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Some researchers are finding that long-lasting injury signals in neural pathways can change the way those pathways function, and over long periods of time, relentless signals of injury can even alter neural structures themselves.
Competition among nations and among peoples trumps cooperation, and regional and global conflicts obstruct the pathways to a sustainable future.
They have started to trace the evolutionary origins of pro-social sentiments such as empathy, and have begun to uncover the genes that dispose some individuals to senseless violence and others to acts of altruism, and the pathways in our brain that shape our ethical decisions.
Indeed, scientists have not only identified some of the brain pathways that shape our ethical decisions, but also chemical substances that modulate this neural activity.
The part of the brain that generates actions - the frontal cortex - must be sending signals to regions of the brain where sensations are processed, but we know very little about the nature of these signals or the precise pathways involved.
The district is poor by any reckoning, with 100,000 people crammed into shabby corrugated iron and tarpaulin-covered huts along miles of dirt pathways and hillsides.
Something similar happened in the origin of life, but along pathways, by the action of catalysts, and with sources of energy that remain to be identified.
For example, studies on animals have shown that sucrose alters the brain’s dopamine and opioid receptors in a way similar to morphine and establishes hard-wired pathways for craving.
These pathways are more difficult to manage.
How to precisely direct the transformation of embryonic stem cells down predictable and desirable pathways remains unknown.
Incentives to make regular migration pathways work better will include immediately increasing Australia’s annual humanitarian intake, and doubling it over five years (to 27,000), while also doubling financial support for regional immigration capacity-building.
When bold goals are set, those communities of knowledge and practice come together to recommend practical pathways to achieve results.
Fast-Tracking Climate ActionBONN – Last December in Paris, world leaders came together to agree on a set of goals and pathways for decarbonizing the global economy and increasing our capacity to adapt to climate change.
One of the highest priorities of the new Sustainable Development Solutions Network, which I direct on behalf of United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, will be to elaborate alternative pathways to a low-carbon economy, taking into account the specific conditions of countries around the world.
It rarely extends to creating real pathways for those immigrants to assimilate fully and maximize their economic contributions.
But India’s democracy has opened new pathways to empowerment for its underclasses.
In other words, different parts of the brain and emotional pathways are involved when ambiguity is present.
And, though research on how to champion female African leadership is sparse, early findings from the scholars program suggest that there are several pathways that young African women can take – and that we can support – to assume their rightful place among the continent’s leaders.
Recent evidence shows that when placebos have salubrious effects, they engage the same neurological pathways as active medications.
The implementation of the WHO's strategy could lead to one of the largest-ever positive shifts in human health, putting populations throughout the world on pathways to lifelong and sustained improvements in well-being.
On the London Underground, an app called Wayfindr uses Bluetooth to help visually impaired travelers navigate the Tube’s twisting pathways and escalators.
If the world follows the same old approaches in building new infrastructure, it would lock in polluting, resource-intensive, and unsustainable pathways to growth.
We also must expand our capacity to host refugees through resettlement and other legal pathways – such as student, work, and family reunification visas.
Only then will we be able to agree on a set of commitments to reduce the risks that all migrants face, ensuring rescue at sea, offering safe pathways to relocation, and providing legal identities.
But it is essential that we establish the policy pathways needed to ensure that all countries play their part in protecting the planet, while assisting the vulnerable to adapt to the effects of environmental degradation already underway.
Instead, advocates of migration, including me, promote protection for refugees and managed flows of people by making legal pathways more accessible.
This leaves them unprotected, and without pathways to financial stability and wealth creation.
The Lisbon treaty is content with clearing pathways rather than creating new horizons.
Similarly, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change cautions that “infrastructure developments and long-lived products that lock societies into greenhouse-gas-intensive emissions pathways may be difficult or very costly to change.”
From 2003 to 2006, Iran made clear to anyone willing to listen that it would agree to all the key elements of the recent deal, including measures to block uranium and plutonium pathways to a bomb and obtrusive monitoring mechanisms to ensure ample advance notice of a likely breakout.
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