Sentences with phrase «biological studies as»

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Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The Kinsey studies, for all their narrowing of attention to sex as biological function, have few parallels in man's search for objective knowledge of himself.

The scientific «studies» purporting to prove that conservatives and liberals have different biological responses strike me as so dumb.

This fact of our experience is not always given the attention it deserves, and many times descriptions of humankind are produced that suggest a quasi-morphological portrayal, as if human existence were like counting the spots on some insect or were like a diagram of a dead cat as it is studied in a biological laboratory.

While that sounds like a small number that will not cause thermal damage, it is easily thousands if not millions of times higher than the energy density shown to cause biological damage in hundreds of studies, as biological damage typically shows up in the micro to picowatt range.

Stepfathers are widespread not only in modern industrial societies but also in subsistence - level societies as well.6, 51,52 Many studies have found that, compared with resident biological fathers, stepfathers invest less in the children who live with them, both in the United States37, 39,53 and other cultures.54 - 56 Stepchildren are more likely to have emotional and behavioural problems than resident genetic offspring, 39,40 although there is evidence that children who have close relationships with their stepfathers have better outcomes.41, 57

As we have seen from parenting as well as lesbian parenting studies, that person can be a man, but a female partner to the biological mother seems to work out just as well, as long as the two people in the parenting relationship are together, in love and working together to raise the chilAs we have seen from parenting as well as lesbian parenting studies, that person can be a man, but a female partner to the biological mother seems to work out just as well, as long as the two people in the parenting relationship are together, in love and working together to raise the chilas well as lesbian parenting studies, that person can be a man, but a female partner to the biological mother seems to work out just as well, as long as the two people in the parenting relationship are together, in love and working together to raise the chilas lesbian parenting studies, that person can be a man, but a female partner to the biological mother seems to work out just as well, as long as the two people in the parenting relationship are together, in love and working together to raise the chilas well, as long as the two people in the parenting relationship are together, in love and working together to raise the chilas long as the two people in the parenting relationship are together, in love and working together to raise the chilas the two people in the parenting relationship are together, in love and working together to raise the child.

I'm thinking this sentence should read: «Marriage equality proponents opponents will trumpet this study as proof that children raised by loving, committed, married same - sex couples will have more problems than those who are raised by both biological parents in a heterosexual household.»

Biology, also referred to as the biological sciences, is the study of living organisms utilizing the scientific method.

She has spent decades studying the crystalline structures of biological materials such as seashell minerals at the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y. Growing frustration with government shutdowns, a huge disruption to national labs like Brookhaven, partly spurred her candidacy.

Unlike many clinical trials that emphasize relief of symptoms as their primary objective, the ezogabine study's goal is to gauge how well the therapy addresses some of the biological underpinnings of depression — in this case, whether the drug lessens the hyperactivity of the reward circuit that includes VTA neurons.

As of mid-February 2017, more than 544,000 Veterans have provided DNA specimens, military exposure information, and access to health records to facilitate studies on topics ranging from the biological underpinnings of Gulf War illness and PTSD to schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

As informative as the bunker studies are, to investigate the genes that underlie the biological clock scientists had to turn to fruit flieAs informative as the bunker studies are, to investigate the genes that underlie the biological clock scientists had to turn to fruit flieas the bunker studies are, to investigate the genes that underlie the biological clock scientists had to turn to fruit flies.

As more women enter the field, blatant discrimination is less common, and harassment often takes the form of «microaggressions,» says biological anthropologist Kathryn Clancy of the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, lead author of the SAFE study.

The categorization of viruses as nonliving during much of the modern era of biological science has had an unintended consequence: it has led most researchers to ignore viruses in the study of evolution.

They're also used as biological probes to image cancer and to study processes inside cells,» Pentelute says.

As a result, until the last two decades of the 20th century, few scientists spent time studying a topic thought to have little, if any, biological significance.

Scientists have shifted from studying single molecules to investigating large complexes of interacting biological macromolecules involved in processes such as metabolic pathways, gene expression, and development of disease.

According to Izpisúa Belmonte, who is also a professor at the gene expression laboratories of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California, CMRB aims to become «a research centre of excellence in south Europe in the line of world - recognized institutions such as the Salk or the Whitehead institutes, where both pre - and postdoctoral researchers receive multidisciplinary training of the highest quality» in stem cell biology and cell regeneration.

The fresh scent of newborns activates the same biological mechanism in women as a baby's «very round eyes, the round face, the cute voice,» says Lundström, who was involved in the study.

«Biofilms were rampant on the Mir space station and continue to be a challenge on the International Space Station, but we still don't really know what role gravity plays in their growth and development,» said Cynthia Collins, Ph.D., principal investigator for the study and assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y. «Before we start sending astronauts to Mars or embarking on other long - term spaceflight missions, we need to be as certain as possible that we have eliminated or significantly reduced the risk that biofilms pose to the human crew and their equipment.»

«We wanted to know how these beetles recolonize within burn units as well as how the neighborhood in which a burn unit occurs affects recolonization rates,» said Jessie Mutz, an FSU graduate student in the Department of Biological Science and the study's lead author.

Such a digital re-creation that matches all the behaviors and structures of a biological brain would provide an unprecedented opportunity to study the fundamental nature of cognition and of disorders such as depression and schizophrenia.

«Dementia, including the most common form Alzheimer's Disease, and related neurodegenerative conditions are dramatically rising in frequency as people live longer and our population ages,» says study lead Professor Robert Richards, from the University of Adelaide's School of Biological Sciences.

But Grazyna Jasienska, who studies longevity and reproductive health at Jagiellonian University Medical College in Cracow, Poland, believes that the effects of sons on a woman's lifespan are certainly real — and are probably due to biological factors, such as breastfeeding.

«This opens a new door in identifying biological markers for dementia since we might consider using the brain's processing of speech sounds as a new way to detect the disease earlier,» says Dr. Claude Alain, the study's senior author and senior scientist at Baycrest's Rotman Research Institute (RRI) and professor at the University of Toronto's psychology department.

With the gross architecture of the cell now well known, most living laureates who have studied biological systems, such as Steitz, worked at the molecular level.

NMR, meanwhile, allows researchers to study biological molecules in a solution, such as water — but its use has generally been limited to relatively small proteins.

In the field results of a study by Brianna Lam, a graduate student in the J.M.U. Department of Biology, published in the journal Biological Conservation in 2009 (as well results published by Vredenburg and Harris in 2008 in Abstracts of the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology), revealed that wild mountain yellow - legged frog populations in the Sierras differed greatly in their amount of cutaneous J. lividum.

A: I'm working on using solid - state defects in diamonds as magnetic field sensors, with the goal of using them as little nanoscale MRI machines that can study the structure and dynamics of single biological molecules (e.g., proteins).

But our study shows that we also have to include the active biological processes, such as animal migrations, to predict and calculate the ocean's ability to absorb anthropogenic emissions of CO2,» says Professor Katherine Richardson of the University of Copenhagen, who is also one of the authors behind the study.

Holographic, phase contrast or differential interference contrast (DIC) miscroscopes have been implemented especially for making «visible,» otherwise «invisible,» transparent objects, opening a new pathway towards the study and characterization of relevant structures such as biological cells or protein layers.

UQ School of Biological Sciences Honours graduate Thomas Semple investigated the insect responsible for bush coconuts in South East Queensland last year as part of his studies.

Taking into account other recent studies, such as the finding that newly hatched domestic chicks show a preference for consonant intervals, this report lends support to the idea that some features of human musical systems may be based, at least in part, on biological principles that are shared with other animals such as songbirds.

The study was supported by a Science of Human Appearance Career Development Award from the Dermatology Foundation and by grants from the Medical Research Council of the UK, the Empire State Development's Division of Science, Technology and Innovation (NYSTAR), New York Stem Cell Science (NYSTEM), and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council in the UK (BBSRC), as well as earlier support from the Steven and Michele Kirsch Foundation.

«The discovery introduces — for the first time — stem cell - based «biological resynchronization» as a novel means to treat cardiac dyssynchrony,» says Andre Terzic, M.D., Ph.D., senior author of the study.

«WeizMass and MatchWeiz can serve as extremely powerful tools for studying plant metabolism and identifying metabolites with useful biological activity, including potential drugs,» says Aharoni.

His team hopes to build a predictive model of the human microbiome as a tool to study how medical conditions can change this massive biological system, to identify settings that promote beneficial microbiomes, and to design clinical interventions to treat currently hard - to - manage problems.

► The Broad Institute received a huge donation — $ 650 million, the largest ever made for psychiatric research — from philanthropist and businessman Ted Stanley, to study the biological basis of psychiatric diseases such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, Emily Underwood wrote at ScienceInsider.

Assistant Professor Lin Qingsong, who is from the Department of Biological Sciences under the NUS Faculty of Science and is one of the scientists who led the study, explained, «Many people may not realise that more human lives are lost to the tiny mosquito, more specifically malaria parasites, each year as compared to ferocious animals such as lions and sharks.

In many respects, synthetic biology — a field that «aims to apply standardized engineering techniques to biology and thereby create organisms or biological systems with novel or specialized functions to address countless needs,» as the U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues defined it — is still very much in its infancy.

As well as studying genetic material in newly transmitted viruses, Ho's group also looked at their phenotypes — the biological characteristics that determine how they behave in their environmenAs well as studying genetic material in newly transmitted viruses, Ho's group also looked at their phenotypes — the biological characteristics that determine how they behave in their environmenas studying genetic material in newly transmitted viruses, Ho's group also looked at their phenotypes — the biological characteristics that determine how they behave in their environment.

In fact, studies suggest that women are perhaps twice as likely to become pregnant from rape, and, in any event, there is no biological mechanism to stop pregnancy in the case of rape.

«Bone cells aren't solely studied in isolation in the lab as both local and systemic factors play an important role in their function, so it's important to unpick the multitude of biological factors that can affect their proliferation,» says Dr Pablo Roman - Garcia, a first author from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.

The startling feat prompted President Barack Obama to ask his newly formed bioethics commission to examine the implications of the Venter study and other kinds of synthetic biology, such as creating biological circuits by putting components together in a cell.

This research could impact not only the study of biological development, and how similar patterns form in nature, but materials science as well.

Studies on animals with mating or migration patterns that revolve around lunar cycles could also illuminate the underlying biological drivers as well as the evolutionary benefit of having a moon - synced clock.

That reaction concerns Jonathan Tucker, director of the Chemical and Biological Weapons Nonproliferation Program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in Washington, D.C. «The smallpox situation sets a troubling precedent for other infectious diseases, such as polio and measles,» he says.

The study is the first to look at these different biological markers, as well has how the gene's impact on dopamine production specifically affects Caucasian populations.

«In evolutionary terms, all males strive to have as many offspring as they can, but when it comes to reproduction you can't have everything,» said Dr Jacob Dunn, from the University of Cambridge's Division of Biological Anthropology, who led the new study.