• A diverse teaching faculty will offer students the opportunity to study a wide range of Antarctic organisms (bacteria, algae, invertebrates, and fish), using several different levels of biological analysis (molecular biology, physiological ecology, species diversity, and evolution). (apecs.is)
  • These changes include physiological (ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL), phenotypic and genetic changes. (wakehealth.edu)
  • What physiological and biological adaptations would be needed for Alice for Alice in Wonderland to continue functioning properly after being shrunk to 1/100 her size? (edussay.com)
  • Remembering that Alice is a warm-blooded human being, what type of physiological adaptations would be needed to allow her to continually function normally uninterrupted so that she can run, play, and romp around with all of her new found friends and activities? (edussay.com)
  • It also significantly influences carbon sequestration with their consumption of vegetation jeopardizing the climate change adaptation capacities of local biodiversity. (spc.int)
  • Biological invasions are major threats to biodiversity and ecosystems. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • BECC researchers study how direct and indirect human impacts on the climate and ecosystems influence biodiversity and ecosystem functioning from local to global scales, and how knowledge about these dynamics may inform mitigation and adaptation decisions in the face of such changes. (lu.se)
  • however, experimental neuroscience has not directly advanced the field of machine learning (ML). Here, using neuronal cultures, we demonstrate that increased training frequency accelerates the neuronal adaptation processes. (nature.com)
  • Biological interactions at the ecosystem scale, linked to patchiness in habitat landscapes and seasonal changes in metabolic processes and temperature lead to changes of about 0.3 to 0.5 pH units throughout a year. (c-can.info)
  • Transcription Adaptation during In Vitro Adipogenesis and Osteogenesis of Porcine Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Dynamics of Pathways, Biological Processes, Up-Stream Regulators, and Gene Networks. (oregonstate.edu)
  • This information was fed into national adaptation planning (including NAPAs) and international decision-making processes. (iied.org)
  • [17] As with most human biological processes, this specific order may vary among some individuals. (wikipedia.org)
  • Our Biological Sciences (Zoology) degree is aimed at anyone interested in the broad field of animal biology. (cardiff.ac.uk)
  • Your degree title also remains flexible up until your final year, so that you can either continue with BSc Biological Sciences (Zoology) to graduation, or switch to another of our bioscience degrees during your first two years of study. (cardiff.ac.uk)
  • social and biological phenomena. (who.int)
  • Proteins/genes with a putative catabolic role and bacterium adaptation mechanisms during OPP degradation were identified via genomic and proteomic analysis. (nature.com)
  • New systems processing of numerous and different kinds of signals, math- must capture the specific biological mechanisms of opera- ematical and computational methods are required to model tion and distributed regulation at work within the genome. (lu.se)
  • An understanding of the mechanisms that underlie these features is of fundamental importance for all biological disciplines. (lu.se)
  • These difficulties are compounded in the case of biological invasion mitigation. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • The resulting debates between advocates and critics of biological invasion mitigation are doomed to remain sterile unless the whole diversity of points of view is considered and the relationships between human beings and non-human beings (i.e., plants and animals) are considered in their full complexity. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • We show how such an approach can be implemented in practice without paralyzing biological invasion mitigation. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • 2019). These difficulties are compounded in the case of biological invasion mitigation, which plays an increasingly important role in numerous conservation policies and strategies (Goodell et al. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • Biological invasion mitigation plays a key role in numerous conservation action plans and environmental policies. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • Zoology is the study of all kinds of animals, including their anatomy, physiology, genetics, and their adaptations for survival and reproduction in different environments. (cardiff.ac.uk)
  • Ocean biology provides many unique examples of life cycles, adaptations, and important relationships among organisms (symbiosis, predator-prey dynamics, and energy transfer) that do not occur on land. (hawaii.edu)
  • Neo-Darwinism characterises biological adaptation as a one-sided process, in which organisms adapt to their environment but not vice versa. (jyu.fi)
  • Conclusions: Many aspects of biological differences between fungal species cannot be explained by current knowledge obtained from genome sequences. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • Analysis indicated a larger and more coordinated transcriptomic adaptation during adipogenesis compared to osteogenesis, with a larger induction of metabolism, particularly lipid synthesis (mostly triglycerides), and a larger use of amino acids for synthesis of feed-forward adipogenic compounds, larger cell signaling, lower cell-to-cell interactions, particularly for the cytoskeleton organization and cell junctions, and lower cell proliferation. (oregonstate.edu)
  • Molecules: Our focus is on pro-stress as well as anti-stress systems and their risks/adaptations as they may relate to susceptibility vs. resilience (respectively) in terms of stress-alcohol interactions. (ohsu.edu)
  • Her research ranges from empirically-based case studies in Latin America, Southeast Asia and Eastern Africa, to legal analysis examining the interactions between international legal regimes in particular between the Convention on Biological Diversity, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and international human rights treaties. (lu.se)
  • The workshop focused on research needed for characterizing exposures to nanomaterials among workers, other populations, and environments by measuring and modeling exposure levels, and by monitoring indicators of biological responses through the product life of a nanomaterial. (cdc.gov)
  • SARS-CoV-2 variants evolved during the early stage of the pandemic and effects of mutations on adaptation in Wuhan populations. (cdc.gov)
  • Adaptation, Biological" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings) . (wakehealth.edu)
  • 1989. Microbial adaptation to degradation of hydrocarbons in polluted and unpolluted groundwater. (cdc.gov)
  • Additionally, substantial body fat loss can complicate appetite control, decrease energy expenditure to a greater extent than predicted, increase the proneness to hypoglycaemia and its related risk towards depressive symptoms, increase the plasma and tissue levels of persistent organic pollutants that promote hormone disruption and metabolic complications, all of which are adaptations that can increase the risk of weight regain. (haloresearch.ca)
  • Stepanova V. P., Suslov A. V., Suslova I. N., Sukhanova E. A., Yarovoy B. F., Verbenko V. N. Adaptation of natural yeast strains to heavy metal and radionuclides salts. (marine-biology.ru)
  • The comparative genomics and experimental study, presented here, allows for the first time a genus-wide view of the biological diversity of the aspergilli and in many, but not all, cases linked genome differences to phenotype. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • its biological invasions. (spc.int)
  • Biological invasions is a term that encompasses tens of thousands of species of all kinds (plants, animals, fungi, microbes) and from all environments (terrestrial and aquatic) displaced by human activities outside their original region. (spc.int)
  • Preventing or mitigating biological invasions accordingly plays a key role in conservation policies. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • 2008). Societies and ecosystems face a choice between mitigating biological invasions, or adapting to their mostly deleterious implications (Perrings 2005). (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • Is spatial adaptation an aftereffect of prolonged inhibition? (cambridge.org)
  • Study describing development of wheat with biological nitrogen inhibition ability from wild relative receives award for outstanding papers published in PNAS. (cimmyt.org)
  • An international collaboration has discovered a biological nitrification inhibition trait that, when transferred to growing wheat varieties, can reduce the use of fertilizers and boost yields. (cimmyt.org)
  • 1990. Threshold limit values and biological exposure indices for 1990-1991. (cdc.gov)
  • The objectives of NIOSH, NSET, and other partners were to review the state-of-the-science, identify critical gaps, and inform further development and adaptation of the interagency research strategy as appropriate. (cdc.gov)
  • Dramatic differences between the adaptation characteristics of moving and stationary stimuli were observed, however. (cambridge.org)
  • Ecological problems require to be handled with an integrated approach, for they are intimately connected to the biological endowments as well as to social and cultural characteristics. (krepublishers.com)
  • The development of biological treatment systems based on the specific ability of microorganisms to degrade OPP could be a viable solution for the detoxification of these effluents. (nature.com)
  • Current food production and consumption trends are inconsistent with the Convention on Biological Diversity's 2050 vision of living in harmony with nature. (uib.no)
  • ARCH3042: Ecology of human evolution: biological, social and cultural approaches to hominin adaptations. (talis.com)
  • In contrast, body fat gain generally provides the opposite adaptations, emphasizing that obesity may realistically be perceived as an a priori biological adaptation for most individuals. (haloresearch.ca)
  • The emphasis of the Antarctic Biology Course is on integrative biology, with laboratory- and field-based projects focused on adaptations in an extreme polar environment. (apecs.is)
  • Baranowski E, Ruíz-Jarabo CM, Pariente N, Verdaguer N, Domingo E (2003) Evolution of cell recognition by viruses: a source of biological novelty with medical implications. (springer.com)
  • Dynamic evolution of the alpha and beta keratins has accompanied integument diversification and the adaptation of birds into novel lifestyles. (sc.edu)
  • Climate poses many threats to biological, ecological, and societal systems. (cdc.gov)
  • Purpose: To review factors that impact the effect of hot environments on the human body in order to develop a conceptual model of human biological response. (cdc.gov)
  • ORGANIC farming technologies involve adaptation to local environments. (org.in)
  • Autistic individuals often present atypicalities in adaptation-the continuous recalibration of perceptual systems driven by recent sensory experiences. (edgehill.ac.uk)
  • Therefore it is not surpris- pansion of biological understanding from the analysis of in- ing that the advent of high-throughput genomic and pro- dividual genes to the analysis of systems of genes (and pro- teomic technologies is drawing a growing interest from the teins). (lu.se)
  • Since requires its own model systems, not simply straightforward transcriptional (and posttranscriptional) control involves the adaptations of currently formulated models. (lu.se)
  • The socioeconomic gradient in and biological systems. (who.int)
  • Here, we examined such atypicalities in human biological motion. (edgehill.ac.uk)
  • Both risk and consequence (adaptation) are addressed and emphasized in designs. (ohsu.edu)
  • It defines the dichotomy whereby and risk factors with biological mea- sociation between the overall social individuals actively determine the surements (Vineis et al. (who.int)
  • Through CLACC, IIED works with researchers in 15 least developed countries (LDCs) to generate knowledge, strengthen capacity and encourage action on climate adaptation. (iied.org)
  • The research looked at grassroots adaptation activities in various sectors, including coastal areas, water management, disaster preparedness and response, health, agriculture and forestry, and fed this information into national adaptation planning and international decision-making. (iied.org)
  • Sex as a biological variable: An aspect of all research projects. (ohsu.edu)
  • Arias A, Lázaro E, Escarmís C, Domingo E (2001) Molecular intermediates of fitness gain of an RNA virus: characterization of a mutant spectrum by biological and molecular cloning. (springer.com)
  • In this study, dendritic adaptation was experimentally examined at a higher stimulation frequency, 5 Hz, using the training pattern of previous experiments run at 0.5 to 1 Hz. (nature.com)
  • Experimental results indicate that adaptation rates increase with training frequency. (nature.com)
  • Adaptation-induced changes in the temporal-frequency tuning and direction selectivity of cat visual cortical cells were studied. (cambridge.org)
  • In general, adaptation could shift a cell's preferred temporal frequency. (cambridge.org)
  • In the present study we have used transcriptome analysis to unravel pathways and biological functions driving in vitro adipogenesis and osteogenesis in BMSC and ASC. (oregonstate.edu)
  • In addition, a k-mean cluster analysis in association with enrichment analysis, networks reconstruction, and transcription factors overlapping analysis were performed in order to uncover the coordination of biological functions underlining differentiations. (oregonstate.edu)
  • The adaptation process consisted of a training set: 50 pairs of stimulations. (nature.com)
  • Integrate adaptation to climate change into the work of key non-government institutions, and mainstreaming the National Adaptation Programmes of Action (NAPA) process with these institutions. (iied.org)
  • Adoption: biological and social process linked to adaptation. (bvsalud.org)