Individuals, families, tribes, and nations have been on the move for centuries where, political and economic factors, including wars; environmental challenges; and racism, xenophobia, and religious discrimination have at times uprooted people and at others lured them to new venues across continents. ... Some of the factors that have contributed to an increase in the scale of international migration include growing disparities in living conditions, and violent conflicts both within and between countries. ... But if it is a good thing for people to move from England to Germany in search of a b...

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This so called "decline" was caused by a number of factors not merely one as the question suggests, indeed Supple` s foreword (1) asks, "Are we to be concerned with the rate of growth of total income or of manufacturing output? ... The slow uptake of technical innovation was key in the British decline, for instance the Gilchrist-Thomas process of removing brittle phosphorous from pig iron opened the way to the use of phosphorous -rich ores, in plentiful supply in North East England, thus providing the cheapest iron ore in the world for the production of steel. ... The British government contri...

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There was no one factor that led to troubles in Northern Ireland, but was rather a culmination of circumstances and events stemming from the dominance of Protestants in the region. ... " The issue of sectarianism and unionist bigotry is one of the core factors at the heart of the troubles. ... The footage was carried in England by the BBC and led to horror among the nationalist population. ... Hatred of the police was one of the factors which enabled the IRA to emerge and extend its influence. ... Catholics were living in abandoned army huts in slum conditions and sometimes numerous famil...

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The causes of alcoholism can be attributed either to genetic or environmental factors. ... The child's alcohol dependence can also be due in part to the fact that throughout childhood, alcohol was habitually around, which is an environmental factor (Barlow and Durand, 2006). ... In a study about alcohol's ability to impair such functioning, Weafer and Fillmore (2008) point out that "alcohol itself can contribute directly to its abuse potential by altering the drinker's neurocognitive mechanisms involved in the regulation and self-control of behavior and attention....

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These labors could be reduced without decreasing output; although in the model, there are other factors for an affluent supply of labor (these are: huge population growth due to low mortality and high birth rate, the daughters and wives released from domestic work, and workers from various kinds of casual jobs and the unemployment generated by increasing efficiency). ... This gap is considered necessary to induce the transformation from the subsistence sector to make up for the higher cost of living in an urban area or the psychological cost of transfer. ... Lewis claimed that workers mainly c...

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Even with the rarity of these cases, the genetic mutation discoveries have generated tremendous interest in the possibility that there may be additional genetic factors that cause Parkinson's disease. In identifying the cause of Parkinson's disease as being either genetic or environmental (chemical) it seems that both of these factors contribute to and influence cell death, including additional unknown factors. ... However, patient's conditions can worsen if long-term anticholinergic treatment is rapidly withdrawn. ...

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This took two forms, on the one hand, and linked to the deindustrialisation thesis, industries that were not closing for good relocated to suburban and exurban locations and new firms mainly established themselves outside of cities making it more difficult for those living in cities to access these jobs (see for instance Fothergill and Gudgin, 1982; Massey, 1984). ... The scale of the problem is rather simply expressed by the following government statistics referring to the gap between the most deprived areas and the rest of England: In the 10 per cent most deprived wards in 1998 44 per cent ...

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