Sentences with phrase «adaptive responses from»

Stereotyped behaviors are like behavioral cancers; as they progressively increase in frequency and squeeze most useful and adaptive responses from the dog's behavior repertoire until eventually the «brain - dead» dog spends hours on end barking, pacing, chewing himself, or simply staring into space.

In our pursuit of SAVAGE STRENGTH, the best way for us to maximize muscle fiber recruitment and an adaptive response from our nervous system is to use very heavy loads.

An adaptive response from today's agent is to focus only on the tasks that you are uniquely suited to do, leveraging the expert skills of others to do the rest.

Not exact matches

The management responses were adaptive, and collaborative, using science - based understanding, and various forms of feedback from the environment in a «learning by doing» approach.

The UNC research team, led by Lemon and Jason Whitmire, Ph.D., Associate Professor in UNC's Department of Genetics, is now poised to investigate the complicated interplay of nonspecific «innate» and specific «adaptive» immune responses that ultimately control the infection and eliminate HAV from the host — processes that are not well understood for any of the five human hepatitis viruses.

For adolescents with a history of early and prolonged adversity from peers, programs should be implemented that bolster the development of adaptive stress responses, the authors suggest.

Up until now, efforts in generating a vaccine against TB have been mainly focused on T cells (cells from the adaptive arm of our immune response with memory capacity), with very disappointing outcomes in both pre-clinical as well as clinical trials.

«Understanding which genes are involved in transgenerational acclimation, and how their expression is regulated, will improve our understanding of adaptive responses to rapid environmental change and help identify which species are most at risk from climate change and which species are more tolerant,» Dr Veilleux says.

The protocol can be used to measure adaptive responses following the stimulation of whole blood samples or purified peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and includes a freezing step that allows the stimulated samples to be shipped from the collection site to the analysis facility.

In particular, the cAMP signaling cascade directs adaptive cellular responses to a variety of stress stimuli via a combination of acute affects arising from GS - protein coupled receptor (GPCR)- mediated activation of PKA and long - term affects resulting from transcriptional reprogramming directed by CREB and the CREB Regulated Transcription Coactivators (CTRCs).

Ateba - Ngoa U, Adegnika AA, Zinsou JF, Kassa Kassa RF, Smits H, Massinga - Loembe M, Mordmüller B, Kremsner PG, Yazdanbakhsh M. Cytokine and chemokine profile of the innate and adaptive immune response of schistosoma haematobium and plasmodium falciparum single and co-infected, school - aged children from an endemic area of Lambaréné, Gabon.

But the findings, including detailed examination of the bladder and kidney tissue, are consistent with an adaptive immune response stemming from the vaccination, he says.

This is often enough to halt the infection but the second part of the immune response is adaptive immunity, when dendritic cells activate T lymphocytes and trigger a cascade of immune reactions, such as the formation of antibodies and killer cells that clear the infection from the body and form a memory of the invading pathogen.

While vigilance and flight behaviors may be adaptive for a wide variety of external threats, headshaking behavior may be a specific adaptive response to bees, namely, to knock bees away from the facial area.

«Our work on this common species helps us to understand the adaptive responses of birds to a changing climate and their constraints, and this fundamental knowledge will help future workers and managers focus their work on other species and potentially identify those species most at risk from climate change.»

Eating too little also causes a starvation response (adaptive thermogenesis) where metabolic rate can decrease above and beyond what can be accounted for from the change in body mass (# 2 above).

Increasing attention is being paid to mitochondrial dysfunction as a contributor to many diseases because these organelles lie at the cross roads of sensing and integrating cues from the environment to trigger adaptive and compensatory cellular responses.

The Accelerated Fat Loss Cycle is the first nutrition cycle ever that's specifically designed to overcome ANY and EVERY type of adaptive response the body has to stop you from losing weight.

There's no way I could do justice to the complex mixture of phytochemicals in those plants, but various glucosinolates (really, their isothiocyanate products) and quercetin from kale; the anthocyanins from blueberries; mangiferin from mangos; and gallic acid, ellagic acid, quercetin, kaempferol from amla all induce the «adaptive stress response» as described above.

Dulloo AG, Jacquet J. Adaptive reduction in basal metabolic rate in response to food deprivation in humans: a role for feedback signals from fat stores.

The power of that one strong adult relationship is a key ingredient in resilience — a positive, adaptive response in the face of significant adversity — according to a new report from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, a multidisciplinary...

Computerized adaptive tests require the following components: a pool of questions to draw from, calibrated to a common measurement scale; a mechanism to select questions on the basis of the student's responses; a process to score the student's responses; a process to terminate the test; and reports that relate scores to the student's instructional needs.

Jaguar wisely cribbed the F - Pace's Adaptive Surface Response and All - Surface Progress Control from its buddies at Land Rover, although everyone and their brother knows a laughably low percentage of F - Pace buyers will ever have cause to use these features.

For $ 39,495 with the dual - clutch automatic, that adds a 10 - horsepower bump and a number of extra goodies, such as a blind - spot monitor, adaptive cruise control and VW's Dynamic Chassis Control system, which lets you play around with various driving modes that adjust anything and everything, from the sensitivity of the steering and throttle response, to how soon the transmission shifts and even the volume of the exhausts.

Adaptive suspension settings range from comfort to Sport +, while steering input and throttle response can also be changed to your liking.

However, some off - road ability comes from an Adaptive Surface Response system.

Sport mode enhances the response of Direct Adaptive Steering, increasing the steering effort required while reducing the required steering movement from lock to lock.

In terms of safety systems, the C - Class is equipped as standard with Attention Assist, Adaptive Brake (with Hill Start, brake priming and brake drying) Collision Prevention Assist (autonomous braking at speeds of up to 200 km / h, and provides braking in response to stationary vehicles at a speed of up to 50 km / h) as well as Crosswind Assist, which helps maintain directional stability and is active from 80 km / h when driving in a straight line as well as through bends.

In ADAPTIVE mode, navigation data from the Navigation system Professional is used to proactively adjust the car's responses when approaching intersections or curves.

* New TT RS Coupe and Roadster debut at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show * First modern day Audi model since the emblematic quattro coupes of the 1980s to feature charismatic five - cylinder power in a new high - tech form that makes 340PS and 30mpg a reality * 2.5 - litre TFSI unit delivers 340PS from 5,400 rpm to 6,700 rpm, 450Nm from 1,600 rpm to 5,300 rpm, 0 - 100 km / h in 4.6 seconds (Roadster 4.7 seconds), top speed limited to 248km / h (155mph) but can be increased at extra cost to 278km / h (174mph), combined mpg 30.7 (Roadster 29.7 mpg) * RS 4 - style Sport button boosts throttle response and further enriches exhaust note * New six - speed manual transmission, enhanced quattro system capable of diverting almost all torque output rearwards, TT RS - specific sports chassis lowered by 10 mm (Audi magnetic ride adaptive damping available at extra cost)

The driver can select from Comfort, Sport and + R drive modes, which tweak the steering and throttle response, the adaptive damper system and transmission rev - matching accordingly.

Active Driveline including Torque Vectoring by Braking ($ 1620) and Adaptive Dynamics MagneRide dampers including «Dynamic» Terrain Response mode ($ 1820) are both optional only on five - seat SD4 and Si4 models, and only from SD4 SE level and above.

Most dog fanciers agree that there are three types of intelligence in dogs — instinctive intelligence (the ability to do what they were bred for), adaptive intelligence (the ability to use their past experiences to solve problems) and obedience intelligence (the ability to learn behaviours in response to training from their handler).

The Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, which has resulted in the phasing out of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), a group of industrial compounds that react with and disassociate ozone molecules, is a collective adaptive response by humans to a perceived and predicted threat to life from stratospheric ozone depletion.

There is, I can argue, nothing on the horizon other than vigorous international policy response that will prevent rate of change of climate from continuing to increase until it eventually overwhelms our adaptive capacity.

My favorite quote from that paper is: «Because ENSO is the dominant mode of climate variability at interannual time scales, the lack of consistency in the model predictions of the response of ENSO to global warming currently limits our confidence in using these predictions to address adaptive societal concerns, such as regional impacts or extremes (Joseph and Nigam 2006; Power et al. 2006).»

In other words, some high - risk children may have benefited from the intervention by enhancing their social behaviors and others may have benefited by developing a more adaptive stress response in anticipation of a social stressor.

One final example is the prefrontal cortex, which is thought to play an important role in regulating behavior by suppressing impulses and emotions arising from the amygdala and other parts of the limbic system.50 — 52 In animal studies, exposure to chronic stress or glucocorticoids alters the synaptic connectivity within the prefrontal cortex, 52,53 and this may limit the ability of the prefrontal cortex to (1) suppress the impulsivity and aggression of the limbic system, and (2) execute adaptive responses (rather than maladaptive responses) to stress.54 — 56 Stress - induced changes in brain structure parallel the well - described impact of significant childhood adversity on a variety of brain functions, including the modulation of physiologic responses (hyper - responsive or chronically active stress response), learning (impaired memory), and the regulation of behavior (the ability to execute adaptive vs maladaptive responses to stress).3, 39,57

More importantly, they showed that similar behavioral responses can emerge from distinct underlying neural mechanisms, highlighting the importance of continuing to investigate the neural basis of adaptive and maladaptive social decision making in psychopathy.

Some of these «precursor outcomes» (e.g., heightened vigilance and preparedness for threats; enhanced inflammatory and humoral responses to infectious microorganisms) appear to be aimed at protection from immediate dangers; they may reflect «adaptive trade - offs» that balance short - term survival advantages under harsh rearing conditions against disadvantages manifested later in development.