Sentences with phrase «causing human numbers»

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According to a 2016 Pew Research Center poll, the number of Republican voters who say they believe in human - caused climate change was 23 percent while the number of Democrats was 69 percent.

Is it the number one cause of mass homicide in human history?

Since the organization is not geared toward just one cause, they're able to help a diverse number of charities that bring attention to different issues — poverty, human trafficking, hunger, war and peace, to name a few.

For the first time in the history of creation, the life support systems of the Planet Earth are being destroyed by human activities... Throughout history humans have caused locally significant damage to the environment, but never before have human numbers and actions combined to threaten the integrity of the entire planet.

The number of unborn and children who have died due to natural causes is literally thousands of times larger than those killed by the actions of human dictators.

Such standards help eliminate product contamination by any number of microorganisms known to cause dangerous infection and disease in humans.

According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, smoking is the number one cause of heart disease in women under 50.

The report, produced in consultation with a number of businesses and NGOs, including Amnesty International, Verité, Engineers Against Poverty and the Institute for Human Rights and Business, examines the root causes of slavery, and sets out priority actions for moving the industry towards greater transparency.

«The law was passed because lead can cause serious health problems, especially for young children and pregnant women, and testing at a select number of schools last year uncovered potential problems,» said Christine Schuyler, director of health and human services for Chautauqua County.

«A weapon of mass destruction (WMD or WoMD) is a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological or other weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans or cause great damage to human - made structures (e.g. buildings), natural structures (e.g. mountains), or the biosphere.»

But in March, Lichun Tang of China's Beijing Proteome Research Center and colleagues reported using CRISPR / Cas9 to correct disease - causing mutations in a small number of viable human embryos.

Perhaps because it is normal for human embryos to contain cells with the wrong number of chromosomes, which can cause them to self - destruct.

The highest number of respondents, 35 percent, said climate change was caused about equally by natural changes in the environment and human causes.

Excess amounts from human activities often end up in rivers, streams and coastal environments, causing algal blooms, loss of sea grass and low oxygen levels in the water, which can kill large numbers of fish and other organisms.

«Similarly, a number of studies have found that telling people about the 97 % scientific consensus on human - caused global warming has a neutralizing rather than polarizing effect.»

A plurality of the total number surveyed — 33 percent — thought it was caused by a mix of natural and human influences.

And the number who denied the scientific consensus that human - caused climate change is happening declined by 10 percentage points among Catholics and 6 points among the US population in general.

The BBC team used clever analogies and appealing graphics to discuss three key numbers that help clarify important questions about climate change: 0.85 degrees Celsius — how much the Earth has warmed since the 1880s; 95 % — how sure scientists are that human activity is the major cause of Earth's recent warming; and one trillion tons — the best estimate of the amount of carbon that can be burned before risking dangerous climate change.

The authors said that this result suggests that the reason bacterial numbers are so high in these mice, and, by extension, human LAD patients, is not because of a defect in the immune system's surveillance mechanism but because of the inflammation caused by the immune system's abnormal response to normal levels of bacteria in the gums.

When recombination doesn't go smoothly, it can cause a number of problems in humans, including miscarriages and birth defects.

Although specific gene mutations have been identified in humans that can cause CCMs to form, the size and number varies widely among patients with the same mutations.

«It is likely in the case of the red wolf and the Great Lakes [eastern] wolf that mixture with coyotes was caused by human actions, wolf control, and habitat destruction, which allowed coyote numbers to increase.

A number of other microbes that cause intestinal problems, in humans and other animals, have been sequenced or partly sequenced, and microbiologists hoped that adding these two to the list could shed light on the problems Salmonella inflicts.

The BRS virus is equivalent to the human RS virus and causes most of the cases of serious pneumonia that lead to fatalities in calves and to epidemics which can spread to a large number of farms in the same area.

Without ship strikes as a big factor holding the population back — and no other readily apparent human - caused reason (although noise, chemical pollution and interactions with fisheries may impact them)-- it is even more likely that the population is growing more slowly because whale numbers are reaching the habitat limit, something called the carrying capacity.

Of the three strains of HIV known to infect humans, we know that two — the one causing the global AIDS epidemic and another that has infected a small number of people in Cameroon — came from a chimpanzee virus called SIV.

«In this study, we were able to observe the existence of microscopic disease and low numbers of bacteria, which would be difficult to «see» in humans but could possibly be the cause of the variable and nonspecific symptoms that are characteristic of post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome.

It is the combination of the twin curses of human numbers and human behaviour that has caused our environmental problems.

This finding supports the hypothesis that condors were fairly widespread and abundant prior to increases in human - caused mortality, which likely drove their numbers down quickly in the 1800s and early 1900s.

It also contains some of the most variable human genes: hundreds of versions — or alleles — exist of each gene in the population, allowing our bodies to react to a huge number of disease - causing agents and adapt to new ones.

The study stops short of linking the rise in number and size of fires directly to human - caused climate change.

Already, northern right whales have a Potential Biological Removal (PBR) of less than 1, the number that can safely be removed from their population each year by human causes.

We then exposed participants to a number of different experimental treatments that all contained the same basic message, that «97 % of climate scientists have concluded that human - caused climate change is happening.»

These nutrients end up in rivers and streams as the result of human activities and can cause algal blooms, loss of seagrass and low oxygen levels, which can lead to large numbers of fish and other organisms dying.

The report, prepared by the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHSS) for Congress, is the first attempt to estimate the total number of cancers caused by the atmospheric testing programme.

In 2012, as part of efforts to better understand the causes of melanoma, researchers at the Broad Institute, the Dana - Farber Cancer Institute and a number of other institutes reported the results of whole genome sequencing of 25 human metastatic melanomas (Berger et al., 2012).

In theory, human - caused warming could increase the strength of ENSO events through a number of complex and interlinked processes.

Aneuploidy (an abnormal number of chromosomes) is the most common genetic alteration in human tumors and a major cause for birth defects (Figure 4).

Errors in chromosome segregation are a major cause for birth defects and embryonic lethality in humans, and the most common genetic alteration in human tumors is aberrant chromosome numbers, called aneuploidy.

For example, high numbers of disease - causing viruses and a bacterial species called Escherichia coli can occur in coastal waters influenced by human wastes (e.g., sewage).

To determine whether the Zika virus caused this, a number of independent teams of researchers — including two in Brazil and one at the University of California, San Diego — created brain organoids from healthy human cells and infected some of them with the Zika virus.

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.??

If the same technique works in humans, it could have big implications for curing a number of diseases caused by genetic variants.

Rare copy number variants contribute to congenital left - sided heart disease Rare variants in NR2F2 cause congenital heart defects in humans

Because of its pleiotropic functions, defects in human cohesin biology can cause a number of clinically relevant issues.

Classical conditioning is a learning process that occurs both in animals and humans alike when two stimuli are repeatedly paired (such as the bell ringing and the feeding, or a particular behavior and the electric shock), so that the response originally elicited by the second stimulus (the secretion of saliva that originally occurs in the presence of food or the unpleasant sensation that follows an electric shock) is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone (meaning that after a number of repetitions, the sound of the bell is enough to make the dog salivate like it does in the presence of food and the engagement in unwanted behavior is enough to make you feel the same discomfort an electric shock would cause).

«The number - one cause of nearly every sign of premature aging on the human face is ultraviolet exposure,» Dr. Taylor says.

Candida is yeast which is normal and present in everyday life but when it overgrows in the human body, it can cause a large number of problems.

«In our modern world where people are regularly taking antibiotics and other pharmaceutical drugs, where food is laced with chemicals alien to the human physiology, an increasing number of people have damaged, abnormal gut flora dominated by pathogenic [disease - causing] microbes.

This is because it is human growth hormone that controls the density of calcium in the bones and indeed the density of the bones themselves, and a lack of a human growth hormone can lead to a loss in bone density that can cause a serious number of problems.