Sentences with phrase «human caused factors»

But what you have to understand is the relative radiative forcing compared to changes in CO2 and other human caused factors.

Not exact matches

Often, the things that cause breaches are individual human factors, like, «I wasn't able to patch all the computers.»»

Systems science is an interdisciplinary field that studies how the interaction of factors produces outcomes — how the causes and consequences of events can, taken together, form the basis for everything from a disease epidemic, to a pattern of human behavior.

Researchers found that human - caused climate change accounts for 55 percent of the increase in drying out of Western forests, a major factor in wildfires, and has led to a doubling of the area burned.

Systemic suffering and social malfunctioning, therefore, are caused by human greed, self - centeredness, an illusion about power and control, racism, sexism, imperialism, ethnocentrism, and other factors.

To be a good historian according to our present standards, one must have the capacity to see the interplay of human and physical factors that caused important events to take place, and if the history is to be widely read the historian must have a clear and vivid literary style.

Involvement in the multitudinous problems of a rapidly expanding urban area or exposure to the increasingly bitter struggle between labor and management or entanglement in the luxuriant and rank growth so abundantly fostered by the new wealth of the «gilded age»: these and other factors caused many men to re-examine their roles as ministers and to seek more effective ways of ministering to the needs of their time.11 Perhaps the most important thing that happened to such men was that they became aware of the many factors bearing on human welfare and thus of importance to the Christian gospel.

However, I hate to see that being a deciding factor for you, or at least a very big factor, cause in the end it is not about how humans behave, it is about how the Messiah lived and died.

We may conclude, then, that goal - setting and purposive activity is a fundamental factor in cultural evolution, and that final causes — in the form of externalized teleologies — play a significant role in the activities and social relationships of human beings.

I mean, the carbs, fats (including 200 fatty acids - not just the one or two added - from weird sources - into formula), proteins (including lactoferrin, which isn't in formula or any regular foods, & inhibits the growth of bacteria such as E.coli in the gastrointestinal system - actually it appears to be extracted as a supplement for a many causes, see: http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-49-LACTOFERRIN.aspx?activeIngredientId=49&activeIngredientName=LACTOFERRIN), vitamins, minerals, water, immunoblobulins, lysozyme (one of 20 active enzymes in human milk, this one provides an antibacterial factor against enterobacteriaceae and gram + bacteria), other digestive enzymes not in other sources include lipase and amylase, prostaglandins, bile salts, EGF (promotes healing and growth of gut mucosa), cytokines, CCK....

«The strongest factor in students» belief in human - caused climate change was their own knowledge of climate science.»

She also thinks that though human influence might be «greater than we realize,» this regional climate change is probably caused by many factors, including increased irrigation in the region.

Like many human diseases, schizophrenia is complex, and no single genetic or environmental factor has been identified as the cause of the disease.

A dust storm that blanketed seven nations in the Middle East in late summer 2015 was caused by climate factors and unusual weather, not human conflict in Syria, concluded researchers including Elie Bou - Zeid, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton.

Now, a team of researchers including Elie Bou - Zeid an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Princeton who experienced the storm while in Lebanon, have found a more likely cause for the unprecedented storm — it was not human conflict, but a combination of climatic factors and unusual weather.

In its 2007 report, the IPCC concluded with 90 percent certainty that human - caused greenhouse gas emissions have been the primary factor in Earth's overall temperature rise since 1950.

They also tracked Apolipoprotein E (APOE 4), a well - known genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's, as well as lifetime cumulative exposure to unhealthy levels of PM2.5 — particles which are at least 30 times smaller than the diameter of a human hair and frequently cause the haze over urban areas.

For these researchers, the bursts of demographic expansion caused by climate change in southern Africa were probably key factors in the origin of modern humans» behaviour in Africa, and in the dispersal of Homo sapiens from his ancestral home.

Another factor is use of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, because HPV is a root cause of most cervical cancers.

One of these, Helicobacter pylori, is a pathogen that can cause stomach ulcers in humans and is the strongest known risk factor for gastric cancer.

A Johns Hopkins University team this week reported inserting a disrupted human gene, the schizophrenia risk factor DISC1, into lab mice, causing them to exhibit the brain asymmetry characteristic of schizophrenia as well as agitation in open spaces and trouble finding hidden food — traits reminiscent of the restlessness, impaired sense of smell and depressionlike symptoms schizophrenics suffer, Reuters reports.

The extreme warmth, Cobb says, reflected not just the natural El Niño cycle, but a new factor: global warming caused by human activity.

Without ship strikes as a big factor holding the population back — and no other readily apparent human - caused reason (although noise, chemical pollution and interactions with fisheries may impact them)-- it is even more likely that the population is growing more slowly because whale numbers are reaching the habitat limit, something called the carrying capacity.

In part to better understand these human - driven events, the researchers wanted to get a handle on what mechanical factors control natural earthquakes and how often a given fault slips to cause one.

Human - caused global warming may prevent or stall the next ice age, although no one knows how much of a factor this will be.

They next examined the protein content of the MVs and identified 8 bacterial proteins, all with predicted properties of virulence factors that can attack the human host and cause disease.

For chemicals that don't cause cancer, they obtain a safe dose for humans by applying uncertainty factors to account for differences between mice and men and among individual people.

One week after a breakthrough finding, scientists report they can reprogram human skin cells to behave like embryonic stem cells without a growth factor known to cause cancer

A detailed, long - term ocean temperature record derived from corals on Christmas Island in Kiribati and other islands in the tropical Pacific shows that the extreme warmth of recent El Niño events reflects not just the natural ocean - atmosphere cycle but a new factor: global warming caused by human activity.

This is clearest in the Americas, where the debate over whether humans or climate caused Late Pleistocene extinctions has raged for decades (the truth is probably a combination of these two factors, including a trophic cascade caused by human - mediated extinctions of large carnivores).

Various factors influence these African droughts, both natural and human - caused.

They point out that poor semen quality «is the leading cause of unsuccessful attempts to achieve pregnancy and one of the most common medical problems among young men... it has been suggested as an important marker of male health, predicting both morbidity and mortality... it is sensitive to environmental exposures, including endocrine disrupting chemicals, heat and life - style factors, such as diet... Therefore, it can provide a sensitive marker of the impacts of modern environment on human health.»

Once again we have used our capabilities in human genetics to gain a new understanding of the root causes of a major disease, that appear to act independently of known environmental risk factors.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA — April 9, 2018 — Using human brain cells, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes discovered the cause of — and a potential solution for — the primary genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease, a gene called apoE4.

Even without human - caused climate change, wildfires would have increased in many regions due to other human activities and natural factors.

While it is theoretically possible for human and animal activities to affect the climate on Earth, the main factor causing fluctuations in temperatures on this planet, as on Mars, is variability in energy output from the Sun.

Tumor necrosis factor - α causes release of cytosolic interleukin - 18 from human neutrophils.

Platelet - activating factor - mediated endosome formation causes membrane translocation of p67phox and p40phox that requires recruitment and activation of p38 MAPK, Rab5a, and phosphatidylinositol 3 - kinase in human neutrophils.

Infection with the factor CagA, which is translocated into host cells via the gastric bacterium Helicobacter pylori can cause chronic inflammation and is a major risk factor for gastric adenocarcinoma in humans.

Results: There are many factors that can change the climate, like human - caused emissions, naturally - occurring gases, and even heat radiated from the Sun.

Bleaching can be caused by a host of human - induced and natural factors such as (top) intense sunlight combined with elevated water temperature; (middle) diseases caused by bacteria, fungi, and viruses; and (bottom) coastal pollution that reduces water quality and increases susceptibility to bleaching.

Working with Nancy Cox, PhD, professor of medicine and human genetics and section chief of genetic medicine at the University of Chicago, Bell discovered mutations in the genes for glucokinase and for three transcription factors that cause an early - onset form of diabetes called maturity - onset diabetes of the young.

Do you believe the human activity is significant factor that causes global warming?

Other projects focus on studying how mutations found in the genes for skeletogenic transcription factors cause skeletal and other defects in human patients and finding ways to overcome the negative effects of these mutations in patients.

Results of regular monitoring of the species diversity and structure of plant communities is used by conservation biologists to help understand impacts of perturbations caused by humans and other environmental factors on ecosystems worldwide.

But overall, the message of the studies this year is that «human activity changes the likelihood and behaviors of extreme events, and our ability as a scientific community to adequately (and convincingly) disentangle the human - caused factors from the underlying natural variability continues to improve,» Kossin said.

Gastric adenocarcinoma is the second leading cause of cancer - related death in the world, and Helicobacter pylori, a bacterial species that persistently colonizes the human stomach and induces chronic gastritis, is the strongest known risk factor for this malignancy.

Disproportionate mortality of males, presumably an important cause of the change in sex ratio of the snow leopard population in Tost, is reported in several carnivores as resulting from human - induced factors such as poaching and retaliatory killing, including Amur tigers in southeast Russia [32], leopards in South Africa [34], and cougars in the Pacific Northwest [33], although there are exceptions (e.g. tiger population in Panna, Central India, that had turned male - biased prior to extinction due to poaching; [36], [37]-RRB-.

«The aging process itself is the main risk factor in cardiac disease, cancer, Alzheimer's and other major causes of death for humans,» says Harel.

February 9, 2011 Human and mouse studies sharpen focus on cause of celiac disease Blocking a factor that can activate the human immune response against intestinal bacteria or certain foods could prevent the development of celiac disease in those most at risk, researchers report in the journal NaHuman and mouse studies sharpen focus on cause of celiac disease Blocking a factor that can activate the human immune response against intestinal bacteria or certain foods could prevent the development of celiac disease in those most at risk, researchers report in the journal Nahuman immune response against intestinal bacteria or certain foods could prevent the development of celiac disease in those most at risk, researchers report in the journal Nature.