Sentences with phrase «significant numbers of humans»

In that time period he wiped out significant numbers of humans twice.

However, there remains a significant number of human beings who need and want help, but can't get it for a variety of reasons, including not being able to afford it or being unable to find someone to help them.

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«Yes, we must protect the environment — it is our number one resource — but at the end of the day, studies have pointed to global warming, human contact, coastal development» as other significant threats to coral.

A significant number of jobs are in content review, where A.I. still needs a lot of human help in protecting the company from what Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg called «bad actors.»

Back in the «50s, technologist Alan Turing said that true artificial intelligence would be a reality if a computer could fool a significant number of those judging (like more than 30 percent) into making them believe they were talking to a fellow human.

It is significant that there are an increasing number of those who believe that God's life itself must be conceived as having an element of adventure and movement into an open future, else we can not conceive that He enters sympathetically into our human experience.23

You should too, and I think you'll find that a vast number of things which aren't just made up could indeed be natural occurrences that coincide with some significant human endeavors.

For the first time in the history of creation, the life support systems of the Planet Earth are being destroyed by human activities... Throughout history humans have caused locally significant damage to the environment, but never before have human numbers and actions combined to threaten the integrity of the entire planet.

«A weapon of mass destruction (WMD or WoMD) is a nuclear, radiological, chemical, biological or other weapon that can kill and bring significant harm to a large number of humans or cause great damage to human - made structures (e.g. buildings), natural structures (e.g. mountains), or the biosphere.»

There have been a number of significant pandemics in human history, generally zoonoses that came about with domestication of animals - such as influenza and tuberculosis.

The results showed a statistically significant number of genes associated with domestication which overlapped between domestic animals and modern humans, but not with their wild equals, like Neanderthals.

«The significant human component in the behavior of reservoirs means that physics - based modeling quickly becomes intractable in settings with large number of reservoirs.»

«The three papers come to perhaps different numbers, but we're all within uncertainty ranges, well within them, and lends confidence to the statement that there was a significant human influence on the amount of precipitation that was produced by Hurricane Harvey,» he said.

In one of the first studies to directly compare the medical records of a large number of adults with their Neanderthal - derived DNA, researchers have confirmed that Neandertal genes have a subtle but significant impact on modern human biology.

«This study evaluated the number of minors who visited an emergency department over a two year period for injuries resulting from contact with law enforcement and demonstrates this issue comes with significant financial, if not human, cost,» says Alexandre Rotta, MD, FCCM, Chief, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at UH Rainbow and the study's senior investigator.

We report here a significant improvement in the resolution of array CGH, with the development of an array platform that utilizes single - stranded DNA array elements to accurately measure copy - number changes of individual exons in the human genome.

They reported in a recent study in PLoS ONE using human cells that the flavones not only killed a significant number of bacteria, but also had a synergy against them in the presence of antibiotics.

His laboratory has also discovered and characterized a significant number of novel genes contributing to autism and human neurodevelopmental disorders, and has recently applied whole - genome sequencing technologies and large - scale genomics datasets to prenatal detection and interpretation of structural variation in the genome.

He is best known for his discovery that copy - number variation — a state in which cells have an abnormal number of DNA sections, sometimes associated with susceptibility or resistance to disease — is widespread and significant in the human genome.

However, when the humans were strangers, the dogs stuck around 53 % of the time and wolves 28 % — a difference too small to be statistically significant considering the small number of animals involved.

Based on an extensive review of available research on the subject, OVMA has concluded that BSL is not an effective method of reducing the number of dog bites in humans, and that it has resulted in significant negative consequences for both people and dogs in Ontario.»

Official records from health departments and animal control agencies across the country show that the number of dog bites have plummeted to historic lows, despite the significant increase in both the human and dog population.

The result of this is a threefold whammy: 1) unlicensed activities continue at the same rate (or increase as the human population increases); 2) a significant number of pet owners who want to be law - abiding citizens give up banned breeds, quit feeding neighborhood cats or terminate valuable breeding programs rather than operate illegally or cope with unreasonable laws and increased fees; and 3) because demand for many beloved breeds does not decline when a law is passed, people who know little about breeds or breeding move into the void to fill demand.

Untitled (Human Mask) captures a number of significant themes in Pierre Huyghe's body of work: the enigmatic and uncanny situations found in the film suggest a collapse of biological and cultural distinctions.

Wilke has also participated in a large number of significant group exhibitions including the forthcoming exhibition Virginia Woolf: an exhibition based on her writing, Tate St Ives (2018); Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950 - 1980, Met Breuer, New York (2017); Body Talk, Rose Art Museum, Waltham (2017); Feminist Avant - Garde of the 1970s, ZKM, Karlsruhe (2017), travelling to Stavanger Art Museum, Norway and The Brno House of Arts, Brno (2018); I Remember Not Remembering, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (2017); The Beguiling Siren is Thy Crest, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw (2017); Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London (2016); Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 - 2016, Hauser & Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles (2016); Americana: Formalizing Craft, Perez Art Museum, Miami (2013); Aquatopia: The Imaginary of the Ocean Deep, Nottingham Contemporary (2013); Human Nature, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2012); Naked Before the Camera, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2012); Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Seattle Art Museum (2012); The Body as Protest, Albertina Museum, Vienna (2012); Ourselves, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2012); The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, MoMA, New York and elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010).

Through a series of significant artist residencies and personal travels, a critical number of regional artists have investigated our Polar regions, with many reflecting on the motivations for human exploration at the ends of the habitable landscape.

According to a recent article in Eos (Doran and Zimmermann, «Examining the Scientific consensus on Climate Change `, Volume 90, Number 3, 2009; p. 22 - 23 — only available for AGU members — update: a public link to the article is here), about 58 % of the general public in the US thinks that human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing the mean global temperature, as opposed to 97 % of specialists surveyed.

Although no conclusive proof exists that GM cereals may be harmful to human beings, and in some regions their use has brought about economic growth which has helped to resolve problems, there remain a number of significant difficulties which should not be underestimated.

Mark Bush, an ecologist, noted that «The human population is, therefore, the root cause of most environmental problems, and the sheer number of humans plays a very significant role in degrading the environment.»

NOAA predicts a significant increase in the number of tidal flooding events all up and down the East Coast due to a combination of El Nino and impacts related to human - forced climate change.

A significant number of people care about the fate of the component Σ, because it contributes significantly to the overall mode of operation of the Earth system (such that tipping it modifies the qualitative state of the whole system), it contributes significantly to human welfare (such that tipping it impacts on many people), or it has great value in itself as a unique feature of the biosphere.

Eighth, you don't seem to understand just how significant it is that such a large number of climate scientists (84 %) reaching a consensus that «human - induced warming is occurring.»

The ALJ first concluded that «the FSCC underestimates the negative effects that increased warming will have on human health» and that the FSCC models «do not account for a significant number of important environmental impacts which will occur as a result of climate change.»

Dr Bradley says: «We saw significant increases in the numbers of large, human - started fires over time, especially in the spring.

Other suggestions, based on earlier ABA reports, include: provide legal representation as a matter of right where basic human needs are at stake; provide adequate compensation and funding to those who deliver legal services to ensure effective and competent representation; and have courts adopt standardized, uniform, plain - language forms for proceedings with a significant number of self - represented litigants.

In 2008, a number of significant amendments to the Ontario Human Rights Code came into effect.

For example, a human can distinguish differences in line length, shape orientation, and color (hue) readily without significant processing effort whereas, it may require significant time and effort to identify the number of times the digit «5» appears in a series of numbers.

This approach raises a number of significant human rights issues.

Healthy child development is the foundation for human capital and the basis for future community and economic development.1 A significant body of convergent research emphasises the importance of the prenatal and early years for health and developmental outcomes throughout the life course.2 For a growing number of children, suboptimal developmental trajectories are well established by the time they start school, and become increasingly difficult and costly to modify with the passage of time.3 Thus, investing in young children is important for the prevention of disease later in life and contributes to their full participation in society as healthy and productive adults.4, 5

The USGBC compiles the rankings using «per - capita figures as a measure of the human element of green building, allowing for a fair comparison of the level of green building taking place among states with significant differences in population and, accordingly, number of overall buildings.»