Sentences with phrase «lower effect on the environment»

«In Växjö, the greenest city in Europe, we strive to produce meals with a lower effect on the environment in municipal kitchens by purchasing locally produced and ecological foodstuffs, reduce waste, increase the proportion of vegetables and adapt menus to the season.»

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These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Straus has long been an industry leader in trying to lower these emissions and their negative effect on the environment.

I would surmise that this is due to the lower levels of stress hormones in the mother's body having a positive effect on the uterine environment.

Porter says the results call for closer attention to effects on humans of pesticides at low levels found widely in the environment.

«What we have to do as a society is figure out how to move ourselves around in a way that is low - cost and has minimal effect on the environment,» he says.

Says Herbert, «We discussed the enormous number of chemicals in our environment and how little we know about chronic, low - dose, multiple exposures and their effect on diseases like autism.

Lower on NAS's list of potential concerns were the consequences of accidentally releasing genetically modified algae into the environment and the effects of converting rangeland or pastureland to biofuel - making ponds.

Though earlier studies clearly showed that astronauts on these extended missions suffered serious deficits from lengthy times in a low - gravity environment, including dizziness when standing up, considerable loss of bone mass, and impaired muscle function, little was known about the effects of long - term space flight on the heart and vascular system.

Lower your toxic load — More than 80,000 toxic chemicals have been introduced into our environment over the past few decades, most of which haven't been properly tested for their effects on human health.

This article glosses over (ignores) any negative effect on higher achieving students by having lower achieving students present who strike out behaviourally when confronted with learning environments beyond their capability.

The ill effects of high - stakes testing - like narrowing learning environments to focus solely on reading, writing, and math, as well as the test - induced increase of high school dropouts — have had a disproportionately negative impact on low - income students and students of color.

«i2R e-Paper's re-cycle and re-use capabilities, positive effects on the environment and low cost of production are paving the way for mass acceptance of green e-paper technologies.»

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The relatively low incidence of prostate cancer in intact dogs may suggest that testicular hormones Page 4 of 12 are in fact protective against ductal / urothelial prostatic carcinoma, or may have indirect effects on cancer development by changing the environment in the prostate.»

Whether its character models, skill effects, or the environment, Black Desert's graphics are just hands - down gorgeous, and yet the game has been so well optimized that it will run on low - spec computers.

Further, a majority of Americans support a range of energy policy priorities including protecting the environment from the effects of energy development and use (72 %) and increasing reliance on renewable energy sources (71 %), as well as reducing dependence on foreign energy sources (69 %) and keeping consumer energy costs low (66 %).

The effect of the extended low solar activity period on the near - earth environment is indeed a cause of concern.

The challenge we now face is how to protect people and the environment from the pervasive and subtle but profound effects of lifelong exposure to multiple chemicals that we now understand have the ability to alter some of the most fundamental building blocks of life on earth — our genes — often at very low levels of exposure.

Climate change is expected to exacerbate these challenges through its direct effects on people and the environment, as well as by imposing the need for measures to keep greenhouse gas emissions low and adapt to climate impacts.

The pictures come out sharp, with the camera performing well in low - light environments and able to cut down on halo effect from the software over-sharpening the image.

Environmental Engineer — Duties & Responsibilities Trained environmental engineer with experience in industrial and academic settings Oversee development and feasibility study of a new low level chlorine detection method by nanotechnology Direct identification and quantification of sulfate - reducing bacteria (SRB) and sulfur - oxidizing bacteria (SOB) by Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT - PCR) Lead research for «Control of distribution system water quality in a changing water quality environment» funded by Tampa Bay Water Authority, Water Research Foundation Responsible for analyzing biological parameters and interpreting data from distribution system samples Manage QA / QC and sampling protocol for all biological project samples Compose and organize the entire biological sections for final project reports Develop and verify empirical models relating biofilm density and HPC measurements to water quality Responsible for designing water, sewer, fire, and storm drainage systems for a 3 story building Composed an Operations & Maintenance Manual for drainage systems Drafted full - size CAD blue prints of drainage systems and other structures Proficient in water / waste water treatment, experimental design, and laboratory studies Provide research for a project studying the effects of ultra-filtration on oily waste water Create a full 40 MGD water treatment plant process and design for a fictional city in North China Oversee site and source water selection, water pump stations design, treatment plant planning and pipeline layout Drafted full - size CAD blue prints and composed an Operations & Maintenance Manual Experience with hydraulic modeling and waste water plant design Consistently recognized for excellence in team leadership, project management, and academic study

Animals exposed to enriched environments high in stimulation have been shown to display increased hippocampal cell proliferation and neurogenesis compared with those reared in relative deprivation.7 Poverty represents a form of human deprivation that may parallel this animal model, raising the question of whether low levels of stimulation and relative psychosocial neglect associated with poverty have a similar negative effect on human brain development.

Contextual factors, notably the family environment and wider community, are also important because they may moderate the developmental effects of child maltreatment, thereby accounting for some of the heterogeneity in the outcomes associated with abuse and neglect (Zielinski and Bradshaw, 2006; Berry, 2007); the extent to which children who get hit experience impaired health or development depends on its frequency and whether it occurs in a low - warmth / high - criticism environment (DoH, 1995).

From a community health and public policy perspective, about half of the effect of family income on children's cognitive ability is the home environment.46 Thus, interventions to improve cognitive development in low - income children must focus on the parents» mental health and their ability to provide the children with adequate learning opportunities.

Despite the negative effect maternal depression can have on children, earlier studies in this area have focused on smaller samples typically collected within 1 site or community.3, 8,20 The purpose of this multisite, cross-sectional study of 5820 children who attended a Head Start program and their families was to describe key aspects of the family environment and demographic factors related to maternal depressive symptoms in a diverse national sample of low - income families whose children attended Head Start as preschoolers and were attending kindergarten at the time of the interview.

In fact, a recent study found that living alone was more highly associated with depression in mid-aged and older adults reporting low levels of perceived quality of social interactions with neighbours.26 However, to our knowledge, no studies have examined the moderating effect of objectively assessed neighbourhood environment attributes on the associations between living arrangements (living alone vs living with others) and older adults» depressive symptoms.

In an early impact study on the effectiveness of «skills - based relationship education programs designed to help low - income married couples strengthen their relationships and, in turn, to support more stable and more nurturing home environments and more positive outcomes for parents and their children,» MDRC reported [20] «Overall, the program has shown some small positive effects, without clear indications (yet no clear negative proof) for improving the odds to stay together after 12 months.»

In the long term, those participating children are more likely to be employed and less likely to be dependent on government assistance.9 The positive effects are larger, and more likely to be sustained, when programs are high quality.10 In addition, the impact is greatest for children from low - income families.11 Differences in children's cognitive abilities by income are evident at only nine months old and significantly widen by the time children are two years old.12 Children living in poverty are more likely to be subject to stressful home environments — which can have lifelong impacts on learning, cognition, and self - regulation — while parents living in poverty have limited resources to provide for their families and high barriers to accessing affordable, high - quality child care.13 High - quality early learning programs staffed by warm and responsive adults can help mitigate these effects, offering a safe and predictable learning environment that fosters children's development.14

The analyses showed that our model was a good fit to the metabolic functioning data in the CARDIA sample, implicating low childhood SES and early family environment effects on metabolic functioning that were mediated in part by poor social support and chronic negative affect.

High - and low - activity alleles of the rhMAOA - LPR show a genotype x environment interaction effect on aggressive behavior, such that mother - reared male monkeys with the low - activity - associated allele had higher aggression scores.

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.

Lower - quality physical environment, maternal emotional unresponsiveness, and fewer stimulating experiences contribute significantly to the effect of recent poverty on internalizing behaviors.