Sentences with phrase «age of decay»

The racing type crosses that resulted which were targeting speed, heralded the start of what some have declared the «age of decay of the Arctic sledge dog».

Does being «like the angels» mean that all the precious relationships we build during the «age of decay» simply dissolve in the «age of renewal»?

Not exact matches

If we are to speak truly to our age, therefore, we can assume, not (1) the complete ignorance of Christian principles, such as existed in the decaying civilization of early Greece and Rome; (2) the thoroughgoing knowledge and acceptance of Christian principles, such as existed in the time of most of our grandparents; or (3) the vigorous antagonism to the gospel, such as now exists among those who accept either the Marxist or the Fascist interpretation of history; but (4) a vague and tenuous residuum of Christian piety, devoid of any intention of doing anything about it.

Although they differ radically from one another and appear in widely varied contexts, in two regards these early prophets testify to a prophetic continuum from premonarchic times (and even from the age of Moses) to the decay and collapse of monarchy in Israel and on into the days of Jewish reconstruction.

The rise in narcotics addiction in recent years, particularly among young people, is in large measure a result of the prevalent decay of purpose, the loss of stable values, and the feelings of personal estrangement, loneliness, hopelessness, and meaninglessness which characterize the present age.

Is its best - selling status another sign of decay in the old establishment world view, and further evidence of growing efforts to transcend that world view through a new consciousness, replace it with a new life style, and outlive it in a New Age?

Up until the age of 15 I still believed in Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy, so would curse Santas name for not bringing me a present and welcomed tooth decay.

It's often recommended that your baby should be off of breastfeeding and bottle feeding by twelve months of age since both of these can cause tooth decay and gum problems in children over a year old.

Research has shown that when a child is seen by age one or the eruption of the first tooth and a dental home is established, the information the parents get from the pediatric dentist and staff helps them to avoid or significantly minimize their child's decay experience.

According to an August 2005 report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the incidence of cavities in children ages two to five increased 15.2 percent from 1988 - 1994 to 1999 - 2002, the only child and adolescent age group to exhibit increased tooth decay.

Sources say that nearly half of all children have tooth decay before Kindergarten age.

Statistics show that toddlers who visit the dentist by the age of one have fewer dental problems and lower levels of decay.

The American Academy of Family Physicians notes «the sippy cup should be introduced at six months of age in preparation for weaning from the bottle or breast at 12 months» and further states that «common contributing practices that contribute to infant and toddler tooth decay include the following: propped bottles containing sweetened liquids, frequent consumption of sweetened liquids from infant and toddler - size «sippy» cups, and frequent snacking.»

The more frequently a mother breastfed her child beyond the age of 24 months during the day, the greater the child's risk of severe early tooth decay, researchers found.

If your child is under 3 years of age and you think she may be at risk for early childhood tooth decay, talk to your dentist to find out if it is a good idea to start using a small amount (the size of a grain of rice) of fluoridated toothpaste.

Early Childhood Cavities (ECC), more commonly known as «baby bottle tooth decay» is a condition that affects children up to the age of three, or as long as they remain using a bottle.

The consensus has been found on the «common ground» of One Nation Conservatism, whether this is confronting the «age of anxiety» (David Davis); the mending of a «broken society» (Liam Fox); tackling the «coarsening and vulgarising of society» (David Cameron) or the need to reverse Britain's «social decay» (David Willetts).

Analyses of thin mineral deposits partly covering painted cave areas provided minimum age estimates for the art, based on known decay rates of radioactive uranium in the rock.

With one in two Australian children reported to have tooth decay in their permanent teeth by age 12, researchers from the University of Sydney believe they have identified some nanoscale elements that govern the behaviour of our teeth.

«We developed three independent age - dating techniques that are based on the different decay rates of radium, thorium and lead isotopes.

«By identifying differences in the distribution of isotopes of radium and its decay products, we can now detect the age and origin of spills and provide a clear answer about their source,» Vengosh said.

Tests in soils affected by oil and gas wastewater spills in West Virginia and North Dakota verify that the new methods can determine the age of spills and identify their origins, based on the variations of radium isotopes and their decay products found in contaminated soils or sediments.

Miller's images highlight the age and decay of these locations, but also forge a connection to their past lives.

«The distributions of natural uranium and its decay products both within and among these bone specimens show remarkably reliable behavior, allowing us to derive an age that is well within the wheelhouse of the dating system,» explained Paces, a co-author of the paper.

Age estimates relied on measures of the decay of radioactive forms of argon and uranium in volcanic ash layers framing tool - bearing sediment.

«The radionuclide ratios we measured in the sediments and the rates of decay and growth of radioactive elements in the impacted sediments allowed us to essentially age - date the contamination to after 2011,» she explained.

Members of a team led by paleoanthropologist Isaiah Nengo estimated the fossil's age by assessing radioactive forms of the element argon in surrounding rock, which decay at a known rate.

Measurements of natural uranium and its decay products in mastodon bone fragments enabled scientists to estimate their age.

Since 129 - Xenon is produced by radioactive decay of 129 - Iodine, these xenon isotopes put a time stamp on the formation age of the ancient parcel of mantle to within the first 100 million years of Earth's history.

The researchers gauged the age of the rocks by looking at the amount of radioactive potassium inside that had decayed into stable argon.

Elements like uranium 238, which has a half - life of 4.5 billion years, let geologists determine the age of rocks and meteorites; those that decay over thousands of years, like carbon - 14, help date archaeological artifacts and human remains.

This decay occurs at a known rate, so by determining the amount of argon - 40 in a sample, researchers can calculate the sample's age.

But uranium - lead dating, in which researchers estimate the age of a rock by comparing its concentrations of radioactive uranium and the lead it decays into, tells a different story.

The Man Who Found Time James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity Jack Repcheck, Perseus, $ 26 In days of old — before scientists realized that radioactive decay could act as a gauge to Earth's age — scholars consulted the scriptures for clues to Earth's antiquity.

The MAJORANA DEMONSTRATOR has shown that the neutrinoless double - beta decay half - life of Ge - 76 is at least 1025 years — 15 orders of magnitude longer than the age of the universe.

Also, at that age the skeleton consists mostly of cartilage, which is more vulnerable to decay than bone.

In the United States, 92 percent of adults aged 20 to 64 have had dental decay in their permanent teeth, Moradian - Oldak said.

One of those layers is 4.5 centimeters of lead salvaged from the ballast of a centuries - old French shipwreck, whose age ensures that most of the potentially contaminating radiation from the decay of unstable lead isotopes is long gone.

Several teams tried to determine the age of the skeleton by dating the rocks around it, using techniques based either on the earth's magnetic field or the decay of uranium in the rocks.

Despite the focus on preventive dental care, dental caries, such as tooth decay or cavities, are on the rise in children under the age of 5.

Geochronologists often use known rates of radioactive decay of elements in rocks to determine the age of the rock.

Unfortunately, the maximum lifespan of DNA (before it has all decayed away) seems to be only a few hundred thousand years, so we probably won't be able to get any DNA from the Age of Dinosaurs.

In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the world leading nutrition researcher Dr. Bruce Ames wrote that low micronutrient status can lead to metabolic disruption, mitochondrial decay, cellular aging, and increased DNA mutation.

Recent research has revealed that polyphenols, such as resveratrol in wine, can increase maximum lifespan by 59 % and delay age related decay of cognitive function in animal models.

Aging - associated increases in oxidative damage to key enzymes results in their structural deformation and decreased binding affinity for the co-enzyme, causing a decrease in enzyme funtion.8 Ames» research has demonstrated that increasing the availability of acetyl L - carnitine and α - lipoic acid, two nutrients that serve as mitochondrial enzyme co-factors, restores the velocity of the reactions (KM) in the related enzymes, and thus restores aging mitochondria's ability to produce youthful levels of ATP.9 10 11 12 13 Part II focused on the inter-relationships among the folate, methylation and transsulfuration pathways, whose dysfunction results in increased free radical production coupled with disruption of glutathione (GSH) synthesis, thus accelerating mitochondrial decay and aAging - associated increases in oxidative damage to key enzymes results in their structural deformation and decreased binding affinity for the co-enzyme, causing a decrease in enzyme funtion.8 Ames» research has demonstrated that increasing the availability of acetyl L - carnitine and α - lipoic acid, two nutrients that serve as mitochondrial enzyme co-factors, restores the velocity of the reactions (KM) in the related enzymes, and thus restores aging mitochondria's ability to produce youthful levels of ATP.9 10 11 12 13 Part II focused on the inter-relationships among the folate, methylation and transsulfuration pathways, whose dysfunction results in increased free radical production coupled with disruption of glutathione (GSH) synthesis, thus accelerating mitochondrial decay and aaging mitochondria's ability to produce youthful levels of ATP.9 10 11 12 13 Part II focused on the inter-relationships among the folate, methylation and transsulfuration pathways, whose dysfunction results in increased free radical production coupled with disruption of glutathione (GSH) synthesis, thus accelerating mitochondrial decay and agingaging.

Researcher Wulf Dröge has called this shift «the first cause of death,» and his insight into its likely causes may both explain why calorie restriction increases longevity and provide a much less onerous way to opt out of the vicious cycle responsible for the age - associated transition from a state of youthful homeostatic repair to one that promotes mitochondrial decay.

Dr Ann Childers links to an article in Discover magazine and avers that the humans of the Ice Age and the Inuit were «without cancer, diabetes, tooth decay, glutathione deficiency, vitamin C deficiency or gut dysbiosis.»

The regular consumption of mango could protect you from cellular decay, which is the main cause of aging and a number of degenerative diseases.

The new recommendations do not take into account the most exciting research emerging about vitamin D concerning its potential to reduce the risk of heart disease, chronic pain, auto - immune syndromes, age - related brain decay, certain types of cancer and other health issues.

It is also important to note that the tooth decay figure for the Swiss (4 percent) is likely an inflated estimate of what would occur on the traditional Swiss diet, since Price repeatedly encountered young men and women who reported never having a cavity until they traveled to one or another city around the age of eighteen or twenty, spent a year or two there, and developed rampant tooth decay that came to a halt once they returned home (p. 32).