Sentences with phrase «which environmental triggers»

Finally, our data - base did not include contextual information, which is information about whether and which environmental triggers and cues elicited aggression in our participants.

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Rather, it's descent from a common ancestor (the scientific phrase in use currently is «descent with modification» meaning they share similar underlying foundation, but when they migrate (those that survive) they evolve based on environmental triggers (challenges), which give rise to mutations; that make future generations better suited to live in the new environment.

In fact, «the rapid increase in the incidence and prevalence of IBD in recent decades strongly suggests an environmental trigger for IBD, one of which may be dietary patterns.

It is only now, more than three decades later, that science has the tools to see that this legacy of trauma becomes etched in our DNA — a process known as epigenetics, in which environmental factors trigger genetic changes that may be passed on, just as surely as blue eyes and crooked smiles.

Since the algal species is native to eastern Canada, its recent blooms and rapid proliferation in rivers since 2006 — which have angered anglers looking for pristine waters — have been caused by an environmental trigger, with climate change a likely culprit, said Michelle Lavery, a master's degree student at the Canadian Rivers Institute and lead author of the research, published in theCanadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.

For his part, Ross wonders if perhaps the nasal mucosa — the layer of mucus lining the inside of the nose — «may be a conduit through which some environmental toxin can gain access to the brain,» potentially triggering Parkinson's and disrupting smell along the way.

When produced in excess during times of adversity, these particular miRNAs trigger epigenetic changes, which alter gene activity to cope with these environmental hardships.

«To me, the unfortunate thing is that because electric cars are very closely associated with the left - wing environmental green movement and to combating global warming and reducing CO2, the idea of vehicle electrification triggers this visceral reaction on the part of conservatives, which is, «If it's electric, it must be a product of the Democratic left - wing environmental machine, and therefore, we hate it,»» he said.

«Our research is sufficiently suggestive of an environmental trigger for autism associated with precipitation, of which vitamin D deficiency is one possibility,» says study co-author Michael Waldman, a professor of management and economics at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Research conducted by Jin - Soo Kim and Professor Jong - Seong Kug from the Division of Environmental Science and Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), in collaboration with Professor Su - Jong Jeong from the School of Environmental Science and Engineering at South University of Science and Technology of China, has shown that the warmer Arctic has triggered cooler winters and springs in North America, which has in turn weakened vegetation growth and lowered carbon uptake capacity in its ecosystems.

We identified associated gastrointestinal disease and developmental regression in a group of previously normal children, which was generally associated in time with possible environmental triggers.»

The international science on global environmental change, which has provided the insights we have today on the functioning of the Earth system and impacts on human societies of anthropogenic change, has triggered a concerted global effort, integrating the ICSU / ISSC Visioning process on the Grand Challenges for Earth system research for global sustainability with the Belmont Forum challenge (a coalition of major donors of global environmental change research), to define the future integrated science agenda on Earth system research for global sustainability.

He said about half the cases of schizophrenia, which usually manifests itself during late adolescence or early adulthood, were probably caused by the genes with the other half due to environmental triggers.

Potential environmental triggers include fatigue, stress, infection, exposure to ultraviolet light, and taking certain types of medicines, namely sulfa drugs (which make people more sensitive to sunlight), penicillin or other antibiotics, and tetracycline.

While you need the gene for the disease to be triggered, «there are other factors that facilitate the onset of celiac, one of which is environmental,» he says.

Such environmental factors include frequent use of antibiotics, particularly in the first month of life, as well as having been born via c - section, both of which can disturb the gut microbiome and trigger an immune response.

There are plenty of things that can be done such as testing for those things that are triggering the autoimmunity such as food sensitivities, micronutrient deficiencies, environmental, chemical and genetic factors which all may contribute.

Other common triggers are a diet of highly refined carbohydrates, food additives, environmental contaminants, inadequate digestive enzymes, and exposure to chronic stress (especially mental / emotional) which reduces blood flow to the gut leaving it unable to repair itself.

Over the course of his many years of experience working with AD patients, he has identified several AD «types,» each of which is caused by a unique combination of dietary, environmental, and lifestyle triggers.

On a deeper level, it helps heal your body by flushing out free radicals and toxins, which are among the top five environmental triggers since we are exposed to industrial chemicals everyday.

For instance, genetic diseases may be recessive, which means that both parents must contribute a gene for the disease to be expressed, or regulated by multiple genes that may even be located on different chromosomes, or even triggered by environmental factors.

The remaining projects, all loans, include Yvonne Domengue's red painted steel sculpture Wind Waves (2009), which starting in January will spend a year on a park island east of the Sam Houston sculpture; Orly Genger's football - field - length painted rope sculpture Boys Cry Too (2009), which will lay directly on the grass at Brays Bayou Shore for a year starting in March; and MicroPavilion: ReFRAME x FRAME, which is billed as «a motion - triggered sound installation based on environmental data» by the University of Houston Graduate Design / BUILD Studio.

According to the doctors, her son had suffered an asthma attack, which she later found out, had been triggered by environmental pollution.

James Hansen, adjunct professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Columbia University and former Head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies claims the melting ice could lead to the point where ocean floor warming triggers massive release of methane hydrate, i.e., methane molecules trapped in ice crystals, which would become a «tipping point.»

Climate threshold - The point at which external forcing of the climate system, such as the increasing atmospheric concentration of heat - trapping gases (greenhouse gas es), triggers a significant climatic or environmental event which is considered unalterable, or recoverable only on very long time - scales, such as widespread bleaching of corals or a collapse of oceanic circulation systems.

The trigger for this position by the ACM is a plan in the national Energieakkoord which is an agreement between organisations representing employers, employees, environmental NGO's, companies and other social actors that aims to benefit the transition to a more sustainable energy policy and sustainable economic development in the Netherlands.