Sentences with phrase «other environmental»

And it's no indictment on character — far from some sort of personal failure, psychological and emotional problems stem from something greater than you, being either inherited genetically, or learned from parents or other environmental contexts.

Chronic inflammation has also been shown to contribute to faster cell aging in animal studies, and some experts believe it also plays a role (along with UV exposure and other environmental effects) in the formation of wrinkles and visible signs of aging.

«It's much easier to measure somebody's height than it is to measure lots of other environmental factors that could affect height.»

A: Most experts believe that autism has a strong genetic component, and a kid with a genetic predisposition may be susceptible to any number of insults, or «hits,» to his or her system — from vaccines, infections, or other environmental factors yet to be proven.

Some cases of pink eye are due to other environmental irritants.

Many aspects of human health can be traced to the ability of cells to sense and respond to infection, injury or other environmental changes.

I study genetic and epigenetic changes induced by smoking and other environmental factors to identify the mechanisms that play a role in carcinogenesis.

Experiments and analyses carried out by more than 250 scientists from 20 German institutions clearly indicate that ocean acidification and warming, along with other environmental stressors, impair life in the ocean and compromise important ecosystem services it provides to humankind.

PORTLAND, Ore. — A national forum about using poplar and willow for water treatment, land reclamation, biofuel and other environmental purposes will be held in Portland, Ore., April 11 - 13.

The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study investigates genetic and genetic - environmental interactions, including gestational infection or other gestational events, childhood infections or other environmental factors after birth, in relation to the development of prediabetic islet autoimmunity and T1D.

But persistent high temperatures, overfishing and other environmental stresses make it more likely they will starve and die.

Thus, two women with UTIs could have infections caused by similar or radically different bacteria, and an E. coli strain that causes a UTI in one person may not make a different person sick at all due to differences in genetics, behavior, medical history, or other environmental features.

Secondary immunodeficiencies are the result of disease or other environmental factors weakening the immune system.

Social, economic and other environmental factors will need to be considered, such as dietary choices, the cost of transporting aquaculture products from suitable growing areas to populous markets, and the ability to grow the food inputs that fish - based aquaculture requires.

If you read a lot of news about climate change or other environmental issues, you might start to worry whether humans have what it takes to survive on Earth in the long run.

The productivity of maize, the most economically important crop in the United States, can be negatively impacted by insect pests, drought, and other environmental stresses.

For researchers working with biofuels, petroleum chemistry, aerosols, and other environmental samples where large collections of unidentified molecules are the norm, this information is going to be tremendously valuable.

A number of multi-purpose reactors and dedicated experimental set - ups, comprising hydrogen production, CO2 storage, mineral processing and other environmental technologies.

Results of regular monitoring of the species diversity and structure of plant communities is used by conservation biologists to help understand impacts of perturbations caused by humans and other environmental factors on ecosystems worldwide.

«As our understanding of the impacts of ocean acidification was building up, we were able to broaden our focus from marine organisms to communities and ecosystems, addressing ocean acidification in combination with other environmental factors», says Professor Ulf Riebesell, marine biologist at GEOMAR and coordinator of BIOACID.

Cross-talk between Phosphate Starvation and Other Environmental Stress Signaling Pathways in Plants

Listen in as Dr. Arthur James delves into these and other environmental factors that all contribute to very specific birth trends among this population.

«More interesting is that they found no evidence of past cannabis use leading to depression or anxiety — suggesting that increased rates of depression and anxiety in cannabis users may be explained not by their cannabis use but by other environmental or genetic factors.»

Because I don't know enough science to debate contrarians scientifically, I usually fall back on: Suppose the mainstream climate scientists are wrong & the contrarians right, and we act as if the scientists are right, then we have nothing to lose & something to gain in terms of reducing other environmental harms (acid rain, local pollution), resource depletion, and increasing national security (re oil wars & protection), and lots of money to save from energy / resource efficiency & conservation, and increasing from alternative energy.

«Our goal is to develop a comprehensive risk assessment of ocean acidification in combination with other environmental stressors and the often complex relationships and to widely communicate our findings to the public and decision makers.»

Continue with the sixth year of the Birth Cohort Study, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the University of New Mexico Community Environmental Health Program, SRIC, the Navajo Nation Department of Health, and the Indian Health Service to work with young Navajo women and newborn children to identify uranium and other environmental sources of health risks in northwestern New Mexico and northeastern Arizona.

This changing climate sensitivity may be the result of other environmental factors that have, since the 1950s, increasingly acted to reduce tree - ring density below the level expected on the basis of summer temperature changes.

CTA and other environmental groups have written the EPA Administrator demanding that the agency implement the Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts, et al v. EPA (CTA Global Warming Case) by issuing proposed regulations and an endangerment finding.

As one of the largest national research programmes on ocean acidification, BIOACID has contributed to quantifying the effects of ocean acidification on marine organisms and their habitats, unravelling the mechanisms underlying the observed responses, assessing the potential for evolutionary adaptation, and determining how these responses are modulated by other environmental drivers.

That experiment has already been run in many ways — wildlife finds H. sapiens more troublesome than any other environmental factor, vide the Korean DMZ, the Chernobyl hot zone, and so forth.

Biologists need to conduct more tests looking at how the urchins respond to other environmental conditions — such as warmer water — in addition to higher acidity, she says.

The researchers said this process might be dominant in plants that experience long - term high light stress combined with other environmental stressors, such as drought or cold temperatures.

«A carbon price would make the price of oil better reflect its true societal costs (including global warming impacts, health cost due to air pollution, as well as other environmental costs).

The U.S. EPA is recognizing landmark green chemistry technologies developed by industrial pioneers and leading scientists that turn climate risk and other environmental problems into business opportunities, spurring innovation and economic development.

Additionally, epidemiological data suggests that other environmental factors such as the type of delivery at birth, intestinal infections...

The current major global challenges in attaining food and nutrition security are compounded by pressures of growing populations, climate and other environmental change, and economic inequity and instability.

Nitrogen enrichment suppresses other environmental drivers and homogenizes salt marsh leaf microbiome.Daleo P. Ecology

Providing the world's growing population with a sustainable, secure supply of safe, nutritious, and affordable high - quality food using less land, with lower inputs, and in the context of global climate change, other environmental changes and declining resources requires eco-innovation to become embedded across the whole food supply system.

As a next step, the researchers plan to use their evolutionary tree to find out how plants evolved to withstand other environmental stresses in addition to freezing, such as drought and heat.

«This suggests that some other environmental pressure — possibly drought - caused these plants to evolve this way, and it happened to work really well for freezing tolerance too,» said co-author Amy Zanne at the George Washington University.

The increasing frequency and area burned by large fires is linked to human - caused climate change as well as other environmental changes.

It is unclear at this point whether low birth weight can be a primary contributing factor to psychiatric symptoms, or whether it is secondary to other environmental insults.

Environmental changes cause stress to our biodiversity, increasing the chances of disease outbreaks, extinctions, waves of invasive species and other environmental problems that can occur in stressed ecosystems.

So in reality, this plant evolution study is just the beginning of learning how plants prevent freezing, other environmental challenges, including predator protection theories.

Myriad control switches help to arbitrate how genes get expressed in different cells and tissues, and those switches are often triggered by maternal diet, toxic exposures and many other environmental factors.

A paper by Ian Dalziel of The University of Texas at Austin's Jackson School of Geosciences, published in the November issue of Geology, a journal of the Geological Society of America, suggests a major tectonic event may have triggered the rise in sea level and other environmental changes that accompanied the apparent burst of life.

Conservatives» attitudes toward climate change and other environmental concerns shift when the issues are reframed in terms more closely aligned with their values, a new study from Oregon State University indicates.

Afeiche studies how diet and other environmental factors impact reproductive health of both men and women.

Flynn: Well, I've tried to set up research designs that would disentangle physiological from other environmental factors.

It is tough, they say, to sort out whether fish populations are hit harder by human fishing, the sharks» appetite, climate change or some other environmental shift.