Sentences with phrase «potential numbers of human»

The new model provides quantitative assessments of the probability of an outbreak and the potential numbers of human victims when key parameter values can be specified.

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The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a non-profit based in Massachusetts, has identified a number of potential risks posed by such crops, ranging from introducing new allergens to the food supply to increasing antibiotic resistance in humans and animals.

Andrew Batholomaeus, a consultant toxicologist at Australia's University of Canberra and the University of Queensland, states that «the potential human health consequences of discouraging the use of pyriproxyfen in drinking water storage and other mosquito - reduction programs is catastrophic with potential deaths and serious disease from otherwise avoidable malaria, dengue and other mosquito - borne diseases numbered in at least the hundreds of thousands.»

However, the sheer number of potential moves on any given turn means that Go is in fact one of the most complex games humans have developed and AI scientists have been unable to master it for decades.

In this country his ideas are influencing a growing number of therapists as well as persons in the human potentials movement.

Perhaps there are those who believe that it is a great medical step forward that we can indefinitely sustain the lives of those who have lost their human potential, or who believe that the sanctity of life is enhanced by large numbers of permanently unresponsive bodies being sustained through a network of feeding tubes at one end of those bodies and excretory tubes at the other.

The number of potential combinations of substances, circumstances, and settings is mind - boggling, yet these synergies and their impacts on ecological and human health are essentially unknown!

Data on the actual adjusted (per kg) volume of human milk provided to VLBW infants would be useful to detect a potential dose - response relationship between the amount of human milk provided and either the incidence or the number of infections per infant.

«The law was passed because lead can cause serious health problems, especially for young children and pregnant women, and testing at a select number of schools last year uncovered potential problems,» said Christine Schuyler, director of health and human services for Chautauqua County.

Lurking behind all this is a potential crisis in the very resource that has enabled this unprecedented expansion of human numbers: fossil fuels.

The startling new dates for the paintings «show that Neandertals had the same potential as modern humans in a number of domains,» he acknowledges.

This reliance may explain why humans give less weight to human life as the number of potential victims goes up.

There are a number of hurdles to overcome and we haven't yet trialled the nanoneedles in humans, but we think they have enormous potential for helping the body to repair itself.»

The potential for epidemics to occur in parts of Africa and the Asia - Pacific region is particularly concerning given that the vast numbers of people who could be exposed to Zika virus are living in environments where health and human resources to prevent, detect, and respond to epidemics are limited.

«When you're trying to reconstruct the diet of human ancestors, you want to look at a number of things, including the habitats they lived in, the potential foods that were available, how valuable those various food items would have been in relation to their energy content and how long it takes to handle a food item.»

Already, northern right whales have a Potential Biological Removal (PBR) of less than 1, the number that can safely be removed from their population each year by human causes.

This is a great example of a potential gene therapy target that still needs a fair amount of work to validate the thesis and the initial data, but having a large number of existing human carriers is a good sign on the safety front.

These ensure that those doing the work are qualified and suitable; that alternatives to animals are used wherever possible; that the number of animals used is minimised; and that any suffering or other harmful effects experienced by the animals have been weighed against the potential benefits (to humans or animals).

Aged human SkMs show a decline in the number and proliferative potential of the SCs.

There are a number of potential entry points for human material to contaminate the samples.

Sponsored by the Glenn Foundation for Medical Research in collaboration with AFAR, the two - year, $ 200,000 BIG award is designed to provide timely support to a small number of research projects that are building on early discoveries that show translational potential for clinically relevant strategies, treatments and therapeutics that address human aging and healthspan.

Beyond the medical risks to the potential child, a number of long - standing ethical concerns exist regarding the possible practice of germline gene transfer in both human and nonhuman cases.

Unlike many popular natural remedies, turmeric has been studied EXTENSIVELY for its potent medicinal qualities and potential for helping with a number of human afflictions.

Delegates from around the globe arrived with commitments to tackle projects with world - changing potential, from ending human trafficking to increasing the number of girls pursuing engineering.

The idea that human beings can possess a number of intellectual potentials lends itself to the use of the arts to address varying learning needs.

But here are a few things to keep in mind: organic dog foods often use human - grade protein sources and generally have fewer fillers (corn and wheat and their by - products) and no synthetic preservatives, pesticides, food coloring, or other additives, thereby reducing the number of potential allergens in your Frenchie's diet.

Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health are interested in the potential health value of having pets: NIH first raised the human / pet connection nearly 30 years ago, recommending that scientists take pets into account when conducting health research, and the agency has funded a number of studies into the impact of pet ownership.

According to scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cats are consistently the number - one carrier of rabies among domestic animals and pose a «disproportionate risk for potential human exposure.»

Thanks for bringing attention to potential global threats to humanity, ones posed by the current huge scale and skyrocketing growth rate of human population numbers on Earth.

It is the most uncertain hypothesis, requiring the most unimaginably large behavior change, by the largest number of politically - unaligned humans, ever to hit the hopper of «potential political issues.»

There are a number of emerging technologies that have the potential to markedly reduce the human footprint at the global level, in terms of energy, water, emissions of contaminants and other impacts.

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In order to invoke the imagination, I have also included two case studies which explore first hand the potential impacts of climate change on a number of human rights of the Indigenous peoples, particularly those living on the Torres Strait Islands and the Indigenous nations of the Murray - Darling Basin.

Parental separation may also expose children to loss of social, economic and human capital.4, 14 Other explanatory factors may derive from characteristics typical of separating parents such as lower relationship satisfaction and higher conflict levels also before the separation.4 The rising numbers of children with JPC have concerned child clinicians as well as researchers on the subject.20, 21 Child experts have worried about children's potential feelings of alienation from living in two separate worlds, 20 — 22 increased exposure to parental conflict12, 22 and other stressors that JPC may impose on a child.22 Such daily stressors may be long distances to school, friends and leisure activities, lack of stability in parenting and home environment and a need to adjust to the demands of two different family lives.12, 22 The logistics of travelling between their homes and keeping in contact with friends has been stated as a drawback of JPC in interview studies with children.23 — 25 Older adolescents, in particular, indicated that they preferred to be in one place.23