SEARCH RESULTS   Found 25 text references: 1. " This model was altered to permit the mean value for each vital rate to change through time, and also to incorporate uncertainty in current demographic rates due to sampling error." Source:   Doak, Daniel F.,Morris, William. "Detecting population-level consequences of ongoing environmental change without long-term monitoring" Ecology 80.5 July 1 1999: 1537-1538 2. " Hunting, agriculture, suburbanization, canals and dams, and fossil-fuel consumption have all changed the world's soils and rivers, altered biological diversity, and affected the very air we breathe." Source:   Worster, Donald. "People and the Land Through Time: Linking Ecology and History" Journal of Interdisciplinary History v29.n1 June 22 1998: 89-91 3. " Such alterations in the timing of life history transitions or in traits such as body size, on which many vital rates depend, can affect subsequent population dynamics dramatically (Rossiter 1995, Wilbur 1996)." Source:   LIEPS, JEFF,TRAVIS, JOSEPH,RODD, F. HELEN. "GENETIC INFLUENCES ON EXPERIMENTAL POPULATION DYNAMICS OF THE LEAST KILLIFISH" Ecological Monographs 70.2 May 1 2000: 289 4. "... Oral broad-spectrum antibiotics are adequate for mild to moderate CAP in patients in chronic care facilities [52,54] but may fail in some patients who have aspiration pneumonia, [27,54] severe aberrations in vital signs, and feeding dependence or mechanically altered diet. [52] Antibiotic..." Source:   LYNCH III, JOSEPH P. "Community-acquired pneumonia: Risk factors and specific causes" Journal of Respiratory Diseases 21.7 July 1 2000: 457 5. " They quickly and almost randomly bind to our cells' vital building blocks of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and even our DNA, altering both their structures and functions." Source:   Braunstein, Joel B. "War Against The "Oxidants"" Diabetes Forecast 53.6 June 1 2000: 33 6. " A history of cerebrovascular disease, abnormal vital signs, altered mental status, and impairments of functional status (urinary incontinence and dependence on others to ambulate) were more common in NHAP patients (Table 1)." Source:   Meehan, Thomas P.,Chua-Reyes, Jesse M.,Tate, Janet,Prestwood, Karen M.,Scinto, Jeanne D.,Petrillo, Marcia K.,Metersky, Mark L. "Process of Care Performance, Patient Characteristics, and Outcomes in Elderly Patients Hospitalized With Community-Acquired or Nursing Home-Acquired Pneumonia" Chest 117.5 May 1 2000: 1378 7. "... vital signs Altered metabolic studies Elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate or c-reactive protein level From International Headache Society, Cepholalgia 1988. " Source:   DIAMOND, SEYMOUR,PEPPER, BETSY J. "Headache Of The Month" Consultant 40.5 Apr. 15 2000: 900 8. " The changes in per capita vital rates they attribute to feedback are statistical rather than causal, and, indeed, without altering any assumption of the Rodenhouse..." Source:   Hunt, W. Grainger,Law, Peter R. "SITE-DEPENDENT REGULATION OF POPULATION SIZE: COMMENT" Ecology 81.4 Apr. 1 2000: 1162 9. " Extracted data included anesthetics and sedatives used and their per kilogram dosages, procedure durations, and complications including oxygen desaturations [is less than] 90%, vital sign alterations that required intervention, and emergence reactions to ketamine." Source:   Slonim, Anthony D.,Ognibene, Frederick P. "Amnestic Agents in Pediatric Bronchoscopy" Chest 116.6 Dec. 1 1999: 1802 10. " Management strategies that ignore this fact by altering these vital disturbance regimes eventually have undesirable ecological and economic consequences." Source:   Hudak, Andrew T. "Rangeland mismanagement in South Africa: failure to apply ecological knowledge" Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal 27.1 Mar. 1 1999: 55-57 11. "... study revealed that in addition to vital sign abnormality, altered mental status, high-risk etiology (defined as S aureus, Gram-negative rod, aspiration, or postobstructive pneumonia), and neoplastic disease, an age of..." Source:   Chan, Edward D.,Welsh, Carolyn H. "Geriatric Respiratory Medicine" Chest 114.6 Dec. 1 1998: 1704-1705 12. " More than just indicators of past temperature and rainfall patterns, tree rings provide a historical perspective on some of the fundamental processes that shape biological communities and ecosystems. "Tree-ring data are vitally important because they provide a temporal..." Source:   NORRIS, SCOTT. "Reading between the Lines" BioScience 50.5 May 1 2000: 389 13. " Positive covariances are expected when the vital rates of different stages are determined by the same biological mechanisms (e.g., a good location for growth of small plants is probably a good location for the growth of large plants)." Source:   CASWELL, HAL. "PROSPECTIVE AND RETROSPECTIVE PERTURBATION ANALYSES: THEIR ROLES IN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY" Ecology 81.3 Mar. 1 2000: 619 14. " Government medical stockpiles for dealing with chemical or biological terrorism are poorly managed, often lacking vital drugs and adequate security," according to an Associated Press account of a GAO report." Source:   PETERS, CHARLES. "Tilting at Windmills" Washington Monthly Jan. 1 2000: 4 15. " The American Institute of Biological Sciences urges you and your colleagues to ensure the future health and vitality of our nation's economy by restoring funds to vital research programs. " Source:   . "US scientific community joins forces to support research" BioScience 48.12 Dec. 1 1999: 1027 16. " While he states that "deterring and reducing the threat of nuclear or biological weapons" is an extremely important (but not vital) interest, he does not discuss proliferation at length." Source:   Francis, Michael J. "Making the World Safe for Democracy: A Century of Wilsonianismand Its Totalitarian Challengers" Review of Politics 61.3 June 22 1999: 572 17. " The ease of acquisition, transportation and distribution of biological or chemical weapons of mass destruction makes it vitally important that we eliminate desperate human conditions or prepare for the consequences." Source:   . "The United Nations protects all, including the United States" Washington Times Oct. 21 1998: 16 18. " Head says that in the more distant future, research might even develop similar photoproteins that glow when encountering more-complex molecules vital to biological processes. " Source:   J.G. "Protein's structure lights the way" Science News 157.23 June 3 2000: 367 19. " The presence of an abnormal vital signs and an elevated WBC count was useful in detecting all those children with a life-threatening causes for the altered mentation." Source:   Muniz, Antonio E. "Altered mental status in children presenting to an emergency department" Southern Medical Journal 97.10 Oct. 1 2004: 32-33 20. " A possible reason for this variance is that our study lacked statistical power to detect biologically significant alterations in [S.sub.I]." Source:   Monauni, Tiziano,Zenti, Maria Grazia,Cretti, Anna,Daniels, Marc C.,Targher, Giovanni,Caruso, Beatrice,Caputo, Marco,McClain, Donald,Del Prato, Stefano,Giaccari, Andrea,Muggeo, Michele,Bonora, Enzo,Bonadonna, Riccardo C. "Effects of Glucosamine Infusion on Insulin Secretion and Insulin Action in Humans" Diabetes 49.6 June 1 2000: 926 21. " While much of the variability in recent adjuvant trials is probably due to the statistical noise inherent in small studies, there may also be valid biological differences in molecular alterations of specific tumors." Source:   Wagner, Henry Jr. "Postoperative Adjuvant Therapy for Patients With Resected Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Still Controversial After all These Years" Chest 117.4 Apr. 1 2000: 110 22. "... of their boundaries.(168) Many of the dam-related effects on these rivers can be traced to a single problem caused by all dams: the alteration of the natural hydrograph, and resulting disruption of the physical and biological processes that sustain the rivers." Source:   Sterne, Jack K. "One hell of a grand idea: applying the lessons of the Grand Canyon experiment to FERC's relicensing of the Hells Canyon complex" Environmental Law 28.4 Dec. 22 1998: 1055-1056 23. "... 2. Humans are contributing (through greenhouse gas emissions and deforestation); 3. Biological systems (land and marine) are being altered; and 4. Weather extremes are increasing in frequency and intensity (http://www.ipcc.ch/)." Source:   . "Experts Warn There May Be More Climate Shocks and Surprises From Global Warming" AScribe Medicine News Service Sept. 20 2004 24. " 1987;79:981-995 [31.] Shankar AH, Prasad AS. Zinc and immune function: the biological basis of altered resistance to infection." Source:   Picciano, Mary Frances,Smiciklas-Wright, Helen,Birch, Leann L.,Mitchell, Diane C.,Murray-Kolb, Laura,McConahy, Kristen L. "Nutritional Guidance Is Needed During Dietary Transition in Early Childhood" Pediatrics 106.1 July 1 2000: 109 25. " We therefore synthesized various GLP-1 analogues with alterations in positions 2,8 or 9. Modifications of GLP-1 in position 2 do not lead to a significant loss of receptor affinity or biological activity and showed longer biological action in vivo." Source:   SEIDENSTUCKER, ANTJE,GALLWITZ, BAPTIST,REINIKELUDTKE, AXEL,FOLSCH, ULRICH R,SCHMIDT, WOLFGANG E,SIEGEL, ERHARD G. "GLP-1" Diabetes 48.5 May 1 1999: 424 back to top