Sentences with phrase «environmental researchers set»

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Researchers with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) claimed that any amount of ingestion of pesticide - laced lanolin by a newborn was unacceptable, and that standards and limits of pesticides shouldn't be arbitrarily set based on regulations used for food.

The result, to appear in an upcoming issue of Environmental Science & Technology, sets a baseline, he says, against which researchers can compare the effects of other nanoparticles.

Using a portable, miniature DNA sequencing device (Oxford Nanopore MiniON), the researchers show for the first time that not only can the tool be used for examining environmental samples in extreme and remote settings, but that it can be combined with other methodology to detect active microbial life in the field.

So, a group of researchers from the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at Beijing Institute of Technology, the Collaborative Innovation Center of Electric Vehicles in Beijing, and the Sustainable Development Research Institute for Economy and Society of Beijing set out to find out what motivates or influences consumer to purchase electric vehicles within seven cities in China.

To test their hypothesis, the researchers used a specific computer task, the Pavlovian - instrumental transfer, in a controlled setting to simulate the learning processes between certain (food) choices and environmental stimuli in subjects.

The researchers also compared the results to federal safety guidelines for seafood consumption and found that the average levels of contaminants were at or below the health standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

In a set of papers out today in the journals Nature Genetics and Nature Communications, researchers at the Cancer Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) shed new light on the genetic mechanisms that promote metastasis in the mouse model and also implicated the typical Western high - fat diet as a key environmental factor driving metastasis.

The researchers, mathematician Cristian Tomasetti and cancer geneticist Bert Vogelstein, both of Johns Hopkins University, set out to determine what proportion of cancer mutations are due to unpredictable DNA - copying errors — as opposed to the two other main contributors to cancer, inherited genes and environmental factors, such as smoking and obesity.

Given that the brain has potential for plasticity, many researchers question whether sex differences found in neuroimaging studies are because of biologically set, universal sex differences, or due to the influence of environmental or cultural factors on brain development (Fine, 2013).

By comparing outcomes among identical twins, the researchers hope to control automatically for a large set of unobserved environmental and genetic factors.

The intention is that by not incorporating such effects, SSPs can be more easily used by other researchers across a broad set of studies to evaluate how varying levels of climate change and types of policies affect on the «reference» socioeconomic and environmental conditions described in the SSPs.

To determine biological conservation value for their model, the researchers used two main sets of criteria developed by environmental organizations.

Now, researchers from Germany and the US, who examined global mean surface temperature (GMST) trends in the light of a recent series of three record - breaking years in a row in most data sets, have published the results of their study, which identified two important pitfalls in analysing GMST trends, in Environmental Research Letters.