Sentences with phrase «impacts by chemical»

Rather than analyzing impacts by chemical species, scientists have analyzed the climate impacts by different economic sectors.

Republican Assemblyman Steve McLaughlin on Tuesday questioned why the Democratic - led Assembly is yet to hold hearings on water quality issues around the state, first proposed earlier this year after the village of Hoosick Falls's municipal water supply was impacted by a chemical contamination.

«Today in the audience are New Yorkers whose lives have been personally impacted by the chemical PFOA,» Gillibrand told Dourson at the hearing.

Not exact matches

Investigative reporter and blogger Eliot Higgins has talked about how Facebook's haste to censor what might be disturbing or controversial imagery can directly impact our understanding of a developing news story: the site removed several pages and posts from Syrian dissident groups and terrorist factions, but in doing so it effectively deleted a key source of information about chemical weapon attacks by the Syrian government.

A Texas - based chemical plant impacted by the flooding that came with Hurricane Harvey is now refusing to detail the location of its chemical inventory on site to the public as it anticipates more explosions.

In the case of the attack on the ozone layer by chlorofluorocarbons, the impact could be made negligible by operating on the T factor alone, that is, ban the offending chemical.

This diet had real impact on her when she learned of the health problems that can be caused by hormone, chemical, and antibiotic filled meat and dairy (plus other problems related to those industries).

I lead by example, dedicated to health and wellness and to helping educate others on the subject of chemical toxicity in particular and the impact of that on our, our children's and the planet's health.

«Also, to target a zero - waste society by fully turning agro-waste feedstock into a portfolio of energy and chemicals to substitute non-renewable equivalents, with favorable air, water and soil impacts.»

By prohibiting the use of synthetic agricultural chemicals, certified organic farming reduces its impact on the surrounding environment by reducing run - off into nearby waterwayBy prohibiting the use of synthetic agricultural chemicals, certified organic farming reduces its impact on the surrounding environment by reducing run - off into nearby waterwayby reducing run - off into nearby waterways.

Sustainable Choice is a tool that was developed by Treasury Wine Estates, advising sites on the selection of chemicals that have least impact on people and the environment.

scientific study has learneed that the benzodiazepine drug treatments, the actual Valiums along with Xanaxes, perform how they do by interesting any natural chemical called «gamma - aminobutyric acid, or even Gamma aminobutyric acid, therefore selling a relaxing impact in only exactly the same as the highly habit forming opioids.

Kridler notes that while disposable diaper advocates try to cite «a British study that suggested all the washing and drying of cloth diapers meant their environmental impact was about equal to that of disposables», that the study has been criticized by environmentalists who point out that «the combination of chemicals in the diapers and their baby waste make for an unhealthy contribution to landfills and potentially ground water.»

Parents choose to swaddle their little ones in cloth rather than disposable diapers for many reasons: most would like to raise their children with the least environmental impact possible; many worry about rashes or other conditions caused by the chemicals and fragrances in disposable diapers; others have done cost - effectiveness calculations and found that cloth diapers may be more economical for their family; and many are hoping that, yes, cloth diapers would lead to earlier potty training.

1962 saw the publication of «Silent Spring» by Rachel Carson, which detailed the damaging impact of DDT and other chemicals on the environment, and played a key part in popularising environmentalism.

But their passionate opposition to the chemical plant generated an explosion of public anger that forced a halt in construction, pending further environmental impact studies by authorities in Beijing, and produced large demonstrations June 1 and 2, drawing national publicity.

Further calculations by Catling and his team conclude that no abiotic methane sources on a rocky planet could produce enough of the gas to counteract this process — whether it is volcanic outgassing from a planet's interior, chemical reactions in hydrothermal vents, even asteroid impacts.

He works by tweaking the chemical structures of the drugs, sometimes changing just a few molecules to see what impact this might have on the interaction between the drug and the brain receptors their parent compounds normally act upon.

Dave Norton's research, which is funded by the University of Alaska's Cooperative Institute for Arctic Research, examines the impact of chemical pollutants on the human ecology of four arctic marine communities.

If this environment is harmed by chemicals, such as through damage to gut cells, it could impact the health of the organisms and would lead to a number of fish diseases but this technique will enable us to increase the tests we can carry out and improve our understanding of how to preserve gut health.»

«Emissions of particulate matter pumped into the air every single day by coal - fired power plants have greater potential human health impacts than any of the other chemicals we examined.»

The panel, which was commissioned by U.K. science minister David Sainsbury in July 2003, concluded that nanoparticles and nanotubes should be treated as new chemicals and their impacts on health and the environment be tested under existing U.K. and E.U. legislation.

A team of researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, has invented a new soap molecule made from renewable sources that could dramatically reduce the number of chemicals in cleaning products and their impact on the environment.

The chemicals Greenpeace tested for have been commonly used in textile manufacturing, but are gradually being phased out by some brands due to concern about their polluting impact.

«In the past, to understand the impact of an environmental odour, you would capture the odour in a container, bring it to the laboratory, dilute it successively, present those dilutions to panellists, and have them tell at what point they could detect the odour,» says Pamela Dalton of the Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, who uses the Nasal Ranger to monitor the smells emitted by hog farms.

Indeed, a paper by co-author John Sutherland — a chemist at the Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Biology in Cambridge, U.K. — suggests that all the basic chemicals for life can be cooked up in a water - filled impact crater.

Chemical engineer Inés Reyero Zaragoza proposed the substitution of methanol by ethanol for the production of biodiesel and the use of a heterogeneous catalyst, which will «result in a reduction of costs and in the environmental impact associated with the production of this biofuel.»

The study, performed in Garfield County, Colo., between July 2010 and October 2011, was done by researchers at The Endocrine Disruption Exchange, a non-profit organization that examines the impact of low - level exposure to chemicals on the environment and human health.

These predictions, he says, are essential to manufacturing in global chemical, cosmetic and personal care industries impacted by REACH, a European regulatory guideline that aims to improve the protection of human health and the environment through the better and earlier identification of the properties of chemical substances.

«Based on this data we concluded that the zebrafish Abcb4 protects the embryo against the toxic impact of chemicals by keeping them out,» says Luckenbach.

«This was consistent with the idea that blossomed during the Origin of the Moon conference in Kona in 1984 — that the Moon formed by a giant impact with the still - growing Earth, leading to extensive loss of volatile chemicals.

The waste usage from the food industry is a great source of raw material recovery rich in chemical diversity, and simultaneously it can reduce the impact generated by the accumulation of waste in the environment

It is early days yet, but all three researchers are confident that by working together and pooling their skills they will be able to make an impact on understanding how chemicals penetrate through skin.

A team of environmental scientists hired by New York City in 2009 to evaluate fracking's environmental impact concluded that the process could be «catastrophic» to the city's water supply because it degraded water quality and exposed residents to potentially «chronic low levels of toxic chemicals.»

Going forward this insight has a profound impact on the way we should assess the risk posed by chemicals we are exposed to through the foods we eat,» Professor Anne Marie Vinggaard from the National Food Institute says.

Going forward this insight has a profound impact on the way we should assess the risk posed by chemicals we are exposed to through the foods we eat,» researchers say.

«But these single factors don't paint a comprehensive picture of what a person is exposed to in their environment — and may not be as helpful in predicting cancer risk, which is impacted by multiple factors including the air you breathe, the water you drink, the neighborhood you live in, and your exposure to myriad toxins, chemicals and pollutants.»

However, the types of organic compounds found in plant matter — dominated by aromatic hydrocarbons — underwent some chemical changes, but remained relatively resistant to impact pressures.

There are some data on how groups of genes are impacted by one chemical, and other genes are affected by different chemicals.

The photocathode materials research is supported by the Chemical Imaging Initiative and is designed to impact next generation light source development and further ultrafast transmission electron microscopy.

Our aim is to highlight the genetic networks that can impact on DM1 biomarkers to provide new therapeutic targets for treatments by chemical compounds.

Scientists have long known that plants impact the composition of the soil microbiome in the area surrounding their roots by sending out chemicals (metabolites).

Among other indexing services Regenerative Medicine is listed by MEDLINE / Index Medicus, EMBASE / Excerpta Medica, Chemical Abstracts, Science Citation Index Expanded ™ (SciSearch ®), Emcare, Biological Abstracts, BIOSIS Previews, Biotechnology Citation Index ®, Journal Citation Reports / Science Edition ®, Scopus ® with an Impact Factor of 2.786 (2014).

A few interesting articles in early life human microbiome, plus: A comparison between Staphylococcus epidermidis commensal and pathogenic lineages from the skin of healthy individuals living in North American and India; A new tool to reconstruct microbial genome - scale metabolic models (GSMMs) from their genome sequence; The seasonal changes in Amazon rainforest soil microbiome are associated with changes in the canopy; A specific class of chemicals secreted by birds modulates their feather microbiome; chronic stress alters gut microbiota and triggers a specific immune response in a mouse model of colitis; and evidence that the short chain fatty acids profile in the gut reflects the impact of dietary fibre on the microbiome using the PolyFermS continuous intestinal fermentation model.

«By creating a personalized Patient - on - a-Chip, we can really begin to understand how diseases, medicines, chemicals, and foods affect an individual's health,» said Geraldine A. Hamilton, PhD, president and chief scientific officer of Emulate, Inc. «The goal of Emulate working with Cedars - Sinai is to advance and qualify the system for new clinical applications and ultimately democratize the technology so that it can have a broad impact on patient healthcare.»

These cosmic impacts are also the key mechanism with which life, or at least its chemical building blocks, are delivered between worlds, according to the panspermia hypothesis which posits that the seeds of life are common throughout the Universe and can be spread from planet to planet by cometary and asteroid impacts.

However, the types of organic compounds found in plant matter — dominated by aromatic hydrocarbons - underwent some chemical changes, but remained relatively resistant to impact pressures.

Although numerous different elements may impact the amount of this chemical, such as genetics, hormones, drugs and alcohol, a few studies have shown that dopamine in the brain is produced under the influence of some foods — actually it is produced by components of these foods.

However, it is always a good idea to work with a primary care practitioner to sort out if there are any hormonal or neuro - chemical imbalances going on, if your daily life is significantly impacted by mood imbalances.

The toxic chemicals used in cleaning products damage the lungs little by little, adding up to a significant impact that rivals a pack - a-day smoking habit.