Jean Arnault, the United Nations special representative in Afghanistan, told the Security Council in May that the Taliban and Qaeda insurgencies in southern Afghanistan were increasing, hindering voter registration and threatening the legitimacy of elections.
A gradual, exponential decrease in run length was observed for all constructs under increasing hindering loads, but the application of even a small assisting force (+2 pN) abruptly reduced the run length for both the WT and NL-mutant constructs.
In normal neonates the concentration of GAGs may be increased, hindering the detection of MPS patients.
This is due to the fact that increasing the number of FEC bits improves the probability of correctly receiving a packet, but at the same time, the number of required packets per frame increases hindering timely delivery of the video frame.
Hardness enhancement was related to the structural features, and corrosion behavior was discussed based on the formation of corrosion micro cells, diminishing the effective metallic area, and increasing and hindering the corrosion paths.
Rapid population increase hindered economic growth, while the intensification of agriculture ran into natural barriers, such as the limited availability of fresh water and the high cost of desalination.
"These factors, coupled with the seasonal and capital-intensive nature of the debtors' businesses, high debt load, significant labor costs and double-digit real estate tax increases, hindered the debtors' ability to operate successfully and negatively impacted the debtors' liquidity position".
Participants paid particular attention to instructor behaviors they expected to increase or hinder students' sense of belonging to a community (i.e., fostering community).
During congested fixture periods in team sports, limited recovery time and increased travel hinder the implementation of many recovery strategies; thus alternative methods are required.
Although we obtained time-dependent solutions of the CME for general reaction networks, we note that the number of states of such a equation increases rapidly as the number of molecules, reactions, and/or species increases; thereby, hindering an analytical treatment.
The Justice Department is investigating whether Monsanto, which has patents on the Roundup Ready system, is violating antitrust laws, unduly increasing prices or hindering innovation.
