Sentences with phrase «rgs1 affects the population»

Donations of canned goods are rarely beneficial and the collection of bottled water is highly inefficient, as both food and potable water can be purchased more inexpensively through merchants close to affected populations.

They affect populations which are marginalised and excluded from satisfying their need for the basic necessities of life, and thus from the basis of civilisation given their incapacity to transform these pressing needs into effective demands, monetary demands.

Having inside knowledge of political decisions that will affect population movements and land use gives opportunities for windfall profits for corrupt individuals.

The studies were not intended to address questions related to the efficacy of GR2E Golden Rice in helping to address vitamin A deficiency in affected population sub-groups, which can only be adequately addressed following regulatory authorization.

At the end of the day the goal is to have a camp that supports health, that is what we want, a healthy camp with healthy individuals and healthy population in it, so WHO and it's partners, should be looking at breastfeeding as one of the key services and health promoting interventions that should be ensured in a place which houses affected populations.

Dr Roderico Ofrin: In any affected population in emergencies, breastfeeding is an important public health intervention.

Thus, Unicef appeals to the public who may want to donate milk to Sendong survivors not to give the milk directly to affected populations, but rather give the milk to the appropriate authority, such as the DOH, so that distribution of the milk can be carefully managed.

As such, two - way information flows will be at the heart of effective response.At the same time the «2025 communicator» will face a shift in power relations in the direction of affected populations as a result of better connectivity.

Digital trends include real - time mapping and analysis using social media, crowd sourcing and data mining, the use of mobile phones to disseminate information, online campaigns bringing publics and affected populations closer together, digital platforms for cash transfers and new digital tools for assessment work, as well as monitoring and evaluation.

These results indicate how crucial it is to update or adapt existing methods of data collection to identify persons with disabilities within affected populations.

At the operational level, information communication failures mean that information on urgent and fast - changing needs is not easily transmitted, including from affected populations to existing providers of public goods.

«We welcome the opportunity to share additional information about our affected populations as part of a national effort to develop a plan to study health outcomes in multiple PFAS - affected communities,» the letter states.

The restrictions have a disproportionate impact on minorities, with African Americans and Hispanics comprising 71 percent of the affected population, according to his office.

The UN team will also engage humanitarian actors, representatives of civil society groups, as well as men, women and children of the affected population.

Langwig's team was curious why some affected populations experienced quick and total annihilation while others have hung on, albeit tenuously.

«In sperm whales, and likely other whales and dolphins, culture has the potential to affect population biology, and so issues as diverse as genetic evolution and the impacts of global warming on the species.»

The results showed that even before the peak had passed the first affected population, both R0 and pC could be well estimated and predicted for all populations.

To find out how this might be affecting their populations, Justin Marshall of the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, and colleagues have been observing nautiluses living on Osprey reef, off the north - east coast of Australia, since 1998.

If it appears safe, Inovio plans to test its efficacy in field trials among Zika - affected populations in the Caribbean later this year, says Inovio CEO Joseph Kim.

Tumours linked to herpesvirus are increasingly affecting some populations of turtles in Australia and Florida — and pollution may be the cause

«We used information about historical hurricane tracks for the Eastern United States to identify the connection between the affected population, average per capital income and associated damages.,» Katja Frieler adds.

Sustaining fresh water and energy resources; mitigating the effects of natural hazards such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, severe weather, landslides, coastal erosion, and solar flares; and dealing with the consequences of global warming and sea - level rise are issues that affect all populations, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or cultural traditions.

Fifteen percent of the affected populations at two sites bore brown - black growths, some of them raised and almost scablike.

To see how the new habitats affected these populations, evolutionary ecologist Alexander Badyaev of Auburn University in Alabama and colleague Geoffrey Hill tagged thousands of birds at each site and followed their offspring from hatching through adulthood.

«Their stay is an unusual opportunity to look at predation and how it might affect populations of the marine mammals they eat.»

That suggests that the removal of a limited number of sea lions in such programs is unlikely to affect the population as a whole, Melin said.

A new report by the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford concludes that better governance could have lessened the impact on the poorest and most vulnerable, and affected populations have been let down by the authorities in the past.

The researchers undertook the study in light of concerns about decreasing levels of oxygen in coastal waters worldwide, and how the growing prevalence of low - oxygen «dead zones» might affect populations and management of blue crabs and other coastal marine life.

Health departments also engage in activities that attempt to influence county populations to adopt healthier habits, which primarily affect population health over the longer term.

Now, a researcher at the University of Missouri has applied the Public Health Index (PHI) model, a tool he designed that has been adopted by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, to help the Brazilian government identify and prioritize health risks affecting its population.

No previous studies model how migration caused by sea - level rise will affect population other than in the directly affected coastal areas.

Forest cover in the Amazon has been declining since the 1950s, but scientists still have a poor understanding of how this has affected populations of individual species.

«Many of the people hardest hit by dyslexia are minority students and those from low - income families,» Shaywitz said, even though the condition affects all population segments and languages.

Affected populations could likely avoid harm by hiding in basements and other underground structures, Rumpf said.

Predation is not the only way that people affect populations.

For individual species with dwindling numbers, he imagines window kills might affect population trends.

That's a good thing, says Mark Keim, associate director for science in the Office of Environmental Health Emergencies at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it can both improve disaster response and allow affected populations to take control of their situation as well as feel empowered.

Emergency response plans, including plans for communicating with affected populations, should be revised or supplemented to ensure that there are scalable and effective strategies, well - trained personnel, and adequate resources for responding to long - duration accident / disaster scenarios.

In a mouse model of type 1 diabetes, RGS1 affects the population of one type of T cell called a «T follicular helper cell» that is critical for B cells and antibody production, Dr. Kissler and his colleagues reported recently in Genes and Immunity.

This makes short - term environmental change less likely to affect the population badly.

If it was a service entity, such as the Red Cross, I'd deal with mass - care issues for disaster - affected populations needing shelter and ongoing community care.

«We're interested in looking at how the drought is affecting their populations and also the distributions throughout the valley in addition to being concerned about the spread of avian influenza,» Buler said.

«From the scientific perspective, this study suggests that ecosystem and species - level migration processes affecting population dynamics in marine environments such as the Gulf of Mexico may be operating at a larger scale than typically appreciated or examined,» Jue said.

Biological Oceanography, zooplankton ecology, trophic interactions in the plankton, how individual behaviors affect population dynamics and structure

Such models focus on changes in the distribution or extent of species» «climate space», but the broad range of climate - change - related stresses that affect population ecology and physiology and that may have consequences at ecosystem and community levels [12] are not fully reflected.

Dr. Chiaravalloti has begun exploring cognitive issues affecting the population with spinal cord injury (SCI) in collaboration with colleagues in SCI Research at Kessler Foundation, also the site of the Northern New Jersey SCI Model System.

Instead, an absence of fiber has been shown to harm our guts and to therefore affect the population of friendly bacteria in those guts (AKA: the microbiome).

Modern fish farming practices often raise fish near the top of the food chain (affecting populations of fish that eat or are eaten by these species) and contain thousands of fish in tiny pens (similar to commercial chicken or cow operations).

Diabetes, cancer, autism and Alzheimer's disease continue to affect the population in record numbers.

A study conducted at the Endocrinology & Metabolism Unit of Evgenidion Hospital in Greece states that «The incidence of both obesity and the metabolic syndrome in modern Western societies has taken epidemic proportions over the past decades and often correlates with indices of stress in the affected populations.