Sentences with phrase «acts as a buffer»

It acts as a buffer against stress, while also creating a space to build camaraderie.

«That will act as a buffer,» he explains.

To keep things safe, it also proposes that a 100 - foot cushion just above that airspace be made a no - fly zone to act as a buffer between drones and other aircraft, such as planes, according to The Guardian.

NEW YORK, April 30 - Global stock indexes were flat to slightly higher after upbeat earnings and deal news on Monday, while the U.S. «If the previous several weeks of earnings season are any indication, corporate results should continue to act as a buffer to any meaningful turn lower in equity markets,»...

«Every little bit you can squirrel away in a savings account acts as a buffer.»

Such single day losses are always tough to swallow, but these drops come after an almost continuous stream of losses since the start of the year, with barely a whiff of a positive market response to act as a buffer.

Ramp Control - Powerpack can act as a buffer while the power output from a large generation source is ramping up or down, delivering power instantly to smoothly transition output to the required levels.

To overcome this mismatch between daily spending and financing, the Treasury keeps cash balances with the Reserve Bank that act as a buffer.

Coffee farms of various sizes ring the reserve, acting as a buffer for the natural forest and preventing the land from being converted to row - crop agriculture or ranches, which quickly degrade and erode the thin tropical forest soil.

When in doubt, add cooked grains to your make - ahead salad: They act as a buffer between the greens and the dressing, making sure it's well - seasoned but not wilted.

I'm also going to hope that the pillow acts as a buffer between any fumes and his nose.

Fathers can also act as a buffer when mothering fails or mothers are not available due to long hours working (O'Brien, 2004).

Think of microbes as the good bacteria that lives the gut and acts as a buffer when bad bacteria enters the system.

In a sense proximity to parents during the night acts as a buffer between the immature infant and the microenvironment within which it lives.

If an adult acts as a buffer, offering love, support and emotional investment, children are much less affected by the socio - economic conditions in which they live.

«Colloidal oatmeal has been shown to act as a buffer system, helping restore the normal PH of the skin,» says Dr. Ellen S. Kurtz in her paper for the Journal of Drugs and Dermatology.

To keep Lady Liberty's hemline dry, the architects propose creating a network of piers, islets, and underwater kelp forests that would surround Liberty Island as well as Ellis Island, and that would act as buffers to keep back storm surges.

«We shouldn't assume that because the diversity is high, that will act as a buffer.»

Instead, Papamoschou's idea is to create a cone of hot air that moves more slowly than the exhaust, but faster than the ambient air — and thus acts as a buffer between the two.

Defending itself like a knight in a fight, Earth can funnel material from its immediate surroundings to act as a buffer against incoming geomagnetic storms

Natural habitats such as coral reefs, marshes and dunes can act as buffers for waves, storms and floods.

Some friendships may even provide positive support and act as buffers against stress at home.

Certain aspects of geography seemed to act as a buffer or threat, Amano says.

On the other hand, thicker shells can act as buffers, preventing nanorods from bunching closely together and shielding them from their environment.

The feature suggests some key actions that could be taken to manage the problem of pollutagens, including preserving wetlands that act as a buffer zone between sources of pollutagens, such as farms and towns, keeping pets indoors, and disposing of human and animal sewage more responsibly.

In this sense, the ocean has acted as a buffer to slow down the greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere and, thus, global warming.

Now, a new synthetic biology technique that produces artemisinin in a vat may act as a buffer against potential supply crises.

That's a consequence of large populations acting as a buffer against war casualties among noncombatants, not a lesser appetite for violence, the researchers contend.

Instead, the long times required to move carbon through the oceans apparently acts as a buffer.

They slow the flow of ice from the continent into the ocean and act as a buffer, preventing the formation of large cliffs of land ice.

The chewed and digested plant matter is regurgitated into the mouth, where the saliva has a high concentration of bicarbonate, which acts as a buffer to the stomach acid coming into the mouth with the cud (McDougall 1948).

Calcium and magnesium caprylates act as buffers, and may also help slow the dispersion and release of caprylic acid to support its activity throughout the gastrointestinal tract.

It acts as a buffering agent that balances pH to inhibit bacteria growth.

Amyloid beta 1 - 40 is generally believed to play a beneficial part in the brain, acting as a buffer for amyloid beta 1 - 42, the insoluble and harmful kind.

In addition to eating low GI foods, it's also important to include protein and some fat which almost act as a buffer to reduce the rise in insulin.

* Muscle carnosine acts as a buffer, delaying the onset of muscle fatigue and failure.

It acts as a buffer between the hip and lumbar spine.

A grain like quinoa can caused large spikes in blood sugar levels, but when consumed with vegetables like broccoli, carrots, red peppers, the fibre in these vegetables acts as a buffer and slows down the digestion of the meal.

The alkaline minerals in your body act as buffers and mix with the acids that eventually become neutral salts.

L - Glutamine: L - Glutamine is a powerful amino acid that acts as a buffer against ammonia buildup during exercise.

Now, the body contains natural compounds such as bicarbonate, that act as buffers to neutralize blood acidity.

In a healthy body candida acts as a buffer, blood sugar regulator, and recycling organism in the -LSB-...]

Vitamins and minerals are essential for 96 % of the body's metabolic functions, and Fulvic Acid acts as a buffer, allowing those nutrients to pass through cellular membranes with ease.

And research shows that regular de-stressing can help ward off heart disease and obesity, act as a buffer against depression, and even boost immunity against colds.

So what do we, as responsible principals acting as the buffer — a filtering system to prevent teacher overload from splintering our personnel into fragments so small they become no more than bark mulch in denim — do to our staffs?

If the stress responses are activated and the child is without adequate support from an adult who can act as a buffer and help soothe the response, toxic stress can result.

Counseling consisted of making the parents aware of a variety of options and acting as a buffer with administrators to ensure his appropriate progression through the system.

Traditional automatic transmissions have a fluid - filled torque converter that acts as a buffer between the engine's constantly turning crankshaft, and the gears in the transmission, which have to stop from time to time when you roll into the garage, or up to a stop sign.

Because libraries and publishers will perpetually disagree on these terms, it helps to have a third party like Overdrive or NetLibrary to act as a buffer or intermediary.

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