Sentences with phrase «on ecological factors»

Thus we see that neither on grounds of public health nor on ecological factors is climate change likely to be the most important problem facing the globe this century.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

We tend to discount how selection pressures on domestic plants and animals varied through time in response to different preferences or ecological factors.

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.

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).

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.

Her research, guided by developmental and socio - cultural ecological frameworks, focuses on understanding how individual and contextual factors interact to inform adolescents» development and adjustment.

With a focus on child and teacher factors, interactional and school wide processes, and community interactions, the Certificate Program employs an ecological approach that fosters child emotional and academic learning through a systemic lens.

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.

«Raising Ground» is focused on the point at which natural / ecological factors begin to influence an artist's practice and the balance of art and ecology becomes weighted towards ecology, therefore beginning to dictate the artistic process and outcome.

Spatial and temporal patterns of greenness on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia: interactions of ecological and social factors affecting the Arctic normalized difference vegetation index

It seems to me the ecological challenges presented to the human community in these early years of Century XXI are necessary matters for discussion; however, our failure to acknowledge in open discussion «the human population factor» as a primary, driving force, one that is precipitating the ecological challenges visible on the far horizon, is making our best efforts insufficient.

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

(2) To determine the most salient individual and family ecological factors associated with a positive maternal depression screen, the authors selected independent variables to include in the analysis based on their own clinical experience and a review of the literature on maternal depression.

An alternative approach focuses on children's unmet needs, acknowledging the many possible contributors (e.g., lack of access to health care), as well as parental behaviour.3 The latter approach fits with the developmental ecological perspective which posits that no one factor alone contributes to neglect; there are multiple and interacting contributors at the level of the child, parents, family, community and society.

This draws on our understanding of the significance that Brofenbrenner's socio - ecological model and risk and protective factors have in mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention

For example, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of children entering foster care due to prenatal substance exposure.36 The negative effects of substance exposure on the fetus and developing child have been extensively documented, although scholars emphasize the variability in outcomes as well as the contribution of multiple ecological factors to outcome.37

The following pages provide more information on both an ecological framework and a protective factors framework for prevention.

Their model proposes that the manifestation of the adverse effects of certain risk factors (e.g., parameters of the disease / disability, functional independence, and psychosocial stressors) on children's psychosocial adaptation (e.g., mental, physical, and social functioning) may be attenuated by a variety of resistance factors (e.g., intrapersonal, social — ecological, and stress - processing variables).

Their model proposes that manifestation of the adverse effects of certain Risk Factors (e.g., parameters of the disease / disability, functional independence, and psychosocial stressors) on Adaptation (e.g., mental, physical, and social functioning) may be attenuated by a variety of Resistance Factors (e.g., intrapersonal, social — ecological, and stress processing variables).