Sentences with phrase «lack of high mountains»

An ancestor of the present - day rabbit The Paratethys Sea - which was located to the south of Europe and spanned from the northern Alps to the Aral Sea in western Asia - had disappeared, and a lack of high mountains here meant that there were no barriers to hinder this animal's expansion.

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The highest rates of breastfeeding are observed among higher - income, college - educated women > 30 years of age living in the Mountain and Pacific regions of the United States.60 Obstacles to the initiation and continuation of breastfeeding include physician apathy and misinformation,61 - 63 insufficient prenatal breastfeeding education, 64 disruptive hospital policies, 65 inappropriate interruption of breastfeeding, 62 early hospital discharge in some populations, 66 lack of timely routine follow - up care and postpartum home health visits, 67 maternal employment68, 69 (especially in the absence of workplace facilities and support for breastfeeding), 70 lack of broad societal support, 71 media portrayal of bottle - feeding as normative, 72 and commercial promotion of infant formula through distribution of hospital discharge packs, coupons for free or discounted formula, and television and general magazine advertising.73, 74

The leading scholar on teacher retention, Richard Ingersoll, has amassed a mountain of research that comes down to this conclusion: Teachers — including in high - demand specialties such as math, science, and technology — are leaving not merely because the economic rewards are greater in the private sector, but because they lack the autonomy to engage their students in a creative manner (Walker, 2015).

The mountain sickness or altitude sickness is the body's response to the lack of oxygen at high altitude, is related to the rate of climb and altitude reached.

Abstract Accurate quantification of the spatial distribution of precipitation in mountain regions is crucial for assessments of water resources and for the understanding of high - altitude hydrology, yet it is one of the largest unknowns due to the lack of [continue reading...]

Bounded by the Strait of Georgia to the west, the U.S. border to the south and the Coast Mountains to the north, Metro Vancouver has historically been constrained by a lack of available land that results in higher - than - average property values and lower vacancy rates.