Sentences with phrase «as other biological functions»

Drinking water contaminated by fracking wastewater can affect a person's normal respiratory, sensory and neurological processes as well as other biological functions.

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By maintaining abundant forest cover in shade coffee plantations, they can function as buffer zones and can form the backbone to the biological corridor linking the two national parks and other forest fragments.

In other biological contexts, ferritin primarily functions as an iron - storage molecule; however, colostrum ferritin appears to have little iron associated with it [21] and thus may instead enable the neonate to sequester iron.

They added that the ability to observe plant roots, other biological inhabitants or occurrences, or water movement within the substrate could expand the use of the mini-Horhizotron beyond its research function for use as a teaching tool.

In addition to collecting scans of brain structure and function, the research teams at 21 study sites around the country will regularly gather a trove of other information from each youngster, from psychological, cognitive, and environmental data to biological specimens such as DNA.

Previously, understanding a patient's condition relied on analysis of symptoms and signs, such as lung function measurements and airway hyper - responsiveness, but now clinicians can access information about a range of other underlying complex biological traits, including cellular and molecular traits.

While studying the basic function of the IKK complex in zebrafish and mice, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies discovered that one subunit reigns in the activity of the other instead of boosting it, as was widely believed before.

Where other diagnostic imaging procedures — such as x-rays, computed tomography (CT) and ultrasound — offer pictures of physical structure, molecular imaging allows physicians to see how the body is functioning and to measure its chemical and biological processes.

In this Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology on «High Density Lipoproteins — from biological understanding to clinical exploitation» contributing authors (members of COST Action BM0904 / HDLnet) summarize in more than 20 chapters our current knowledge on the structure, function, metabolism and regulation of HDL in health and several diseases as well as the status of past and ongoing attempts of therapeutic exploitation.The book is of interest to researchers in academia and industry focusing on lipoprotein metabolism, cardiovascular diseases and immunology as well as clinical pharmacologists, cardiologists, diabetologists, nephrologists and other clinicians interested in metabolic or inflammatory diseases...

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Dr. Malhi and several other biologists familiar with the study said that the high biological diversity in Yasuní, in itself, hints that the area functioned as a moist refuge for life through past climate shifts that saw much of Amazonia shift to drier forest.

-- the atmospheric concentration of CO2 and other GHG's; — the reflective & absorptive characteristics, as a function of wavelength, for the GHG's; — the specific heat and mass of the earth's intermediate - term heat - storage media — the oceans (primarily) and the atmosphere; — the quantity of heat absorbed by phase - changes = ice - melt; and by chemical / biological processes.

Studies consistently indicate, however, that children in stepfamilies exhibit more problems than do children with continuously married parents and about the same number of problems as do children with single parents.26 In other words, the marriage of a single parent (to someone other than the child's biological parent) does not appear to improve the functioning of most children.

Second, we included some of the most well - studied moderators but excluded several other potentially relevant child and family characteristics such as children's executive functioning (e.g., Matthys et al. 2012) and biological markers of children's differential susceptibility to environmental influences (e.g., Belsky et al. 2007).