Sentences with phrase «human disturbance in»

The results show this complex interaction chain is maintained by the relative lack of human disturbance in the better protected parts of the atoll, whereas in regions where native trees have been replaced by human - propagated palm trees, the chain readily breaks down.

Abstract To assess the role of human disturbances in species» extinction requires an understanding of the species population history before human impact.

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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation)-- In a British suburb in central England, police officers accustomed to burglaries and household disturbances are breaking new ground by finding ways to battle the latest crime wave — human traffickinIn a British suburb in central England, police officers accustomed to burglaries and household disturbances are breaking new ground by finding ways to battle the latest crime wave — human traffickinin central England, police officers accustomed to burglaries and household disturbances are breaking new ground by finding ways to battle the latest crime wave — human trafficking.

Moreover, the suffering that can be inflicted through disturbance within the human body indicates the extent to which general biological health and «material» security constitute happiness, although the fact that these ends dominate the lives of most people in the contemporary world indicates how far short of its possibilities the human race remains.

Hence, a neuronal occasion in the human brain prehends the very minute disturbances of the electromagnetic field occasioned by other neuronal occasions in its immediate past, since these «minor» disturbances are absolutely essential for its own reaction (self - constitution).

I profess no advanced psychiatric knowledge, but such knowledge as a layman may have about the causes of disturbance to the human spirit is here placed in conjunction with what prayer can do.

Nevertheless, the disturbance arises from an essentially Christian vision of human nature and the human condition that, while affirming their reconciliation in God, acknowledges the tension between justice and mercy in this world.

Given Aquinas's description of sin as a «disturbance of the divine order meriting punishment,» the presence of eternally sinning human beings indicates an eternally disturbed divine order, in which God «is forever unappeased by the punishment of the wicked.»

People will be looking to our courts and prisons to deliver justice in the weeks and months ahead as the full human and economic cost of the recent disturbances is revealed.

Her research is centered on relationships between community dynamics and ecosystem processes in response to human disturbances.

Birds living in urban areas rarely get any peace and must cope with almost constant disturbance from both humans and their pets

The sambars» behavior had been seen years earlier, when CSIS - member Neil Carter found that tigers in Nepal shifted their movements to the night to avoid human disturbances.

In a test of this theory, researchers have demonstrated that mice harboring a human SCN1A gene mutation that results in Dravet Syndrome (DS), a severe and intractable genetic epilepsy, have electrical disturbances in the heart that culminate in ventricular fibrillation and sudden cardiac deatIn a test of this theory, researchers have demonstrated that mice harboring a human SCN1A gene mutation that results in Dravet Syndrome (DS), a severe and intractable genetic epilepsy, have electrical disturbances in the heart that culminate in ventricular fibrillation and sudden cardiac deatin Dravet Syndrome (DS), a severe and intractable genetic epilepsy, have electrical disturbances in the heart that culminate in ventricular fibrillation and sudden cardiac deatin the heart that culminate in ventricular fibrillation and sudden cardiac deatin ventricular fibrillation and sudden cardiac death.

«It has profound implications for our understanding of human development and physiology, and gives us a remarkable wealth of resources to examine how disturbances of this system might result in diseases such as cancer.»

Her current work examines which bee species are most vulnerable to human disturbance, and explores in more detail whether both rare native bees and efficient pollination services can be restored by increasing the diversity of flowering plants.

In a million years, barring profound shifts, the climate should have returned to its natural rhythms but any cities buried in sediment by rising seas should still be preserved, along with those signs of anthroturbation, human - induced disturbances underground, like the plutons from underground explosions of nuclear bombIn a million years, barring profound shifts, the climate should have returned to its natural rhythms but any cities buried in sediment by rising seas should still be preserved, along with those signs of anthroturbation, human - induced disturbances underground, like the plutons from underground explosions of nuclear bombin sediment by rising seas should still be preserved, along with those signs of anthroturbation, human - induced disturbances underground, like the plutons from underground explosions of nuclear bombs.

In a study of New Jersey pine - oak forest, Winfree was surprised to find that bee populations are more abundant and diverse near sites of human disturbance — where backyard gardens or farm fields add to the range of blossoms available.

In other words, humans have «become important agents of disturbance in the Amazon Basin,» as an international consortium of scientists wrote in a review of the state of the science on the world's largest rainforest published in Nature on January 1In other words, humans have «become important agents of disturbance in the Amazon Basin,» as an international consortium of scientists wrote in a review of the state of the science on the world's largest rainforest published in Nature on January 1in the Amazon Basin,» as an international consortium of scientists wrote in a review of the state of the science on the world's largest rainforest published in Nature on January 1in a review of the state of the science on the world's largest rainforest published in Nature on January 1in Nature on January 19.

Managing fish in human - altered rivers is a challenge because their food webs are sensitive to environmental disturbance.

There maybe a simple objective way of assessing whether human impacts qualify as new era or epoch: By measuring the volume of crust material disturbance caused by humans in comparison to recognized geological events, such as the K - T boundary impact.

«I think the reduction of habitat definitely decreased their population size,» Hung says, noting something similar may explain the extinction of other outbreak species in North America, like the Rocky Mountain grasshopper in the western U.S. «Our study suggests that the combination of natural population size changes and human disturbances drove the rapid extinction of this bird.»

In a recent study of human couples, social psychologist Lisa Diamond of the University of Utah observed minor withdrawal - like symptoms, such as irritability and sleep disturbances, along with an increase in cortisol in subjects after they were separated four to seven dayIn a recent study of human couples, social psychologist Lisa Diamond of the University of Utah observed minor withdrawal - like symptoms, such as irritability and sleep disturbances, along with an increase in cortisol in subjects after they were separated four to seven dayin cortisol in subjects after they were separated four to seven dayin subjects after they were separated four to seven days.

«In the current environment of human - caused environmental disturbance and degradation, the discovery of four previously unknown species that are relatively large in size is phenomenal,» he saiIn the current environment of human - caused environmental disturbance and degradation, the discovery of four previously unknown species that are relatively large in size is phenomenal,» he saiin size is phenomenal,» he said.

It is only when parts of these different visual areas are damaged, causing selective yet often profound disturbances in perception, that we begin to appreciate the range and subtlety of normal human vision.

Aronson thinks natural causes may have contributed, but that human disturbance was what set the disaster in motion.

Sleep disturbances in animals and humans have long been linked to cognitive and emotional damage.

«In humans, sleep and feeding are tightly interconnected, and pathological disturbances of either process are associated with metabolism - related disorders,» said Alex C. Keene, Ph.D., corresponding author and associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences on FAU's John D. MacArthur Campus in JupiteIn humans, sleep and feeding are tightly interconnected, and pathological disturbances of either process are associated with metabolism - related disorders,» said Alex C. Keene, Ph.D., corresponding author and associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences on FAU's John D. MacArthur Campus in Jupitein the Department of Biological Sciences on FAU's John D. MacArthur Campus in Jupitein Jupiter.

Studies have shown that flickering light can cause stress, behavioural disturbances and various forms of discomfort in humans and birds alike.

Its spherical wave front, expanding like a ripple from a disturbance in a pool of water and inadvertently carrying the news that human beings have achieved the capacity for interstellar discourse, envelops about 20 new stars each year.

Human activities and land use changes that result in permanent deforestation have a much greater impact than temporary deforestation from natural disturbances, such as a fire.

Obesity in these mice resembles several important clinical features of human obesity such as weight gain and disturbance of metabolism, and this mouse model was ideal for unraveling any underlying biological mechanisms of pancreas cancer that are put in motion by obesity.

Developing biomedical strategies to treat circadian clock disturbances in humans thus rely on diurnal models.

To fill this gap, the researches mapped wilderness areas — biologically and ecologically intact landscapes that are free of any significant human disturbance — and compared their current map to the one produced using the same methods in the early 1990s.

«This flexibility of consumer species may be an important, but so far widely neglected mechanism that could stabilize consumer - resource relationships, for instance in response to human disturbance and environmental change.

A new study from across British Columbia shows that fish diversity in seagrass meadows is lower where there is more human disturbance.

Interference with actin dynamics is superior to disturbance of microtubule function in the inhibition of human ovarian cancer cell motility.

The answers they have discovered so far reveal critical information about gene regulation; specifically, that cells are used to record the positional identity in human tissues, and that the «perturbation,» the disturbance, of such programs plays a major role in cancer progression, especially in metastasis, whereby cancer cells spread to other parts of the body.

A study of ecosystem interaction chains in a remote atoll in the Pacific Ocean suggests that human disturbances, such as forest conversions, can corrupt the links that tie together ecological interactions and cause the chains to become radically shortened or go extinct.

Even if animals in the area are being affected by radiation in the area, the effects of this contamination are overshadowed by the fact that this area is now essentially a wildlife reserve relatively free of human disturbances.

Hence, it is proposed that intermittent fasting could represent a possible approach to prevent or minimize disturbances of glucose homeostasis in human subjects.

One of the subplots in Thor: Ragnarok was the disturbance of the balance between the peaceful human Bruce Banner and his rage - filled alter ego, the Hulk.

The Let»em Rest, Let»em Nest program was created by Audubon South Carolina and the Charleston Animal Society in efforts to decrease human - caused disturbance to declining migrating and nesting coastal birds and promote responsible dog ownership on the beach.

The study notes that naturally occurring canine and feline osteoarthritis is strikingly similar to human osteoarthritis, including its appearance in radiographs and how it leads to impaired mobility and sleep disturbances.

Like humans with an injury, dogs with hip dysplasia may compensate for the loss of rear end motion and the pain involved in weight - bearing exercise by shifting balance, a disturbance that can cause spinal problems.

Humans have a wide range of sadness - emotions varying from grief, transient upsets and some forms of depression (a chemical disturbance in the brain) have symptoms like sadness.

chondrodysplasia: any growth plate (cartilage) disturbance resulting in canine dwarfism; in human pathology, it has a different meaning: enchondromatosis, a rare disorder marked by enlarged cartilage and tumors in joints.

Whilst recording manatee sightings and behaviours, in relation to human disturbance and various environmental factors, you will explore, map and monitor vast seagrass beds for the benefit of the manatees and other species that rely on these habitats.

Harbor seal colonies in the Bay Area are vulnerable to human disturbance, climate change and human - produced pollutants.

Recreational and other human disturbance, loss of habitat to urban development, introduction of beachgrass and other nonnative species, and expanding predator populations have all contributed to a decline in active nesting areas and in the size of the breeding and wintering populations.

The bald eagle is extremely sensitive to human activity, and is found most commonly in areas free of human disturbance.