage the heart `` for much the same reason that a Chevrolet engine in a Cadillac body would wear out sooner than if it were in a body for which it was built ''.

In 1857, on a return trip from Washington, his train derailed causing serious damage to his right arm which would plague him in the future.

Pericles led 250 ships, originally intended to attack Cyprus, to their aid because it would further damage Persia.

Historian Garry Wills argued " Their nullification effort, if others had picked it up, would have been a greater threat to freedom than the misguided and sedition laws, which were soon rendered feckless by ridicule and electoral pressure " The theoretical damage of the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions was " deep and lasting, and was a recipe for disunion ".

This would require a range of at least 8, 000 yards to escape potential damage from the underwater blast.

The Romans built arch bridges and aqueducts that could stand in conditions that would damage or destroy earlier designs.

The honour had already been proposed in 1931 and 1956, but was vetoed after a Foreign Office report raised concerns over Chaplin's political views and private life ; it was felt that honouring him would damage both the reputation of the British honours system and relations with the United States.

Results were unsatisfactory, Wilkinson mail worn by the Khedive of Egypt's regiment of " Iron Men " was manufactured from split rings which proved to be too brittle, the rings would fragment when struck by bullets and further aggravate the damage.

If a second compression test is performed shortly thereafter, and the new reading is much higher, it would be the ring seal that is problematic, whereas if the compression test pressure observed remains low, it is a valve sealing ( or more rarely head gasket, or breakthrough piston or rarer still cylinder wall damage ) issue.

A grapefruit-sized stain remains on the original document ; restoration specialists opted to leave most of the paint intact, fearing that removal attempts would only cause further damage.

When asked if the WikiLeaks of 2010 would damage American relations with other countries, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates noted that " governments deal with the United States because it's in their interest, not because they like us, not because they trust us, and not because they believe we can keep secrets.

" When Berman was killed in a hit on Berman's boss, Dutch Schultz, Runyon quickly assumed the role of damage control for his deceased friend, correcting erroneous press releases ( including one that stated Berman was one of Schultz's gunmen, to which Runyon replied, " Otto would have been as effective a bodyguard as a two-year-old.

This is why ultraviolet at all wavelengths can damage DNA, and is capable of causing cancer, and ( for UVB ) skin burns ( sunburn ) which are far worse than would be produced by simple heating ( temperature increase ) effects.

The exact choice of quiescent current, the standing current through both devices when there is no signal, makes a large difference to the level of distortion ( and to the risk of thermal runaway, that may damage the devices ); often the bias voltage applied to set this quiescent current has to be adjusted with the temperature of the output transistors ( for example in the circuit at the beginning of the article the diodes would be mounted physically close to the output transistors, and chosen to have a matched temperature coefficient ).

Publication of such going-ons as happen in the book ( poison-pen letters, vandalism, the near-suicide of a student and near-murder of a lecturer ) would discredit and severely damage Shrewsbury College in particular and the cause of women's education in general.

Judging that his responsibility to the nation by virtue of his coronation oath required him to act, he believed that his government's decision to fight rather than surrender was mistaken and would damage Belgium.

In ideal circumstances, PBDE and related endocrine disruptors that seriously damage health would not be present in the blood of any animals or humans.

Concerned that partition would severely damage Anglo-Arab relations, Britain refused to cooperate with the UN, denying the UN access to Palestine during the period between the adoption of Resolution 181 ( II ) and the termination of the British Mandate.

For example, vehicle insurance would typically cover both the property risk ( theft or damage to the vehicle ) and the liability risk ( legal claims arising from an accident ).