Sentences with phrase «respond to changing conditions»

While our programs respond to changing conditions, our mission remains constant: Inspired by Jewish values, Jewish Family Service assists individuals and families by helping them build on their strengths to develop the skills and confidence to meet life's challenges with dignity.

We need to be more nimble and more able to respond to changing conditions.

The history of the co-evolution of life and planet Earth has been one of countervailing and healing response to excess that has permitted life to both survive periodic crises and mass extinctions and to respond to changing conditions and once again thrive.

A pantheon of sensors across the system can analyse and respond to changing conditions in just two milliseconds, apparently, which means you should never be able to feel it working.

Each mathematical box is linked to its neighbors, so it can respond to changing conditions with appropriate changes of its own.

Researchers have for decades used museum specimens to answer questions about how species diverge, where they move around the globe, and how they respond to changing conditions.

The hourlong documentary examines how Arctic warming may be increasing storms» intensity and altering their paths, and how countries such as the Netherlands are creating climate - adaptive cities to respond to changing conditions

As the events of that day show, the anatomy of a disaster — whether a terrorist attack or an earthquake — can change in a flash, and lives often depend on how police, paramedics and firefighters respond to the changing conditions.

In responding to changing conditions in the US, Canada should do more than simply find a single substitute market, but rather should make a strategic commitment to diversifying our exports and our export markets.

Monitoring a forest in New Hampshire provides clues to how important trees, such as maples, respond to changed conditions due to global warming

Not exact matches

We have to respond to customer feedback, competitor movement, changing market conditions, new opportunities and so much more.

With a younger company, we'd be interested in how the company has changed its business plan in the last 12 to 18 months to respond to toughening conditions.»

His foresight in responding to ever - changing market conditions in the wireless industry has enabled him to lead the Company in capitalizing on many different opportunities in the marketplace.

Equally important is how to respond appropriately as these conditions change.

If households and businesses do not have a good notion of how the Federal Reserve will respond to changing economic and financial market conditions, then this would loosen the linkage between short - term rates and financial conditions.

It's enough to monitor and respond to conditions under which a collapse is most likely to occur, and align ourselves with the evidence as it changes.

The driving force behind this process — i.e., the «factors making for growth in the halakhah» — is, first, the «necessity to respond to new external conditions — social, economic, political, or cultural — that pose a challenge or even a threat to accepted religious and ethical values,» and, second, the «need to give recognition to new ethical insights and attitudes and to embody them in the life of the people, even if there [is] no change in objective conditions.»

In this age of rapid change, and with our modern understanding of the human condition, we can see how much alters in a person's lifetime; we must remain open to what may come, and free to respond to new circumstances.

Woolworths chief executive Grant O'Brien mounted a similar defence in February, blaming the entry of global rivals such as Aldi for pricing pressure on suppliers and saying Woolworths» future was at risk unless it responded to changing market conditions.

Arsene Wenger has been put into question on a number of occasions as if it's his training regimes that are affecting the physical condition of his players but the Frenchman responded by saying that there have been a number of changes which has been made in the way that he prepares his team compared to some years ago.

No one can control how and when an individual will respond to medications; whether or not travel plans will need to be changed at the last minute; or whether, despite seemingly ideal conditions, a pregnancy will be achieved on a given transfer.

Former Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. has asked a New York federal judge to change his mind about allowing the government more time to respond to Espada's August request to vacate his sentence, saying conditions at his prison are too inhumane to wait.

I was a late convert to the idea that we needed to do something quickly... I was persuaded in the few days surrounding the change of government because that's when the sovereign debt crisis was at its peak... Certainly under the conditions under which we embarked on the election there was no immediate sense of crisis that crisis hit us around election time and we had to respond to it... I changed my mind in the days shortly after the election because that was when the sovereign debt crisis his Europe.

For example, researchers are developing «smart» biomaterials such as temperature - sensing hydrogels that can respond biologically to environmental conditions by changing their biomechanical or drug - releasing properties, says Seeram Ramakrishna, a professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Nanofibers & Nanotechnology at the National University of Singapore.

Temperamental variation — call it personality — also helps a species survive in a volatile, supercompetitive milieu by ensuring that different individuals respond differently to changing conditions, so some will thrive.

In addition to helping farmers check crop health, the new system will be helpful for studying how plants respond to changes in growing conditions and for high - throughput phenotyping, an automated method used in crop research and development to analyze how genetic modifications affect plant characteristics such as leaf size or drought resistance in a large number of plants.

The discovery of the lakes in Greenland will also help researchers to understand how the ice will respond to changing environmental conditions.

The pattern of tricellular lineages rarely re-evolving the bicellular state suggests a reduced ability to respond to changing pollen dispersal conditions over evolutionary time, which in turn has slowed their rate of diversification.»

Therefore mathematical modeling has the potential to be an extremely valuable tool, enabling prediction of how pattern vegetation will respond to changes in external conditions.»

Because purple sea urchin females can condition their progeny to experience future stress, the urchins have tools at hand to respond to changes like ocean acidification.»

Based on real - time readings on the ISS, UZH scientists can now reveal that cells are able to respond to changes in gravitational conditions extremely quickly and keep on functioning.

One tantalizing possibility is that as these restless bits of DNA drift throughout the genomes of human brain cells, they help create the vibrant cognitive diversity that helps humans as a species respond to changing environmental conditions, and produces extraordinary «outliers,» including innovators and geniuses such as Picasso, says UC San Diego neuroscientist Alysson Muotri.

«Clinically, these results indicate that neuropathic symptoms are very common in knee OA and that neuropathic processes — such as changes in conditioned modulation — predict who will respond to a common treatment for knee OA,» said Ajay D. Wasan, MD, MSc, the principal investigator, vice chair for Pain Medicine at UPMC, and a visiting professor at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.

«I'm interested in how the environment is changing, how animals respond to those changes, and the potential for acclimatization to those conditions, particularly across generations and in different life stages,» said Putnam, assistant professor in the URI Department of Biological Sciences, who joined the faculty in January.

Species within an ecological community may respond differently to climate change, meaning the competitors, predators, pathogens and parasites that a given species encounters under the new climatic conditions may also change.

The findings presented at the Society of Marine Mammalogy's Biennial Conference in San Francisco demonstrate that humpback foraging responds to environmental changes, and illustrates how marine mammals serve as sentinels of ever - changing ocean conditions.

(E) establishes performance measures for assessing the effectiveness of adaptation strategies intended to improve resilience and the ability of natural resources in the coastal zone to adapt to and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification and of adaptation strategies intended to minimize those impacts on the coastal zone and to update those strategies to respond to new information or changing conditions; and

(4) establish methods for assessing the effectiveness of strategies and conservation actions taken to protect, restore, and conserve natural resources to enable them to become more resilient, adapt to, and withstand the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification, and for updating those strategies and actions to respond to new information and changing conditions;

The members of that methane - producing community will respond differently to changing conditions.

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara are studying how riparian forests respond to climate change that manifests as hotter and drier conditions over time.

The researchers use computer models to forecast future ocean conditions such as surface temperatures, salinity, and currents, and project how the distribution of different fish species could respond to climate change.

The Grants have shown «evolution in action» as generations of finches living on the various islands respond to dry or wet conditions bye changing the shape and function of their beaks as respond to drought or normal conditions.

Understanding how the ice shelf behaved in the past should help scientists to understand how it will respond to changing climatic and oceanic conditions in the future.

Because this climate sensitivity is derived from empirical data on how Earth responded to past changes of boundary conditions, including atmospheric composition, our conclusions about limits on fossil fuel emissions can be regarded as largely independent of climate models.

March 9, 2017 Molecules form gels to help cells sense and respond to stress A specific protein inside cells senses threatening changes in its environment, such as heat or starvation, and forms hydrogel droplets to help the cell continue to function and grow under stressful conditions, according to a new study by scientists from the University of Chicago.

«Simply put, the shape of the ice sheet and the contact with the ocean makes it likely that these areas respond more pronouncedly to changes in climate boundary conditions — be they atmospheric, oceanic or glaciological.»

If you have a complex medical condition that does not respond to nutrition and lifestyle changes alone, your nutritionist may recommend a consult with one of our physicians.

These conditions respond well to making behavior changes especially in the areas of nutrition, fitness, and stress management.

Importantly, civil society is often better equipped to identify and respond to needs as they emerge, adapt to changing conditions, and subside or pivot when demands have been met.

The ability of communities and humanity as a whole, to respond, adapt, and sustain the resilience needed to maintain ecological sustainability and equity in the face of external and internal forces of change, including through respecting conditions, like diversity, enabling the resilience of nature.