Sentences with phrase «as response to»

Immediately after the subjects viewed the slide shows, researchers drew their blood, exposed each sample to bacteria and then measured the levels of a substance known as interleukin - 6 (IL - 6), which is secreted by white blood cells as a response to stress or trauma.

The latter has been deferred for the time being, thanks to the Fed's decision on Sept. 17 to keep rates unchanged as a response to global uncertainties (though with the implicit assumption that rates would nonetheless be increased in the near future).»

«Although we can't say definitively that bird feeders are responsible, it seems reasonable to suggest that the longer beaks amongst British great tits may have evolved as a response to this supplementary feeding.»

Instead we often use these food types as a treat or a reward, or even as a response to ease pain if children are upset.

Differences in those brain regions make sense, Black said, because many people with Tourette's explain that their tics occur mainly as a response to unusual sensations.

Like Maisano and Pitcher, Usher sees the Jupiter scene in Cymbeline as a response to Galileo's discovery — but he takes «Shakespearian science» much further, arguing that examples of the playwright's scientific knowledge can be found in works spanning his entire career.

That program was established by NOAA in 2009, in part as a response to the pummeling the U.S. received from a number of hurricanes during the early years of that decade and the relative lack of progress made in improving forecasts up to that point.

A new review suggests that the use of heterothermy may have been used as a response to acute emergency situations in animals that colonized Madagascar.

Some researchers have speculated that awe might have evolved as the response to a powerful leader.

Mathew Garnett, a cancer biologist at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute near Cambridge, UK, says that HeLa cells could prove useful for studying aspects of the biology of cervical tumors, such as their response to cancer drugs.

For example, one particularly influential hypothesis argues that horse riding and nomadic herding societies developed during the late second millennium BCE, as a response to drought and a worsening climate.

Animal behaviour researchers in the UK and Brazil have found that dogs lick their mouths as a response to angry human faces, according to new study.

Paul Dirmeyer, a professor in the department of atmospheric, oceanic and earth sciences at George Mason University who was not involved in the study, notes: «Green et al. put forward an intriguing and exciting new idea, expanding our measures of land - atmospheric feedbacks from mainly a phenomenon of the water and energy cycles to include the biosphere, both as a response to climate forcing and a forcing to climate response.»

The heart is an amazingly adaptable organ, responding to the needs of the organism throughout life, such as through periods of increased demand by pumping harder, faster, and also growing to accommodate longer - term requirements such as that experienced in pregnancy or as a response to intense exercise.

Jack Dongarra, a supercomputing expert at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, says the new U.S. plans come partially as a response to concern over China's surge in high - performance computing.

The incidence and severity of both traditional and emerging cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors as well as the response to treatment may differ between men and women.

Handicraft for boys (i.e. technical crafts such as woodwork or metalwork) was only introduced at the end of the 19th century — considerably later than handicraft for girls — as a response to the economic crisis.

«The only tricky part quantitatively is calculating the elastic interactions between the different slots and the varying water level within each slot as a response to the tidal stress,» Kite explained.

The creature evolved its small size, they surmised, as a response to the limited resources available on its island home — a phenomenon that had previously been documented in other mammals, but never humans.

Darwin was a bit anxious, as the response to Origin of Species had been lukewarm in Germany, so he invited the biologist and his «bulldog» Thomas Henry Huxley as a third wheel — if there was some kind of confrontation, he could defuse it.

Emergency organizations have only started using social media mainly as a response to the presence of the public in them.

This country is important because it has been held up by David Cameron as his response to the Labour Party's proposals to halve the deficit over the course of this parliament, rather than try to eliminate it entirely.

The revelation came as a response to the question of what the military would do in view of the recent directive by President Muhammadu Buhari to the military and the police to stop the recurrent killing of innocent villagers by armed Fulani militia.

The leader of a prominent New York City business group said the lowered profits and bonuses stemmed from the added regulations placed on Wall Street in the past few years, as a response to the 2008 crash.

The Department of Justice issued a ban on bump stocks Friday as a response to the gun - control groundswell.

Perhaps as a response to community concerns on the issue, School Superintendent Seth Turner is expected to soon unveil a drug prevention program called «Know More.»

Indeed, Boris Johnson's riddling article on Europe yesterday can be seen as a response to Gove's clarity.

Funiciello said he started calling for Woolf to drop out as a response to Democrats that suggested Funiciello would siphon off votes from Woolf, and allow Republican, Conservative Party and Independence Party candidate Elise Stefanik to win.

Diane Abbott's presence in the Labour leadership race has shifted the contest to the left and Miliband's piece must be interpreted as a response to that.

In December, Schneiderman sent a similar letter lambasting Cuomo's proposal to create a special criminal prosecutor to handle procurement matters — an action seen as a response to the federal investigation into upstate development projects that resulted in the arrest of a former top aide to the governor, among others.

This will be a parallel to the women's march in Washington, D.C. and other marches and protests around the country, in large part as a response to Donald Trump's election.

The private sector has already moved to these plans as a response to financial realities, and we expect the public retirement system — which we support with our tax dollars — to do the same.

The commission was convened by Governor Andrew Cuomo as a response to a number of indictments this spring, and a public shaming from federal prosecutor Preet Bharara, who spoke of Albany's «show - me - the - money» culture.

On the 64th floor of 1 World Trade Center, at the first of six planned events around the state, the governor spoke to a seated assembly of more than 100 people, including state and local elected officials and everyday New Yorkers, relaying an overall message that kept with his recent record but was also engineered as a response to the widespread «middle class anger» evident in the 2016 presidential election.

Above, a flyer sent out by Democratic New York Senator Ruben Diaz Sr., who hates gays and loves Pastor Rick Warren, as a response to a recent ad taken out by the Working Families Party targeting the constituencies of Sens. Diaz and Espada in the Bron... Read

Union leader Len Mr McCluskey was name - checked eight times during PMQs as David Cameron mentioned the Unite boss as a response to several questions.

Murphy said his work on the bill started as a response to the 2012 Newtown school shooting that killed 20 children and six educators.

That would work only as a response to the democratic demands of the times.

RightOnline was founded in 2008 as a response to Netroots Nation, which began in 2004.

District Attorney Thomas Spota's office has defended the payments as based on merit and additional work responsibilities, and as a response to escalating police salaries.

Cuomo last week proposed replacing the state's personal income tax with a payroll tax as a response to the federal tax law capping state and local tax deductions at $ 10,000.

[26] Founded by Charles Cormack in Edinburgh in January 2014 and registered on 3 April 2014 [27] as a response to UKIP and Euroscepticism, [28][29] the party did not stand [30] and was deregistered in November 2015.

ALBANY, NY — Assemblywoman Amy Paulin (D - 88) is proud to announce that A.7198 - A / S.5512 - A, legislation she authored as a response to bomb threats targeting Jewish community centers across the nation earlier this year, was signed into law by Govern

An executive order signed last week will require chaplains to be active clergy members and also live in Westchester County comes as a response to a federal probe into whether -LSB-...]

On Friday and Saturday the state legislature approved the $ 168 billion, 2018 - 19 State Budget, with a deal that includes a new state tax code as a response to federal changes and more money for education.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo wrote an opinion piece in this morning's Daily News, touting the recent state budget as a response to income inequality — and as a counternarrative to politicians like Donald Trump who are trying to capitalize on economic malaise by scapegoating other...

The legislation was introduced as a response to renewed calls for gun restrictions in the wake of the mass shooting at a... [Read more...]

A county executive in the Hudson Valley is launching an initiative as a response to December's Newtown, Connecticut mass school shooting.

LabourHome was formed as a response to this site and the surveys were a copy of our own surveys.

In the case of Afghanistan it began as a response to 9/11 — which was fine for George W Bush because Ground Zero served as a reminder of what happens if the warning signs are ignored.