Sentences with phrase «by some other mechanism for»

Mirror trades were a favored conduit in the first half of this decade, regulators say, but they've been replaced by other mechanisms for moving money, including illicit reinsurance contracts and fraudulent court orders.

Once again, we're in the sad position of having to explain the obvious: a sufficient majority in Congress will not do so unless and until that authority is replaced by some other mechanism for reducing CO2 emissions.

Not exact matches

«The findings showed no mineralogical evidence for abundant liquid water or its by - products, thus pointing to mechanisms other than the flow of water — such as the freeze and thaw of carbon dioxide frost — as being the major drivers of recent gully evolution,» the team explained in the press release.

For their part, the federal government has not budged, staunchly defending this plan by dismissing the huge impact their changes will have on how we operate small businesses, and by inferring that doctors and other professionals are tax cheaters who unfairly take advantage of small business tax - saving mechanisms.

If so, would this be a mechanism through which China could reduce its US Treasury holdings by transferring them to other countries as payment for Euros with which to invest?

If, e.g., as sometimes happens, the man, after a time, more or less, recovers the faculties of which the injury to his brain had deprived him, and that not in consequence of a renewal of the injured part, but in consequence of the inhibited functions being performed by the vicarious action of other parts, the easiest explanation certainly is that, after a time, consciousness constitutes the remaining parts into a mechanism capable of acting as a substitute for the lost parts.

However, the extent of this change is significantly modified by a wide range of social and personal variables such as the functions that are being served for the individual by the attitudes in question; the satisfaction the individual derives from existing attitudes; the strength of existing defense mechanisms and group pressures surrounding those attitudes; patterns of reinforcement for similar attitudes in the past; other alternatives available to the viewer; and the current psychological state of the viewer.

Partly it was simple lack of knowledge of how thunder and lightning work and a hundred other mechanisms of the natural world; partly it was response to the mystery of life itself, the human potential for malice and for love, a mystery which still calls for answers beyond those easily formulated by the human sciences.

With cut down day coming, we thought it was important to Several of those roster moves were accomplished by putting players on injured reserve and a handful of other mechanisms teams use for managing their numbers.

While we loved the lean - to - steer mechanism on other models, we found it too complicated for the 2 year - olds who are this scooter's intended users: they just couldn't get the hand of shifting their bodies in order to turn the scooter, even though their older siblings could master the technique easily, demonstrating that the difficulty was not caused by a flaw in the scooter but by the motor skills of young toddlers.

This special mechanism is different from others on the list because they are hidden by the draping fabric of the square shaped chair for a cleaner look and a safer glide.

«The Government should increase the intake of Schools of Midwifery & Nursing to 100 and the State should devise a mechanism for safer blood transfusion by equipping one comprehensive health centre and one secondary health centre per LGA Other recommendations include, all key institutional stakeholders such as the Ministry of Health, Hospital's Management Board and the Ondo State Primary Healthcare Development Board should be strengthened to better perform their respective regulatory and implementation roles as regards the RBF in the state.

Despite this relatively small role played by independent expenditure committees relative to other sorts of fundraising mechanisms, this isn't the first time Cuomo has made changes to the way they're regulated while facing criticism for failing to make changes to these other mechanisms.

«Our hypothesis is, frankly, hard to believe, even by us, if for no other reason because we know of no mechanism to explain how cicada emergences could be driving a cycle in the birds that is so long — 13 or 17 years,» Koenig says.

By pairing a receptor that targets neurons with a molecule that degrades the main component of Alzheimer's plaques, the biologists were able to substantially dissolve these plaques in mice brains and human brain tissue, offering a potential mechanism for treating the debilitating disease, as well as other conditions that involve either the brain or the eyes.

The mechanism for the maintenance of cooperative behaviour in sociable weavers revealed by this study is unlikely to operate at such a global scale, but within smaller communities the idea of kin - directed cooperative behaviour is likely to be widespread and relevant across many other species.

Dr. Alan S. Cross, Professor of Medicine at University of Maryland School of Medicine, who was not involved in the research, shared his input: «This is a major conceptual breakthrough in our understanding of infection and immune disease mechanisms and may have implications for novel approaches to the treatment of other diseases characterized by cytokine storm.

Although bacteria have a seemingly limitless capacity to alter their genes by swapping bits of DNA between strains, this mechanism doesn't seem enough to account for the swift pace of change and the high variability of E. coli and other strains.Thomas Cebula of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wondered if this rapid evolution is being driven by microbes capable of much faster - than - normal variation.

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This appears to be the first example of how the ubiquitin tagging mechanism found by Rose, Ciechanover, and Hershko is responsible for rendering a genetic switch ambiguous in a human embryo (or any other animal).

Once the mechanism of laughter was set in place by evolution, the theory goes, it could be hijacked for other purposes: the expression of contempt for out - groups (as the superiority theory of humor claims) or the ventilation of forbidden sexual impulses (the relief theory of humor).

By testing this and other predictions about the behaviour of the theta aurora, our observations provide strong evidence that the plasma trapping mechanism is responsible for the theta aurora,» he adds.

«The field has been driven by amyloid for the past 15, 20 years and we have to look at other things because we still do not understand the mechanism of disease or how to develop effective therapeutics.»

«Also, the new mechanism may shed light on broader problems» in chemistry, he said, by providing a deeper understanding fundamental reaction processes for gold and other catalysts.

That support contributed to adoption by the AMA House of Delegates of policy calling for «an established decision mechanism that involves qualified public health physicians to determine which vaccines will be mandatory for admission to schools and other public venues.

(C) Cost - effective energy efficiency programs for end - use consumers of electricity, natural gas, home heating oil, or propane, including, where appropriate, programs or mechanisms administered by local governments and entities other than the State.

A team led by Mónica Bettencourt - Dias at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC; Portugal) have cracked this mystery, shedding light upon a critical mechanism whose deregulation leads to infertility, and that is important for the working of other cell types.

A research team led by Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) and the University of California, Davis, reveals that childhood gunshot injuries, while uncommon, are more severe, require more major surgery, have greater mortality and higher per - patient costs than any other mechanism for childhood injury — particularly among adolescent males.

«Our study reveals a spectrum of methods that nature uses to allow organisms to adapt to different environments,» said senior author Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, Scientific Director of Vertebrate Genome Biology at the Broad Institute: «These mechanisms are likely to be also at work in humans and other vertebrates, and by focusing on the remarkably diverse cichlid fishes, we were able to study this process on a broad scale for the first time.»

The channel - like property could have evolved, says Edwards, to meet the important need of moving large amounts of glutamate quickly, for while the other neurotransmitters are involved in modulating behaviors, such as mood, and therefore don't need to act with millisecond speed, glutamate functions by rapid - fire communication between closely placed nerve cells, and could require the fast action of the channel mechanism.

Other work addresses mechanisms for decreasing amyloid beta biosynthesis by enhancing cleavage of its precursor protein by the alpha - secretase enzyme.

As one of the largest national research programmes on ocean acidification, BIOACID has contributed to quantifying the effects of ocean acidification on marine organisms and their habitats, unravelling the mechanisms underlying the observed responses, assessing the potential for evolutionary adaptation, and determining how these responses are modulated by other environmental drivers.

The description of lymphatic vessels by Dr. Alitalo and other scientists working independently in the U.S. has opened new avenues for exploring mechanisms of Alzheimer's, Huntington's, and Parkinson's Diseases, as well as other neurodegenerative and autoimmune disorders.

With the other two Kavli Prize laureates, Marder defined the mechanisms by which brains remain stable while allowing for change during development and learning.

In a substudy, review outcomes were also compared across different types of clinical research, based in large part on the designations and definitions derived from a number of sources, including a report by Nathan, 14 the Institute of Medicine, 20 the NIH Director's Panel on Clinical Research, 9 the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Medical Association, 21 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.22 All 3599 R01 applications involving human subjects that were submitted to NIH for the October 2002 council were categorized into 1 of the following: (1) patient - oriented studies of mechanisms of human disease (bench to bedside); (2) clinical trials and other clinical interventions; (3) patient - oriented research focusing on development of new technologies; (4) epidemiological studies; (5) behavioral studies (including studies of normal human behavior); (6) health services research; and (7) use of deidentified human tissue.

HDST will also benefit from technological developments in the commercial world, and from investments made by other countries and other government agencies, providing options for HDST in areas of detectors, electronics, structural materials, metrology systems, mechanisms, and large lightweight mirrors.

«Our study reveals a spectrum of methods that nature uses to allow organisms to adapt to different environments,» said co-senior author Kerstin Lindblad - Toh, Co-Director of SciLifeLab, scientific director of vertebrate genome biology at the Broad Institute and professor in comparative genomics at Uppsala University «These mechanisms are likely also at work in humans and other vertebrates, and by focusing on the remarkably diverse cichlid fishes, we were able to study this process on a broad scale for the first time.»

Ja says this discovery may eventually have implications for people, as well: It suggests that food comas are a unique type of sleep, driven by mechanisms independent of other types of shuteye.

It could be that IGF - 1 still matters while a person already has cancer regardless of vitamin d or any of its other cofactors, but the evidence for a causal relationship between serum IGF - 1 and incidence of cancers in the presence of good control for IGF - 1 receptors has been called into question and is supported by well - known mechanisms.

The mechanisms responsible for a greater weight loss with the B2 regimen may be the trend toward a smaller decrease in REE with B2 that we measured (although the difference between regimens did not reach the threshold for statistical significance), together with a greater thermogenic response of larger meals, as documented by others [11].

Detox stands for detoxification, and is a period of time over which the body activates its natural healing mechanisms by pouring toxins stored in the cells and tissues back into the bloodstream for elimination through the kidneys and other organs.

Unlike other formulations, magnesium bis - glycinate is absorbed via a mechanism similar to that used by amino acids; it is not dependent on stomach acid for absorption.

This type of fund, managed and predominantly financed by the state, acts as an insurance mechanism for districts that can't cover the full cost of educating high - need pupils along with all others under their purview.

Pull mechanisms, on the other hand, are structured to incentivize private sector engagement and competition by creating viable market demand for specific products.

Get it right the first time by determining the vision for using technology to teach (not test), and figure out the proper funding and other mechanisms instead of dipping into facilities bonds meant for other purposes.

This may be a crazy question but can you increase your HP if you adjust your valves (by changing your lifters or whatever other mechanism is used for shimming) to decrease the gap between the riding...

This may be a crazy question but can you increase your HP if you adjust your valves (by changing your lifters or whatever other mechanism is used for shimming) to decrease the gap between the riding surface and the cams so that the cam pushes the valve more, thus increasing the opening through which the A / F mix gets in, increasing the intake?

Commercial letters of credit — help facilitate trading activity between your business and other businesses by providing a payment mechanism that is convenient for both you and your vendor.

«Refund anticipation check» means a check, stored value card or other payment mechanism representing the proceeds of the consumer's tax refund that was issued by a depository institution or other person that received a direct deposit of the consumer's tax refund or tax credit and for which the consumer has paid a fee or other consideration.

Fluid losses not compensated for by food intake can stimulate thirst mechanisms or other compensatory means, such as the sympathetic nervous system, angiotensin II, and renal sodium excretion.