Sentences with phrase «on environmental triggers»

Is the AI as impressive as videos seem to demonstrate, or is this another bait and switch relying more on environmental triggers and scripting?

Rather, it's descent from a common ancestor (the scientific phrase in use currently is «descent with modification» meaning they share similar underlying foundation, but when they migrate (those that survive) they evolve based on environmental triggers (challenges), which give rise to mutations; that make future generations better suited to live in the new environment.

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Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt is testifying in potentially make - or - break hearings on Capitol Hill, where he will face questions about spending and ethics scandals that have triggered...

• Eczema An itchy, red rash that appears on Baby's face, elbow, chest, arms or behind the knees may be eczema and can be triggered by environmental irritants (such as pollen or cigarette smoke), or allergens in your child's diet.

Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt faces potentially make - or - break hearings today on Capitol Hill, where he is expected to be peppered with questions about spending and ethics scandals that have triggered bipartisan calls for his ouster.

It is only now, more than three decades later, that science has the tools to see that this legacy of trauma becomes etched in our DNA — a process known as epigenetics, in which environmental factors trigger genetic changes that may be passed on, just as surely as blue eyes and crooked smiles.

Chinese officials staged a sudden about - face, acknowledging for the first time that the massive hydroelectric dam, sandwiched between breathtaking cliffs on the Yangtze River in central China, may be triggering landslides, altering entire ecosystems and causing other serious environmental problems — and, by extension, endangering the millions who live in its shadow.

Most current research into the causes of cancer focuses on genes and environmental triggers.

Since the inherited risk is based in family genetics and is therefore beyond clinical reach, McFarlane relies on multifamily group therapy and social supports at school and at work to protect vulnerable patients from environmental triggers — illicit drugs and emotional stress in particular — that might send them over the edge.

«To me, the unfortunate thing is that because electric cars are very closely associated with the left - wing environmental green movement and to combating global warming and reducing CO2, the idea of vehicle electrification triggers this visceral reaction on the part of conservatives, which is, «If it's electric, it must be a product of the Democratic left - wing environmental machine, and therefore, we hate it,»» he said.

«Taken together, the results suggest that medial prefrontal cortex actively puts a hold on behavior in the moment that an environmental cue may trigger it.

Above all, there is a new emphasis on the interaction between vulnerable genes and environmental triggers, along with a growing sense that low - dose, multiple toxic and infectious exposures may be a major contributing factor to autism and its related disorders.

In humans and other primates, the ovulatory cycle has become spontaneous, generally on a set schedule that requires neither an environmental trigger nor a male.

Results of the study by Janet Yang, a University at Buffalo expert on the communication of risk information related to science, health and environmental issues, suggest that holding a collective, communitarian belief system contributed to altruistic behavior, while those who hold more individualistic values are less likely to be altruistic regardless of how much risk is triggered.

«Whatever triggered this current autism epidemic... autistic kids clearly need extra protection from further environmental assault,» the group writes on its blog.

What we used to call fate, or destiny, is really a combination of random chance and environmental triggers impinging on the genome.

The ovaries - first race relies on environmental cues to trigger the female - to - male change.

The international science on global environmental change, which has provided the insights we have today on the functioning of the Earth system and impacts on human societies of anthropogenic change, has triggered a concerted global effort, integrating the ICSU / ISSC Visioning process on the Grand Challenges for Earth system research for global sustainability with the Belmont Forum challenge (a coalition of major donors of global environmental change research), to define the future integrated science agenda on Earth system research for global sustainability.

Published studies have suggested that T1D results from environmental triggers acting on genetically susceptible individuals and that microbial infection and their immunological consequences are suspected to take part in the pathogenesis.

Keeping a written log of your migraines that includes on - set environmental, physical, dietary and emotional information can help you determine what your individualized triggers are to.

They can be turned on and off within minutes on exposure to such environmental triggers.

From the many studies I've looked at on environmental chemicals, many carcinogens tend to trigger acne via inflammation and acne via oxidative stress.

Tom O'Bryan discusses some common environmental triggers that will «pull on the chain» in great detail, and how they lead to genes being turned on and hence causing disease: food quality, wheat, dairy sugar, glyphosate, plastic and air quality.

Organizations such as The Environmental Working Group and Institute for Responsible Technology are leading the way with research that shows the serious health impacts on the body from the impact of genetically modified (GM) foods There are now multiple animal studies that link GMO's with damage to the GUT, with immune disregulation, inflammation, and an increase in allergies or factors that trigger autoimmune disease.

On a deeper level, it helps heal your body by flushing out free radicals and toxins, which are among the top five environmental triggers since we are exposed to industrial chemicals everyday.

Up to 50 million Americans are estimated to have an autoimmune condition, * and annual direct healthcare treatment costs for these patients total $ 100 billion.1 Nearly 100 different diseases have been classified as autoimmune in nature, with 40 more suspected.1 IFM's 2018 Annual International Conference (AIC), «Solving the Puzzle of Autoimmunity: The Interplay of Gut, Genes, and Environment,» focuses on the exploding research and therapies around the interconnected roles of intestinal permeability, genetic disruptors, and various environmental triggers that coalesce to create autoimmune disease.

This video and related materials from the California School Environmental Health and Asthma Collaborative provide important information about the most common asthma triggers in the home and provides information on how to reduce or eliminate them.

For instance, genetic diseases may be recessive, which means that both parents must contribute a gene for the disease to be expressed, or regulated by multiple genes that may even be located on different chromosomes, or even triggered by environmental factors.

During the active episode, all we can do is manage the cat's urinary pain / spasms and get started on managing the environmental stress that triggered the condition in the first place.

The remaining projects, all loans, include Yvonne Domengue's red painted steel sculpture Wind Waves (2009), which starting in January will spend a year on a park island east of the Sam Houston sculpture; Orly Genger's football - field - length painted rope sculpture Boys Cry Too (2009), which will lay directly on the grass at Brays Bayou Shore for a year starting in March; and MicroPavilion: ReFRAME x FRAME, which is billed as «a motion - triggered sound installation based on environmental data» by the University of Houston Graduate Design / BUILD Studio.

Making things worse, he says, advertisers have learned how to tug on every one of our more primal Pavlovian triggers with scientific precision, pushing humans into a hyper - consumptive lifestyle that ends up enlarging our environmental impact.

June 16, 7:57 a.m. Updated President Obama kept the focus of his first Oval Office address on the prime issue at hand — restoring public confidence in his administration's handling of an unfolding environmental calamity triggered by corporate malfeasance and bureaucratic negligence.

On February 28, 2011, SSA Marine applied for state and federal permits for the $ 500 million terminal, triggering formal environmental review.

The Environmental Protection Agency's proposed repeal of the CPP was published in the Federal Register on October 10th, triggering a lengthy review and public comment process — plus legal battles that could stretch on for years.

Climate threshold - The point at which external forcing of the climate system, such as the increasing atmospheric concentration of heat - trapping gases (greenhouse gas es), triggers a significant climatic or environmental event which is considered unalterable, or recoverable only on very long time - scales, such as widespread bleaching of corals or a collapse of oceanic circulation systems.

Using a world multi-sectoral, multi-regional trade model, this paper has investigated the economic and environmental implications of climate control coalitions cooperating on R&D investment that triggers low cost environmentally friendly technologies.

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Do you think that, in the event of a breach by Singapore of the social / environmental clauses of the EUSFTA, individuals that suffered direct damage could rely on this Opinion to argue that they have recourse to trigger the procedure for adopting a decision to terminate the agreement?

Behavioural therapy had to be individual, time limited, and based on changing the behavioural consequences of environmental or cognitive triggers.