Sentences with phrase «most human environments»

These not - so - fragile small dogs are even - tempered and adapt well to most human environments, especially city life.

The Golden Retriever will do best in most human environments.

Plants have natural detection abilities and are found in most human environments.

It is currently impractical to monitor most human environments and large areas for the presence of pollutants, explosives, or chemical agents [1].

Not exact matches

Most importantly, they reject without much examination the possibility that fully autonomous robots might, in some environments and for some situations, distinguish military targets far better and more accurately than humans can.

Frankly, most industries, indeed most human activities, are harmful to the environment, so the question for the public is what are we willing to condone for our own comfort and well being.

Stanford Graduate School of Business Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer wrote in the journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, that, «Although most of the research and public pressure concerning sustainability has been focused on the effects of business and organizational activity on the physical environment, companies and their management practices profoundly affect the human and social environment as well.»

This is because the degradation of our environment is the most comprehensive form of unsustainable human activity.

While these latter are important, we must probe more deeply for environment, functions, and context, and, most important of all, for human relation that define social roles and tell us who has power, who is aggressor, and who is victim.

It means that, for the most part, the policies that are now operating to destroy the capacity of the environment to support human life in the future are also expressions of the injustice of present distribution of wealth and power.

They bring religion back to the most fundamental of human concerns: health and well - being and being in touch with self and with one's environment.

The most powerful influence in human life is neither the environment in which we happen to be brought up, the genes we were bequeathed from our parents at birth, nor all the slings and arrows of fate, no matter how tragic and harrowing their effects may be.

Most people, at least in the developed nations, know that the environment is suffering from human abuse, and that its deterioration will have severely deleterious effects on us and on our children.

We list some of the most conspicuous etiologies: pain of childbirth, 3:16; the relative position of man and woman in society, 3:16; the intractability of man's natural environment and the consequent necessity of his hard labor, 3:17 - 19; man's irrevocable consignment to death, 3:19; the antipathy between the nomad and the agriculturalist and perhaps also the origin of violence in human relationships in the Brothers, 4:1 - 16; and the frustrating fact in the human situation of fundamental communication thwarted by plurality of speech and wide geographical dispersion, 11:1 - 9.

«The packaging award criteria reflects the right intersection of science, environment and consumers because all of them are extremely critical to the success of the product in the market,» said Sanjay Ghoshal, senior director and global head, Packaging, Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd. «Most of this packaging will eventually go to create value for human lives; that's really very inspiring for me.»

The reality, though, is that these are often the most sensitive children, small people who were created to be intimately in - tune with their bodies, their environment, and their fellow human beings.

As your baby grows and adjusts to the harsh environment surrounding them, it's comforting to know your little one is sleeping with the most natural product available, hypoallergenic, mildew resistant and made from the same proteins found in the human body.

Our constituents are provided with the most reliable up - to - date and comprehensive information needed to make critical decisions which ultimately affect the area's land development, natural environment, transportation systems, human services, criminal justice, and economic development potential.

The most effective way for scientists across disciplines to stand up for science is by reaching out to elected officials at the local, state and federal levels to offer evidence and findings to advance understanding of pressing issues from human health to the environment, said Holt and Ornstein.

«What has emerged from our study as well as from other work on introgression is that interbreeding with archaic humans does indeed have functional implications for modern humans, and that the most obvious consequences have been in shaping our adaptation to our environment — improving how we resist pathogens and metabolize novel foods,» Kelso says.

«Climate change is probably the most significant impact that the human environment will suffer in our generation.»

Whereas most people have a basic understanding of the human body (and hence appreciate the need for hygiene, a healthy diet, and exercise), Philander is distressed that most «people have no idea why the earth is habitable and see no connection between the way they live and the state of the environment.»

While most items containing PBDEs were removed voluntarily from the market a decade ago, some are still in commerce and others persist in the environment and human bodies.

The common sowthistle, Sonchus oleraceus, occurs typically in human - made environments in its native European range (right), and is globally the most widely naturalized plant species (left, here in Taizhou, China).

He says he works in «the most privileged research environment in the world: the inside of the human brain.»

We hope that by using human cells in a physiological environment we can help to direct resources toward the most promising new drug candidates and determine that other new drug candidates will fail, faster.»

«The same rate of growth measured for populations dwelling in a range of environments, and practicing a variety of subsistence strategies, suggests that the global climate and / or other biological factors — not adaptability to local environment or subsistence practices — regulated long - term growth of the human population for most of the past 12,000 years.»

The advance in technology might have helped burgeoning human populations make the most out of the environment, Petraglia speculates.

We aim to create a system with «human - in - the - loop» that provides good localisation relevant to visually impaired users and, most importantly, that understands how people observe and recognise particular features of their environment.»

Most scientific literature holds that the Anthropocene, the period of human activities influencing the environment, began with the industrial era in the 1700s, explains Hodder.

Most bacteria can not survive in the acidic environment of the human stomach, but Helicobacter pylori, a major cause of ulcers, thrives under such circumstances.

As Kenneth Shine and I emphasized 15 years ago in this journal, if science is to flourish and attain its appropriate role in aiding human progress, «It is incumbent upon all of us in the scientific community to help provide a research environment that, through its adherence to high ethical standards and creative productivity, will attract and retain individuals of outstanding intellect and character to one of society's most important professions.»

«The Clean Air Act is arguably the most important and successful environmental law in the United States, both from a human health standpoint and the environment,» said Sickman, a professor of hydrology and the chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences.

Most nanotechnology poses no new risk to human health or the environment, concludes a study commissioned by the UK government.

However, the paintings are the most unique feature of the site, revealing a story of human occupation and activity in one of the world's most challenging environments from the Mesolithic to Post-Medieval period.

Lately, as envirogenomics has taken off, scientists have begun to test for genetic markers in humans who are most heavily exposed to pollutants, an effort that got a huge boost in 2006 when Congress approved the $ 40 million Genes, Environment, and Health Initiative, a program administered by the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

And he has this ice age scenario, which Jensen and Kamin share; and when the human race came out of Africa, the theory is that East Asians, Koreans, Japanese and Chinese, were trapped north of the Himalayas during the ice ages and therefore were selected most rigorously by a harsh environment for intelligence and for prudence and all sorts of things.

More human research and animal experiments are needed to understand which components are the most harmful and why, said Marie Lynn Miranda, dean of University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment and director of the Children's Environmental Health Initiative.

Because most researchers agree that Neandertals were not as cognitively advanced as modern humans, Lahn and his coauthors suggest that the haplogroup might have made Homo sapiens better able to adapt to the Eurasian environments that Neandertals had occupied long before modern newcomers arrived.

They point out that poor semen quality «is the leading cause of unsuccessful attempts to achieve pregnancy and one of the most common medical problems among young men... it has been suggested as an important marker of male health, predicting both morbidity and mortality... it is sensitive to environmental exposures, including endocrine disrupting chemicals, heat and life - style factors, such as diet... Therefore, it can provide a sensitive marker of the impacts of modern environment on human health.»

«In the case of humans, sex - and age - connected risk can be reduced in a number of ways, including immunization, repellents, altering work and non-work habits and modifying the environment of the most vulnerable,» Foster said.

«The environments that most modern humans live in are very different than the conditions our ancestors faced 50,000 years ago,» Capra said.

«There is no question that plant scientists have a tremendous potential to help address — and possibly alleviate — some of society's most pressing concerns, such as food production, human health, protection of the environment, and renewable energy,» said HHMI President Robert Tjian.

There is no question that plant scientists have a tremendous potential to help address — and possibly alleviate — some of society's most pressing concerns, such as food production, human health, protection of the environment, and renewable energy.

``... for most nations the Kyoto Protocol would require extensive diversion of human and financial resources away from more immediate and pressing needs in health care, education, infrastructure, and, yes, the environment — all critical to the well - being of future generations.»

The food chain is one of the most important interfaces between the environment and humans.

Until now scientists conducted most biomedical research through animal testing — which often doesn't translate to humans — or in a petri dish, a static environment that doesn't let cells behave as if they are in the human body.»

However, approximately 40 % of human (and most eukaryotic) proteins localize to chemically distinct subcellular environments, including the organelles that compose the secretory pathway, endocytic vesicles, mitochondria, lysosomes or they are secreted into the extracellular milieu.

Yet we are dismayed by his disregard for the most basic scientific findings regarding the human embryo, namely, that from the single - cell stage of development onward, the human embryo is a distinct, determinate, self - directing, integrated, human organism — a living member of the human species who, if given a suitable environment, will move along the seamless trajectory of biological development toward maturity.

In addition, each human life begins in the watery environment of its mother's womb, our cells and tissues are mostly water, and most of the chemical reactions that are part of life's processes take place in water.