Sentences with phrase «human factors over»

Not exact matches

Not only would there be a huge human factor to consider in sending them back to countries with which most aren't familiar, but the cost to our economy could be staggering: According to a Center for American Progress study earlier this year, the estimated loss of DACA workers would reduce U.S. GDP by $ 433 billion over the next 10 years, with California, Texas and Illinois being hit hardest.

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

Meanwhile, the Foodex Engage Lounge, in partnership with Teknomek, will host more than 30 sessions over three days on issues such as how to reduce the risk of bacterial contamination; hygiene strategies to manage the «human factor»; how plastic is enhancing hygienic routines; and balancing occupational health with hygiene.

Science won out over the «yuck factor» today as the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority granted the first licences for research on human - animal hybrid embHuman Fertilisation and Embryology Authority granted the first licences for research on human - animal hybrid embhuman - animal hybrid embryos.

The human species is essentially homogeneous from a genetic perspective, however, the various groups have some subtle but significant differences at statistical and scientific level that have developed over time due to the effect of geographical, demographic and cultural factors» says Valentina Coia.

«Over the last decade, geneticists have identified hundreds of genetic risk factors for several human diseases, but the functional consequences of those factors on relevant cells are largely unknown,» said Towfique Raj, PhD, BWH Department of Neurology and a postdoctoral scholar at the Broad Institute, lead study author.

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.

But then we're not twins, or clones — and surely this, the Love Factor, is a term that's conspicuously missing from our modern debate over the ethics and wisdom of human cloning.

Even if certified safe for human consumption, meat grown in a lab will have to overcome the «yuck factor» twice over.

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).

In the work published in Cell, the scientists at Karolinska Institutet describe DNA sequences that bind to over 400 such proteins, representing approximately half of all human transcription factors.

The researchers say the findings raise the question of whether a purported decline in human semen quality over the last 70 years could also be a result of environmental factors.

Not surprisingly, a storm has broken out over research saying human activities are not the main factor behind climate change.

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.

Over the past few years, studies in both humans and model organisms have provided insight into factors that are key components of the generation of aneuploidy.

The real question is which factor is doing the heavy lifting — and a new report in Nature released Wednesday says that on the Antarctic Peninsula, at least, human - generated greenhouse gases have almost certainly been by far the most important driver of warming over the past half - century.

Gen yum faces numerous anxiety - provoking factors: the barrage of constant buzzes and dings that demand immediate attention; a lack of face - to - face human connection; high unemployment rates and low pay; the management of the in - person and avatar identities; and general confusion over the functioning of our ever more complicated technologically infused environments.

A study in Nigeria found that calcium and potassium levels in human milk varied by a factor of 2, magnesium and copper by a factor of 3, chloride levels by a factor of 4, iron and selenium by almost 5, iodine and sodium by almost 7, and zinc, which is vital to the nervous system, by over 7.15 In other words, some mothers had seven times more zinc in their milk than others.

Their metabolisms are better suited to seed - eating; they make more amylase, for one thing, than humans do and their body chemistry is better capable of neutralizing phytic acid and various other factors protecting seeds from digestion in such a way that over the long term, they ruin human health.

A lot of people who prefer to go for online dating, especially singles over 40 would have done so because of their fear of actual human contact, and you don't want to impose an intimidating factor from the get - go.

44] Or even where there exists a divide it would be better not to dwell on that by constantly prioritizing it, super imposing it or letting it predominate all forms of debate and all domains of human existence or life itself as if it is the only or the most important factor of life over many other aspects of life.

Over three decades, the field of human performance — blending findings from organizational psychology, positive psychology, and emotional intelligence — has identified the core factors that maximize individual effort and the desire to achieve.

«If What Works focused on mechanisms rather than programs — taking a lead from international development over medicine in the way we design RCTs — we could start to identify the human and social learning factors which are relevant across contexts, homing in on the most essential pieces that need to be in place to create powerful learning.»

Your kitty might be fearful or anxious over an issue — it could be emotional, or an external factor that is bothering her, such as another animal or human.

Considering that over 75 % of dog bite related deaths were caused by resident dogs (a dog not kept as a family pet, but isolated from positive human interactions and usually kept for protection and / or chained outside), reducing this practice is a huge factor in preventing dog bites, as is neutering male dogs.

Everyone seems to know someone who tells a tale of losing a pet under anesthesia, but a recent study among human beings anesthetized over a period of 8 years in a Brazilian hospital revealed that although some patients died during surgery (16 deaths in 10,000), they were all related to patient factors, like preexisting disease1.

The Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture brings together the work of over 25 leading international artists, in whose practice the human form plays a central Human Factor: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture brings together the work of over 25 leading international artists, in whose practice the human form plays a central human form plays a central role.

A paper that makes use of the concept of the Anthropocene — a concept predicated on the idea that human activity is a dominant factor in the state of the earth system — does not spend any time at all looking at what humans might try to do, or be able to do, about the problems it discusses over the periods it imagines.

What we will learn is that human emitted carbon is merely «a drop in the pond» and that other factors which the «enthusiasts» have conveniently dismissed and the IPCC and other models have ignored are the real drivers and forcing of climate over both the long and short terms.

There is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the past 50 years is attributable to human factors.

Much has been made this week of the gap between what the public thinks about the consensus among climate scientists over the human factor in global warming and the actual level of consensus.

This report, «Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts Over Decades to Millennia,» provides a fresh degree - by - degree guide to impacts on river flows, rainfall, coasts and other factors that matter enormously over the next few decades as human populations crOver Decades to Millennia,» provides a fresh degree - by - degree guide to impacts on river flows, rainfall, coasts and other factors that matter enormously over the next few decades as human populations crover the next few decades as human populations crest.

As for longer trends, there are of course other factors that could play a role, but you perhaps don't realise that the association of the trends over the last few decades with human forcings (which include other GHGs, aerosols, land use, ozone depletion etc.) are not just based on a correlations.

a) atmospheric CO2 from human activity is a major bause of observed warming in the 1980's and 1990's, c) that warming is overstated due to a number of factors including solar effects and measurement skew d) the data going back 150 years is of little reliability because it is clustered so heavily in northeast america and western europe rather than being global e) the global climate has been significantly shifting over the last thousand years, over the last ten thousand years, and over the last hundred thousand years; atmospheric CO2 levels did not drive those changes, and some of them were rapid.

In its 5th Assessment Report, the IPCC looked at the warming from 1951 - 2010 to identify how much of the observed warming over that period could be confidently attributed to human factors (c.f. figure 3).

There have long been strong doubts about this claim and it has now been shown that global warming in recent decades can be explained entirely by natural factors that humans and their governments have no influence over except possibly by highly speculative and controversial geoengineering.

Whether or not this is an accurate reflection of the figure it is certainly non-zero, and anything that escalates the risk of nuclear war over a human lifetime should be met with concern, even if the risks of the escalating factor itself are blithely ignored.

This suggested that over the past 20 years, human activities such as the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation had begun to dominate «the natural factors involved in climate change,» he said.

«In fact, as NASA's Dr Gavin Schmidt has pointed out, the IPCC's implied best guess was that humans were responsible for around 110 % of observed warming (ranging from 72 % to 146 %), with natural factors in isolation leading to a slight cooling over the past 50 years.»

Compared with natural factors that influence climate (including solar variation and volcanic eruptions), human activities — primarily burning fossil fuels and deforestation — have been a major contributor to climate change over the last 50 years.

The scientific pivot to cooling confirms what many have thought and said over the last few decades: human CO2 emissions do have a warming influence on global temperatures but, with that said, it is a minor factor that is easily overwhelmed by both solar / cosmic and natural earthly forces.

And taken globally, increases in tropical forest carbon may be at least partly explained not by carbon fertilization, but by a recovery of carbon after past disturbances such as fire (both natural and anthropogenic) and land clearing by humans even centuries earlier - a factor that will reduce sink strength over time as forests recover.

The only difference is that the attribution will be 90 % towards clouds and water vapour and since humans are in no way responsible for these factors AGW will be just about natural global warming which ended over a decade ago and replaced by the global cooling which started in 2002 and will likely continue nuntil at least the end of solar cycle 25 around 2032

No matter how you look at the data, warming over the last 100 + years is real, how much was due to human influences and how much due to other factors is not really known, but certainly some warming is due to human activities.

Of course the BEST data didn't appear until 2011, and it's for land (which is where over 99 % of humans live so it's more relevant to us than sea temperature), but if it's at all reliable it would appear to be showing that 0.2 ºC / decade is way too low by nearly a factor of two!

These have shown no correlation with growing human population, which increased by factors of 1.3,.18, and 4 over the respective past three centuries.

What gets me is that from 1910 to about 1940 we saw nearly identical temperature increase over nearly an identical span of time at a point when human CO2 emissions could not possibly have been a factor.

The phrase «the debate over global warming is now over» does not mean that there is no more to learn scientifically, as Lindzen's comment suggests, but that theoretical analyses combined with observational evidence have together produced a broad scientific consensus that human activities have become the primary factor influencing the global climate.

Preoccupation with form over substance combined with denial and avoidance behavior are the chief causal factors for human failure — from the individual and family right up to the national level.

The IPCC indicated that the long - term rise in global temperatures over the last century could be explained when the influence of CO2 and other human factors were introduced into the models.