The differences point not just to the increasing stresses on the battlefield for midlevel Taliban commanders like him, but also to the difficulty of ending the insurgency as long as the Taliban's top leadership has sanctuary in Pakistan, which has long protected and sponsored the Taliban.
Coughing, bending, and lifting raise the pressure inside the abdomen, repetitively increasing stresses on the abdominal wall and the associated scaffold.
Like many other large earthquakes, the 1960 quake increased stresses on adjacent parts of the fault zone, including the area where the quake occurred Saturday.
Facet joint osteoarthritis leads to increased stresses on the facet joints and results in craniocaudal subluxation, arthrosis and osteophytosis [13].
Climate change especially could increase stresses on urban forests and change their value, which would then require adapted management strategies [113, 115].
Stiffening leads to increased left ventricular (LV) load with hypertrophy, decreased capacity for myocardial perfusion, and increased stresses on small arterial vessels, particularly of brain and kidney.
Anterior cervical fusion, an established procedure to treat cervical radiculopathy, sacrifices the natural function of the disc, while placing increased stresses on adjacent spinal levels.
The areas of slip in the mainshock and the following afterslip and aftershocks are found to be complementary with each other, which may suggest that previous slip increased stresses on adjacent regions to trigger future aftershocks or afterslip.
We undertook this study to determine if young horses beginning race training that received intermittent high-intensity treadmill exercise could enhance their aerobic capacities without developing lameness problems from potential associated increased stresses on that system.
They say the classes, often survey courses covering a lot of broad ground in a short period of time, restrict teacher creativity and the ability to probe enticing themes, while increasing stress on students.
But the signs of labor action were becoming more clear, from the prevalence of dead animals along highways to unrepaired traffic lights, a closed zoo and increasing stress on services like parole monitoring and health inspections.
