Sentences with phrase «of ecological factors»

Predictors of psychosocial well - being in urban African American and European American youth: The role of ecological factors

2012 — Present ABC Company — Houston, TX Botanist • Rummage around for classifying new species of plants and categorize plant specimens • Work with other botanists to build up drugs, medicines and additional products from plants • Examine the effects of ecological factors for example rainfall, hotness, sunlight, soil, topography, and infection on plant development • Prepare technical reports and papers • Supervise and organize the work of technical support staff

No discussion of security, development, technology, or economics was without at least the mention of ecological factors, whether from within or without the assigned panel of experts.

Within her work examining the broad and complex set of ecological factors that influence classroom quality, Natalia's concentration on immigrant - origin children focuses the lens on a subpopulation of a particular policy and public interest.

Research scientist Salkeld and Antolin, professor and chair of biology in the College of Natural Sciences, assert that the swirl of ecological factors driving plague outbreaks in prairie dogs can lend key insights into the study of zoonotic diseases.

In contrast, the editor of this volume — Stefan Bengtson of the Institute of Earth Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden — argues for the importance of ecological factors.

Not exact matches

No effort to help the poor has integrity apart from ecological concerns; conversely, it makes little sense to talk of ecology apart from justice when the plight of the poor has become a major contributing factor to the environmental crisis.

With climate change, the disappearance of forests, and general ecological disruptions, new diseases threaten to be a major factor.

Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.

School districts in some states, including all five surveyed, may have additional protection under «recreational use» statutes, which offer immunity from certain claims against landowners who open their property to the public for recreational use.10 In states with broad recreational use statutes, such as Indiana, opening school kitchen facilities could be considered a protected activity under the law, depending on the circumstances of the use and other factors.11 However, in Massachusetts, protection for recreational activities extends only to purposes that are «scientific, educational, environmental, ecological, research, religious, or charitable,» 12 so the state's statute might not apply when districts allow for - profit groups to use school kitchens.

This is because it ignores, economies of scale, skilled labour, ecological and environmental factors, he claimed.

The researchers also found that using physiological biomarkers, such as hormones from droppings, is an effective way of evaluating the impact of ecological and demographic factors on animal populations.

«Using Multicountry Ecological and Observational Studies to Determine Dietary Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease,» a review article from the Journal of the American College of Nutrition presents the data.

«One of the main obstacles to malaria eradication is the enormous diversity and adaptive flexibility of the Anopheles mosquito species, therefore a better understanding of the genetic, behavioral, and ecological factors underlying its ability to evolve resistance is key to controlling this disease,» Kamdem said.

Researchers determined the extent of relative climate sensitivity in the reserves by looking at five factors: social, biophysical, and ecological sensitivity, and exposure to temperature change and sea level rise.

Models like this one, which analyze population viability based on a variety of biological, environmental, and functional factors, can be used to predict ecological responses of fish populations.

Several socio - ecological factors — including more frequent disasters, less prevalent infectious disease, and less climatic stress in poorer countries — were linked with individualism, but increased socioeconomic development was the strongest predictor of increased individualism over time.

In the study, «Ecological segregation in a small mammal hybrid zone: Habitat - specific mating opportunities and selection against hybrids restrict gene flow on a fine spatial scale,» which appears in the March print edition of the journal Evolution, the authors discuss the factors driving these mating dynamics in a hybrid zone in southern California.

And they examined data from sources like the U.S. Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to look at various socio - ecological factors that have been posited as contributors to individualism, including prevalence of infectious disease and disasters, rates of urbanization, changes in secularism, and trends in occupational status.

Frey and his colleagues made use of mathematical models to analyze the complex interplay between ecological factors and population dynamics, and were able to demonstrate that populations can indeed respond in a coordinated fashion to chemical information even when the signal molecules are generated by only a subset of the cells.

In the study they examine the environmental and ecological factors that would have impacted fire activity and conclude that of these factors p (O2) played the largest role in promoting fires in Late Paleozoic peat - forming environments and, by inference, ecosystems generally, when compared with their prevalence in the modern world.

While facial complexity was related to social variables, such as group size and the number of closely related species in the same habitat, facial pigmentation was best explained by ecological and spatial factors.

Strigul and Lienard plan to use LES to help forest managers determine which species of trees and other ecological factors are necessary for forests to reestablish themselves after being destroyed by wildfires and other disturbances.

«The food supply was there, there was a freshwater environment, and the climate became so warm that all of the background ecological factors were established to make it a great place.»

It also allows for the incorporation of data from different disciplines, factoring in socioeconomic, ecological and environmental factors, for example.

A review of the fossil record, they said, shows that rarity of previously abundant organisms is the only factor tied with certainty to the widespread ecological change observed across extinction boundaries, and because of this, the magnitude and extent of rarity may provide the best comparison of the current biotic crisis to those of the past.

In order to explore the factors that hinder and help individuals transition from long - term residential substance abuse treatment centers to the community, Dr. Manuel and her collaborators, Dr. Obie Nichols and Ms. Erin Palmer, from Services for the UnderServed, Inc., (SUS) conducted a qualitative socio - ecological model - based study, «Barriers and Facilitators to Successful Transition from Long - Term Residential Substance Abuse Treatment,» the findings of which were recently presented at the 2016 Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers of New York State conference.

Social and ecological factors — including cultural traditions of raw fish sharing, farming practices and open sewer systems that let the parasite flourish in community ponds, and a lack of community education about parasite transmission — went unaddressed.

But no such ecological factors turned out to be responsible during the 2 decades that behavioral ecologists Charles Brown and Mary Bomberger Brown of the University of Tulsa have been studying cliff swallows along Nebraska's Platte River.

«Using the socio - ecological model as a guiding framework, this study explores the individual, interpersonal, organizational, community, and policy factors that impede and facilitate the transition from residential substance abuse treatment from the perspectives of individuals with SUDs who are anticipating discharge from treatment.»

His story «The Machine That Would Predict the Future» explores the promise of the FuturICT project, an attempt to build a computer model of all the social, economic, ecological and scientific factors at play in the world.

While the larger size of the New Guinean bent - toed geckos seems to be an evolutionary trend, the role of potential factors such as competition, ecological diversification, isolation and dispersal remains quite a mystery.

The results showed that the ability of mussels to cope with more acidic conditions depends largely on how much food is available to them, and both factors vary from place to place in a complex geographic mosaic of environmental and ecological conditions.

«Our findings raise new questions about the effects and interactions of ecological, social, and cultural factors, and our framework offers a new tool to address them,» González - Forero says.

Jedediah Brodie, a scientist at the University of British Columbia and study co-author, said a next step of research is determining which ecological changes in the Arctic are completely a result of ice loss, as opposed to climate change factors such as temperature increases.

Thus, rather than a multiplication of ecological roles, the new results point to external factors, such as increasing environmental heterogeneity, as the main evolutionary force.

The researchers said other factors, in addition to better air quality, could also contribute to the drops in death rates from respiratory diseases — a limitation of any retrospective analysis of health - environmental associations in ecological studies.

Phylogenetic and ecological factors impact the gut microbiota of two Neotropical primate species.

They don't have a model for how «externalities», such as an ecological collapse, can lead to an economic collapse, because the basic factors are left out of the econometric models.

Because the quantity and quality of POC flux is an important ecological forcing factor in the abyss, abyssal ecosystems will be highly sensitive to such changes (Smith et al. 2008, 2009; Tittensor et al., 2011).

With a new team of collaborators we are underway conducting spatial analyses of Passenger Pigeon observation records with various habitat factors to further clarify the ecological niche space of the species.

Future work will also focus on developing methods for collecting data from multiple sources to construct integrated maps of the many different factors that determine disease transmission and the emergence and spread of resistance, such as epidemiological and ecological data.

Depending on a variety of ecological and epidemiological factors, these populations may be so inbreed as to actually appear as a single genome (clonal sample) or may be very diverse (mixed infections).

More specifically, researchers led by the University of Idaho's Tara Hudiburg merged the DayCent ecological model with another, BEPAM, originally designed to study environmental and economic impacts of proposed biofuel policies, forming a combined model that simultaneously accounts for market forces, land use, transportation costs, and a variety of other factors.

Currently some of the important ecological factors needed to understand population change are not recorded on a regular or systematic basis.

Collins's other research is focused on intellectual factors that have shaped the development of Ecology asa discipline, and on Ecological Ethics.

As I stated in the panel, this is extremely weak evidence for an effect of carbs; there are many confounding factors and population - level data can not sort these out (the «ecological fallacy»).

Demonstrating just how far - reaching the health impact of the bacterial balance in your gut can be, another recent study claims the key factor behind cancer appears to be ecological rather than genetic.11

A multicountry ecological study of cancer incidence rates in 2008 with respect to various risk - modifying factors.

In this qualitative study, drawing from social - ecological and critical theories, multiple factors, such as the ability - level and gender of the child, school policies, and the prevalent stigma surrounding disability are examined to understand how they interact to shape educators» attitudes and responses to violence.