Sentences with phrase «by human activities into»

When carbon is emitted by human activities into the atmosphere it is generally thought that about half remains in the atmosphere and the remainder is stored in the oceans and on land.

Three of these streams drain forested watersheds, with 87 to 100 % tree cover, while the other four drain watersheds largely converted by human activity into pasture, cropland, or pavement and buildings.

Not exact matches

The emphasis has characteristically been on «a theology of the infinite» — an inquiry into the identity and existence of divine beings, divine activity in history and nature, the purpose and destiny of human life as these are revealed by a being called «God» to others called «persons.»

Reason consolidates itself in terms of techniques, e.g., hunting, fishing, farming, handed down by the tribe to the next generation, evolving still more in terms of greater and more refined techniques and in terms of greater area of human activity; it unifies itself through the compilation of human experience not only in technique and art but in organized bodies of knowledge, the sciences, and all these achievements of reason resulting in a culture which in turn unify groups of people into cultural groups, civilizations, etc..

If he were to mean by this that God finally wraps up all the determinations of meaning that we have brought into existence by our human activity, that would be a proposal worth pursuing.

The tendency of human nature, intensified by our commercial activity, is to make the life a whirlpool — a great maelstrom which draws everything into itself.

First used to refer to the new global economy, it now encompasses the great new phenomenon of our time — the process by which all scientific, cultural, religious and economic human activity is being integrated into one worldwide network.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

Schindler's contrary opinion, however, bears serious consideration: «My own view is that the habit of communication of the dominant culture, which knows no discreet activities that ought not to be fully exposed, and no mysteries that ought not to be fully unveiled, is precisely what needs to be called into question, by both the form and the content of an authentically Christian - human response.»

They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people.

She argued that the problem of the modern is brought about mainly by the intrusion into the public and private spheres of the social sphere, which subsumes in itself all human activities.

Human services groups are pushing back against a proposal by Assemblyman Dov Hikind and Sen. Terrence Murphy that would have resettlement agencies monitor the activities of people brought into New York as refugees.

Now, research suggests that for the past decade, such stratospheric aerosols — injected into the atmosphere by either recent volcanic eruptions or human activities such as coal burning — are slowing down global warming.

Whether peering into deep space or checking on human activity, spacecraft and satellites from days gone by are still on the job

AAAS created an Office of Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, headed by Rosemary Chalk, to coordinate the CSFR's activities which fell broadly into three areas - professional ethics, human rights, and science and society.

For his part, Collins, who has led NIH since 2009 and been kept on by the Trump administration, pointed to an array of promising NIH activities, including the development of new technologies to provide insights into human brain circuitry and function through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disease.

But they are threatened by human activity: logging, burning, and transformation into pastures are some of the factors that prune the tree of life.

The new study shows that the synthetic compound is capable of inhibiting the activities of several DNA - processing enzymes, including the «integrase» used by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) to insert its genome into that of its host cell.

Over the last few centuries, the ocean has absorbed huge amounts of the carbon dioxide spewed into the atmosphere by human activities, such as burning fossil fuels.

Earthquakes caused by human activities, such as injecting pressurized wastewater from drilling back into the ground, have become almost 10 times more common than they were 20 years ago.

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The additional supply of nitrogen into the world's oceans by human activities, however, could change this situation in the future.

«Currently, our planet is in a warm phase — an interglacial period — and the associated increased climate sensitivity needs to be taken into account for future projections of warming induced by human activities.»

This influx of diversity into the reef likely helped originally build the reef, and may help replenish areas destroyed by human activity or hurricanes, Bryan said.

Even though large amounts are released into the air by human activities such as coal burning, smelting, mining and waste incineration, mercury also occurs naturally in the environment, where it undergoes a complex chemical cycle.

The often - overlooked impacts of noise, driven by expansion of human activities and transportation networks, are encroaching into the furthest reaches of remote areas, according to the study.

I won't argue that our added gases may contribute to the warming to some very, very small degree, but keep in mind, the ash plume from a good volcanic eruption such as the last big Pinatubo eruption eclipses into insignificants the amount of pollutants added to the atmosphere by human activity.

As a gigantic carbon sink, the ocean has taken up about a third of the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by human activities.

My rather old (1994) carbon cycle chart shows 111 GtC turned into biomass each year (61 land 50 ocean) compared to 750 in the atmosphere and 5.5 added to the atmosphere by human activity.

Researchers have discovered that a subset of human antibodies have catalytic activity against a particular antigen, breaking it down into smaller and less harmful fragments instead of trapping it for removal or destruction by other immune cells.

Though the vast majority of climate scientists agree that the Earth's climate is changing as a result of human activities that increase the amounts of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere, researchers like Soon foment debate by publishing alternate hypotheses or denials.

Biologically active compounds are an inseparable part of our diet, including the naturally occurring ones as well as those introduced into the environment by human activities.

To do this, the researchers implanted a four - by - four - millimeter chip composed of 96 electrodes into a subdivision of the PPC called the anterior intraparietal area (AIP), to measure the neural activity of a tetraplegic human who volunteered to take part in a brain - machine interface clinical trial.

For example, if a human HAR — one that turned up the human gene a lot — was injected into a chimpanzee brain cell, it would function the same way by turning up the activity of the chimp neuron a lot.

As a gigantic carbon sink, the ocean has taken up about a third of the carbon dioxide (CO2) released into the atmosphere by human activities.

Other research is looking into questions about how seamount populations change in response to climate - induced shifts in ocean circulation and whether habitats disturbed by human activity can recover.

Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester By the Sea (six nominations) is another film by a real movie artist: a study of grief and the ways in which it is denied and displaced into other human activities which in turn have their effects on other peoplBy the Sea (six nominations) is another film by a real movie artist: a study of grief and the ways in which it is denied and displaced into other human activities which in turn have their effects on other peoplby a real movie artist: a study of grief and the ways in which it is denied and displaced into other human activities which in turn have their effects on other people.

by Bryant Frazer Watch enough movies, you get some insights into criminal activity and human behaviour.

The plot centers around the two as they are «hired by the Underground Investigative Service to look into the rampant «unexplained» activity in Los Angeles — all while uncovering a larger mystery that could threaten the existence of the human race.»

This PowerPoint presentation includes various fun activities based around: What programming is and why it is important Variables and constants BASIC Commands and their Scratch alternatives (PRINT, CLS, INPUT, END, REM, LET) Conditional Statements — IF THEN ELSE, SELECT CASE, GOTO Loops - FOR NEXT, DO WHILE, WHILE WEND Setting Real World programming challenges Combining programming with other topics ========================================================================= Part one, which contains various fun activities based around: Computational thinking (simplified)-- breaking down a bigger task into smaller steps and finding solutions Algorithms — Step - by - step ordered instructions Flow Charts — Graphical representations of algorithms Pseudocode — A half - code outline of a program written for humans to understand.

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20110809091832/http://www.teachingandlearningresources.org.uk Literacy as a complex activity: deconstructing the simple view of reading Authors: Morag Stuart, Rhona Stainthorp and Maggie Snowling Department of Psychology and Human Development, Institute of Education The Rose Review into the teaching of early reading recommended that the conceptual framework incorporated into the National Literacy Strategy Framework for Teaching ˆ the Searchlights model of reading and its development - should be replaced by the Simple View of Reading.

I won't argue that our added gases may contribute to the warming to some very, very small degree, but keep in mind, the ash plume from a good volcanic eruption such as the last big Pinatubo eruption eclipses into insignificants the amount of pollutants added to the atmosphere by human activity.

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This post is about one of the great, and underappreciated, vanishings under way as the Anthropocene gets into high gear — the loss of a substantial portion of the world's amphibian diversity in the face of a fungus spread by human activities.

The addition of carbon into the atmosphere by human activities does not automatically imply that the atmospheric concentration must necessarily increase.

Arguments about whether the current CO2 rise is caused by human activity fall clearly into this category.

Some of ag's CO2 is emitted directly by feedlots, farm equipment, and related transportation activities; some (such as unwanted leaves, stems and the like) is recycled into the soil but still remains in the active carbon cycle; some (probably a small fraction) is transpired or excreted by humans and our commensals.

Consensus is growing that we have driven the planet into a new epoch, the Anthropocene, in which many Earth - system processes and the living fabric of ecosystems are now dominated by human activities.

even as we are probably being propelled into a new ice age, by forces independent of human activity, the warming oceans, most probably largely caused by undersea volcanic activity in the pacific ocean, may cause a continuing warming trend in alaska.

«In considering the question of human activity and climate change it is essential to distinguish between global warming, which is a progressive increase in the annual mean global temperature, and human - activity - induced greenhouse warming, as may, for example, be caused by the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere as a result of fossil fuel combustion or deforestation.»