Sentences with phrase «lethal level»

The researchers calculated that humans and most mammals, which have internal body temperatures near 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, will experience a potentially lethal level of heat stress at wet - bulb temperature above 95 degrees sustained for six hours or more, said Matthew Huber, the Purdue professor of earth and atmospheric sciences who co-authored the paper that is currently available online and will be published in an upcoming issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences....

Not only is this act illegal, on a sunny day, it can take only minutes for the temperature inside a car to rise to a lethal level.

This mode could be considered an «easy» mode for a series that's notorious for lethal level designs and repeated deaths of the title character.

During more than a decade of observation, grapevines in Napa, Calif., and Bordeaux, France, never reached lethal levels of dehydration from seasonal drought, researchers report online January 31 in Science Advances.

The Caltech nonlinear acoustic lens could aid in the treatment of tumors by increasing the temperature of cancerous tissue to lethal levels without affecting healthy tissue.

Months of testing and data acquisition revealed that typical levels of neonicotinoid exposure, which bees could experience when foraging on agricultural crops — but below lethal levels — resulted in substantial damage to the honey bee's ability to fly.

With pollution from particulate matter at potentially lethal levels early last December, city officials took a drastic step: they announced that they would temporarily restrict the use of private vehicles by allowing owners to drive only on alternate days, based on the sequence of their number plates.

Within minutes, a car's internal temperature can rise to lethal levels, leaving any animal left inside to die a horrific death.

This is allowing lethal levels of UVB and UVC to reach earth.

Naomi Klein examines how Said's ideas of racial hierarchy, including Orientalism, have been the silent partners to climate change since the earliest days of the steam engine, continuing to present day decisions to let entire nations drown and others warm to lethal levels.

Cities are afflicted by the notorious heat island effect, and climate scientists have repeatedly warned that extremes of heat and humidity could rise to potentially lethal levels in many of the world's great cities.

The study's lead author, Dr. Myra Finkelstein, an environmental toxicologist at the University of California - Santa Cruz, found that albatross chicks near contaminated structures have lethal levels of lead in their blood.

Not exact matches

I can get behind controlling a certain level of lethal technology, extensive background checks and waiting periods — including private sales.

The Court's own case law shows that in order to maintain the abortion right at the level of fundamental law, many other sectors of the states» legal order, at both statutory and common law, need to be altered: family law, marriage law, laws regulating the medical profession, and, as we now see with the recent circuit court decisions, criminal laws prohibiting private use of lethal force.

In order to determine the lethal toxic level of capsaicinoids in animals, and to extrapolate that level for humans, researchers in 1980 performed a rather gruesome experiment with mice, rats, guinea pigs and rabbits.

That way, you could use a lot of them for the flavor without going to near - lethal heat levels.

Aside from his fantastic play during Euro 2008, Pavlyuchenko has looked more like a one - trick pony, than a lethal striker that can play on any level.

I didn't hear one complaint at the time, and with Rambo stepping up and showing finally what most of us knew he could do, and Kos rising to a level most of us didn't know he had, along with Theo (who I think is Henry markII) and will become a lethal striker in time.

What the Englishman brings to the side is a greater level of penetration and high - octane forward play, which makes Arsenal even more lethal on the counter-attack and gives the team another source of goals.

But the addition of Armstrong, making it a lethal three - pronged attack, has taken Rovers game to a new level and could be the key to ensuring a return to the Sky Bet Championship.

The France international has been lethal in 2015, drawing level with the Chilean after a stunning run of goals, and is now looking to finish the season as the Gunners» top scorer

Ruud only scored two goals from outside the box in his entire United career, but at a stage was perhaps the most lethal striker in world football within it, clinically thrashing or dinking home any scraps that fell to him with an unerring level of calm and technique.

However the Campaign for Better Transport's sustainable transport campaigner Bridget Fox commented: «It's clear that the Government's rhetoric on tackling lethal and illegal levels of air pollution is still not matched by action.

When I first found that the high level radioactive waste was lethal for 240,000 years, it changed my mind about nuclear power.

For 558 days, the seeds were exposed to high levels of UV light, cosmic radiation, and extreme temperature fluctuations — conditions that are lethal to most forms of life.

The monkeys were given lethal doses of 5.8, 6.5 or 7.2 grays of whole - body radiation, similar to levels inhaled by Fukushima workers (all the animals received «lethal» doses, but only some resulted in death).

FOLLOWING an astonishing blunder that may have allowed a lethal pandemic flu strain to escape from the lab, researchers are calling for a higher level of security to be imposed on work with flu viruses.

When corals are exposed to temperatures two or three degrees hotter than their evolved maximum (31 degrees Celsius for Great Barrier Reef species), along with increased levels of sunlight, it is lethal.

Additionally, they showed that reduced levels of SND1 led to reduced levels of STAT3, a gene that has been shown to promote the most lethal characteristics of brain cancer.

This goal of this study, led by Geisbert and Ian MacLachlan, executive vice president and chief technical officer of Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, was to determine whether it is possible to protect animals against a lethal MARV - Angola infection when treatment was started at a point when animals have detectable levels of the virus in their system and show the first clinical signs of disease.

Level four is for horror pathogens that can't possibly be seen with a naked eye but are lethal, incurable, and spread by air or blood - to - blood contact.

That's because tiger snake antivenom has an extraordinary level of cross reactivity against other snake species, and can therefore neutralise the lethal effects on humans in snakebite cases.

It is much like the familiar process used by hospitals to image the insides of patients, but amplified to levels that would be lethal to humans.

Perhaps the most important contribution by the researchers at Fort Detrick is the insistence that rooms in level - three and level - four labs, which contain lethal agents, must be at negative pressure compared with the outside, so that if there's a breach, air will flow in.

A level - three lab is designed to contain potentially lethal airborne pathogens for which a cure is available, such as tuberculosis.

«Another potential application is biodefense, where eCAPs may be used as a rapid postexposure aerosol treatment in individuals after exposure to aerosolized pathogens, where the goal of immediate treatment would be to rapidly reduce bacterial dose from a lethal to a nonlethal or subclinical level,» says Montelaro.

The Dengue virus can then infect these cells, leading to greater levels of virus production and enhanced, sometimes lethal, disease.

In the study, mice given a lethal dose of dengue virus less than a week after receiving the protective DMAb were completely protected from lethal disease — significantly more rapid than vaccine - driven protection, which can take weeks to months to reach peak efficacy levels.

Yet, when population levels of immunity drop, then these potentially lethal infectious diseases that had been prevented in the past will reappear in sporadic outbreaks or, dangerously, as large - scale epidemics.

Despite reduced levels of mRNA expression, the homozygous lethal Xpd † XPCS allele ameliorated multiple XpdTTD - associated disease symptoms in compound heterozygous XpdTTD / † XPCS animals including the hallmark brittle hair and cutaneous features fully penetrant in homo - and hemizygous TTD mice (Figure 2A — 2C).

Different levels of chromosome segregation errors have different consequences for tissues and organisms, ranging from oncogenic to tumor suppressive to lethal.

Therefore, we also examined MKK3 and MKK6 levels in MNK - 3 cells after lethal toxin treatment.

These data indicate that lethal toxin modulated Il22 and IL - 22 at both the mRNA and protein levels, respectively, in ILCs and this was caused by a direct intoxication of ILC3s.

Treatment of MNK3 cells with lethal toxin, but not toxin lacking enzymatic activity, led to a time - dependent reduction in MEK1 and MEK2 levels (Fig 3E).

We found that lethal toxin led to reduced levels of MKK3 and MKK6, albeit with slower kinetics than that observed for MEK1 and MEK2 (Fig 3E).

As lethal toxin treatment led to reduced levels of MEK1 / 2 and MKK3 / 6 and reduced phosphorylation of ERK1 / 2 and p38, we examined the role of these two MAPK kinases in IL - 22 production in ILC3s.

Long - term exposure to higher levels of environmental arsenic has been linked to cancer, heart disease, and other health problems and ingestion of large doses can be lethal.

So, even though glycine can not be regarded as indispensable for survival, because failure to maintain collagen in a healthy state is not lethal, it is required for adequate synthesis of collagen and for a healthy level of protein turnover.

Therefore, if you add normal, healthy doses of wheat germ to your diet, you will reduce the levels of homocysteine in your body, and reduce your chances of contracting these dangerous or lethal conditions.

Certain bacterial events can even make the amine levels in foods lethal, and have caused issues in the past.