Sentences with phrase «adaptive mechanisms for»

«These earthworms have developed adaptive mechanisms for dealing with the soil pollution,» Hodson says.

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The Wilds of New Guinea Even though it is only about one - tenth the size of the United States, New Guinea has 7 percent of the world's biodiversity, making the island a living laboratory for evolutionary biologists like Christopher Austin, who observes firsthand the adaptive mechanisms that spark the creation of novel species.

«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.

Using Niko Tinbergen's «four questions» as a guide, we will discuss the evolution of primates and emergence of the social function of the behavior (phylogeny), the development of the behavior during a individual's lifetime (ontogeny), the specific biological and chemical processes and motivations responsible for the behavior (mechanism), and how the behavior increase the fitness of individuals, allowing for its continual selection in primates (adaptive value).

The mechanism involved is up for debate, but the known role of B2M relates to the adaptive immune system.

People have made adaptive arguments for human violence, but our species has come up with mechanisms of mass violence on a scale no other species has.

These novel findings may inspire the field to understand the mechanisms leading to species specific differences in behavioral tolerance, potentially allowing for better assessment of adaptive capacity.

This is where you work out for short periods of time, just long enough to stimulate your body's adaptive mechanisms, then sit back and rest while your body gets to work at re-structuring itself.

Among those lessons learned are operationalizing adult learning / development and adaptive leadership by simultaneously attending to the personal and professional development of the people at all levels of the organization; creating and sustaining conditions and support mechanisms for effective teamwork and collaboration to occur; and redefining community engagement in ways that value families and communities and engage them as true and equal partners who possess funds of knowledge.

Mind Your Errors: Evidence for a Neural Mechanism Linking Growth Mind - Set to Adaptive Posterror Adjustments.

• The effects of management strategies on climate, ecosystem services, and the resilience of ecosystems to climate change; field experiments and models designed to learn about coupled human - and environmental systems and to test different management interventions • The valuation of ecosystem services, including the economic or other costs associated with impacts of climate and other environmental changes • Adaptive approaches and institutional and governance mechanisms for addressing the regulatory aspects of special status species management

A healthier position to strive for within systemic family therapy is an improvised script, where families flexibly approach unique situations, retaining the better adaptive patterns from earlier family generations and integrating new coping mechanisms where needed, gives more scope for families to successfully adapt to challenges.

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.

Mental health professionals such as psychotherapists and psychologists are highly - trained to treat these defense mechanisms with respect and care — to never take away a defense without helping to replace it with one that is more adaptive for the patient.