Sentences with phrase «into human environments»

Implementing ineffective flea control wastes money, prolongs the infestation, increases resistance, and unnecessarily releases insecticides into human environments.

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Professor Zhu Chaodong, the Institute of Zoology's lead scientist in insect evolution studies at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, said it would be a «catastrophe» if billions of cockroaches were suddenly released into the environment — be it through human error or a natural disaster like an earthquake that damaged the building.

We don't just work to protect the environment — we tap into the universal human desire for self - determination, and work to change how decisions are made in B.C. by answering questions like: Who gets to decide?

The case would clarify whether the province has authority to prevent and manage releases into the environment of substances like diluted bitumen that could endanger human health, the environment or communities, even on federally regulated infrastructure like inter-provincial pipelines or railways.

Human nature is brought into union and communion with Godhead as its proper environment — its principle of life and life more abundant — through the Self communication of God the Son by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Hey, the big kahuna upstairs gave humans the free will to pollute their environment and to dump excessive amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

To satisfy them natural objects are transformed into a complex environment of created artifacts bearing the impress of human mentality.

At the peak of that unfolding equation, matter is gathered into ontological unity with directly created spirit to form human nature, which exists in direct and personal relationship to God who is the Living Environment of grace and providence for every human being and for mankind as a whole.

Honesty compels us to recognize that we seek our own will and way, we try to stop the creative advance when it seems to go against our fond desires, we are content to remain in backwaters and deviate into side - channels, we love either imperfectly or in the wrong ways, we wish to over-ride and control others of our kind, we spoil the environment and refuse our proper human stewardship of the natural order.

The culture in which the global society finds its cohesion needs to be able to draw all human groups and individuals into some form of shared life, a degree of commonality that allows for harmony between peoples and also with the planetary environment.

The difficulty of the paradigm, of course, is that it lifts media policy out of a mere bureaucratic administration into a broader dimension of cultural debate: what sort of symbolic environment do we have, what sort of symbolic environment do we want, and what is the role of the media in our collective effort to deal with our human potential for violence?

But the intentional gathering of humans into concentrated communities produces distinctive characteristics which have severe implications for what is assumed to be a desirable natural environment.

For without the freedom that comes with an open information environment, human beings are pressed into fear and neurosis that makes them less than human, and makes our society less than it should be.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

Process thinkers encourage sociologists, political scientists, psychologists, historians, and scholars in other disciplines to take a more holistic approach, taking into account and doing justice to how human organisms interact not only with the human environment of their cultures and societies but also the non-human environments of which they are a part that are throbbing with life, energy, and creativity.

If in any moment the whole of the past, not only of the person but of the subculture, culture, society, human history, the whole universe, flows into the becoming of the self, humans are indeed molded by the totality of their environment.

Our more than 550 experts and staff work closely with leaders to turn big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity and human well - being (www.wri.org).

Our more than 450 experts and staff work closely with leaders to turn big ideas into action at the nexus of environment, economic opportunity and and human well - being www.wri.org.

It is divided into several subject areas, i.e., space, technology, nature / environment, animals and humans, etc..

Much more complex than what Realism mainstreamed as «human nature», insights from neurobiology inform us differently about the building blocks with which human beings encounter whatever environment they are brought into.

SERAP also urged the Special Rapporteurs to «prevail on the Acting President Professor Yemi Osinbajo to decline to sign the bill into law; and on the House of Representatives and the Senate to exercise their legislative powers for good governance, and ensure a safe and enabling environment for civil society organizations both in practice and rhetoric, in line with the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria (as amended) and the government's international human rights obligations and commitments.»

Although new synthetic drugs are closely evaluated for high specificity, high efficacy, low toxicity, and good pharmacokinetics, little attention is paid to the possibility that the chemically synthesized drugs may eventually be discharged from the human body into the environment in their original and / or metabolized forms.

In an about - face, the agency agreed that global warming is happening; that humans, by pumping greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, are responsible; and that the American environment is likely to change dramatically over the next century.

If modified plants escape into the natural environment, they could contaminate water supplies, irreversibly alter wild species, or even enter the human food chain, which nearly happened in 2002.

Some of this is used to make electricity or heat human - built structures, but eventually all of that energy escapes into the environment and warms the planet.

It is still unclear what the impact is on humans, animals and plants of synthetic nanomaterials released into the environment or used in products.

Only a few decades ago scientists thought that humans were the only species to have worked out how to turn objects in their environment into useful tools.

A major obstacle to applying genetic engineering to benefit humans and the environment is the risk that organisms whose genes have been altered might produce offspring with their natural counterparts, releasing the novel genes into the wild.

«The amount and diversity of pesticides, pharmaceuticals and other industrial chemicals that humans are releasing into the environment are increasing at rates that match or exceed recent increases in CO2 emissions, nutrient pollution from nitrogen fertilizers, and other drivers of global change,» Bernhardt said.

He and Srinivasan hope this technology could allow humans to interact with animals in their natural environments, giving scientists closer - than - ever insight into how they behave.

We believe that this creates an environment in the animal gut that allows antibiotic - resistant enterococci to thrive and come into contact with humans,» he explains.

Also, phones are ubiquitous and come into direct contact with so much of a person's environment that they might also be valuable for analyzing exposure to «biological threats or unusual sources of environmental microbes that don't necessarily end up integrated into our human microbiome,» researchers noted.

To make this happen, under the project of «Dynamic Alliance for Open Innovation Bridging Human, Environment and Materials,» a joint research team from Tohoku University and Osaka University has developed a practical and mass - producible method of recycling the unwanted Si sawdust into a high - performance anode material for LIBs.

«The idea is that eventually the community gets to a point where people are confident enough in the devices that the effects they see from putting chemicals or pharmaceutical drugs into the platform environment are similar to the results we would see in the human body.»

Virtual reality, an immersive computer - graphics environment that a human can «enter» and then morph himself into various things, is a pale approximation of the experience.

An increasing amount of drugs taken by humans and animals make it into our streams and waterways, and pharmaceutical pollution has had catastrophic ecosystem consequences despite low levels of concentration in the environment.

Using only the classroom sounds, DART could classify the audio into three categories — single voice (traditional lecture with question and answer), multiple voice (student interactive group work), or no voice (student thinking, writing or individual problem solving)-- with over 90 percent accuracy, which matched the ability of the human evaluators to correctly classify the classroom environment.

Tools from metagenomics — sampling trace genetic material in the environment — and methods of studying the human microbiome are providing insights into disease while bolstering the crime - fighting potential of bacteria and fungi.

«Just like the eastern United States, China has a rich diversity of freshwater mussels, which is imperiled by humans building dams, for instance, and introducing toxins into the waterways,» said Eric Hallerman, a professor of fish and wildlife conservation in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment.

Although mercury, a neurotoxin, occurs naturally in the environment, it is also released into the atmosphere when humans burn coal and other fossil fuels.

Although many other developments and technologies have come along to help us reproduce almost like rabbits, Laland argues that «if it were the case that humans were adapted to environments in the Pleistocene [epoch ending more than 10,000 years ago] but not the Holocene [modern era, which followed], you would expect human populations would have shrunk when they moved into urban environments.»

The thesis is entitled «Dosimetric study of the radioelectric influence of humans into complex environments through deterministic simulations and the implementation of a simplified model.»

It fails to prevent fires, they say — and worse, it allows dangerous chemicals to leach into humans and the environment.

These assessments, which take into account the gene drive's characteristics, effects on humans and the environment, and local values and governance, are a key tool for determining a gene drive's impacts.

Human activities emit about two times as much sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere, according to co-author Vitali Fioletov, an atmospheric scientist at Environment and Climate Change Canada in Toronto, Ontario.

Even though large amounts are released into the air by human activities such as coal burning, smelting, mining and waste incineration, mercury also occurs naturally in the environment, where it undergoes a complex chemical cycle.

The pattern of associations his team discovered suggests that today's population retains Neandertal DNA that may have provided modern humans with adaptive advantages 40,000 years ago — as they migrated into new non-African environments with different pathogens and levels of sun exposure.

Human - associated bacteria disperse into and throughout the built environment by three primary mechanisms: (1) direct human contact with indoor surfaces; (2) bioaerosol particle emission from our breath, clothes, skin and hair; and (3) resuspension of indoor dust containing previously shed human skin cells, hair and other bacteria - laden partiHuman - associated bacteria disperse into and throughout the built environment by three primary mechanisms: (1) direct human contact with indoor surfaces; (2) bioaerosol particle emission from our breath, clothes, skin and hair; and (3) resuspension of indoor dust containing previously shed human skin cells, hair and other bacteria - laden partihuman contact with indoor surfaces; (2) bioaerosol particle emission from our breath, clothes, skin and hair; and (3) resuspension of indoor dust containing previously shed human skin cells, hair and other bacteria - laden partihuman skin cells, hair and other bacteria - laden particles.

«The Human Microbiome Project will help us better understand the microbial environment in the gut, as well as provide us with the tools and technology to expand our exploration into this field of research.»

Typically, this involves creating a «scaffold» of natural or synthetic materials, seeding it with human stem cells that can differentiate themselves into particular tissue types, and providing the cells with nutrients and a physical environment that encourages them to take on the three - dimensional structures and functions of a particular body part.