Once in the lungs, your blood releases the carbon dioxide into the air that you breathe out and absorbs
more oxygen from the air that you breathe in, and the entire process begins again.
At high altitudes, the body adapts to the thin air by generating additional red blood cells, which grab
more oxygen from the air in the lungs.
Not exact matches
The World Anti-Doping Agency banned meldonium with effect
from January 2016, deeming it performance - enhancing because it enabled users to carry
more oxygen to muscle tissue, something of benefit to endurance athletes in particular.
Some incompetent managers invoke staff pity
more than pain, while others drain the morale
from a conference room — something akin to draining the available
oxygen — the moment they walk in.
And I concur, citing a Psalm, the Lotus Sutra, a few lines
from Rumi, or singing AC / DC's «Highway to Hell» might very well be
more beneficial for most as they express their final breaths rather than expending
oxygen in an attempt to set a rabbit snare.
With devastation coming to Puerto Rico
from natural disasters, an ongoing spat with North Korea looming, Republican health - care legislation in Congress, and
more bubbling around Washington, the president appeared unfocused since he was giving plenty of
oxygen to sports - related topics.
This is because warm muscles and enlarged (e.g. dilated) blood vessels use
oxygen from the blood and burn fuel stored in the muscles
more efficiently.
You baby is 18 X
more likely to have an
oxygen deprivation brain injury
from an out of hospital birth.
Unmanaged preeclampsia can prevent a developing fetus
from getting enough blood and
oxygen, damage a mother's liver and kidneys, and, in rare cases, progress to eclampsia, a much
more serious condition involving seizures.
The placenta then spreads further throughout the uterus, becoming thinner (increasing the risks of a placenta previa and placental abruption), trying to seek out
more surface area of the uterus
from which to draw
oxygen and nutrient.
Science behind leaving the cord intact Conversations before birth Meconium,
oxygen, thermal management and
more Transition
from placental to extrauterine life
Variability in breathing patterns of infants is good and a sign of health, ordinarily, and such variability is often associated with
more substantial inhalations of
oxygen, leading to shorter apneas in deep stage of sleep
from which awakenings can be difficult (see Richards et al 1998).
The placenta then spreads further throughout the uterus, trying to seek out
more surface area of the uterus
from which to draw
oxygen and nutrients.
Indeed, babies do sleep
more soundly on their tummy, says Dr. Moon, which may prevent them
from awakening when they're not getting enough
oxygen, or it may allow them to re-breathe too much carbon monoxide, which can be deadly.
Her latest intervention gave her another news cycle dominated by Brexit, splashes across the press of her looking tough,
more adulation
from the Daily Mail, other parties gasping for
oxygen.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was flying in a state plane at
more than 10,000 feet in July when the
oxygen masks fell
from the ceiling and «swung ominously» while the plane descended, said John PL Kelly, the governor's press secretary at the time, who was aboard.
Those sites gave her the chance to gather fossils
from many different depths in the ancient ocean,
from the
more oxygen - rich surface waters to deeper zones.
The rising temperatures cause layers of ocean water to stratify so the
more oxygen - rich surface waters are less able to mix with
oxygen - poor waters
from the deeper ocean.
If an alien civilization is looking at us
from far away, and it knows something about chemistry, it will know that we have millions to billions of times
more oxygen than we should [if there were no life on Earth].
Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study found that many species
from the two plateaus underwent different mutations to produce the same result: hemoglobins
more adept at snaring
oxygen from the lungs before sharing it with the other organs that depend on it.
More than half the
oxygen we breathe comes
from the ocean, much of it
from aquatic ecosystems that scientists have barely begun to study.
Oxygen from seawater permeated only the upper millimeter or so of sediment, but the researchers noticed something happening much deeper in the mud, more than a centimeter below, as if oxygen were available down there, as
Oxygen from seawater permeated only the upper millimeter or so of sediment, but the researchers noticed something happening much deeper in the mud,
more than a centimeter below, as if
oxygen were available down there, as
oxygen were available down there, as well.
The wheat produced
more oxygen than Packham needed, and some had to be vented
from the chamber.
Without the ozone layer, ultraviolet rays
from the sun would reach the surface at nearly full force, causing skin cancer and,
more seriously, killing off the tiny photosynthetic plankton in the ocean that provide
oxygen to the atmosphere and bolster the bottom of the food chain.
Warmer air temperatures cause
more water containing the heavier isotopes
oxygen - 18 or deuterium to evaporate
from the surrounding ocean.
At its center is a cargo bin big enough to store
more than seven tons of supplies,
from oxygen and water to spare batteries and food.
Soliman said the finding that atrial fibrillation was associated only with NSTEMI heart attacks suggests that factors contributing to partial blockage of the coronary arteries or increased
oxygen demand, such as sudden increase in heart rate, are
more likely to explain the association between a-fib and heart attack than those factors linked to total blockage caused by the migration of a blood clot to a coronary artery
from the site of its formation.
A new study led by researchers at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science reveals that land use in the watersheds
from which this «dissolved organic matter» originates has important implications for Bay water quality, with the organic carbon in runoff
from urbanized or heavily farmed landscapes
more likely to persist as it is carried downstream, thus contributing energy to fuel low -
oxygen «dead zones» in coastal waters.
Levels of
oxygen 18 in ice core samples
from the 1990s were
more elevated than for any other time in the last 200 years, but were very similar to levels reached during some earlier decades.
Cortright and chemical engineer James Dumesic discovered in their university lab back in 2001 that by starting with water and various carbohydrates
from plants — basically, carbon, hydrogen and
oxygen compounds — and using catalysts, heat and pressure, they could start creating CO2 and hydrogen and then use that hydrogen to eliminate the
oxygen as water (the process produces
more water than it consumes).
Cores
from the northern end of the transect, which experienced longer
oxygen exposure times, were
more decomposed than cores
from the south, which formed under warmer temperatures.
«The seed coat is responsible for preventing
oxygen from entering the seed; the increase in gibberellin strengthens it and this leads to a
more durable and longer lasting seed,» explains Eduardo Bueso, researcher at the IBMCP (UPV - CSIC).
«
From providing growth factor support and ensuring proper
oxygen and nutrient delivery to the brain to trimming of obsolete synapses and recycling waste products, recent findings show that glial cells do much
more to ensure brain activity is optimized,» Kozai says.
As
oxygen increased in Earth's atmosphere and organisms became
more complex, different forms of metabolism evolved,
from plants» photosynthesis to the lesser - known chemolithotrophy.
«All the questions we have about ancient evolutionary events — what our last common ancestor looked like, when methane metabolism arose, when
oxygen - producing organisms evolved — they really benefit
from having
more genomes to look at and a
more detailed tree,» says Parks.
The ratio should also be higher in drier climates, as there the lighter
oxygen - 16 diffuses
more readily
from a tree's leaves into the air, leaving
more of the heavier
oxygen - 18 behind to be incorporated into wood.
One option, Gauthier says, is to work with a new type of glass made
from a chalcogenide, which has good semiconductor properties and contains one or
more elements
from the periodic table's chalcogenide group, also known as the «
oxygen family,» which includes
oxygen, sulfur, selenium and tellurium.
The air holds less
oxygen, there's
more harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation
from the sun, and food supplies vary dramatically
from season to season.
Women can process
oxygen more quickly than men when they start to exercise, according to a new study
from the University of Waterloo.
It could automate routine medical and administrative tasks, help doctors collaborate with one another and much
more, taking its application «personality»
from the capabilities of the underlying
Oxygen system.
The researchers found that people who have
more copies of the gene variants (by inheriting a copy of each advantageous variant
from both parents), had the least amount of
oxygen in their blood and used it
more efficiently than people without either variant, or only one copy
from one parent.
The latest experiments
from Strasser's research group indicate that substantial increases in efficiency may also be possible for the reaction splitting water to produce
oxygen in electrolysers, for which the even
more expensive noble metal iridium is used.
Eventually, however, terrestrial red and green algae and the first lichens developed on land and the final big rise in
oxygen may have been caused by the «greening of the continents
from around 800 million years ago,» when these simple early lifeforms on land steadily spread and broke down rocks that sustained a higher rate of erosion and led to the release of
more nutrients into the oceans that stimulated even
more photosynthesis by
more newly evolved algae as well as older cyanobacteria (Nick Lane, New Scientist, February 10, 2010).
Birds require 20 times
more oxygen than reptiles and boast fixed thigh bones to enable the proper lung function (that fixed positioning can help to stop birds» lungs
from collapsing).
Research using climate models suggests that the combined effects of higher temperatures and lower
oxygen will drive many marine animals away
from their current habitats to areas with
more oxygen, according to in a recent press release...
So while it's true that organisms living deep in the Earth are not exposed to the high - energy radiation found when you travel between planets or
more hypothetically between stars, the systems that cells have evolved to repair damage done by reactive
oxygen species will be useful whether they arise
from rocks or
from cosmic rays.
Increased ocean temperatures also make the waters
more stratified — preventing nutrient - rich water
from below
from rising to the surface and
oxygen - rich water
from reaching the middle layers.
Presumably, the strong stellar wind emitted by giant stars eventually blows the titanium oxide out of the star's outer regions (along with hydrogen and helium gases and dust made of elements and molecules like carbon) into interstellar space, until vigorous convection brings out
more titanium and
oxygen that are created
from nuclear processes deeper in the star.
A previous study discovered, though, that some rocks
from the Apollo missions contained slightly
more oxygen - 17 than
oxygen - 16 when compared to Earth rocks.
Methane and its
oxygen - poor counterparts have much
more biologic potential to jump
from inorganic compounds to life - supporting amino acids and DNA.