This study shows that the variation of maximum void ratio with respect to fines content of a sand-silt mixture is caused by the same mechanisms that influence the variation of minimum void ratio.
The addition of 2,4-D to this mixture is cause for alarm as exposure to this chemical has been scientifically linked to some serious diseases including Parkinson's and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The report concluded that the disaster was caused by a mixture of bad weather and management errors, according to the website of the State Administration of Work Safety.
For many people, the decay was caused by a mixture of identity crisis and a heritage of egomania and corruption from the days when the Portuguese Crown used Rio as a base – something that was reflected in the city's football in contrast to the entrepreneurship of neighbouring São Paulo, Brazil's financial centre.
Firefighters said the flooding was caused by a mixture of heavy rain and rising temperatures thawing snow and ice, and have warned people to listen to forecasts.
The latter, however, was caused by a mixture of moral and political degeneration and the blindness of the military authorities to the development of warfare after 1918.
The Maudsley Bethlem study also hypothesized that schizophrenia was caused by a mixture of many small traits working together.
Thus, airborne transmission in ferrets selected for α2,6 sialic acid-binding viruses, whereas direct-contact transmission was caused by a mixture of α2,3- and α2,6-linked sialic acid-binding viruses, similar to the wild-type virus.
Buoyancy is reached because of the strong decrease of density of the hot gas-particle mixture, which is caused by the drastic decrease of particle volumetric concentration upon the combined effects of gas expansion by decompression and air entrainment.
Among the accession nations, the whole process was causing a mixture of excitement and alarm.
