Sentences with phrase «number of mechanisms»

A great number of these mechanisms have been preserved evolutionarily in humans, just as they are for every other behavioral trait we know (including heterosexuality).

With current commodity hardware, there are a limited number of mechanisms we have to manage how jobs hurt each other.»

Interest rates affect economic activity via a number of mechanisms (Graph 4).

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

He said the Ministry of Communications had put a number of mechanisms in place to address issues such as cybercrime, cyber security and abuse of children online through the setting up of a Computer Emergency Response Team.

Solar physicists have offered a number of mechanisms to shed light on the solar cycle.

The BOP beneath Deepwater Horizon had a number of mechanisms to activate both sets of rams, including a manual emergency shut - off on the drilling platform 1500 metres above the sea floor.

Solar physicists here at the semiannual meeting of the American Astronomical Society this week offered a number of mechanisms to shed light on what has been happening on the sun of late, but conceded that the final answer — or more likely answers — remains opaque.

There have been a number of mechanisms proposed for quenching, for example «feedback» from supernovae or active galactic nuclei which breaks up the star forming clouds and reduces the star formation rate, but the measurement and verification of yet other possible processes is of great importance.

Penn State has developed a number of mechanisms for achieving these aims, such as establishing an undergraduate minor — Science, Society, and the Environment in Africa — and creating a new graduate program, Sustainable Georesource Management, which incorporates an Africa - based internship.

«I think the agencies have had a number of mechanisms for doing these kinds of things, but it hasn't been completely clear what is and isn't OK, or what is and isn't an allowable cost,» she says.

«There are a number of mechanisms that could explain the presence of crystalline water ice on the surface of Charon,» said Jason Cook, the PhD student at Arizona State University who led the team of planetary scientists studying the surface of Charon.

Embryos employ a number of mechanisms to progress from a mass of undifferentiated cells to differentiated tissues.

Science Foundation Ireland recognises the necessity to support early - and mid-career researchers to become excellent, fully independent research leaders and provides a number of mechanisms in that regard.

A number of the mechanisms which help prevent abnormal cell growth are avoided in cancer cells.

There are a number of mechanisms contributing to this effect.

As we will discuss, the intestinal microbiota, via a number of mechanisms, may play a role in mediating the glycemic and mood related effects of the Western dietary pattern [28].

Anthocyanidins and their derivatives, many found in common foods [Table 1], protect against a variety of oxidants through a number of mechanisms.

Gingko (Gingko biloba)- Gingko may beneficial in ARMD due to a number of mechanisms such as increased blood flow, platelet activating factor antagonism and prevention of membrane damage caused by free radicals (19).

Some diseases such as gout, or ketoacidosis of diabetes, are marked by a decrease in blood pH, but generally the blood maintains its delicate pH through a number of mechanisms involving a complex array of regulatory systems involving the liver, lungs, kidneys, thyroid, muscle, bone, etc. etc..

Their experience indicates that milk, grains and legumes seem to be the main culprits in this condition via a number of mechanisms.

It is differentiated by a number of mechanisms, much more mature than in the written word.

If the borrower either does not take advantage of those program options or simply can not repay the debt, however, the federal government can engage a number of mechanisms to recoup that money — such as garnishing Social Security benefits.

A number of mechanisms are responsible for decreased insulin secretion or resistance, but most involve destroying islet cells, the cells of the pancreas that produce insulin.

Tidal energy harnesses the movement of ocean water to generate electricity through a number of mechanisms.

The practice of science has built up a number of mechanisms to try and ensure that arguments get dealt with constructively, and a big part of that is through the peer - reviewed literature where i's can be dotted, t's can be crossed, and where the snark gets put aside.

The skinny: Green carbon might become a lot more popular after COP15, especially since a number of mechanisms have already been proposed to help encourage reforestation in developing countries.

My point is that there are a number of mechanisms which can potentially lead to cooling greater than the warming provided by an increase to either the solar constant or CO2.

In addition, there is evidence that corals may adapt to better withstand heat stress via a number of mechanisms.

been associated with any or all of a number of mechanisms, including persistent flammability, inhibited recruitment of big trees in locations where their early growth was not sheltered so that their roots could reach deep soil water, persistent shrub vegetation types, etc..

While the Proposed Regulation will not fill this lacuna in the enforcement artillery of the EU data protection regime by creating a pan-European regulator, it does set out a number of mechanisms to enhance collaboration between national DPAs, including the designation of a «lead authority» and a formal «cooperation mechanism».

The Divisional Court sets out a number of mechanisms that may be validly used by vendors and purchasers to account for yet to be adjudicated warranty claims.

At the international level today there a number of mechanisms that provide guidance to governments as they implement their human rights obligations as they relate to Indigenous peoples.

In addition, children that use a number of mechanism of adaptation such as avoidance can highly benefit from using this protocol.

Deviant peers may influence adolescent delinquency through a number of mechanisms, and there is a lack of clarity within the literature on distinctions between co-offending and deviant peer norms as influential mechanisms.