The crisis in Perak is an important test for Mr. Najib, who has sought to portray himself as a liberal reformer capable of reversing the declining fortunes of U.M.N.O., as the lead party in the coalition is known.
Moreover, it is a measure that can indicate the presence or absence of psychosocial resources capable of attenuating decline in health.
That paramount issue was nuclear safety, something that Admiral Rickover bullied people over when he was a younger man but something that his son says he was not capable of assessing in his declining years.
We used a suite of habitat modelling techniques to identify factors influencing the distribution of brown-headed cowbirds (Molothrus ater), a brood parasite capable of causing population declines in some host species.
Although this review does not extend to economic criteria, any viable strategy for solving conservation problems must first succeed from a biological perspective, and at a minimum, must be capable of averting population declines, regardless of economic costs and benefits.
Physical exercise is capable of reducing this decline to 6% per decade.
Finally, it will be necessary to introduce more sensitive instruments capable of detecting incremental declines in SHS exposure.
Among the first books to challenge this view was '&apos The Spanish Inquisition'' (1965), a pioneering study in which Henry Kamen, a young British graduate student, argued that the Inquisition was not nearly as cruel or as powerful as commonly believed, let alone an institution capable of precipitating Spain's decline.
Species are also capable of permitting and tolerating declines in leaf water potential (e.g., anisohydry); however, this type of tolerance strategy appears to be less common.
Finally, no lunar dynamo model exists to date that is capable of explaining the rapid decline of the field intensity with time until 3.3 Ga b.p. while continuing to produce a weak field thereafter (but still one order of magnitude larger than that from conventional dynamo scaling models).
In her world, women are not human beings capable of asserting their own preferences or declining to conform to the preferences of others.
