Acinetobacter baumannii is a Gram-negative nosocomial pathogen that is currently posing a significant threat to global health, with the majority of clinical isolates displaying resistance to almost all therapeutically suitable antibiotics (Antunes et al. 2014).
The establishment of pathogenicity to variants identified through NGS is far from being a straightforward process, and it is currently posing as a potential confounder for the identification of true pleiotropic events and requiring new tools to adequately assess this issue.
The greatest threat to the ecology in the Mazowe Pote River catchment areas is currently posed by Cd2+, Fe3+ and Pb2+ heavy metals from the mine dump sites.
Results have shown that the greatest threat to the ecology in the mine dump sites is currently posed by Cd2+; Fe3+; and Pb2+, while the least ecological threat comes from the concentrations of Mn2+.
On existing patterns of use, cannabis poses a much less serious public health problem than is currently posed by alcohol and tobacco in Western societies". French scientists at the state-sponsored medical research institute INSERM published similar findings in 1998.
It included an opinion by the commission's staff that the way Con Edison's delivery rates are currently structured posed "neither a barrier to, nor an unwarranted incentive for" the kind of electrical facilities shore-based power would need.
Global trends such as urbanization, demographic and climate change that are currently underway pose serious challenges to sustainable development and integrated resources management.
Avian influenza viruses such as H5N1 are currently panzootic and pose a pandemic threat.
The hypotheticals above are all policy issues, but they are all ethical issues as well, and all are questions currently posed to Princeton undergraduates in various courses and seminars.
