Sentences with phrase «many other environmental factors»

Because producing food «intensively» (on a mass scale, in a location that enjoys advantages of climate and other environmental factors, with the addition of specialized technology, etc.) may, at least in some dimensions, be more environmentally - friendly than areas with less intensified production (because greater intensity often means more efficient).

In addition, there are other environmental factors to consider.

The researchers say they plan to explore in future studies how other environmental factors and previous experiences, such as interactions between mother and baby, influence the way newborns process and experience pain.

Zinnias were chosen as the next test of the ISS Veggie lab because their sensitivities to light and other environmental factors made them difficult to grow.

Large parental age differences increase the risk for psychiatric disorders, whereas other environmental factors decrease risk.

It remains too soon to tell exactly how this climate system will work under changed conditions and other environmental factors — such as whether the cooling effect of the soot generated by industry and burning forests outweighs the warming effect of greenhouse gases — which may play large roles.

The role of bull's - eye size in UV protection does not necessarily discount other environmental factors correlated with latitude; for example, ornithologists have argued that Gloger's rule arises because darker pigmentation comes from a compound that protects feathers from bacteria in the wet, humid tropics.

They had grown convinced that vaccines and other environmental factors had caused their children's conditions.

However, the link between men with schizophrenia and Candida infection persisted and could not be explained by homelessness or other environmental factors.

In addition, most cases of breast cancer are not hereditary, from BRCA or other mutations, but «sporadic,» meaning they arise at random or from smoking, obesity, exposure to toxic chemicals, hormone use, and other environmental factors.

The authors then modelled counts of golden eagle observations based on land cover and other environmental factors.

Yet people who make decisions about safe levels of exposure to chemicals, heavy metals and other environmental factors generally aren't including epigenetic alterations in their deliberations.

It's not yet clear whether calcium carbonate has a direct detrimental effect on the skin barrier, or whether other environmental factors directly related to water hardness, such as the water's pH, may be responsible.»

The researchers are hoping to identify more precisely the factors related to socioeconomic status, other environmental factors, or genetic components that could predict which types of reading interventions will be successful for individual students.

Using 139 prokaryote - enriched samples, containing > 35,000 species, we show vertical stratification with epipelagic community composition mostly driven by temperature rather than other environmental factors or geography.

Daintree is just one of the sites in Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an information - sharing organization that collects, manages, and shares data on flora, fauna, and other environmental factors to capture snapshots of what key wilderness ecosystems look like now and measure the potential effects of climate change.

Lupus is considered a genetic disease and is triggered not only by inhaling crystalline silica toxicants, but also by other environmental factors such as sun exposure.

Further research is required to determine whether the increased speeds have a genetic basis or are the result of improved training, jockey tactics or other environmental factors.

But they face major hurdles: their basic computational units, called quantum bits or qubits, are difficult to control and are easily corrupted by heat or other environmental factors.

«I would love to look at this behaviour in a controlled lab setting because it may be that the behaviour has limitations based on aggressor species, stimuli and other environmental factors,» Strine says.

And the rise and fall of microbial populations follows a reliable course as a corpse decomposes, even though the actual pace of activity varies widely due to temperature and other environmental factors.

Researchers have long sought to understand the science underlying a wine's terroir — how the climate, soil, and other environmental factors influence the regional characteristics of a wine.

Christen Mirth adds: «In flies and other insects a number of other environmental factors regulate the synthesis of ecdysone, such as temperature, infection and oxygen levels.

The rest depends on diet and other environmental factors.

There are likely multiple factors contributing to these deaths: other toxins in this species of mushroom, the genetics of the victims, contaminated food and other environmental factors.

This possibility is driving a nascent but growing effort among scientists to link the impact of mercury and other environmental factors (everything from pollutants and diet to the sun's ultraviolet rays) to the individual genetic proclivities that each of us is born with.

Flynn: Well, I've tried to set up research designs that would disentangle physiological from other environmental factors.

Afeiche studies how diet and other environmental factors impact reproductive health of both men and women.

Myriad control switches help to arbitrate how genes get expressed in different cells and tissues, and those switches are often triggered by maternal diet, toxic exposures and many other environmental factors.

Additionally, epidemiological data suggests that other environmental factors such as the type of delivery at birth, intestinal infections...

That experiment has already been run in many ways — wildlife finds H. sapiens more troublesome than any other environmental factor, vide the Korean DMZ, the Chernobyl hot zone, and so forth.

This changing climate sensitivity may be the result of other environmental factors that have, since the 1950s, increasingly acted to reduce tree - ring density below the level expected on the basis of summer temperature changes.

Listen in as Dr. Arthur James delves into these and other environmental factors that all contribute to very specific birth trends among this population.

«As our understanding of the impacts of ocean acidification was building up, we were able to broaden our focus from marine organisms to communities and ecosystems, addressing ocean acidification in combination with other environmental factors», says Professor Ulf Riebesell, marine biologist at GEOMAR and coordinator of BIOACID.

Results of regular monitoring of the species diversity and structure of plant communities is used by conservation biologists to help understand impacts of perturbations caused by humans and other environmental factors on ecosystems worldwide.

Social, economic and other environmental factors will need to be considered, such as dietary choices, the cost of transporting aquaculture products from suitable growing areas to populous markets, and the ability to grow the food inputs that fish - based aquaculture requires.

Secondary immunodeficiencies are the result of disease or other environmental factors weakening the immune system.

The Environmental Determinants of Diabetes in the Young (TEDDY) study investigates genetic and genetic - environmental interactions, including gestational infection or other gestational events, childhood infections or other environmental factors after birth, in relation to the development of prediabetic islet autoimmunity and T1D.

I study genetic and epigenetic changes induced by smoking and other environmental factors to identify the mechanisms that play a role in carcinogenesis.

A: Most experts believe that autism has a strong genetic component, and a kid with a genetic predisposition may be susceptible to any number of insults, or «hits,» to his or her system — from vaccines, infections, or other environmental factors yet to be proven.

«It's much easier to measure somebody's height than it is to measure lots of other environmental factors that could affect height.»

That's when I learned about geomedicine — a branch of medicine concerning the influence of climate and other environmental factors on health — and how it was a major player in my personal health.

The followup was great and the fact NIHA Dental educates the patient to do continued detoxification because of the mercury as well as other environmental factors that will detract from our health.

«Increased numbers of the good bacteria in your stomach can help fight against damage caused by free radicals, allergens and other environmental factors.

Step 1 with all of my clients is understanding what foods and other environmental factors are contributing to them breaking through their unique symptom threshold.

This can happen as the result of the foods we eat, the beauty and body care products we use, stress, poor sleep, other environmental factors — or a combination of all of the above.

Elevated Lp (a) is thought to be a genetic factor and levels are not influenced by diet, exercise, weight loss, stress or other environmental factors.

The China Study has many flaws, including no identification of other environmental factors, how the meat was raised, etc..

«Vitamin E protects skin cells from UV light and other environmental factors that generate cell - damaging free radicals,» says Dr. Stuart.

There may be multiple chemical triggers or other environmental factors involved.