Sentences with phrase «how human pressure»

Using 24 key social, economic, and environmental indicators, our friend Félix Pharand - Deschênes has created a dashboard that shows how human pressure on planet Earth is reaching critical level.

Not exact matches

The associate professor of human resources and management at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business studies the demands that high - pressure workplaces make on people's time, and how they respond.

The research was conducted by dozens of international health and environmental experts and incorporates data from the ambitious Global Burden of Disease project, which highlighted how smoking, blood pressure, poor diet, and environmental factors affect human health earlier this year.

In any kind of hard work (especially work that takes place in public and often under considerable pressure), it is our natural human tendency to attend primarily to our own performance, to our own action, to what we ourselves are doing, to how well we are performing — and, perhaps especially, to how other people think we are doing.

How small indeed seem individual distinctions when we look back on these overwhelming numbers of human beings panting and straining under the pressure of that vital want!

This article analyzes the sources of pressure for change on the relationship between the petroleum industry and human rights; discusses how companies can meet the new challenges; and identifies the most sensitive issues in the current international debate and the likely way forward.

Pressure to ban the practice has fallen on the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) following a court ruling and the publication of research showing how a strain of bacteria jumped from humans to farm animals and back again, picking up antibiotic resistance on the way.

How, then, does the biosphere as a whole respond to human pressures?

Understanding how dolphins breathe rapidly and maintain lung functionality under immense pressure could help scientists keep humans safe when they are in similarly extreme situations, such as under anesthesia during surgeries, the researchers said.

By learning how natural populations, such as fishes, adapt and evolve under selective pressures, we can learn how these pressures affect humans in terms of health and disease.»

That's the conclusion of a new study that used measurements of an array of human pressures on the ocean — from acidification to overfishing — to make a map of where those factors combined into stressed - out hotspots, as well as how the combinations of stressors had changed over time.

While the ongoing costs of impunity in the Ayotzinapa case are unclear, the work of the international human rights community over the last two years has changed how we understand possibilities of international pressure.

In this study, two researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Kelsey E. Johnson and Benjamin F. Voight, wanted to investigate how shared positive selection pressures over different populations were affecting the human genome.

By considering diverse, under - studied African populations, we show how the architecture of skin pigmentation can vary across humans subject to different local evolutionary pressures.

This is unfortunate, seeing as it's impossible to make sense of why we humans behave the way we do and why and how different mental illnesses develop if one doesn't know anything about the evolutionary pressures that sculpted the human brain.

They didn't have any knowledge of nutrition, they weren't able to eat nutritious, calorie dense food whenever they wanted due to the absence of agriculture, and their immune systems were likely weaker than ours (living together in large numbers placed enormous selective pressure on our early agricultural ancestors to develop strong immune systems, keep in mind that early human civilizations did not have indoor plumbing... so they were sometimes exposed to fecal matter both from fellow humans and from livestock and they didn't have the kinds of disinfectants and anti-biotics we have today,) so for them to have serious health complications makes perfect sense, nature can be very harsh and doesn't care how long its been since your last meal or what your calorie and micro nutrient needs are... a lot of people died at very young ages back then simply because they got sick and didn't have proper medical treatment or due to malnutrition or starvation.

As indicated above, your veterinarian will begin an examination with measuring your dog's blood pressure in a way similar to how blood pressure is taken in humans.

So when we talk about bite inhibition in puppies, it's mostly about teaching puppies how to regulate the pressure of their bite so to match the needs of us humans.

The many questions and discussions on animal care, human - dog conflicts and rabies reflected an inherent compassion for dogs that is compromised by a lack of understanding in how to care for them properly and powerlessness against social and political pressures.

We check animal blood pressure similarly to how one check's a human's blood pressure; we use an inflatable cuff around the dog's foot or foreleg, or at the base of the tail.

We check animal blood pressure similarly to how one check's a human's blood pressure; we use an inflatable cuff around the cat's foot or foreleg, or at the base of the tail.

Among Bouthillier's recent curatorial projects are: How to Remain Human (2015, co-curated with Megan Lykins Reich); free movement power nomenclature pressure weight (2015), Tony Lewis's first solo museum exhibition; Wild Permutations (2015), a solo exhibition of Canadian photographer Jessica Eaton; and Xavier Cha: abduct, commissioned in partnership with Frieze Film, to open at MOCA Cleveland in 2016.

Planet Under Pressure, a four - day conference exploring how science can identify and limit risks in the face of increasing human impacts on the Earth, has ended * with a call for «urgent action» against the the unrelenting buildup of greenhouse gases.

This question arises when we see our world as a connected system and how the exercise of consumption or unfettered population growth affects other parts of the system (e.g. your mention of human confiscation of up to 40 % of solar input to photosynthesis must surely be putting extreme pressure on other species).

Various entities have been losing the global warming issue war for many years, succumbing to enviro - activist pressure to offer, at minimum, some kind of politically correct capitulation about how human activity is responsible for the warming.

Beyond the scientific questions — it becomes a question of how to pragmatically reduce human pressures on Earth systems — including inter alia — greenhouse gas emissions.

Gizmag reports on how these amazing photovoltaic fibers were made, «The origin of the solar - power fiber lies in earlier research by the team, on merging optical fibers with microchips by using high - pressure chemistry to deposit semi-conductors into tiny holes in optical fibers that are finer than a human hair.

Sui Muqing's experience exemplifies how much pressure a lawyer in China faces now if he or she takes up human rights cases considered sensitive by the authorities.