Sentences with phrase «shows environmental stress»

Michael Romero of Tufts University, who studies stress responses in wildlife and was not involved in the study, says, «The neat thing about this paper is that it showed environmental stress lowered [reproductive success].»

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Taken together, the maps showing intensity of recreational use as well as environmental stress provide federal and regional officials with an unprecedented scientific foundation upon which to sustainably manage the Great Lakes, where current restoration efforts exceed $ 1.5 billion, the researchers conclude.

However, in a new paper published in Proceedings of the National of Sciences USA (PNAS) scientists from the University of Helsinki, Faculty of Science, show that key environmental parameters, namely climate - related primary productivity, biodiversity, and pathogen stress have strong influence on the global pattern of population densities of ethnographically documented hunter - gatherers.

In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers and students at the University's School of Environmental Sciences designed a new type of experiment to show how as magma cools, it contracts and accumulates stress, until it cracks.

A new study linking paleoclimatology — the reconstruction of past global climates — with historical analysis by researchers at Yale and other institutions shows a link between environmental stress and its impact on the economy, political stability, and war - fighting capacity of ancient Egypt.

Although prions are typically associated with negative effects, recent research from Whitehead Member Susan Lindquist's lab has shown that prions can introduce evolutionarily beneficial traits that help an organism survive environmental stresses.

In recent years, Blackburn has expanded on that initial work to show that these gauges of cellular health serve as barometers of environmental and emotional stress and predictors of various diseases.

Either way, previous studies have shown that proteins made from Jumonji genes work to control many other genes that orchestrate developmental processes — and that environmental stress, such as from heat, can change the way these genes turn on and off.

A protein that normally protects cells from environmental stresses has been shown to interact Marburg virus VP24, allowing the deadly Marburg virus to live longer and replicate better, according to a cell culture study led by scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

The researchers found that many of these additional methylation sites corresponded to sites that previous studies had shown to be sensitive to environmental and social factors such as maternal smoking, exposure to diesel exhaust, and psychosocial stress.

Metabolomics showed that chronic fatigue syndrome is a highly concerted hypometabolic response to environmental stress that traces to mitochondria and was similar to the classically studied developmental state of dauer.

We furthermore show that several of these RNA modifications have a dynamic response to environmental stress and that, in particular, changes in the tRNA wobble base modification 5 - methoxycarbonylmethyl -2-thiouridine (mcm (5) s (2) U) lead to codon - biased gene - expression changes in starved animals.

Although the pattern of the stress response that shows up largely depends on the situation itself, there is a certain personal tendency that is determined by genetic, developmental and environmental factors.

And finally, we show you how to make some powerful lifestyle changes involving things like sleep, sun exposure, environmental toxins, stress, and just learning to accept yourself for who you are.

Some types of worms will not show any signs of infestation until in the later stages, such as in a pregnant female dog or times of environmental stress where roundworms activate multiply.

This has actually even been shown to be true of environmental stress on BOTH male and female parents during the creation of the individual sperm and egg cells.

In assembling an archive rather than producing art objects, Chan stresses the collaborative community - oriented process involved in the project, and shows how, in the face of social, political, and environmental collapse, there might be an antidote to the alienation of contemporary life in such collaborations.

Using WBGT as a measure of environmental conditions conducive to heat stress, we show that anthropogenic influence has very substantially increased the likelihood of extreme high summer mean WBGT in northern hemispheric land areas relative to the climate that would have prevailed in the absence of anthropogenic forcing.

Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is a textbook example of modern environmental challenges — not because of the potential gravity of pollination declines or an intrinsic fascination we may have for our stingy honey - producing friends — but because it shows ecological stresses become actual disturbances when these start adding up.

Stress, pollution and environmental degradation are all taking a toll on our health, which is showing in the common illnesses that we suffer from every now and then.

While no other studies, to our knowledge, have explored the buffering effects of the caregiving environment in the stress - asthma association, animal studies have shown that environmental enrichment can reverse the effects of early stress experiences on stress reactivity.51 Laviola et al52 and Morley - Fletcher et al53 have shown that environmental enrichment eliminates the outcomes of prenatal stress on corticosterone response and reactivity to an immune - suppressive agent.

Similarly, Francis et al54 have shown that environmental enrichment can reverse the effects of early stress on HPA activation and behavioral response to stress.

In humans, both the HPA system and the autonomic nervous system show developmental changes in infancy, with the HPA axis becoming organized between 2 and 6 months of age and the autonomic nervous system demonstrating relative stability by 6 to 12 months of age.63 The HPA axis in particular has been shown to be highly responsive to child - caregiver interactions, with sensitive caregiving programming the HPA axis to become an effective physiological regulator of stress and insensitive caregiving promoting hyperreactive or hyporeactive HPA systems.17 Several animal models as well as human studies also support the connection between caregiver experiences in early postnatal life and alterations of autonomic nervous system balance.63 - 65 Furthermore, children who have a history of sensitive caregiving are more likely to demonstrate optimal affective and behavioral strategies for coping with stress.66, 67 Therefore, children with histories of supportive, sensitive caregiving in early development may be better able to self - regulate their physiological, affective, and behavioral responses to environmental stressors and, consequently, less likely to manifest disturbed HPA and autonomic reactivity that put them at risk for stress - related illnesses such as asthma.

Stress regulation in children is important for understanding the development and prevention of psychiatric disorders.1 Environmental factors that operate at key points in development may shape affective and behavioral regulation and hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal (HPA) axis function in children, much as environmental factors have been shown to shape HPA regulation in rodents and nonhuman primates.2 Early experiences in rodents exert lifelong organizing effects on stress responsStress regulation in children is important for understanding the development and prevention of psychiatric disorders.1 Environmental factors that operate at key points in development may shape affective and behavioral regulation and hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal (HPA) axis function in children, much as environmental factors have been shown to shape HPA regulation in rodents and nonhuman primates.2 Early experiences in rodents exert lifelong organizing effects on stress Environmental factors that operate at key points in development may shape affective and behavioral regulation and hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal (HPA) axis function in children, much as environmental factors have been shown to shape HPA regulation in rodents and nonhuman primates.2 Early experiences in rodents exert lifelong organizing effects on stress environmental factors have been shown to shape HPA regulation in rodents and nonhuman primates.2 Early experiences in rodents exert lifelong organizing effects on stress responsstress responsivity.

The consistency of assessment of family functioning, parental stress (except personal stress) and QoL (social relationships and environmental domains) in parent dyads has been shown.