But now the owners — whose 55 floating homes constitute the largest such community remaining on Long Island — fear a new threat that, in this area of high property values, seems more powerful than any act of God: development.
In eukaryotes, short interfering RNAs and microRNAs (miRNAs) act as regulators of development, cell death and chromosome silencing.
Since then, the country has shown a leadership position in ensuring that its laws are aligned with the provisions of the Convention – as it led to the adoption of the Children's Act, the development of a separate child justice system, and new child protection legislation, to name a few important milestones.
They act in the name of development, economic and social transformation; and in the process, disturb traditional custom and practice, uprooting people and sending them, on vast migrations of hope - or despair - across the world.
Mr. Dall'Ara, now the president of the National Association of Alberghi Diffusi, added that the projects also act as a "driver of development" in their villages, because the managers are encouraged to source all the products used in the village from local producers.
Although once a controversial idea, it is accepted now that evolution can act on early stages of development to yield novel phenotypes [ 42].
These molecules act to coordinate aspects of development and serve as both aggregation and dispersal cues (Macosko et al., 2009; Yamada et al., 2010; Srinivasan et al., 2012).
Both nutritional imbalance and environmental chemical exposure, during sensitive windows of development, act when tissues are forming, to affect the phenotype, thereby impacting on organ functions and disease susceptibility later in life.
Molecules that enter the body, particularly during its 'critical periods' of development, act to shape the very metabolic systems that the body will process food with in the future.
The ambitious project is intended to revitalize the eight-year-old museum that transformed the post-industrial port into a cultural destination through an act of museum-as-development, now referred to as "The Bilbao Effect".
