This initiation challenges and trains the initiate through extreme circumstances involving a special diet and numerous different plant medicines to complement the ayahuasca, the lack of western food and conveniences, the harsh environmental conditions of heavy rains, storms, intense heat, insects, and venomous animals.

An important environmental issue is the lack of fresh water resources.

His injuries left him in a minimally conscious state ( MCS ), a condition akin to a coma but characterized by occasional, but brief, evidence of environmental and self-awareness that coma patients lack.

A lack of a healthy micro-organism community is the main reason why composting processes are slow in landfills with environmental factors such as lack of oxygen, nutrients or water being the cause of the depleted biological community.

Disregard or ignorance of intrinsic value, lack of ascribed value, lax forest management and deficient environmental laws are some of the factors that allow deforestation to occur on a large scale.

Human vulnerability, and lack of appropriate emergency management, leads to financial, environmental, or human impact.

Erin Brockovich-Ellis ( born June 22, 1960 ) is an American legal clerk and environmental activist who, despite the lack of a formal law school education, or any legal education, was instrumental in constructing a case against the Pacific Gas and Electric Company ( PG & E ) of California in 1993.

Key concerns were the question of long-term safe disposal and storage of radioactive waste, the potential local and regional environmental consequences of the plant ’ s operation, the lack of financial clarity about the project, and issues of foreign technological dependence.

Haiti's economic stagnation results from earlier inappropriate economic policies, political instability, a shortage of good arable land, environmental deterioration, continued use of traditional technologies, under-capitalization and lack of public investment in human resources, migration of large portions of the skilled population, and a weak national savings rate.

Candidate factors include genes, the exposure of fetuses to certain hormones ( or lack thereof ) and environmental factors.

The heavy use of agrochemicals, diversion of huge amounts of irrigation water from the two rivers that feed the region, and the chronic lack of water treatment plants are among the factors that have caused health and environmental problems on an enormous scale.

The Soviet approach to environmental management brought decades of poor water management and lack of water or sewage treatment facilities ; inordinately heavy use of pesticides, herbicides, defoliants, and fertilizers in the fields ; and construction of industrial enterprises without regard to human or environmental impact.

The obstacles are a lack of law enforcement in these areas, inconsistent government economic and environmental planning, corruption, and the overwhelming concentration of power in the hands of a president who shows little tolerance of grassroots activity.

Unconsciousness is the condition of being not conscious — in a mental state that involves complete or near-complete lack of responsiveness to people and other environmental stimuli.

Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.

The lack of efficient U. S. freight and passenger rail service will neither aid in handling the “ perfect storm ” of environmental and energy sustainability nor meet the global competitive need of transporting goods and services at heightened speeds and times.

* unconsciousness, the lack of consciousness or responsiveness to people and other environmental stimuli

Where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation.

These may be environmental barriers to participation such as architectural barriers, lack of relevant assistive technology and transportation difficulties due to limited wheelchair or public transit that can accommodate the children with CP.

Thus, the major threat in these areas is fire management ( protection of private assets is a key objective and so past fire regimes may not reflect environmental needs ), weed invasion and lack of connectivity between patches.

Pollution and lack of vegetation, especially trees, can cause urban areas to suffer from poor environment, but no general statement about environmental quality can be made to apply to all rural and urban areas.

While urban areas are almost never thought of as pristine, there are certainly no lack of rural areas that suffer from severe environmental problems.

The cause of these emissions was difficult to establish due to a lack of knowledge of Jupiter's internal magnetic field and of the geometry of the impact sites.

Since then, the impact of the border war with Ethiopia, and continued army mobilisation, has contributed to the lack of a skilled workforce.

Recovery began in the 1990s, but growth has been constrained by the lack of suitable hotels and other infrastructure, despite a boom in construction of small and medium-sized hotels and restaurants, and by the impact of drought, the 1998 – 2000 war with Eritrea, and the specter of terrorism.

In the formative years of independence, Haiti suffered from isolation on the international stage, as evidenced by the early lack of diplomatic recognition accorded to it by Europe and the United States ; this had a negative impact on willingness of foreigners to invest in Haiti.

The impact of Chernenko — or the lack of it — was evident in the way in which his death was reported in the Soviet press.

A general desire for sex is an important motivator for the formation and maintenance of intimate relationships in both men and women, and a lack or loss of sexual desire can have an adverse impact on a relationship.

The lack of conventional dance rhythms was a central factor in limiting punk's mainstream commercial impact.

" Egyptian strongholds in Canaan are also mentioned, including a temple dedicated to Amun, which some scholars place in Gaza ; however, the lack of detail indicating the precise location of these strongholds means that it is unknown what impact these had, if any, on Philistine settlement along the coast.

Unfortunately, ambitious and uncalculated construction schemes, political unrest and an ever present international conflict, and presence of the most lucrative world supply of oil, along with lack of cooperation between Arab states and Iran, has had a negative impact on the survival of many marine species, including dugongs.

In addition, damaged hotels and piers created a long-term impact through lack of tourism-an industry the island relies on.

A second distinct problem for an IP phone is the lack of a ' fixed address ' which can impact the provision of emergency services such as police, fire or ambulance, should someone call for them.

The Senate subsequently confirmed President Adams's nomination of John Jay to replace Ellsworth, but Jay declined to resume his former office, citing the burden of riding circuit and its impact on his health, and his perception of the Court's lack of prestige.

Given the CIA's purposeful destruction of most records, its failure to follow informed consent protocols with thousands of participants, the uncontrolled nature of the experiments, and the lack of follow-up data, the full impact of MKUltra experiments, including deaths, will never be known.

It is also argued that Norse immigrants to England had a great impact on the loss of inflectional endings owing to their semi-mutually comprehensible ( to the native English speakers ) vocabulary, but lack of capability to reproduce their endings.

DU is pyrophoric ; the heated fragments of the penetrator ignite after impact on contact with air, setting fire to fuel and / or ammunition in the target vehicle, thereby compensating for the lack of an explosive warhead in the penetrator.

Since then, numerous impact craters have been identified around the world, though Meteor Crater remains one of the most visually impressive owing to its size, young age, and lack of vegetative cover.

The lack of reserves for the army led to a recruitment crisis, which accentuated the strategic and morale impact of the defeat ; but it is also clear that Adrianople did not mark the end of the Roman Empire, because the imperial military power was only temporarily crippled.

The tank had shown promise, but its lack of reliability limited its impact, and the military tactics of tank warfare were obviously in their infancy.

These modified views of the Earth's history did not emerge until relatively recently, chiefly due to a lack of direct observations and the difficulty in recognizing the signs of an Earth impact because of erosion and weathering.

The lack of a crater, however, does not mean that an ocean impact would not have dangerous implications for humanity.

It was the lack of high concentrations of iridium and shocked quartz which has prevented the acceptance of the idea that the Permian extinction was also caused by an impact.

Mass media have a terrible impact on people who lack guidance ".