Sentences with phrase «function as buffer»

Conversely, active coping seems to function as a buffer for psychological distress with elevated scores on the active coping strategies indicating fewer symptoms of psychological distress.

By maintaining abundant forest cover in shade coffee plantations, they can function as buffer zones and can form the backbone to the biological corridor linking the two national parks and other forest fragments.

* Carnosine is a dipeptide (Beta - Alanine plus Histidine) that functions as a buffer for the hydrogen ions (acid) produced during strenuous exercise, thus helping to maintain optimum muscular pH. * NOW uses CarnoSyn ®, a patented form of Beta - Alanine that has been clinically tested and shown to increase muscle carnosine content, allowing muscles to work harder and longer during intense exercise.

For instance, recent evidence suggests that cultural values of collectivism also serve an «anti-pathogen defence» whereby behavioural manifestations of collectivism, such as conformity and parochialism, function as buffers against the transmission and increased prevalence of disease - causing pathogens (e.g. malaria, typhus and tuberculosis)(Fincher et al. 2008).

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They regulate the risks of natural hazards and climate change, offer cultural and spiritual values to our society, and support key ecological functions such as nutrient and water cycling, filtering and buffering, and are central to economic vitality.

It functions as the regulatory body of the entire biosphere, buffering biogeochemical circulation, regenerating nutrients and hosting infinitely rich biodiversity, making it essential to life on Earth.

Once considered an inert storage depot for excess energy, adipose tissue has been clearly identified as playing an influential role in cardiometabolic health.3 Adipose tissue functions not only as an important buffer for fatty acids90 but also as a highly active secretory organ, capable of influencing whole - body physiology through the production of an array of bioactive adipokines.

Proteins function as enzymes for chemical reactions; hormones for chemical messaging; buffers to regulate acid - base balance; antibodies for the immune system; transporters, such as albumin, hemoglobin, transferrin, and retinol - binding protein, of substances in the blood; and acute - phase responders that guide the body's response during acute critical illness.

Bicarbonates are the primary transporters of oxygen in the body and are used to buffer acidity, while magnesium is known as the master mineral because it's vital for bodily functions, yet is deficient in most people.

Vitamins and minerals are essential for 96 % of the body's metabolic functions, and Fulvic Acid acts as a buffer, allowing those nutrients to pass through cellular membranes with ease.

The inflation guard endorsement functions as more of a buffer than a complete safeguard since it only requires the insurance company to increase its policy limits up to 80 % of your home's replacement cost.

In the absence of that ion supply, abiotic CO2 uptake in the ocean as a function of CO2 in air is at least somewhat limited by ions already present; acification can (over time) dissolve carbonate minerals that supply cations and carbonate ions, buffering pH and reacting with CO2 to form bicarbonate ions; new cations from chemical weathering have to be supplied to actually remove C from the oceans while keeping pH from dropping and without releasing as much CO2 from bicarbonate ions).

Covington & Burling, PM's law firm, would function as the executive arm of the Whitecoat Project, acting as a «legal buffer... the interface with the operating units (whitecoats, laboratories, etc.).»

Ecosystem function - The processes and interactions that operate within an ecosystem, such as energy flow, nutrient cycling, filtering and buffering of contaminants, and regulation of populations.

The inflation guard endorsement functions as more of a buffer than a complete safeguard since it only requires the insurance company to increase its policy limits up to 80 % of your home's replacement cost.

It is imperative to have a life insurance policy with an adequate sum insured so that it can replace the lost income and function as a financial buffer for the policyholder's family in the event of his / her demise.

As an article states, «according to terror management theory, increased self - esteem should enhance the functioning of the cultural anxiety buffer and thereby provide protection against death concerns».

Self - esteem was shown to serve the fundamental psychological function of buffering anxiety, with the pursuit of self - esteem as a defensive avoidance tool against basic human fears.