Sentences with phrase «other defense mechanisms»

The other defense mechanisms to ensure that dividend income grows over time is by focusing your attention only on the companies that can grow earnings over time, have sustainable distributions and are acquired at reasonable prices.

So they had to develop other defense mechanisms — anti-nutrients called phytates, lectins and gluten — to deter animals from eating them.

In the absence of this and other defense mechanisms, Weinberg says, «cancer development would be inevitable, and we would be covered by tumors by the time we're several years old.»

Further study is required in order to understand how this «neighborhood watch» works and whether the network provides other defense mechanisms.

That's why he and his colleagues are hunting for other defense mechanisms.

They consist of white blood cells, or leukocytes, that fight infection themselves and activate other defense mechanisms.

Not exact matches

While there is no such thing as a 100 % foolproof strategy to protect you against fraud (although divvying your portfolio up into 30 - 40 stocks worth 2.5 % to 3.33 % of your overall wealth seems like a damn good defense mechanism), putting most of your money into stocks with records of growing dividends seems like an intelligent way to guard against corporate fraud, particularly if you have limited familiarity with reading 10 - Ks, annual reports, and other financial statements.

Circular religious logic will still never fully justify the fact that religion asks for special rights and protections, which it gets, and then turns those rights and protections on other groups as a defense mechanism for when they are accused of discriminating... i.e. «We can choose who we accept and who we don't because of our beliefs... wait, what... how can you say you will not accept our religious organization, that's religious discrimination!»

Your brain's inner narrative is a fictional self - defense mechanism which is trying to justify your self - aggrandizing, your feelings of misguided moral righteousness, and your hatred of others.

I think that kind of reaction is a defense mechanism... that people that hate on others beliefs only do so because they lack confidence in their own beliefs... and have to put others down to feel better about themselves.

It is a defense mechanism of the brain taken to extremes and used by those who desire the manipulation of others.

When it comes to my relationship with God and with other Christians, I'm as quick as anyone else to try and protect myself from honest dialog by hiding behind flowery, unhelpful language (or, my favorite defense mechanism: to intellectualize everything so that it can't hurt me).

However, the extent of this change is significantly modified by a wide range of social and personal variables such as the functions that are being served for the individual by the attitudes in question; the satisfaction the individual derives from existing attitudes; the strength of existing defense mechanisms and group pressures surrounding those attitudes; patterns of reinforcement for similar attitudes in the past; other alternatives available to the viewer; and the current psychological state of the viewer.

Students veer into other disciplines, and our culture as a whole adopts an ironic tone, a defense mechanism we may regret but which is entirely understandable in an intellectual environment of unmasking and critique.

Another study found that maltodextrin impairs cellular antibacterial responses and suppresses intestinal antimicrobial defense mechanisms, leading to inflammatory bowel disease and other GI conditions that arise from an inappropriate immune response to bacteria.

In addition, Red Star Nutritional Yeast contains other beneficial components, such as beta - 1,3 glucan and mannan, complex carbohydrates known to improve the immune response and help maintain cholesterol levels that are already within a healthy range; trehalose, a disaccharide that helps maintain the health of brain cells; and glutathione, an antioxidant that plays an important role in cellular defense mechanisms.

The false self seeks to anticipate and comply with the needs and demands of others as a defense and survival mechanism.

Others believe that being ticklish is a sort of defense mechanism.

Violence became a defense mechanism as these kids got older, manifesting in their attacking other people without provocation.

While doing her Ph.D., Wang came across a defense mechanism in plants involving apoptosis, where «the plant cell is induced to die around the infection site so the pathogen can not be spread to other tissues,» Wang says.

Each tentacle is covered with stinging cells (cnidocytes) that can stun or kill other animals: most jellyfish use them to secure prey or as a defense mechanism.

Because of their natural defense mechanisms they are afraid of almost no other marine life, and will consume dozens of species of the tropical fish and invertebrates that typically congregate in coral reefs and other areas.

Mentors provide a critical line of defense to prevent this from occurring and are a critical mechanism for connecting students with challenging problems, projects, internship positions, jobs, fellowships, and other career opportunities.

The ability of these children to maintain an intact immune system in the face of ongoing viral replication and in the absence of antiretroviral therapy can provide us with new insights into hitherto unknown defense mechanisms, which could eventually benefit other HIV patients,» says Professor Oliver T. Keppler, Chair of Virology at the Pettenkofer Institute, and former head of the German Reference Center for Retroviruses in Frankfurt am Main.

Other strains of wheat grown nearby still had the defense mechanism.

During a viral infection, the body needs various defense mechanisms — amongst other things, a large number of white blood cells (leukocytes) must be produced in the bone marrow within a short period of time.

The main mechanism includes phagocytosis of macrophages which play a critical role in nonspecific defense (innate immunity) and, moreover; they have a role as antigen presenters which also help initiate specific defense mechanisms (adaptive immunity) by recruiting other immune cells such as lymphocytes.

They display the first defense mechanism to bacterial infection or other acute inflammations.

Building on each other's work, the five award recipients demonstrated how this normal self - defense mechanism can be hijacked by tumors as a way to evade immune surveillance and dodge an attack.

The students were probably exerting a type of defense mechanism that's known, in science - speak, as «devaluing temptation» — or, in other words, thinking that something isn't nearly as appealing as it might actually be.

These detoxification pathways overlap with several of the other dedicated antioxidant defense mechanisms like NAD (P) H: quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1).

And this is due to the fact that plants have their own defense mechanisms in the form of lectins, phytic acid, and other enzyme inhibitors.

He said he didn't think it was a defense mechanism with me, but that he didn't think we were right for each other.

Hurt people are fearful that they're going to be hurt again, so as a defense mechanism, they hurt other people in order to keep themselves walled off.

This is a defense mechanism, making them look more threatening to predators and other animals.

Just for fun and since my defense mechanism is to mock myself before someone else can, here are some other flights we could have gotten with those 65,000 AA miles, keeping in mind that there are two of us.

Therapy often includes the identification of defense and other coping mechanisms often beginning early in life.

Second, in line with the results of other studies that unexpectedly found a negative association between triadic coordination and marital satisfaction in parents (Favez et al., 2011), it is likely that parents in a more positive family context — e.g., with a lower level of coparenting conflict — might be more able to develop reflexive thinking and thus be more critical in their assessment of child symptoms, whereas parents facing difficulties within the family might trigger defense mechanisms, such as denial, leading to a bias in the assessment of their child in a falsely positive way.