Sentences with phrase «of environmental differences»

It is plausible that children suffering from these disorders are treated in a different manner than normal children due to the responses that they evoke, and it is because of these environmental differences that they are more prone to criminal behavior.

Many of his studies took him into controversial territory, including his investigation of whether incentives increase academic achievement (in most cases, no), and his investigation with Steven Levitt of whether there are systematic racial differences in mental ability among young children (no, when they're under the age of 1; yes, as they get older, hinting at the importance of environmental differences).

Not exact matches

A major difference among the studies is whether they consider as part of the equation the environmental benefits of solar, which can be difficult to quantify.

«The effects of the terrain on dismounted and mounted movement, the difference in hours of darkness and daylight and the environmental effects on communication, just to name a few of the myriad factors unique to this area, all combine to pose a serious test that stresses all members of the unit from the commander down to the most junior rifleman, Daily said.»

Recognizing the differences between the two and the implication of each for environmental health and stability, one can again ask the question — How then shall we live?

City University London Students» Union supports Meat Free Monday as one of its ongoing environmental «Green Dragons» projects, and runs stalls, activities, and social media campaigns highlighting the environmental impact of the meat industry and showing how individuals can make a difference.

Although the unique shape gives Drappier a point of difference when it comes to merchandising, Michel said that the prime motivation for the new bottle was to improve the producer's environmental credentials as well as the quality of its Champagne.

Sustainable Ingredient: a new ingredient that makes a sustainable difference in terms of environmental and / or social impact.

Despite slight differences, all those various flavors of Naga Jolokia seem to have basically the same genetics and origin, and if heat level claims differ, it might be due to environmental influences, growing seasons, or non-standard HPLC tests.

The maximum difference between load cell output readings for repeated loadings under identical loading and environmental conditions; the ability of an instrument, system, or method to give identical performance or results in successive instances.

The present study considered only yield differences; Ms Seufert's next project is to analyse existing research on the environmental impacts of organic and conventional agriculture.

Significant differences were found between the three apple production systems considering environmental impacts of pesticide use.

The remarkable difference between mindful versus mindless eating is that mindful eaters place themselves in control of their eating behaviors versus allowing environmental cues and triggers to determine them.

My children never had an ear infection, seldom had colds, and are today healthy adults — - don't credit cloth diapers for all of that; however, I do believe that those early years of caution with attention to environmental concerns made a big difference.

It found virtually no difference between the environmental effects of cloth and disposable diapers.

This study was a top news story across the UK when it was released yesterday, May 19, 2005, concluding that «there was no significant difference between any of the environmental impacts» for the diaper systems studied.

This is not necessarily the exact amount of water you yourself will need — the IOM points out, «Given the extreme variability in water needs that are not solely based on differences in metabolism, but also in environmental conditions and activity, there is not a single level of water intake that would ensure adequate hydration and optimal health for half of all apparently healthy persons in all environmental conditions... the AI [Adequate Intake] does not represent a requirement; it is an amount that should meet the needs of almost everyone in the specific life stage group under the conditions described.»

Emily has also served as a consultant for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, working to tell the stories behind their work and shed light on how public programs and services can make a difference in the lives of Americans from all walks of life.

Additionally, differences in breastfeeding rates, available alternatives to breast milk (e.g. commercially manufactured, derived from animal sources), socioeconomic structure and other environmental and cultural factors may also explain some of the conflicting observations (21).

«Although there is no substantial difference between the environmental impacts of the three systems studied, it does show where each system can be improved,» said Tricia Henton, director of environmental protection at the Environment Agency.

«While we welcome some of the concessions that have been made by the Government - including noise reduction measures and longer tunnels - we are dubious as to whether this will make any overall difference to the environmental impact of the rail line, which will still consume huge amounts of energy and damage many important sites for wildlife.

Among other points of contention, health department employees dismissed an advisory limit for human consumption of PFOA set by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, and argued that their differences with the federal authorities were a matter of «philosophy» and not just science, according to a senior EPA official's handwritten notes from a phone conference with state officials.

Similarly, if you wanted to study environmental factors that influence sleep, you could examine sleeping patterns of different species in the wild and attempt to relate them to differences in temperature, photoperiod, or other factors.

This environmental success story shows that regulations put in place to protect the bay's health have made a difference, researchers report the week of March 5 in Proceedings of the National Academy of...

Determining the differences between short and normal period clocks in spiders may help researchers find out why and how different circadian clocks are suited to the particular environmental challenges of each species, Moore said.

This environmental success story shows that regulations put in place to protect the bay's health have made a difference, researchers report the week of March 5 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Building on this work, Cronn and his colleagues are now attempting to discover whether the differences in the chemical fingerprints of the Douglas - fir trees arise from genetic differences between the populations, environmental differences, or a combination of the two.

This study, published in a recent issue of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, is the first to use financial investors» actions, rather than self - reported opinions, to investigate the trans - Atlantic difference in public opinion on climate change and the environment.

To explore the difference in copying accuracy, Roel Schaaper of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, and colleagues at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw modified versions of the Escherichia coli bacteria's circular genome.

The difference is that farmers can do things to adapt to the changing climate, and hopefully alleviate the impacts on their crops,» says Kaiyu Guan, an environmental scientist at the University of Illinois.

National emissions targets based on the science of climate change «would be a significant difference,» said Dale Marshall, an energy analyst at Environmental Defence Canada, which has not endorsed a candidate.

Its analyses attribute roughly 20 percent of individuals» differences in salt - taste sensitivity to environmental influences.

The study's cohort of Quebec twins, which included 223 sets of monozygotic twins (with an identical genetic code) and 332 sets of fraternal twins, made it possible to determine whether the individual differences observed in proactive and reactive aggression were due to genetic or environmental factors.

The visible differences between us are the cumulative result of genetic, environmental and cultural influences over long periods of time, but rarely do we consider these factors together, which can lead to discrimination on the basis of one or another.

Still missing from consideration are the cost differences between electric vehicles and those with internal combustion engines, as well as other possible environmental effects of biofuel technology such as increased air pollution and water use.

«The 20 - year difference in expression of the gene abnormality shows the devastating consequences of recent environmental factors, such as eating high - glycaemic foods and a lack of exercise,» Froguel says.

Payami says the research team detected an unexpected difference in gut imbalance as a function of geographic site, which may reflect the environmental, lifestyle and diet differences between the three regions.

According to Crawford - Brown and Ken Reckhow, a colleague at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, thinking about how a model might be used, and its overall utility, is a critical difference between a decision scientist and an environmental modeler.

Now researchers at Linnaeus University in Sweden and from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) have found an important finding to answer this question: Individual differences have a positive and stabilizing effect on the number of moths.

Differences in three fourths of these parameters depended less on genetics than on environmental factors, such as diet and prior infections.

Instead, the study suggests that biological differences between these two notorious closely related invasive species that are generally perceived as minor, such as the synthesis rate and attachment strength of the threads used by Dreissena to attach themselves to native unionids, can drive profound differences in environmental impacts on native communities they invade.

Also, insects depend on their surroundings for body warmth or cooling, so changing temperatures make a huge difference in their lives, says coauthor Dilip Venugopal, an applied ecologist working as a policy fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Pests evolving resistance to Bt might do so faster when a warming landscape, for instance, lets them squeeze extra generations into a year and gives earworms a better chance of surviving the winter.

They also found significant differences among strains in both the average lag response (the amount of time it takes to transition from cell quiescence to restarting cell growth) and average growth rates in response to different environmental conditions.

We need to take such differences into account when designing public health responses to climate change,» said Dr. Sutyajeet Soneja, a postdoctoral fellow at the Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health, and lead author of the study.

«To me, the big difference here is, instead of all the bad stuff, the report says, «Here are all the good things that are going to happen if we actually do climate mitigation,»» said George Thurston, a professor of environmental medicine at the New York University School of Medicine.

Demands for scientific knowledge that makes a real difference to real peoples» lives grow as the consequences of global environmental changes become a reality for communities across the world, and societal risk profiles become increasingly complex.

Johnson's present position as a postdoctoral fellow at Duke University allows her to conduct research on genetic and environmental determinants in the development of Alzheimer's disease and examine the differences across ethnicities.

«People assume the genetic influence goes down with age because the environmental differences between people pile up in life,» says Robert Plomin of King's College London.

«Because we had access to these rats that were bred for certain traits, and were able to control for environmental factors, such as the amount of drug exposure, we could assess differences in the brain both before and after the rats became addicted,» says Shelly Flagel, Ph.D., lead author of the new study and an assistant professor of psychiatry at U-M.

By comparing the temperature of the bill with the environmental temperature, Tattersall's team was able to gauge how much heat was being lost; the larger the difference, the more heat was escaping.