Sentences with phrase «most calcified»

Towards the end of my pregnancy, our water softener broke and we had the hardest, most calcified and mineralized water you can imagine.

Most calcifying organisms have evolved mechanisms to «up - regulate» their internal pH by pumping H + ions out of the compartment and raising internal pH. In addition pumping H + ions out of the calcifying compartments is beneficial because it maintains an electrical gradient that facilitates importing calcium ions (Ca + +) into the calcifying compartment.

Not exact matches

Most studies have concluded that sea animals with calcified shells or skeletons, such as starfish, will suffer as carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels dissolves in the sea, making the water more acidic and destroying the calcium carbonate on which the creatures depend.

In an unprecedented evolution experiment scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries have demonstrated for the first time, that the single most important calcifying algae of the world's oceans, Emiliania huxleyi, can adapt simultaneously to ocean acidification and rising water temperatures.

The single most important calcifying algae of the world's oceans is able to simultaneously adapt to rising water temperatures and ocean acidification through evolution.

Specifically, women who reported consuming the most fruits and vegetables (eight to nine servings a day for a 2,000 - calorie diet) in their 20s were 40 percent less likely to have calcified plaque in their arteries in their 40s compared with those who ate the least amount (three to four servings a day) during the same time period.

The study, published in Calcified Tissue International, found that the International Working Group on Sarcopenia (IWGS) definition identified the most cases of the condition (8.3 per cent of the cohort) and was linked with significantly higher numbers of falls in the last year and prevalent fractures.

Several studies have shown that this also holds true for Emiliania huxleyi, the world's most abundant and most productive calcifying organism.

In an unprecedented evolutionary experiment, scientists from GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and the Thünen Institute of Fisheries Ecology demonstrated that the most important single - celled calcifying alga of world's oceans, Emiliania huxleyi, is only able to adapt to ocean acidification to a certain extent.

Such changes in oceanic environmental conditions will have negative consequences for marine life and organisms producing calcium carbonate (CaCO3) structures are amongst the most vulnerable due to the additional costs associated with calcification and maintenance of calcified structures under more acidic conditions.

Though she became most famous and influential while writing for an upper - caste, urban (e) institution, The New Yorker, that reeked of calcified East Coast provincialism, she presented herself as an ardent movie populist.

It's a posture, and it's soon clear that Harry, our primary and (as played by Hackman) most sympathetic surrogate, is an outsider whose physical and intellectual gifts are entirely worthless when it comes to penetrating the calcified arteries of a society's diseased heart.

The most famous is «The Crystal Maiden,» a young girl sacrificed and left for the gods, her bones slowly claimed by the cave and calcified to the sparkling, crystallized remains you can view today.

As opposed to expensive, complicated and calcifying [which is what most advertising is].

So what is most directly and immediately at risk is not so much the * existence * of species but their roles in the ecosystems, such as the roles of corals and calcifying algae in building and maintaining habitats such as reefs.