Sentences with phrase «as decreasing survival»

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Cannibals — whether microbes or Methodists — who eat their own relatives can also experience decreases in a measure of evolutionary success known as inclusive fitness, in which the survival of an individual's genes, whether they're from an offspring or a collateral relative (like a brother or cousin) is the true measure of evolutionary success.

«These findings will give women with early stage breast cancer greater certainty that anti-estrogen therapy will decrease their risk of recurrence and increase their chance for survival whereas chemotherapy will not,» said breast cancer survivor Mary Lou Smith, JD, MBA, who helped design the study as a leader in the ECOG - ACRIN Cancer Research Advocates Committee.

The presence of barred owls was associated with decreasing spotted owl survival rates in some study areas and spotted owls were disappearing from many of their historical breeding territories as those areas were invaded by barred owls.»

The disadvantages of such specialization are that the reproductive success of the highly specialized plant wanes when its pollinator is absent, and the survival rate of the pollinator decreases in the absence of the plant as well.

Previous studies have found that patient survival decreases as genetic diversity within tumors increases.

Second, many frog - eating predators die when the toads arrive (after all, cane toads are basically acting as booby - trapped frogs, from a predator's point of view)-- and so, survival rates of frogs tend to increase not decrease when the toads arrive.

Feb. 27, 2018 — Vanderbilt University Medical Center is encouraging its medical providers to stop using saline as intravenous fluid therapy for most patients, a change provoked by two companion landmark studies released Feb. 27 that are anticipated to improve survival and decrease kidney complications.

Tumor hypoxia is often linked to decreased survival in patients with breast cancer and has been shown to induce specific molecular changes in cells including changes that confer a more malignant phenotype such as increased proliferation (3), survival (4), invasion (5), and metastasis (6).

Your body always tries to maintain a balanced state, also known as homeostasis, and while you're on a fat - loss diet and trying to maintain a caloric deficit over prolonged periods, leptin levels start to decrease as your body's survival mechanism in order to preserve fat and keep you from starving to death.

«Studies have shown that something as simple as walking 30 minutes per day will decrease your breast cancer risk and increase the chances of survival if you have breast cancer,» she says.

If their muscle mass - as a result of the disease or the treatment - decreases, their chances of survival decrease as well.

With PAIRIN, those soft skills defined by Yong Zhao as «the new survival skills,» allow educators to specifically target behavior and mindset development among their students that leads to increased academic performance, fewer dropouts, and decreased behavioral issues.

For example, reductions in seasonal sea ice cover and higher surface temperatures may open up new habitat in polar regions for some important fish species, such as cod, herring, and pollock.128 However, continued presence of cold bottom - water temperatures on the Alaskan continental shelf could limit northward migration into the northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska.129, 130 In addition, warming may cause reductions in the abundance of some species, such as pollock, in their current ranges in the Bering Sea131and reduce the health of juvenile sockeye salmon, potentially resulting in decreased overwinter survival.132 If ocean warming continues, it is unlikely that current fishing pressure on pollock can be sustained.133 Higher temperatures are also likely to increase the frequency of early Chinook salmon migrations, making management of the fishery by multiple user groups more challenging.134

Given the critical importance of treatment adherence to the long - term survival of individuals with CF, and given the characteristic decrease in treatment adherence observed across the adolescent period (Quittner et al., 2000; Ricker et al., 1998), the current findings offer promising avenues for future research on both the benefits and risks of peer relationships for youth with CF. Furthermore, health - related quality of life increasingly has been recognized as a critical element of patient and family - reported outcomes among youth with chronic illness (Quittner et al., 2008), and the current findings continue to build on this growing body of literature for youth with CF.