Sentences with phrase «likely due»

The island lies about 200 miles (322 kilometers) from Floreana Island, where C. elephantopus was last spotted before disappearing, likely due to hunting by whalers, some 150 years ago.

A similar response is also evident during the self - timed saccade activity (blue, left), although the cause is likely due to a central saccade bringing the RF to encompass the peripheral target instead of target onset since first saccades are not included in the rhythmic analysis (Figure 4C).

«Perfect storm» brought sea louse epidemic to BC salmon: Likely due to high temperatures, uncoordinated treatment.»

Rather, the preference for in - frame deletions is likely due to preferential in - frame DNA repair.

In addition, although we used a validated method to define diagnostic categories for both self - respondents and respondents represented by a proxy, the proportion of the HRS sample represented by a proxy declined significantly between 2000 and 2012 (from 12.5 % to 8.2 % unweighted), likely due in part to a change in HRS field procedures between these 2 waves.

As they report in this month's issue of Genome Research, the results were not consistent with balancing selection over the last half million years of human evolution but more likely due to as yet unknown selective pressures.

«By comparing the measured craters to the number and spatial distribution of large impact basins on Mercury, we found that they started to accumulate at about the same time, suggesting that the resetting of Mercury's surface was global and likely due to volcanism,» said lead author Dr. Simone Marchi, who has a joint appointment between two of NASA's Lunar Science Institutes, one at the SwRI in Boulder and another at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston.

«We've long known that exposure to traditional forms of media, such as fashion magazines and television, is associated with the development of disordered eating and body image concerns, likely due to the positive portrayal of «thin» models and celebrities,» said lead author Jaime E. Sidani, Ph.D., M.P.H., assistant director of Pitt's Center for Research on Media, Technology and Health.

«According to our framework, under harsh conditions, only a few tolerant species can grow large populations, while the remaining and sensitive species can be present in low numbers, likely due to chance immigration.

The researchers concluded that these increases were likely due to the availability of less - invasive surgical procedures and more advanced techniques for delivering RT, such as stereotactic body RT (SBRT).

«We wanted to understand why there is more cis - lycopene in the body, and by mathematically modeling our patients» blood carbon - 13 lycopene concentration data, we found that it is likely due to a conversion of all - trans to cis lycopene, which occurs soon after we absorb lycopene from our food,» she added.

They showed that temperatures warmed in both the North Pacific and Greenland, likely due to changes in ocean circulation patterns.

Gender bias in hiring is not blatant, the authors found, but gender - associated differences in productivity, postdoctoral experience, and institutional prestige of degree - granting institutions — which are likely due to bias against women during the training process — largely account for the observed gender imbalance in computer science faculty hiring networks.

«This is likely due to marketing campaigns from manufacturers and uncritical coverage in lay publications.»

All told, about 20 % of the distribution of domesticated species across the Amazon seemed to be driven by human influences, while 30 % was likely due to environmental factors such as soil composition.

Monarch numbers have dropped significantly in recent years, likely due partly to the eradication of milkweed, which began in the mid-1990s.

Calculations show it was likely due to the emptying of four interconnected lakes, the largest about the size of Lake Washington, far below.

During the past decade, the global temperature may have «paused,» most likely due to natural climate fluctuations, the panel finds.

According to the science team, this star is 10,000 times dustier than our own solar system, likely due to a recent impact between planetary bodies in its inner regions.

Military compounds have been constructed on the site, likely due to the fact that the site is elevated over the surrounding plain and provides a good view of the area.

In the wild, Wolbachia inserts can be found in fruit flies from Hawaii, Malaysia, Indonesia, and India, most likely due to a shared ancestor colonized long ago.

Since then, Allen and his colleagues have been at the forefront of efforts to say whether particular extreme weather events have become more likely due to climate change.

«A lot of these anatomical differences are probably more likely due to these chance changes,» he says.

However, some intraplate faults have experienced increased seismicity in recent years, likely due to deep injection wells used for wastewater disposal.

«Marine mammal beachings not likely due to space weather.»

In recent years, fewer and fewer drugs have been introduced into the market most likely due to exhausted screening techniques and less efficient methods for predicting drug effectiveness.

Daniel Rader, a cardiologist at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in Philadelphia, remains optimistic, however, that other CETP inhibitors could work, because the failure of Torcetrapib was likely due to «effects on blood pressure that were unrelated to CETP inhibition.»

The effect is likely due to specific stereotypes or prejudices associated with Black Americans, the researchers concluded, given that participants showed a similar pattern of acceptance for offers from other - race proposers (who were neither White nor Black) and from White proposers.

«The increased rate of HIV infection among women using DMPA contraceptive shots is likely due to multiple reasons, including decreases in immune function and the protective barrier function of the female genital tract,» Hapgood said.

In 2009, Interpol calculated the lifetime incidence of rape for South African women at 1 in 2, with nearly half of victims younger than 18, likely due to a myth that sex with a virgin can cure a man of AIDS.

And since the umbrellas themselves block UV rays, the burns are likely due to UV light bouncing off the sand and other surfaces, then hitting unprotected skin.

Those who were employed were more likely to have increased financial strain, most likely due to worries about high unemployment and job security.

«This finding was likely due to changes in the ecosystem, as that was the main difference between the lab and the field experiments.

Scientists worldwide have tried to inject chemical hydrogels into living cells to study them, but usually the cells become sick, likely due to toxicity from the chemicals.

However, we believe it is likely due to the fact that rarely is care of the pregnant inpatient the primary concern of the treating physician — it is almost always a distraction from office, surgery or personal activities.»

Simonov said the inability of financial experts to make better investment decisions than their untrained peers is likely due to a lack of talent and the fact that succeeding in the mutual fund market is an extremely difficult task.

But alas, future sightings of this object probably aren't in the cards: Less than a week after the comet swooped past the sun, its icy nucleus shattered and disappeared, likely due to its brief but close call with extreme heat.

This is likely due to 1) lack of well - informed and qualified faculty members to initiate and develop specialized curricula on these topics and 2) a belief that job training is the responsibility of prospective employers, not academic researchers.

This is likely due to increased vigilance on the part of beekeepers, a greater availability of mite control products and environmental conditions that favored the use of timely and effective mite control measures.

«The increase in relative abundance is likely due, in part, to the implementation of management measures.

In the 1970s and 1980s, relative abundance data indicated that white shark populations declined, likely due to expanding commercial and recreational shark fisheries.

«This is most likely due to people targeting larger species for consumption first.»

While the outbreak in 1993 - 1994 was likely due to transmission of a virus from domestic dogs, it is now clear that the routes of virus spread and maintenance are more complex.

The exceptionally high activity, Jiao said, is likely due to the UD - developed electrocatalyst's extremely large and highly curved internal surface, which is approximately 150 times larger and 20 times intrinsically more active than polycrystalline silver.

Some of this nonaction is likely due to lack of knowledge about proven retention strategies.

This is likely due to a change in people's behavior: they avoid contact with others, so fewer people are infected.

Plugging such weather data into a regional climate model revealed that the impacts were likely due to the increased mixing of the near - surface and higher - atmosphere air thanks to the wind turbines.

University College London archaeologist Stephen Shennan has proposed that cultural innovations were likely due to increased contact among humans as they began living in ever - larger groups.

People experiencing sudden cardiac arrest at exercise facilities have a higher chance of survival than at other indoor locations, likely due to early CPR and access to an automated external defibrillator (AED), among other factors, according to a study published online today in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Differing psychotropic effects are more likely due to other chemicals in the resin.