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This region which had a higher temperature than the rest of the anode surface changed size and location continuously.
The Alpine region area contains many peaks higher than, known as the " four-thousanders ".
The third division of the higher region of Africa is formed by the Ethiopian Highlands, a rugged mass of mountains forming the largest continuous area of its altitude in the whole continent, little of its surface falling below, while the summits reach heights of 4600 m to 4900 m ( 15, 000 to 16, 000 ft ).
The fruits of the region include the Vitis labrusca grapes used in grape juice made by companies such as Welch's, along with jelly, Kosher wine by companies like Mogen David and Manischewitz along with other wineries that make higher quality wines.
The clouds which strike Kathiawar and Kutch are deprived of a great deal of their moisture by the hills in those countries ( now the majority of this region is in Gujarat state within independent India ), and the greater part of the remainder is deposited on Mount Abu and the higher slopes of the Aravalli Range, leaving but little for Merwara, where the hills are lower, and still less for Ajmer.
Traders may, for example, find that the price of wheat is lower in agricultural regions than in cities, purchase the good, and transport it to another region to sell at a higher price.
The Bahamas is ranked 7th out of 29 countries in the South and Central America / Caribbean region, and its overall score is higher than the regional and world averages.
This deformation of the lattice causes another electron, with opposite spin, to move into the region of higher positive charge density.
Moreover the far north remains largely undeveloped as producers await higher prices or new technologies as many operations in this region are not yet cost effective.
He repeats Acheson's argument that the region lacks major urban centres, but adds that the Maritimes were also lacking the great rivers that led to the cheap and abundant hydro-electric power, key to Quebec and Ontario's urban and manufacturing development, that the extraction costs of Maritime resources were higher ( particularly in the case of Cape Breton coal ), and that the soils of the region were poorer and thus the agricultural sector weaker.
Diffusion explains the net flux of molecules from a region of higher concentration to one of lower concentration, but it is important to note that diffusion also occurs when there is no concentration gradient.
In 2009, the proportion of pupils in education at independent schools was 24. 2 %, far above the national average of just over 4 % and higher than in any other region of Scotland.
Dollfuss was concerned that with German National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Austrian National Socialists ( DNSAP ) could gain a significant minority in future elections ( according to fascism scholar Stanley G. Payne, should elections have been held in 1933, the DNSAP could have mustered about 25 % of the votes-contemporary TIME analysts suggests a higher support of 50 %, with a 75 % approval rate in the Tyrol region bordering Nazi Germany ).
This deformation of the lattice causes another electron, with opposite " spin ", to move into the region of higher positive charge density.
Permanent villages in the mountain region stand as high as with summer encampments even higher.
The mountainous region is sparsely populated above, but in central and western Nepal ethnic Tibetans inhabit even higher semi-arid valleys north of the Himalaya.
Dynamical studies of Oort Cloud comets have shown that their occurrence in the outer-planet region is several times higher than in the inner-planet region.
Lower courts are bound by the precedent set by higher courts within their region.
Separated from the Eastern region by the Paraguay River, the Chaco region is a vast plain with elevations reaching no higher than and averaging.
The density of the road network is higher in the oriental region, and lower in the Chaco area.
The Chilean potato, native to the Chiloé Archipelago, is adapted to the long-day conditions prevalent in the higher latitude region of southern Chile.
This low pressure sucks in fluid and propels it into a higher pressure region.

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The lower regions and larger towns of the Alps are well-served by motorways and main roads, but higher mountain passes and byroads can be treacherous even in summer.
Central Japan is marked by the convergence of the three mountain chains — the Hida, Kiso, and Akaishi mountains — that form the Japanese Alps ( Nihon Arupusu ), several of whose peaks are higher than 3, 000 meters.
He concluded that, in the relatively recent past, Switzerland had been another Greenland ; that instead of a few glaciers stretching across the areas referred to, one vast sheet of ice, originating in the higher Alps, had extended over the entire valley of northwestern Switzerland until it reached the southern slopes of the Jura, which, though they checked and deflected its further extension, did not prevent the ice from reaching in many places the summit of the range.
A characteristic in the orography of the Bernese Alps is, that whereas the western of that chain consists of a single series of summits with comparatively short projecting buttresses, the higher group presents a series of longitudinal ridges parallel to the axis of the main chain, and separated from each other by deep valleys that form the channels of great glaciers.
On the higher parts of lofty mountains in the Alps more snow falls in each year than melts.
The Western Alps are higher, but their central chain is shorter and much curved ; they are located in France, Italy and Switzerland.
Crystalline basement rocks, which are exposed in the higher central regions, are the rocks forming Mont Blanc, the Matterhorn, and high peaks in the Pennine Alps and Hohe Tauern.
Thus, in 1808 he was placed by Napoleon upon the council of the Imperial University, and in this capacity he presided ( in the years 1809, 1811 and 1813 ) over commissions charged to examine the state of the higher educational establishments in the districts beyond the Alps and the Rhine which had been annexed to France, and to report upon the means by which these could be affiliated with the central university.
The growing season is almost year-round in most of Portugal and Galicia, and may be only from June to September in northern Finland and the higher Alps.
A brewery, an agricultural college and research institute ( HBLFA Francisco Josephinum ), a college of higher education ( Fachhochschule ), and one of the oldest churches north of the Alps dating from AD 976 are located in the town.
Shaftesbury's writings reflect more of a regard for the awe of the infinity of space (" Space astonishes " referring to the Alps ), where the sublime was not an aesthetic quality in opposition to beauty, but a quality of a grander and higher importance than beauty.
This system, known as transhumance, is similar to the one found in the Alps where the animals are sent during the summer higher up in the mountains ( the alpages ) and were kept by the children and women.
The northernmost of the three main passes across the Southern Alps, it is higher than the Haast Pass, but slightly lower than Arthur's Pass.
The distinction from the Central Alps, where the higher peaks are located, is based on differences in geological composition.
It is also the farthest easterly mountain higher than 4, 000 m in the Alps, the highest point of the Swiss canton of Graubünden, and the fifth-most prominent peak in the Alps.
The Dreiländerspitze is one of the higher mountains in the Silvretta range in the eastern Alps, at 3, 197 metres.
Linnaea borealis has a circumpolar distribution in moist subarctic, boreal, or cool temperate forests, extending further south at higher elevations in various mountains, in Europe south to the Alps, in Asia south to northern Japan, and in North America south to northern California and to Arizona and New Mexico in the west, and to West Virginia ( and formerly Tennessee ) in the Appalachian Mountains in the east.
The Aletschhorn, the second highest mountain of the Bernese Alps after the Finsteraarhorn, is the only one of the higher peaks that lies completely in Valais.
The Bernese Oberland ( Bernese Highlands ) is the higher part of the canton of Bern, Switzerland, in the southern end of the canton: The area around Lake Thun and Lake Brienz, and the valleys of the Bernese Alps ( thus, the inhabitable parts from approximately the level of Lake Thun at
Silene acaulis, moss campion, or Cushion Pink is a small mountain-dwelling wildflower that is common all over the high arctic and tundra in the higher mountains of Eurasia and North America, ( south to the Alps, Carpathians, southern Siberia, Pyrenees, British Isles, Faroe Islands, Rocky Mountains ).
Common all over the high arctic and the higher mountains of Eurasia and North America, ( south to the Alps, Carpathians, southern Siberia, Pyrenees, British Isles, Faroe Islands, Rocky Mountains, ).
But more characteristic of Geneva were the efforts of a group of men to spread the cause of natural science by personal investigations in the higher Alps, then but little known.
The description only makes any sense when the range is seen in the context of the Zillertal Alps to the south, which are considerably higher than the Tux Alps and permanently covered in glaciers.

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