With the conference as one event among many initiatives, Pacific Island governments, the United Nations and development partners are working together to exploit this small window of opportunity to put together more thoughtful and effective policies that not only buffer the effects of the current crisis but also build resilience for future crises," Dr Parks added.
Exercise has been shown to buffer the effects of stress on telomeres, for example, while stress management programmes and writing emotional diaries can help to delay the progression of HIV.
Although it is known that warming is more intense at high latitudes, as in the Baikal area, and that water is warming in other major lakes, including Lake Tahoe in Nevada and Lake Tanganyika in central Africa, many scientists had thought that Lake Baikal's enormous volume and unusual water circulation patterns would buffer the effects of global warming.
Divide students into groups to investigate the following proposals for protecting New York City from future storms: Marshes and Spongy Streets could offer protection and buffer the effects of floodwaters.
Louisiana officials filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against dozens of energy companies, hoping that the courts will force them to pay for decades of damage to fragile coastal wetlands that help buffer the effects of hurricanes on the region.
The researchers speculate that friendship helps buffer the effects of stress and boost physiological repair mechanisms.
OCT and PMAT are capable of clearing biogenic amines from extracellular fluid and may serve to buffer the effects of frontline antidepressants, such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.
Racial and ethnic minorities often suffer from poorer health than Whites given their exposure to more stressors and fewer resources that buffer the effects of stress.
In the presented example, the real role of agriculture was meant to consider agriculture as an appropriate tool to buffer the effects of global environmental changes.
The ad-hoc engagement of civil society was crucial, but insufficient, to fully buffer the effects of inequality and marginalization resulting from formal recovery processes.
Grazing regimes with a moderate stocking rate or flexible management strategies were better able to buffer the effects of climate variability.
