Sentences with phrase «environmental factors such as»

Areas of study will include the impact on humans from environmental factors such as lighting, noise, air quality and temperature, as well as products and technologies that are used to create and furnish indoor spaces.

Aside from that, it is also very important to determine whether the design and current condition of the house is secure and strong enough as a shelter against various environmental factors such as typhoons, floods, and earthquakes.

Environmental factors such as mother — child interactions and family cohesion have also been linked with internalizing disorders.

However, children's eating behaviors are also significantly influenced by social and environmental factors such as role modeling [22, 23], availability of food in the home [24, 25] and parenting practices [1, 26 — 28].

It is concluded that peer victimization in childhood is a precursor of both short - lived and persistent internalizing symptoms, underlining the importance of environmental factors such as peer relationships in the etiology of internalizing problems.

Findings suggest that obesity prevention interventions for adolescents should address weight - specific factors from within the domains of personal, behavioral, and socio - environmental factors such as promoting positive body image, decreasing unhealthy weight control behaviors, and limiting negative weight talk.

Aberrant emotional attention, particularly among individuals high on aggression, constitutes one such deficit; however, its robustness across race / ethnicity requires further investigation given findings that the psychopathy construct manifests differently across race (Sullivan and Kosson 2006), and emotional attention is susceptible to the influence of adverse environmental factors such as violence exposure that is more common among ethnic minority youth (Kimonis et al. in Development and Psychopathology, 20, 569 — 589, 2008b).

Past research relying on either cross-sectional or main effect models makes the assumption that low levels of perceived control will uniformly and consistently predict higher levels of depressive symptoms without taking into account contextual and environmental factors such as stress (see Alloy et al. 1988).

There is substantial evidence that many developmental outcomes, such as cognitive development and behavior problems for LBW / PT children, are influenced not only by the growth compromised in utero but also by environmental factors such as poverty (McCarton, 1998) and poor parenting (Dadds & Salmon, 2003), and also by child temperament (Hertzig & Mittleman, 1984).

Moreover, studies conducted by Wickrama and colleagues consistently indicate that environmental factors such as socioeconomic status, neighborhood conditions, and negative life events partially explain intergenerational transmissions of depression (Wickrama, Conger, Lorenz, & Jung, 2008; Wickrama, Noh, & Elder, 2009).

For example, anxieties and phobias more commonly relate to extra-familial factors (e.g., strangers, unfamiliar social / school situations, animals, environmental factors such as darkness or heights, etc.) than familial factors (other family members, family routines).

Resiliency and vulnerability are distinctive personal characteristics influenced by environmental factors such as socio - cultural and institutional contexts.

Recent developmental neuroscience work suggests that because of its dependence on the maturation of prefrontal - limbic connections, the development of self - regulatory processes is relatively protracted, 24 from the development of basic and automatic regulation of physiology in infancy and toddlerhood to the more self - conscious and intentional regulation of cognition emerging in middle childhood.25 From a developmental perspective, then, opportunities for success and failure of self - regulation are numerous over the course of childhood, particularly given the potential of environmental factors such as parenting to facilitate or disrupt development in these domains.26 The next generation of temperament research will focus a great deal on the complex biological processes involved in these developmental pathways and the way these processes may be modified by the environment.

Positive environmental factors such as parental monitoring and support were also important predictors of good outcomes, particularly for adolescents.

Environmental factors such as family pressure on appearance and excess focus on weight at a young age can contribute to body dissatisfaction and disordered eating.

Such factors include family cohesion, family support and parental psychological health; individual dispositional factors such as adaptability, temperament and positive esteem; and environmental factors such as peer and community support.

Previous studies have indicated that the 7 - repeat allele is under positive selective pressure, and our results are consistent with the hypothesis that the DRD4 7 - repeat allele increased children's sensitivity to environmental factors such as parenting.

Some psychological disorders are caused by an imbalance of chemical neurotransmitters in the brain, and some are the result of environmental factors such as trauma.

Not only for standard conditions but also for those places where the environmental factors such as temperature, vibration and pollution play an important role, both onshore and offshore.

Congenital abnormalities (Malformation of the brain during development which may be caused by either genetic or environmental factors such as toxins, radiation or viruses)

When the microscopic organisms that make up coral become stressed by environmental factors such as rising water temperatures, they become bleached out.

Research into adult onset diabetes currently focuses on genetics and obesity; there has been almost no consideration for the possible influence of environmental factors such as pollution.»

Each regional model sector will encompass power generation, transmission, and sale; the financing, construction, and maintenance of power infrastructure (generators and transmission lines); and also key societal and environmental factors such as population, quality of life, and pollution.

Other studies have pointed to the role played by environmental factors such as endocrine disruptors as well.

In conclusion, the early - onset and the variable nature of the repetitive behaviour, which is affected by environmental factors such as micronutrients, neutering and maternal care, share several similar components between canine and human compulsions and supports canine TC as a model for human OCD.

Appropriate management may include an adequate nutrition plan, hygienic measures, nursing care along with reducing or eliminating predisposing environmental factors such as cold and hot weather, stale air and crowded housing.

Various control schemes have been established to screen potential breeding candidates with the aim of orchestrating some genetic control over the disease [17] which would complement modification of environmental factors such as diet and weight management.

The degree of hereditability is moderate in nature, meaning that the formation of the hip joints can also be modified by environmental factors such as over nutrition, excessively rapid growth, and certain traumas during the growth period of the skeleton.

Other environmental factors such as pollens, dust, food components can cause allergies in humans.

Damage to a pet's coat can be caused by environmental factors such as dry heat, sunburn, rough - textured bedding and sleeping on hard surfaces.

Environmental factors such as wet and soiled boarding quarters must also be resolved.

Of course, the article gets its facts all wrong, saying, «More than 700,000 Australians have type 2 diabetes, which has no cure and is caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors such as being overweight, eating a poor diet and a lack of exercise.»

A dog can be dysplastic in one or both hips, can have a shallow socket and a normal ball, a malformed ball and normal socket, a shallow socket and malformed ball, a misaligned joint, loose ligaments, or a combination of these structural problems complicated by environmental factors such as rate of growth, level of nutrition, and exercise.

Environmental factors such as feeding a high - fat diet, which results in lipemia and disturbances in lipid metabolism, are implicated as potential etiological factors in dogs with obesity - associated pancreatitis and likely play a role in the development of pancreatitis in diabetic dogs.

In human patients, insulin resistance is largely the result of genotype but is worsened by environmental factors such as obesity (21,29).

Environmental factors such as the feeding of high - fat diets that result in lipemia and disturbances in lipid metabolism are implicated as potential etiological factors in dogs with obesity - associated pancreatitis (109) and likely play a role in the development of pancreatitis in diabetic dogs.

But over time, environmental factors such as chemical exposure, diet and other lifestyle differences can alter these markers.

Environmental factors such as cigarette smoke, petroleum, to the inert ingredients in many common flea and tick insecticides have been shown to play a role in pet bladder cancer.

Environmental factors such as lack of exercise also contribute to obesity.

Dogs with hip dysplasia can show few symptoms, or become incapacitated, depending on the severity of the dysplasia, the progression of arthritis, and environmental factors such as weight and exercise level.

Once deposited in the soil, they are highly resistant to desiccation by environmental factors such as temperature extremes and sunlight and can remain viable for years.

Environmental factors such as over-feeding, which causes fast weight - gain and growth, can dramatically affect the development of elbow dysplasia in dogs that are genetically predisposed to it.

Like Hip Dysplasia it can be genetic but Elbow Dysplasia is the general term for any one of many abnormalities within the joint and can also be caused by environmental factors such as rapid growth, obesity, trauma or nutrition.

Hip dysplasia — is a genetic disorder that also involves environmental factors such as diet.

It is caused by inhalant allergens from environmental factors such as dust mites, molds, mildew, pollen, etc...

Genetic potential is also dependent on environmental factors such as stress, nutrition, and infectious disease.

There are multiple environmental factors such as caloric intake, level of exercise, and weather that can affect the severity of clinical signs and phenotypic expression (radiographic changes).

Just because a dog has the gene for hip dysplasia however, does not mean he will be affected: the severity of the disease will be directly influenced by the dog's diet and other environmental factors such as exercise level or body condition — or so the theory goes.

In addition, environmental factors such as the drought in California are driving up prices.

For example, over time your car, truck, SUV, or minivan will be exposed to natural environmental factors such as friction, pollution, and temperature extremes.