Sentences with phrase «environmental researchers from»

Thus, environmental researchers from DTU Environment will work alongside statisticians and modellers from DTU Compute, management experts from DTU Management Engineering and civil engineers from DTU Civil Engineering — among others.

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No one suffered significant damage or setbacks from the experience, the researchers reported last July in the journal Aviation, Space and Environmental Medicine.

And some studies suggest they're right: In a paper called «Environmental Disorder Leads to Self - Regulatory Failure,» a pair of researchers from UBC and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business found that «being surrounded by chaos ultimately impairs the ability to perform tasks requiring «brain» power.»

Business owners, workers, and politicians rallied to hear from researcher and writer Vivian Krause, who outlined her work over the last eight years tracking funding for environmental activism in Canada back to the United States.

Researchers have yet to prove whether the UMF ® factor comes from a subspecies of Manuka Bush or it is caused by some environmental factors such as the quality of the soil.

Our long - term intervention monitoring (LTIM) researchers are well placed to understand and report on the benefits of natural flows (as distinct from environmental water flows) and how we might mimic similar conditions through environmental water delivery to stimulate future events.

Researchers from the National Library of Medicine identified some factors associated with SIDS that might be an extra-risk and these are a combination of biological and environmental elements.

Recently, researchers from Harvard and Mt Sinai found that both environmental chemicals and environmental stress can disrupt the development of a fetus» brain and negatively impact the baby's long - term health, even increasing the risk of autism spectrum disorders.

As Manuela Carneiro, a researcher who took part in the study published in «Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety», informs SINC: «This is due to the type of diet these animals have — strictly carrion from domestic and wild hunting species — because the consumption of hunting species increases the likelihood of ingesting lead.»

An international team of researchers analyzed economic and environmental data from 2000 to 2009 and found that production of goods for export in 2006 alone accounted for between one - fifth and one - third of China's air pollution, depending on the pollutant.

Although the specific etiology of autism is unknown, many researchers suspect that autism results from genetically mediated vulnerabilities to environmental triggers.

Researchers at the University have carried out the first ever comprehensive study of the environmental impacts of microwave appliances, considering their whole life cycle, from «cradle to grave».

For the last three years, around 550 researchers, including experts from the Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving (Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency), Leiden University and the University of Twente, have been working on providing insight into the effects of land degradation and the corresponding loss of biodiversity.

Researchers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Oregon State University found that there was significant daily variability when it comes to harmful indices of CO2 for many marine organisms in estuaries.

«Restoration priorities are typically based on the evidence for environmental degradation without explicitly accounting for the benefits people receive from ecosystems, which include recreational opportunities,» said lead researcher David Allan, professor emeritus of aquatic sciences at the U-M School of Natural Resources and Environment.

This could mean the environmental impact from the fallout may last much longer than previously expected according to a new study by a team of international researchers, including scientists from The University of Manchester.

The study publishing January 9 in the open access journal PLOS Biology led by researchers from Uppsala University with an international team of collaborators, also indicates that the resulting mixed population genetically adapted to the extreme environmental conditions.

Lead researcher Prof Carlos Peres, from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, said: «Amazonian forests provide globally important ecosystem services, including carbon storage in the forest biomass.

A team of researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and environmental testing firm URS reports that a small subset of natural gas wells are responsible for the majority of methane emissions from two major sources — liquid unloadings and pneumatic controller equipment — at natural gas production sites.

For the study, the researchers incubated eggs from the Trachemys scripta elegans, a semi-aquatic turtle, under different temperature and moisture regimes to study the effect of the two environmental factors on developmental rate, egg mass, embryo mass and length, and sex ratio.

The study involved researchers from the Schools of International Development and Environmental Sciences, and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at UEA, working with international colleagues in China and the US.

In a collaboration involving the University of Exeter, University College London and several other national and international partners, researchers from the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute (ECI) and Oxford Martin School have investigated the geophysical likelihood of limiting global warming to «well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C.»

A new report by researchers in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania found that loss - of - function mutations to Filaggrin - 2 (FLG2), a gene that creates a protein responsible for retaining moisture and protecting the skin from environmental irritants, were associated with atopic dermatitis in African American children.

A team of researchers from Simon Fraser University and Culex Environmental, a Burnaby - based mosquito control company, are studying an invasive, disease - carrying mosquito, Aedes japonicus, after finding it for the first time in Western Canada.

However, researchers from Lund University in Sweden and other institutions have now shown that deforestation could also disrupt the entire rainforest's resilience, that is, its long - term ability to recover from environmental changes, and the ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

The researchers then linked the healthcare - related emissions to specific environmental and health outcomes, including global warming; ozone depletion; respiratory disease from air pollutants; cancer from chemical exposure; and the environmental effects of acid rain, among others.

Teams of researchers led by Professor Urs Schaltegger from the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Faculty of Science of the UNIGE and by Hugo Bucher, from the University of Zürich, have been working on absolute dating for many years.

At the Environmental Change Institute in Oxford, researchers Nathalie Schaller and Friederike Otto analysed results from almost 40,000 climate model calculations to test the impact of climate change on Britain's winter rains.

Previously, researchers have produced hydrogen gas in microbial - powered, batterylike fuel cells, but only when they supplemented the energy produced by the bacteria with electrical energy from external sources — such as that obtained from renewable sources or burning fossil fuels, says Bruce Logan, an environmental engineer at Pennsylvania State University, University Park.

To examine whether different factors drive environmental action in individualistic and collectivistic cultures, the researchers conducted a second study with participants from the United States (an individualistic culture) and Japan (a collectivistic culture).

Meanwhile, researchers continued to tally the environmental fallout of rising greenhouse gas levels while searching for signs of missing heat from Earth's surface.

In a study published recently in the journal Transport Policy, the researchers analyze the transportation plans of 18 metropolitan areas across the U.S. and Canada — from San Diego to Montreal — and find that many plans focus largely on local environmental and congestion - reduction goals.

The study forms part of the GATEWAYS (www.gateways-itn.eu) project of the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme, coordinated by Rainer Zahn, a researcher with the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA - UAB) and the UAB's Department of Physics, and taking part in it was Martin Ziegler, a post-doctoral researcher at the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences of the University of Cardiff (UK) and scientists from the Natural History Museum, London (UK).

Researcher Developer Dr Rachel Westwood, Research Fellow Mr Sam Toon, and Emeritus Professor Peter Styles from Keele's School of Geography, Geology and Environment — together with Professor Nigel Cassidy who is now at Birmingham University — have published their study advising on hydraulic fracturing safety guidelines for legislative bodies, including governments, environmental agencies, health and safety executives and local planning authorities.

From known associations of individual aquatic species with various environmental conditions, the researchers conclude that summers have lengthened and lake ice cover has diminished across much of the Arctic since the mid-1800s.

The combination of these tools allows the researchers to trace all the environmental impacts from the consumption or production of different products and services.

Lead researcher Harriet Condie, from UEA's school of Environmental Sciences, said: «We took into account data such as catch and discard figures from fishing trawlers, fish prices and landing costs, to calculate whether banning the practice of discarding will offer enough of an economic incentive to fish sustainably.

Environmental Working Group researchers had to rely on data from LabelINSIGHT, a company that gathers U.S. supermarket information.

Now researchers at Linnaeus University in Sweden and from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) have found an important finding to answer this question: Individual differences have a positive and stabilizing effect on the number of moths.

«Even fungi and bacteria have to breathe, and when they do, through the degradation of terrestrial organic carbon, they release carbon dioxide, which makes up about 30 percent of all carbon dioxide released from streams and rivers,» explains Erin Hotchkiss, a researcher at the Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University.

The findings were published recently in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, by co-authors Christina Bodin Danielsson, a researcher at Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology School of Architecture & Built Environment and Stockholm University's Stress Research Institute; Töres Theorell from SU's Stress Research Institute; Lennart Bodin from Karolinska Institute; and Cornelia Wulff, from Mäldardalen University.

By examining twin pairs — both monozygotic (identical from same fertilized egg) and dizygotic (fraternal from separate fertilized eggs)-- UW researchers assessed the extent psychological distress is related to caregiving, or confounded by common genes and environmental exposure.

Six pulses were sufficient to strip two coats of dark green lead paint from a wood surface, which emerged unscathed, the researchers report in a paper published online November 15 in Environmental Science and Technology.

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire conducted a multiregional study of coastal Americans, finding concern levels regarding environmental issues swayed by

A number of researchers have argued that cascading environmental effects from the impact wiped out the dinosaurs in a geologic blink.

In a new study published in the journal PLOS One, Jennifer Horney, PhD, associate professor and head of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in the Texas A&M School of Public Health, along with researchers from Texas A&M and the Pacific Northwest National Lab, examined concentrations of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) before and after Hurricane Harvey in the Houston environmental justice neighborhood of Manchester.

«One of the greatest uncertainties in EU environmental legislation is that we do not know the precise effects of synergistic chemicals when determining the scale of damage to nature from chemical cocktails,» says environmental chemistry professor and lead researcher, Nina Cedergreen.

Pierre Cauchy, a PhD researcher from UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, has been using one of these autonomous submarines for five years, recording underwater noises in the Mediterranean Sea and the North Atlantic and Southern oceans.

Researchers from Concordia's Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering (BCEE) in collaboration with Bio-Terre Systems Inc. are taking the fight against global warming to colder climes.

The number of people who suffer from celiac disease has been steadily increasing in the past decade, and some researchers feel it may be blamed on environmental factors.