Sentences with phrase «allow affected populations»

That's a good thing, says Mark Keim, associate director for science in the Office of Environmental Health Emergencies at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it can both improve disaster response and allow affected populations to take control of their situation as well as feel empowered.

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Scott's executive order requires the state health officer to «take any action necessary to protect public health» and allows the commissioner of agriculture to issue a «mosquito declaration» in the affected counties to reduce populations of the insects that can spread the disease.

This allows us to reveal how drugs affect heart functions in a scenario where the two cell populations are closely coupled,» said Ben Maoz, Ph.D., a co-first author on the second study, who also is a Technology Development Fellow at the Wyss Institute and a member of Parker's group.

The mutation affected a regulatory system called «quorum sensing,» which allows bacteria to sense the size of their own population in the insect.

The combined database will allow scientists to puzzle out the genetic components of relatively rare conditions — such as Parkinson's disease or specific types of cancer — that affect only 1 % to 5 % of the population, comments behavioral geneticist Matthew McGue of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, who is not directly involved in the consortium.

Removal of the hormone - producing testicles and ovaries may improve cats» health in many ways and certainly helps to deal with a potentially exploding animal population, but it reduces your pet's metabolic rate and allows food to affect weight more directly, as in men and women after andropause and menopause.

Worse yet, the health of the general pet population is adversely affected when these geneticly defective pure bred pets are left unaltered and allowed to breed with healthy pets.

Lastly, allowing cats to roam outdoors affects the surrounding native wildlife populations.

Finally, there's a new Galactic Market available that allows you to purchase much needed resources, as well as set your taxes that will affect the morale of you population.

The risks associated with fracking go beyond the point of production; if the benefit in natural gas use comes through its consumption, the advantage is lost through the rest of its lifecycle — especially when mistakes, accidents, poor regulation, and poor maintenance allow massive leaks to affect local populations and the global atmosphere.