Sentences with phrase «by environmental pressures»

Studies by social psychiatrists emphasize the role played by environmental pressures on the development of personality illnesses.

Producing significant amounts of oil from offshore leases in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas is quite a few years away because of permitting delays, serial lawsuits filed by environmental pressure groups, and the physical challenges involved in building the necessary offshore infrastructure in the Arctic Ocean.

More claims which were based on reports produced by environmental pressure groups.

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and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

In addition, airlines are under increased pressure to reduce carbon emissions by new government mandates like the Environmental Protection Agency's new draft rules announced earlier this month.

The research was conducted by dozens of international health and environmental experts and incorporates data from the ambitious Global Burden of Disease project, which highlighted how smoking, blood pressure, poor diet, and environmental factors affect human health earlier this year.

Granted, miners have been pressured by Beijing to curtail production as part of the government's enforcement of tougher environmental protection policies, but the decline in output is part of a downward trend we're seeing across the board, especially among major producers.

Anxiety arising from unpredictable expectations, pressure, intimidation, variable environmental conditions, and other failings in teaching methodologies is not recovered later by relaxing or hanging out.

Her work has been funded by several NIH agencies and her current study, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars Program, examines the interaction between genome - wide association and social environmental factors related to blood pressure among African American hypertensive parents and early risks for high blood pressure among their untreated children.

Daren Bakst, a research fellow in agricultural policy at the Heritage Foundation think tank, said sue and settle has led to «egregious antics» that have «effectively handed over the setting of agency priorities to environmental pressure groups,» and has led to rushed rulemaking by the agency.

The environmental pressure group is calling for the legislation to be improved by calling for amendments ensuring a strategy to insulate more warm homes and a legal minimum standard of energy efficiencies in rented properties.

In response to this particular environmental selection pressure, what evolved was a means by which some of the tadpoles can mature in about two - thirds of the time.

After the German Environment Ministry came under pressure from environmental groups, the German Research Ministry ordered that the experiment be put on hold while independent scientific reviews by non-German scientists were done.

By adjusting the duplication - divergence model to account for the pressure of environmental noise, the researchers developed a method that can be used to generate or evaluate the interconnection, or topology, of networks that work in a variety of environments.

Environmental «noise» is a key evolutionary pressure that shapes the interconnections within cells, as well as those of neural networks and bacterial / ecological networks, they observe in a paper to be published online April 30 by the Journal of the Royal Society Interface.

Because the timing of those life - history milestones can be affected by various environmental pressures, the tusks provide a way to «look directly at how the animals themselves were impacted by, and responded to, changes in their environment,» Cherney said.

Ratcheting up the pressure, the EPA and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection are both taking a closer look at the environmental costs of fracking and are investigating the uranium findings made by Tracy Bank, who continues to research how fracking impacts Environmental Protection are both taking a closer look at the environmental costs of fracking and are investigating the uranium findings made by Tracy Bank, who continues to research how fracking impacts environmental costs of fracking and are investigating the uranium findings made by Tracy Bank, who continues to research how fracking impacts toxic metals.

Born female, sheephead morph into males at various stages in the lifecycle as determined by environmental conditions and pressures.

Environmental activists said they are heartened by the number of countries that are moved to action but said pressure must remain on nations to both improve their targets and build a way in the Paris deal to regularly review and ratchet up carbon - cutting commitments.

Neither the selective pressure nor the evolutionary response could have been identified with the methods used by the majority of studies that examine how wild populations respond to environmental changes, which predominantly concentrate on changes in the phenotype.

Pushed by environmental organizations and seeing the risks of being associated with environmental destruction, companies like Unilever and McDonalds are pressuring their suppliers to stop expanding production on forest land,» says Martin Persson.

The rapid effort — the panel had less than 2 weeks to produce its report — concluded that «there is no definitive gene responsible for homosexuality,» that homosexuality is not a disease nor abnormal, and that being gay can be influenced by environmental factors such as culture and peer pressure.

Bringing together the observed macaque behavior and environmental conditions, we interpret the variation seen in macaque stone tool selection and shellfish characteristics on Koram and NomSao Islands as the result of a feedback loop driven by the level of predation pressure.

As long as they understand that there is pressure, environmental pressure, on organisms to adapt — antibiotic resistance by bacteria represent a form of evolution — but let's not call it evolution because that buzz word turns people off.

The current major global challenges in attaining food and nutrition security are compounded by pressures of growing populations, climate and other environmental change, and economic inequity and instability.

«The hypothesis to be tested experimentally in ADAPT was whether longer - lasting selective pressure by UV radiation results in a higher UV resistance, as well as in a higher resistance against further «extreme» environmental factors that exist in space,» Wassmann said.

There could be three evolutionary processes could explain this adaptive radiation of hominins: 1) the occupation of novel niches for species living in a highly productive but spatially constrained region when there are deep fresh water lakes in the EARS [46] and 2) the lakes themselves creating spatial structure producing population isolation and vicariance and 3) repeated periods of increased resource availability stimulated adaptation and radiation followed by periods of environmental stress when the lakes rapidly dried up imposing strong selection pressures [28].

From which we may deduce that an individual can be «modified» merely by the effect of environment, but that fresh characters will not be transmitted by heredity or will be transmitted only with difficulty and perhaps even then only because of some sustained environmental pressure repeatedly exerted upon a large number of generations.

Pressure imposed on the environment by the drastic and constant increase of tourism in the Riviera Maya and Cancún — as well as the lack of sustainable planning and management in many of Mexico's towns and cities over the past forty years — has led to an environmental crisis and the industry is urgently required to seek greater harmony between economic needs and environmental sustainability.

In 2009, 19.2 million people were recognized as displaced by environmental disasters worldwide and that number is projected to increase at an alarming rate, primarily due to the pressures of climate change.

The study, by researchers at the University of Texas and URS, a consulting firm — with the cooperation of (and some funding from) the oil and gas industry and Environmental Defense Fund (more on that below)-- shows that much of the pollution problem lies in a small subset of poorly operating systems or faulty processes — in this case valves run pneumatically using the pressure of extracted gas and operations that clear liquids from older wells.

The shifting positions of scientists and pressure groups in environmental debates is illustrated further by comments by May and Krebs in the parliamentary event we started with.

«In the case of CO2, a doubling of wealth leads typically to an increase of environmental pressure by 60 to 80 per cent, and in emerging economies this is sometimes even higher,» von Weizsäcker said.

Scientists say such energy - saving efforts could contribute to an even bigger environmental problem by adding pressure on North American's dwindling water resources.

The duplicity and hypocrisy of environmental pressure groups seem to be matched only by their consummate skill at manipulating public opinion, amassing political power, securing taxpayer - funded government grants, and persuading people to send them money and invest in «ethical» stock funds.

This amendment is supported by many environmental pressure groups, including Friends of the Earth's «Fix It or Ditch It» campaign.

By this I mean the mutually supportive network of environmental pressure groups, renewable energy companies and some public officials who keep each other well supplied with lavish funds, scare stories and green tape.

So it is reasonable to assume, despite the economic and environmental pressures on fossil fuels in the future, that the per capita fossil fuel useage would continue to grow, albeit at a slightly lower rate; a reasonable estimate would seem to be a 30 % increase overall above today's value by 2100.

The ban became controversial when it was delayed in late 2010 after what the public interest group Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility charged was pressure by The Coca - Cola Company.

If we assume that, despite economic and environmental pressures to reduce fossil fuel consumption, the world - wide per capita rate still increases by 50 % by 2100, we end up arriving at a concentration by 2100 of around 600 ppmv.

By 1988, environmental pressure groups were already arguing for similar restrictions on the emission of carbon dioxide «to save the climate.»

«We must not put pressure on people, but by providing information on the population and the environments, and appropriate contraception for everyone... doctors should help bring family size into the arena of environmental ethics, analogous to avoiding patio heaters and high carbon cars.»

Recently, some environmental pressure groups suggested that the next round of increases in Corporate Average Fuel Economy Standards for cars and light trucks should be 60 miles per gallon by 2025.

By Ben Webster The head of the UNâ $ ™ s climate change body is under pressure to resign after one of his strongest allies in the environmental movement said his judgment was flawed and called for a new leader to restore confidence in climatic science.

The only way to avoid such horrific blunders in environmental policy is by careful and independent attention to the science, economics, and law involved rather than responding to political pressures or current fads.

With the arrival of the environmental movement in the late 1960s, the coal industry came under increasing pressure to clean up the myriad of pollutants produced by its mines and plants.

Bhula added that the Board of Bokpoort CSP have placed significant pressure on the management team to raise the bar regarding overall performance expectations and clearly, the team is up to the challenge by consistently setting new standards not only in production but also through their positive socioeconomic impact and responsible environmental management.

Most big environmental groups in the state, under intense pressure from multiple directions, are taking an approach I've dubbed «performative non-support,» which means neutrality accompanied by thousands of words of explanation.

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