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There are problems of sewage overflow and contamination, but I would also argue that almost every city has this exact condition, and it's a condition that we're all facing.
With our friends in the Center for Cellular Construction and the help of the National Science Foundation, we are using Stentor to sense the presence of contamination in food and water, which I think is really cool.
You have to work very carefully to avoid contamination of experiments with DNA from yourself.
This reaction expands into adulthood and becomes sort of a full-blown disgust response, no longer just about whether or not we're about to be poisoned, but whenever there's a threat of physical contamination from some source.
It makes perfect sense, and it's a very good emotion for us to have, that disgust would make me change the way that I perceive the physical world whenever contamination is possible.
We get misinformation not only if we're questioned in a leading way, but if we talk to other witnesses who might consciously or inadvertently feed us some erroneous information, or if we see media coverage about some event we might have experienced, all of these provide the opportunity for this kind of contamination of our memory.
You have to have dosimeter at all times, clicking away, you have to have a government minder, and there's draconian radiation rules and constant contamination monitoring.
For them, environmental contamination may not be the worst sort of devastation.
You see, we were all outside when the contamination came down.
And today the whole Pacific Ocean has traces of contamination of cesium-137.
They have had to move, and every parliament session, I'm getting complaints from different communities asking for assistance to build seawalls, to see what we can do about the freshwater lens because it's being destroyed, and so in my trips to the different islands, I'm seeing evidence of communities which are now having to cope with the loss of food crops, the contamination of the water lenses, and I see these communities perhaps leaving, having to relocate, within five to 10 years.
Obsessions can manifest as fears of contamination and illness, worries about harming others, or preoccupations with numbers, patterns, morality, or sexual identity.
If you want a glimpse of Marie Curie's manuscripts, you'll have to sign a waiver and put on protective gear to shield yourself from radiation contamination.
So, we thought the worst problem would be a single molecule contamination of the native chromosome, leading us to believe that we actually had created a synthetic cell, when it would have been just a contaminant.
But this assumes that our factories are humming because, in 2004, the U.S. supply was cut in half by contamination at one single plant.
And so they were finally able to get good pristine deep subsurface samples some really without contamination from surface microbes.
In this smart drama lessons are given about contamination and surviving chaos while meantime the backstage look at the way crisis is managed prompts viewers to distrust guardians and to be scared by assailants.
The story bends on a mystical contamination of a person who's a bad version of the Celtic Soul eater, although he functions more like a male succubus without the sexual overtones.
Oh, the military has put a quarantine on the small English town where the whole thing is happening, with plans about total destruction in fear of contamination.
A dubious hero tries to stop the contamination before the army nukes the whole town.
The market was pretty much congested with space-terror movies during the early 80's and even other countries began making them, like the UK ("Inseminoid") and of course Italy ("Contamination").
But I found the whole movie to be morbidly fascinating, especially the details about how the plant treated those they suspected of radioactive contamination.
Water contamination and scarcity, alongside carbon dioxide emissions and lethal levels of air pollution, are imperiling people’s health and jeopardizing the sustainability of China’s economic performance.
The industry’s own production process sometimes causes contamination and forces major recalls.
In the environmental technology industry alone, nanomaterials will enable new means of reducing the production of wastes, using resources more sparingly, cleaning up industrial contamination, providing potable water, and improving the efficiency of energy production and use.
Having faced successive contamination crises in recent years--first BSE and then hoof and mouth disease--we feel particularly insecure about food.
Proper disinfection of equipment is generally affordable (especially in comparison to the cost of equipment itself), and contamination of medications and solutions can be avoided through training and vigilance.
Given fear of contamination – and military interest in a more durable supply – research into synthetic alternatives has long been a medical priority.
But extracting shale energy involves environmental risks and uncertainties, among them groundwater contamination, higher methane emissions, and potential seismic effects.
On an industrial scale, the use of gamma radiation to sterilize medical equipment and protect food from contamination is increasingly common in developing countries.
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