Sentences with phrase «of environmental variables»

for instance: http://www.geol.lu.se/personal/seb/Geology.pdf.pdf «The first late - glacial lake sediments found in Greenland were analyzed with respect to a variety of environmental variables.

Brad Fedy, a professor in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, and Jason Tack, a PhD student at Colorado State University, took nesting data from a variety of areas across Wyoming, and created models using a suite of environmental variables and referenced them against areas with potential for wind development.

Finally, a broader analysis of the environmental variables in the aggregation sites can inform the long - term impacts of climate change in the movement of the whale sharks.

Jagai and her colleagues used the U.S. EPA's Environmental Quality Index, a county - level measure incorporating more than 200 of these environmental variables and obtained cancer incidence rates from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results Program State Cancer Profiles.

«Once you dramatically change the climate and change water patterns, as is now seen in the Three Gorges region,» he says, «you change a lot of environmental variables.

CIRES and NOAA researchers and their colleagues analyzed long - term observations of snow cover and meteorology at the NOAA Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory outside of Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska, along with other records of environmental variables in the region.

The researchers found that the body condition of alligators found near wading bird nesting colonies was higher than those in similar habitat without active colonies, independent of a range of environmental variables.

You could not directly measure sleep (via EEG / EMG signals), or manipulate any of these environmental variables to actually determine causation in any relationships you may find.

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What makes climate change different, they say, is that there are five new variables: uncertain and fragmented environmental legislation and regulations; the reactions of capital and insurance markets to emerging business opportunities (and matching risks) posed by climate change; stakeholder activism; pending litigation and the rapidly evolving scientific debate over proper responses to climate change.

We need to think about and incorporate this set of current environmental variables into planning our ascent / descent well before our current summit attempt is over.

This coordinated effort enables the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder to manage water in the national interest by improving the connectivity between the highly variable natural systems of the Murray - Darling Basin's rivers, floodplains and wetlands.

Environmental water contributed to in - stream variable base flows in support of native fish condition and movement, native vegetation condition, hydrological connectivity and the maintenance of aquatic habitat conditions.

The change in load cell output occurring with time, while under load, and with all environmental conditions and other variables remaining constant; usually measured with Rated Load applied and expressed as a percent of Rated Output over a specific period of time.

«With this new facility we were able to employ state - of - the - art environmental controls including Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) technology to reduce our carbon footprint by reducing energy consumption,» commented Bella Verdi Director of Operations, Tom Marcoux.

In order to do that, you would need to control for environmental variables and administer pre-determined doses of a hormone / peptide of interest.

It's extremely difficult to design a field study that addresses these questions about the role of various environmental variables, given all of the uncontrolled factors in an urban environment.

Then the researchers examined the acoustic data, measured in decibels of energy, alongside the measured environmental variables.

Mobile devices offer remarkably attractive low - cost, real - time ways to assess disease, movement, images, behavior, social interactions, environmental toxins, metabolites and a host of other physiological variables.

From bear to bear they were highly variable, suggesting the animal was under a lot of environmental stress.

However, new UMN research published in Environmental Research Letters found that regardless of soil fertility or rainfall amounts, the single variable that was by far the strongest determinant of how much a shrub grew in a given year was the temperature in June.

«By comparing the results of the models, it was possible to determine which environmental variables are the most effective in predicting zebra movement, and then use this knowledge to try and infer as to how the zebra make their decisions,» said Gil Bohrer, assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering at The Ohio State University, who collaborated onenvironmental variables are the most effective in predicting zebra movement, and then use this knowledge to try and infer as to how the zebra make their decisions,» said Gil Bohrer, assistant professor in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering at The Ohio State University, who collaborated onEnvironmental, and Geodetic Engineering at The Ohio State University, who collaborated on the project.

There may be a genetic component to it — in which some people naturally have environments that harbor some species of bacteria over others — as well as environmental variables (diet, sexual behavior, contraception methods, hygiene, etc.).

By combining the CAO laser information with satellite maps of forest cover, deforestation, and other environmental variables generated by the Peruvian Environment Ministry's Directorate of Land Management, a cost - effective means to monitor the country into the future has been established.

Snazzy online calculators and mapping tools that accompany the new model enable users to tweak a number of variables, including gas prices and environmental costs, and see how the nation's energy future might change, at the level of individual counties.

Specifically, the tax on power generation includes a fixed cost of $ 5 per ton of carbon dioxide, plus a variable tax based on the pollution and environmental damage to the community where the plant is located.

This evidence suggests that local Indus populations were already well adapted to living in varied and variable environmental conditions before the development of urban centers.

To find out the environmental cost of wine grape production in the two regions, researchers conducted a life cycle analysis taking into account variables including irrigation practices, cover crops, and fertilizers.

A new study by JCU PhD student Anna Pintor, published in the journal Ecological Monographs, is one of the first to test the Climatic Variability Hypothesis (CVH)-- which proposes that animals living in environmentally variable areas should be able to tolerate more environmental fluctuations as a result.

With assistance from the Missouri Department of Transportation, Praveen Edara, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering in the MU College of Engineering, tested the use of variable advisory speed limit (VASL) systems and the effect they may have on lessening congestion and reducing rear - end and lane - changing accidents on a fairly dangerous stretch of I - 270, a major four - lane highway in St. Louis.

Frank's sensitivity analysis parceled out whether variables comparable to a state's liberal or conservative leanings, political affiliation or number of women in the legislature, could be tipping the scales they were attributing to environmental activism.

Launching a natural research experiment in Kathmandu, Nepal, this month using advanced monitoring methods to assess health risk from air pollution, environmental health scientist Rick Peltier at the University of Massachusetts Amherst hopes to demonstrate for the first time in a real - world setting that air pollution can and should be regulated based on toxicology variables rather than simply on the volume of particles in the air.

This idea is a key assumption of the controversial Rapoport's Rule — which states that a species at higher latitudes with variable weather conditions leads to the evolution of wider environmental tolerances which leads to a requirement for a larger range size.

By correlating the relevant environmental variables through analysis of data from sources such as space, weather stations, etc., the researchers were able to scientifically validate a potential cause for chick weight variation over time.

«Humans can adapt their behaviour to a wide range of climatic and environmental conditions, so it is essential that we understand the degree to which human choices in the past, present and future are resilient and sustainable in the face of variable weather conditions, and when confronted with abrupt events of climate change.

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«Satellites don't see mosquitoes per se,» says Assaf Anyamba of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, «However they provide us observation platforms from which to monitor the environmental variables that indicate where mosquito populations can flourish.

It is important to note that any potential effects will be spatially and temporally variable, depending on current forest conditions, local site characteristics, environmental influences, and annual and decadal patterns of climate variability, such as the El Niño - Southern Oscillation cycle, which can drive regional weather and climate conditions.

Though the benefits of using grafted transplants are now fully recognized worldwide, understanding the rootstock - scion interactions under variable environmental pressures remains vital for grafting - mediated crop improvement.

-- Alba Solsona Berga, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, USA, Correlating temporal patterns of sperm whales with environmental variables at the ANTARES underwater observatory in the Mediterranean Sea

Although there is some evidence for the variable distribution of genomic islands in B. pseudomallei isolates, little is known about the extent of variation between related strains or their association with disease or environmental survival.

The strongest genetic association with celiac disease — Human Leukocyte Antigen — is only responsible for 40 % of the risk, leaving us to suspect that there is likely an interplay of genetic and environmental variables that is more complex than just the activation of one in - born vulnerability.

At the same time every athlete is an individual and so are their environmental variables so bear in mind that you need to be open to playing with and experimenting with the re-introduction of higher carbohydrates into your diet to find what works best for you.

Factors such as time of season, soil quality and other environmental variables all contribute to the nutrient content of foods.

Temporary factors include many environmental variables but the two fundamental factors are the length of the muscle and its contraction velocity when the force is measured.

Pro Fishing Challenge re-creates all the excitement and tension of fishing with four expansive lakes, simulated fish ecology, and variable environmental effects.

Nissan also went for variable compression over electrified drivetrains to keep costs down, which might be an effective way to do some downsizing, but will hardly be clean enough for the environmental demands of the next decade.

As more data and research around responsible investing has become available — along with a rise in the popularity of value investing — studies indicate that ESG (environmental, social, and governance, a common acronym for responsible investing variables) investing isn't just investing with your values, it can actually be smarter investing.

While genetics and environmental factors can play a role in the disease's development, other variables such as toxins, radiation, and tumor viruses, as well as hormones can also be responsible for causing several types of cancer.

To examine factors that elicited long - distance extraterritorial journeys, we created 480 discrete - choice models estimating the likelihood of a cat staying within its home range or traveling up to 12.5 km distant from its home range (the maximum distance of any destination from a home range) for any month, in relation to fire and environmental variables.

The possible association of environmental factors with TC was investigated using two different models: one including all individuals (n = 368) and the TCindex as a response variable, and the other including only the most severe tail chasers (TCindex 5 — 12, n = 35) and the controls (TCindex = 0, n = 150).