Among users, access to below - cost energy encourages waste,
with environmental stress an added by - product.
Those with high levels of biospheric concern also were most likely to engage in pro-environmental day - to - day behaviors, such as recycling or energy savings measures, and were the most likely to engage in coping mechanisms to deal
with environmental stress, ranging from denying one's individual role in climate change to seeking more information on the issue and how to help mitigate it.
The mutation that helped them deal
with environmental stress just happened to confer resistance to the drug, used to treat TB and meningitis (BMC Evolutionary Biology, doi.org/kks).
The cause of the wasting disease is unknown, though scientists working on the mystery are testing whether an underlying virus or bacteria is to blame, along
with some environmental stress, such as water temperature or salt content, making the organisms more vulnerable to it.
The finding suggests that sex may have evolved to cope
with environmental stresses that generate free radicals.
And as has been conclusively demonstrated in literally thousands of scientific studies, the more CO2 we put into the air, the better plants grow, producing greater amounts of biomass and becoming more efficient at using water, and better able to cope
with environmental stresses such as pollution and high temperatures.
Not exact matches
With the U.S. under environmental and political stress to provide itself with alternative sources of energy, moving fusion power from the chalkboard to the power grid as quickly as possible was really the only option when the NIF was approved in 1
With the U.S. under
environmental and political
stress to provide itself
with alternative sources of energy, moving fusion power from the chalkboard to the power grid as quickly as possible was really the only option when the NIF was approved in 1
with alternative sources of energy, moving fusion power from the chalkboard to the power grid as quickly as possible was really the only option when the NIF was approved in 1997.
Stress, as defined by the Jobs Rated methodology, is determined by 11 factors: travel, deadlines, working in the public eye, competitiveness, physical demands,
environmental conditions, hazards encountered, the life of oneself or others at risk, meeting and interacting
with customers and / or the public, and the potential for job growth.
Our key target is to produce hybrid rice
with consistently high - yield heterosis (hybrid vigor), good grain quality, tolerance to key
environmental stresses, multiple resistances to insect pests and diseases, and high seed production yield.
Our research into hybrid rice now focuses on producing hybrid rice
with consistently high - yield heterosis (hybrid vigor), good grain quality, tolerance to key
environmental stresses, multiple resistances to insect pests and diseases, and high seed production yield.
But one of the most important findings of this new cohort of researchers is that for most children, the
environmental factors that matter most have less to do
with the buildings they live in than
with the relationships they experience — the way the adults in their lives interact
with them, especially in times of
stress.
Stefanie Covino, Coordinator of the Shaping the Future of Your Community program notes, «Our water resources are increasingly
stressed, but conserving and restoring the natural landscape
with native plants can offer social,
environmental, and economic benefits such as improved air quality, property values, energy savings, and habitat — both locally and downstream.»
With the Conservative party increasingly
stressing its green credentials, Gordon Brown was under pressure to outline his own
environmental vision as he outlined his 11th, and most likely, final budget as chancellor.
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.
While pursuing her project on how
environmental contaminants and oxidative
stress cause lung cancer, Gelhaus complemented her postdoctoral training by spending some time
with other PIs at Penn. «She has worked hard to develop skills that are independent of those available in my own laboratory while working on a project that is central to my research program,» Blair writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.
In August of 2012, Savage began studying how diversity differed across habitats
with different levels of
environmental stress.
But
stress «prepares us to deal
with environmental challenges,» he notes, preparing us to fight or flee, and it keeps us paying attention to our surroundings.
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.
Here's what the researchers think is going on in those nests that were inundated
with water, clay or silt: The
environmental conditions for those eggs are not great, which likely impedes gas exchange through the shells of the eggs, leading to greater embryonic
stress and possibly death.
The onset of winter, drought, or other
environmental stress will trigger some of D. magna's developing parthenogenetic offspring to become males, who then mate
with the parthenogenetic females.
«I think what's needed for collective invasion will depend on the
environmental stresses the cancer cells face, and it may shift
with treatment,» Marcus says.
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.
«The researchers now plan to team up
with other world - leading experts in cancer signalling based in Manchester including Professor Nic Jones, Director of MCRC and Cancer Research UK Chief Scientist who heads the Cell Regulation Laboratory, which studies how cells respond to sudden adverse changes in their surroundings, known as
environmental stress.
The researchers
stress that prevention and harm reduction initiatives need to be adapted to reduce the risk of harm among in this population, where increased rates of experimentation and
environmental characteristics may augment and combine to increase risks associated
with consuming lesser - known psychoactive substances.
Although not generally
stressed about climate change, those
with high levels of altruistic concern, or concern for the well - being of others, also engaged in some
environmental coping strategies and pro-
environmental behaviors — more so than those whose
environmental concerns were mostly egoistic.
To coordinate their size and growth
with current
environmental conditions, cells rely on the mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) pathway, which senses cellular
stresses, growth factors, and the availability of nutrients, such as amino acids and glucose.
This research group demonstrated that corals more actively digest and expel damaged symbiotic zooxanthellae under conditions of thermal
stress, and that this is likely to be a mechanism that helps corals to cope
with environmental change.
This response may be an adaptive strategy to moderate
stress to ensure survival, but the accumulation of damaged Symbiodinium, which causes subsequent coral deterioration, may occur when this response can not cope
with the magnitude or duration of
environmental stress, and this might be a possible mechanism underlying coral bleaching during prolonged moderate thermal
stress.
The theory on how the genetic susceptibility for schizophrenia combines
with environmental stressors to result in a person developing schizophrenia is known as the predisposition /
stress model, or diathesis -
stress model).
The researchers said this process might be dominant in plants that experience long - term high light
stress combined
with other
environmental stressors, such as drought or cold temperatures.
A focus of her current work is assessing the relationship between social inequality, psychosocial
stress and how these factors may interact
with chemical exposures to amplify pollution / health outcome relationships and produce
environmental health inequalities.
In the College of Sciences, Professor Gerald Edwards works on the effects of
environmental stress and global climate change on carbon acquisition and usage in photosynthesis of higher plants,
with current research focusing on a novel type of photosynthesis.
Hence, exposed gypsum to
environmental stresses leads to solubility - driven degradation, and loss of cohesion of the crystal aggregates,
with resulting aesthetic degradation.
Integrated systems biology approaches can identify gene regulatory networks, such as immune,
stress and other regulatory responses, and link them
with physiologic states.6 This bioinformatics approach provides an unbiased view of the immune system profile, and can be linked to changes in
environmental conditions.7 These network approaches, while often applied to identifying disease profiles, can be used to identify salutary states as well, such as that which might result from intensive meditation.
What's more, inherited diseases can arise from a problem
with one gene (a simple example is sickle - cell anemia, a condition caused by defects in a single gene that makes the hemoglobin protein), or from interactions among a range of genetic variations as well as, frequently,
environmental stresses.
These
environmental factors associated
with triggering schizophrenia includ
stress and substance abuse, as well as many other factors [see the long list of
environmental factors associated
with schizophrenia]
It focuses on the mechanisms underlying the expression and the inheritance of the effects of
environmental conditions such as traumatic
stress in early postnatal life, on behavior and physiology, and their link
with diseases in humans.
These results
stress the role of the
environmental microbial communities, in combination
with unintentional antibiotic release, as potential recruitment pools for human pathogens.
This sea anemone is a relatively simple diploblastic animal
with a tube - shaped body (see Video 1), but it displays a striking morphological feature: the extensive remodelling of its tentacle tubes in response to diverse
environmental constrains such as nutrient availability,
stress, and injury (Figure 1).
Moreover, risk factors may be different for different individuals - while one person may develop schizophrenia due largely to a strong family history of mental illness (e.g. a high level of genetic risk), someone else
with much less genetic vulnerability may also develop the disease due to a more significant combination of prepregnancy factors, pregnancy
stress, other prenatal factors, social
stress, family
stress or
environmental factors that they experience during their childhood, teen or early adult years.
Despite the
environmental stress that comes
with being in a combat zone, I was able to start my day energized, focused, and feeling great,
with a full reservoir of willpower to spend on the decisions and actions I needed to survive and accomplish my mission as a Navy SEAL leader during wartime.
The betaine present in beets is also a powerful compound that can protects cells, proteins and enzymes in the human body from
environmental stress and help prevent chronic diseases associated
with inflammation such as several types of heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
I believe depression is a meaningful symptom of a biological mismatch
with our lifestyles — we eat poorly, harbor too much
stress, lack sufficient physical movement, deprive ourselves of natural sunlight, expose ourselves to
environmental toxins, and take too many drugs.
Holy Basil, or tulsi, also regulates hormones and can help the body deal
with emotional
stress, as well as give protection against
environmental and ingested toxins.
, or tulsi, also regulates hormones and can help the body deal
with emotional
stress, as well as give protection against
environmental and ingested
We come in contact
with environmental toxins and
stress on a daily basis.
A woman's genetic make up, coupled
with environmental triggers and lifestyle (such as diet and
stress levels), shifts hormones in such a way where libido can be affected.
Following the foundational needs of the body, Dr. Maxim offers a step-wise program of removing triggers (food sensitivities, heavy metals,
stress,
environmental toxins), detoxifying the body and then flooding the body
with nutrients to get it functioning and healing properly.
These signals tell the body how to metabolize fats, proteins and carbohydrates, and how to cope
with «
environmental stress».
What may seem like normal for our overworked and exhausted society, which is inundated
with out - of - your - control
environmental and
stress factors, is eroding the fundamental health of your gut.