Thus, elucidation of the regulatory components involved in the ensuing inflammatory reaction to neural injury holds great promise in the development of effective treatment strategies to maximize immune elements critical for repair, while simultaneously suppressing aspects of the immune response responsible for further damage to offset disease or injury progression.
The release, from "[email protected]," alleges Canada's acceptance of unrealistic emissions-reduction targets, as well as a so-called "Climate Debt Mechanism," a bilateral agreement between Canada and Africa to furnish that continent with enormous sums in "reparation" for climate damage and to "offset" adaptation.
"This is a little bit like geoengineering," Zhang told me, referring to attempts to deliberately alter the climate to offset damages associated with global warming.
The strategy seeks first to avoid impacts, then to minimize those impacts that are deemed unavoidable, then to restore the areas impacted, and finally to offset damages by restoring comparably habitat nearby.
Though Facebook's lack of engagement with UK politicians might make the government keener to seize on the committee's recommendation of a social media levy to offset damage caused by tech platforms' accelerating online disinformation.
A carbon credit (often called a carbon offset) is a financial instrument that represents a tonne of CO2 (carbon dioxide) or CO2e (carbon dioxide equivalent gases) removed or reduced from the atmosphere from an emission reduction project, which can be used, by governments, industry or private individuals to offset damaging carbon emissions that they are generating.
These proteins enable organisms to withstand elevated temperatures by functioning as molecular chaperones to offset damage from misfolded proteins that would otherwise accrue during exposure to high temperature.
Second, even where the initial neurotoxicity might be equivalent in both sexes, the subsequent repair processes differ substantially, with females showing a greater general capacity to offset damage (Amateau and McCarthy 2002; Hilton et al. 2004; McEwen 2002; Nunez and McCarthy 2003; Slotkin et al. 2007b; Tanapat et al. 1999).
By Samantha Henig August 17, 2010 A fifth of Pakistan is underwater, yet aid contributions to offset the damages are only "trickling in".
He said that the letter-writer would be entitled to keep as much of the security deposit as is necessary to offset those damages.
