Sentences with phrase «changes in these activities caused»

Changes in these activities caused by mutations or other processes can cause protein misfolding or prevent protein degradation, affect the function and distribution of tau, and lead to degenerative diseases.

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From a strictly legal perspective, the relevant question is not whether there is a sufficient connection to any particular existing or proposed oil sands development or other production activity, and certainly not whether such projects or activities were included in the Terms of Reference (ToR), but rather simply whether the GHGs associated with the production of bitumen that will be transported by the NGP are an «environmental effect» of that project (see NGP Report, Volume II, Appendix 4, Terms of Reference, which defines «environmental effect» very broadly to mean «any change that the project may cause in the environment.»

«A full reading of Bernstein's email reveals an important point ---- his assertion that, in the 1980s, we never denied the possible role of human activity as a cause for climate change, and he further makes clear that, at that point in time, there was a great deal of uncertainty and lack of understanding of climate change, even among leading scientists and experts,» said Keil, adding that today, Exxon «believes the risk of climate change is clear, and warrants action.»

14 Technical details are not too relevant here, but I want to mention briefly that it is unlikely that one would find gross dissociations between the electrical activities in the field and in the neurons because an autonomous change in the field should cause a corresponding change in the neurons.

Stress, changes in your diet, increased physical activity and a host of other factors can cause your period to be late or missed altogether.

«The key to our comprehensive plan to change that is to target gang activity by attacking the root cause — youth recruitment — through programs and outreach to protect vulnerable students,» Cuomo said in a statement.

Among the important factors that could cause Rio Tinto's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, among others, levels of actual production during any period, levels of demand and market prices, the ability to produce and transport products profitably, the impact of foreign currency exchange rates on market prices and operating costs, operational problems, political uncertainty and economic conditions in relevant areas of the world, the actions of competitors, activities by governmental authorities such as changes in taxation or regulation and such other risk factors identified in Rio Tinto's most recent Annual Report on Form 20 - F filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the «SEC») or Form 6 - Ks furnished to the SEC.

Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik is the latest lawmaker to join fellow GOP lawmaker Chris Gibson in backing a resolution that acknowledges climate change is caused by human activity and should be combated.

A Washington Post-Stanford University poll in June found 77 percent of Americans say rising global temperatures are at least partly the result of human activity, while 22 percent said that climate change is the result only of natural causes.

It is proposed that their activity is caused by local changes in the electronic structure.

They found a strong positive relationship between trust in specific groups and whether they agreed that human activity is causing climate change.

Peaks in solar activity cause the city to flood more often, apparently by changing the paths of storms over Europe.

In September 2014, Koonin wrote an editorial where he acknowledged human - caused climate change was happening but wrote that the «impact today of human activity appears to be comparable to the intrinsic, natural variability of the climate system itself.»

According to some predictions, climate change caused by human activity could cause mass extinction in the oceans, redraw the planet's coastlines, and ravage world food supplies.

However, conflicting results left the question of whether and how phantom pain is caused by changes in sensorimotor activity unanswered.

Suppressing activity in the supplementary motor area caused no significant change in participants» ability to follow a beat.

Even when a prime, rock - free site is found, samples can be contaminated with microbial activity or by modern air that seeps in when temperature changes cause the ice to crack.

Dysfunction in dopamine signaling profoundly changes the activity level of about 2,000 genes in the brain's prefrontal cortex and may be an underlying cause of certain complex neuropsychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, according to UC Irvine scientists.

But where deformation does not occur — which the satellites revealed to be the case at the western wells — rocks are stiff and can break, resulting in earthquake activity in the aftermath of large pressure changes, including those caused by wastewater injection.

In contrast, 66 percent of corn producers surveyed said they believed climate change was occurring, with 8 percent pinpointing human activities as the main cause.

A number of causes have been suggested, including changes in ocean currents due to melting glaciers and volcanic activity.

A six - year study of seismic activity along the San Andreas Fault found that the 2004 Parkfield earthquake caused breakage and microcracking in shallow rock layers that changed the speed at which seismic waves moved through the area, making it more vulnerable to tremors for more than three years afterward.

«Previous studies had correlated increased activity in the primate VTA with positive events experienced by the animal but could not prove that VTA activity actually caused behavioral changes,» says Wim Vanduffel, PhD, of the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at MGH, corresponding author of the Current Biology paper.

Associate professor of natural resource social science Linda Prokopy and fellow researchers surveyed 6,795 people in the agricultural sector in 2011 - 2012 to determine their beliefs about climate change and whether variation in the climate is triggered by human activities, natural causes or an equal combination of both.

The new discoveries show that the formation 40 to 50 million years ago of the «Pacific Ring of Fire,» an active seafloor zone along the perimeter of the Pacific Ocean, caused dramatic changes in ocean depth and volcanic activity and buckled the seabed of Zealandia, according to Dickens.

That «we can't say with assurance that human activities cause weather changes» and that climate problems in Texas are best solved through «days of prayer for rain».

There are some parts of the picture which are clear, particularly the way that climate change is causing westerly winds to shift southwards, but there are still huge gaps that we need to fill in order to fully understand how much human activity is changing weather in the region.

For example, some people have a particular variant of the ADH1B gene that causes an amino acid change in this enzyme, which leads to faster enzyme activity so individuals with this variant metabolize alcohol more rapidly which means that acetaldehyde levels are temporarily increased.

In a second experiment, the team investigated whether the treatment caused changes in chemicals known to be involved in «long - term potentiation» (LTP)-- a type of brain activity key to memory formatioIn a second experiment, the team investigated whether the treatment caused changes in chemicals known to be involved in «long - term potentiation» (LTP)-- a type of brain activity key to memory formatioin chemicals known to be involved in «long - term potentiation» (LTP)-- a type of brain activity key to memory formatioin «long - term potentiation» (LTP)-- a type of brain activity key to memory formation.

McLean Hospital neuroscientists have found that even a brief episode of immune system activation within days of birth can cause persistent changes in sleep patterns concurrent with increases in epilepsy - like brain activity — a combination of symptoms common in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other developmental conditions.

Kaine tried one last time: «Do you accept that climate change is caused by human activity, at least in part?»

That December, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported that greenhouse gases were rising, with human activity the likely cause and dangerous changes in the earth's conditions a likely result.

But brain scans aren't able to determine if increased activity in the mPFC causes depression, or if it is simply a byproduct of other neuronal changes.

A research ecologist not connected to the study, Jeremy Littell of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at the Alaska Climate Science Center in Anchorage, AK, said the trends in fire activity reported in the paper resemble what would be expected from rising temperatures caused by climate change.

«The task,» Millikan wrote, «of learning to substitute stored solar energy for muscular energy — the great underlying cause of most of the changes in man's activities and living conditions — has been learned within the past eighty years and will never need to be learned over again.»

This indicates that microgravity's effect on bone density likely involves changes in mechanical force that lowers overall physical activity and therefore causes osteoclast activation

Another seminal study led to the discovery that blood flow and glucose utilisation change more than oxygen consumption in the active brain (Science, 1988) causing tissue oxygen to vary with brain activity.

Even without human - caused climate change, wildfires would have increased in many regions due to other human activities and natural factors.

Investigating the cause of 20th Century warming is properly done in detection and attribution studies, which analyze the various forcings (e.g., solar variations, greenhouse gases or volcanic activity) and the observed time and space patterns of climate change in detail.

Changes in the density of the upper atmosphere caused by dust storms and solar activity make each TGO close approach unpredictable.

Fast food has been shown to both cause inflammatory activity in the body and result in long - term changes in the immune system

Fast food has been shown to both cause inflammatory activity in the body and result in long - term changes in the immune system (Credit: < a href ="https://depositphotos.com/25595207/stock-photo-fast-food.html" rel="nofollow"> lightsource / Depositphotos )

The research, funded by the British Heart Foundation and published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that inhalation of diesel exhaust caused changes in the heart's electrical activity, suggesting that air pollution reduces the amount of oxygen available to the heart during exercise.

Perceptions of where the scientific community stands on climate change have fluctuated from a low of 44 % in 2010 who said that scientists agree about human activity as the main cause of warming temperatures to a high of 57 % saying this today.19

McLean Hospital neuroscientists have found that even a brief episode of immune system activation within days of birth can cause persistent changes in sleep patterns concurrent with increases in epilepsy - like brain activity — a combination of symptoms...

Around the time of ovulation, estrogen causes changes in the vaginal mucus, making it more tolerant of male penetration during sexual activity and more hospitable to sperm.

In general, eating more increases your energy expenditure and eating less makes you burn fewer calories.12 - 14 This change is caused by subtle shifts in your resting metabolic rate, activity levels, and NEAT and NEPA levelIn general, eating more increases your energy expenditure and eating less makes you burn fewer calories.12 - 14 This change is caused by subtle shifts in your resting metabolic rate, activity levels, and NEAT and NEPA levelin your resting metabolic rate, activity levels, and NEAT and NEPA levels.

In conclusion, aging causes the loss of many of the anabolic signals and an increase in catabolic signals to muscle that are present in young adulthood, but this study suggests that whey protein, essential amino acid, and vitamin D supplementation, together with gentle physical activity, can produce changes in catabolic mediators, lowering inflammatory markers such as CRP, and improving anabolic markers such as IGF - In conclusion, aging causes the loss of many of the anabolic signals and an increase in catabolic signals to muscle that are present in young adulthood, but this study suggests that whey protein, essential amino acid, and vitamin D supplementation, together with gentle physical activity, can produce changes in catabolic mediators, lowering inflammatory markers such as CRP, and improving anabolic markers such as IGF - in catabolic signals to muscle that are present in young adulthood, but this study suggests that whey protein, essential amino acid, and vitamin D supplementation, together with gentle physical activity, can produce changes in catabolic mediators, lowering inflammatory markers such as CRP, and improving anabolic markers such as IGF - in young adulthood, but this study suggests that whey protein, essential amino acid, and vitamin D supplementation, together with gentle physical activity, can produce changes in catabolic mediators, lowering inflammatory markers such as CRP, and improving anabolic markers such as IGF - in catabolic mediators, lowering inflammatory markers such as CRP, and improving anabolic markers such as IGF - I.

This response causes changes in brain activity and structure, improvements in the autonomic nervous system, hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal (HPA) axis, cortisol, sleep, mood, enhanced focus and sensory awareness.

My bet is that the stress created a change in how you metabolized / stored your food intake through that week, possibly causing fat storage in concert with a drop in activity levels, because of those calories being stored as fats instead of available for fuel.