The Houston area has 38% of the total US oil refining, and its emissions, together with those from vehicles, are a key contributor to the ozone formed when sunlight reacts with nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds.
And when selenium, a key contributor to conductivity levels, gets above a certain point fish can be born badly deformed.These fish, and our water ways, are signals when the safety of our water and the health of our environment are declining.
Szalay, the founding director of the Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science at Hopkins, says his interest in big data began when he became a key contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.
Weaver was on a minor league contract with the Dodgers last season when he emerged as a key contributor in their bullpen, posting a 3.65 earned-run average in 28 games as a swingman.
The Ducks acquired him from Dallas for a conditional draft pick, which became a first-rounder when they advanced to the Western Conference final, and he was a key contributor with 11 goals in 20 regular season games.
A key contributor in the San Francisco Giants' World Series win in 2010, Sanchez was nowhere to be found when the Giants won their second title in three years with a World Series sweep of the Detroit Tigers on Oct. 28.
A critical blow came last June when World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Margaret Chan said the marketing of full-sugar soft drinks was a key contributor to rising child obesity around the world, especially in developing countries.
"I knew that these laws were a mistake when we were writing them," says Eric Sterling, who was counsel to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee in the 1980s and a key contributor to the passage of mandatory-minimum sentencing laws, in the documentary.
It's a key contributor of cash".
Still, overapplication of fertilizers remains a key contributor, he said.
The Department of Neurology and Neurological Sciences is a key contributor to this broader community.
