Sentence examples for causes of settlement from inspiring English sources

In this research we use it to explore the causes of settlement abandonment among a temperate shifting cultivators in an attempt to better understand the ecology of this adaptation and in order to evaluate the merits of the method.

Studying groundwater and aqueducts maps reveals that there are many aqueducts in the areas of high settlement which can be effective as a secondary cause of settlement.

The dissipation of the pile-side excess pore water pressure caused by pile driving is the main cause of the settlement of single-driven pile in soft clay.

Thus, results of the derived GPR radargrams showing the various subsurface layers delineated and their interpretation with respect to the likely cause of structure settlement experienced in this area are discussed.

Furthermore, the cause of single settlements is usually unknown and the following question may arise: Is the settlement directly caused by the TBM which was advancing beneath the particular point or is the settlement due to something else?

According to the investigation presented herein, the occurrence of sub-permafrost aquifer which was induced by permafrost degradation is the primary cause of pile settlements.

It is expected that the application of a depressurization method for gas hydrate production at the investigated sites would cause a significant amount of settlement and compaction around the production hole.

U.S. federal laws that also affect substitute checks include Federal Reserve regulations that provide for recrediting the amount of the substitute check in the case of fraud and duplicate payments caused by settlement of both the substitute check and the original check used for creating the substitute check.

Yet despite international laws that prohibit the construction of settlements, despite a call to "freeze all settlement activity" by an international panel led by former United States Senator George Mitchell in 2001, despite Palestinian pleas to address the underlying causes of violence -- occupation and settlement construction -- the international community has done nothing to stop Israel.

This eventually led to complete structural failure of the piles located along the excavation side, which probably caused further settlement of the building, leading eventually to a toppling failure resulting in overturning of the entire building.

The causes of the freeze are many: continued settlement building; the US veto of the UN settlement freeze resolution; the failure of the Palestinians to gain UN membership without an American veto being needed; and the distraction of the Arab states with the Arab uprisings.