Sentences with phrase «early life environment»

This incredible growth can be influenced by a baby's early life environment, scientists have found.

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And then you add in what we've been able to do around primary healthcare and the discovery that we can act early in your life knowing genomics, knowing the profile of what you have, knowing things about your neighborhood and your environment.

Early on he decided that monastery life would provide the best environment for contemplation and writing.

It was entirely Elizabethan for today's Queen to attend the Archbishop of Canterbury's Lambeth Palace earlier this year to say: «The concept of our established Church is occasionally misunderstood and, I believe, commonly underappreciated», going on to remark that it had «created an environment for other faith communities and indeed people of no faith to live freely».

My particular circumstances at the time — young, single, living in an urban environment, trying to hack out a living in the theatre — eerily paralleled (or so I fancied) L'Engle's early years in New York, when she worked as an actress, surreptitiously writing in dressing rooms and hotels rooms.

Hurtado opens by treating the «religious environment» of Jesus» day and then proceeds to examine the Pauline evidence of Christ's messiahship, the commonality of the Synoptic Gospels with the Gospel of John, and then the other early «Jesus books» (as the noncanonical accounts of Christ's life are called).

shows that early Christianity was thoroughly absorbed in an oriental - Hellenistic environment and that the entire early Christian thought and life was penetrated by Hellenistic thought and expressed itself in Hellenistic forms.

Ideas that organic food could be healthier and better for the environment originated in the early days of the organic movement as a result of publications like the 1943 book The Living Soil [14][15] and Farming and Gardening for Health or Disease (1945).

But in my recent reporting, I have encountered a number of organizations focused on enhancing the early - childhood environment — and especially what we might call the early - early - childhood environment, in the first three years of life.

After living through these earliest years with about as much attachment style parenting as possible, including baby wearing, extended nursing, family bed, empathic listening, and a nurturing, mindful environment, I've been asked to share some ideas about thriving, not just surviving, these early years.

Our Early Childhood programs attend to children's unfolding capacities and awakening interests and meet their deep devotion to life with a gentle, loving environment.

Early Childhood: Our Early Childhood programs attend to children's unfolding capacities and awakening interests and meet their deep devotion to life with a gentle, loving environment.

The early childhood teacher creates an environment where natural beauty and reverence for life abound, respect for children's naturally unfolding capacities is palpable, and warmth, security and cooperation are an integral part of the child's world.

The early childhood teacher's goal is to create a harmonious environment that is nurturing, ordered, and beautiful and to provide a comfortable transition from home life to school life.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

I believe many Dads, partners, and family members have perhaps used their own style of the 5 S's, but, alas, we weren't the ones to write the book.The basic premise of «Happiest Baby on the Block» is that human babies are born too early and so in the «forth trimester» (the first three months of a newborn's life) we need to recreate a womb - like environment for the baby.

And like the womb, it offers a protective and safe environment and a superb position to view the world, which is especially important considering that the brain is growing faster in early infancy than any other time in life.

The child who has had early bad experiences is by no means doomed to a life of misery as a loving, caring environment will serve to overcome most challenges.

You can use it as a medium to introduce many concepts of science, environment, culture and etiquettes very early on in their life.

Furthermore, interactions between the environment and the epigenome may provide mechanistic insight into many toxicological phenomena that are not well - understood, such as non-genotoxic carcinogenesis, age - based windows of susceptibility, developmental reprogramming by early life exposures, and trans - generational exposure effects.

«The early - life environment will mark your epigenome in a certain way so that you may develop certain phenotypes or disease states.

«We are learning more and more about how the early - life environment can influence the development of certain health conditions,» said NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. «If we can develop strategies to prevent asthma before it develops, we will help alleviate the burden this disease places on millions of people, as well as on their families and communities.»

Likewise, male mice that experience early life stress give rise to two generations of offspring that have increased depression and anxiety, despite being raised in a caring environment.

Support for the idea that isolated low - oxygen environments may be preferred niches for early life comes from observations that anaerobic niches deep within Earth's crust tend to harbor ancient branches within the domains of life.

A model of the early environment will help determine whether Mars was conducive to life, Mahaffy says.

The target in Gale would be its 5 - kilometer - high pile of sediments — or rather the bottom layers, laden with both clays and sulfates that may record the loss of an early, life - friendly environment on Mars.

The researchers also found that those fish raised in a more complex social environment have a different brain structure to those who experienced fewer group members in early life.

The early tetrapods (from the Ancient Greek word meaning «four - footed») were the first vertebrates to tread terra firma, developing lungs to capture atmospheric oxygen and turning fins into legs, but with a life cycle that was still closely tied to aquatic environments.

Benner points out that some geologists think early Earth had too much water for these environments to exist, and suggests that the reactions may have occurred on the much drier early Mars, before life later reached Earth on meteorites.

This addition to the inventory of organic compounds produced in extraterrestrial environments furthers the discourse of whether their delivery to the early Earth by comets and meteorites might have aided the molecular evolution that preceded the origins of life.

Scientists have debated whether these responses to good or bad times early in development are adaptive adjustments to their environment — reflecting that infants have a window of time early in life when they can fine - tune their developmental trajectories — or whether early deficiencies in nutrition and stress simply predispose these infants to more disease as adults.

According to researcher Kwang Soon Kim, «In early life, the intestinal environment is more skewed to generate a tolerogenic response, presumably helped by certain tolerance - inducing components in the milk, and from the rapid generation of pTreg cells upon introduction of solid food.»

People suffering from malnutrition often show signs of a disease known as environmental enteropathy, which is an inflammatory disorder of the small intestine and is likely caused by ingesting pathogenic fecal bacteria early in life from a contaminated environment.

The early human techno - tradition, known as Howiesons Poort (HP), associated with Homo sapiens who lived in southern Africa about 66,000 to 59,000 years ago indicates that during this period of pronounced aridification they developed cultural innovations that allowed them to significantly enlarge the range of environments they occupied.

«Knowing that water came early to the inner solar system also means that the other inner planets could have been wet early and evolved life before they became the harsh environments they are today.»

To make their discovery, Korosi and colleagues mimicked a stressful early - life environment during the first week after birth (postnatal days 2 - 9) for newborn mice and their mothers.

Researchers believe that being cared for in stimulating and nurturing environments in early life, with regular participation in predictable family routines, reflects greater family organization and can provide a sense of security and belonging.

Whether the hazards are from accidents, weather, food shortages, or predators, species and organisms that live in dangerous environments will breed sooner, have more young more quickly, and die earlier than species and organisms in safe environments.

The researchers suggest that living in a rural or urban environment may change the intestinal microbiome, due to different exposures early in life, resulting in decreased or increased risk

In their experiment, Freund and her colleagues housed 40 genetically identical mice in a so - called «enriched» environment, and monitored their behavior over a period of three months (about 10 to 15 percent of their lifespan) during their early life.

Radiation oncologist Anna Saran at the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and the Environment in Rome and colleagues studied mice with a mutation in a gene called Patched that makes them susceptible to brain tumors early in life.

It is well known that early - life conditions can have lifelong implications on fitness; little is however known about development in urban environments.

Fossil evidence and reconstructions of past climatic conditions suggest that early flowering plants lived in warm tropical environments, explained co-author Jeremy Beaulieu, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS) at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

After all green plants and plankton oxygenated the early atmosphere of Earth, creating an environment that allowed new life forms to emerge.

While the others presented aspects of Mars geology and Earth analogues for the Columbia Hills site, Martin gave an overview talk earlier in the workshop explaining the importance of Archean environments on Earth in narrowing the search for possible ancient life on Mars.

This environment «expands the known habitats for early life,» she says.

Alternatively, some hypothesize that the reservoir of light carbon on the early Earth indicates the presence of simple organic compounds — possibly brought by asteroidal or cometary impactors — that created a hospitable environment for the later emergence of life (more discussion in Rachel Courtland, New Scientist, July 2, 2008; Sid Perkins, Science News, July 2, 2008; and Jonathan Fildes, BBC News, July 2, 2008).

It can help experts understand the environment in which early life lived and adapted, Lowe says.

Scientists are still trying to explain how this microbial diversity comes about, but it is likely influenced by factors including diet, environment, host genetics and exposure to microbes early in life.

After roving for approximately a Mars year (almost two Earth years) and sampling dust, sand, rocks and atmosphere at the Gale Crater landing site, Curiosity has found the strongest evidence to date that the very early Mars environment could have provided a suitable habitat for life as we know it.