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1 Third , debasement of early medieval coinage in western Europe and the eventual replacement of gold by silver can be attributed to the cessation of the flow of gold bullion from east to west with the abandonment of gold subsidies paid by the Byzantine empire to the barbarians in the west .
2 The impact of this approach on physical geography can be attributed to the ways in which these four types of system could rationalize physical geography endeavour , and could catalyse the introduction of new concepts especially concerned with temporal change .
3 Most goldfish keepers would agree that most , if not all of their problems of fish losses and loss of condition can be attributed to poor water quality .
4 In a first set of experiments we used polyclonal antibodies raised against rat IL-6DBP or C/EBPδ to identify if the IL-6 induced DNA-protein complex can be attributed to one of these two proteins .
5 Despite the invasive behaviour of the parasitic larval stages , little specific pathogenic effect can be attributed to them ; the exception is S. vulgaris , 90% of horses in Britain having lesions in the arterial system of the intestine caused by this species .
6 The law has some part to play in stimulating directors to take appropriate action in these areas by imposing liability where loss can be attributed to a failure on the part of the board to ensure that the company is equipped with an adequate organisational structure .
7 Superspecs produce only 6.5 — an important feature when buyers consider that a large percentage of heat loss can be attributed to air leakage or draughts .
8 Moscow 's decision to assume the economic burden of Cuba can be attributed to the fact that , by this stage , it had no other credible option in political terms , partly because of Khrushchev 's own extravagant statements of support for the Castro revolution , but largely because of the policies pursued by the United States .
9 Studies of rural migration have largely neglected these factors although Dunn ( 1979 ) has shown that a substantial amount of short-distance movement in rural areas can be attributed to changing housing needs .
10 The fact that the selection of a style became such a contentious issue can be attributed to his sustained advocacy of Gothic .
11 Mortensen 's ( 1933a ) confusion over the identity of the Ingolf specimens from Iceland can be attributed to the form of the second arm spine .
12 The greater incidence of digestion on maxillary incisors can be attributed to the greater breakage of the maxillae .
13 Despite anecdotal reports of serious bugs in Microsoft Corp 's new MS-DOS 6.0 , PC Week Labs says it has been unable to reproduce in a controlled laboratory environment any of the data-threatening errors specifically attributed to MS-DOS 6.0 or its DoubleSpace component , adding that it believes that many of the reported data-destroying errors can be attributed to the sudden introduction of SMARTDRV , the MS-DOS and Windows cache program , onto previously uncached systems — SMARTDRV caches disk writes , and any sudden power-down can cause unrecoverable file and disk errors — but be that as it may , Microsoft is taking the reports of data loss sufficiently seriously that it has pledged to do whatever it takes to track down and purge any serious flaws , although it has found none , and InfoWorld reported it found several problems , including one in the DoubleSpace data compression — but Microsoft said two of its engineers looked into but could not replicate the problems InfoWorld saw .
14 It would appear that this closure and the consequent employment effects can be attributed to the government 's failure to sanction the deal with Leyland Vehicles earlier in the year , as a result of the political pressure imposed .
15 Various effects can be attributed to other instances of recurrent imagery besides that of merely providing a satisfactory feeling of unity in the narrative performance .
16 But not all the blame can be attributed to the high degree of neve .
17 Much of his extraordinary combination of speed and stamina can be attributed to his physique .
18 The increased use of project financing in the last twenty years can be attributed to two factors — increased capital investment needs and economic risks .
19 The reversal of fortunes can be attributed to two factors .
20 Though there is no reason to think that the kings of Cyrene had actually helped Inaros at the beginning of the revolt , the fall of the Persian-backed Cyrenaean monarchy at about this period can be attributed to the infectious restlessness of Egypt next door , cp. below , p. 61 .
21 Since the relative concentration of hydrocarbons remains relatively constant over this maturity range , the increased wetness of the Tertiary gases can be attributed to higher C&sub4+ ; concentrations .
22 Tivoli 's boss , ex-IBMer Frank Moss , believes that in many organisations up to 40% of the cost of owning Unix kit can be attributed to managing systems that are distributed across networks .
23 Tivoli 's boss , ex-IBMer Frank Moss , believes that in many organisations up to 40% of the cost of owning Unix kit can be attributed to managing systems that are distributed across networks .
24 How much of this former water erosion can be attributed to pluvial phases in the Pleistocene is very doubtful .
25 The impact of the polymerase chain reaction can be attributed to its practical simplicity and to its speed , sensitivity , and specificity .
26 A recent assessment of Beccaria has portrayed him as a cautious conservative who successfully redirected enlightenment thinking away from a potentially much more radical path : ‘ His sudden fame can be attributed to the relief of educated society that it was possible to hold rational ‘ enlightened ’ views on human behaviour without having to accept radical materialism' ( Jenkins , 1984 , p. 113 ) .
27 Many differences of language between this and the other passages can be attributed to different subject matter : James is concerned with a world of human values and relationships , and the external universe of nature has no part to play in it .
28 Much of the frantic activity in the share register can be attributed to the arbitrageurs rather than the titans of the motor industry .
29 The deviations of real gases from ideal gas behaviour can be attributed to the attractive forces between gas molecules ; the volume of a gas molecule ( the kinetic theory assumes this is negligible ) .
30 Variations in the experience of kin support The issue here is whether variations in people 's experience of support within families can be attributed to personal and idiosyncratic factors , or whether those variations are related systematically to the position of the parties in economic and social structures .
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