Sentences with phrase «largest human source»

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Hromadka of Czechoslovakia used to speak of the credibility of the evangelistic mission of the church as dependent upon the total life of the church, that is to say, it depends upon the way in which the church makes its prophetic mission of defence of human personhood and peoplehood in society and state and the ability of the church to reconcile diversity within its fellowship of divine forgiveness and become a source of reconciled diversity in the larger society.

Such an identification is in large measure the source of the atrocities committed by humans throughout history in the name of God.

On the other hand, the techniques of postcivilization also offer us the possibility of a society in which the major sources of human misery have been eliminated, a society in which there will be no war, poverty, or disease, and in which a large majority of human beings will be able to live out their lives in relative freedom from most of the ills which now oppress a major part of mankind.

Humans are the only beings on earth that developed religion, due to their larger brains, so I wouldn't be so derogatory about it's source.

«This study brings into sharp focus the effects on wheat — one of the largest sources of nutrients for humans,» says Irakli Loladze of the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, who predicted the negative effects of rising CO2 on micronutrients seven years ago.

Altogether, the unreported and underreported sources account for about 12 percent of all human - made emissions of sulfur dioxide — a discrepancy that can have a large impact on regional air quality, said McLinden.

Other sources include local biotechnology centers (many larger cities and / or universities have a biotech center for tech transfer or for starting «seed» companies) and larger biotech or pharmaceutical companies in the local area (try the Human Resources department!).

Overall, improving our understanding of one of the largest natural aerosol sources is critical if we are to understand the effects of human - made aerosols on climate,» says Matt Salter.

By the 1930s, the Owens Lake playa was the largest source in North America of PM10: particulate matter measuring 10 micrometers or less, small enough to readily enter human lungs.

The estimate puts windows, just behind cats, as the second - largest source of human - related menaces that kill birds directly (SN: 2/23/13, p. 14).

«Our group pioneered the development of cell culture technology for harvesting large numbers of stem cells from human bone marrow and human umbilical cord blood,» Dr. Yeh said, noting that stem cells from these two sources are abundant and can be guided into different types of cells using tissue engineering.

Large amounts of these compounds are emitted from natural sources and human activities.

Conventional thinking has been that sophisticated tool - making came in response to a change in climate that led to the spread of broad savannah grasslands, and the consequent evolution of large groups of animals that could serve as a source of food for human ancestors.

The analysis found that at its peak, the blowout doubled the rate of methane emissions from the entire Los Angeles basin and temporarily created the largest known human - caused point source of methane in the United States, twice as large as the next - largest source, an Alabama coal mine.

For their experiments, the researchers needed large quantities of the molecule, which eliminated human tears as a possible source.

Today, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) in Bethesda, Maryland, announced it will pour more than $ 116 million into three sequencing centers, which will use «large - scale» sequencing to focus on unraveling the sources of disease and elucidating the workings of disease - causing organisms.

«Canola is the third largest source of vegetable oil that humans eat,» says Meghnath Pokharel, a doctoral student in agronomy at Kansas State University.

Through May 2013, the CIRM governing board has approved 611 research grants totaling $ 1.822 billion, making CIRM the largest source of funding for human stem cell research in the world.

However, the further development this type of therapy requires a reliable source for the large amounts of homogenous functional patient - specific NK cells needed and this has led to the generation of NK cells from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs)[3].

In a substudy, review outcomes were also compared across different types of clinical research, based in large part on the designations and definitions derived from a number of sources, including a report by Nathan, 14 the Institute of Medicine, 20 the NIH Director's Panel on Clinical Research, 9 the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Medical Association, 21 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.22 All 3599 R01 applications involving human subjects that were submitted to NIH for the October 2002 council were categorized into 1 of the following: (1) patient - oriented studies of mechanisms of human disease (bench to bedside); (2) clinical trials and other clinical interventions; (3) patient - oriented research focusing on development of new technologies; (4) epidemiological studies; (5) behavioral studies (including studies of normal human behavior); (6) health services research; and (7) use of deidentified human tissue.

The EPA estimates that methane accounts for about 9 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. Landfills are the third - largest source of methane emitted by humans in the U.S. behind oil and gas production, and livestock.

Climate change is a pervasive source of risks to human systems, with potentially large impacts upon the economy, public health, and national security.

The rest is released by human activities, with coal - fired power plants contributing the largest source of mercury to the atmosphere.

The largest source of nitrates in the human diet is found in vegetables.

Consequently, small amounts of ellagitannins derived from natural sources may be more effective in the human diet than large doses of purified ellagic acid.

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If they can but build a larger, human - sized unit, perhaps they can travel to this new world and find renewable sources of energy to save the Earth.

They're not officially human grade and are less transparent about the process than The Honest Kitchen (but then who isn't), but are much more open about the manufacturing and sourcing of products than a large majority of other pet food companies out there.

Birds and Cats FWS claims that «free - roaming cats kill at least one billion birds every year in the U.S., representing one of the largest single sources of human - influenced mortality for small native wildlife,» [1] supporting the assertion with just three sources, one of which is Rich Stallcup's 1991 article from the Observer, a publication of the Point Reyes Bird Observatory.

Flint River Ranch in particular has developed several premium wellness dog food formulas that offer the highest quality human - grade protein and grain sources without using large amounts of high - purine ingredients.

Tune in Sunday to Animal Wise Radio, when I'll be on with hosts Mike Fry and Beth Nelson discussing a recently published paper declaring that «predation by house cats is probably the largest human - related source of bird mortality in Canada.»

The animals of most concern to the public health sector are those who both have frequent contact with humans and roam at large, able to contract and spread disease from a variety of sources.

In addition to being an excellent source of antioxidants, strawberries also contain large amounts of vitamin C. Because dogs are one of the many animals that actually produce their own vitamin C, unlike humans, dog nutritionists have long debated whether or not it is actually necessary to supplement vitamin C in a pet's diet.

Toguo explains the vases as larger than a human being, symbolizing our relationship to water, being both purifying and a possible source of contaminations.

Just been looking up the sources for commercial CO2 and here is a short exerpt from google: «The most common operations from which commercially - produced carbon dioxide is recovered are industrial plants which produce hydrogen or ammonia from natural gas, coal, or other hydrocarbon feedstock, and large - volume fermentation operations in which plant products are made into ethanol for human consumption, automotive fuel or industrial use.

Also note that human flesh is now the largest, most massive (mostly) unexploited uniform food source on the planet... and nature does not long tolerate and unexploited food source for long.

And when all the natural and human - induced climate drivers are compared to one another, the dramatic accumulation of carbon from human sources is by far the largest climate change driver over the past half century.

The mass balance and d13C balance shows that vegetation as sink is not large enough to absorb all human CO2 if the oceans are a source and ice cores show that CO2 and temperature go to a (surprisingly linear) new equilibrium for every change in temperature level, not a sustained increase or decrease.

Soils are the largest single terrestrial source of carbon dioxide (CO2), but these emissions are highly sensitive to a range of factors associated with climate change and human land use (1).

But on larger scales (both in space and time) the earth is a planet of our local star; the sun is our only source of (purely radiative) energy; we have an atmosphere which clearly operates to reduce diurnal variations in temperature (which on black body basis would otherwise be huge, on human scale) and the radiative budget must always be exactly in balance.

Ruminants, which ferment plants in a specialized stomach before digestion, are estimated to be the largest single human - related source of methane, with greenhouse - gas emissions from sheep and cattle 19 to 48 times higher than beans or grains per pound of food produced, according to the report.

These people who regard humans as nothing more than a source of protein for mountain lions have a long history of opposing large - scale farming for food.

Hence, human emissions are only augmenting a much larger source of CO2.

Natural variability of C12 and C13 sources seem to be an order of magnitude larger than that inferred from the limited data produced from human emissions.

Given that the effect of human emission (positive flux) and remediation (negative flux) is distributed over the entire planet and multiple years, small differences in spacial location or time within the year will make no more difference than differences in the larger natural sources and sinks.

Uncertainty in future human emissions becomes the largest source of uncertainty by the end of this century.

«We have to control methane immediately, and natural gas is the largest methane pollution source in the United States,» says Cornell University marine biologist Robert Howarth, who claims that human - caused methane production, if not forcibly curtailed, will push Earth's temperature beyond the point of no return.

Seriously, the largest sources of methane from human activities include rice paddy agriculture (good luck changing that!)

Based on an extensive literature review, we suggest that (1) climate warming occurs with great uncertainty in the magnitude of the temperature increase; (2) both human activities and natural forces contribute to climate change, but their relative contributions are difficult to quantify; and (3) the dominant role of the increase in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (including CO2) in the global warming claimed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is questioned by the scientific communities because of large uncertainties in the mechanisms of natural factors and anthropogenic activities and in the sources of the increased atmospheric CO2 concentration.

To have most of the additional carbon of the atmosphere from other sources than human influence these other sources must be larger than the human influence.