Sentences with phrase «of adaptive mechanisms»

Managing the stress that parents experience while taking care of their child with ASD or ID requires utilization of a wider range of adaptive mechanisms.

The concept of natural selection has been enormously influential to the study of human behaviour, particularly in evolutionary psychology, which has emphasized that much of human behaviour arises as a by - product of adaptive mechanisms in the mind and brain (Barkow et al. 1992).

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Supportive - adaptive counseling aims at reversing this out - of - control adaptive mechanism which has become maladaptive to the family's coping with the crisis.

The study sheds light on the mechanisms and adaptive significance of gene family evolution.

The study, which combined genetic analysis with a 19 - year - long selection experiment, supports the idea that the mechanisms of adaptive evolution may be more predictable than previously suspected.

Recent interdisciplinary research led by Morehouse in the Morehouse Research Lab and Nathan Clark, biologist in the Clark Research Lab at the University of Pittsburgh looked closer at the complex structures and mechanisms within male butterfly ejaculates and the adaptive responses in the female butterfly reproductive tract.

The Wilds of New Guinea Even though it is only about one - tenth the size of the United States, New Guinea has 7 percent of the world's biodiversity, making the island a living laboratory for evolutionary biologists like Christopher Austin, who observes firsthand the adaptive mechanisms that spark the creation of novel species.

These extensive and selective actions of the conditioned stimulus in Aplysia resemble the actions of conditioned fear stimuli in higher mammals and suggest that the functional equivalent of fear occurs in invertebrates and thus may be an adaptive mechanism that is widespread in the animal kingdom.

Objecting on both philosophical and empirical grounds, Fodor and Piattelli - Palmarini reject natural selection as the mechanism of adaptive evolution.

This response may be an adaptive strategy to moderate stress to ensure survival, but the accumulation of damaged Symbiodinium, which causes subsequent coral deterioration, may occur when this response can not cope with the magnitude or duration of environmental stress, and this might be a possible mechanism underlying coral bleaching during prolonged moderate thermal stress.

Although the details of such a species - specific neural mechanism remain largely unknown, our findings may provide important insight into the neural mechanisms underlying the species - specific adaptive behaviors.

Our experts in mucosal vaccine delivery have established in vitro and in vivo models to assess the activity of adjuvants and vaccine formulations on innate and adaptive immune cells, as well their capacity to stimulate different effector mechanisms of clearance.

The Journal of Applied Physiology deals with diverse areas of research in applied physiology, especially adaptive and integrative mechanisms.

Using Niko Tinbergen's «four questions» as a guide, we will discuss the evolution of primates and emergence of the social function of the behavior (phylogeny), the development of the behavior during a individual's lifetime (ontogeny), the specific biological and chemical processes and motivations responsible for the behavior (mechanism), and how the behavior increase the fitness of individuals, allowing for its continual selection in primates (adaptive value).

The main mechanism includes phagocytosis of macrophages which play a critical role in nonspecific defense (innate immunity) and, moreover; they have a role as antigen presenters which also help initiate specific defense mechanisms (adaptive immunity) by recruiting other immune cells such as lymphocytes.

The mechanism involved is up for debate, but the known role of B2M relates to the adaptive immune system.

The aims are to study the adaptive response and damage / repair mechanisms of the foetus and newborn to a poor pre - and perinatal environment as during severe preeclampsia (asphyxia, hypoxia, growth restriction), chronic intrauterine infections and perinatal insults related to hypoxia and inflammation.

People have made adaptive arguments for human violence, but our species has come up with mechanisms of mass violence on a scale no other species has.

These findings provide new insights on the genetic mechanisms underlying the evolution of adaptive traits.

The discoveries of the three Nobel laureates have revealed how the innate and adaptive phases of the immune response are activated and thereby provided novel insights into disease mechanisms.

The mucosal lining of the female genital tract differs from that of the gastrointestinal tract in terms of cellular composition, microflora, and effector mechanisms of innate and adaptive immunity, although it should be noted that the immunologic anatomy and biology of the genital, anal, and lower rectal tract mucosae are less well defined than those of the remainder of the gastrointestinal tract.

I am specifically interested in behavioral adaptations of herbivorous insects that may have adaptive functions in foraging, and have begun exploring nocturnal herbivory as one potential mechanism.

She also investigates the cellular and molecular mechanisms of innate and adaptive immune responses by RNA vaccines.

However, only a small proportion has been replicated across studies, and the prevalence of positive selection as a mechanism of adaptive change in humans remains controversial.

Therefore the group studies with sophisticated imaging technology in vitro and ex vivo: i) the molecular mechanism driving the migration of HIV through the intestinal epithelial barrier; ii) the cellular targets in the mucosa, in specific macrophages and DCs, to identify the possible pathways to invade the tissue and disseminate to other organs; iii) the involvement of DCs and their functional properties in mediating adaptive immune responses at mucosal level; and iv) the role of antibodies with different effector functions in changing the pathways of the virus.

These novel findings may inspire the field to understand the mechanisms leading to species specific differences in behavioral tolerance, potentially allowing for better assessment of adaptive capacity.

In order to prevent autoimmunity and «collateral damage» to host tissues in the course of responses to pathogens, innate and adaptive immunity are subject to stringent control mechanisms.

HESC have been shown to have reduced immunogenicity, expressing low levels of MHC - I and MHC - II in both the undifferentiated and dedifferentiated state, and to possess an adaptive mechanism to immune responses [60]--[62].

We have demonstrated that under suboptimal IVC conditions, there is an adaptive response of the preimplantation embryo that activates physiological mechanisms of developmental plasticity to stabilize conceptus growth and extraembryonic lineage and enhance postnatal fitness that may lead to adult excess growth and cardiovascular, behavioral, and fertility alterations [2].

«Normal - weight women usually have less adaptive mechanisms in their body, compared to overweight and obese women, when they [are] exposed to... the hazardous effects of weight cycling,» he said in a video on the American Heart Association website.

This is where you work out for short periods of time, just long enough to stimulate your body's adaptive mechanisms, then sit back and rest while your body gets to work at re-structuring itself.

Zonulin evolved as an adaptive mechanism to flush out microorganisms as part of the innate immune response against bacterial colonization of the small intestine (Fasano, 2011).

When thyroid function is poor, usually due to a diet high in sugar and low in usable iodine, fat - soluble vitamins and other nutrients, the body floods the blood with cholesterol as an adaptive and protective mechanism, providing a superabundance of materials needed to heal tissues and produce protective steroids.

The main hypothesis includes a stress preconditioning response mechanism, in which it is believed that periods of nutrient deprivation displays a beneficial mild stress that results in molecular adaptive changes in various tissues, which increases the organism's resistance to bigger stressors such as excitotoxic and oxidative injury, including ischemia (33,71).

Too little exercise underdevelops the adaptive oxidative stress mechanism, also leading to higher risk of injury and disease.

Mindset is instrumental to healing, since our thoughts influence our tendency towards inflammation, our propensity to develop pathology, the density of our brain matter, and our attainment of allostasis — the adaptive activation of neural, neuroendocrine and neuroendocrine - immune mechanisms to maintain stability in the face of stressful challenges (McEwen, 1998).

A different immune mechanism, the innate immune response, comes into play in reactions of gluten sensitivity, as opposed to the long - term adaptive immune response that arises in celiac disease.

Dr Meares believed his patients returned to their earlier life and experience (atavism), clearing away their past maladaptive responses, thus enabling the normal homeostatic mechanisms of the body to re-establish healthier, adaptive response patterns.

In fact, any challenges you face will only help you grow more resilient through the «Adaptive Response mechanism» and you'll avoid the ravages of chronic stress.

Among those lessons learned are operationalizing adult learning / development and adaptive leadership by simultaneously attending to the personal and professional development of the people at all levels of the organization; creating and sustaining conditions and support mechanisms for effective teamwork and collaboration to occur; and redefining community engagement in ways that value families and communities and engage them as true and equal partners who possess funds of knowledge.

Adaptive Learning is a mechanism to understand the learner needs, learner behavior, learning outcome and delivering the content that is as per the need of the individual learner.

Computerized adaptive tests require the following components: a pool of questions to draw from, calibrated to a common measurement scale; a mechanism to select questions on the basis of the student's responses; a process to score the student's responses; a process to terminate the test; and reports that relate scores to the student's instructional needs.

The R171 features a number of revisions compared to its predecessor, the R170: a 30 mm longer wheelbase, increased length (72 mm) and width (65 mm), [5] 40 % increased use of high strength steel, [5] seven - speed automatic transmission, adaptive two - stage airbags, head / thorax sidebags and a revised roof mechanism (marketed as the Vario roof) deployable in 22 seconds (previously 25 seconds) with a rotary - pivoting rear window enabling a more compact folded roof stack and trunk storage increased by 63 litres with the roof retracted.

Forward collision warning is usually part of a radar - based adaptive cruise control system that costs $ 2,000 - $ 3,000, or $ 1,000 on Fords with a simpler mechanism.

The new E-Class represents another major advance by Mercedes - Benz in all these fields as the saloon marks the series - production debut of a series of innovative technical features which can not be found in any other car in this vehicle category - from the drowsiness detection system to automatic emergency braking when an accident is imminent, from Adaptive Highbeam Assist to the Active Bonnet with its reversible actuation mechanism, from the air suspension with electronically controlled damping to the trend - setting BlueTEC exhaust aftertreatment system.

Through its work with absurd limits, the exhibition reveals the tragicomic nature of exaggerated adaptive mechanisms.

In adaptive systems, multiple automatic control mechanisms are far more effective than any single central plan, no matter how benevolent, rational, or enlightened that single source of control.

• The effects of management strategies on climate, ecosystem services, and the resilience of ecosystems to climate change; field experiments and models designed to learn about coupled human - and environmental systems and to test different management interventions • The valuation of ecosystem services, including the economic or other costs associated with impacts of climate and other environmental changes • Adaptive approaches and institutional and governance mechanisms for addressing the regulatory aspects of special status species management

However, human conceptions also occur seasonally [15]--[17], prompting the need to investigate any cyclic patterns in SSR using seasonal or monthly data, in order to further identify any adaptive mechanisms of temperature and sex allocation in human beings [18].

After synthesis of available information we make several key adaptation recommendations including: improving current surveillance and monitoring systems; concentrating adaptation strategies and policies on vulnerable communities; strengthening adaptive capacity of public health systems; developing multidisciplinary approaches sustained byan new mechanism of inter-sectional coordination; and increasing awareness and mobilization of the general public.