This volume on the Foundations of Geomorphology concludes with a perspective on the field's direction in the foreseeable future, with emphasis on the role that geomorphology should play in meeting the environmental challenges that are likely to affect the lives and livelihoods of the world's diverse societies.
Young-onset dementia (YOD) causes specific challenges and issues that are likely to affect health-related quality of life (HRQOL).
The survey took the pulse of the challenges they face, the market factors most likely to affect them in the future, the consulting services they provide and their overall performance.
In these settings, intensive care medicine is challenged by delicate resource restrictions which are likely to affect patient outcome (2).
Messages that challenge smokers' temporal perspectives might be more likely to affect how they assess the gains and losses of smoking, and their ability to rely on self-exempting beliefs [ 45].
An effect that reduces the cariogenic challenge of one of the sites within a group is likely to affect all the other sites within the particular group.
Such altered expression of metabolic genes and miRNAs are likely to affect the homeostatic responses of such offspring to dietary challenges in later life.
Second, the inherent challenges involved in diagnosing tuberculosis and MDR-TB in children, described above, are likely to affect the validity of surveillance data.
Pubertal changes combined with challenges for the maturing adolescent in social contexts, e.g. in the family, school, is likely to affect his/her emotional well-being from early to mid-adolescence [ 44].
Revision TKA represents a major challenge for healthcare providers and patients, and is associated with a substantial economic burden likely to affect national medical and insurance policies [ 10– 10].
