Sentences with phrase «adaptive mechanism which»

Supportive - adaptive counseling aims at reversing this out - of - control adaptive mechanism which has become maladaptive to the family's coping with the crisis.

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The study, which combined genetic analysis with a 19 - year - long selection experiment, supports the idea that the mechanisms of adaptive evolution may be more predictable than previously suspected.

«Our study shows a whole new route, or bypass mechanism, for triggering the body's adaptive immune response to TB infection, a means by which infected dendritic cells cooperate with uninfected dendritic cells to activate T cells and respond to the infection,» says infectious disease specialist and study senior investigator Joel Ernst, MD, a professor at NYU Langone Medical Center.

This response may be an adaptive strategy to moderate stress to ensure survival, but the accumulation of damaged Symbiodinium, which causes subsequent coral deterioration, may occur when this response can not cope with the magnitude or duration of environmental stress, and this might be a possible mechanism underlying coral bleaching during prolonged moderate thermal stress.

The main mechanism includes phagocytosis of macrophages which play a critical role in nonspecific defense (innate immunity) and, moreover; they have a role as antigen presenters which also help initiate specific defense mechanisms (adaptive immunity) by recruiting other immune cells such as lymphocytes.

The main hypothesis includes a stress preconditioning response mechanism, in which it is believed that periods of nutrient deprivation displays a beneficial mild stress that results in molecular adaptive changes in various tissues, which increases the organism's resistance to bigger stressors such as excitotoxic and oxidative injury, including ischemia (33,71).

The new E-Class represents another major advance by Mercedes - Benz in all these fields as the saloon marks the series - production debut of a series of innovative technical features which can not be found in any other car in this vehicle category - from the drowsiness detection system to automatic emergency braking when an accident is imminent, from Adaptive Highbeam Assist to the Active Bonnet with its reversible actuation mechanism, from the air suspension with electronically controlled damping to the trend - setting BlueTEC exhaust aftertreatment system.

Resilience research has identified several mechanisms by which protective and vulnerability factors operate to increase or decrease the probability of competence in contexts of adversity, respectively.11 As noted previously, sensitive caregiving engenders adaptive neurobiological, behavioural, and cognitive organization in early childhood.4, 8 Thus, positive relationships contribute to resilient adaptation by promoting resources, such as self - esteem, self - efficacy and coping capacities.

The concept of natural selection has been enormously influential to the study of human behaviour, particularly in evolutionary psychology, which has emphasized that much of human behaviour arises as a by - product of adaptive mechanisms in the mind and brain (Barkow et al. 1992).

From the cognitive reframing category, which includes the adaptive coping mechanisms, the subscales for acceptance and positive reframingwere significantly and negatively correlated to parental stress.