Sentences with phrase «as mechanisms important»

She is passionate about understanding molecular mechanisms underlying the development of oral infectious disease, as well as mechanisms important in maintaining health.

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There was a shared sentiment that Alberta must be careful not to try to «boil the ocean» but instead focus on a few important levers: best - in - continent carbon pricing with a trigger mechanism linked to oil prices, energy efficiency measures and infrastructure were identified as good areas to focus on.

 Almost a quarter of that was the auto aid. It was important for preserving jobs, for sure. But does it count as «stimulus,» in the sense of stimulating expenditure? I don't think so. It was more in the realm of a balance sheet transfer that kept an important company going. If the auto aid was «stimulus,» then so too was the much larger line of credit which Ottawa advanced to the banks (they could have tapped $ 200 billion under Mr. Flaherty's EFF mechanism)-- all of which was also repaid. In that case, Ottawa's «stimulus» was more like a quarter - trillion dollars... far outpacing everyone else in the OECD as a share of GDP! Of course that's nonsense. This was just one of many ways that Ottawa inflated the true value of its stimulus effort last year (including counting as «stimulus» the increase in EI payouts that automatically accompanied last year's mass layoffs).

And as Feyerabend insists, we can not rule Out in advance the search for new unifying models (such as David Bohm's postulation of sub-atomic causal mechanisms), even though previous attempts have not yielded any new theories in better agreement with the data than quantum theory.11 Coherence remains an important ideal and criterion in all reflective enquiry.

Rejecting the revolutionary strategies of liberation theology, these churches see entrepreneurial business activity as an important mechanism for creating a new, post-apartheid South Africa.

Most important to me was Freud — not his diagnosis of religious belief as an infantile longing but his list of defense mechanisms (sublimation, projection, reaction formation among them).

Preston comments, «It is important to separate (the premises) from the concept of the market as a useful mechanism for solving some economic problems if it was set within a different value commitment and an extensive structural framework» (Church and Society in the late 20th Century.

So Mr. George Henry Soule says of the Puritan revolution in the sixteenth century: «The conflict of religious ideas was indeed important, but it was important not so much because of the abstract significance of these ideas as because they represented the mechanism of attack and defense between economic and social classes who were struggling for power.»

One very important thing to remember before cooking with quinoa is to wash the seeds, as they contain a naturally occurring outer coating called saponin, a defense mechanism of the seed that is toxic to humans.

In addition, Red Star Nutritional Yeast contains other beneficial components, such as beta - 1,3 glucan and mannan, complex carbohydrates known to improve the immune response and help maintain cholesterol levels that are already within a healthy range; trehalose, a disaccharide that helps maintain the health of brain cells; and glutathione, an antioxidant that plays an important role in cellular defense mechanisms.

Our shared passions have compelled us to create a new kind of conference - to host an on - going conversation that explores what we see as the foundation of infant, child, family and community health: the mechanism of human bonding - how it works, why it's important, and how to develop, encourage and support it in our growing families and communities.

One study identified more serious injuries occurring when the child fell with a caretaker, 6,9 highlighting this as an important mechanism of injury for prevention efforts.

«This program serves as a mechanism to make information even more readily accessible, and will provide important data to our residents, those looking to relocate to Oneida County, and to realtors and numerous other real estate professionals who frequently need this information,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente, Jr..

What I do know is the bill is important for creating a mechanism to deliver needed aid to truly needy hospitals [such as] New York City Health + Hospitals, other public hospitals, hospitals with high volumes of Medicaid and uninsured patients, and many rural hospitals.»

Identifying genes that promote or prevent neuronal death would thus be an important step in understanding both developmentally - regulated neuronal death as well as the mechanisms underlying degenerative brain disorders.

Messenger RNA (mRNA) serves as an important intermediary during gene expression, by relating the genetic information of DNA to the molecular mechanisms involved in manufacturing proteins.

Understanding the history of the plants we assess and the process and mechanism of transgenic plant production, as well as their screening and advancement through a number of generations, is also very important.

«These findings may be of a significant translational value, as they provide important clues to understanding the mechanisms of these disorders and potentially their treatment.»

These findings provide a previously unrecognized mechanism for receptor recruitment of β - arrestin and demonstrate that Dvl plays an important role in the endocytosis of frizzled, as well as in promoting signaling.

But while these two mechanisms are fundamentally important in plasticity, it's hard to observe them as a shock is happening.

Third would be «some mechanism for getting ready to get a job,» such as help preparing for the all - important seminar and chalk talk presentations required for many academic appointments.

In a broader sense, neuroscientists want to understand how the human brain creates and perceives language, and entrainment has emerged as an important mechanism.

The findings suggest that the TPJ plays an important role in perspective - taking, which Ruff describes as «a very basic social mechanism» that is essential not only for helping us figure out what other people may be thinking and feeling during social interactions but also in self - control, as we weigh the needs and desires of our current self against the needs and desires of our imagined future self.

The Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, which can be an important funding mechanism for state source water protection efforts, as well as water treatment, should be reauthorized and fully funded.

The ORNL - led study instead provides evidence for the second mechanism, in which one H atom associates with an O atom to make OH and the other H associates with cerium (Ce) to make CeH — a hydride that may serve as a source of H for industrially important hydrogenation reactions.

Mentally ill prisoners» work was important and meaningful because it acted as a coping mechanism to decrease the impact of psychiatric symptoms, he said.

«There are many different antiviral mechanisms in our bodies, but maybe RNAi functions as the most important antiviral defense mechanism.

Understanding the mechanisms that drive migratory behavior is increasingly important, Beck said, in terms of climate change, as migrating animals rely on multiple habitats.

When prion protein molecules are sequestered by their misfolded counterparts, they can no longer work as a scaffold for all these molecular interactions, which impairs the mechanisms evoked by the brain chemicals important for mood.

«We found no evidence that climbing allows these salamanders to more fully exploit available food resources, which instead suggests that other mechanisms, such as competition or predator avoidance, might be important influences on salamander populations,» said Connette.

The study is meaningful in respect to the fact that it calls into question the role of the T - type calcium channel in the reticular thalamus, and is expected to provide an important theoretical foundation for understanding its role in the mechanism of absence seizures, as well as developing effective treatment methods for absence epilepsy.

Kidney disease will be the main application of the research working in collaboration with the Centre for Kidney Research and Innovation (CKRI), but the team believes that Sodium MRI can also be used for more accurate diagnosis and monitoring of other diseases, and perhaps will give new insights into disease mechanisms as sodium management is important in the brain, lung, liver, and musculoskeletal system.

The most important advancement in medicine in the last 25 years was the development of genetic modeling in animals, enabling us to figure out how fundamental mechanisms of physiology and disease work, such as in bone loss.

«These results are important as they help demonstrate that alcohol use is associated with an increase in suicide risk, and that this increase may be partially due to insomnia symptoms,» said principal investigator Michael Nadorff, PhD, assistant professor at Mississippi State University in Starkville, Miss. «By better understanding this relationship, and the mechanisms associated with increased risk, we can better design interventions to reduce suicide risk.»

As for the underlying mechanism, there's evidence that a bacterial protein called endotoxin is important for damping down overactive immune systems.

He notes that because of the boggling number of potential factors, such as copy number variations, point mutations and epigenetic (inherited mutation) factors involved in autism, it will be important to find common pathways «because the mechanisms interrupting those pathways might be different among individuals.»

In spite of this sizable gap, certain vitally important processes such as memory formation use similar cellular mechanisms in humans, mice and flies, as the researchers» experiments were able to prove.

It is important to reveal the origin of these high - energy cosmic neutrinos in order to better understand the underlying physical mechanisms that produce neutrinos and other extremely high - energy astroparticles and to enable the use of neutrinos as new probes of particle physics in the universe.»

«While gene duplication and alternative splicing are typically invoked as major mechanisms underpinning protein neofunctionalization, this study suggests that the process of co-option should be re-evaluated as a potentially important method by which genes can acquire novel functions.»

«Given that abnormal synapse formation causes various neurodevelopmental diseases such as autism spectrum disorders and epilepsy, understanding activity - dependent mechanisms of initial synapse formation will be important for developing new therapeutic strategies for these conditions,» explained Dr. Kwon.

This is important to therapeutic development, Sherwood said, as the neural mechanisms of tinnitus are unknown but likely related to attention.

The mechanisms that control this ability have been the target of active research, as stem cells are expected to be an important tool in future medicine.

«This field is very new and there are likely many different mechanisms by which liquid organelles form in cells, so exploring fundamental questions like «what are the minimum requirements to make these structures come and go as they do in the cell» is very important.»

The successful transplant of the donor's eyelids and blinking mechanisms also has been particularly important, as Hardison was in danger of losing his sight and had been unable to perform independent daily tasks.

Research on lowly creatures such as fruit flies and roundworms is also playing an important part in exposing the mechanisms behind ageing and, once again, it is free radicals that are implicated as prime suspects.

In the editorial, Shi Yigong, dean of the School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and Rao Yi, dean of the School of Life Sciences at Peking University in Beijing, singled out for criticism the funding mechanism for mega science projects in China, alleging that to procure grants, «it's an open secret that doing good research is not as important as schmoozing with powerful bureaucrats and their favorite experts.»

Obesity in these mice resembles several important clinical features of human obesity such as weight gain and disturbance of metabolism, and this mouse model was ideal for unraveling any underlying biological mechanisms of pancreas cancer that are put in motion by obesity.

The authors conclude that using molecules like the ones they made will help researchers dissect the mechanism underlying H2S - mediated neuronal damage and will serve as an important starting point for the development of even more drug - like compounds that act in a similar manner.

Researchers knew that cells in the inner ear below hair cells — known as supporting cells — can become the sensory cells themselves when stimulated by a protein that blocks Notch signaling, which is an important mechanism for cell communication.

Epigenetics is being recognized as an increasingly important area of research that involves an understanding of the molecular mechanisms that influence the phenotypic outcome of the genome without alteration of the DNA sequence.