Sentences with phrase «on mechanisms of change»
Both her clinical work and research focus on mindfulness - based interventions for relapse prevention, with a specific focus on mechanisms of change, including negative affect, thought suppression and craving.
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For their part, the federal government has not budged, staunchly defending this plan by dismissing the huge impact their changes will have on how we operate small businesses, and by inferring that doctors and other professionals are tax cheaters who unfairly take advantage of small business tax - saving mechanisms.
From this vantage point, stability is really just a way of describing or qualifying «expectations,» which are a formal part of the way the Bank thinks about monetary policy and the transmission mechanism (i.e., how a change in the target for the overnight rate has an effect on the real economy).
As a cancer researcher, do you think the mechanisms of tumor growth are somehow changing to come into line with your perceptions, or is it possible that the process of our learning more about DNA mutations and cell architecture and nutrient exchange and epigenetic effects make it possible for us to inch ever closer to understanding that which is already going on under our noses?
She contrasts the unbridled, «passionate» French approach to change, with its apocalyptic reliance on violence and political assassination, with the «compassionate» approach of the American Revolution, with its uses of persuasion and legal mechanisms to achieve radical ends.
McConnell explored the value of tradition generally — as a coordinating mechanism, a democratic check on state power, and a depository of values that endure over time — and then moved to a discussion of tradition and change in constitutional interpretation.
Although in the pre-human stages of evolution the gradual growth of consciousness in animals (see Section 2, below) does not appear to have had any appreciable effect on the course or speed of their zoological evolution, from the time of Man the evolutionary mechanism undergoes a radical change.
Also there is evidence of molecular mechanisms in the cell membranes that can amplify small changes in the field to produce large changes in neural activity.13 On the other hand, earlier tests of Kohler's theory found that interference with electrical gradients over the cortex had no effect on behavioral measures (see note 11 for reference to these studiesOn the other hand, earlier tests of Kohler's theory found that interference with electrical gradients over the cortex had no effect on behavioral measures (see note 11 for reference to these studieson behavioral measures (see note 11 for reference to these studies).
They involve new laws and policies, radical changes in mentalities and lifestyles, codes of conduct for businesses and institutions, changes in the content of curricula and textbooks, new norms and decision - making methods in politics, health care and education systems, new strategic priorities for international cooperation, radically new approaches to development, fundamental transformation of democratic principles and mechanisms - a new social ethos imposed on all.
That change was based on an in - depth study of the tackle, done to identify the mechanisms for head injury.
Hi, ive been looking into changing my wheels on the city mini to the air city mini gt wheels, ive been told the mechanism in the front is different so the gt wheels wont click in, how ever they do fit in the rear which is stupid since you won't be able to change all of them..
European governments and peoples largely approve of President Obama's greater respect for multilateralism, emphasis on non-traditional security areas such as climate change, and attempts to privilege diplomacy over more coercive mechanisms.
Power in Stack Exchange is not held by its users, but delegated to them by the owners of the SE network - for example, the users are afforded no formal mechanism by which to change the «constitution» or rules by which SE sites operate, or to decide, for example, to open source the code on which the sites run.
«I prefer to think that there is some aspect of the mechanism that we're completely missing that amplifies the effect of time - dependent magnetic fields on the radical pairs and makes them more sensitive to changes than our simulations predict.»
In the current context of global warming it is important to assess the impacts that changes in ocean and climate may have on Antarctica, and reconstructing past climate fluctuations provides vital information on the responses and possible feedback mechanisms within the climate system.
With its work, the international group of researchers has now shown that the Kibble - Zurek mechanism can be transferred to the relatively simple laboratory system with laser - cooled ion Coulomb crystals, and they have demonstrated that the occurring topological defects depend on the speed at which the changes occur.
No matter what mechanism the United States ultimately decides to employ in addressing climate change, it must be implemented in a way that minimizes costs and recognizes the impacts on different regions of the country, like my home state of West Virginia.
«This discovery demonstrates the effect the gut microbiome has on the immune system and unearths a novel mechanism via which changes in the gut microbiome can increase the risk of autoimmune disorders.
«For example, there's no political polarization on climate change with greater understanding of the greenhouse mechanism that drives global warming,» he wrote in an email.
On top of uncovering the long - range signaling mechanisms the researchers were astounded by another aspect of the programming which revealed that signals can not only program the monocytes to protect against the infection, but also to change to a repair function when they come across the good (commensal) bacteria in the gut.
«Either on their own can't explain sex, but looking at them together we've shown that the Red Queen dynamics of co-evolving pathogens produces that changing environment that makes sex advantageous through the simple genetic mechanism of the Hill - Robertson theory.»
They also found similar changes occurred in two different species of naturally occurring supersoldiers, this indicated both relied on the same developmental mechanism.
However, many industry insiders say these changes are opening up unique opportunities for researchers who focus on translating basic science into real - world cures and are eager to explore the molecular mechanisms of disease, test hypotheses, and do work that benefits patients.
The effects of a high fat diet on cartilage repair are most likely related to inflammatory and metabolic changes, but the exact underlying mechanism is not clear.
Understanding the mechanisms that drive migratory behavior is increasingly important, Beck said, in terms of climate change, as migrating animals rely on multiple habitats.
Such epigenetic mechanisms are high on the list of suspects when it comes to explaining how environmental factors that affect parents can later influence their children, such as in the Dutch second world war study, but just how these epigenetic changes might be passed on to future generations is a mystery.
Future work will focus on the underlying mechanisms involved in developmental changes in colouration, including the role of visual feedback and cellular processes.
Most fundamentally, Moran's study sheds more light on the basic mechanisms of Darwinism: How do animals adapt to their changing world and ecological habitats?
In keeping with this new approach, the review at hand focused on studies concerning mechanisms of change for various «brands» of psychotherapy and distilled important implications for treating adolescent substance users.
DNA methylation, one mechanism of epigenetics, is a chemical tag on DNA that does not change the gene sequence but is involved in controlling gene expression.
Michael McElroy concluded, «If we choose to take on this challenge, it appears that we can slow the rate of change substantially, giving us time to develop mechanisms so that the cost to society and the damage to ecosystems can be minimized.
The report is silent on the total amount of funding required to study the changing Arctic, but it suggests a number of structural changes to funding mechanisms.
Most research on the mechanisms of TBI has focused on neurochemical changes at the site of injury, such as metabolic alterations and ion imbalances inside neurons, he says.
In their article, «Quantifying causal mechanisms to determine how protected areas affect poverty through changes in ecosystem services and infrastructure,» Ferraro and Georgia State alumnus Merlin Hanauer, now on the Economics faculty at Sonoma State University, examine three potential causes of poverty reduction linked to the establishment of protected areas:
Furthermore, unraveling the causes of sea ice retreat should help us understand the mechanisms behind climate change on a global level, which is interrelated to the ice reduction in the Arctic ocean.»
The mechanism is produced by layers of electrically charged particles (ions of sodium and potassium) on either side of the nerve membrane that change places when stimulated.
As I discussed in my article, however, surgery's effect on diabetes is likely the result of a combination of various changes in GI mechanisms, not of bile acids by themselves.
This technology might find use as an active camouflage fabric that can change its reflectance as desired or as a mechanism for making «riblets» that improve the aerodynamic drag characteristics of airplane wings [see box on opposite page].
The major goals of this project are to determine the combined influences of light and gravity on plant development through the identification of changes in the mechanisms and regulation of essential cellular functions.
That may change when scientists learn more about the mechanism of action of free radicals and the effects of special diets on ageing.
A team of biologists from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and the University of Florida has now been able to demonstrate with the comb jellyfish Mnemiopsis leidyi that, at least in this type of jellyfish, the mechanism of regeneration can be changed depending on the environmental conditions.
«Based on this recent study we will now go on to propose physiological mechanisms for the origins of the new metabolic signals, so that eventually we can decipher how increasing CO2 in combination with changing climate affect tree growth — over decades»
Those with high levels of biospheric concern also were most likely to engage in pro-environmental day - to - day behaviors, such as recycling or energy savings measures, and were the most likely to engage in coping mechanisms to deal with environmental stress, ranging from denying one's individual role in climate change to seeking more information on the issue and how to help mitigate it.
His views: As chair of the Republican National Committee, Priebus oversaw the creation of the 2016 party platform that called the widely respected Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change «a political mechanism, not an unbiased scientific institution.»
Furthermore, clipping or genetically ablating wings from flies prevented the protective effects of DR on lifespan, demonstrating a critical role for the observed increase in physical activity in determining lifespan upon DR. To further elucidate the mechanisms by which changes in DR mediates changes in metabolism we are identifying and characterizing various tissue specific modulators of fat metabolsm
Additional limitations to the traditional approach include: costly failures to replicate positive results in larger trials; difficulty in determining the reasons for negative results; low yield in terms of identifying disease or intervention mechanisms due to an exclusive focus on symptom change and clinical endpoints; and, the expensive and very lengthy practice of first establishing multi-component psychosocial treatments followed by years of «unpacking» studies.
Isaiah Mansour, an undergraduate at the University of Maine, talks about how a Maine INBRE course on the molecular mechanisms of human disease at the MDI Biological Laboratory changed his life.
The goals of the research areas are to understand the neurobiological mechanisms underlying drug abuse and addiction, with special emphasis on changes that occur during chronic drug use, withdrawal and relapse.
«Future studies are focusing on the molecular mechanisms underlying the ageing - related changes in skeletal muscle and the specific effects of HRT on the structure and function of the dominant protein in skeletal muscle, called myosin, which generates force and movement.»
These are based on observations of regional change around the South Polar Cap, but seem to have been extended into a «global» change, and used by some to infer an external common mechanism for global warming on Earth and Mars (e.g. here and here).