Sentences with phrase «measure of human activity»

One, we know that a better measure of human activity is not climate change, but air quality.

Not exact matches

«I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact,» he told CNBC.

But like any other important human activity, faith has to achieve a measure of conceptual clarity if it is to understand and express itself, and part of that process is the development of abstract concepts like Trinity, incarnation and substance.

The resolution states that the House will «create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

Yet, as was the case with the other scientists, during his meetings with the staff of New York delegation members the conversations turned to his work measuring the impact of human activities on New York's coastal marshes.

In animals, implanted electrodes were used to measure the activity of individual grid cells directly, but this is not a practical option in humans.

Using in vitro, or test tube, experiments, the researchers applied these chemicals to human cancer cells to measure changes of estrogen receptor - and androgen receptor - target genes and transcriptional activity.

Nevertheless, there are other measures of depression in humans that can be assessed in rodents — like the ability to enjoy pleasurable activities, which is a cardinal feature of depression in humans — you can measure that in a mouse to see how much a mouse likes to eat a sweet treat, have sex, how well it sleeps and so on.

Using the aerial laser scanning technology lidar, she and her team precisely measured distances between the surface of the ground and a reference point in the air, revealing detailed outlines of areas where human activity had most likely disrupted the soil.

Using existing databases of CO2 measured in ocean waters, the team derived an index relating the two substances, and used it to estimate the amount and distribution of mercury contributed by human activities in different ocean basins.

Combining several new techniques, Jonathan R. Polimeni, Ph.D., senior author of the study, and his colleagues at Harvard's Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, applied fast fMRI in an effort to track neuronal networks that control human thought processes, and found that they could now measure rapidly oscillating brain activity.

«We tend to measure the impact of human activity based on the area it affects on a map, but mountaintop mining is penetrating much more deeply into the earth than other land use in the region like forestry, agriculture or urbanization,» said Emily Bernhardt, a professor of biology at Duke and co-author on the study.

These are just a few obvious examples, but because the future Fox News pundit was talking about climate change let's consider something that is indisputable: the measured rise of carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere is numerically consistent with that predicted from the output of human industrial activity.

Gow's method of investigating how the human brain perceives and distinguishes among elements of spoken language combines electroencephalography (EEG), which records electrical brain activity; magnetoencephalograohy (MEG), which the measures subtle magnetic fields produced by brain activity, and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which reveals brain structure.

University of Bonn researchers have discovered a new method to measure the activity of brown fat cells in humans and mice.

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

«Our work allows us to probe the activity of heparanase in human samples — allowing early disease identification and a direct measure of the success of drugs in humans.

The demonstration in this paper, that the secondary fMRI response (the post-stimulus undershoot) is not simply a passive blood flow response, but is directly related to synchronous neural activity, as measured with EEG, heralds an exciting new chapter in our understanding of the workings of the human mind.»

One of the great challenges for researchers studying the human brain is working out which areas of the brain are involved in specific activities, and this in itself poses a further challenge: how to measure activity in the brain whilst humans are behaving normally in a way that can be repeated and compared.

To compare electrophysiologically recorded changes in peripheral nerve activity (microneurography and non-invasive measures of excitability) in human and animal models.

To do this, the researchers implanted a four - by - four - millimeter chip composed of 96 electrodes into a subdivision of the PPC called the anterior intraparietal area (AIP), to measure the neural activity of a tetraplegic human who volunteered to take part in a brain - machine interface clinical trial.

To that end, Kandel and his team gathered a sample of human brains and measured the activity of genes in that region.

It is also part of an international collaboration to measure impacts of human activities on marine mammals using a variety of opportunistic monitoring methods and experimental controlled exposure experiments (CEEs).

To measure total lipase activity, plasma samples were incubated with 10 % Intralipid / [3H] TG emulsion (Hospira) as a substrate and human serum as the source of ApoC - III (24).

This approach shows that BOLD and field potential measures provide complementary information about human brain activity and we infer that features of the field potential that are uncorrelated with BOLD arise largely from changes in synchrony, rather than level, of neuronal activity.

It varies some by species, too — cats can't actually use any plant - source Vitamin A; and a lot of 100 % vegetarian food has B12 listed because B12 content is measured from BACTERIA B12 activity, and the form of B12 in plants is not usable by humans (i.e. it has zero B12 if you're a human, but a considerable amount of B12 if you're e.coli).

Future studies investigating the time course of atrogene expression and direct measures of skeletal muscle proteasome activity and / or protein breakdown following alcohol ingestion in humans are warranted.

To find out, they designed an experiment using behavioral measures and neuroimaging techniques to explore the ways in which brief bouts of physical exercise impact human performance and underlying neural activity.

Even a Holter Monitor, similar to that used on humans, to measure your dog's cardiac activity over a period of one or more days.

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Early in 1940 we managed to find a small house and for the next three years... I was not able to carve at all... the only sculptures I carried out were some small plaster maquettes for the second «sculpture with colour», and it was not until 1943, when we moved to another house, that I was able to carve this idea... In St Ives I was fortunate enough to have constant contact with artists and writers and craftsmen who lived there, Ben Nicholson my husband, Naum Gabo, Bernard Leach, Adrian Stokes, and there was a steady stream of visitors from London who came for a few days rest, and who contributed in a great measure to the important exchange of ideas and stimulus to creative activity... It was during this time that I gradually discovered the remarkable pagan landscape which lies between St Ives, Penzance and Land's End; a landscape which still has a very deep effect on me, developing all my ideas about the relationship of the human figure in landscape - sculpture in landscape and the essential quality of light in relation to sculpture which induced a new way of piercing the forms to contain colour... The sea, a flat diminishing plane, held within itself the capacity to radiate an infinitude of blues, greys, greens and even pinks of strange hues; the lighthouse and its strange rocky island was an eye; the Island of St Ives an arm, a hand, a face... I used colour and strings in many of the carvings of this time.

Surely, fairly, respectfully, steadily and carefully we can and we will find reasonable and sensible ways to limit unbridled human overgrowth activities and to enable measured implementation of sustainable development activities that serve the long - term best interests of humanity, life as we know it, and Earth.

First, they have not come up with any plausible alternative culprit for the disruption of global climate that is being observed, for example, a culprit other than the greenhouse - gas buildups in the atmosphere that have been measured and tied beyond doubt to human activities.

A model was developed to understand relationships between measured sound levels and variables such as climate, topography, human activity, time of day, and day of year.

Some almost imperceptible measure of that is carbon emitted by human activities.

Further to 12 and eric's response: I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough: in the second sentence by Stefan that I quoted, «this» can only sensibly refer back to the whole of the first sentence, giving the reading That carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are increasing rapidly in the atmosphere due to human activity is a measured fact not even disputed by staunch «climate skeptics.

Resolved, That the House of Representatives commits to working constructively, using our tradition of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.

«[The] House of Representatives commits to working constructively, using our tradition of American ingenuity, innovation, and exceptionalism, to create and support economically viable, and broadly supported private and public solutions to study and address the causes and effects of measured changes to our global and regional climates, including mitigation efforts and efforts to balance human activities that have been found to have an impact.»

The 1998 Wingspread Statement on the Precautionary Principle provides in part: «When an activity raises threats of harm to the environment or human health, precautionary measures should be taken even if some cause and effect relationships are not fully established scientifically.»

Despite the absence of warming in actual measured temperature records over the last 16 years, and near - record lows in hurricane and tornado activity, they still cry «wolf» repeatedly and try to connect every unusual or «extreme» weather event to human emissions of plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide.

Many previous studies have measured concentrations of carbon in the soil from organic sources, and here Papanicolaou et al. contribute new results that account for the uneven slope of the ground, focusing on land that is constantly disturbed by human activities.

Natural variability is still to be properly measured and defined and until we do this, the effect of human activity will forever be pure guesswork.

The enhanced Greenhouse Effect we are now measuring is a human fingerprint because the source of it is the continued emission of greenhouse gases, primarily carbon dioxide, produced by industrial activity.

He told CNBC, «I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact.»

Measuring the distance apart and speed of 2 satellites in space orbiting the earth to the width of a human hair with no margin for error [damn those drift recalculations], and taking into account unknown factors with respect to the true values for water depth, water weight at different salt concentrations, ice depth magma flows, volcanic activity etc [ie making a lot of guesses], plus taking human motivation on board [like CO2 increase must melt ice surely] can give you an accurate measurement of the volume ice in Antarctica.

Data correlating «ordinary science intelligence» (as measured by a standard nine - question test), political ideology, and tendency to agree with the statement «there is «solid evidence» of recent global warming due «mostly» to «human activity such as burning fossil fuels»» suggests that conservative Republicans become less likely to agree with the scientific consensus on climate change the more educated they are.

Pruitt answered: «No, I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do, and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact.

If one attempts to measure heat with a thermometer, the waste heat emitted as a result of human activities and the humans themselves is a confusing factor.

[SEPP Comment: Measured temperature increases are closely related to local energy consumption, an indicator of increased human activity.]

He said about half of the increase in «fuel aridity» — a measure of the dryness of forests that indicates higher fire risk — can be attributed to human activity.