Sentences with phrase «buffer the effects on»

Friends, family, and other sources of social support seem to have a buffering effect on the stress that people experience.

Diverse farms tend to have smaller fields with more edges, which can mean there's a greater buffering effect on nitrogen runoff by surrounding grasslands or woodlands.»

Furthermore, self - esteem and social support appear to have a buffering effect on stress and depressive symptomatology because they are implicated in stress perception and management.

In the description of correlates and consequences, «Best established are the conclusions that humor is linked to good mood and that it buffers the effects on mood of life stress and daily hassles.»

If high quality child care can potentially buffer the effects on infants and young children of insensitive caregiving and family stresses, then efforts to improve the quality of care normatively available to children from difficult family settings seem warranted.

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The FCC had outlawed «fast lanes» for providers on the grounds that it would allow them to decide, in effect, who gets good access, and who gets to watch the buffering symbol like a slack - jawed zombie.

• For white adolescent males in America, non-resident father involvement was found to buffer the negative effects of living in a lone - mother family on delinquency, heavy drinking and illicit drug use (Thomas et al, 1996).

This effect on some genes may be a result of the buffering effect of living in a complex, interdependent society, where the «collective genome» is less vulnerable to dramatic environmental changes or other external threats, Robinson said.

The researchers considered two possible explanations: Disease suppression might be the result of one or two additional substitutions on the same gene that buffer the harmful effect of the mutation; or suppression may be caused by numerous small substitutions throughout the genome that form an aggregate «shield.»

Improved agricultural water management could halve the global food gap by 2050 and buffer some of the harmful climate change effects on crop yields.

It also grows on a long body of community ecology research that emphasizes the importance of biodiversity for buffering against the negative effects of climate change.»

It's loosely based on emerging neurobiology research suggesting that social relationships can buffer the negative effects of chronic stress and trauma.

For experiments testing effects of pentobarbital on the ganglion cells, nembutal sodium solution (pentobarbital sodium; Oak Pharmaceuticals) was added to HEPES buffer at a final concentration of 150 or 800 μm.

The effect of freeze - thaw cycles on lentiviral stability depends on a variety of factors such as the transgene expressed, the viral storage buffers used, and other experimental parameters.

Continue reading «Comment on «The effects of secular calcium and magnesium concentration changes on the thermodynamics of seawater acid / base chemistry: implications for Eocene and Cretaceous ocean carbon chemistry and buffering» by Hain et al. (2015)»

The gelatinolytic assays were carried out in two different ways to obtain complementary information: firstly, cells were treated or not with the test compound and samples from these were submitted to gelatinase zymography to detect the effects of the kahweol treatment on the expression of gelatinase activities; secondly, in some experiments, samples from control, untreated HT - 1080 fibrosarcoma cells were submitted to zymography and, after electrophoresis, different concentrations of kahweol were added to the substrate buffer to determine the potential direct effect of kahweol on gelatinase activity.

B) In situ determination of kahweol effects on HT - 1080 gelatinases, as determined by gelatin zymography with the presence of kahweol in the incubation substrate buffer.

Continue reading «Response to comment by Zeebe and Tyrrell on «the effects of secular calcium and magnesium concentration changes on the thermodynamics of seawater acid / base chemistry: Implications for the Eocene and Cretaceous ocean carbon chemistry and buffering»»

The most significant results were related to: i) the effect of vicinal surfaces on the film growth; ii) the films specifically grown for microwave applications: a clear correlation was demonstrated between the surface resistance, the losses and the concentration of high - angle grain boundaries; iii) the effect of film - substrate interdiffusion and its control by epitaxial buffer layer.

Fish oil may help buffer the negative side effects of stress on the body by reducing cortisol levels (study).

This is mainly due to the synergistic effect of both beta alanine and sodium bicarbonate on buffering muscle acidity (43).

Drizzling a little bit of healthy fat in the form of olive oil or butter on a sweet potato for example, slows down the absorption of sugars found in the sweet potato, meaning you'll get a steady rise and leveling off of your blood sugar instead of the up and down spikes in blood sugar that can occur when eating carbs on their own without protein or fat to buffer their effects.

Rebound buffer springs on the front shock absorbers boost the effect of the stabiliser during dynamic cornering, thus improving the Sports Coupé's agile handling.

How credit score formula handles multiple credit inquiries — FICO uses a 30 - day buffer and a process called «deduplication» on multiple inquiries for a mortgage or car loan, in effect counting them as one.

Potassium in particular is noted for its powerful effect on heart and nerve health; though it can not counter the devastating effects of a high - salt diet, it certainly acts as a buffer.

Older people experiencing typical life stresses are less affected (as measured by number of medical visits) when they have a companion dog, suggesting that a dog can be a stress buffer that softens effects of adverse events on the person.

-- new audition system — allows loops to be listened to as whole loop instead of slices — improved controls — much less to remember and much faster to use — true copy + paste system with copy buffer — massively improved realtime VIS — 3 new vis effects, the old one improved — new editor display — slice breaks so easy to see when you change from one slice to another — and loop names above loops for hidef users — new image / audio handler — loads and unloads resources on demand massively reducing memory requirements — removing the out of memory crashes — new file system — allows much more detail in the file list

All of these, as well as CO2 sequestration as is (just taking CO2 and burying it in old oil reservoirs, aquifers, etc.), would be attempts to grasp the «big control knob» (see Hank Roberts» 670), and in such a way as to have the same or nearly the same (depending on seawater chemistry and how carbonate dissolution works in buffering pH relative to sequestering CO2 from the atmosphere) effect as reducing anthropogenic CO2 emissions.

Chemical processes that may affect CO2 uptake include changes to the CO2 buffering capacity (Sarmiento et al 1995) and the effects of temperature on CO2 solubility.

Would it be true that most sulfuric acid is neutralized by terrestrial buffers when it rains, thereby limiting its effect on ocean pH beyond just the constraints inherrent in its small concentrations?

The effect it has on the equilibrium sensitivity is more indirect, as the more the ocean can buffer excess heat, the more chance it will give for CO2 to sequester out of the system.

«There's slow mixing so in effect we get a sort of freshwater lens on the top of the sea in some places, and freshwater lowers the concentration of ions that buffers pH change.

9 mi inland in NJ you automatically added 5 degrees in summer and deducted 5 degrees in winter to compensate for the buffering effect of the water on the temperature.

Your accusation of «ignorance» on my part about the «buffering» effects of a thermalized air mass is as amusingly misplaced as your ideas about what convection does throughout the diurnal cycle.

The multilateral approach adopted since then helps ensure that the process grinds on more or less independent of any individual country's actions, an approach enshrined in the Paris Agreement, including the relatively long lead time (four years) for withdrawal, which has buffered the effects of the Trump administration's withdrawal announcement.

And if the ocean bulk were taking some of the energy from extra DLR it would supply such an enormous buffering effect that the effects of human emissions on the climate would be deferred for millennia and would still be swamped by natural variability even then.

Whereas these effects on open - ocean pH are calculated to be minor, they can be higher, at rates of 0.02 — 0.12 × 10 − 3 pH units per year (< 10 % of OA by anthropogenic CO2), in coastal ecosystems (Doney et al. 2007), where atmospheric deposition is intense and the waters can be more weakly buffered.

This randomized controlled study examines whether Family Foundations (FF)-- a transition to parenthood program for couples focused on promoting coparenting quality, with previously documented impact on maternal stress, depression, and anxiety — can buffer the negative effects of maternal mental health problems.

PD, and in particular depression, is known to have a negative impact on the individual, their relationships and family life, 3, 26 and may have long - term implications for the development of their child, adversely affecting both cognitive and psychosocial development, and behaviour.27 — 29 In depressed parents, this negative impact is thought to act via a reduction in responsive parenting behaviours and reduced quality of the parent — child relationship.30, 31 Where only one parent is depressed (more commonly the mother), the influence of the other parent can act as a buffer and over-ride most of the detrimental effect.

Direct and buffering effects of social support on depressive symptoms of the elderly with home help

Maternal ability to maintain positive caregiving processes in this context may buffer the effects of violence on child asthma risk.

While no other studies, to our knowledge, have explored the buffering effects of the caregiving environment in the stress - asthma association, animal studies have shown that environmental enrichment can reverse the effects of early stress experiences on stress reactivity.51 Laviola et al52 and Morley - Fletcher et al53 have shown that environmental enrichment eliminates the outcomes of prenatal stress on corticosterone response and reactivity to an immune - suppressive agent.

Research does suggest that growing up in a single - parent home has a negative impact on children.49 — 51 Factors, such as parental education, family income, and neighborhood resources, may buffer children from the negative effects of single - parent families, 52,53 but often are not present in the economically distressed communities in which our participants grew up.

We extend this paradigm by testing the buffering effects of secure attachment and material reward on a specific form of social psychological pain: romantic jealousy.

A significant interaction of Relationship Satisfaction × Self - reported Vision indicated that higher relationship satisfaction buffered the effects of self - reported vision on functional limitations (B = − 0.51, β = −.14, t = − 3.80, p <.001) and depressive symptomatology (B = − 0.71, β = −.12, t = − 3.35, p =.001).

The results showed that higher marital satisfaction was a strong buffer of the effects of poorer self - reported vision on functional limitations and depressive symptomatology and a weaker but significant moderator of the effects of lower visual acuity on functional limitations.

«Importantly, we found that when couples are engaging in a negative conflict pattern like demand / withdrawal, expressions of gratitude and appreciation can counteract or buffer the negative effects of this type of interaction on marital stability,» Futris said.

Steps to Respect also has a strong focus on building friendship skills (i.e. conversing, joining groups and maintaining friendships) as these have been shown to provide a buffer against the harmful effects of bullying.

Home Visiting and the Biology of Toxic Stress: Opportunities to Address Early Childhood Adversity Garner (2013) Pediatrics, 132 (2) Offers a public health approach to building critical caregiver and community capacities to minimize the effects of childhood adversity with a focus on expanding collaboration between caregivers and communities to promote the safe, stable, and nurturing relationships that buffer toxic stress and strengthen the social - emotional, language, and cognitive skills needed to develop healthy, adaptive coping skills.

From seventh to eighth grade, effective parenting by both mothers and fathers buffered the effect of higher levels of peer deviance on conduct problems across adolescent gender.