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| Â | Transhumanism: The BME Encyclopedia |
 | | Indeed, some adherents go so far as to say that we have the responsibility to do so, since traditional evolutionary selection pressures (environmental factors that cause certain traits to become useful for survival) no longer apply to us. | | | That is, because we do everything in our power to care for the weak, the sick, and the infirm, and because we consider it a basic human right to have children, we are no longer evolving along a positive path. |
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| Â | Environmental factors play key role in test scores, but measuring would be difficult - The Clarion-Ledger |
| | The reader pointed out that the quality of teaching in a classroom is only one of several factors that contribute to a child's educational progress. | | | Q: One reason so many people are uncomfortable with the No Child Left Behind Act is that it will punish teachers and schools for things over which they have no control. | | | You observed that achievement test scores are "concrete" and "objective" and therefore superior to any other measure of a school's success. |
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http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041129/NEWS01/411290323/1002
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| Â | National Headache Foundation: Environment and Physical Factors |
| | Many physical factors also can trigger migraine headaches; including overexertion such as bending, straining, or lifting; toothache; or localized head or neck pains. | | | Weather conditions also can increase the severity of a headache induced by other factors. | | | Loud and irritating noises also can precipitate migraine headaches. |
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| Â | Gender Differences in Susceptibility to Environmental Factors: A Priority Assessment -- Executive Summary |
| | Women's health-seeking behavior and their ability to respond to environmental risk will in part be conditioned by their relationships with men, both from a cultural role perspective (i.e., what is appropriate for women and men to do) and what they actually do (behavior). | | | While these individuals have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, responsibility for the final content of this report rests solely with the Committee on Gender Differences in Susceptibility to Environmental Factors and the Institute of Medicine. | | | Work in the international field of women in development suggests that the most powerful analysis is to consider both women and men, and the relations and interactions between them in terms of particular outcomes, such as health. |
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| Â | Social & Environmental Factors Play Important Role In How People Age, Two Studies Find |
| | The precise reason for this happening was beyond the scope of the current study, but the researchers speculate that positive emotions may directly affect health via chemical and neural responses involved in maintaining homeostatic balance. | | | The overall incidence of frailty increased almost eight percent during the seven-year follow-up period, but those who scored high on positive affect were significantly less likely to become frail. | | | Two studies report on this in the September issue of Psychology and Aging, a journal published by the American Psychological Association (APA). |
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| | Nursing Research (NINR) - National Institute of Environmental Health Science (NIEHS) National Institute of Nursing Research - Supports clinical and basic research to establish a scientific basis for the care of individuals across the life span. | | | National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - Supports science that addresses the most fundamental and essential questions about drug abuse, including tracking emerging drug use trends, understanding how drugs work in the brain, and developing and testing new drug treatment and prevention approaches. | | | Bad Bug Book - Provides basic facts regarding foodborne pathogenic microorganisms and natural toxins |
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| Â | Journal of Knowledge Management Practice, |
| | Because the goal of this study was to explore the relationship between organizational culture types and various environmental factors influencing knowledge transfer, it was naturally important to assess only those organizations that one would expect to have a discernable culture. | | | These factors include the varied experiences and values of the organization’s membership and a framework for evaluating and incorporating new experiences and information through embedded routines, processes, practices, and norms. | | | To that end, this research also endeavors to demonstrate what cultural factors might be “manipulated” to make an organization more amenable to knowledge transfer. |
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| Â | Meguiar's Online -- Environmental Factors |
| | Add sunlight, another very beneficial element, to the equation and a more aggressive synergy begins. | | | This is only one example of how only three environment factors synergize. | | | Sunlight Exposure- One of the more critical factors. |
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http://www.meguiars.com/nada/environmental_factors.cfm
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| Â | Environmental factor affected the microbial breakdown of organic with environmental friendly product |
| | Environmental factor affected the microbial breakdown of organic with environmental friendly product | | | There are three environmental factors affecting the interwoven chemical and microbial breakdown of the organic matter. | | | Obviously, the closer the moisture content of a composting mass approaches these low levels, the slower will be the compost process. |
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http://www.microtack.com/html/compost_environment.html
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| Â | HealthCentral.com - Best Doctors - Do Environmental Factors Influence The Risk Of Getting Pancreatic Cancer? - ... |
| | You should promptly seek professional medical care if you have any concern about your health, and you should always consult your physician before starting a fitness regimen. | | | A history of smoking is one of the most common important risk factors for this type of cancer. | | | Alcohol isn’t exactly an environmental factor, but heavy drinking can cause a chronic inflammation of the pancreas, called pancreatitis, that in turn can increase one’s risk of developing cancer of that organ. |
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http://www.healthcentral.com/BestDoctors/BestDoctorsFulltext.cfm?ID=38509&st...
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| Â | VERC - Robert L. Wample's biography |
| | Environmental factors affecting the physiology and development of Blackleaf in Concord Grapevines. | | | Environmental and crop load effects on cluster development. | | | Wample, R.L. Effects of mechanical pruning on fruit quality. |
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http://www.cati.csufresno.edu/verc/pers/stories/r-wample.html
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| Â | Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors in New York State |
| | We welcome feedback via our Response Page - including questions, comments, and opinions. | | | The Cornell Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors ( BCERF) is housed within the Sprecher Institute for Comparative Cancer Research, a part of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine ( CVM). | | | Our web site is a resource that provides science-based information on the relationships between breast cancer and environmental risk factors, including pesticides and dietary factors. |
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| Â | Part II. Recommendations for Isolation Precautions in Hospitals |
| | Develop a system to ensure that hospital patients, personnel, and visitors are educated about use of precautions and their responsibility for adherence to them. | | | Host factors such as age; underlying diseases; certain treatments with antimicrobials, corticosteroids, or other immunosuppressive agents; irradiation; and breaks in the first line of defense mechanisms caused by such factors as surgical operations, anesthesia, and indwelling catheters may render patients more susceptible to infection. | | | Remove the gown before leaving the patient's environment. |
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| | Library of Environmental Writing, from the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment | | | Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment | | | Place and Identity Bibliography, by Richard A. Viti |
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| Â | The Llewellyn Encyclopedia: Eastern Thought |
| | Chi is a complex form of energy that manifests itself in your vitality, your spirit, and your life. | | | feng shui The science and study of the effect of environmental factors on living. | | | Includes guidelines for determining the best location and direction of your home and workplace; where the rooms in your home should be to best facilitate energy flow; and how to create a garden that will bring positive energy and good luck into your home. |
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http://www.llewellynencyclopedia.com/subjects.php?gen_sbj=Eastern+Thought
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| | In conjunction with researchers from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), NCI researchers will support research to determine how recognized risk factors and specific environmental exposures may be contributing to the excess breast cancer deaths. | | | Several studies assessing exposures to organochlorines and other fat-seeking halogenated compounds are expected to provide vital information on potential breast cancer risk factors in the environment. | | | California Health Maintenance Study NCI-funded researchers are also studying women enrolled in the Kaiser Permanente prepaid health maintenance plan in California. |
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| Â | Environmental factors cause cancers |
| | The scientists did not identify what environmental factors may lead to cancer, but noted that a poor diet, lack of exercise, radiation and pollution are likely culprits, along with lifestyle choices like smoking. | | | Inherited genetic factors make a minor contribution to a person’s susceptibility to most types of cancer, the researchers found. | | | "Environmental factors are more important than gene factors, and that's important to remember, especially since everyone thinks that everything is solved now that we have the human genome in our computers," said Paul Lichtenstein of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. |
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| Â | Corticosteroids might be used to prevent an acute airway inflammatory reaction induced by environmental factors |
| | This study demonstrates that corticosteroids might exert anti-inflammatory effects in acute inflammatory reactions induced by environmental factors. | | | Please send any medical news or health news press releases to: | | | Alexandra Ek (Division of Physiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden) and her colleagues studied the effect of corticosteroids on airway inflammatory response induced by inhalation of organic dust in healthy individuals working in a swine barn. |
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| Â | Environmental Factors |
| | This requires understanding the environmental requirements of individual plants and how to meet those requirements in practice. | | | Success in horticulture is often said to depend on getting "right plant in the right place". |
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http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/mgonline/Botany/env03/00env03.htm
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| Â | Environmental Factors in the Causation of Autism |
| | Increasing reported levels of autism have been reported from many parts of the world but, as has been pointed out on a number of occasions, this may reflect no more that increasing awareness of the disorder and changing diagnostic criteria (Gillberg 1998a; Wing 1996). | | | We would, therefore, suggest that it should be examined within the context of this group of disorders in which "environmental factors" are involved. | | | It is difficult to consider each element in isolation in a system in which so many factors are changing and in which the interplay between these factors is so complex. |
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| Â | WHO Burden of disease attributable to selected environmental factors and injuries among Europe's children and ... |
| | The methods used to estimate the burden of child disease attributable to each risk factor are described separately for each risk factor, and are consistent with those developed by WHO for the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study (WHO, 2000a). | | | Due to the limited availability of complete data on exposures and health effects in all age groups, estimates of the disease burden attributable to certain risk factors did not include the complete child age range (0-19 years) and should therefore be considered conservative. | | | This study aims to estimate the burden of childhood disease and injury attributable to environmental risks in the WHO European Region, as well as the health gains that could be achieved by reducing the exposure of the child population to these risks. |
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http://www.who.int/quantifying_ehimpacts/publications/9241591900/en/index1.html
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| Â | AZ Master Gardener Manual: Environmental Factors |
| | Therefore, it is important to understand the environmental aspects that affect plant growth. | | | Limiting factors are also responsible for the geography of plant distribution. | | | If any one environmental factor is less than ideal it will become a limiting factor in plant growth. |
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http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/mg/botany/environmental.html
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| Â | Environmental Factors |
| | They encompass anything in our environment that makes us more likely to eat too much or exercise too little. | | | Genetic factors are the forces inside you that help you gain weight and stay overweight, but environmental factors are the outside forces that contribute to these problems. | | | Go to www.lhj.com/privacy to view our privacy policy. |
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http://www.lhj.com/lhj/story.jhtml?storyid=/templatedata/lhj/story/data/WL_EnvironFactors_03152002.xml&catref=cat290010
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| Â | Genetic Disease Information |
| | Inheritance Patterns of Monogenic Disorders - From the Genetic Interest Group in the U.K. Genetics - From the Medical Encyclopedia at MEDLINEplus. | | | Both environmental and genetic factors have roles in the development of any disease. | | | For example, different genes that influence breast cancer susceptibility have been found on chromosomes 6, 11, 13, 14, 15, 17, and 22. |
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| Â | How to Screen Investments for Social and Environmental Factors |
| | This strategy involves a kind of "free social market model" where companies within the same industries compete with one another for the best records on a variety of social issues (for example, environmental awareness, the best records for the recruitment-training-promotion of women and minorities, and family-friendly practices). | | | The first thing to remember is that socially responsible investing is not that different from traditional investing. | | | This strategy involves the most stringent social screening - no investment connections to companies with bad environmental records, that use animals in product testing, that have a connection to the nuclear-power industry, etc. Since this strategy is so exclusive, it is sometimes difficult to apply. |
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http://www.goodmoney.com/srihowto.htm
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| | This table provides information on environmental factors which are associated with different causes of death, based on regression analysis (see Methods). | | | The last three columns give the percentages explained for factors considered separately, including the number of Superfund sites (SF), toxic chemical releases (TRI), and excess cancer deaths due to environmental exposures derived from the EPA's Cumulative Exposure Project (CEP). | | | Specific factors include the criteria emissions carbon monoxide (CO), volatile organic compounds (VOC), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and particles in the air (PM10), and toxic release chemicals grouped by the organs they may affect. |
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| Â | TAP: Web Feature: Environmental Factors. by Mary Lynn F. Jones. May 21, 2003. |
| | And Whitman was no doubt perturbed that she couldn't really say what she thought about the president's positions. | | | That's what made Whitman such an awkward fit. | | | This article may not be resold, reprinted, or redistributed for compensation of any kind without prior written permission from the author. |
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| Â | AZ Master Gardener Manual: Environmental Factors (Indoor Plants) |
| | A southern exposure is the warmest, eastern and western are less warm, and a northern exposure is the coolest. | | | Reflective (light-colored) surfaces inside the home/office will increase the intensity of light available to plants. | | | Light is probably the most essential factor for indoor plant growth. |
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http://ag.arizona.edu/pubs/garden/mg/indoor/environmental.html
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| | Training, experience and "cohesion: are important factors in deciding who wins and loses. | | | This is a system designed with the history enthusiast as well as the game player in mind. | | | It is a research engine that lets you experiment with the technology, tactics & doctrine of the countries involved. |
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| Â | Relocation of Civilization Centers in Ancient China: Environmental Factors |
| | This paper analyzes the ecological environmental background of the changes of the civilization centers established in the main dynasties and regimes in ancient China, in which the dynamics of population, farmland, forest, and natural disasters for each period are emphasized. | | | The relationship between environmental degradation, wars, and social development cycles, are also discussed. | | | The results show that anthropogenic environmental impact was one of the decisive contributing factors leading to the relocation of the centers of civilization in ancient China. |
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| | For a long time I tried to find out if out-of-body experiences are influenced by environmental factors, such as weather, moon cycles, biorhythms, etc. I usually kept good records of my OBEs so that I could study these variables. | | | Weather doesn't seem to influence my ability to have OBEs. | | | Or click here to return to the index |
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| Â | OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS |
| | These results and the potentially wide use of a new artificial sweetener suggested a need for further examination of the neurobehavioral consequences of aspartame administration. | | | As with MSG, researchers Reynolds, Butler and Lemkey-Johnson (Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health, 2: 471-480, 1976) reported that 0.5 or 1.0 g/kg of aspartame on Days 6-12 resulted in small hypothalamic lesions in neonatal mice. | | | In fact, final approval for consumer use was not finally given until the mid 1980’s. |
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| Â | Environmental factors in diabetes control -DAWN - National; 26 September, 2002 |
| | KARACHI, Sept 25: The onset of diabetes mallitas can be controlled by keeping a check on environmental factors, such as obesity, loss of activity, malnutrition and others. | | | Please Visit our Sponsor (Ads open in separate window) | | | Environmental factors in diabetes control -DAWN - National; 26 September, 2002 |
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http://www.dawn.com/2002/09/26/nat32.htm
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| Â | Tall Fescue Information System, Oregon State University |
| | Although tolerant of low fertility conditions, tall fescue requires moderate fertility levels for good production. | | | Home » Forage Production » Plant Characteristics » Biotic & Abiotic Limitations » Environmental Factors |
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http://forages.oregonstate.edu/is/tfis/enmain.cfm?PageID=94
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| Â | AIHA - The American Industrial Hygiene Association |
| | members only information such as the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene; the full text Synergist; and the latest in legislative information | | | Learn how AIHA members can win two round-trip tickets to anywhere in the U.S. (Courtesy of Delta Airlines) |
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http://www.aiha.org/
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