What he really wants is to find `` a sacred cause '' to which he can honestly devote himself.

When the historian encounters a situation in which he can perceive no visible cause and effect sequence, he should be alert to intuition and unconscious instinct as possible guides.

But during nighttime hours the skywave radiations are reflected from the ionosphere, thereby creating the possibility of one station's rendering service, via skywave, at a much greater distance than it can through its groundwave signal, and at the same time vastly complicating the interference problem because of the still greater distance over which these skywave signals may cause interference to the signals of stations on the same and closely adjacent frequencies.

Ionizing radiation can cause the destruction of microorganisms and insects involved in food spoilage or, at lower doses, can inhibit their action.

But the machine quack can cause far more than just suffering.

Badly placed teeth can also cause such a speech handicap as lisping.

No matter how well work is planned, bad weather or unexpected setbacks can cause extra work that must be caught up.

Copper accumulates in the nervous system and liver and can cause ataxia as well as other neurological and organ impairments.

Unlike ethanol, methanol is extremely toxic: As little as 10 ml can cause permanent blindness by destruction of the optic nerve and 30 ml ( one fluid ounce ) is potentially fatal.

Ideas which are rising from subconsciousness can cause extreme tempers and cowing visions.

When a molten metal is mixed with another substance, there are two mechanisms that can cause an alloy to form, called atom exchange and the interstitial mechanism.

Such modifications can also determine the localization of the protein, e. g., the addition of long hydrophobic groups can cause a protein to bind to a phospholipid membrane.

The calcium carbonate dust is a respiratory irritant and the particles can penetrate into the lower respiratory tree and cause irritant bronchitis and other respiratory irritation responses.

If the weight is suspended off the seabed it acts as a spring or shock absorber to dampen the sudden actions that are normally transmitted to the anchor and can cause it to dislodge and drag.

He reasons that, i ) if we knew the nature of this power, then the mind-body divide would seem totally unmysterious to us ; ii ) if we had immediate knowledge of this mysterious power, then we would be able to intuitively explain why it is that we can control some parts of our bodies ( e. g., our hands or tongues ), and not others ( e. g., the liver or heart ); iii ) we have no immediate knowledge of the powers which allow an impulse of volition to create an action ( e. g., of the " muscles, and nerves, and animal spirits " which are the immediate cause of an action ).

The arrow's manufacturer ( a " fletcher ") can arrange fletching to cause the arrow to rotate along its axis.

Premultiplied alpha has some practical advantages over normal alpha blending because premultiplied alpha blending is associative and linear interpolation gives better results, although premultiplication can cause a loss of precision and, in extreme cases, a noticeable loss of quality.

Other medications that are not usually called antidepressants, including antipsychotics in low doses and benzodiazepines, may be used to manage depression, although the use of benzodiazepines can cause a physical dependence.

Stopping benzodiazepine treatment abruptly can cause unpleasant withdrawal symptoms.

Another extrinsic pathway for initiation identified in several toxin studies is an increase in calcium concentration within a cell caused by drug activity, which also can cause apoptosis via a calcium binding protease calpain.

Excess calcium from supplements, fortified food and high-calcium diets, can cause milk-alkali syndrome, which has serious toxicity and can be fatal.

Chelation of tetracycline with aluminium hydroxide can cause nausea, vomiting, and phosphate excretion, resulting in phosphate deficiency.

A similar condition, patella alta, can occur as the result of a sports injury, though the large majority of the time it is a congenital / developmental condition that is unrelated to trauma.

The degree of genu valgum can be estimated by the, which is the angle formed by a line drawn from the anterior superior iliac spine through the center of the patella and a line drawn from the center of the patella to the center of the tibial tubercle.

* Grade I-the patella can be manually luxated but is reduced ( returns to the normal position ) when released ;

* Grade II-the patella can be manually luxated or it can spontaneously luxate with flexion of the stifle joint.

* Grade III-the patella remains luxated most of the time but can be manually reduced with the stifle joint in extension.

These can help the animal travel from one place to another, especially up and down, without adding any pain or damage to the patella.

A straight stifle limits the ligaments across the patella, predisposing the horse to upward fixation of the patella, with the stifle in a locked position, which interferes with performance and can lead to arthritis of the stifle.

An eagle will fly in the game near an area where the player has climbed to a high enough structure and there are nearby set pieces into which the player can jump, breaking the character's fall.

This unstable intermediate can lead to electron " leakage ", when electrons jump directly to oxygen and form the superoxide anion, instead of moving through the normal series of well-controlled reactions of the electron transport chain.

" BASE " is an acronym that stands for four categories of fixed objects from which one can jump: buildings, antennas, spans ( bridges ), and earth ( cliffs ).

The player can move along platforms, as well as jump to those above and to the side, similar to most platform games.

They are excellent climbers and can also jump far, using their long tail for balance.

However, he has a habit of treating his patients in bizarre and often disturbing ways, such as prescribing heroin for a cold, making a man with a headache jump up and down in order to make his penis swing ( while mirroring the patient's bewildered jumping himself ) and making a patient leave and go in to the next room so he can examine him over the telephone.

Depending on his or her fitness, a fighter wearing hauberk and chausses can run, lie, stand up, jump, do somersaults ( or even cartwheels ), and even swim wearing full armour.

During pursuit, a coyote may reach speeds up to, and can jump a distance of over.

: The DES can be said to have " jump started " the nonmilitary study and development of encryption algorithms.

For example they are useful for organizing online encyclopedias, where users can conveniently jump in the texts, in a controlled way, by using hyperlinks.

He slowed down his actions, such as the decision whether to jump or not, you can see the decision in his face, a psychological dissection for the audience.

Because of this, the only two jumps that can be performed as the second or third jump in a combination are toe loops and loops, because they take off from the right back outside edge.

Spins can be entered on the ice or through a jump or sequence of jumps known as star jumps.

Notable scoring opportunities can occur when attacking players jump into the goal area.

Despite the low interaction between discrete hubs, the disease can jump to and spread in a susceptible hub via a single or few interactions with an infected hub.

At the elite level, competitors run down a runway ( usually coated with the same rubberized surface as running tracks, crumb rubber also vulcanized rubber ) and jump as far as they can from a wooden board 20 cm or 8 inches wide that is built flush with the runway into a pit filled with finely ground gravel or sand.

The competitor can initiate the jump from any point behind the foul line ; however, the distance measured will always be perpendicular to the foul line to the nearest break in the sand caused by any part of the body or uniform.

For example, a jump instruction can reference an absolute address or an offset from the current location, and the offset could be expressed with different lengths depending on the distance to the target.

If the user has built up a substantial charge, the discharge can jump around the door's edge or pass through the door itself ( dielectric breakdown ).

" It also featured a deck of cards ( called " Card cards ") with bizarre instructions, such as " If you can jump up and stay airborne for 37 seconds, you can lose $ 5, 000.

* A jump to the left or right edge can be blocked by leaving no vacant points.

By manipulating space in this way, Voidhawks can open wormholes and jump long distances ( many light years ) instantaneously.

Unlike high jump, however, the athlete in the vault has the ability to select the horizontal position of the bar before each jump and can place it a distance beyond the back of the box, the metal pit that the pole is placed into immediately before takeoff.