Sentences with phrase «influence of environmental factors»

Results suggest that data obtained based on the ages at which milestones occurred and ages at which milestones are expected to occur may present important differences with regard to the influence of environmental factors.

Research into adult onset diabetes currently focuses on genetics and obesity; there has been almost no consideration for the possible influence of environmental factors such as pollution.»

Because they are raised in the same environment but are not genetically identical, they help us to see the influence of environmental factors (Segal, 69).

Dr. Bogdan concludes, «It will now be important to incorporate the influence of environmental factors, such as peer groups, neighborhood, and stress, into this research.

But our modern, indeed very recent, understanding of the psychosomatic unity comprising a person, and of the deep influence of environmental factors upon personality, raises in acute form the question whether our present personality can be raised individually and clothed upon with a resurrection - body in a resurrection - environment.

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When many chemicals interact, the rate of production (or of destruction) of each molecular species is influenced by the concentrations of all the others, as well as by such environmental factors as temperature and whether or not the system is illuminated.

Moreover, from the Whiteheadian point of view one has to recognize that the evolving events — actual animals and plants as we meet them in real life — are influenced by environmental factors as well as genetic.

Genetics, environmental influences, parenting styles, friends, teachers, schools and the culture at large are just some of the major factors that combine in unique ways to determine how a child develops and the person they will one day become.

These results also suggest that the adjustment difficulties seen with some children of divorced parents may be due to an interaction between genetic and environmental factors rather than environmental influences alone, as is assumed in many theories of divorce» s effects.

In order to resolve the separate influence of genetic and environmental factors on risk of divorce, divorce status of 1,516 same - sex twin pairs (722 monozygotic, MZ, and 794 dizygotic, DZ), their parents, and their spouses» parents was determined.

Additional research is needed on the familial and environmental influences, including cultural and transgenerational factors, that affect the development of healthy eating patterns.

«We've been able to show that different forms of tinnitus have a significant heritability and thus a dominant genetic influence over environmental factors,» says Christopher R. Cederroth at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Physiology and Pharmacology.

Similarly, if you wanted to study environmental factors that influence sleep, you could examine sleeping patterns of different species in the wild and attempt to relate them to differences in temperature, photoperiod, or other factors.

Studying the two different types of twins allowed researchers to estimate the relative influence of three different factors on twins» trust and distrust trust behaviors: heritable factors — that is, genetic influences; shared environmental factors — that is, common experiences of growing up in the same family and interacting with the same immediate peers; and unshared environmental factors — or the siblings» unique experiences in life.

Environmental factors like rainfall and temperature influence the ratios of male - to - female caiman hatchlings, making the gender balance dependent on shifts in climate.

Cornell also provides graphing, mapping and analysis tools to better understand patterns of bird occurrence and the environmental and human factors that influence them.

Age and environmental factors will, of course, influence how quickly IRF4 triggers hair graying.

By «chance» Tomasetti meant the roll of the dice that each cell division represents, leaving aside the influence of deleterious genes or environmental factors such as smoking or exposure to radiation.

The conclusions of the new project, which address depth - related changes in the levels of magnesium in Antarctic bryozoans for the first time, suggest that other environmental and biological factors (other than pH) could have a more important influence on the incorporation of Mg into the skeleton of these organisms.

Increases or decreases in aggression between the ages of 6 and 12 appear to be influenced by various environmental factors rather than genetics.

The visible differences between us are the cumulative result of genetic, environmental and cultural influences over long periods of time, but rarely do we consider these factors together, which can lead to discrimination on the basis of one or another.

One of forest ecology's fundamental undertakings has long focused on how tree growth is influenced by a host of environmental factors ranging from soils and elevation to hydrology and climate.

His team focused on a naturally occurring process that's part of the body's internal housekeeping system, called methylation, which makes chemical modifications to our genome that are strongly influenced by environmental factors.

Such epigenetic mechanisms are high on the list of suspects when it comes to explaining how environmental factors that affect parents can later influence their children, such as in the Dutch second world war study, but just how these epigenetic changes might be passed on to future generations is a mystery.

While they don't know whether the first group of students would have shown a shift in attitudes after the storms, the researchers believe their findings provide evidence that personal experience is one factor that can influence instinctive attitudes toward environmental policy.

Though there is no single universally recognised definition, the Nexus Approach is a strategy that acknowledges the interdependencies of environmental resources, notably water, energy and food, and considers not the individual components but the influencing factors on the broadest scale.

According to the principal investigator of this research project, Juan Pedro Arrebola, from the Biohealth Research Institute (IBS), «there is currently an increasing tendency in the impact of a diversity of different types of cancer, which can be attributed in part to the influence of several environmental factors, such as exposure to certain chemical pollutants.»

While the cause of bloat is unclear, there is a strong predisposition in some dogs and it is generally thought that GDV is influenced by both genetic and environmental factors.

Research on environmental factors is ongoing; some experts believe these factors can influence an infant's odds of having ASD if they're exposed to certain things during the early stages of fetal brain development.

«Low - income children are at increased risk for developing cognitive delays, but the specific environmental and biological factors that influence these outcomes are less understood,» explains Melissa L. Sturge - Apple, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Rochester, who was part of the research team.

Epigenetic translates to «above genetic» and is an emerging field of study that looks at how environmental factors — such as infections, pollutants, stress and, in this case, long - term exposure to drugs that block estrogen synthesis — could influence a person's DNA.

Today, ASD is widely viewed as the result of genetic and certain environmental factors that influence early brain development.

Ibdah said that several issues could influence the development of colorectal cancer at a younger age, such as hereditary and environmental factors, diet and lifestyle.

The study also found the prevalence of AMD is higher among Chinese Americans as compared to the Chinese population living in urban / rural China, suggesting the influence of environmental or behavioral factors should be considered.

When the researchers controlled for the influence of about 50 environmental factors, such as smoking and education, they found that selection acted on these traits and, for example, led women with lower cholesterol to have more children, although the reasons are unknown.

Although communication practices could predict satisfaction to some extent for some couples, the lack of a definitive causal relationship calls for additional attention to other factors that influence marital satisfaction, such as environmental stressors, what activities and interactions a couple has, and the personality traits of the individual partners.

There is still, however, a need for more research on the issue, as the risk can be influenced by the time of the treatment and other factors, reasons Karin Leander, researcher at Karolinska Institutet's Institute of Environmental Medicine.

It includes an overview of African Americans» burden of cardiovascular disease; how traditional risk factors and adverse health behaviors affect the disparities between African Americans and whites; a discussion of the genetic and biological factors that might contribute to cardiovascular disease in African Americans; and medical treatments and the social, cultural and environmental factors that influence prevention and disease management in African Americans.

A Kansas State University psychological sciences professor is using twin studies to understand the nature versus nurture debate of the workplace: Do genetic factors or environmental factors influence employee proactivity?

Researchers have long sought to understand the science underlying a wine's terroir — how the climate, soil, and other environmental factors influence the regional characteristics of a wine.

«Yet, despite increasing additive genetic influences across adolescence, the majority of the variance in alcohol consumption continues to be attributable to environmental factors.

«GECCO aims to continue to discover additional colorectal cancer - related variants by investigating how genetic variants are modified by other environmental and lifestyle risk factors, including biomarkers as well as how they influence patient treatment response and survival,» Peters said, emphasizing how much further research is required to uncover the specific mechanisms by which genes modulate the intake of certain foods on colorectal cancer risk.

Any genetic predispositions probably interact with environmental factors that influence development of a sexual orientation.

In a new Opinion piece published in the Cell Press journal Trends in Parasitology, experts demonstrate that drones can be used to understand how environmental factors influence the spread of infectious diseases.

All told, about 20 % of the distribution of domesticated species across the Amazon seemed to be driven by human influences, while 30 % was likely due to environmental factors such as soil composition.

These modifications influence when and where particular genes are expressed and appear to have significant impacts on disease risk, suggesting explanations for how environmental factors such as maternal smoking during pregnancy can influence a child's risk of later health problems.

The methylation of DNA is one of the epigenetic mechanisms regulating the functioning of the genome, influenced by not only by variations in DNA sequence, but also environmental factors such as fluctuations in the circadian rhythm.

Both heredity and environmental factors influence our risk of cardiovascular disease.

The Center for Environmental and Molecular Carcinogenesis (CEMC) provides state - of - the - art technologies and an intellectual framework to foster multidisciplinary research into the environmental, genetic and epigenetic factors that influence the initiation and progressiEnvironmental and Molecular Carcinogenesis (CEMC) provides state - of - the - art technologies and an intellectual framework to foster multidisciplinary research into the environmental, genetic and epigenetic factors that influence the initiation and progressienvironmental, genetic and epigenetic factors that influence the initiation and progression of cancer.

I am interested in the physiological and behavioral aspects of development and how things like maternal care, social / environmental factors, and stressors influence an individual's life history trajectory.