Sentences with phrase «environmental stress in»

In particular, climate change is projected to increase environmental stress in already marginal lands and to raise the frequency of natural hazards.

These dinoflagellate blooms, which can be thought of as ancient red tides, are a sign of major environmental stress in the coastal zone possibly as a result of the increased runoff of water from the land.

The Developmental Care Model seeks to minimize environmental stress in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and improve developmental outcomes.

The only shortcoming of the article was that after stating that the global population explosion is, in the words of William Ruckelshaus, «the single most overriding cause of environmental stress in the world.»

As a next step, the researchers plan to use their evolutionary tree to find out how plants evolved to withstand other environmental stresses in addition to freezing, such as drought and heat.

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With the U.S. under environmental and political stress to provide itself with alternative sources of energy, moving fusion power from the chalkboard to the power grid as quickly as possible was really the only option when the NIF was approved in 1997.

Stress, as defined by the Jobs Rated methodology, is determined by 11 factors: travel, deadlines, working in the public eye, competitiveness, physical demands, environmental conditions, hazards encountered, the life of oneself or others at risk, meeting and interacting with customers and / or the public, and the potential for job growth.

In their latest book, Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green: Winning Strategies to Improve Your Profits and Your Planet, Jay Conrad Levinson, originator of guerrilla marketing, and award - winning marketing author and lifelong environmental activist Shel Horowitz stress that CSR, sustainability and profitability can go hand in hanIn their latest book, Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green: Winning Strategies to Improve Your Profits and Your Planet, Jay Conrad Levinson, originator of guerrilla marketing, and award - winning marketing author and lifelong environmental activist Shel Horowitz stress that CSR, sustainability and profitability can go hand in hanin hand.

I should stress that Voser did not wade in on Canadian politics, and did say he supports the federal government's push to streamline environmental approval processes for energy projects.

«The effects of the terrain on dismounted and mounted movement, the difference in hours of darkness and daylight and the environmental effects on communication, just to name a few of the myriad factors unique to this area, all combine to pose a serious test that stresses all members of the unit from the commander down to the most junior rifleman, Daily said.»

Thousands of experiments have independently confirmed genetic changes in microorganisms in response to environmental stress.

Jay W. Forrester, professor of management at MIT whose sophisticated computer modeling of social and environmental issues led to the Club of Rome report on «The Limits of Growth,» sees the political and economic stresses in the world as caused by the necessary transition from worldwide growth to equilibrium.

Some were uneasy lest the statement slight concerns for justice — such as employment, majority / minority rights, or Third World development — in favor of a major stress on environmental or life - style issues related to energy.

The concept of «orthoselection» stresses organic - environment interaction of sufficient duration to reveal trends which follow environmental shifts — a neo-Darwinian blending of the Darwinian and Lamarcking approaches which obviates the need for the historical anachronism of «orthogenesis,» which is still of interest only to «literary intellectuals and religious philosophers» intent on discerning the working of higher purposes in the evolutionary process.

They want the growth to take place in ways that does not add so drastically to environmental stress.

Due to a lifestyle high in processed food, alcohol, environmental toxins and stress, many of us are experiencing poor digestion.

Intestines — due to a lifestyle high in processed food, alcohol, environmental toxins and stress, many of us are experiencing poor digestion.

This nutrient (also found in other berries, red onions, red cabbage, etc.) is also very protective for the body as it helps reduce oxidative stress from environmental radiation from EMF's and pollutants.

At in - cosmetics Global 2018, Lonza Consumer Product Ingredients (Stand E80) will showcase its new spectrum of bioactive functional ingredients that help protect the skin from modern lifestyle and environmental stressors, such as pollution, UV light and stress.

But one of the most important findings of this new cohort of researchers is that for most children, the environmental factors that matter most have less to do with the buildings they live in than with the relationships they experience — the way the adults in their lives interact with them, especially in times of stress.

I currently use or have used oils on myself or someone in my family for anxious feelings, stress, supporting digestion, occasional aches & pains, ear discomfort, head tension, respiratory function, seasonal allergies, sleeplessness, seasonal and environmental threats, mood lifting, focus, insect bites, skin support and more.

*** These environmental stresses negatively influence a child's early experiences and often lead to an increase in mental health problems such as anxiety, depression, poor sleep habits, and behavioral issues.

Experts believe that SIDS occurs at a particular point in a baby's development, and that it affects babies who are more vulnerable to environmental stresses.

In a bid to avoid criticism, Ms Cooper stressed the environmental benefits of Hips and EPCs, which require all homes to be assessed according to their energy efficiency.

Other initiatives discussed from the Dec. 14th agenda included Brad Hoylman speaking about the negotiations in the NYS Senate regarding the IDC; Laurie Hardjowirigo gave the Voter Reform Committee Report; Nat Johnson gave the Environmental Committee Report by stressing what was learned at the December 4 Future of Renewable Energy Forum; Erik Coler of Affordable Housing recapped the year's achievements by saying this year 42 units had been re-stabilized and he was hoping next year to add 90 more.

The commons all party environmental audit committee published its harsh critique of the PBR's «lack of boldness» ahead of the Budget on Wednesday, in which Gordon Brown is expected to stress his green credentials.

Almasi stressed that federal environmental officials believe lead in drinking water comes mainly from corroding faucets, fittings and pipes containing lead.

The report from a team of scientists at Vanderbilt University is the first part in a wide - ranging, $ 7.5 million analysis of environmental stress and human migration scenarios in the low - lying South Asian nation.

The researchers say the co-occurrence of high environmental stress and high rank in recreational benefits is a conundrum that calls for further research.

New avenues of research could include the effects of reducing environmental stress, as well as whether pharmacological agents might be able to reverse the genetic alternations in vulnerable children before the disorder develops.

Since Mongolia's democratic revolution in 1990, the country's livestock numbers have more than doubled, intensifying environmental stress.

While pursuing her project on how environmental contaminants and oxidative stress cause lung cancer, Gelhaus complemented her postdoctoral training by spending some time with other PIs at Penn. «She has worked hard to develop skills that are independent of those available in my own laboratory while working on a project that is central to my research program,» Blair writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

However, in a new paper published in Proceedings of the National of Sciences USA (PNAS) scientists from the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Science, show that key environmental parameters, namely climate - related primary productivity, biodiversity, and pathogen stress have strong influence on the global pattern of population densities of ethnographically documented hunter - gatherers.

From a background in basic plant development, he moved to questions of environmental stress.

About one in five Americans cited unemployment and low wages (22 percent), and climate change and environmental issues (21 percent) as issues causing them stress.

In August of 2012, Savage began studying how diversity differed across habitats with different levels of environmental stress.

The researchers conclude in today's Science that stability — as measured by total biomass — depends more on the ability of species in an ecosystem to withstand environmental stress, than on the sheer number of species.

In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers and students at the University's School of Environmental Sciences designed a new type of experiment to show how as magma cools, it contracts and accumulates stress, until it crackIn a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers and students at the University's School of Environmental Sciences designed a new type of experiment to show how as magma cools, it contracts and accumulates stress, until it crackin Nature Communications, researchers and students at the University's School of Environmental Sciences designed a new type of experiment to show how as magma cools, it contracts and accumulates stress, until it cracks.

'' «We could very well be in an interglacial period that's part of a larger pattern of climate fluctuation,»» Arens warns — a time of severe environmental stress.

On the contrary, measures to enhance social equity in a societal and macroeconomic sense may strengthen nature conservation,» stresses Stefan Baumgärtner, Professor of Environmental Economics and Resource Management at the University of Freiburg and director of the study.

Many bacteria, however, can not form spores and instead survive a stress by entering a «dormant» or viable but nonculturable (VBNC) state in response to environmental stresses.

Earlier this year, STRI research associate William Laurance published a paper in Science, stressing the importance of considering wildlife conservation during transportation infrastructure planning, because it is well known in the conservation community that roads «can unleash a Pandora's box of environmental ills, such as land encroachment, wildlife poaching, forest fragmentation, exotic species invasions and illegal mining.»

A growing body of evidence suggests that environmental stresses can cause changes in gene expression that are transmitted from parents to their offspring, making «epigenetics» a hot topic.

He earned his PhD in the lab of Nestor Carrillo studying environmental stress factors in plants.

He studied how genes related to environmental stress factors — drought, cold, and heat shock, for example — can increase the plant's defences in stressful conditions.

A long record of ancient stone tools could tell us if the monkeys picked up tool use in response to an environmental stress, such as rapid sea level changes, for example.

Since the inherited risk is based in family genetics and is therefore beyond clinical reach, McFarlane relies on multifamily group therapy and social supports at school and at work to protect vulnerable patients from environmental triggers — illicit drugs and emotional stress in particular — that might send them over the edge.

A closer look revealed epigenetic changes, such as methylation and histone modification, which shut down selected genes, often in response to environmental stresses.

Perennial roots may extend more than six feet under the ground, enabling greater resilience to environmental stresses such as drought and allowing them to grow in low - quality soil.

«What was specially relevant from a basic research standpoint was that, for the first time, the descent in levels of a plant hormone compared to control values as an answer to environmental stress could be a physiologically significant response — and data points in this direction,» adds Arbona.