Sentences with phrase «human pressure over»

The authors looked at human pressure over time using the updated global Human Footprint criteria, which includes roads, agriculture, urbanization and industrial infrastructure, along with forest loss.

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In each case, a mix of social pressure and technological refinements helped tame a cruel new order, and reaffirmed human dignity over machines.

Biotechnology has been one of the hottest areas for investors over the last five years due to the advent of multiple game - changing new medicines, and the ever - expanding human population that's putting a tremendous amount of pressure on healthcare systems worldwide.

Nowadays, it is they, the pupils, who take over the pace and the direction of every human discussion and question, from the pressures of their need, and the vitality of their keen young minds.

Rockström went on to say, «Increased human pressure threatens the natural resources that humanity depends upon, increasing the risk of water and food insecurity and competition over natural resources.»

«Unlike the many documentaries that have exposed this problem over the years, this movie will not only entertain, but will reach many more people at a very personal level — showing the pressure on those who work for these transnational corporations and the realities we face in our work when trying to stop human rights abuses.

The three came under pressure over a letter in May 2007 prepared by Harbottle & Lewis on the instruction of Jon Chapman, the former director of legal affairs, and Daniel Cloak, the head of human resources, suggesting phone hacking had not been widespread.

Citing six catalysts - the confusion over human rights and the rule of law, the unprecedented growth of the «database state», devolution and the pressure for greater decentralisation in England, the European Union and globalisation and questions about the eventual succession of Queen Elizabeth II, I predicted that the need for fundamental constitutional change would become unarguable within the next twenty years.

As they report in this month's issue of Genome Research, the results were not consistent with balancing selection over the last half million years of human evolution but more likely due to as yet unknown selective pressures.

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.

The water pressure would exceed any pressure human have ever made, oh I guess not: «typical pressures reached by large - volume presses are up to 30 - 40 GPa, pressures that can be generated inside diamond anvil cells are ~ 320 GPa, pressure in the center of the Earth is 364 GPa, and highest pressures ever achieved in shock waves are over 100,000 GPa.»

Human - caused climate change has increased the likelihood of extremely high atmospheric pressure over the North Pacific Ocean, which suggests an increased risk of atmospheric patterns conducive to drought in California.

Overall, we find that anthropogenic greenhouse gases and sulphate aerosols have had a detectable influence on sea - level pressure over the second half of the twentieth century: this represents evidence of human influence on climate independent of measurements of temperature change.»