Sentences with phrase «other environmental factors influence»

Researchers have long sought to understand the science underlying a wine's terroir — how the climate, soil, and other environmental factors influence the regional characteristics of a wine.

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When many chemicals interact, the rate of production (or of destruction) of each molecular species is influenced by the concentrations of all the others, as well as by such environmental factors as temperature and whether or not the system is illuminated.

It is also influenced by some as yet unknown environmental factors (some speculate a susceptibility to certain viruses such as coxsackie, others implicate exposure to certain very specific chemicals, most certainly not included in baby formula).

The researchers say they plan to explore in future studies how other environmental factors and previous experiences, such as interactions between mother and baby, influence the way newborns process and experience pain.

Similarly, if you wanted to study environmental factors that influence sleep, you could examine sleeping patterns of different species in the wild and attempt to relate them to differences in temperature, photoperiod, or other factors.

The conclusions of the new project, which address depth - related changes in the levels of magnesium in Antarctic bryozoans for the first time, suggest that other environmental and biological factors (other than pH) could have a more important influence on the incorporation of Mg into the skeleton of these organisms.

Although communication practices could predict satisfaction to some extent for some couples, the lack of a definitive causal relationship calls for additional attention to other factors that influence marital satisfaction, such as environmental stressors, what activities and interactions a couple has, and the personality traits of the individual partners.

There is still, however, a need for more research on the issue, as the risk can be influenced by the time of the treatment and other factors, reasons Karin Leander, researcher at Karolinska Institutet's Institute of Environmental Medicine.

«GECCO aims to continue to discover additional colorectal cancer - related variants by investigating how genetic variants are modified by other environmental and lifestyle risk factors, including biomarkers as well as how they influence patient treatment response and survival,» Peters said, emphasizing how much further research is required to uncover the specific mechanisms by which genes modulate the intake of certain foods on colorectal cancer risk.

Professor Baron - Cohen commented: «Although these very clear sex differences in brain structure may reflect an environmental or social factor, from other studies we know that biological influences are also important, including prenatal sex steroid hormones (such as fetal testosterone) as well as sex chromosome effects.

With ever greater power and speed, computers should be able to sort through bewildering mazes of data about genetic and environmental factors to help determine how their effects in one organ influence other physiological systems.

There is evidence that about 40 % of this variation is due to other genetic factors, and about 60 % is due to unknown influences in a person's life or surroundings - which scientists refer to as environmental factors.

But other hormonal changes and environmental influences can impact your BBT as well: «We also know that basal body temperature can increase because of emotional disturbances, any kind of stress factor, and going through menopausal changes,» Dr. McConnell says.

That's when I learned about geomedicine — a branch of medicine concerning the influence of climate and other environmental factors on health — and how it was a major player in my personal health.

NDs are trained to evaluate social, environmental, and a multitude of other factors that influence the vitality, health, and wellbeing of body, mind, and spirit.

Elevated Lp (a) is thought to be a genetic factor and levels are not influenced by diet, exercise, weight loss, stress or other environmental factors.

Your body's ability to produce antioxidants (its metabolic process) is controlled by your genetic makeup and influenced by your exposure to environmental factors such as diet, stress, and various other factors.

When assessing one's health, Dr. Go takes into account all aspects of the person's life including physical, mental - emotional, genetic, environmental, social, spiritual and other factors that could be influencing his / her health.

In addition to these two, Kolb's theory recognizes that other factors, including emotions and environmental conditions, greatly influence learning outcomes.

Just because a dog has the gene for hip dysplasia however, does not mean he will be affected: the severity of the disease will be directly influenced by the dog's diet and other environmental factors such as exercise level or body condition — or so the theory goes.

It is likely that other (as yet unidentified) gene defects and other environmental and biological factors all influence the development of HCM.

There are many other factors that influence avian nutrition in captivity, including maintenance in a foreign climate, breeding status vs. pet and other environmental stresses.

This suggests that there are as of yet other unidentified anatomical or environmental factors influencing the development of SM.

Though my no means always true, this is apparent often enough to support speculation that «unusual things are happening» across large areas... UV radiation and a host of other environmental factors may all exert their influence on tree growth.

In our paper, we also investigate how other environmental factors besides the surface temperature may influence TLCs.

Now, finally, to «the faith of the polar bear» — a species like any other, influenced by a myriad of environmental factors, including bullets and melting sea ice

However, many other environmental factors also influence the generation and tracks of disturbances, and wind shear in the atmosphere greatly influences whether or not these disturbances can develop into tropical storms.

Although the major focus of this paper is on personality aspects that contribute to gambling problems, one can not dismiss environmental factors, which in some cases may be more influential than one's personality and other possible genetic influences.

Information related to an individual's psychiatric state and the knowledge of other biological factors can assist professionals in understanding the interaction between the physiological and environmental factors that influence behavior.

Male adolescents do not report suffering from somatic symptoms as frequently as female adolescents, with the exception of morning fatigue26; however, further research is needed to determine how social and environmental factors influence the frequency and prevalence of this condition and others among boys.

The primary constructs within the hypothesized framework are: (1) social position variables — characteristics that are used within societies to hierarchically stratify groups (race, gender, socioeconomic status); (2) parenting variables — familial mechanisms that may influence African American adolescents well - being, perceptions of competence, and attitudes towards others in various contexts (e.g., parenting practices and racial socialization messages); (3) racial discrimination — negative racially driven experiences that may influence feelings of competence, belongingness, and self - worth; (4) environmental / contextual factors — settings and surroundings that may impede or promote healthy identity development (e.g., academic settings); and (5) learner characteristics — individual characteristics that may promote or hinder positive psychological adjustment outcomes (e.g., racial identity, coping styles).

The success of most interventions with parents, or with parents and children, is inevitably influenced by contextual factors — poverty, poor housing, the absence of safe space for children's play and recreation, unemployment and a range of other sources of community and environmental stress.