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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"Potential cause"”.
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The Importance Of Surface Mining As A Landscape Variable In Shaping Wild Bee Communities In Central Appalachian Forests
… in abundance dramatically in recent years. One potential cause of these declines is anthropogenic disturbance. Eleven sites were established in Southeastern Kentucky, U.S.A. where surface mining for coal is common. Data was analyzed using generalized linear mixed-effect models to detect the most …
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Investigating escape of low MW siloxanes from PDMS matrix in aqueous solution
… sensor to the surrounding environment was the potential cause of the signal loss over time, so the amount of LMWS that escaped into aqueous solution was investigated.
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The Use of Landsat Data to Monitor Forest Destruction in Eastern Honduras
… one of the most publicized topics today because of the emerging relationship between deforestation and soil erosion, floods, drought, and rural poverty. Further, the world's remaining tropical forests are disappearing at accelerating rates, and this may be contributing to global climate …
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Analysis of Respiratory Time Series Data for Breathing Discomfort Detection Prior to Sleep Onset During APAP Therapy
… and personalized patient education. One potential cause of discomfort is perceived stuffiness from pressure levels that is lower than tolerable for some patient preferences. This thesis seeks to explore which patterns in the high-resolution breathing data from ResMed devices may be used …
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A study of the prescribing, dispensing and administration of medicines with reference to medication errors in the Armed Forces Hospital, Kuwait. An experimental investigation to determine the accuracy of the prescribing process, dispensing process and nurse administration of medication as compared with the prescriptions of physicians in the Armed Forces Hospital in Kuwait.
Introduction: Medication errors are a major cause of illness and hospitalization of patients throughout the world. This study examines the situation regarding medication errors in the Armed Forces Hospital, Kuwait since no literature exists of any such studies for this country. Several types of …
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Loss of function of Gene X protects against α-dicarbonyl stress through the skn-1 pathway in C. elegans
… that are increasing in prevalence worldwide. One potential cause of these diseases is the accumulation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs), which are macromolecules that cause irreversible damages. AGEs are a diverse group of highly oxidative byproducts produced from α-dicarbonyl compounds …
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Active STPA : integration of hazard analysis into a Safety Management System Framework
… in use in the aviation industry are reactive because they measure only parameter exceedances. Active STPA allows a proactive identification of the potential cause of future accidents.
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The impact of variation in the progesterone receptor gene, life history and lifestyle on endometrial function and the menstrual cycle
… fecundity that disregard genetic variation as a potential cause of differences in reproduction. Further, a strong correlation between ovarian and uterine markers of fecundity is assumed, although this assumption is not supported by the available data. A polymorphism in the progesterone receptor …
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The Effects Of Looping On Student Achievement And Self-efficacy Of Exceptional Education Students
… was causal comparative, or ex post facto, because the researcher was seeking to identify a difference in achievement based on developmental scale scores between the two groups of looping and non-looping students with ESE classifications. A retrospective causal comparative study was chosen …
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Legitimacy, Inequality, and Conceptions of Democratic Crisis
… democracies by considering inequality as a potential cause of legitimacy crises. In the first chapter, the thesis reviews rival accounts of how to conceptualise political legitimacy and of what poses a threat to it. In subsequent chapters, it syncretises these accounts together. The second …
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Investigating Possible Scurvy in the Postclassic Maya of Tipu
… was low and severity was relatively mild. One potential cause, despite living in a tropical environment, is Maya food processing practices and possibly their food preferences. The findings also suggest that scurvy and other similar conditions should be kept in mind when interpreting health …
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Investigating the process of fibril formation of the Iowa mutant of the Alzheimer's peptide
… 40 residue peptide that has been implicated as a potential cause of Alzheimer’s disease, has been shown to undergo a fibrillization process that involves numerous intermediate stages. One of the intermediate stages has revealed a high neurotoxicity and is believed to be the cause of …
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Metabolic regulation of human vascular endothelial cell function in vitro
… chemokine production (chapter 6). The potential of insulin to modify the subcellular distribution of eNOS was investigated in chapter 5. Clinical hyperinsulinaemia correlates with attenuated NO-mediated vasodilation, but it is not clear how hyperinsulinaemia impairs eNOS-mediated NO …
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Reliability and energy-efficiency in wireless ad-hoc networks
… Our methodology is to attempt to eliminate one potential cause of session drops, i.e. the inability for the interrupted session to find a backup path with sufficient capacity. To this end, we developed a spare capacity allocation scheme whereby we a-priori reserve backup capacity in the network. …
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The relationship of chronic tension headache to individual and family stressors
… day. Temporal results are discussed in terms of potential cause and consequence. Implications are discussed in terms of support for a multi-component model of chronic tension headache.
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Laminar flame propagation in mixtures with compositional stratification at small length scales
… of these deformed flames suggested that a potential cause of this behavior was a failure of the reduced kinetics to capture the increase in local reaction rate attributed to stratification, and the inability of the driving reactions to counterbalance the incoming mass flux of fuel led to …
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A retrospective review of risk factors for recalcitrant peptic structures
… Peptic strictures (PS) are a common benign cause of dysphagia, but a scarcity of local data is available as regards identifying risk factors associated with recalcitrancy. Methods: Single centre retrospective audit of PS undergoing endoscopic management between 1st March 2018 and 1st March …
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Diffusion and reaction of nitric oxide in cell cultures
… health. However, its mutagenic effects make it a potential cause of cancer, if it is produced at a high enough rate for a sufficient time. Sustained overproduction of NO may occur, for example, in macrophages as part of the immune response to certain chronic infections. The mutagenic effects of NO …
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Relevanz der humanen Xylosyltransferase-I in der Seneszenz-assoziierten Gewebe-Remodellierung und der adulten Knochenhomöostase
… senescence in human cardiac stem cells (hCSCs) caused neither XT-I regulation. However, a senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP)-mediated induction of XT-I gene expression and activity along with an expression increase of ECM-associated proteins was determined for the first time after …
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Population demographics of six freshwater mussel species (Bivalvia: Unionidae) in the upper Clinch river, Virginia and Tennessee
… River, Virginia and Tennessee, to identify potentially impacted sites in the upper river. The bioaccumulation of copper in mussel shells also was examined as a possible contributing factor to the declining mussel fauna. Higher growth rates observed at Hackneys site, river kilometer (RK) …
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