Sentences with phrase «now impacting human»

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A culture, even one of long duration, is modifiable by human effort under the impact of a new ideology — witness the radical transformation of China under Communist influence or the other revolutionary changes now taking place in the Orient from an emergent nationalism.

As we read this history, the furor over stem cells was fueled by numerous factors: the near - universal human desire for magic; patients» desperation in the face of illness and their hope for cures; the belief that biology can now do anything; the reluctance of scientists to accept any limits (particularly moral limits) on their research; the impact of big money from biotech stocks, patents, and federal funding; the willingness of America's elite class to use every means possible to discredit religion in general; and the need to protect the unlimited abortion license by accepting no protections of unborn human life.

Now, God's love for us will have to take on a new meaning because of the impact of human sin.

Carol May, president of Wisdom Natural Brands, Gilbert, Ariz., which makes SweetLeaf stevia sweetener, said «the impact of added sugars on the human body is now well documented for children and adults.»

The fact that people around the world expect the UN to deliver (which is why they are, so often, disappointed when it fails); the fact that we now expect states to work collectively on global problems; the fact that almost every aspect of human endeavour and planetary resource is addressed by international laws or bodies — all this reflects the transformative impact of the UN on our world and our lives.

But now, a coalition of anti-fracking organizations called New Yorkers Against Fracking say the State needs to keep its promise to study the impact of natural gas drilling on human health.

Now, to foster a less confrontational way of advancing projects, the hydropower industry, environmental and human - rights organizations, and representatives from banks and governments have negotiated a mechanism for evaluating, and perhaps mitigating, the impact of dams before they are built.

The TOAR database of surface ozone metrics is now publicly available and can be used by scientists and policymakers around the world to quantify the impacts of ozone on human health and vegetation.

«Now it's time to start quantifying past human impact in different parts of the Amazon,» Iriarte says.

Zalasiewicz now thinks he's found the perfect marker for the Anthropocene, or the new epoch of humans, so dubbed for Homo sapiens's world - changing impacts.

Now the residue from all the oil and coal burned to power modern civilization may provide the best marker for the start of a new geologic epoch that highlights Homo sapiens's world - changing impact, known as the Anthropocene, or «new age of humans.»

Since L - arginine can be given to women as a simple, safe, and inexpensive food supplement, (in peanuts, for example) in pregnancy, Dr. Kain and Dr. McDonald are now planning human clinical trials to assess its impact on human birth outcomes.

In a new study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers have now assessed the impacts of human interventions on water scarcity at a global scale.

Between now and then, humans will face plenty of other calamities: wars and pestilences, ice ages, asteroid impacts, and the eventual consumption of Earth — in about 5 billion years — as our sun expands into a red giant star.

«Until now, the focus has mainly been on conserving small parts of a reef in marine protected areas,» said Prof Bellwood,» - we're talking about broader approaches to change the relationship between humans and coral reefs to reduce human impacts across the whole ecosystem.»

They add: «What is similar between now and then is the human genetic material, our genome, including ancient polymorphisms that were uncovered to predispose the carrier to the development of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease... however, our ancient ancestors were certainly susceptible to many other conditions, such as infectious diseases, nutritional deprivation, and trauma, which often resulted in death at an early age, before atherosclerotic heart disease had a clinical impact.»

In humans, a similar protein complex called CSN and its subunit CSN6 is now believed to be a cancer - causing gene that impacts activity of another gene (Myc) tied to tumor growth.

Now the scientific community is faced with a new question: asking not whether humans affect extreme weather events, but assuming they do and instead questioning the extent of their impact.

«The scale of human impact is astonishing,» says Thomas Crowther, an ecologist now at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology in Wageningen who led the study while at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

«Now that we know this, we can start to identify places where human impacts may be affecting one portion of the sand tiger life cycle disproportionally.»

For example, we could potentially assess the impact of HIV on human health 30 million years from now.

Work is now being finalized on a much larger project around the Volcanoes National Park in northern Rwanda, made famousby the film Gorillas in the Mist, where McGuinness is assessing the impacts of mountain gorilla, buffalo and golden monkey on the conservation of this park and the development of surrounding human communities.

«However, the fact that there are now several mother and child cohort studies linking organic food consumption to positive health impacts shows why it is important to further investigate the impact of the way we produce our food on human health.

Michigan State students note how Willie Soon now refutes research indicating adverse impacts from ocean acidification, a global crisis that is married to climate change (both problems stem from humans burning fossil fuels and releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere).

Researchers at Whitehead Institute have now uncovered a role for the protein - folding chaperone HSP90 in humans, not only as a modifier of the effects of mutations, but as a mediator of the impact of the environment on the function of mutant proteins.

4/26/2007 UCSD to Participate in Nationwide Trial to Assess Impact of Omega - 3 Fatty Acid on the Progression of Alzheimer's Disease Nutritionists have long endorsed fish as part of a heart - healthy diet, and now some studies suggest that omega - 3 fatty acids found in the oil of certain fish and algae as well as human breast milk may also benefit the brain by lowering the risk of Al...

Updated NASA space probes have discovered an artificial barrier around Earth created through human activity — showing we are not only responsible for shaping the environment on land, but that we are now having an impact on space too.

(Now, until we understand how it kills the fruit flies, we don't know how this impacts human health as some other species of insects can eat it and do okay.)

(5, 6) In fact, the importance of sleep is only now becoming more widely recognized for its many impacts on human health, with links being established between sleep deprivation and blood sugar problems, high blood pressure, obesity, even breast cancer.

Whereas business - driven educational reform has largely focused on the K - 12 years, recent studies, including one by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), have now shown that the quality of care infants and toddlers receive can significantly impact their cognitive and social development through elementary school — and even beyond.

«It is now understood that there is no safe level of lead in the human body,» writes education researcher David Berliner, «and that lead at any level has an impact on IQ.»

Humans are now buying yogurt that contain these «living organisms» that positively impact the bacteria in the digestive tracts.

Seven strong areas of research on how pets positively impact human health have now been identified, including: childhood allergies and immunity, Alzheimer's / dementia, depression, autism, cardiovascular disease, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and neurological disorders.

Now competing with architecture, they remain human in impact.

He also now runs a social impact non-profit in Oslo, which combines his banking and photojournalism experience, and shoots stories for National Geographic and Human Rights Watch.

Sarah Rose presents a new body of work in room 4, commissioned by the gallery for NOW, which reflects upon processes of material transformation and the impact that humans have on the environment.

All the ecosystems now bear the mark of human presence, but the scale and speed of change in the last 60 years, called by scientists The Great Acceleration, also led them to name anthropocene this new geological epoch — an era marked by the strong impact of human activities upon the atmospherical and geological evolution of planet earth.

Her exhibition also addresses her desire for humans to stop and consider, to be present in this new geological age, and contemplate the impact of human existence, both now, and in the future.

Now, scientists have discovered that manmade GHGs and associated climate change are likely to have a severe adverse impact on human health as bad as — if not worse than — the hole in the ozone layer.

Quoting directly Climate change as a result of human activities, or anthropogenic global warming, is now generally accepted as reality and includes a wide range of climatic processes and impacts in the global system that are affected by human activities.

Psychological studies * and surveys have revealed deeply ingrained human traits, many shaped by our evolutionary history as a «here and now» species, that prevent us from acting rationally in the face of threats with long time scales, dispersed impacts and inherent complexity.

Given that impacts don't scale linearly — that's true both because of the statistics of normal distributions, which imply that (damaging) extremes become much more frequent with small shifts in the mean, and because significant breakpoints such as melting points for sea ice, wet - bulb temperatures too high for human survival, and heat tolerance for the most significant human food crops are all «in play» — the model forecasts using reasonable emissions inputs ought to be more than enough for anyone using sensible risk analysis to know that we making very bad choices right now.

Another great way to get people excited is to drive it into them that this will be the most pivotal time in human history, and what we do now will impact the future of humanity in a big way.

You are right that now our human just born as the human population and impact on the ecosystem, make so many animals becoming endanger species.

This result would be strongly dependent on the exact dynamic response of the Greenland ice sheet to surface meltwater, which is modeled poorly in todays global models.Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.

Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.

Taken in total, the vast majority of evidence suggests that anthropogenic forcings are now dominant and that human impact over the next century will be significant, possibly catastrophic.

Climate knowledge is growing rapidly now and while there still remain some interesting challenges to the status quo on certain points (for example, exactly how it is that CO ₂ and CH ₄ started rising some 5000 years ago, if not by human impacts, or how it is that humans overwhelmed expected gradual declines and added enough to achieve those rises that far back) that need further research... the very conservative consensus, which must be conservative by its nature since it takes time for consensus to develop as further research helps to close gaps and remove or improve assumptions, is always playing catch - up it seems.

Now, both the dashboard of human impacts and planetary boundaries have been updated.

Psychological and sociological studies have revealed deeply ingrained human traits, many shaped by our evolutionary history as a «here and now» species, that prevent us from acting rationally in the face of threats with long time scales, dispersed impacts and inherent complexity.