Sentence examples for sensitivity to pollution from inspiring English sources

When multiplied by the current rate of carbon emissions, and the best estimate of global temperature sensitivity to pollution, this translates to a long-term sea level rise commitment that is now growing at about 1 foot per decade.

Additionally, it is useful for measuring changes and evaluating the ecological disturbance on coastal sandy beaches due to its moderate sensitivity to pollution.

Holvoet et al. [34] also showed that patients with coronary artery disease had higher levels of oxidized LDL compared with age-matched controls without clinical evidence of cardiovascular disease.We did not find evidence of a higher sensitivity to pollution-induced effects on oxidized LDL in persons with type 2 diabetes compared with their type 1 counterparts.

Differential susceptibility could be due to increased personal exposure to ambient air pollution in certain racial and ethnic groups (e.g., access to air conditioning) or differential biological sensitivity to air pollution stemming from differences in underlying health status, access to health care, or psychosocial stress (O'Neill et al. 2003).

If the degrees of sensitivity to soil pollution differ among mtDNA lineages, some lineages will be lost in polluted areas, which reduces variation and is consistent with the genetic erosion hypothesis [ 24].

It tolerates only moderate hypertrophication and has a modest sensitivity to air pollution.

Reducing levels of an enzyme in plant mitochondria and plastids mitigates their sensitivity to explosive pollution toxicity.

As can be seen in Figure 1, both indices showed more or less correlated results with some sensitivity to water pollution.

But race/ethnicity has been underemphasized as a modifier of that association, and few studies have tested for a Hispanic Health Paradox in sensitivity to air pollution.

L. pulmonaria is vulnerable or endangered in most of Central Europe because of its sensitivity to air pollution and preference for old-growth forests.

Interestingly, it has been suggested, in some studies, that the sex of an infant can play an important role in sensitivity to air pollution and related birth outcomes (Ghosh et al. 2007; Jedrychowski et al. 2009).