There is a long list of animals whose disappearance can be blamed squarely on human actions.
Human actions have resulted in warming and acidification of the oceans and are now causing increasing hypoxia.
Even seemingly innocuous human actions can have devastating repercussions for the marine ecosystem.
In response, she channelled the simmering debate to educate the public on the impacts of human actions on the environment.
Natural disasters such as earthquake, tsunami, flooding and drought command our attention regularly (and remind us that sometimes human actions have made their effects worse).
Human actions "will" affect the global climate, is changed to "might".
Management and investors lost, and so did society, say Mark Frigo and Joel Litman in their book, Driven: Business Strategy, Human Actions, and the Creation of Wealth.
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This view is understandable given that only a few decades ago I, myself, would have thought it ridiculous to imagine that reefs might have a limited lifespan on Earth as a consequence of human actions.
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Harvard Medical School may unwittingly assist with solving our (rather misguided) plight, as it just experimented with a system that lets a human mind trigger actions in a rat's motor cortex.
The books also taught me about human nature, how your actions can have a significant effect way down the line.
Established in 2008 thanks to a generous endowment from the City of Bilbao (Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, Spain), the aim of the Prize is to recognize outstanding contributions made by organizations and individuals to the cause of human rights through their committed actions and leadership role in the areas of education, research and awareness-raising.
This is a fascinating point to understand about human behavior, and it sheds light on the actions of investors who ride the markets to the bottom.
Our actions reveal what we have become as human beings and we can develop the more positive side of our humanity by becoming more generous and temperate towards our natural environment.
Then Unep, or the UNEO, or whatever it metamorphoses into, may finally be able to make the impact envisaged in Stockholm 34 years ago, and help human societies to "...shape our actions throughout the world with a more prudent care for their environmental consequences".
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For the past 8 years, the authority of the Department of Health and Human Services, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to fund and conduct human embryonic stem cell research has been limited by Presidential actions.
The magistrate said the actions of Imraan Hosany were a "violation of human dignity" carried out "with a view to cater to morbid curiosity".
Researchers concluded that any such "guilty look" is a response to human behaviour and has no relation with the dog's actions or sense of having broken any rules.
The build-it-yourself (and eerily human-proportioned) construction can react to pre-programmed actions, text-to-speech conversion or live control, ranging from basics like the eyes and jaw to the eyelids, eyebrows, lips and neck of an Advanced Fritz.
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In human beings, it was found that mirror neurons not only simulate actions, they also reflect intentions and feelings.
Though a program displays panels showing all the critical processes of a real rig (fire and gas detectors, valve status, oil flow from the sea bed and so on), and then responds to the actions of the trainee by altering these displays appropriately, a human operator can intervene at any time if things seem to be going too smoothly.
By assembling enough data points of actions, they can start to approximate the curved lines that are human beings.
Their voices and actions must be heard and defended as inherent to the exercise of human rights and fundamental freedoms.
Turkle seems to say that these natural actions find a kind of riskless mimicry in out habits of giving human qualities to objects like robots.
They argued their employers' actions went against articles 9 and 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which protected their rights to "freedom of thought, conscience and religion" and prohibited religious discrimination.
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They say their employers' actions went against articles nine and 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which protect their right to "freedom of thought, conscience and religion" and prohibit religious discrimination.
But it is the Love whose nature is expressed in good actions, marked by self-control and justice, at the human and divine level that has the greatest power and is the source of all our happiness.
The human will be able to interrogate the system, asking it to provide reasons for its actions or to offer additional information.
The women assert that the actions of the undercover officers breached their rights as protected by the European Convention on Human Rights, including Article 3 (no one shall be subject to inhumane and degrading treatment) and Article 8 (respect for private and family life, including the right to form relationships without unjustified interference by the state).
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Another example: for every species that has suffered extinction at human hands, others have been saved through dedication to better understanding the natural world and the impact of our actions.
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