Sentences with phrase «of longer life spans»

He focused on the challenges and opportunities of longer life spans and the need for seniors housing to reinvent the concept to serve a diverse Baby Boomer population and to make communities more homelike.

Options for housing will change amid the reality of longer life spans and the rise of chronic diseases.

There is good news in that because of our longer life spans, the risks to life insurance companies are getting lower — and that is helping to keep the cost of life insurance coverage lower.

For him, the problem with going mostly to fixed - income securities is the increased risk of outliving retirement nest eggs, especially in this era of longer life spans and low interest rates.

There is a surprising disconnect between discussions of state teacher pension systems and the larger discussion of retiree benefits in an era of longer life spans and the impending bulge of baby - boom retirees.

Because of its long life span and high global warming potential (GWP), even a relatively small amount of SF6 can impact the climate.

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Design improvements that contribute to longer life spans, thus reducing the frequency of replacement, will also limit future growth.

No single investment must last for the entire span of the investor's life, because the investor ideally has a diversified portfolio of several dividend - paying companies, but the better the investments perform over the long - term, the lower the turn - over rate of the portfolio needs to be.

Despite the lower mortality rates and longer life spans of the postmodern condition, the reality of death still looms large.

In My Time: Making the Most of the Rest of Your Life, Abigail Trafford, former health editor and now a columnist for the Washington Post, points out that Americans are enjoying a longer health span as well as lifespan.

Look at the age of fossilized bones, look at DNA evidence and all the other mountains of evidence about the LONG - TERM DYNAMICS of LIVING ORGANISMS on this planet over the span of BILLIONS of years.

The average life - span in those days was around 45 years — the likelihood of any original eyewitnesses still being around to testify to the Gospel authors is extremely low, not to mention the fact that even the classical historian Josephus said that 20 years is long enough to render witness testimony useless.

He who is ready to surrender his hopes, ambitions, and life itself, for the love of God and his fellowmen, no longer fears death and the end of human existence, for that self - centered concern which wants to cling on to life beyond its appointed span, and seeks to bring it back again in some supernatural realm, has already died.

This theory explains the fact that time seems to move more slowly to children than to adults in this way: an hour (or any unit of time) is longer relative to the span of time a child has lived.

On the other hand, understanding death as a natural event may further fuel the impetus toward euthanasia and assisted suicide: if death is merely natural — the end of a reasonable span of a full and meaningful life with nothing to be feared — it may well be fully rational, completely reasonable, to end it when the capacities of (natural) life no longer meet the needs, goals, and wishes of the individual.

There has never been any evidence of any human living longer than our current average life span and so far no human has come back from the truly dead.

Maybe it is the grindingly long, 162 - game season, which allows for so many promising and disheartening plotlines to take shape, only to dissolve again along the way, and which sustains even the most improbable hope past any rational span; or maybe it is simply the course of the year's seasons, from early spring into mid-autumn — nature's perennial allegory of human life, eloquent of innocent confidence slowly transformed into wise resignation.

09) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms, just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service - sector economy, or longer life spans.

In contrast, when you look at the «Blue Zones», populations of people who have the longest life spans, and lowest incidence of disease, they almost all consume a 90 - 95 % + plant - based diet.

Efforts to extend the life span of foods have a long history.

Through artificial insemination, this process is repeated over the span of the cow's life until it can no longer produce milk.

Life, which may seem deceptively long to young teenagers, is really a very short span of time, which if used unwisely and without meaning, simply goes to waste.

At 29 years of age, he will gradually lose his pace for those runs down the left wing, so I believe Wenger is going to be using him more and more as a centre - back as time progresses, and defenders usually have a longer life span than any other players except keepers.

I have a long skinny babe, so I guess my concern would be whether the rise is high enough to get a good life span of.

It is not the cheapest toy on this list but is one of the most durable and offers the longest life span in our opinion.

Babies need to be taken care of intensively and for a long period (longest compared to any other species, in comparison with the relative life span) and if not done so, the chances of survival drop significantly.

When we compare the length of our developmental periods to theirs, the first eruption and last eruption of permanent teeth, the onset of puberty, the completion of general growth, and life span, all of our developmental periods are longer than theirs (Montagu, 1986, 51).

Although giving birth is a natural process, babies being born can experience complications within the span of a few moments, jeopardizing their lives and producing long - term health consequences.

Given that the Summer Infant chair is more spacious, it is definitely going to have a longer life span than some of the other chairs I have seen.

«As long as childhood lead poisoning remains a public health threat in Oneida County, children's health, education and employment opportunities will be impacted across their life spans resulting in higher taxes for residents to cover the costs of healthcare, special education and social services.

Since poodles have a long life span of 12 - 15 years, this dog food also helps support healthy aging.

Having shown that IGF -1-deficient mice also live longer, Bartke's study suggested not only that these pathways are important in mammals, but that they might have been crucial in controlling life span in a range of creatures evolving over hundreds of millions of years from a common ancestor of worms and mammals, says Miller.

They live entirely in underground tunnels and never see the sun; have long life spans for their size (30 years compared to a common rat's 4 years); feel no pain in their skin; survive and thrive in oxygen - poor environments; and are resistant to strokes and a number of diseases, cancer included.

An index called the longevity quotient indicates whether a species has an average life span or is unusually long - lived or short - lived for an animal of its size.

Studies show that Seventh - Day Adventists, whose church encourages behaviors that promote healthy aging, have a well - documented average life span of 88 years, approximately eight years longer than the average U.S. citizen.

At the time, this was the longest extension of life span ever observed.

Or maybe you would settle for living as long as humanly possible — a span which might depend on how young you are now, and hence how likely you are to reap the benefits of longevity breakthroughs to come.

Living several decades longer than its shallow - water relatives, Escarpia laminata has the longest known life span for a tube worm, aging beyond 300 years, researchers report in the August Science of Nature.

Remarkably, the observed pattern showing longer life - spans when fewer predators are present emerges no matter how the analysis was done: at the species level, at a finer regional scale (groups of species within a certain area) or even when comparing entire bioregions.

As the eggs hatch, she will try to determine the effect of their parents» synchronized singing — whether truly harmonious matings produce unexpected benefits, such as offspring that have a longer life span or that lay an increased number of eggs.

Because of their remarkably slow metabolic rates, individual cells may have extremely long life spans, says Røy.

Good genes no doubt explain why, despite smoking cigarettes for some 90 years, Frenchwoman Jeanne Louise Calment died in 1997 at 122 years of age, the longest life span yet recorded.

For yeast, reproduction is life, so both methods measure a yeast cell's life span by the number of progeny it generates, rather than how long it remains metabolically active.

Although the pentaquark's life span is rather long by subatomic standards (10 - 20 seconds), it's so unstable that it can be created only by high - energy cosmic rays striking Earth's atmosphere or by the forces at work within the center of a neutron star.

«That's the longest extension of life span ever described for a mammal,» Longo says.

The scientists determined that fruit flies carrying one good copy and one defective copy of Indy lived the longest, averaging 70 days versus the usual 37 — a «quite impressive extension of life - span,» notes Judith Campisi, a cell and molecular biologist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.

From the maintenance of deteriorated structures and the development of system redundancy factors to assessing the performance of long - span structures, Dr. Frangopol's research has not only saved time and money, but very likely also saved lives.»

In rodents, differences in life expectancy and morbidity during aging are particularly high: Despite close relationships with regard to genetic aspects, small rodents like mice or rats live no longer than two to three years, whereas mole - rats or chinchillas have an average life span of 20 to 30 years while staying comparatively healthy.

When you say «instantaneously,» you are talking about long stretches of time compared with the human life span, right Yes.

These connections have been used to design a system of layers with a longer life - span.