The cytokines trigger an inflammatory response, which draws large numbers of white blood cells to the area and increases the regional blood flow.

The development of a regional system of Human Rights protection operating across Europe can be seen as a direct response to twin concerns.

In response, voters in regional areas deserted the Kennett government and Labor increased their seats from 29 to 42, with the Liberals and their National Party allies retaining 43, and three falling to rural independents.

It was established in response to the need for an ongoing evaluation and interpretation of the changes in national and international affairs by serious international, regional, and national analysts.

Proposals for serious structural reforms, national and / or regional border controls, and a single co-ordinated system of biohazard response abounded.

Scientists at the Brazilian National Institute of Amazonian Research argue in the article that this drought response, coupled with the effects of deforestation on regional climate, are pushing the rainforest towards a " tipping point " where it would irreversibly start to die.

: The question is not whether climate will change in response to human activities, but rather how much ( magnitude ), how fast ( the rate of change ) and where ( regional patterns ).

Individual variation in response to analgesic placebos has been linked to regional neurochemical differences in the internal affective state of the individuals experiencing pain.

A cabinet Office Briefing Rooms ( COBR ) is a crisis response committee, coordinating the actions of bodies within the government of the United Kingdom in response to instances of national or regional crisis, or during events abroad with major implications for the UK.

It has been utilized for parametrizing variability of soil properties at the regional level for crop yield estimation, modeling crop response over the area of the association.

A positive result of the Texas City disaster was widespread disaster response planning to help organize plant, local, and regional responses to emergencies.

In response, the regional authorities of Kraków and Lesser Poland Voivodeship decided to build a new airport near the existing one, using the infrastructure of the military airbase adjacent to the shared runway.

On the policy front, the Davis administration introduced regional governments for Durham, Hamilton-Wentworth, Haldimand-Norfolk, and Waterloo but shelved further plans in response to popular protests.

In keeping with the Department of the Navy strategic concept " Forward ... from the Sea ", these forces provide the flexibility and immediate response necessary to react to any emerging crisis from humanitarian and peacekeeping missions to major regional conflicts.

These forces are prepared to provide the critical first response in a transition between peacetime operations and escalating regional tensions.

In specific response, Ermita said, " Our national sovereignty and territorial integrity are intact ", going on to point out that the African Lion exercises had bolstered national and regional security, and to say that terrorists and communist rebels were " common enemies of democracy, therefore there is nothing wrong with cooperation " between the armed forces of the US and the Philippines.

The Convention was formed in Exeter, on 19 May 2001, in response to the perceived failure of the South West Constitutional Convention, meeting earlier that day, to allow genuine dialogue on the issue of regional boundaries.

From then until the start of 2005 it published a quarterly newsletter, Wessex Voice, and led the production of The Case for Wessex, the joint response of the Wessex movement to the regional governance White Paper, Your Region, Your Choice.

Critics had speculated that the latter change was likely as a response to the announcement of the CRTC granting approval to an application by Rogers Media for its own regional news channel focusing on the Greater Toronto Area, CityNews Channel.

AIT ’ s research strategy elaborated within its 2009-2013 strategic plan represents a significant and concerted response from the institute and its regional partners, towards building regional competitiveness and innovation capacity in the midlands, leveraging to maximum benefit the potential of a number of parallel initiatives.

When Packard dealers saw the resulting car at regional previews, the response was quick, angry and loud.

Studies have shown guanfacine to strengthen working memory, reduce distractibility, improve response inhibition, increase regional cerebral blood flow, reduce locomotor hyperactivity, and improve attentional control in animal models, as well as enhance memory function in humans.

Almost forty years later, on 3 October 1935, after the League of Nations's weak response to the Abyssinia Crisis, the Italians launched a new military campaign endorsed by Benito Mussolini, the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

Currently the organization dates from 2001 with a distribution in several types of units: combat units, response units ( unités d ' intervention ), unités de soutien et d ' appui et finally special reserve units as part of 3 joint military régions ( interarmees ) and the 10 military land sectors.

The American Embassy in Bangui again temporarily suspended operations on November 2, 2002 in response to security concerns raised by the October 2002 launch of François Bozizé's 2003 military coup.

The source for this visit, Julius Firmicus Maternus, does not give a reason for this but the quick movement and the danger involved in crossing the channel in the dangerous winter months, suggests it was in response to a military emergency of some kind, possibly to repel the Picts and Scots.

move seemingly had a strictly personal political motive – that is, fear and jealousy of his cousin Ptolemy – and thus the expansion was not set about in response to pressing military or economic needs.

Whereas previously any noble could start a war, the monarchs of Europe of necessity consolidated military power in response to the Napoleonic war.

One of the purposes the CIA hoped to achieve by these operations was an aggressive and violent response from the Sandinista government which in turn could be used as a pretext for proper military actions.

However, they soon began to loot the holy places of Lhasa, which brought a swift response from Emperor Kangxi in 1718 ; but his military expedition was annihilated by the Dzungars, not far from Lhasa.

DARPA was established during 1958 ( as ARPA ) in response to the Soviet launching of Sputnik during 1957, with the mission of keeping U. S. military technology more sophisticated than that of the nation's potential enemies.

The ELF initiated military operations in 1961 and intensified its activities in response to the dissolution of the federation in 1962.

Lee and Roper exchange a weary thumbs-up just as military helicopters arrive in response to the distress call.

The British military were caught totally unprepared by the rebellion and their response of the first day was generally un-coordinated.

In 1893, judging that his power over Ethiopia was secure, Menelik repudiated the treaty ; in response the Italians ramped up the pressure on his domain in a variety of ways, including the annexation of small territories bordering their original claim under the Treaty of Wuchale, and finally culminating with a military campaign across the Mareb River into Tigray ( on the border with Eritrea ) in December 1894.

The small cases of ethnic conflict in rural Guatemala between 1944 and 1952 started an intense response among the Ladino elite for increased vigilance in rural areas, the denial of rights recently won through the revolution to Indians, and the frequent use of the military and violence to suppress the most minor sign of simmering unrest.

In response to the increasingly autocratic rule of Gen. Ydígoras Fuentes, who took power in 1958 following the murder of Col. Castillo Armas, a group of junior military officers revolted in 1960.

The reform activity provoked hostile reaction and eventually military response on the part of the neighboring powers.

A tough military response was needed to end the insurgency and bring about the establishment of an independent, multi-racial Federation of Malaya in 1957.

Additionally, ICBMs are generally considered to be nuclear only ; although several conceptual designs of conventionally armed missiles have been considered, the launch of such a weapon would be such a threat that it would demand a nuclear response, eliminating any military value of such a weapon.

In response, Nehru sacked the defence minister Krishna Menon and sought U. S. military aid.

Within the government, it was agreed that Japan would try to secure its position in China, defuse the conflict with the Soviet Union, move troops into Indochina, and prepare for a military response from Britain and possibly the United States.

The military had been certain that the United States would not take this drastic measure in response to its southern move.

The French were reluctant to reduce their armaments without a guarantee of military help if they were attacked ; Poland and Czechoslovakia felt vulnerable to attack from the west and wanted the League's response to aggression against its members to be strengthened before they disarmed.

In the case of a national group, the example of seeing the mobilization of a foreign military force on the nation's borders may provoke members of a national group to unify and mobilize themselves in response.

In response to the gay rights movements of the 1970s and 1980s, the Department of Defense issued a 1982 policy ( DOD Directive 1332. 14 ) stating that homosexuality was clearly incompatible with military service.