Sentences with phrase «potential role of human»

When extreme environmental conditions occur, questions often arise regarding the potential role of human - caused or natural climate change.

Perhaps the potential role of human pollution in causing a «devastating drought» sits too uncomfortably with the intended message of «positive impacts» from global warming.

Not exact matches

A particularly unhealthy result of male - female sex role training is that gaps have been created in people which limit their potential to become whole human beings.

The difficulty of the paradigm, of course, is that it lifts media policy out of a mere bureaucratic administration into a broader dimension of cultural debate: what sort of symbolic environment do we have, what sort of symbolic environment do we want, and what is the role of the media in our collective effort to deal with our human potential for violence?

Professor Ali Tavassoli, who led the study with colleague Dr. Ishna Mistry, explains: «In an effort to better understand the role of HIF - 1 in cancer, and to demonstrate the potential for inhibiting this protein in cancer therapy, we engineered a human cell line with an additional genetic circuit that produces the HIF - 1 inhibiting molecule when placed in a hypoxic environment.

Though it has the potential to transform life on Earth, metallic hydrogen could also play a key role in helping humans explore the far reaches of space, as the most powerful rocket propellant yet discovered.

Means notes that identifying the potential role of TREML4 in human lupus may lead to the development of drugs that could prevent or reduce the development or progression of lupus and another autoimmune disorder called Sjögren's syndrome, which also appears to involve TLR7 overactivation.

Dr. Zhu said he believes the study provides the scientific community with an important animal model to further investigate ARID1B's role in human brain disorders and will be a useful tool for therapeutic testing of potential treatments for autism, intellectual disability, and Coffin - Siris syndrome.

Juan Bonifacino's lab at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, for one, had discovered the role a certain protein plays as asymptomatic infection progresses to AIDS but testing of a new class of potential HIV medications had to be stopped due to the shutdown.

The findings should spur research on the potential role of the striatum and glutamate synapses in human OCD, says Steven Hyman, a psychiatrist at Harvard University and former director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) in Bethesda, Maryland.

Further research will be needed to better understand the potential role of lung infection in Ebola and whether it may be a factor in transmission of the virus from one human to another.

Although non-invasive methods to explore brain function in humans such as functional imaging and EEG / MEG have been informative regarding the potential role of a given brain area in a particular cognitive function, they lack the necessary temporal and spatial resolution to study brain microcircuits.

Expression of functional Toll - like receptors 2 and 4 in human aortic valve interstitial cells: potential roles in aortic valve inflammation and stenosis.

to close the gap in human potential and transdisciplinary training to tackle the role of phase separation in biology

«These findings have potential implications for the prevention and treatment of human heart disease, once we better understand Irx3's role in the human heart,» said Dr. Bruneau.

Estrogen receptor - α but not - β or GPER inhibits high glucose - induced human VSMC proliferation: potential role of ROS and ERK

Exploration of these findings in the context of human disease genetics provides insights into the role of inherited variation in blood metabolic diversity and identify potential new opportunities for drug development and for understanding disease.

Cilia play important roles in nearly every human organ and also are essential for the survival of many parasites, such as trypanosoma brucei that causes African sleeping sickness, giving Dong's work the potential for wide influence.

Researchers have come a long way toward illuminating the functions of HARs and their potential roles in human evolution, but we are still far from understanding their specific functions in development and other processes.

Studies using a mouse model of type 1 diabetes highlight a potential role for human adipose stem cells in treatment regimens and, further, they reveal a secreted factor which has important therapeutic relevance

Potential projects include identifying common pathways that modify retinal degenerative disease from a large collection of actively maintained mouse models; determining molecular networks implicated in pathological disruption of the retinal pigment epithelium; identifying molecular pathways that regulate postnatal ocular growth; and using mouse models to assess the pathogenic role of gene variants that increase the risk of age - related macular degeneration as identified by human genome - wide association studies.

With the new center, we will be expanding upon our role as a global hub to help students and professionals maximize their potential, realize their career ambitions, contribute to the advancement of biomedical science and translate their ideas and discoveries into products, services and therapies that will benefit human health and well being.

Herein, we used cell culture models of human mDA neurons to investigate a potential role for miR - 181a in mDA neurons.

Finally, miR - 181a was recently shown to induce neuronal differentiation and a DA phenotype in human long - term, self - renewing, neuroepithelial - like stem cells [49], which supports the potential role for miR - 181a in regulating development of mDA neurons.

These results stress the role of the environmental microbial communities, in combination with unintentional antibiotic release, as potential recruitment pools for human pathogens.

Since these birds are often in close contact with both poultry and humans, we investigated their potential role in the spread of H5N1 virus.

Telomere maintenance has been proposed to play a central role in human aging by limiting the replicative potential of somatic cell populations and... >> MORE

An important question is whether these data on the role of feeding rhythms on energy balance and metabolism will be applicable to humans and useful as potential treatment strategies themselves or as supplements to current approaches.

But I'm optimistic about the potential of unbundling the role of the teacher and leveraging technology to create an online system for measuring and tracking student learning growth that has the rigor of human - graded assessment, the advantage of quick feedback cycle times, and the validity and reliability that come from standardization.

Human resource is a role in organizations for maximizing the potential of employees to meet the objectives of the employer.

The veterinarian's role in the human - animal bond is to maximize the potentials of this relationship between people and animals.»

«Elanco understands the powerful role healthy animals play in making lives better, and this research has the potential to empower veterinarians and all those concerned with animal health to enrich the lives of people worldwide by supporting programs that promote the human - animal bond.»

His exploration of the communal role of art and everyday actions as art recalls Joseph Beuys's notion of social sculpture (art's potential to transform society through human activity with language, thought, action, and objects).

In 2015, he had a leading role in convening an international summit to explore the many issues raised by the arrival of a new class of genetic tools (such as CRISPR / Cas 9) for potential use in transforming humans, plants, and animals.

The IPCC says in its own words: «The role of the IPCC is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human - induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.»

Coming in at $ 5,000 a month is Idso's principal partner in the regular IPCC attack, Fred Singer, who for the last 20 years has denied pretty much any health threat with a corporate sponsor: the health impacts of second - hand smoke; coal's role in creating acid rain; the danger of asbestos; or DDT; the role of CFCs in creating the ozone hole; and, of course, the human cause and potential consequences of climate change.

While the GCC distributed a «backgrounder» to politicians and media in the early 1990s claiming «The role of greenhouse gases in climate change is not well understood,» a 1995 GCC internal memo drafted by Mobil Oil (which merged with Exxon in 1998) stated that: «The scientific basis for the Greenhouse Effect and the potential impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 on climate is well established and can not be denied.»

The role of greenhouse gasses in climate change ARE NOT well understood, even if the POTENTIAL impact of human emissions has been documented.

In the midst of the dramatic and destabilizing changes wrought by it, new potential for human action upon the Earth demand exploration, asking: Which forms of cooperation could arise from a new awareness of the human role in interlacing nature and technology?

The IPCC in its statement on «PRINCIPLES GOVERNING IPCC WORK» says nothing on data but does say: «The role of the IPCC is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio - economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human - induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.»

The Court of Justice held that features of the agreement that enabled access to the European Court of Human Rights with regard to potential violations of the ECHR by Member States or EU institutions would curtail the Court of Justice's ability to fulfil its role of ensuring the consistent interpretation and application of EU law.

Over the past year since the report was issued, much of the debate over fully autonomous weapons has focused on the weapons» potential role in armed conflict, raising questions over whether the weapons would ever be able to comply with international humanitarian law, also called the laws of war, but calls have increased in recent weeks for the human rights concerns to be taken into account.

Within the overall risk management strategy dictated by organizational function, the goal of human risk management is to identify and analyze potential sources of risks related to each job role.

I believe in human potential and orient myself toward teaching people how to manage their lives rather than assuming the role of managing their life for them.

I believe the full and proper implementation of the Declaration can unleash Australia's potential to engage with its Indigenous peoples and firmly establish Australia's leadership role in the international human rights system: