The family has a worldwide distribution, and is most common in the arid and semi-arid regions of subtropical and lower temperate latitudes.

South Africa is largely destitute of forest save in the lower valleys and coast regions.

Apart from the lowlands and the Atlas mountain range, the continent may be divided into two regions of higher and lower plateaus, the dividing line ( somewhat concave to the north-west ) running from the middle of the Red Sea to about 6 deg.

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 equilibrium distribution for particles of gamboge shows the tendency for granules to move to regions of lower concentration when affected by gravity.

Dynamic equilibrium is established because the more that particles are pulled down by gravity, the greater is the tendency for the particles to migrate to regions of lower concentration.

Summers are warm, but far cooler and less humid than lower regions to the south and east, with a July high of.

On the other hand, were surface regions with lower energy available, the water occupying surface locations of higher potential energy would move to occupy these positions of lower energy, inasmuch as there is no barrier to lateral movement in an ideal liquid.

The most advanced groups lived along the coast and in the lower Mekong River valley and delta regions in houses constructed on stilts where they cultivated rice, fished and kept domesticated animals.

The canals caused price convergence between different regions because of their reduction in transportation costs, which allowed Americans to ship and buy goods from farther distances for much lower prices compared to before.

Ice caps form because high-latitude regions receive less energy as solar radiation from the sun than equatorial regions, resulting in lower surface temperatures.

West Africa, Madagascar, Southeast Asia and many other regions have experienced lower revenue because of declining timber harvests.

Released in late 1973, the song topped the singles chart in February 1974, and reached the lower regions of Billboard's Hot 100 ( it eventually also charted in the UK, reaching No. 7 in 1976, representing Parton's first UK success ).

It determines that thermal energy always flows spontaneously from regions of higher temperature to regions of lower temperature, in the form of heat.

The lower regions of the old cuticle – the endocuticle and mesocuticle – are then digested by the enzymes and subsequently absorbed.

The 22 regions of France | regions and 96 departments of France | departments of metropolitan France include Corsica ( Corse, lower right ).

The language survived as a domestic language in the Iberian peninsula ( modern Spain and Portugal ) as late as the 8th century, and Frankish author Walafrid Strabo wrote that it was still spoken in the lower Danube area and in isolated mountain regions in Crimea in the early 9th century ( see Crimean Gothic ).

In addition, significant numbers of the Tongas live in the north ; Ngonis -- an offshoot of the Zulus who came from South Africa in the early 19th century — live in the lower northern and lower central regions ; and the Yao, who are mostly Muslim, predominate in the Southern Region of the country and live in a wide band from Blantyre and Zomba north to Lake Malawi and east to the border with Mozambique.

The ozone layer is higher in altitude in the tropics, and lower in altitude in the extratropics, especially in the polar regions.

With lower levels, thyroid hypertrophy and increased thyroid blood-flow enable the thyroid to accumulate a larger proportion of the daily intake of iodine.

For instance, slower lighter aircraft are usually allowed closer and lower to the crowd than larger, faster types.

The largest advantage of wind power is that larger wind turbines have a lower per-watt cost than solar cells, provided there is wind.

A large-scale attack using anthrax would require the creation of aerosol particles of 1. 5 to 5 microns: larger particles would not reach the lower respiratory tract, while smaller particles would be exhaled back out into the atmosphere.

The pectoral muscles may be released along its inferior edge to allow a larger, more supple pocket for the expander at the expense of thinner lower pole soft tissue coverage.

A mild revision of style accompanies this with balloon font changed to CCTimeSaleLower, an upper and lower case font and a much larger Beano logo on the cover.

* Meker burner – The lower part of its tube has more openings with larger total cross-section, admitting more air and facilitating better mixing of air and gas.

The lower lip is larger, with 3-lobes, and the middle lobe is the largest.

In this method, the probability of selecting any cluster varies with the size of the cluster, giving larger clusters a greater probability of selection and smaller clusters a lower probability.

Over a hundred other federal and state cavalry regiments were organized, but the infantry played a much larger role in many battles due to its larger numbers, lower cost per rifle fielded, and much easier recruitment.

The larger the diameter of the shell, the lower the pitch.

The resulting beam has a larger aperture, and hence a lower divergence.

Generally, larger firms have grown at the expense of smaller ones, as they are able to use economies of scale and offer lower prices.

An estimator is unbiased if its expected value is the true value of the parameter ; It is consistent if it converges to the true value as sample size gets larger, and it is efficient if the estimator has lower standard error than other unbiased estimators for a given sample size.

Buyers, in turn, benefit from the lower transaction costs and economies of scale that result from larger volumes.

Various reasons have been suggested for the resistance to the Celsius system in the U. S., including the larger size of each degree Celsius ( resulting in the need for decimals where integer Fahrenheit degrees were adequate for much non-technical work ), the lower zero point in the Fahrenheit system ( which reduces the number of negative signs when measurements such as weather data were averaged ), and the more intuitive alignment of its 0-100 scale to the ordinary range of outdoor temperatures seen in most of the U. S. ( e. g., 0 ° F

Fluorescence is most effective when there is a larger ratio of atoms at lower energy levels in a Boltzmann distribution.

In people acclimated to high altitudes, the concentration of 2, 3-Bisphosphoglycerate ( 2, 3-BPG ) in the blood is increased, which allows these individuals to deliver a larger amount of oxygen to tissues under conditions of lower oxygen tension.

A much larger class of materials, even though they may have lower bulk resistivity, are still good enough to insulate electrical wiring and cables.

Sexual dimorphism is also apparent in the skull ; adult males have longer lower jaws than females, and have larger occipital crests.

It originally referred to the replacement of vector supercomputers built with bipolar technology by Massively Parallel Processors ( MPP ) assembled from a larger number of lower performing microprocessors.

Radar studies showed the 1966 storm included a relatively high percentage of smaller particles while 1965's lower activity had a much higher proportion of larger particles.

" The ability of the earned income tax credit to deliver larger monetary benefits to poor workers than an increase in the minimum wage and at a lower cost to society was documented in a 2007 report by the Congressional Budget Office.