Sentences with phrase «resilience of»

The most important effects of properly balanced progesterone in women include reduction of mood swings, improvement of brain functioning, (especially memory and thought development processes), helps to maintain vascular and cardiovascular health, lower risk of endometrial cancer, increased strength and resilience of bones to help reduce risk of osteoporosis, reduces risk of gallbladder disease and promoting a healthy digestive tract, contributes to a healthy immune system and helps convert stored fat into energy.
Of course, the sturdiness of the body depends on far more than just adequate nourishment, since the strength, flexibility, and resilience of muscles and connective tissue require healthy amounts of physical activity and other lifestyle practices.
As athletes on the field and in the gym, we rely on the strength and resilience of our legs in order to outrun and outplay the competition.
The most important effects of properly balanced progesterone in women include reduction of mood swings, improvement of brain functioning, (especially memory and thought development processes), maintenance of vascular and cardiovascular health, lower risk of endometrial cancer, increased strength and resilience of bones to help reduce risk of osteoporosis, reduced risk of gallbladder disease and promotion of a healthy digestive tract, a healthier immune system and better conversion of stored fat into energy — and, yes, better sleep.
According to the Spanish researchers, experimentation with a variety of probiotic strains showed great potential in improving the resilience of intestinal tissue, as well as reducing the immune system's overall hostility towards it.
Thus, improving the resilience of the HPA Axis is an important factor in maintaining strength and mobility as a part of longevity.
One study of college students looked at the psychological resilience of people with ADHD who were not on medication compared to those that didn't have ADHD; they found that the ADHDers were more resilient overall.
Option B explores Sheryl's journey back to joy, and the incredible resilience of the human spirit.
In this context, we aim to explore the impact of policy instruments — in particular risk - coping mechanisms, environment - related policies and land use policies — on the social - ecological resilience of smallholders.
The selected candidate will work closely with the PI on developing an indicator system and a database to measure several aspects of sustainability and resilience of agricultural production.
How effectively we manage fishing, coastal development, pollution, trawling and shipping will play an important part in determining the future resilience of the Great Barrier Reef.
«But the paper provides insight that could be turned into action that can help build the resilience of reefs to these larger global stresses.»
Ministers are expected to announce their targets for land restoration, to agree on measures to address the related emerging threats of forced migration, sand and dust storms, and to agree on actions to strengthen the resilience of communities to droughts.
The Department's study underscores the importance of America's nuclear industry to ensuring the continued reliability and resilience of the electricity grid.
The characterization of viral consortia in healthy, diseased, and different life stages of corals will provide scientists clues about the roles that viruses play in the establishment, health, and resilience of these critical ecosystem engineers.
Using this platform, we observed a surprising resilience of the 16S rRNA gene when extensive modifications were introduced,» said Dr. Kannan, Scientist, Synthetic Systems and DNA Technologies Group, SGI.
«Results of this study and others suggest that accelerated forest thinning at large scales could improve the water balance and resilience of forests and sustain the ecosystem services they provide.»
The project goal was to improve the resilience of these populations to drought conditions.
The American Astronomical Society recognizes and applauds the resourcefulness and resilience of the staff of the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center, home to the Arecibo Observatory, in the wake of the devastation of Hurricane Maria, even as budget uncertainty threatened future operations.
Tropical forest restoration: fast resilience of plant biomass contrasts with slow recovery of stable soil C stocks.
These observations suggest that global climate change has enhanced some elements of productivity of shallow - water stocks but at the same time reduced the productivity and possibly the resilience of deep water stocks.
ref It will also be important to encourage socioeconomic research on the impacts of ocean acidification, the projected timing of impacts, and the ways to increase adaptability and resilience of socioeconomic systems in the face of changing ocean chemistry.
Investing in healthy land can generate multiple benefits required under the SDGs, such as food, water and energy security, poverty eradication, resilience of rural communities and ecosystem restoration.
Abstract: The functional roles played by fish have been identified as critical for supporting the resilience of reefs within a coral - dominated state.
IRRI aims to raise the productivity, profitability, and resilience of Indian rice farming systems while ensuring their environmental sustainability.
We look forward to engaging with FERC, DOE, and grid operators in an examination of what resilience of the electric power system means and requires, and to demonstrating the contribution of our industries to ensuring reliable power for all.»
Reducing stressors that exacerbate ocean acidification conditions — Managers can support the resilience of reefs by reducing other stressors that affect marine ecosystems (e.g., declining water quality, coastal pollution, and overfishing of important species and functional groups, such as herbivores.
These genetically distinct clades have different environmental, ecological and geographic characteristics which influence the resistance and resilience of corals to thermal stress.
The finding helps scientists understand the health and resilience of the ecosystem, she said.
Resilience of the UK food system to global shocks (RUGS) Lead PI: Professor Mark Rounsevell, University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with researchers from SRUC - # 1,004,734.09 (fEC)
I will analyze three of them while showing how they have recently come under strain that test the resilience of science in novel and sometimes unexpected ways.
The dangers only become more obvious and the need to increase the resilience of cities more urgent when you consider that 50 % of the world's populations now live in cities, and 1.5 million people are migrating to urban areas every week.
There is concern that elevated sea temperatures and ocean acidification may influence the resilience of coral reefs, inherently affecting their vital role of providing the structure which maintains ecosystem services around the world.
Adenylyl Cyclase Type 5 (AC5): Knockout of AC5 extends life in mice, with the most plausible mechanism being increased resilience of the cardiovascular system to the various slings and arrows of aging.
These results imply that acidified seawater impacts larval physiology, suggesting that suppressed metabolism and metamorphosis may alter the dispersal potential of larvae and subsequently reduce the resilience of coral communities in the near future as the ocean pH decreases.
Singer, Stella, Roberts and Caylor will develop a toolkit and provide quantitative support for land and water conservation management to promote the sustainability and resilience of riparian forest ecosystems located on DOD lands.
12: Indigenous Peoples for examples of health impacts on vulnerable populations) and of place (floodplains, coastal zones, and urban areas), as well as the resilience of critical public health infrastructure.
«Rather than focusing on preventing psychological problems in a few students, this programme aims at strengthening the psychological resilience of all children,» said Dr Pluess.
These unusual conditions, they write, may have directly influenced survival and day - to - day life for Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans alike, and emphasize the resilience of anatomically modern humans in the face of abrupt and adverse changes in the environment.
The team, which is basing its experiment in Peru, is hoping to raise awareness of the resilience of potatoes, which will put pressure on authorities to fund further research and farming in devastated areas around the world.
Until now, theoretical ecological studies on the response of ecosystems to various perturbations have focused on the resilience of such ecosystems.
«Whether the treated Flint River water altered the virulence or resilience of Legionella pneumophila is another key question we need to examine.»
In this new study, the researchers therefore used data from 46 experiments on grassland plant diversity in order to test the hypothesis of a positive effect of biodiversity on the resistance and resilience of ecosystems to various climate events, from drought to extreme rainfall.
«As we continue to ensure the resilience of our health care system, we are working to prepare our health care facilities to handle the effects of a changing planet,» Obama said in a statement Monday, officially naming this week National Public Health Week.
As the scientists reveal in their study published in Nature Climate Change, stored carbohydrates play a key role in the resilience of the individual plant.
-- Energy technologies that exist or are under development could greatly increase energy efficiency in residences and businesses, reduce dependence on oil, accelerate the provision of energy services to the world's poor, increase the reliability and resilience of electricity grids, and shrink the impacts of energy supply on climate and other environmental values.
Although I do want to emphasize that when we are looking at resilience of energy infrastructure it will be broader than just extreme weather events.
While stored starch and soluble sugar in plant tissues were thought to influence the resistance and resilience of trees positively during periods of drought, this supposition had not been proven.
In the climate context, it's the question of resilience of energy infrastructure against, well, Sandy, and other things of that type.
Soon after S&T commercialized the technology, the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (MA - OCME) purchased Rapid DNA as part of efforts to improve the resilience of their communities and disaster response.
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