Sentences with phrase «caused by characteristics»

We have found strong support for the important role of internal selection in shaping the adaptive evolution of body plans (i.e. selection caused by characteristics of the developmental system).

«Celiac disease (also known as Celiac Sprue or gluten - sensitive enteropathy) is a chronic disease in which malabsorption of nutrients is caused by a characteristic... lesion of the small intestine mucosa.

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If there is any characteristic clearly observable in the progress of Nature towards higher consciousness, it is that this is achieved by increasing differentiation, which in itself causes ever stronger individualities to emerge.

Even IF a first cause exists, you know nothing of its properties and attributes... and all of the human - like characteristics of it have been endowed upon it by man.

Niebuhr summed up the sin of sensuality by pointing out three of its invariable characteristics: a self - defeating self - love, an attempt to escape the self by finding a god outside the self (in a person or process), and an attempt to escape from the confusion caused by sin into some form of subconscious existence.

It causes one to suspect that these very human characteristics were ascribed to the Creator by human beings.

This tentative model for understanding the causes of problem drinking is offered in the report of the Cooperative Commission on the Study of Alcoholism: «An individual who (1) responds to beverage alcohol in a certain way, perhaps physiologically determined, by experiencing intense relief and relaxation, and who (2) has certain personality characteristics, such as difficulty in dealing with and overcoming depression, frustration, and anxiety, and who (3) is a member of a culture in which there is both pressure to drink and culturally induced guilt and confusion regarding what kinds of drinking behavior are appropriate, is more likely to develop trouble than will most other people.»

It is a type of anti-communism distinguished by the following characteristics: it has no understanding of the causes of communism and emphasizes only self - defeating methods of opposing it; its starting point is a type of economic individualism that can not tell the difference between the modest institutions of the welfare state in this country and the first stages of communism; and it closes minds to the changes that have taken place in the Communist world.

Capellas hypothesises that chestnut flour sourdough was not popular with consumers «probably due to the reduction in the characteristic sweet taste of chestnut flour caused by sourdough fermentation».

The process produces the characteristic flavor by causing extreme change on a molecular level.

The company claims the ingredient can maintain its chemical, physical and sensory characteristics during prolonged storage time and avoids quality deterioration caused by changes in temperature.

Adam's attributes and characteristics have been much discussed, applauded and maligned, and although he does have evident qualities it is debatable whether they out - weight the detriment to the balance of the side he causes by his lack of pace and awareness.

But a sudden, sharp close of the airways by the epiglottis blocks the access of the airflow, which causes the characteristic sound you can clearly hear.

Although the researchers accounted for other parent characteristics and family habits, it's still possible kids» behavior problems weren't directly caused by irregular bedtimes.

The affected mitochondria could no longer provide the synapses with enough energy, which ultimately prevented the synapses from functioning — providing the first direct link between cellular injury caused by amyloid protein and the characteristic breakdown of neuronal communication that occurs in Alzheimer's patients.

One of their findings indicates that a very large proportion of demon shrimp are «intersex» — displaying male and female characteristics, which is caused by parasites which «feminize» the host.

Working with colleagues at St. Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, Martin identified two individuals who had the characteristics of hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer, which is usually caused by a mutation that inactivates one of a person's two copies of the tumor suppressor gene MLH1, but who showed no signs of mutation.

When the investigators looked at patients» pre-transplant characteristics, they found that high body mass index and cirrhosis caused by alcohol consumption were linked with an increased risk of developing steatosis.

This movement is characteristic of active volcanoes, and is caused by the magma welling up below the surface.

High levels of bone destruction and reduced bone density caused by excessive osteoclasts are characteristic of osteoporosis, a common bone disease in which bones become fragile and susceptible to fracture.

After the planet was discovered in 2001, astronomers had speculated that these bizarre characteristics were caused by the gravitational interference of the star's binary partner, located less than 200 billion kilometers away.

In the case of tapirs, Witmer found that their skulls have various characteristics such as nerve passages, blood ducts, and small muscle attachments that are caused by the snoutlike structure, and therefore necessary for the snout's existence.

These studies revealed that the void's physical characteristics — the type and location of missing bone — were consistent with a fibrous dysplastic neoplasm, a tumor caused by a bone growth disorder, the scientists report online today in PLOS ONE.

Scientists investigated the mutation that causes the Muffs and beard characteristic in certain chicken varieties by mapping the trait to the correct location on the chromosome and sequencing that region from chickens with and without Muffs and beard.

This helps to assure that the links between physical activity, brain development and achievement are actually caused by the differences in activity rather than reflecting the characteristics of the children who choose to be more or less physically active.

«The large - scale differences in the structures and transmission characteristics of these proteins — caused by what amounts to seemingly insignificant differences in the positions of a few carbon and hydrogen atoms — are quite remarkable,» Jaroniec said.

Although tilapia fish provides ideal characteristics for production and represents an excellent economic opportunity for Veracruz, the species faces health problems caused by pests, so farmers constantly see their profits diminished, researchers say.

Although tilapia fish provides ideal characteristics for production and represents an excellent economic opportunity for Veracruz, the species faces health problems caused by pests, so farmers constantly see their profits diminished.

The strong reflection seen on Mercury is too large to be caused by a momentary «glint» off a crater wall, and when studied in more detail, shares the characteristics of reflections from the water ice seen on Mars and the icy moons of Jupiter.

Moreover, many human tumors have highly abnormal numbers of chromosomes (that is, they are aneuploid), with initial chromosomal loss participating in the early steps of the transformation cascade in inherited cancers caused by heterozygous mutation in tumor suppressor genes and the more widespread aneuploidy characteristic of advance tumors thought to drive acquisition of malignant growth properties.??

A 1985 study came up with the term «smoker's face» to describe certain facial characteristics, such as wrinkles, gauntness, and a gray appearance of the skin, caused by smoking.

But it activates them weakly so if you've too much estrogen, the flax competes for the estrogen by binding to receptors preventing those hyper - estrogenic effects and if you don't have enough estrogen, so in the case of post-menopause or ovarian failure, flax binds to estrogen receptors and causes the estrogen effects that we really want, like libido and energy and the expression of female sex characteristics.

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High testosterone characteristics such as high sex drive, muscle mass, alertness and high focus in your activities are caused by the free testosterone.

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It is caused by the excessive production of androgen (most especially testosterone, the hormone associated with male physical characteristics).

However, it is likely that such fiber type characteristics are not caused by shifts between type I and type II muscle fibers, as aerobic exercise and strength training produce very similar fiber type changes (Farup et al. 2014).

And yet by the time it begins to veer just slightly off course, the show's excellent first few episodes (directed with characteristic verve by Sherlock's Paul McGuigan) have already built up such a repository of trust that our hero could suddenly run into Spider - Man, or develop powers of invisibility, without causing us to blink.

Parents have exercised choice in selecting a charter or private - sector school rather than a district school, making it impossible to say whether parental perceptions of the school are caused by actual school characteristics in each sector or some other factor.

To eliminate the effects of any chance differences in performance caused by other observable characteristics, our analysis takes into account students» age, gender, race, and eligibility for the free lunch program; whether they had been assigned to a small class; and whether they were assigned to a teacher of the same race — which earlier research using these same data found to have a large positive effect on student performance (see «The Race Connection,» Spring 2004).

The smaller gains achieved by always - D and sometimes - D schools compared with the performance of voucher - eligible and voucher - threatened schools, despite the similar characteristics of all these schools, strengthen our confidence that voucher competition is the cause of the improvements.

Brainstorm as many causes as you can, and then categorize them into those causes that you can influence and those that that are influenced exclusively by student characteristics.

Random - assignment studies eliminate sources of bias caused by differences in student or school characteristics.

Although school closures are unrelated to the characteristics of the students who attend them, absences caused by weather do vary with student characteristics.

This version, too, was hampered by Jekyll - and - Hyde running characteristics caused by the fact that the center - mounted blower was connected to the six horizontally opposed cylinders via a spiderlike network of extralong intake pipes.

Unnamed sources told Automotive News that the Giulia's delay is caused by Alfa refining some safety and ride characteristics.

The proposed scheme uses the channel estimation matrix for detection and treats the interference caused by channel estimation errors and additive white Gaussian noise as equivalent noise where the channel estimation matrix and the statistical characteristic of channel estimation errors are necessitated.

The controller, denoted as the feedforward - feedback fuzzy sliding - mode controller (FF - FSMC), can be applied to eliminate tracking error caused by the hysteretic characteristics.

The Fund invests by sampling the Index, holding a range of securities that, in the aggregate, approximates the full Index in terms of key risk factors and other characteristics which may cause the fund to experience tracking errors relative to performance of the Index.

Whelping difficulties caused by anatomical characteristics, obesity, poor muscle tone, or hormone imbalance can sometimes be prevented but when breeding selection and bitch care fail, the only remedy is surgical intervention.