Sentences with phrase «studying human impact»

A major focus of GISS GCM simulations is to study the human impact on the climate as well as the effects of a changing climate on society and the environment.

The paper by Hurtt et al. (2011) is the first to harmonize land - use history data with future scenario data from multiple IAMs to form a single consistent, spatially gridded, set of scenarios on land - use change, to study human impacts on the past, present, and future Earth system.

Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory post-doctoral fellow Deepti Singh studies human impact on climate and extreme weather.

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Numerous studies over the past decade have revealed the devastating long - term impact that football can have on the human brain.

Seventy - five percent of HR professionals say employee absences have a large impact on revenue and productivity, a 2014 study of more than 1,000 respondents worldwide by Kronos and the Society for Human Resource Management revealed.

There have been a ton of studies on how music impacts the brain during exercise, and it's no secret that «the human heart wants to synchronize to the music -LSB-...]» The songs we use in class are carefully selected per section.

At GFI, Isaac Emery studies the significant environmental and human health impacts of industrial animal agriculture and evaluates the reduced impact of plant - based and clean meat.

The main objectives of this Consultation were to analyze globalization and its impact on human rights; to study ethical and theological considerations with regard to globalization; to search for alternative development paradigms; to study the policies of developed nations on development and trade policies in the context of globalization; to gain inputs on the experiences of indigenous people, workers and farmers who are affected by globalization; to consider the response of the Churches to the challenges posed by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian context.

As noted above in connection with the inroads and impact of Maslowan humanism, human / social studies peaked in the twentieth century and have had a profound impact on Christian education as well as American education in general.

A 2011 study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, tested the impact of pea protein powder on both hypertensive rats and humans.

Scientists haven't been able to adequately study GMOs impact on human, animal and environmental health.

Resistant starch is gaining momentum in the nutrition community due to emerging evidence in animal studies and some limited evidence in human studies suggesting that RS may positively affect body composition, favorably impact blood lipid and blood glucose levels and increase the amount of good bacteria in the colon, and may enhance satiety when consumed with whey protein.

Working with Worms to Fight Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.

Previous studies have shown that a high fat maternal diet during gestation and lactation has a long - term impact on the infant's gut microbiome (the community of bacteria living inside the human gut.)

Dr. Kent also studies how these microbes contribute to healthy ecosystems and are impacted by human activities.

On Tuesday, about 40 anti-fracking activists with New Yorkers Against Fracking (a coalition of 60 groups) held a rally in front of the Department of Environmental Conservation «s headquarters in Albany, demanding a human health study be added to the department's ongoing environmental impact study.

But now, a coalition of anti-fracking organizations called New Yorkers Against Fracking say the State needs to keep its promise to study the impact of natural gas drilling on human health.

A new study shows streams and rivers up and down the East Coast are threatened by a legacy of acid rain and the impact of human activities.

The resolution states that the House will «create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

Rising anthropogenic, or human - caused, carbon dioxide in the atmosphere may have up to twice the impact on coastal estuaries as it does in the oceans because the human - caused CO2 lowers the ecosystem's ability to absorb natural fluctuations of the greenhouse gas, a new study suggests.

To find out what impact this might have on a flu epidemic, Earn and his colleagues turned to a 1982 study which showed that ferrets, a common animal model for human flu, produced more seasonal flu virus if their fevers were lowered either with painkillers or by having their fur shaved off.

«This study provides evidence from a human population that magnetic field non-ionizing radiation could have adverse biological impacts on human health,» he said.

Dr Luis Pedro Coelho, commented: «These findings suggest that dogs could be a better model for nutrition studies than pigs or mice and we could potentially use data from dogs to study the impact of diet on gut microbiota in humans, and humans could be a good model to study the nutrition of dogs.

Reductions in biodiversity from illegal wildlife trade can have other substantial negative human health impacts, including the loss of potential sources of pharmaceuticals, experimental models for studying disease, crop pollination and micronutrients for humans lacking alternative sources of protein.

The authors are continuing their study of urban impacts on finches — emphasizing the behavioral and immunological impacts of humans and urban parasites on the birds.

Connor and other researchers are studying the impact of omega - 3 and -6 on human eyesight and will release the results later in 2008.

We should get the best science and stay abreast of any threat from human impacts, but I am disturbed that we have spent over thirty billion dollars studying climate change and have little to show for it.

«Human societies are hugely complex, and factors such as culture and access to healthcare make it hard to study the impact of a single factor like social relationships on survival.»

When he graduated from Beijing's Peking University in 2004, he chose to go to graduate school to study biology, believing that studying fundamental biological mechanisms would allow him to have the greatest possible impact on human health.

«He was one of the first... to say, «We've got to study humans,»» Dhodopkar says, something that had a lasting impact.

Human health scientists have for years suspected organochlorines may impact male fertility but studies have had mixed results.

This study that has been ongoing since 2013, Study of the Impact of Long - Term Space Travel on the Astronauts» Microbiome, Microbiome for short, investigates how space travel affects the human immune system and an individual's microbiome, which is the collection of microbes that live in and on the human body at any given study that has been ongoing since 2013, Study of the Impact of Long - Term Space Travel on the Astronauts» Microbiome, Microbiome for short, investigates how space travel affects the human immune system and an individual's microbiome, which is the collection of microbes that live in and on the human body at any given Study of the Impact of Long - Term Space Travel on the Astronauts» Microbiome, Microbiome for short, investigates how space travel affects the human immune system and an individual's microbiome, which is the collection of microbes that live in and on the human body at any given time.

«This underlines the glaring problem that many of the chemicals that are most widely used today, including pesticides, are simply not adequately tested and may have serious long - term impacts on health and development,» said Barrett, who studies how environmental chemicals affect human reproduction.

The team studied the impacts of sulphur emitted by ships using current marine fuels, which produce air pollution particles that are small enough to be breathed deeply into the lungs and are considered harmful to human health.

But that may be about to change, thanks to a new type of climate study that can connect individual weather events with the impact of human - made greenhouse gas emissions.

Despite widespread concern about potential human health impacts from hydraulic fracturing, the lifetime toxic chemical releases associated with coal - generated electricity are 10 to 100 times greater than those from electricity generated with natural gas obtained via fracking, according to a new University of Michigan study.

Even in a seemingly implausible accidental - release scenario in which all of a well's hydraulic fracturing fluid and untreated wastewater were discharged directly into surface waters for the lifetime of the well, shale - gas electricity had a lower lifetime human toxicity impact, or HTI, than coal electricity, according to the study.

«This study allowed us to utilize all our tools — and even though this virus does not appear to affect mammals, we are continuing to refine those tools so we can be better prepared for the next outbreak of disease that could have an impact on human health.»

Christmas Island's location makes it a model location to study the role of warming on reefs, but it also has a diverse array of reefs — from ones impacted by human fishing to ones that are in pristine condition — that make it ideal to see how different influences play out.

A study provides the first evidence that pollen production is significantly stimulated by elevated carbon dioxide in a grass species as a result of climate change, which may have significant impact on human health.

«Marine species are under threat from human impacts, but knowledge of their vulnerabilities is limited,» says study co-author, Professor John Pandolfi from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at the University of Queensland.

Nevertheless, the study highlights air pollution's potential impact on human health in more ways than we currently know, Kan said.

To study the ants» impact on native species, Stanford University ecologists Deborah Gordon and Kathleen Human surveyed insects and arthropods on the 1200 - acre Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve near Palo Alto, California.

Although it is not possible to quantify exactly how many speciation events have been caused through human activities, the impact is potentially considerable, the study states.

This hypothesis represents a new and original case study that helps us to understand the impact of culture - factors on the genetic make - up of human populations and on our DNA,» concludes Valentina Coia.

New studies of what these infants hear and don't hear during their weeks in the hospital suggests that some may be missing out on the positive impact of a mother's voice and heartbeat, and are instead training their brains to prioritize background noise over human voices, said Amir Lahav, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

«Speed reductions, which are known to reduce emissions, would need to be maintained over a very long - term period in order to produce regional air quality benefits,» said James Corbett, a professor of marine policy at the University of Delaware, who has studied the impact of the shipping industry on human health.

«This is one of the few studies to explore how pollution from human activity impacts schooling behaviour in fish.

Studying the impact of bees on fruit quality is an innovative way to better understand the contributions they provide to humans, says Claire Kremen, an ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley.

In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers have now assessed the impacts of human interventions on water scarcity at a global scale.