Sentences with phrase «role of other factors»

«In many cases the bird populations were not well described before the cats were established and the possible role of other factors in changes in the bird populations are treated inadequately.»

Not exact matches

«Finally, the increased role of bond and loan mutual funds, in conjunction with other factors, may have increased the risk that liquidity pressures could emerge in related markets if investor appetite for such assets wanes.»

As is often the case at a cyclical turning point, the inventory cycle played a large initial role in the US upturn, but there were a number of other important contributing factors.

Certainly other factors are at play here, from low levels of education to strong kinship systems, but it's likely that Christian and Muslim teachings celebrating the generation of life and customs and rituals honoring the sacrifices of fathers and mothers play a role in accounting for the close connection between fertility and faith around the globe.

Involvement in the multitudinous problems of a rapidly expanding urban area or exposure to the increasingly bitter struggle between labor and management or entanglement in the luxuriant and rank growth so abundantly fostered by the new wealth of the «gilded age»: these and other factors caused many men to re-examine their roles as ministers and to seek more effective ways of ministering to the needs of their time.11 Perhaps the most important thing that happened to such men was that they became aware of the many factors bearing on human welfare and thus of importance to the Christian gospel.

Third, applying simple legislative solutions to complex social issues also seems attractive, but ignores other relevant factors such as the role of the family and parental supervision, the place of education, and broader social determinants such as employment and access to social and economic opportunity.

Television's central role as an entertainer holds for both the more and the less educated, and probably for other segments of the population as well, despite variations in attitudes towards television, amount of viewing, and other factors among segments.

Nevertheless, there were other factors at work and most scholars agree that they played some role in shaping the particular form that the resurrection faith of Israel assumed, even though there is difference of opinion as to the extent to which they may have initiated it.

And I think we must be wary of claiming that we can somehow read the Bible objectively, without a variety of other factors (tradition, experience, and reason) playing a role... which brings me to the lovely Wesleyan Quadrilateral.

The Australian Beverages Council, representing 95 % of the non-alcoholic beverages industry, has today responded to the recent article in Pediatric Obesity that reaffirms obesity is a complex, multifactorial issue and soft drinks play no greater contributing role than any other factor.

Both factors (and others, of course) should have played a role in a complete evaluation of the player.

Neglecting the many, many other factors in the roles of our players.

In football and other sports there are other human factors such as the opposition, the referee, and teammates that play a role in the overall outcome of the game.

Not only was that assertion completely at odds with the uncertain state of the existing science, but it was contradicted by the study itself, in which Dr. McKee and her colleagues acknowledged that several other factors, besides prior participation in football, may influence CTE risk and disease severity, including factors other than cumulative hits to the head, and admitted that it was even «unclear» what roles concussions and repetitive subconcussive hits play in CTE risk, disease severity, and progression.

But the precise risk of these conditions developing in children of older fathers has not been calculated, and other predisposing genetic and environment factors are likely to play a role.

Other factors may play a role as well, including the health of your baby, whether he or she is able to sit up, and more.

Many of these vulnerability factors play a role in other anxiety disorders as well (e.g., Muris, 2007).

Insomuch as haggling and bartering are socio - economic mechanisms to supplement income (please note that this article does not consider the practice of religious alms giving, the taalibe or the role of marabouts, which could be the subject of its own blog post), an understanding of the production of poverty (and the simultaneous production of wealth in other territories) is one factor that disproves the idea that haggling, bartering and re-haggling are reflective of the race, ethnic heritage or culture of the individual.

An extenuating factors were of course Gov. Cuomo's failure to take a strong advocacy role in the removal of Mr. Sheldon, but sometimeswhen woman are wronged other woman have to stand up first and set the tone.

Other factors such as the mode of travel to school probably relate to independence on the part of young people and trust on the part of their parents; while others, most notably family relationships, demonstrate that social and emotional deprivation also plays a role.»

Labour targets Corby, Croydon Central, Plymouth Moor View, Morley and Outwood, Derby North, Gower, Thurrock and Telford all have smaller Conservative majorities than the additional number of voters since 2015 - although in these seats, with much smaller student populations and in some cases many elderly voters, other factors are likely to play a far bigger role in determining the outcome.

In a bid to clarify what role these other factors might have, they drew on data from nearly 480,000 people aged between 40 and 69, who were all part of the UK Biobank study between 2007 and 2010.

The researchers do know that the presence of certain aerosols plays a large role in the formation of ice that leads to precipitation, but they also need to tease out the importance of that with other factors, like the amount of available water vapor and vertical storm winds.

It remains too soon to tell exactly how this climate system will work under changed conditions and other environmental factors — such as whether the cooling effect of the soot generated by industry and burning forests outweighs the warming effect of greenhouse gases — which may play large roles.

The role of bull's - eye size in UV protection does not necessarily discount other environmental factors correlated with latitude; for example, ornithologists have argued that Gloger's rule arises because darker pigmentation comes from a compound that protects feathers from bacteria in the wet, humid tropics.

Scientists can measure how much energy greenhouse gases now add (roughly three watts per square meter), but what eludes precise definition is how much other factors — the response of clouds to warming, the cooling role of aerosols, the heat and gas absorbed by oceans, human transformation of the landscape, even the natural variability of solar strength — diminish or strengthen that effect.

«Black children were slightly older at the first admission than white children, which could represent a subtle marker of diminished access to medical care or a delay in disease recognition,» said Dr. Dotson, who explained other studies have shown that the role of biology in health disparities in chronic diseases is often modest, and there are many other factors, such as access to care and health literacy, that contribute to disparities in care.

The team found that other factors, including the distribution of mass in the front frame, play a role in keeping bicycles upright, an insight that could open up new design possibilities for bike manufacturers.

«Further research is needed to clarify the role of sleep disturbance as either a risk factor for, or an early symptom of, dementia among veterans, and in other populations as well.»

But Ittekkot adds that other factors — such as overfishing and the introduction of exotic species — may also play a role in the blooms.

«Although men are also affected, it seems that other factors play a larger role in the occurrence of conflicts among men,» Bodin Danielsson days.

In addition, he and his team are using their CRISPR / Cas9 DNA - editing platform to study the effects of deleting other potential malaria host - factor genes and to learn more about the roles of these host factors in mosquitoes.

Nesbitt and others claim these advances will fix only some of the problems and can not address the confounding human factors that continue to play a role in runway and flight risk.

Factors other than practice believed to influence athletic performance include genetic attributes, such as fast - twitch muscles and maximum blood oxygenation level; cognitive and psychological traits and behaviors — including confidence, performance anxiety, intelligence and working memory capacity — play roles as well, though researchers don't yet know the significance of each.

The study of HCMV is revealing new ways in which human cells function, highlighting the role of proteins and other factors that have never been described in these ways before.

Whitehead Institute researchers have determined that the transcription factor Nanog, which plays a critical role in the self - renewal of embryonic stem cells, is expressed in a manner similar to other pluripotency markers.

The gene affects credit - card debt the way other genes have been found to play a role in breast cancer: a particular version of the gene increases risk, but many other genetic and environmental factors are important, too.

Although other factors, such as a person's lifestyle or environment, may play a role in the onset of the disease, many researchers think genetics is the biggest factor.

The researchers conclude, «Further prospective studies of the relation between reaction time and mental health outcomes in other samples are needed to gauge whether reaction time is a true risk factor for mental disorders and to confirm the mediating roles played by smoking and allostatic load.»

A key limitation of this study is that researchers were unable to account or control for other factors that may have played a role in lower event rates, hospitalizations and in - hospital deaths.

But since former parental smoking did not eliminate risk, other aspects of the family environment or genetic factors probably play a role.

So, the same risk factors that may increase risk for other neurodegenerative diseases could very well play a role in development of CTE.»

While the finding may help explain the higher proportion of darker colored pigeons in cities, some researchers suggest that other factors may play a larger role.

The team analyzed little studied factors that play a role in ocean acidification (OA)-- changes in water chemistry that threaten the ability of shellfish such as oysters, clams and scallops to create and maintain their shells, among other impacts.

The problem is that many of the factors driving the hemoglobin switch also have other crucial roles in red blood cells and in other parts of the body; knocking them out creates severe new problems.

However, contrary to other studies of astrocyte de-differentiation [3, 4], epidermal growth factor (EGF)- mediated signaling had no role in astrocyte to NSC conversion.

The pioneering work of Dr. Aiello helped demonstrate the role of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in diabetic retinopathy and other retinal disorders, as well as the therapeutic potential of VEGF inhibitors in these conditions.

«Factors other than parental eating behaviors such as community and school, food environment, peer influence, television viewing, as well as individual factors such as self - image and self - esteem seem to play an important role in young people's dietary intake,» said May A. Beydoun, PhD, co-author of the study and a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Bloomberg Factors other than parental eating behaviors such as community and school, food environment, peer influence, television viewing, as well as individual factors such as self - image and self - esteem seem to play an important role in young people's dietary intake,» said May A. Beydoun, PhD, co-author of the study and a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Bloomberg factors such as self - image and self - esteem seem to play an important role in young people's dietary intake,» said May A. Beydoun, PhD, co-author of the study and a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Bloomberg School.

The other factors were Nurr1 and Lmx1a, well - known to play a role during the development of dopaminergic neurons in the embryo.

Along the Gulf Coast, the authors say other factors, such as tidal effects and the ongoing subsidence, or sinking, of the land, can play a more important role.