Science news articles about 'cascade effect'

  • Cascading effect of even minor early problems may explain serious teen violence

    ... in teenagers? A group of researchers has found that the answer may lie in a cascading effect in which early life experiences lead ... in the children when they started school. From there, the behavior problems cascaded. The researchers caution that their model should not be used to conclude ...
  • Host shift triggers cascading effect on ecosystem, research finds

    ... published research shows that when the apple maggot shifted hosts from the hawthorn to the apple, that triggered a cascading effect on the ecosystem. Forbes and his colleagues ...
  • Dead Water: Too Much Nitrogen Being Washed into the Sea is Causing Dead Zones to Spread Alarmingly

    ... release of reactive nitrogen into the environment has a “cascadeeffect, according to two papers published in the latest issue ... single atom of reactive nitrogen can cause a cascading sequence of events which can harm human health ...
  • Cutting-edge weapons result of prehistoric experimentation

    ... variety of projectile points in the quest for the best, most effective system. "Technological innovation and change has become ... longer, generally, it will get heavier. This is called a cascade effect. This, in combination with experimentation, resulted in the tremendous ...
  • Serious school failure turns out to be a real bummer for girls, but not boys

    ... failure, tend to have long-term problems with cascading effects." She said the study's overall gender rates of depression are comparable to previous studies, although ...
  • Climate change could be impetus for wars, other conflicts, expert says

    ... and crumbling economic and ecosystems, he said, could ultimately have "cascading effects." "Environmental changes caused by global ... and political stress can undermine the functioning of communities, the effectiveness of institutions, and the stability of societal structures. These degraded ...
  • 'Deadly dozen' reports diseases worsened by climate change

    ... of climate change on the health of wild animals and the cascading effects on human populations. In addition to the health ... regions to infect more animals and people. Although effects of the disease on wildlife have not been documented, human-induced ...
  • Tree deaths have doubled across the western US

    ... of the research team. Such changes, the team noted, can have cascading effects, such as by changing forest suitability for wildlife ... rates are like interest on a bank account – the effects compound over time," said Nate Stephenson, also with the U ...
  • Ecologists put price tag on invasive species

    ... vertebrates are top predators, and their introduction causes cascading effects in the food web," Vilà says. By contrast ... invertebrates such as insects and spiders had the narrowest range of effects, but wreaked the most financial havoc. Vilà points ...
  • If it works in London's streets, it can work in our skies

    ... billion. When there are delays on take off or landing, a cascading effect is created, with lots of associated problems, risks and financial costs," he says. One direct effect is that airlines spend more money on fuel, and there are indirect ...
  • Estrogen can reduce stroke damage by inactivating protein

    ... of another protein called PUMA, which signals a cascading effect that destroys the mitochondria and causes cell ... in your brain, and we've found that estrogen treatment is effective in reducing some of the damage." The next step, she ...
  • Wolf reintroduction proposed in Scottish Highland test case

    ... ," result when the loss of one key predator can have cascading effects on an ecosystem that go far beyond the obvious ... of wolves on a more limited area, and a careful monitoring of their effects on red deer populations, behavior, and hopefully ...
  • Roadrunners not too fast for AgriLife researcher

    ... on survival and reproduction, especially the cascading effects on vegetation structure resulting from brush-control practices," Ransom said. "Landscape effects and fragmentation are a major theme in ecology right ...
  • Climate change triggered dwarfism in soil-dwelling creatures of the past

    ... and magnitude," said Smith. "The take-home lesson is that there can be cascading effects that ripple through an ecosystem when you ... just one aspect. Modern climate change can have many effects that aren't going to be as immediately visible ...
  • Study: Era of rapid growth in biomedical research over

    ... of federal funding for biomedical research in particular has a cascading effect on the national academic research enterprise ... . Consequently, the deceleration in research funding could have a profound effect on communities where academic research, health ...

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