Sentences with phrase «on human mortality»

Another example of the DPS relates to projections of the effects of more or stronger heat waves on human mortality.

These had notable impacts on human mortality (Section 1.3.7) and local socio - economic systems (Easterling et al., 2000; Parmesan et al., 2000; Johnson et al., 2004).

She is a DC - based artist who creates sculptures and installations that imitate the natural environment and reflect on our human mortality.

But en route to the harshest, most unremittingly bleak film of his career, Solondz unleashes some of his sharpest commentary on human mortality and regret.

It's Solondz's sharpest commentary on human mortality and regret to date.

Not exact matches

This chapter is a natural theology based on insights concerning «rational beauty, finely - tuned fruitfulness, a value - laden world, and human hopeful defiance in the face of mortality.»

As it turned out, of course, Asia more than doubled in size and set off a new industrial revolution whose impact on human welfare has been of revolutionary proportions by virtually any measure: infant mortality, literacy, life expectancy, caloric intake, etc..

IAS, WHO, UNICEF, UNAIDS, Consensus Statement, «Asking the Right questions: Advancing an HIV Research Agenda for Women and Children», dated 8 March, 2010 IBFAN, Press Release 2012 on the Right to Adequate Food, Digest of the «Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food to the Human Right Council (A / HRC / 19 / 59)» IYCN Project Preventing malnutrition of mothers and children within the context of HIV and emergencies (Haiti) UNICEF 2011, Levels & trends in child mortality, Report 2011 US Expert Panel Report & Recommendations to the US Congress and US Global AIDS Coordinator Prevention of Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV, Jan 2010, Summary of successes and challenges of PMTCT, as well as recommendations for improved implementation UNAIDS 2011, Countdown to Zero: Global plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive, 2011 - 2015 UNAIDS 2011 (with WHO and UNICEF) Global epidemic update UNICEF 2011, Levels & trends in child mortality, Report 2011

A standardized mortality ratio (SMR) was calculated based on the actual death rate of the cyclists compared to the death rate in the age - matched French population according to the Human Mortality mortality ratio (SMR) was calculated based on the actual death rate of the cyclists compared to the death rate in the age - matched French population according to the Human Mortality Mortality Database.

«One thing that can be managed is human - caused mortality, so if we can provide additional protection, that should put them on equal demographic footing.

While the effects of human activity on the seal population can be detrimental — for example through a high rate of fishing bycatch mortality as observed on Lake Saimaa — a novel conservation method can help the seal population to cope with climate change.

Lifshin and his colleagues conducted a series of experiments based on their existing work on terror management theory — the idea that humans» awareness of their own mortality is a strong motivator for behaviors that may help quell the fear of death.

How about one pack that kept hanging on despite losing half of its members annually as a result of human - caused mortality in an area where it was legal to shoot wolves outside the park?

«We know from many studies that good physical fitness reduces cardiovascular mortality, and that physical activity has a positive impact on cardiovascular risk factors following a rehab program,» said Maxime Caru, a doctoral student in human kinetics at UdeM and lead author of the study.

They point out that poor semen quality «is the leading cause of unsuccessful attempts to achieve pregnancy and one of the most common medical problems among young men... it has been suggested as an important marker of male health, predicting both morbidity and mortality... it is sensitive to environmental exposures, including endocrine disrupting chemicals, heat and life - style factors, such as diet... Therefore, it can provide a sensitive marker of the impacts of modern environment on human health.»

Methods: The team used new relationships between chronic mortality and exposure to fine particulates and ozone, global modeling methods and new future climate scenarios to simulate the co-benefits of global greenhouse gas reductions on air quality and human health.

The age - associated decrease in functionality of the human immune system is thought to have a negative impact on the capacity to provide protection against infection, in turn leading to increased incidence of mortality.

The fact is that humans on low carb / high fat / high protein diets (call them keto, paleo, Atkins or whatever you want) also experience higher mortality.

Director Alejandro González Iñárritu is one such artist, pursuing the crevices of the human soul for nearly twenty years, and doggedly striving to capture fear, hope, and mortality on the silver screen.

Acclaimed character actor John Carroll Lynch's directorial debut is at once a love letter to the life and career of Harry Dean Stanton and a meditation on mortality, loneliness, spirituality, and human connection.

Acclaimed character actor John Carroll Lynch's directorial debut, Lucky, is at once a love letter to the life and career of Harry Dean Stanton as well as a meditation on mortality, loneliness, spirituality, and human connection.

Which is really too bad because we have an urgent problem in America: our maternal mortality rate is among THE HIGHEST in the industrialized world (depending on the index you look at), our infant mortality rates are unacceptable, the inequalities in the way women of color and poor women are treated is literally a human right crisis, our new moms suffer from postpartum depression mores than so many other countries, and in many ways we have taken the joy and awe out of childbirth and infancy.

Tune in Sunday to Animal Wise Radio, when I'll be on with hosts Mike Fry and Beth Nelson discussing a recently published paper declaring that «predation by house cats is probably the largest human - related source of bird mortality in Canada.»

Anthropogenic noise increases fish mortality by predation Noise - generating human activities affect hearing, communication and movement in terrestrial and aquatic animals, but direct evidence for impacts on survival is rare.

The combined elements create a mesmerizing effect, through which Kentridge offers an informal lesson on changing notions of time — from the celestial model in antiquity and Newton's mathematical view to Einstein's theories of relativity — and suggests the idea of time being «refused,» whether to resist the impact of colonial forces or to deny the simple truth of human mortality.

His intricate, borderline obsessive artworks combine his love of pop music with macabre meditations on mortality (as in his sculptures made from human bones).

is an oddly affecting meditation on mortality, history and unbelievable human suffering.

The artist will be present at a public opening on Thursday, May 7th from 6 - 8 p.m. Tim Hawkinson's idiosyncratic creations are meditations on nature, machines, mortality, the body and human consciousness.

Tim Hawkinson's idiosyncratic creations are meditations on nature, machines, mortality, the body, and human consciousness.

Whether training her lens on pathological waste, hospitals, artifacts soiled during the passing of human life, or surgical experiences, Sudhoff presents an honest, direct, and human representation of her own reckoning with mortality.

In my news article, the forum's report on the human toll from climate change was vigorously criticized by Roger A. Pielke, Jr., of the University of Colorado (here's his full - length critique of the climate - mortality report).

The impact of global warming on temperature - induced human mortality has long been a concern, where it has been hypothesized that rising temperatures will lead to an increase in the number of deaths due to an increase in the frequency and intensity of heat waves.

Matt Damon investigates the impact of extreme heat and heat waves on human health and mortality.

3) They include estimates of model - based climate metrics» impacts on things such as ``... crime,... energy, human mortality, and labor...» in their economic modeling games.

Current models of climate change include sea level rise, land degradation, regional changes in temperature and precipitation patterns, and some consequences for agriculture, but without modeling the feedbacks that these significant impacts would have on the Human System, such as geographic and economic displacement, forced migration, destruction of infrastructure, increased economic inequality, nutritional sustenance, fertility, mortality, conflicts, and spread of diseases or other human health consequences [135,Human System, such as geographic and economic displacement, forced migration, destruction of infrastructure, increased economic inequality, nutritional sustenance, fertility, mortality, conflicts, and spread of diseases or other human health consequences [135,human health consequences [135,136].

19Jesse H. Ausubel, Perrin Meyer, and Iddo K. Wernick, «Death and the Human Environment: America in the 20th Century,» working paper, Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University, New York, 1995; and John B. McKinlay and Sonja M. McKinlay, «The Questionable Contribution of Medical Measures to the Decline of Mortality in the United States in the Twentieth Century,» Milbank Quarterly on Health and Society (Summer 1977): 405 - 428.

It does not take systematic account of «direct impacts on the environment and human health» — things such as mortality from extreme events like heat waves or tsunamis, for instance.

Human disturbances can result in trampling - related mortality says a statement on the FWS Alaska Region website.

Our analysis suggests that in the absence of adaptation, the human influence on climate would have been the main contributor to increases in heat - related mortality and decreases in cold - related mortality.

1973 Christopher Tietze, MD, and Sarah Lewit Tietze Christopher Tietze, MD, and Sarah Lewit Tietze, leading authorities on the demographic and public health aspects of human fertility and its regulation, were the first to compare detailed estimates of the mortality risks of contraception, abortion, and childbearing.

In both animal and human studies, social support and social contact are significant and reliable predictors of health outcomes and mortality, with effect sizes in humans on par with smoking and lipids (29).

This will include an overview of national recommendations from the Secretary of Health and Human Services Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality, the Infant Mortality Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network (CoIIN) and the Pew Home Visiting Campaign.