Sentences with phrase «production by humans is»

Since 1984, it has become common and scientific knowledge that CO2 production by humans is and will have disastrous consequences.

Carbon dioxide production by humans is less than 11 % of the world's production of CO2, which in turn is less than half of the less than 0.1 % of atmospheric gases that are not oxygen or nitrogen.

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«A large part of the violence has taken place in this part of the country... is generated by the production of opium poppies,» Roberto Campa, the deputy interior minister for human rights, told AFP in February.

While protein products developed by these companies are not currently fit for human consumption, methane - based proteins could improve the environmental impact of meat production, and eventually further fuel the meatless revolution by creating another food source for developing economies in Africa and Asia.

The paramount crime issue in the source zone is the production of illicit narcotics, followed by money laundering, alien smuggling, illegal weapons trafficking, and human trafficking.

Other environmental policies include promoting smarter energy use through the ecoEnergy Initiative; a Chemical Management Plan to regulate chemicals harmful to human health and the environment; $ 1.5 billion over seven years for the production of renewable fuels; a commitment to ensure that 90 percent of Canadian electricity needs are generated through non-emitting sources by 2020; and additional government funding to acquire and preserve ecologically sensitive lands.

But the efficiency that has dominated economics has been in the production of goods by human labor.

Another Long Day by More than I (Matt Aznoe) and the Cargo movie are two media productions which help raise awareness about human trafficking.

When human beings break their covenant with society by exploiting the labor of the worker and refusing to do anything about the social costs of production — i.e., poisoned air and waters — the covenant of creation is violated.

Marx hopes religion will be overcome by a transformation of the method of production which would permit human relationships to be both «intelligible» and «reasonable»:

By employing fossil fuels to replace human labor, on the one hand, and by having each person perform limited repetitive operations, on the other, total production could be greatly increaseBy employing fossil fuels to replace human labor, on the one hand, and by having each person perform limited repetitive operations, on the other, total production could be greatly increaseby having each person perform limited repetitive operations, on the other, total production could be greatly increased.

There is the unjust exploitation of physical, chemical, biological, and zoological nature, the ecology in which human nature is embedded, by industrial and technocratic production processes of «megamachines» (L. Mumford) polluting and destroying environment after environment.

The specialization and capital mobility that are so prized by economists for their tendency to increase total production have profound affects on human beings that fall outside of the consideration of economists.

In this sense, the strange violence of electricity production is once again alienating human beings from their landscapes by making those landscapes uninhabitable.

They are: rationalization, which tends toward sterile intellectualization and robs life of its character and vitality; estheticism, which cuts off true communication by maintaining an esthetic distance in order to dominate, rather than to support, others; capitalism, which tends to deper - sonalize people by providing for their hedonistic needs in order to support production and consumption regardless of its human utility; and nationalism, which tends to make national things sacred and in doing so to create idols out of them.31.

Harrington means by «socialization» the idea that the future is bringing, and will bring in geometrically increasing ratios, a deeper sense of increased human interdependence in a corporate environment, one marked by international demands for mutuality, by global communication and transportation, and by interpenetrating systems of production, distribution, and consumption, all of them interlocked and increasingly inclusive of more and more nations of the world.

However, the Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA), passed by Congress in 1990, requires nonorganic inputs to be vetted to a higher level of assurance in terms of human health and environmental impacts.

Approximately 10 candidates were selected for a second screening, where again sweetness potency was evaluated, along with a more detailed look at the taste profile; the physical and chemical properties; potential of industrial production; and estimation of metabolic dynamics in the human body by in vitro assay.

Currently, the ground floor is occupied by the Baseline Common Code of the Global Coffee Platform (formerly the 4C Code of Conduct), the bare minimum of decent human and environmental practices in coffee production.

In 2016, Rodale Institute initiated the Vegetable Systems Trial (VST), a long - term side - by - side comparison of biologically - based organic and chemically - based conventional vegetable production systems.The goal for this project is to develop economically viable vegetable production systems which improve soil, plant, human... Continued

Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (HCG): A hormone producednaturally during pregnancy, HCG is taken by anabolic steroid users to stimulatethe production of testosterone, which is suppressed as a result of steroiduse.

From La Leche League's website, «Research has shown that healthy, full - term breastfeeding infants have a remarkable ability to regulate their own milk intake when they are allowed to nurse «on cue» and that mothers» rates of milk production are closely related to how much milk their babies take... Human beings have survived and flourished because mothers have met these needs by responding freely to their babies» cues and behavior, particularly their feeding behaviors.»

Humans are the only mammals on the planet who suffer from post - partum depression and post - partum psychosis - we are also the only mammals on the planet who are drugged during birth, nurse by a clock, don't sleep with our babies, time our nursing sessions, supplement with formula, use pacifiers (and a myraid of other behaviors that disrupt ancient hormonal production during lactation).

This is known as the nesting instinct and occurs as much in humans as it does in animals (caused by the increased production of estradiol).

This idea was bolstered by the finding that viral DNA production also took place in cells from another natural LCMV host, the hamster, but not in human, monkey, dog, or cow cells, which are not susceptible to the virus.

He put the birth date of the new epoch at the period after the Industrial Revolution, when humans were causing massive shifts in the biosphere, triggered by coal production.

«By extracting wood from unmanaged forest and bringing these forests under production, humans released carbon into the atmosphere that would otherwise be stored in the biomass, litter, dead wood, and soil of the forest,» Naudts said.

In this study in Timothy grass, researchers led by environmental health scientist Christine Rogers of the UMass Amherst School of Public Health and Health Sciences (SPHHS) determined the interactive effects of CO2 and ozone at projected higher levels on pollen production and concentrations of a Timothy grass pollen protein that is a major human allergen.

A study provides the first evidence that pollen production is significantly stimulated by elevated carbon dioxide in a grass species as a result of climate change, which may have significant impact on human health.

He found that the species» population has declined more than one / third over the last decade, and that just under half of the species» habitat has been irreversibly transformed by humans — primarily for crop production.

To see whether cancer stem cell renewal involves a chain of events similar to that used by embryonic stem cells, and whether the process was affected by oxygen levels, Semenza and graduate student Chuanzhao Zhang focused their studies on two human breast cancer cell lines that responded to low oxygen by ramping up production of the protein ALKBH5, which removes methyl groups from mRNAs.

Dr. Wang plans to continue studying the effects of TNF and IL - 17 on melanocytes, and would like to expand the research to 3D skin models — fabricated samples of tissue in vitro that behave like human skin — that would give a better visual of how the melanin production process is being disrupted by these two cytokines during skin inflammation or wound healing.

This stability in methane levels had led scientists to believe that emissions of the gas from natural sources like livestock and wetlands, as well as from human activities like coal and gas production, were balanced by the rate of destruction of methane in the atmosphere.

A new study, which has been published in the journal Anthropocene, examines the evidence that we now live in the Anthropocene, an epoch where humans dominate the Earth's surface geology, and suggests that the surface of the planet is being noticeably altered by the production of long - lasting human - made materials, resulting in us entering an «Age of Plastic».

Richard A. Insel, M.D., chief scientific officer of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, a funder of Melton's work, said the «JDRF is thrilled with this advancement toward large scale production of mature, functional human beta cells by Dr. Melton and his team.

Years of diabetes research carried out on mice whose DNA had been altered with a human growth hormone gene is now ripe for reinterpretation after a new study by researchers at KU Leuven confirms that the gene had an unintended effect on the mice's insulin production, a key variable in diabetes research.

A new study by researchers from Brown and Tufts universities suggests that researchers have been overlooking how two key human responses to climate — how much land people choose to farm, and the number of crops they plant — will impact food production in the future.

However, the two reports agree that Earth is undergoing a long - term warming trend that shows no sign of abating, and that rising temperatures are driven by human activity, largely through the production of greenhouse gasses.

The extent of biomass production in species - rich ecosystems is more stable and thereby predictable whereas the loss of species leads to unpredictable deficiencies, which would have to be compensated by humans, according to the paper, published in Nature Communications.

Methane is produced naturally, by processes including decomposition, and by human activity such as landfills and oil and gas production.

«This is an important demonstration of the possibilities opened up for immunotherapy by DMAb technology to direct in vivo production of antibodies of major relevance to human cancer,» said David B. Weiner, Ph.D., executive vice president of The Wistar Institute, director of The Wistar Institute Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Professor in Cancer Research, and senior author of the study.

So Garry oak savannas in Canada are a human production, threatened by human activities.

The Human Functional Genomics Project, run by professors Mihai Netea and Leo Joosten at Radboud university medical center, UMCG Professor Cisca Wijmenga and Professor Ramnik Xavier at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard investigated how differences in cytokine production during a Borrelia infection in 500 healthy volunteers can be explained.

The authors embellished the format with melodies that, Sánchez - Sousa and Baquero say, were «harmonically determined by the genome basic sounds, just as productions of the human mind are, to some degree, necessarily linked to basic genomic information.»

CAPTCHAs, that border between the human and the robot - readable used by Craigslist among many other sites and platforms, have long dogged spam production, making it harder to start new Blogger blogs or open more free email accounts, and spammers have been working assiduously on different fronts to overcome them.

In addition, mouse brown fat in the collar bone is morphologically similar to human brown fat in the same location, produces compounds involved in the production of heat and expresses genes similar to those expressed by human brown fat.»

In keeping with this, recent studies showed that flavanols, a subclass of flavonoids that is richly represented in natural cocoa beans, increase NO production by cultured human vascular endothelial cells (16) and improve endothelium - dependent vasorelaxation (NO - dependent) in finger (2) and brachial (3) arteries of healthy humans.

iBET's infrastructure comprises 16 laboratories fully equipped with state - of - the - art technology (70 m2 each), including a BSL2 laboratory for working with viruses; a GMP Analytical Services Unit certified by the INFARMED (the Portuguese medicines authority, EMA Portuguese branch) and by DGAV (the Portuguese veterinary authority) for quality control and batch release of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals as well as experimental new drugs; a GMP Mass - Spectroscopy Unit that provides state - of - the - art MS services to the scientific community and Industry; a 2600 m2 bio-pilot plant supporting production and purification of proteins ATMPs and vaccines from bench top to 300 L scale and privileged access to GeniBET Biopharmaceuticals, an iBET spin - off producing ATMPs under cGMP certification for phase I / II / III clinical trials.

Last week, a separate study by U.S. researchers found that the odds of a reduction in corn and wheat production are 20 times higher than they would be without human - induced global warming.

For example, beluga whales live rough 50 some years, they are short - lived whales, some of them get type II diseases and as such, show diabetic human - like features of accelerated collagen crosslinking by AGEs production during glycation / glycoxidation to their hyperglycemia.