Facebook's attempt to learn whether the type of content users of its service are exposed to affects their mood or not has landed it into plentiful hot water this week, generating much debate on the ethics of user manipulation.
Early clinical investigation algorithms used in regional reporting are understandably biased towards detecting cases among patients exposed to affected countries or to known cases.
Those findings confirm that the observed degradation is largely attributable to defects that are present in the bulk silicon and — when exposed to light — affect lifetime, thus conversion efficiency, in cells that have been fired at higher temperatures.
As he explains in his book Biology of Belief, epigenetics shows how our actions, our thoughts (hence our beliefs) and what we are exposed to all affect what our genes do, which genes get turned off and which get turned on.
They worry about whether the noise and abuse they are exposed to can affect the pregnancy and the unborn baby.
Especially the number of compressions the material is exposed to is affected and also the local compression of the rock material is affected, thus the particle-size distribution of the product.
The generated ROS causes cell dysfunction or death when cells are exposed to drugs affecting electron transport in the ETC.
Something is at risk, exposed to or affected by an occurrence (perturbation, stress) and something possesses the potential to change its state, a degree of sensitivity, and the capacity of response.
From this perspective, vulnerability is 'an aggregate measure of human welfare that expresses the degree to which a person, group or human-environment system is likely to be exposed to, adversely affected by, and unable to cope with, and recover from the impact of a hazard' (Wisner et al. 2004).
Being exposed to IPV affects children on a variety of dimensions.
