With their often complex reproductive needs and permeable skins, amphibians are often ecological indicators and in recent decades there has been a dramatic decline in amphibian populations of many species around the globe.

With the beginning of the slow decline of the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century, and as a result of the expansionist policies of Czarist Russia in the Caucasus, many Muslim nations and groups in that region, mainly Circassians, Tatars, Azeris, Lezgis, Chechens, and several Turkic groups left their ancestral homelands and settled in Anatolia.

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With the decline of heavy manufacturing, Dayton's businesses have diversified into a service economy that includes insurance and legal sectors as well as healthcare and government sectors.

With the decline of sophisticated styles at the end of the baroque period, the fugue's central role waned, eventually giving way as sonata form and the symphony orchestra rose to a dominant position.

With the decline of the fur trade, the company evolved into a mercantile business selling vital goods to settlers in the Canadian West.

With the decline of the Chalukya empire, their feudatories, the Hoysalas of Halebidu, Kakatiyas of Warangal, Seuna Yadavas of Devagiri, and a southern branch of the Kalachuri, divided the vast Chalukya empire amongst themselves around the middle of 12th century.

With the decline of large herbivores by the late ice age, Pachycrocuta was replaced by the smaller Crocuta.

With the decline of grasslands 12, 500 years ago, Europe experienced a massive loss of lowland habitats favoured by spotted hyenas, and a corresponding increase in mixed woodlands.

With the rapid Arctic sea ice decline in the Hudson Strait, their range now extends deep into the northwest Atlantic.

With the era of rap metal on the decline, Kid Rock included several southern rock and country ballads on the album.

With the rise of the Roman Empire and the decline of the Seleucids, the area was conquered by the Roman Empire in 63 BC.

With the decline of Portuguese power, especially during the period when the crown of Portugal was combined with the crown of Spain ( 1580 – 1640 ), the Portuguese coastal settlements were ignored and fell into a ruinous condition.

With the decline of Nri kingdom in the 1400-1600 AD, several states once under their influence, became powerful economic oracular oligarchies and large commercial states that dominated Igboland.

With the loss of the theater chain, Paramount Pictures went into a decline, cutting studio-backed production, releasing its contract players, and making production deals with independents.

With the very sharp decline in world trade after 1929, its condition became critical.

With the gradual decline of the use of these local Slavic tongues, the term Wends slowly disappeared, too.

With the increase popularity of the MP3 players, it was the CD ( compact disc ) player that originally caused the decline of the Walkman.

With this new connotation, opéra comique had dominated the French operatic stage since the decline of tragédie lyrique.

With the decline of the Roman Empire, distinctions appeared also in organization, since the bishops in the West were not dependent on the Emperor in Constantinople and did not come under the influence of the Caesaropapism in the Eastern Church.

With the rising popularity of television news, the business of UPI began to decline as the circulation of afternoon newspapers, its chief client category, began to fall.

With the decline of the Holy Roman emperors ' power starting in the 13th century, the Low Countries were largely left to their own devices.

With the decline of the Ottoman Empire after 1700, signs of revival started to emerge.

With the increased use of personal computers and the relative decline in societal awareness of heavy machinery, the term user interface is generally assumed to mean the graphical user interface, while industrial control panel and machinery control design discussions more commonly refer to human-machine interfaces.

With Mao's health on the decline, it was clear that Jiang Qing had political ambitions of her own.

With financial assistance from the Hanover Jewish community, Herschel was sent to a yeshiva ( rabbinical seminary ) in Frankfurt, where he studied Hebrew and Torah: he was by all accounts more religious than his parents.

With the modern Jewish return to the land of Israel, the Jerusalem Talmud has taken on greater relevance and popularity with talmudic and rabbinical scholars.

With the exception of some short contributions to the works of others, the only one of Berab's numerous works ever published was his " Sheëlot u-Teshubot " ( Questions and Answers ), responsa, Venice, 1663 ; but the Amsterdam edition of the rabbinical Tanakh ( 1724 – 28 ) contains notes by Berab on Isaiah and Jeremiah.

With the knowledge that the kingdom comes by obedience to the moral law in our relations with all people, we have a firm intellectual grasp on both the means and the ends of our lives.

With limited supplies, the cultivation of food was imperative, but the soils around Sydney were poor, the climate was unfamiliar, and moreover very few of the convicts had any knowledge of agriculture.

With the information contained in Chanute's book, the personal assistance of Chanute himself, and research carried out in their own wind tunnel, the Wright brothers gained enough knowledge of aerodynamics to fly the first powered aircraft on December 17, 1903.

With some exceptions, the knowledge of hypersonic aerodynamics has matured between the 1960s and the present decade.

With this knowledge and a pair of glasses given to him as a gift by Wonder Woman, ' Clark ' regains his humanity, and sets out to become a hero again by re-fertilizing the irradiated fields of Kansas.

With the elimination of these accents, the new orthography relies on the reader having prior knowledge of pronunciation of a given word.

With a knowledge of bond lengths, Sanderson's model allows the estimation of bond energies in a wide range of compounds.

With logic, the engine is able to generate new information from the knowledge contained in the rule base and data to be processed.

With it Erasmus challenged common assumptions, painting the clergy as educators who should share the treasury of their knowledge with the laity.

With knowledge of Alan Turing's theoretical ' universal computing machine ' John von Neumann defined an architecture which uses the same memory both to store programs and data: virtually all contemporary computers use this architecture ( or some variant ).

With the Renaissance came an increase in experimental investigation, principally in the field of dissection and body examination, thus advancing our knowledge of human anatomy.

With that knowledge comes power and confidence ; the hero often begins as a childlike figure, but matures rapidly, experiencing a huge gain in fighting / problem-solving abilities along the way.

With knowledge of his sexuality becoming more common beginning in the 1970s, some film historians and gay studies scholars have detected homosexual themes in Whale's work, particularly in Bride of Frankenstein in which a number of the creative people associated with the cast, including Ernest Thesiger and Colin Clive, were alleged to be gay or bisexual.

With his fluent French and knowledge of the culture, Frankenheimer was asked to direct French Connection II, set entirely in Marseille.

With knowledge of atomic arrangements and compositions, one may deduce why minerals have specific physical properties, and one may calculate how those properties change with pressure and temperature.

With access to a large knowledge base, systems can be enabled to resolve many ( especially lexical ) ambiguities on their own.

With a large enough ontology as a source of knowledge however, the possible interpretations of ambiguous words in a specific context can be reduced.

With this knowledge, no firms attempt to enter the industry and an oligopoly or monopoly develops.

With a vast knowledge of media, Werblin was determined to put the spotlight on the team.

With knowledge of the thing I can say that this development was in its beginning probably necessary and well-founded.

With the knowledge of cell biology and biochemistry increasing, the field of pharmacology has also changed substantially.

With " promiscuous pairing " – each programmer cycling through all the other programmers on the team rather than pairing only with one partner – knowledge of the system spreads throughout the whole team, reducing risk to management if one programmer leaves the team.

With the knowledge that their days in Candlestick Park were coming to an end, the 1999 season ended with a series of promotions and tributes.

With these ideas referring to an organized body of knowledge and " any systematically presented set of concepts, whether they are empirical, axiomatic, or philosophical, " Lehre " is associated with theory and science in the etymology of general systems, but also does not translate from the German very well ; " teaching " is the " closest equivalent ", but " sounds dogmatic and off the mark ".

Galileo maintained strongly that mathematics provided a kind of necessary certainty that could be compared to God's: " With regard to those few mathematical propositions which the human intellect does understand, I believe its knowledge equals the Divine in objective certainty.