Drained peat will consolidate as a consequence of 'settlement' of the peat mass once the buoyancy of the water in water-saturated natural peat is removed: the peat mass settles under its own weight.
The operational research deals with the determination of an optimal decision as a consequence of the settlement of deterministic and stochastic models made for the study of economic, managerial phenomena.
The improved profits owed much to Manville's unusual tax structure As a consequence of the settlement of the asbestos lawsuits, it need pay no federal income taxes for many years to come.
Rat presence in the archipelago had been documented at least since the end of the 19th century [33] but the species was likely there long before this date as a consequence of human settlement.
Results for this second group are consistent with the hypothesis that the strains largely reflect a population brought to New Zealand as a consequence of European settlement.
As a consequence of the recent settlement of mines and other activities at high altitudes (greater than 3,000 m) in Chile and other parts of the world, workers are exposed to longer durations of chronic intermittent hypoxia (CIH) than with any other type of altitude exposure.
As a consequence of this history of settlement, descendants of European and Asian immigrants have retained strong transnational ties with origin and other settlement countries, such as the UK, US, Australia, India, Pakistan and China.
So in 2012, when Facebook decided to update its privacy policy — to give itself greater control over users' data — it was forced to email all its users about the changes, as a consequence of those earlier regulatory settlements.
Huge estates were initially built up by the king, bishops, monasteries and thegns, but in the 9th and 10th centuries these were slowly broken up as a consequence of inheritance arrangements, marriage settlements and church purchases.
In the century prior to the Norman invasion, England's great estates, owned by the king, bishops, monasteries and thegns, had been slowly broken up as a consequence of inheritance, wills, marriage settlements or church purchases.
Benchmarks: Knows the causes and consequences of urbanization; Knows the similarities and differences in various settlement patterns of the world; Knows ways in which both the landscape and society change as a consequence of shifting from a dispersed to a concentrated settlement form Language Arts Standard 1- Demonstrates competence in the general skills and strategies of the writing process.
