Dams also store water for use during dry months and buffer the effects of flooding rains.
It shows that such moms can help buffer the effects of chronic stress on teens' working memories.
As one kind of positive psychosocial resources, high self-esteem has been found to buffer the effects of stress on physical health.
Likewise, volunteering has been shown to help buffer the effects of stress on one's health at least for those who generally hold positive views of other people.
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.
These forest-rainfall cascades buffer the effects of drought and reveal a mechanism by which deforestation can compromise the resilience of the Amazon forest system in the face of future climatic extremes.
Even more important, continuing separation removes the most important resource a child can possibly have to buffer the effects of toxic stress a responsive adult who's totally devoted to that child's well-being.
The book September 11: Trauma and Human Bonds, which Schechter co-edited with Columbia professors Susan Coates and Jane Rosenthal, reports that human bonds can buffer the effects of trauma or serve as a vehicle for transmission of trauma.
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.
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.
