Sentences with phrase «driven by environmental factors»

They returned to an age - old question: How much of cancer is driven by environmental factors, and how much by genetics?

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This suggested not only that species could change — already a divisive concept back then — but also that the changes were driven purely by environmental factors, instead of divine intervention.

Using 139 prokaryote - enriched samples, containing > 35,000 species, we show vertical stratification with epipelagic community composition mostly driven by temperature rather than other environmental factors or geography.

The three species, which have varying larval dispersal strategies, were simulated in a dynamic natural marine system over time to determine whether dispersal was driven by environmental or biological factors for the modeled species.

A new study released in the journal Energy and Environmental Science by MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory looks at factors driving cheap (er) Chinese made solar panels.

All told, about 20 % of the distribution of domesticated species across the Amazon seemed to be driven by human influences, while 30 % was likely due to environmental factors such as soil composition.

Food intake is driven by biological, emotional, cognitive and environmental factors.

ref Damage may also be driven by disturbance history, level of coral cover, type of coral community, and environmental factors such as exposure and circulation.

The field of epigenetics provides crucial understanding about the ways that changes to genes caused by environmental factors drive disease, specifically chemical modifications on DNA and surrounding proteins that can alter the ways in which genes are expressed, even without the gene itself experiencing a mutation.

According to Lewis Cantley, director of the Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at Harvard Medical School, as much as 80 percent of all cancers are «driven by either mutations or environmental factors that work to enhance or mimic the effect of insulin on the incipient tumor cells,» Gary Taubes reports, vii adding:

Organized by the Community Coalition, the groups presented a comprehensive, data - driven «Student Need Index» that uses environmental, social and academic factors known to impact student achievement — such as poverty and violence — to produce a district - wide ranking of schools based on need.

The Change Finance Diversified Impact U.S. Large Cap Fossil Fuel Free ETF (CHGX) uses diversified impact screens to invest in companies that engage in favorable business practices and socially responsible investing driven by environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors.

I'm going to reach out to historians and others focused on the factors driving environmental cleanups in the past to see if there's any evidence that today's polluting nations can somehow accelerate their journey along what some economists call the «Environmental Kuznets Curve,» a pattern described well in 2003 by David I. Stern, an economist at Rensselaer Polytechnenvironmental cleanups in the past to see if there's any evidence that today's polluting nations can somehow accelerate their journey along what some economists call the «Environmental Kuznets Curve,» a pattern described well in 2003 by David I. Stern, an economist at Rensselaer PolytechnEnvironmental Kuznets Curve,» a pattern described well in 2003 by David I. Stern, an economist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute:

Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease are driven largely in part by environmental factors, a study released last week found.