Sentences with phrase «changing human factors»

His research interests include studying the interactions between El Niño / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and the monsoons of Asia; identifying possible effects on global climate of changing human factors, such as carbon dioxide, as well as natural factors, such as solar variability; and quantifying possible future changes of weather and climate extremes in a warmer climate.

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All of these changes, which human resource managers are heavily involved in, are important factors in shaping business performance.

Researchers found that human - caused climate change accounts for 55 percent of the increase in drying out of Western forests, a major factor in wildfires, and has led to a doubling of the area burned.

The afternoon of GCUC Day One featured several presentations that focused on how the human factor and connections that are inherent in coworking can drive change in cities and lives.

The source of this extinction is speculated to be the result of human predation, a significant climate change, or a combination of both factors.

«The studies demonstrating advantages of breastfeeding for infants and mothers suggest that many of the benefits are directly related to the duration of breastfeeding, The composition of human milk does not change markedly from 12 to 24 months, including most nutrients and bioactive factors.

Idealists, according to such a meaning, believe that human societies change through ideational factors.

It is our collective interest to improve on the voting processes but the reality is that if the human factor is not changed, whatever innovation we are trying to achieve will lead to further complications.

President - elect Donald Trump's choice as Energy secretary also told the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee considering his nomination that he has changed his view on climate change, now viewing human activity as a contributing factor while not stating that it is the primary driver.

«The strongest factor in students» belief in human - caused climate change was their own knowledge of climate science.»

She also thinks that though human influence might be «greater than we realize,» this regional climate change is probably caused by many factors, including increased irrigation in the region.

Another complicating factor making present climate change different from events in the past is that most ecosystems are now dominated by human use, making it harder for species to adjust their geographic ranges in response to the changing climate.

«If the natural concentration had been a factor of two or more lower, the climate impacts of fossil fuel carbon dioxide release would have occurred about 50 or more years sooner, making it much more challenging for the developing human society to scientifically understand the phenomenon of humanmade climate change in time to prevent it,» he says.

Research published in the Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2016 Annual Meeting examined how the public's acceptance of automated vehicles changes when presented with a more realistic driving scenario.

For these researchers, the bursts of demographic expansion caused by climate change in southern Africa were probably key factors in the origin of modern humans» behaviour in Africa, and in the dispersal of Homo sapiens from his ancestral home.

But increasing human density, climate change, or other factors may have resulted in scarcities in these prey, such that wolves began scavenging to survive.

The computer model determines how the average surface temperature responds to changing natural factors, such as volcanoes and the sun, and human factors — greenhouse gases, aerosol pollutants, and so on.

The researchers, who presented their findings today (April 30) at the Association for Computing Machinery's Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, said this effect could eventually lead to changes in behavior.

Species loss has continued into the present day, driven by a variety of factors, including climate change and overharvest by humans.

In today's world ever - changing environment, demanding job works and socio - economic factors enforces sleep deprivation in human population.

Chance, geo - climatic factors and the changing landscape all have an important part to play in human evolution, argues Mark Maslin in The Cradle of Humanity

THE HYBRID FACTOR To understand signs of interbreeding among humans, Neandertals and other ancient hominids, scientists are studying physical changes in the bodies of various animal hybrids.

However, GCMs do not directly project how the changes of other climatic factors, such as humidity and wind, affect human perception.

In recent years, a brand of research called «climate attribution science» has sprouted from this question, examining the impact of extreme events to determine how much — often in fractional terms — is related to human - induced climate change, and how much to natural variability (whether in climate patterns such as the El Niño / La Niña - Southern Oscillation, sea - surface temperatures, changes in incoming solar radiation, or a host of other possible factors).

«To mitigate the effects of climate change, we can talk about two types of options: to attack it at its origin, by eliminating or reducing the human factors that contribute to it (such as, reducing emissions, controlling pollution, etc.) or developing strategies that allow for its effects to be reduced, such as, in the case that concerns us, increasing green areas in cities, using, for example, the tops of buildings as green roofs,» states the University of Seville researcher, Luis Pérez Urrestarazu.

«It is true that there are other factors (such as volcanism, the changes in the orbit and the axis of the Earth, the solar cycle), but numerous scientific studies indicate that most of the global warming in recent decades is due to the large concentration of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen oxide and others) mainly emitted due to human activity.»

«We know from previous human studies that changes in gut bacterial composition correlate with the early development of type 1 diabetes, and that the interactions between bacterial networks may be a contributing factor in why some people at risk for the disease develop type 1 diabetes and others don't,» said Jessica Dunne, Director of Discovery Research at JDRF, which funded the study.

However, there's a whole army of other factors that we need to be more concerned about than scientific collecting — including habitat loss, pathogens, human activities and climate change.

Erosion tends to be a long - term ongoing process due to many factors (sea level changes, subsidence, natural or human - induced sediment source modifications).

It is not mentioned in any of the 169 targets, yet many people think it is a decisive factor for global environmental change and future human wellbeing,» says IIASA World Population Program Director Wolfgang Lutz, a study coauthor.

Although carbon dioxide accounts for the vast majority of greenhouse gas emissions from human activities, methane emissions are also an important factor driving climate change.

Climate change effects on the geographical distribution and incidence of vector - borne diseases in other countries where these diseases are already found can also affect North Americans, especially as a result of increasing trade with, and travel to, tropical and subtropical areas.63, 197 Whether climate change in the U.S. will increase the chances of domestically acquiring diseases such as dengue fever is uncertain, due to vector - control efforts and lifestyle factors, such as time spent indoors, that reduce human - insect contact.

Even without human - caused climate change, wildfires would have increased in many regions due to other human activities and natural factors.

Climate forcing consists of factors, naturally occurring and human - made, that contribute to a change in the Earth's energy balance affecting the climate.

«In the face of natural variability and complexity, the consequences of change in any single factor, for example greenhouse gas emissions, can not readily be isolated, and prediction becomes difficult... Scientific uncertainties continue to limit our ability to make objective, quantitative determinations regarding the human role in recent climate change, or the degree and consequence of future change.»

But, as Cobb told Carbon Brief, this doesn't rule out human - induced climate change as a factor affecting ENSO.

Results: There are many factors that can change the climate, like human - caused emissions, naturally - occurring gases, and even heat radiated from the Sun.

There have been all sorts of reasons proposed for past changes, but the important thing is that the geological record shows that the climate is sensitive to various factors and it is this which makes it plausible that human influence can effect climate.

The history of agriculture is closely linked to human history, and agricultural developments have been crucial factors in social change, including the specialization of human activity.

Not surprisingly, a storm has broken out over research saying human activities are not the main factor behind climate change.

By determining how changes in gene expression affect the fate of glial cells in mice, we hope to understand the key factors that govern neural cell regeneration in the human brain.

Using novel gene - array technology to measure the extent of gene expression in thousands of genes simultaneously, this study shows that as humans diverged from their ape ancestors in the last five million years, genes for transcription factors — which control the expression of other genes — were four times as likely to have changed their own expression patterns as the genes they regulate.

That's the conclusion of a new study that used measurements of an array of human pressures on the ocean — from acidification to overfishing — to make a map of where those factors combined into stressed - out hotspots, as well as how the combinations of stressors had changed over time.

But overall, the message of the studies this year is that «human activity changes the likelihood and behaviors of extreme events, and our ability as a scientific community to adequately (and convincingly) disentangle the human - caused factors from the underlying natural variability continues to improve,» Kossin said.

Together, EBNA2 and the human transcription factors change the expression of neighboring viral genes.

Disproportionate mortality of males, presumably an important cause of the change in sex ratio of the snow leopard population in Tost, is reported in several carnivores as resulting from human - induced factors such as poaching and retaliatory killing, including Amur tigers in southeast Russia [32], leopards in South Africa [34], and cougars in the Pacific Northwest [33], although there are exceptions (e.g. tiger population in Panna, Central India, that had turned male - biased prior to extinction due to poaching; [36], [37]-RRB-.

Based on Dr. Nelson's fundamental work, particularly in the area of molecular, cultivation - independent analysis of the structure and function of microbiomes, nowadays researchers understand the human microbiome as an important factor driving human health and investigate links between changes in microbiome structures and diseases like diabetes or obesity.

Microbiomes maintain healthy function of these diverse ecosystems, influencing human health, climate change, food security and other factors.

Associating proportional changes in the viral titre of nasal washes in the ferret study [16] with proportional changes in viral titres in nasal sprays in the human challenge studies [39], and taking the household SAR to approximate natural infectivity, we estimated the antipyretic - induced individual transmission enhancement factor fi using equation S22 in the electronic supplementary material.

The great news is that by adding fermented veggies into your foods, you are changing your gut health for better: «the composition of the gut microbiota has been shown to differ in lean and obese humans and animals and to change rapidly in response to dietary factors.