Sentence examples for biological pressures from inspiring English sources

Collectively, these environmental and biological pressures lead to a bifurcation of external interactive behaviour and internal maintenance activity that is synchronised with the 24-hour day/night cycle.

Gabriel Weston's award-winning first book, Direct Red, described her rise to seniority and prestige as an ambitious young surgeon and her subsequent – voluntary, beneath the usual social and biological pressures of womanhood – descent from that pinnacle.

We are considering conditions where CO2 is limiting (15 μM external inorganic carbon) and, for the moment, ignore other biological pressures.

The more weight you lose, the stronger the biological pressure to get back to your former, excessive size.

We decided we wanted a bigger gap (four years) between our second and third children, and we could do that because there was no biological pressure to pop another baby out.

Kelly Brownell, an expert on obesity and the dean of the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University and who was not involved with the book, agreed that there is "a lot of biological pressure to regain weight" that has been dieted away.

The lower right ventricle (lower left of map) -- which withstands the greatest biological pressure -- is identified as the Land of Oblivion -- (uh-oh) treacherous terrain that may be crossed via the River of Indulgence on the steamboat Moimeme, which passes through the city of the same name in The Land of Selfishness.

These data suggest that the integration site and the transgene may each effect biological pressure for or against integration of a DNA fragment at a particular genomic site.

Piezo ion channels are activated by various types of mechanical stimuli and function as biological pressure sensors in both vertebrates and invertebrates.

99 It is, therefore, rational to evaluate the effect of combining lifestyle modification with pharmacological therapies aimed to mitigate the biological pressure to weight regain.

One of the main factors implicated in the long-term failure of weight maintenance is the biological pressure to weight regain.