Sentences with phrase «environmental stress such»

Stress on our system can be defined as processed foods, over-use of medicine, emotional stress and environmental stress such as pollution.

Stress can be defined as processed foods, medicine, emotional stress and environmental stress such as pollution.

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.

She said the study hypothesized that improving seed germination and root architecture could help plants overcome nutrient and water limitations and mitigate abiotic, or non-biological, environmental stresses such as temperature, flood, drought and salinity.

In humans, melanocytes function to protect skin from damaging environmental stresses such as ultraviolet radiation exposure (UVR).

In humans, these cells function to protect skin from damaging environmental stresses such as ultraviolet radiation exposure.

And as has been conclusively demonstrated in literally thousands of scientific studies, the more CO2 we put into the air, the better plants grow, producing greater amounts of biomass and becoming more efficient at using water, and better able to cope with environmental stresses such as pollution and high temperatures.

Selina Ward studies the early life history stages of corals and the responses of reproduction and recruitment to environmental stresses such as temperature change, ocean acidification, elevated nutrients and Trichodesmium.

Not exact matches

They also contribute to environmental stresses, such as exposure to «irrelevant sound,» a lack of «visual privacy,» and «a reduced ability to control personal space.»

As such, those parties stressing the economy first and foremost will attempt to maintain the perception that stronger environmental policies will place the livelihood of Canadians at risk.

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.

Your body may tend to be acidic because of your high acidic food diet, stress and exposure to environmental toxins such as smog.

Traits targeted for improvement include higher nutritional quality; tolerance of pests, diseases, and environmental stresses, such as flood and drought; and reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

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.

*** 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.

Stefanie Covino, Coordinator of the Shaping the Future of Your Community program notes, «Our water resources are increasingly stressed, but conserving and restoring the natural landscape with native plants can offer social, environmental, and economic benefits such as improved air quality, property values, energy savings, and habitat — both locally and downstream.»

DiNapoli's Fiscal Stress Monitoring System looked at 23 financial and environmental factors, such as cash - on - hand and operation deficit patterns.

No one yet knows the mechanism through which environmental factors would alter these genes, although stress hormones such as cortisol may be playing a role.

No one is arguing that Lamarck got everything right, but over the past decade it has become increasingly clear that environmental factors, such as diet or stress, can have biological consequences that are transmitted to offspring without a single change to gene sequences taking place.

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.»

If their ancient predecessors somehow survived, but such animals as Triceratops and T. rex did not, maybe some form of environmental stress was acting disproportionately upon dinosaurs.

The cause of the wasting disease is unknown, though scientists working on the mystery are testing whether an underlying virus or bacteria is to blame, along with some environmental stress, such as water temperature or salt content, making the organisms more vulnerable to it.

Precisely how such stress can lead to a psychotic break isn't understood, but scientists do know schizophrenia has complex genetic and environmental components.

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.

Mounting evidence suggests that environmental factors such as smoking, diet and stress, can leave their mark on the genes of your children and grandchildren.

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

In addition to environmental factors, such as stress and social relationships, a person's genetic make - up can also contribute to their vulnerability to drug use and misuse as well as mental health problems.

Epigenetic translates to «above genetic» and is an emerging field of study that looks at how environmental factors — such as infections, pollutants, stress and, in this case, long - term exposure to drugs that block estrogen synthesis — could influence a person's DNA.

The discovery and understanding of this survival approach could pave the way for the development of novel strategies to improve the growth and yield of crops that undergo such environmental stress.

Dr. Bogdan concludes, «It will now be important to incorporate the influence of environmental factors, such as peer groups, neighborhood, and stress, into this research.

«We are in the midst of a major environmental change that will continue to stress corals over the coming decades, so the lesson from this study is that there are these systems such as coral reefs that are sensitive to environmental change and can go through this kind of wholesale collapse in response to these environmental changes,» Cobb said.

According to the letter, Headline was relabeled to say its «benefits may include improved host plant tolerance to yield - robbing environmental stresses, such as drought, heat, cold temperatures, and ozone damage» as well as bacterial and viral infections.

The researchers stress that because reductions in lawn water use are closely related to reductions in water contamination, a greater sense of environmental stewardship could be tied to everyday activities such as cutting back on unnecessary lawn irrigation.

«When you think about development, early in the pregnancy is a critical time — when fetuses are most sensitive to insults such as stress, environmental chemicals.

But Capovilla speculates that a battery - like back - up might help them in times of environmental stress, such as when they are migrating to a new host plant.

Either way, previous studies have shown that proteins made from Jumonji genes work to control many other genes that orchestrate developmental processes — and that environmental stress, such as from heat, can change the way these genes turn on and off.

Dietz notes that understanding activism is a strong first step to understanding many kinds of environmental stresses, such as air pollution.

«Linking environmental conditions to cycles of illness is a powerful shift in approach, especially since marine invertebrates are such sensitive sensors of climatic stresses,» says marine biology graduate student James Cervino of the University of South Carolina, Columbia.

The researchers found that many of these additional methylation sites corresponded to sites that previous studies had shown to be sensitive to environmental and social factors such as maternal smoking, exposure to diesel exhaust, and psychosocial stress.

Those with high levels of biospheric concern also were most likely to engage in pro-environmental day - to - day behaviors, such as recycling or energy savings measures, and were the most likely to engage in coping mechanisms to deal with environmental stress, ranging from denying one's individual role in climate change to seeking more information on the issue and how to help mitigate it.

Wessely, like many researchers in the field, believes that Gulf War illness arose from a combination of the stress of war, the use of experimental vaccines, and possibly exposures to environmental hazards such as oil - well fires.

The samples were analyzed for signs of oxidative stress, which can be used to measure how much an environmental stressor, such as pollution, is weakening the bird's natural defenses.

To coordinate their size and growth with current environmental conditions, cells rely on the mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) pathway, which senses cellular stresses, growth factors, and the availability of nutrients, such as amino acids and glucose.

However, since folding and maintaining of such structures is highly sensitive to cellular or environmental stress, proteins can potentially misfold or form clumps (aggregates).

This research study suggests that some children, due to their genetics (as well as other factors such as prenatal environment and exposure to stress during pregnancy), are much more sensitive to certain environmental factors and stress, and as a result of this are more likely to develop schizophrenia and other mental illnesses.

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.

Potentially devastating protein folding problems worsen when a cell or organism is stressed by hostile environmental factors, such as heat.

The researchers said this process might be dominant in plants that experience long - term high light stress combined with other environmental stressors, such as drought or cold temperatures.

Integrated systems biology approaches can identify gene regulatory networks, such as immune, stress and other regulatory responses, and link them with physiologic states.6 This bioinformatics approach provides an unbiased view of the immune system profile, and can be linked to changes in environmental conditions.7 These network approaches, while often applied to identifying disease profiles, can be used to identify salutary states as well, such as that which might result from intensive meditation.

It focuses on the mechanisms underlying the expression and the inheritance of the effects of environmental conditions such as traumatic stress in early postnatal life, on behavior and physiology, and their link with diseases in humans.