Rapid urbanization has exerted substantial pressure on China's energy system and contributed to climate change.
The dark and nutrient poor cave environment exerts substantial pressure upon cave-dwelling animals.
Anna Piretti, of BNP Paribas, commented: "While house price deflation appears to have moderated in recent months, rising housing foreclosures, the huge overhang of unsold properties still available on the market, ongoing financial troubles and additional expected economic weakness should continue to exert substantial downward pressure on house prices well into next year".
Moore et al. [33] have suggested that the immune pressure from the cellular arm of the immune system in particular, CD8+ T cells interacting with MHC-I epitopes presented on the surface of infected cells can exert substantial selection pressure on HIV.
However, for this suggestion to be plausible, use of oseltamivir would have to be widespread to exert substantial selective pressure on the viruses.
In erect posture, gravity-dependent hydrostatic pressure components exert substantial influence on local arterial pressure, so that in a normotensive adult, diastolic pressure is 70 100 mmHg higher in the tibial arteries, at ankle level, than in the distal brachial arteries.
Treatment against P. falciparum exerts substantial collateral pressure against sympatric P. vivax, jeopardizing future use of mefloquine against P. vivax.
Neurotrophic factors exert substantial effects on the central nervous system.
Moreover, it was observed that magnesium often referred to as a 'natural calcium antagonist' (also see Jahnen-Dechent and Ketteler [ 35] in this supplement)—acts on most types of calcium channels in vascular smooth muscle cells exerting substantial arterial blood pressure-lowering properties, resulting in a reduction of peripheral and cerebral vascular resistance.
The accounts depict a high-pressure environment at the prison, particularly within the interrogation center, where military intelligence personnel exerted substantial influence over a cellblock where most of the notorious abuses at Abu Ghraib apparently took place.
It prevents governments from exerting substantial monopoly power over residents.
