Even though it is healthy for an ecosystem, a wildfire can still be considered an abiotic stressor, because it puts an obvious stress on individual organisms within the area.

However, it should be noted that any individual, even a healthy adult in middle age, can experience a severe case, and each person's case should be measured by the loss of fluids, preferably in consultation with a doctor or other health worker.

The cell used as the donor for the cloning of Dolly was taken from a mammary gland, and the production of a healthy clone therefore proved that a cell taken from a specific part of the body could recreate a whole individual.

Koch's postulates can not be met ethically for many human diseases because they require experimental infection of a healthy individual with a pathogen produced as a pure culture.

Throughout most branches of Wicca, all sexual orientations including homosexuality are considered healthy and positive, provided that individual sexual relationships are healthy and loving.

These results suggest that individual variability in specific cognitive functions that are relatively well preserved with ageing is accounted for by the variability of gray matter volume in healthy elderly subjects.

The first phase of therapy focuses on symptoms and relieving the distressing aspects of the condition, ensuring the safety of the individual, improving the patient's capacity to form and maintain healthy relationships, and improving general daily life functioning.

At the time of his diagnosis, his T-cell count had dropped to 25 ( a healthy individual without HIV will have around 500-1200 ).

It can refer to a female individual who suffers from anorexia but still has her period, someone who may be at a " healthy weight ", but who has anorexic thought patterns and behaviors, it can mean the sufferer equally participates in some anorexic as well as bulimic behaviors ( sometimes referred to as purge-type anorexia ), or to any combination of eating disorder behaviors which do not directly put them in a separate category.

The first experiment with a healthy individual appears to have been that by the British scientist Kevin Warwick.

Generally, the key to avoiding nutrient deficiencies is to ensure that the soil is healthy and contains plenty of well rotted organic matter rather than by feeding or treating individual plants.

" As practised by some homeopaths today, homeopathy simply rests on the premise of treating sick persons with extremely diluted agents that – in undiluted doses – are deemed to produce similar symptoms in a healthy individual.

Noting that the drug induced malaria-like symptoms in himself, he concluded that it would do so in any healthy individual.

This led him to postulate a healing principle: " that which can produce a set of symptoms in a healthy individual, can treat a sick individual who is manifesting a similar set of symptoms.

Hahnemann tested substances for the effect they produced on a healthy individual and tried to deduce from this the ills they would heal.

Herophilos believed that exercise and a healthy diet were integral to the bodily health of an individual.

In general, a healthy individual has a value of between 75 % and 125 % of the average.

A normal platelet count in a healthy individual is between 150, 000 and 450, 000 per μL ( microlitre ) of blood (( 150 – 450 )× 10 < sup > 9 </ sup >/ L ).

It is not healthy for an individual, or for a whole society, to become entirely absorbed in the rule of one or the other.

Because black daisies absorb more of the sun's radiant energy, they are able to increase their individual temperatures to healthy levels on the still cool surface of Daisyworld.

Bratman describes orthorexia as an unhealthy fixation with what the individual considers to be healthy eating.

Lack of crying is also a natural, healthy reaction, potentially protective of the individual, and may also be seen as a sign of resilience.

Because of injuries to defensive linemen ( at the beginning of the season the Dolphins were down to four healthy defensive linemen ) defensive coordinator Bill Arnsparger created what he called the " 53 " defense, in which versatile Bob Matheson ( number 53 ) would be used as either a defensive end in the standard 4-3 defense or as a fourth linebacker in a 3-4 defense, with Manny Fernandez at nose tackle.

Other fixed points were used in the past are the body temperature ( of a healthy adult male ) which was originally used by Fahrenheit as his upper fixed point ( to be a number divisible by 12 ) and the lowest temperature given by a mixture of salt and ice, which was originally the definition of.

A number of researchers disagree with this and suggest that the northern latitudes permitted enough synthesis of vitamin D combined with food sources from hunting to keep populations healthy, and only when agriculture was adopted was there a need for lighter skin to maximize the synthesis of vitamin D. The theory suggests that the reduction of game meat, fish, and some plants from the diet resulted in skin turning light many thousands of years after settlement in Europe and Asia.

It was in the vet's interest to keep the animals healthy and reduce the number of calls from farmers, rather than to ensure that the farmer needed to call for service and pay regularly.

Also, fecal stasis and arrest may play a role, as demonstrated by a significantly lower number of bowel movements per week in patients with acute appendicitis compared with healthy controls.

The rating was based on premature death, low birth weight, smoking, obesity, inactivity, excessive drinking, car crashes, sexually transmitted diseases, graduation rates, poverty, violent crime rates, air pollution, limited access to healthy food, unemployment, and the number of single parent households.

With a healthy continuing economy and the rapid growth of the Austin Metro area, the population of the City of Hutto should approach 40, 280 by 2020 ; that number should increase to 50, 140 by 2025 and reach 60, 000 by 2030.

Today, Alberta has the largest number of elms unaffected by Dutch elm disease in the world ; many streets and parks in Edmonton and Calgary are still lined with healthy, mature trees.

There are a number of lines of defence against pests ( that is, those animals that cause damage to the plants we grow ) and diseases in the organic garden, principal among these being the practice of good husbandry, creating healthy soil and ensuring high standards of garden hygiene.

During the epidemic, there were only a small number of men who remained healthy and bore the responsibility of caring for the sick.

Deaths in healthy adults from Latrodectus bites are relatively rare in terms of the number of bites per thousand people.

The obsession for healthy foods could come from a number of sources such as family habits, society trends, economic problems, recent illness, or even just hearing something negative about a food type or group, which then leads them to ultimately eliminate the food or foods from their diet.

This was given added impetus with the arrival of the branch-line railway and railway station in 1878 and a reputation for healthy air, due to the vast number of pine trees, which were said to be good for those suffering from pulmonary disorders.

Thus, individual prostate cancer cells produce less PSA than healthy cells ; the raised serum levels in prostate cancer patients is due to the greatly increased number of such cells, not their individual activity.

A number of species were known to have thrived and it is estimated that there are more fish in the basin today than before the reservoir, but scientists indicate they are not entirely healthy.

Just imported, on board the Snow Sally, Captain Stephen Jones, Master, from England, A number of healthy, stout English and Welsh Servants and Redemptioners, and a few Palatines, amongst whom are the following tradesmen, viz.

He went on to play fretless bass with a healthy number of high-profile artists that include David Gilmour, Tears for Fears, Pete Townshend, Peter Gabriel, Joan Armatrading, Phil Collins, Chaka Khan and Don Henley.

From 1991 to 1998, PSG maintained its finances healthy and the club's expenditures stood at € 50m per season thanks to the rise of television rights and the increasing number of spectators at the Parc des Princes, as well as an excellent performance in national and European competitions.

The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals provides a " Hoarding Prevention Team ," which works with hoarders to help them attain a manageable and healthy number of pets.

Both sanitization and disinfection reduce the number of targeted pathogenic organisms to what are considered " acceptable " levels-levels that a reasonably healthy, intact, body can deal with.

However, a small number of the body's army of lymphocytes are able to react with proteins that are normally present in a healthy body.

The report alleged that the Chinese authorities were executing a " large but unknown number of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience " and removing their internal organs including corneas, hearts, kidneys and livers for sale to foreign nationals in need of healthy organs for transplant.

Though no reliable census exists, there is a healthy balance in the number of residents from the different Malaysian ethnic groups in Sri Hartamas, with no obvious majority group, unlike other parts of Malaysia.

The number of venues exploded, and fueled by the expansion of FM radio and a prosperous economy, Sydney begun to prove that independent bands could make a healthy living on the amazing pub music circuit at home, without having to first strike out to tour overseas and release internationally acclaimed albums.