Sentences with phrase «against the organisms of»

Perhaps unhealthy conditions decrease the effectiveness of this system against the organisms of kennel cough, making an infection more likely when your pet is exposed to respiratory tract disease.

Not exact matches

In Dawson's words, «[king and priest] were not individuals standing over against other individuals, but parts of a common social organism and representatives of a common spiritual order.»

Despite some of his protests against the Reformed, Dawson's fundamental convictions about the social nature of the human person resonates with Abraham Kuyper's argument that the organic nature of life is the foundation of the social or ecclesial organisms that come after it.

To sum up, Leclerc argues against Whitehead, as he understands him, that a complex physical organism exercises an agency proper to itself which is not simply reducible to the agency of its constituent actual entities.

Against this it is not possible to point with the same plausibility to the origin of a single infra - human organism even if we assumed like the Vitalists an intrinsically non-spatial substantial living principle.

Whenever an impulse from the world strikes against the organism, and the resultant is not discomfort or pain, not even the muscular contraction of strenuous manhood, but a joyous expansion or aspiration of the whole soul - there is religion.

That is to say that there is no firm evidence whatever against, and an immense amount of evidence for, the view that the «ordinary» laws of physics and chemistry hold within the organism just as they do within a man - made machine.

There is no law against daydreaming, but science must not indulge in it [Evolution of Living Organisms (Academic Press, 1977)-RSB-.

As a matter of fact, most of the difficulties and objections that can be raised against Whitehead's philosophy of organism have their root directly or indirectly in this narrowly conceived identification.

The above established relationship between the philosophy of organism and the genetic early forms of our perception of reality say nothing against the philosophy of organism, but rather say something for it, on the condition that the existence of essential niveau differences, the integration of necessary differentiations, and the rejection of anthropomorphic formations, point to an obvious need for a whole new conceptual elaboration.

Considerations that are connected with recent progress in understanding self - organizing chemical and physical systems lead me to propose a criterion for application of the category of actual entity that retains many of the distinctive features of the philosophy of organism while dealing with some of the objections raised against that system, and including aspects of the Buchler - Wallack approach.

The evidence from paleontology, genetics and other evolutionary sciences is also against the existence of any immanent force or vital principle directing evolution toward the production of specified kinds of organisms (emphases added).

He develops his argument against atypically atheistic Darwinism around the fact of evolutionary convergence: «The central point is that because organisms arrive repeatedly at the same biological solution... this provides not only a degree of predictability, but more intriguingly points to a deeper structure to life...» His viewpoint is quite clear: «Metric - sized animals that are the end - result of many billions of years of prior stellar and biological evolution may be the only way to allow at least one species to begin its encounter with God.

It is reported to be active against a number of organisms including the food pathogens Listeria monocytogenes and -LSB-...]

Therefore, I find the internal inconsistency and self - contradiction of many arguments against genetically modified organisms (GMOs) simply astounding.

One of these, IgA, which is present in highest amounts in the first few days of life, contains many antibodies against viruses, bacteria and other disease - causing organisms.

Skin acts as a protective barrier, the first line of defense against outside organisms, toxins, irritants and allergens.

Whether you are looking to protect your mattress, or prevent against allergens and organisms in your sleeping environment, an organic mattress cover can really make a lot of sense.

The existing vaccine will not protect at all against the new organism, therefore vaccination will be totally ineffective as a means of prevention.

They were the Hudson Valley contingent of March Against Monsanto, fighting for genetically modified organism (GMO) labeling of so - called artificially engineered «frankenfood.»

The vaccine triggers a mechanism known as RNA interference, which is an innate defence mechanism of plants, animals and other eukaryotic organisms against pathogens.

The amicus brief cited examples from an array of groups increasingly using public records laws to gain access to emails beyond those of climate scientists, including animal rights groups that have long waged legal battles against researchers who use animals in their studies and opponents of genetically modified organisms seeking to expose the emails of scientists in efforts to demonstrate links to industry.

For example, hydrophilic polymers are often used to protect metals from fouling; water molecules accumulate on this polymer layer, which protects the metal against the adhesion of unwanted molecules or organisms.

Jacob's team has transplanted the back - up or «alternative» respiratory machinery from the mitochondria of lower organisms to human cells, showing that it can protect against pathological stresses, and even lethal poisons like cyanide, that target the mitochondria.

However, to minimize any risks, the conference concluded that if there are risks they could be managed in this way: All but a few experiments had to be done in special facilities that ensured against escape of the experimental organisms, what we called physical containment.

To ensure continued protection against harmful organisms, a certain amount of chlorine must remain in the water after treatment.

«The overwhelming majority of current research for new pharmaceuticals against antibiotic - resistant organisms are in adults,» said Logan.

«This 21st century approach, shaped by the actual biology of the nontarget organisms, is the best safeguard against inadequately informed approval of the next new class of pesticides (and that's something an outright ban on one class of pesticides can't do),» she adds in her e-mail.

That's why researchers are engineering plants to produce key parts of viruses and bacteria, in the hope that the human body will take them for invaders and start producing antibodies against the organisms.

«Despite the delay in airborne precaution implementation, we suspect that high hand hygiene compliance, as a result of continuous implementation of proactive control measures against various viruses and multidrug - resistant organisms, protected frontline healthcare workers against many challenges of emerging infectious diseases.»

«We don't yet know how they are being exchanged in terms of the mechanism, but it seems that many different organisms, including plants, fungi and insects, are using microRNAs as remote signals against other organisms.

The cause of morning sickness is not known, but researchers have proposed that it protects the fetus against toxins and disease - causing organisms in foods and beverages.

«If the organism is becoming resistant against antimicrobial agents and any of the body's defences, that's a bad thing, because there's a better chance then that the organism could cause disease,» Butel says.

Too high a dosage of ivermectin, a common drug against parasites, harms coprophilous organisms, for instance.

In a geologic «instant» of several million years, organisms developed strikingly new body shapes, new organs, and new predation strategies and defenses against them.

«It was known for years that bacteria, evolutionarily very distant living organisms of us, had mA in its genome with a protective function against the insertion of genetic material from other organisms.

Through a process called high throughput screening, the investigators looked to see whether any of these compounds could either directly inhibit the growth of CRE or restore the effectiveness of carbapenem against these organisms.

It seems the large one points upwards to spot prey silhouetted against the sunlight, and the smaller one points down to spot bioluminescent organisms against the darkness below (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, DOI: 10.1098 / rstb.2016.0069).

Scientists headed by Ferran Azorín, CSIC research professor and head of the Chromatin Structure and Function group at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), have discovered why histone 1 is a major protection factor against genomic instability and a vital protein for the organism.

The team is currently testing it in five high - biofouling marine locations around the world, and so far it has held up against the onslaught of mussels and other organisms, consistently preventing biofouling for more than two years.

They instead seem to be a product of natural selection, optimized to generate a favorable degree of genetic diversity, as well as to help safeguard the organism's cells against the kinds of errors that tend to occur most frequently during the process of protein synthesis.

The Microbiology Services Division at Porton Down, part of the National Infection Service directorate, has extensive high - containment laboratory facilities and rare capabilities to handle infectious organisms under the highest levels of containment, and the ability to work with in vivo models to evaluate new therapeutic interventions against these organisms.

The vast majority of the weapons deployed against mussels and other clingers - on are paints and coatings that contain toxic chemicals, usually copper - based, that deter or kill organisms when they come into close proximity.

Thus, given its deep history in understanding how organisms counter infection, LJI is well prepared to lead the charge against inflammatory disease, because often the same cells that rid us of infection are the ones that destroy healthy tissue in inflammatory or autoimmune disease.

While some of these organisms are harmful to roots by causing damage or even plant death, others are beneficial and enhance nutrient acquisition and protect roots against pathogens.

This binomial nomenclature guards against confusion if, say, a bug taxonomist and a mammal taxonomist (who tend to run in different scientific circles and probably are not reading each other's publications) want to (or inadvertently) assign the same species name to the group of organisms they happen to be excited about at the time.

Friends of the Earth, along with 56 organizations from around the world sent a public letter to the Presidential Commission which criticized its report for ignoring the precautionary principle, relying on so - called «self - governance» instead of true democratic governance of this technology, lacking adequate review of environmental risks and placing unwarranted faith in «suicide genes» and other technologies that provide no guarantee against the escape of synthetic organisms into the environment.

Taking the microbiome into account may be important for accurate phenotype - genotype analysis due to the increasing awareness of the impact the microbes have on different body sites, through the products they produce, their ability to protect against invading organisms, their direct interaction with the cell structures and the extracellular milieu, provoking inflammatory or immune responses, and many other effects.

Researchers from the Institute of Microbiology, working both at the Campus Benjamin Franklin and at the German Rheumatism Research Center are pursuing the rather fundamental question of how multicellular organisms protect themselves against infections.

The beneficial bacteria in yogurt helps seed the gut with organisms that serve as an early line of defense against cold viruses, and certain strains of Lactobacilli have been shown to block the replication of viruses once they enter your system.