Sentences with phrase «human activities during»

Similarily, the reference below states «Natural land and ocean CO2 sinks removed 57 % of all CO2 emitted from human activities during the 1958 - 2009, each sink in roughly equal proportion.

Thomas calls for complete time - area closures, which would prohibit human activities during peak spinner dolphin resting periods in the most critical bays — a position supported by Heenehan's team.

Here we find a long list of climate components that «are now changing at rates and in patterns that are not natural and are best explained by the increased atmospheric abundances of greenhouse gases and aerosols generated by human activity during the 20th century.»

If 14C prior is uniform, that implies that there was almost no plant growth, lake sedimentation, or human activity during flat spots in the calibration curve such as 400 - 750 BC or 200 - 350BC in your illustration.

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God's rule, like the activity of a peasant during an agricultural season, requires cooperation between human beings and the Creator, similar to that between the farmer and the soil.

[The earlier passage is here inserted:] «The essential principle is this: That human psycho - physical activity must exceed a certain intensity for any waking consciousness at all to occur, and that during the waking state any particular specification of the said activity (whether spontaneous or due to stimulation), which is capable of occasioning a particular specification of consciousness, must exceed in its turn a certain further degree of intensity for the consciousness actually to arise...

Many of the elements basic to a Christian way of life were first basic to a Jewish way of life: a reverence for the Scriptures; a sense of the sacred; respect for the law; humility before the transcendent; the cherishing of the human capacity for reflection and choice; the sharp taste of the existing (as distinct from non-existing), and of being (as opposed to nonbeing), and therefore of the blessed contingency of this created world; the practice of compassion; the ideal of friendship with God and of «walking with God»; the habit of prayer; and a sense of the presence of God during the activities of every day — all these are habits of life that Christians share with Jews and have learned from Judaism.

The human foot has 33 joints that allow 26 bones to move freely during impacts such as walking, running and other activities.

ALL human beings with a properly working circadian rhythm wake naturally during the night, and in many cultures this was accompanied by rising from bed and participating in nighttime activities such as socializing or reading or whatever.

In animal models, exposure to cigarette smoke or nicotine during fetal development alters the expression of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in areas of the brainstem important for autonomic function, 28 alters the neuronal excitability of neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarius (a brainstem region important for sensory integration), 29 and alters fetal autonomic activity and medullary neurotransmitter receptors.30 In human infants, there are strong associations between nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and serotonin receptors in the brainstem during development.31 Prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke attenuates recovery from hypoxia in preterm infants, 32 decreases heart rate variability in preterm33 and term34 infants, and abolishes the normal relationship between heart rate and gestational age at birth.33 Moreover, infants of smoking mothers exhibit impaired arousal patterns to trigeminal stimulation in proportion to urinary cotinine levels.35 It is important to note also that prenatal exposure to tobacco smoke alters the normal programming of cardiovascular reflexes such that there is a greater - than - expected increase in blood pressure and heart rate in response to breathing 4 % carbon dioxide or a 60 ° head - up tilt.36 These changes in autonomic function, arousal, and cardiovascular reflexes might all increase an infant's vulnerability to SIDS.

During REM sleep, the brain generates high - frequency waves of electrical activity and the eyes flicker; in humans, REM is closely linked to dreaming.

As one of the founding members of the Coalition, the Association of American Geographers contributed greatly to the formation of the Coalition during the months preceding its formal launch, and AAG representatives participated throughout the event... The AAG continues to support the Coalition, which is led by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), by fostering scholarly discourse on how geography and geographers can contribute to the protection of human rights and by helping to disseminate information and resources critical to this effort, among other activities.»

Recordings of neural activity in the frontal cortex of the rats showed that, like humans with schizophrenia, these rats also lacked the low frequency burst of brain activity (delta wave) during the timing task.

Yet, as was the case with the other scientists, during his meetings with the staff of New York delegation members the conversations turned to his work measuring the impact of human activities on New York's coastal marshes.

During the first 24 hours after death, genetic changes kick in across various human tissues, creating patterns of activity that can be used to roughly predict when someone died,...

The groundbreaking study, «Autonomic Activity During Sleep Predicts Memory Consolidation in Humans,» appears in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

UNSETTLING it may be, but following the gaze of a virtual face during a brain scan is helping to unravel brain activity that is key to complex human social interactions: activity that may be atypical in people with autism.

Where human activity has disturbed the soil, such as during the construction of the railway, the rate is double, 0.6 degree C.

«Science tells us that the climate is changing, and that human activity, in some manner, impacts that change,» Pruitt said during the hearing in front of the Environment and Public Works Committee.

More than 85 percent of those happened during a time when there were no storms or lightning, meaning that most of the fires originated from human activities.

These soil deviations often go unnoticed during restoration projects, and exemplify yet one more human activity that inadvertently alters the natural biogeochemical cycle.

The rate of carbon release during the PETM was determined to be much smaller than the current input of carbon to the atmosphere from human activities.

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV - 1) is a virus that is spread through unprotected sexual activity, infected drug needles, during pregnancy from mother to child, and through infected breast milk.

Slumber is known to improve recall in creatures from fruit flies to humans, and the reigning theory among neuroscientists has been that the waves of brain activity during deep sleep reactivate neurons that were triggered during the day, strengthening neuronal connections and cementing them into solid memories.

The scientists looked at the so - called biogenic fluxes or flow of the three greenhouse gases on land that were caused by human activities over the last three decades and subtracted out emissions that existed «naturally» during pre-industrial times.

By significantly increasing the speed of functional MRI (fMRI), researchers funded by the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) have been able to image rapidly fluctuating brain activity during human thought.

Global warming became big news for the first time during the hot summer of 1988 when now - retired NASA climate scientist James Hansen testified before Congress that the trend was not part of natural climate variation, but rather the result of emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gasses from human activities.

To help regulate body temperature during elevated levels of activity, early humans shed their fur.

In addition, during sleep the brain - wave patterns of dogs are similar to people's, and they exhibit the same stages of electrical activity that are observed in humans — all of which is consistent with the idea that dogs are dreaming.

Human bites to the hand — while accounting for only two to three percent of all hand bite injuries — can occur during altercations and include wounds caused by punching type contact with the mouth or teeth, domestic abuse, or accidentally during sports, play, or other activities.

Concentrations in the atmosphere have crept up since 2007, but during the same period, methane emissions from human activities and natural sources have remained stable or even fallen slightly, both studies suggest.

As the number of «political» diagnoses increased during the mid-1960s, so did the activities of the Soviet human rights campaigners in bringing psychiatric abuse to the attention of the outside world.

To better understand these mechanisms, Too and colleagues infected human motor neuron cells with EV71 and compiled a list of human proteins that showed changes in activity during infection.

The American Museum of Natural History will host the first U.S. hotspot during three weekends in July, where people can try the oPhones and participate in educational activities demonstrating how humans process smell.

The DHS researchers on the TechSolutions programme and in the Human Factors / Behavior Science Division hope to record the brain's natural activity during periods of calm or alertness.

The investigators studied the effects of ∆ 9 - THC on electrical brain activity in 24 human subjects who participated in a three - day study during which they received two doses of intravenous ∆ 9 - THC or placebo in a double - blind, randomized, cross-over, and counterbalanced design.

Then, by comparing this ancient epigenome with that of modern humans, they identified genes whose activity had changed only in our own species during our most recent evolution.

During the month long crew swap activities, human research is still ongoing aboard the orbital laboratory today.

In 1996, when climate research was more certain about the link between fossil fuel combustion and climate change than during the time of Shaw's memo, Exxon's new chairman and chief executive Lee Raymond said in a speech in Detroit: «Currently, the scientific evidence is inconclusive as to whether human activities are having a significant effect on the global climate.»

Ezh2 mediated H3K27me3 activity facilitates somatic transition during human pluripotent reprogramming.

During her 2008 campaign Clinton said she was «committed to a space exploration program that involves robust human spaceflight to complete the Space Station and later human missions, expanded robotic spaceflight probes of our solar system leading to future human exploration, and enhanced space science activities.»

So far, two - thirds of HARs tested for enhancer activity turned on a gene during development.4 For 26 HAR enhancers, we repeated the experiment with the human sequences.

«We anticipate that if we were to look at the activity of HARs that are enhancers during later developmental stages, we would see even more differences between humans and chimpanzees.»

Eight HARs showed differences in their enhancer activity when the human mutations were present.4 These differences modify how genes were expressed in the developing limb (HAR2, 2xHAR114), eye (HAR25), and central nervous system (2xHAR142, 2xHAR238, 2xHAR164, 2xHAR170, ANC516 / HARE5).4, 10 Because relatively few time points have been examined, it is likely that an even higher percentage of the tested HARs are active enhancers at some point during embryonic development or in adult tissues, possibly with human - chimp differences.

During his confirmation hearing, the former Navy pilot wouldn't agree that human activity is the primary cause of climate change, an unusual position when NASA provides some of the world's most comprehensive data on climate change.

In addition to the analysis of human brain activity which is associated with the perception of chemosensory anxiety signals, it has been examined whether the neuronal activity changes during the conscious perception of the chemosensory stimuli as odors.

Analysis of FOXP2 gene targets in human neural tissues reveal that a subset of these play roles in activity - based sculpting of neural connections, including during learning [48], [49].

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Just as the human body burns calories during typical physical activities such as jogging or swimming, the body burns calories while stationary in an infrared sauna.

Human skeletal muscle PDH kinase activity and isoform expression during a 3 - day high - fat / low - carbohydrate diet