Sentences with phrase «mechanisms of change by»

In group sessions the therapist uses the group process as a mechanism of change by developing, exploring and examining interpersonal relationships within the group.

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The current process attempts to minimize the impact of the pro-cyclical nature of the EI rate - setting mechanism by limiting any change to no more than 10 cents per year (employee rate).

For their part, the federal government has not budged, staunchly defending this plan by dismissing the huge impact their changes will have on how we operate small businesses, and by inferring that doctors and other professionals are tax cheaters who unfairly take advantage of small business tax - saving mechanisms.

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The change in allele frequency may arise by any number of mechanisms including the addition of a novel allele via mutation.

Apr. 19, 2013 — An international research team in including Christian Schlötterer and Alistair McGregor of the Vetmeduni Vienna has discovered a completely new mechanism by which evolution can change the appearance of an organism.

However, the extent of this change is significantly modified by a wide range of social and personal variables such as the functions that are being served for the individual by the attitudes in question; the satisfaction the individual derives from existing attitudes; the strength of existing defense mechanisms and group pressures surrounding those attitudes; patterns of reinforcement for similar attitudes in the past; other alternatives available to the viewer; and the current psychological state of the viewer.

show me anywhere that allopatric speciation (which is the ONLY mechanism that I am aware of put forth to explain PE) is a proven and accepted means by which such rapid change: A. takes place at all B. DOES NT take place during the long periods of stasis.

The biological link between the subjective sensation of effort and the physiological changes occurring during exercise is of crucial importance, because it provides a mechanism by which the RPE could, in theory, contribute to the regulation of exercise performance, the limit to exercise and pacing strategy.

It seems to me that the most promising mechanisms for real change are at the federal level, by influencing Congress at it considers the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, and at the most local of levels — the individual school — where parents and sympathetic principals can work together to, for example, eliminate treats in the classroom or the sale of objectionable a la carte foods.

-LSB-...] mechanisms for real change are at the federal level, by influencing Congress at it considers the reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act, and at the most local of levels — the individual school — where parents and -LSB-...]

e) Re-commit to open government and open data — in the coming years, transparency will be one of the key mechanisms by which the government can explain what it is doing, and ordinary people can feel they are well informed about the changes to come.

By this second mechanism, the government of the United Kingdom can change without an intervening general election.

And it did not appear in a bill but in a statutory instrument, a mechanism designed to speed minor changes in law through parliament with a minimum of debate, and now regularly misused by successive governments.

Despite this relatively small role played by independent expenditure committees relative to other sorts of fundraising mechanisms, this isn't the first time Cuomo has made changes to the way they're regulated while facing criticism for failing to make changes to these other mechanisms.

The Tory leadership should change this by creating a range of new mechanisms for Tory MPs to help the party and advance their careers.

Power in Stack Exchange is not held by its users, but delegated to them by the owners of the SE network - for example, the users are afforded no formal mechanism by which to change the «constitution» or rules by which SE sites operate, or to decide, for example, to open source the code on which the sites run.

In the new research, the UB scientists found they could reverse those social deficits with a very low dose of romidepsin, which, they found, restores gene expression and function using an epigenetic mechanism, where gene changes are caused by influences other than DNA sequences.

In most years, individual NIH institutes provide more detailed breakdowns of funding by mechanism and specify program spending changes.

The response of the antarctic system to climate change is just one mechanism by which Earth's system will continue its cyclical evolution, with no concern for man's industrial and political motivations.

Learning takes time, and there are mechanisms by which neurons can change the way they communicate with each other to enable learning — some of which can be fast, and some of which can take longer.

Still, there are definitely mechanisms by which this rift could be linked to climate change, most notably through warmer ocean waters eating away at the base of the shelf.»

On top of uncovering the long - range signaling mechanisms the researchers were astounded by another aspect of the programming which revealed that signals can not only program the monocytes to protect against the infection, but also to change to a repair function when they come across the good (commensal) bacteria in the gut.

Arguably, bats have the most sophisticated powered flight mechanism among animals, as evidenced by the shape - changing capability of their wings.

But we also know the activity of our own genes can be changed by our environment, through epigenetic mechanisms.

The researchers were the first to discover that the Pacific Plate is formed by a combination of mechanisms: The plate thickens as the rocks of the mantle cool, the chemical makeup of the rocks that form the plate changes with depth, and the mechanical behavior of the rocks change with depth and their proximity to where the plate is being formed at the mid-ocean ridge.

«The fact that the genetic code can simultaneously write two kinds of information means that many DNA changes that appear to alter protein sequences may actually cause disease by disrupting gene control programs or even both mechanisms simultaneously,» said Stamatoyannopoulos.

«You don't want to interfere with the fine - tuned mechanism associated with the function of the brain by changing the cholesterol level in the brain.»

Douglas Thomas, associate professor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy at UIC, and co-workers discovered that nitric oxide plays an important role in epigenetics — heritable alterations in gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in DNA sequence.

The mechanism is produced by layers of electrically charged particles (ions of sodium and potassium) on either side of the nerve membrane that change places when stimulated.

The way epigenetics helps understand that process is that it provides the mechanism by which maternal experience of a pup can essentially produce lifelong changes in the brain because many epigenetic changes are that stable.

As I discussed in my article, however, surgery's effect on diabetes is likely the result of a combination of various changes in GI mechanisms, not of bile acids by themselves.

Although bacteria have a seemingly limitless capacity to alter their genes by swapping bits of DNA between strains, this mechanism doesn't seem enough to account for the swift pace of change and the high variability of E. coli and other strains.Thomas Cebula of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wondered if this rapid evolution is being driven by microbes capable of much faster - than - normal variation.

The research team found that this non-coding RNA fragment maintains healthy cells through two mechanisms: Firstly by regulating the levels of DIRAS3, one of its neigboring genes that is involved in cell replication; secondly by suppressing a network of genes that prepare cells to change their shape and prepare for metastasis.

Project leader Enno Schefuß from the MARUM — Center for Marine Environmental Sciences at the University of Bremen, Germany, adds: «The project was funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in the priority programme «Integrated Analysis of Interglacial Climate Dynamics (INTERDYNAMIC)» with the aim to identify potential mechanisms triggering abrupt changes under current climatic conditions.

While the mechanism by which a significant weight loss can reduce asthma - associated risks is unknown, studies have linked obesity to increased inflammation, higher prevalence of gastroesophageal reflux disease, and physical changes in the airway — all of which could contribute to asthma severity.

These results imply a dual mechanism for pattern separation in which signals from the entorhinal cortex can be decorrelated both by changes in coincidence patterns in the dentate gyrus and by recruitment of nonoverlapping cell assemblies in CA3.

'' [S] ea - ice loss of the magnitude expected in the next decades could substantially impact California's precipitation, thus highlighting another mechanism by which human - caused climate change could exacerbate future California droughts,» the study says.

To gain an understanding of the mechanism that connects low mtDNA levels with a cellular change that leads to cancer and metastasis, Guha, Avadhani and their colleagues set up two systems by which they could purposefully reduce the amount of mtDNA in a cell.

The researchers found that degenerative changes and loss of vision are caused by impaired function of the lysosomal clean - up mechanism, or autophagy, in the fundus of the eye.

«Leveraging a digital control mechanism means we can give value to the millions of observations collected by volunteers» and «it allows a new kind of science where citizens can directly contribute to the analysis of global challenges like climate change» say Hamed Mehdipoor and Dr. Raul Zurita - Milla, who work at the Geo - Information Processing department of ITC.

The researchers showed that Hsp90 inhibition reduced production of AR - V7 through a new and unexpected mechanism of action — by changing the way that messenger RNA molecules carrying the code for AR - V7 are processed.

Australia has created an adaptation program to «help Australians better understand climate change, manage risks, and take advantage of potential opportunities;» In Nigeria, state and local governments are developing action plans for high - risk urban areas, while the federal government is seeking to expand forests by reducing deforestation and wood fuel demand; in Mali, significant efforts are being made to conserve water resources, as well as create usable mechanisms to track the development of climate change.

The mechanism by which Ubx orchestrates these changes in the haltere is a telling example of selector gene function.

But because the vinclozolin - induced fertility changes occurred in almost every male rat descended from a treated mother rather than in a small percentage of offspring (as is seen in germ line mutations caused by radiation), Skinner suspects an epigenetic mechanism — a change that doesn't mutate the DNA sequence of an animal, but rather affects how genes are expressed.

The study, co-authored by Dr Thomas Stevens, from the Department of Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London, found a previously unknown mechanism by which the joining of North and South America changed the salinity of the Pacific Ocean and caused major ice sheet growth across the Northern Hemisphere.

Furthermore, clipping or genetically ablating wings from flies prevented the protective effects of DR on lifespan, demonstrating a critical role for the observed increase in physical activity in determining lifespan upon DR. To further elucidate the mechanisms by which changes in DR mediates changes in metabolism we are identifying and characterizing various tissue specific modulators of fat metabolsm

Additional limitations to the traditional approach include: costly failures to replicate positive results in larger trials; difficulty in determining the reasons for negative results; low yield in terms of identifying disease or intervention mechanisms due to an exclusive focus on symptom change and clinical endpoints; and, the expensive and very lengthy practice of first establishing multi-component psychosocial treatments followed by years of «unpacking» studies.

Title is: Abrupt Climate Change: evidence, mechanisms and implications A report for the Royal Society and the Association of British Science Writers by Mike Holderness, March 2003

Scientists investigating the mechanisms of Down Syndrome (DS) have revealed the earliest developmental changes in embryonic stem cells caused by an extra copy of human chromosome 21 — the aberrant inheritance of which results in the condition.