Sentences with phrase «important mechanism of change»

Building on the research by Wagner et al. (2015), the current study assessed whether changes in family drawings reveal important mechanisms of change associated with family dynamics in parents and children undergoing treatment for child conduct problems.

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In CATA's opinion, finding efficiencies of even 20 % to 30 % and moving the monies over to direct support programs and other indirect support mechanisms would be achievable and would constitute a tremendously important change.

He said: «The Darwinian mechanism that's used to explain all evolutionary change will be relegated, I believe, to being just one of several mechanisms — maybe not even the most important when it comes to understanding macroevolution, the evolution of major transitions in body type.»

In the current context of global warming it is important to assess the impacts that changes in ocean and climate may have on Antarctica, and reconstructing past climate fluctuations provides vital information on the responses and possible feedback mechanisms within the climate system.

What's more, the important part of this research is that one type of fat can change to another, and that cold triggers cellular mechanisms that lead to the formation of more brown fat.

Understanding the mechanisms that drive migratory behavior is increasingly important, Beck said, in terms of climate change, as migrating animals rely on multiple habitats.

Scientists discover an important clue in predicting future consequences of climate change: the mechanism that moves ice streams

In keeping with this new approach, the review at hand focused on studies concerning mechanisms of change for various «brands» of psychotherapy and distilled important implications for treating adolescent substance users.

Douglas Thomas, associate professor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy at UIC, and co-workers discovered that nitric oxide plays an important role in epigenetics — heritable alterations in gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in DNA sequence.

«These two types of abrupt change events appear to have different degrees of tropical Pacific involvement, and because the tropical Pacific speaks with such a loud voice when it does speak, we think this is extremely important for understanding the mechanisms underlying these events.»

«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.

Prion mechanisms could be more common than previously suspected and exert an important influence on the rates and mechanisms of evolutionary change.

Changes in an epigenetic mechanism that turns expression of genes on and off may be as important as genetic alterations in causing pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), according to a study led by scientists at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and published in the June 10 online edition of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Insect outbreaks such as this represent an important mechanism by which climate change may undermine the ability of northern forests to take up and store atmospheric carbon, and such impacts should be accounted for in large - scale modelling analyses.

The signature feature of FOI is its commitment to the ongoing construction of theories of change that are grounded in science and drive the design of explicit strategies focused on specific causal mechanisms to produce breakthrough gains on important outcomes.

Autoregulation of renal blood flow and glomerular filtration rate in neonatal puppies appear to be relatively inefficient in response to rapid changes in systemic arterial blood pressure.7 In adult dogs, the renin — angiotensin system is an important regulatory mechanism; however, in neonates, renal blood flow is directly correlated with arterial pressure and does not seem to be altered by inhibition of angiotensin until approximately 6 weeks of age.

WWE 2K16 tries hard to remedy some of these problems, such as by greatly simplifying the kick out and grapple reversal mechanisms, but even with these important tweaks, not enough radical change has been made to gameplay that is down for the count.

To address future challenges related to climate change and land use, it will be important to assess the local impacts of tree loss on climate, climatic and ecological consequences, as well as the mechanisms that drive ecological responses in remote teleconnected areas.

These rapid changes in atmospheric CO2 and CH4 concentrations are also recorded during the Heinrich Stadials of MIS 3, demonstrating an important mechanism that operates on centennial time scales during the glacial and deglaciation, which may point to important thresholds in the global carbon cycle.

E.g., research assumes greenhouse gas emissions cause warming without explicitly stating humans are the cause»... carbon sequestration in soil is important for mitigating global climate change» (4a) No position Does not address or mention the cause of global warming (4b) Uncertain Expresses position that human's role on recent global warming is uncertain / undefined «While the extent of human - induced global warming is inconclusive...» (5) Implicit rejection Implies humans have had a minimal impact on global warming without saying so explicitly E.g., proposing a natural mechanism is the main cause of global warming»... anywhere from a major portion to all of the warming of the 20th century could plausibly result from natural causes according to these results» (6) Explicit rejection without quantification Explicitly minimizes or rejects that humans are causing global warming»... the global temperature record provides little support for the catastrophic view of the greenhouse effect» (7) Explicit rejection with quantification Explicitly states that humans are causing less than half of global warming «The human contribution to the CO2 content in the atmosphere and the increase in temperature is negligible in comparison with other sources of carbon dioxide emission»»

But the lack of statistically significant results and, more important, the absence of evidence pointing to a smoking gun — a physical mechanism in the climate system that ties Arctic changes to extreme events — has left many top climate researchers unconvinced that rapid Arctic warming is a major player in causing extreme weather events outside of the Arctic itself.

In light of this important step in greening your drinking water, the Back to the Tap people created a water bottle with a carbon composite filtering mechanism that will last approximately 3 months before it needs to be changed (or the equivalent of approximately 80 gallons).

One important condition for OMTs is the conditionality attached to a European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) or a European Stability Mechanism (ESM) program, which involves primary market purchases of sovereign bonds and changes in national monetary policies.

However, we have not tested the underlying mechanism of change that would likely play an important role in reducing children's emotional and behavioral problems (eg, why the intervention worked).

RO DBT addresses each of these important factors, and is the first treatment in the world to prioritize social - signaling as the primary mechanism of change based on a transdiagnostic, neuroregulatory model linking the communicative function of human emotions to the establishment of social connectedness and well - being.

Knowledge of mechanisms of change in parent training programs may be particularly important given poor treatment outcomes for a proportion of children, suggesting that distinct mechanisms of change might operate in distinct subgroups of families referred for child conduct problems.

Although various PT models have been successful in targeting these parenting factors (Beauchaine et al. 2005; Eddy and Chamberlain 2000), our study contributes to the literature by showing that these important parenting mechanisms can be changed within a short period of time.

Moreover, by showing that changes in maternal sense of competence mediate the program's effects, the current study represents an important first step towards elaborating the mechanisms through which the program operates.

A model that suggests reconsolidation of traumatic memories as a mechanism of change in therapy is important, but problematic to generalize to disorders other than post-traumatic and acute - stress disorder.