Nevertheless, passivity remains an influential background assumption in large parts of neuroscience where reactions to stimuli are held central rather than endogenous activity (Raichle 2010) and thus can be considered typical.
These issues have led to a strong and pressing demand for a metric that could help segregate the true health risks of diesel exhaust exposure from those associated with other influential background contaminants such as cigarette smoke, wood smoke, and gasoline exhaust (Mauderly and Chow, 2008).
In terms of riparian vegetation ecology, neighbourhood scale land use mix and built environment density are more influential than socioeconomic background (such as average family income and immigrant status).
Another group measured multiple behaviors, including performance in the open field, plus maze, and water maze, in 8 inbred strains in 3 separate labs; despite careful standardization of housing, care, and testing procedures, the testing environment was often more influential than genetic background [49].
He also developed the influential theory of background selection, whereby the recurrent elimination of deleterious mutations reduces variation at linked sites, providing a general explanation for the correlation between recombination rate and genetic variation.
The most influential parameters are the background input B and the local connection (w_{EI}).
Distance to road was the second most influential factor, followed by background landscape.
While rural background is influential, its inclusion as a problematical confounding factor, detrimental to considering the value of rural medical education, raises questions.
"We should be bolder about speaking about our success on these issues and pushing people from more diverse backgrounds into influential positions.
Soltani's arrest came after the mayor of Tehran, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, an influential politician with a military background, and Mehdi Chamran, the chair of Tehran's city council, filed a suit against him.
To focus more specifically on Mr. Awlaki, you might use our lesson on tracking the so-called "Times Square bomber," Faisal Shahzad, as a guide to how students can find out about the background, connections and influential actions of Mr. Awlaki, as well as how American intelligence and forces tracked him down.
