During these experiments, Bensmaia and his team manipulated various features of the electrical pulse train, such as its amplitude, frequency and duration, and noted how
the interaction of each of these factors affected the animals» ability to detect the signal.
Not exact matches
Environment takes into account both physical and emotional
factors, and the average number
of hours worked each week; income considers mid-level salary and growth potential; outlook measures potential for employment growth and income growth, as well as unemployment rates; and stress takes into account 11 different
factors including travel, deadlines, and
interaction with the public.
Systems science is an interdisciplinary field that studies how the
interaction of factors produces outcomes — how the causes and consequences
of events can, taken together, form the basis for everything from a disease epidemic, to a pattern
of human behavior.
Looking at the healthcare debate, and the broader activities
of the Trump administration, through a systems science lens helps us take perhaps a more dispassionate view — to focus less on trying to predict where each moment will lead, and more on observing the
interaction of factors that will, ultimately, determine outcomes.
All sorts
of interactions that Facebook can observe in the backend — like a user turning on the sound, pumping up a video's volume, video views, time spent watching a clip, going full screen, or enabling HD — those are all weighted
factors.
It
factors into how he responds when one
of his property managers wants to take vacation time — or forgo it: «We want
interaction with our clients to be positive and uplifting.
Stover added new insights into the taxonomy, variation, and physiology
of the fungus, helped describe its
interaction with banana, characterized resistance and susceptibility in banana, studied the influence
of edaphic
factors on the pathogen, and introduced flood fallowing as a means for cleansing contaminated soil (a practice that was later shown to contribute to the spread
of the fungus).
One finding from the study's survey was that women felt their advancement was hampered by a number
of factors, including informal
interactions and mentoring with and by their male colleagues, as well as gender biases by entrepreneurs (who are mostly male) in their perception
of investors.
The 2016 study, whose rankings
of issuers relied on input from more than 20,000 credit card customers, takes six
factors into account, such as customer
interaction and problem resolution.
As such, it assumes that «behavior is best explained as the result
of an
interaction between personal and external social, or situational
factors....
Now, this is one
of the pressing global issues
of our time, but is the fact that I need to retreat into solitude after extended social
interaction really a significant
factor in solving it?
(go ahead and joke — If you don't
factor that sort
of thing into your social
interactions, then you are asking for something.
This awareness comes from the
interaction of two
factors in the text.
In this
interaction some
of the
factors of the persuasive initial ideal from God are eliminated, becoming the persuasive subjective aim
of the occasion which is its final cause (PR 227, 323, 342).
The question is whether, at one extreme, the mind
of the Universe is all - knowing and omnipotent, or at the other, it is merely that which is superimposed on the point - to - point
interactions of the minds
of the components as the integrating
factor, in much the same relation as that
of my mind to the minds
of my cells and lower entities in the hierarchy
of existence.
Parents who are under a lot
of stress, because
of poverty or other destabilizing
factors in their lives, are less likely than other parents to engage in the kind
of calm, attentive, responsive
interactions with their infants that promote secure attachment.
Parental mental health and children's mental health adjustment: the quality
of marital
interaction and parenting as mediating
factors.
As I mentioned before, the environment also plays a role in brain development, and some
of what we call environmental
factors are actually the child's surroundings and
interactions.
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.
Once the final additive model was built,
interaction terms were tested, involving intended place
of birth and: pregnancy risk
factors, year, parity, maternal age and time
of birth.
It is likely that the simultaneous
interaction of multiple breast milk
factors is protective.
The relevant
factors for determining custody are the parents» and child's wishes, the
interaction and relationship
of the child with any person who may significantly affect his or her best interests; the mental and physical health
of all individuals involved, and a pattern
of domestic violence.
We have parents thinking that sticking their tiny infants in front
of a Baby Einstein video will improve their child's mental development when the data suggest that parent - child
interactions (and plenty
of them) are the most critical
factor for such development.
In the past, Dr. Frayling explained, it has been difficult to measure
interactions between genetic risk
factors and aspects
of environment and lifestyle in a systematic way.
About 90 %
of PD cases are sporadic; that is, caused by complex
interactions between environmental and common genetic risk
factors.
«Chronic inflammation
of the intestine is thought to be caused by abnormal
interactions between gut microbes, intestinal epithelial cells and the immune system, but so far it has been impossible to determine how each
of these
factors contribute to the development
of intestinal bowel disease,» said Hyun Jung Kim, Ph.D., former Wyss Technology Development Fellow and first author on the study, speaking about the limitations
of conventional in vitro and animal models
of bacterial overgrowth and inflammation
of the intestines.
In these materials, the uniform distribution
of sulfur in carbon matrix and the strong
interaction between carbon and sulfur are two important
factors that affect the performance.
Yet, contrary to common textbook opinion, according to which the phase transition is determined solely by the electrons, it is the
interaction of the electrons with the atomic lattice
of the solid which is the determinant
factor.
Identifying the
factors that determine these patterns — the distances separating populations, physical barriers preventing the movement
of animals, hunting behavior, and
interactions with prey species — is the fun part.
The researchers» model helps reveal how conditions such as sunlight and shading affect crop growth — but many other
factors such as water availability and microbial
interactions determine the length
of a corncob or width
of a soybean.
In a study published online in Genome Research, researchers developed a novel computational strategy to identify
interaction partners
of the huntingtin protein and discovered a novel
factor that suppresses misfolding and aggregation.
«Increasing our understanding
of how specific environmental
factors affect the host and the pathogen as well as their
interactions can inform strategies for developing robust crop resistance,» she said.
A scientific study to understand the impact
of climate change and other
factors on plant - pollinator
interactions, geographic distributions and seasonal abundances
TEDDY researchers next plan to look at
factors including
interaction between genes and the environment, including examining how diet affects bacteria in the gut and the immune system
of children with differing genetic risks.
Nevertheless, increased begging was not the determining
factor of the parent - offspring
interaction.
Scientists have linked the periodic changes in our planet's rotation rate (which determines day length) to various
factors, such as tides and
interactions between Earth's inner layers, but a good deal
of the variation remains unexplained.
A complex chain
of interaction among these three
factors, the team determined, forms the feedback system that generates the Hawaiian wake.
Among the issues to be resolved there would be, for example, how to identify the environmental
factors that control the production
of aggressive morphs; what costs and benefits
interaction involves for each participant; the taxonomic status
of the deceit and the variability level in the chemical signal used for misleading ants; or what happens with related aphid species which also relate with ants.
These include a family
of signaling molecules called protocaderins, which regulate neuronal development and short - range
interactions between neurons, and a family
of transcription
factors called zinc fingers, which are mainly expressed in embryonic and nervous tissues and are thought to play roles in brain development.
The resulting «map»
of gene - drug
interactions allowed the researchers to accurately predict the responses
of multiple human cancer cell lines to different chemotherapy agents based on the cell lines» genetic profiles and also revealed new genetic
factors that appear to determine the response
of breast and ovarian tumor cells to common classes
of chemotherapy treatment.
The specificity
of this regulation originates in the binding
interactions between special regulatory proteins, called transcription
factors (TFs), and short regulatory sequences on the DNA, called binding sites.
«Funniness is not a pre-existing «element
of reality» that can be measured; it emerges from an
interaction between the underlying nature
of the joke, the cognitive state
of the listener, and other social and environmental
factors.
«This is a very important discovery that will guide future research efforts to explore the
interactions of these pigmentary genes with other genetic and environmental risk
factors in cancers not linked to sun exposure, such as eye melanoma.
«It is likely that an
interaction of multiple
factors is at play,» Lindahl said.
The structure defines the
interactions that RNA polymerase and the transcription initiation
factor sigma make with DNA upstream
of a gene.
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.
The study highlights the importance
of gene and environment
interaction as a determining
factor for the volume
of the hippocampus.
The simulations demonstrated that the critical
factor is particle density — in other words, the total concentration
of subunits in the system: In a system in which the particle density is low, opportunities for
interaction are few, and individual filaments are widely separated.
In addition, the bioengineered growth
factors showed that they could mimic
interactions in the formation
of a blood clot, which would be additional beneficial to wound - healing.
«Our findings raise new questions about the effects and
interactions of ecological, social, and cultural
factors, and our framework offers a new tool to address them,» González - Forero says.