Sentences with phrase «relative role of human»

In the paper I examine the relative role of human - caused climate change and development for future damages under a wide range of scenarios.

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Once we acknowledge that human experience plays a role in the world, we may acknowledge that the experience of our animal relatives may play a role also.

«This reaction is interesting as close relatives of this protein, known as homologs have also been found in animals — ranging from invertebrates like the horseshoe crab to humans — where they play a role in the defence against bacteria,» continues Künzler.

After moving to Berkeley, he arrived at a career crossroads in 1994, when Spyros Artavanis - Tsakonas, then at Yale, discovered and subsequently patented the human relative of the fruit fly gene notch, which plays a role in cell - to - cell interactions and could be an anti-cancer target.

These findings shed new light on the role of population size on losing or maintaining Neanderthal ancestry in humans, and add to our understanding of our close relatives — the Neanderthals.

Given that adipose tissue (which makes up between 15 and 20 % of the body weight in healthy people) is a source of inflammation in obese individuals, Christine Bourgeois and Olivier Lambotte, from the University Paris SUD, France, and colleagues, decided to investigate a possible role of the adipose tissue in humans infected with HIV and in macaques infected with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV, an HIV relative that causes AIDS - like disease in some non-human primates).

In this respect, it is known that the circulating levels of myostatin protein in humans are considerably lower than in mice [14], [21], raising the possibility that the balance of the relative roles played by myostatin and by these other regulators may have shifted further away from myostatin in humans compared to mice.

The course includes core concepts in relative management, such as, understanding the variation between universalistic and particularistic theories, evaluate then use and usefulness of theory, assessing the explanatory role of culture, relative approach to management and administration, theories of relative management and administration, human resources management practice

* The role of the US in global efforts to address pollutants that are broadly dispersed across national borders, such as greenhouse gasses, persistent organic pollutants, ozone, etc...; * How they view a president's ability to influence national science policy in a way that will persist beyond their term (s), as would be necessary for example to address global climate change or enhancement of science education nationwide; * Their perspective on the relative roles that scientific knowledge, ethics, economics, and faith should play in resolving debates over embryonic stem cell research, evolution education, human population growth, etc... * What specific steps they would take to prevent the introduction of political or economic bias in the dissemination and use of scientific knowledge; * (and many more...)

So what are your thoughts on the relative roles of values and calculations in improving the human relationship with the planet?

Based on an extensive literature review, we suggest that (1) climate warming occurs with great uncertainty in the magnitude of the temperature increase; (2) both human activities and natural forces contribute to climate change, but their relative contributions are difficult to quantify; and (3) the dominant role of the increase in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases (including CO2) in the global warming claimed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is questioned by the scientific communities because of large uncertainties in the mechanisms of natural factors and anthropogenic activities and in the sources of the increased atmospheric CO2 concentration.

These climate changes are a result of human and natural climate forcings and feedbacks — the relative role of each in altering atmospheric and ocean circulation features, and even the global annual average radiative forcing, however, is still uncertain.

The summary related aviation's role relative to all human influence on the climate system: «The best estimate of the radiative forcing in 1992 by aircraft is 0.05 W m — 2 or about 3.5 % of the total radiative forcing by all anthropogenic activities.»

Population growth coupled to the fact that extreme heat is the leading weather - related cause of death in the US calls for the need to identify the relative roles of natural variability and human - caused climate change on these extremes.