Sentence examples for demonstration of environmental from inspiring English sources

In 1970 Nelson founded Earth Day, celebrated annually on April 22 as a peaceful demonstration of environmental protest and activism.

The center's buildings are increasingly used as a demonstration of environmental principles (here that includes the capturing of rainwater and other sustainable practices).

One of Baha Mar's most significant demonstrations of environmental commitment is its preservation of untouched land in the form of a 70-acre "no build zone" that it has set aside within a swath of red mangrove wetlands.

In the NCICAS intervention, asthma counselors helped the caretakers to manage their child's asthma and emphasized the importance of proper medication use and avoidance of environmental triggers, although no home visits or direct demonstrations of environmental risk factor mitigation were undertaken (Evans et al. 1999).

American geneticist Hermann Joseph Müller showed that new alleles (called mutations) could be produced at high frequencies by treating cells with X-rays, the first demonstration of an environmental mutagenic agent (mutations can also arise spontaneously).

"It's probably the only convincing demonstration of an environmental effect on the frequency of aneuploidy," says Dorothy Warburton, a cytogeneticist at Columbia University in New York City who has studied aneuploidy extensively.

The story has long been ballyhooed as the "classic" demonstration of how environmental factors can be override nature to form gender identity, says report author Milton Diamond, a sexologist at the University of Hawaii.

The greening of the Los Angeles River is a sobering demonstration of the limits of environmental restoration in an urban landscape.

Specifically, patterns of electrochemical deposition are altered [ 12], providing a dramatic demonstration of the effect of environmental order on chemistry.

Given the recent demonstration of the ability of environmental influences to induce epigenetic changes in the early postnatal period (Weaver et al. 2004), such an interaction could be particularly worrisome for infants fed soy formula diets in which genistein intake relative to body weight reaches levels higher than those used in the present study (Setchell et al. 1997).

This study was conducted as part of a demonstration project of the utility of environmental public health tracking, an initiative funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (McGeehin et al. 2004) to generate clues for further etiologic study.