Sentences with phrase «by changes in the environment»

A second feature of the machine in contrast to the organism is that it is essentially unchanged by a change in its environment.

As part of the Microbial Ecology Lab, he will help survey the many distinct habitats of Shedd's animal populations, analyzing how unseen members of complex ecosystems are impacted by changes in the environment, advancing the understanding of how these tiny microbes affect animal health.

All mammals are affected by changes in the environment.

Conditional Anxiety - can occur at any age and is usually triggered by a change in environment, such as new baby, new home, etc..

Our science programs derive vital data from our sick and injured patients - what diseases they suffer, how their immune systems work, and how they're affected by changes in their environment.

Accompanying the exhibition's large - scale video works will be Richardson's latest series of chromogenic prints, Pillars of Dawn, which present images of an imaginary desert in which trees and terrain have been physically crystallised by changes in the environment.

Scientists say the state's coral reef habitats are increasingly threatened by climate change as rising water temperatures lead to more coral bleaching, which occurs when the coral becomes stressed by changes in the environment.

It is because both contain stations like Las Vegas that have been compromised by changes in their environment, that station itself, the sensors, the maintenance, time of observation changes, data loss, etc..

This was in spite of medical evidence that the tenant's mental illness meant that she was particularly distressed by changes in her environment and would potentially attempt self - harm or even suicide.

One respondent wrote high - net worth investors «are trying to balance their real estate investments with other investments at a time when real estate is going through changes caused by changes in the environment and technology.»

Not exact matches

«We have to pay attention to what we are wishing for here, if volatility is triggered by sudden changes in the macroeconomic environment, which we don't expect, more particularly geopolitical events, that wouldn't be a welcomed volatility for sure,» he said.

The new measures would build on a number of energy — and environment - related executive orders signed by Trump seeking to gut most of the climate change regulations put in place by predecessor President Barack Obama.

«The political environment,» «uncertain tax policy,» «failure to address over-regulation, job creation, and keeping business in the US,» and «I see no major changes by our governing bodies to improve the situation at hand,» are just a few.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

To survive in a startup environment defined by constant change and learning, you need to admit your weaknesses.

Digital Playbook for Entrepreneurs: Creating a Tech Startup USC Marshall School of Business professor Dr. Anthony Borquez will be joined by a special guest lecturer to discuss how technology is changing the world we live in and how entrepreneurs need to adapt to remain successful in an ever changing environment

We don't just work to protect the environment — we tap into the universal human desire for self - determination, and work to change how decisions are made in B.C. by answering questions like: Who gets to decide?

While rates remain extraordinarily low by historical standards, in the last few months we have witnessed a modest change in the environment.

In 2011, the National Roundtable on the Economy and the Environment calculated that the cost of climate change for Canada could grow to between $ 21 to $ 43 billion a year by 2050 — roughly one per cent of GDP that year.

«By utilizing an annual adjustment, Claria can be better positioned in this changing market environment, which should provide clients with increased confidence in their index choice.»

From a strictly legal perspective, the relevant question is not whether there is a sufficient connection to any particular existing or proposed oil sands development or other production activity, and certainly not whether such projects or activities were included in the Terms of Reference (ToR), but rather simply whether the GHGs associated with the production of bitumen that will be transported by the NGP are an «environmental effect» of that project (see NGP Report, Volume II, Appendix 4, Terms of Reference, which defines «environmental effect» very broadly to mean «any change that the project may cause in the environment.»

The Investment Banking Division produces presentations and insights for corporate clients that address changes in the regulatory environment and capital markets that could affect them by enable or restrict their ability to engage in certain types of transactions.

The coin is very likely hit a panic bottom today and although more sideways action is probably ahead, the short - term dips should be bought by investors, while traders should wait for a confirmed trend change in the volatile environment.

By advocating for policy changes, the Council seeks to create an economic model in which what is good for business is good for the environment and society.

U.S. and Canadian Automotive Policies in a Changing World Environment, Canadian - American Committee 56, by Paul Wonnacott.

The spotlight that private equity firms and hedge funds find themselves under in the current regulatory environment, as well as the changes in fair value rules for financial reporting, increase the scrutiny of alternative asset managers by investors, fund administrators, and auditors.

By conducting in - market visits, you are able to track any changes in the external environment, which may impact the trade and investment opportunities you plan to pursue.

MLPs are subject to significant regulation and may be adversely affected by changes in the regulatory environment including the risk that an MLP could lose its tax status as a partnership.

B.C. taxpayers can't afford these sorts of sweetheart deals in a time of austerity, especially when the Minister of the Environment admitted that the fees paid by Nestle and oil and gas companies likely wouldn't even pay the government's bill for administration related to the legal changes.

With less up for interpretation by investors, what will the impact be on wealth managers in this changing financial services regulatory environment?

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

For many, the word has nothing to do with a spiritual context... I embrace the term evangelical, if by that we mean a belief that we together can actually work for change in the world, caring for the environment, extending to the poor generosity and kindness, a hopeful outlook.

The socio - economic change in motion by the plantations, diseases and epidemics, created a crisis of confidence in adjusting to or adapting with existence and environment.

But in fact these changes, which themselves are rarely pursued by those seeking growth alone, only slow the increased stress on an already overtaxed environment.

These societies, called «inorganic» (PR 102) by Whitehead, can exist outside the structured society with only slight differences resulting from the change in their environment.

We tend to repeat customary actions unaware that when we do today what we did yesterday we actually do something different since in the interval both we and our environment have changed; unaware also that we now do without conscious definition of purpose and method what was done yesterday with specific ends in view and by relatively precise means.

If an individual acquires a character during its lifetime, that does not increase the probability that its offspring will exhibit the character; but if the development of some members of a population are affected by the environment in ways which improve their chance of leaving offspring, this will obviously increase their contribution to later generations, that is to say, their natural selective value; and the frequency of that character in later generations will be increased, not by any physiological or genetical change, but by the operation of selection.

Say we have a population of animals which has to meet some new challenge offered to it by an altered environment; there may be some individuals in the population whose development is changed by the environment in a way which makes them better able to deal with the challenge — they show a capacity for adaptive modification.

By observing the religious ecology of congregations through these categories, Ammerman draws out certain patterns and tendencies in how congregations have adapted to their changing environments.

The first is by perceiving the environment vaguely enough (in his technical language, transmutation) to block out unwelcome details: «The environment may then change indefinitely so far as concerns the ignored details — so long as they can be ignored» (PR 101/154).

Ironically, Whitehead had at hand an alternative explanation for societies as principles of continuity in a changing world in his passing remarks in Process and Reality to the effect that «a society is, for each of its members, an environment with some element of order in it, persisting by reason of the genetic relations between its own members» (90).

If I think my students were being affected in a negative way by a symbol, be it the cross, the particular face that might be on the cross, or the lack of respect for divinity, I would change my classroom environment.

Under Child's theory there is complete continuity from the reaction of the cell with its environment, which constitutes the primary metabolic gradient, and from the later reactions, by which the pattern of the developing embryo is laid down in accordance with the changing gradient pattern, to the intellectual processes by which the adult organism adjusts its relations to the outside world.

In the quotation at the head of this chapter, Daly and Cobb write of the impending change to the present global order necessitated by the deteriorating environment resulting from the dominant economic and political order.

Evolution occurs at the microscopic level by changes in genes as a result of the survival of the most adapted organisms for the environment in which they live.

The need for groups with a dual focus on personal growth and social change is illustrated by the crisis in our environment.

A study by Historic Environment Scotland into the effects of climate change on buildings in Scotland... More

For over 80 years NABI has represented the interests of the beverage alcohol import community by assuring access to the US market and alerting the import community to changes in the regulatory environment.

Europe is already in the vanguard of climate change action: a European Environment Agency report published last month said within five years emissions on the continent may have been slashed by a quarter on 1990 levels, «meeting and overachieving» its 2020 target of 20 per cent.

Small changes in e.g. bottle weight will not be noticed by the consumer, but for big brands can have a significant benefit for the environment.