Sentences with phrase «as population gains»

As a result the world's population is growing at about the same rate as the population gaining access to electricity — meaning 1.3 billion people are permanently left behind if something doesn't change.

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However the average gains are misleading, as the population was older in 2013 than it was in 1989.

That score came as L.A. home prices surged 15.9 percent in two years — No. 32 biggest gain; per - capita homebuilding of 6 houses per 10,000 population was fourth slowest nationally; and business output rose 4.9 percent last year, No. 51 fastest.

To put this in context, the richest 1 % of the population received more than twice as much income from capital gains alone, as the median total income of the bottom 99 % of society (which was $ 29,300 in 2011).

We should urgently instigate an inquiry into the resources held abroad by the rich citizens of the peripheral countries and the resultant expropriation, in certain cases, of these resources if they have been gained through means such as theft committed at the expense of the population of the peripheral countries (expropriated wealth should be returned to the people).

Not only were these churches leveling off from the heady gains of the postwar revival era (the main Presbyterian bodies from 1940 to 1960 had gained adherents at more than twice the rate of the preceding 20 years), but just as important, even more than before they were «losing» members and potential members because the regions in which they were strongest were «losing» population.

It was also then used as a political prop to gain power and manipulate the population.

The AG's U.S. division grew more than twice as fast as the American population in 2012 (1.8 percent vs. 0.7 percent), gaining almost 54,000 adherents to now number nearly 3.1 million worshipers at more than 12,700 churches (up 127 from 2011).

Therefore, the overall downward trends in the availability of refined sugars and estimated intakes of added sugars and SSBs are at odds with an incremental weight gain in the population as a whole.

Angola gained notoriety just over a decade ago as an oil - rich country run by an oligarchy lording over an impoverished, war - weary population.

Look away from the bubble and see municipal politicians such as Sir Richard Leese, Labour leader of Manchester City Council, doing their best to use the heavily circumscribed powers of local government to gain real results for their populations.

It was a source of concern for the opposition party and certain segments of the population from the very start, and after the end of the Bush administration, when Obama had those sweeping powers, the questioning of those broad powers gained more momentum as previous supporters suddenly found it to be troubling.

Starting this month, roughly one quarter of the world's population will lose sleep and gain sunlight as they set their clocks ahead for daylight saving.

With comments such as these gaining attention — and in some circles, approval — are environmentalists and eventually policy makers likely to renew the decades - old call for «population control»?

«We've known for some time that sleep deprivation is associated with weight gain and obesity in the general population, but this study shows that getting enough sleep — even just two hours more — may be as important as a healthy diet and exercise for new mothers to return to their prepregnancy weight,» says Erica Gunderson, an investigator at Kaiser Permanente Divison of Research in Oakland, Calif., and lead author of the study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology.

One policy that may reduce alcohol - use behaviors and impaired driving among young people at a population level is graduated driver licensing (GDL), which increases the driving privileges of young novice drivers as they age and gain more driving experience.

As they gained familiarity with the insurance industry, the public health community became «better prepared to conceptualize new models for linking population health with reimbursable clinical care.»

Non-state actors are already weaponizing water to control local populations, either through diverting scarce water sources or — as the Islamic State group did when it seized the Mosul Dam in Iraq and threatened to demolish it — by gaining the leverage to devastate downstream population centers.

The greatest health gains would result from fewer cars and increased walking in Delhi, reducing DALYs by 13,000 when modelling the population in 2030 compared with the same population under business - as - usual conditions.

As a result, these researchers found that one strain of mice which were genetically prone to become obese became resistant to excess weight gain after their populations of gut microbiota were transformed simply by an sharing an environment with other mice.

Ernest Hawk, vice president and head of the division of cancer prevention and population science at MD Anderson Cancer Center, said that stepped - up prevention efforts could deliver further gains because «we already know how to prevent the bulk of tobacco - and HPV - related cancers, as well as how to reduce deaths from other cancers. . .

However some technical challenges still need to be taken to make the technology more accessible and usable to its full potential: gaining selective and comprehensive genetic access to the neurons of interest, controlling variation in the expression of the optogenetic tools (when using viruses) and its precise localization (axon vs. presynaptic terminals), tailoring light - delivery system signals to individual cells in a population rather than the population as a whole, developing observation techniques which have the same spatial and temporal resolution as those tools... to cite only a few of them.

«Through this program, investigators gain access to cutting - edge methodologies and technologies as well as a wide range of patient populations and data from their counterparts,» Öngür said.

By analyzing genome sequence data from human populations, including 1269 individuals from sub-Saharan Africa, we identify a diverse array of large copy number variants affecting the host invasion receptor genes GYPA and GYPB We find that a nearby association with severe malaria is explained by a complex structural rearrangement involving the loss of GYPB and gain of two GYPB - A hybrid genes, which encode a serologically distinct blood group antigen known as Dantu.

While principal component analysis can reveal relatively old population structure, such as generated from long - term isolation - by - distance models15, whole - genome sequences let us study rare variants to gain insight into more recent population structure.

So that could explain why, as we've gone over before, those eating vegetarian don't seem to get that age - related weight gain that afflicts the rest of the population.

«People tend to gain weight steadily, on average — not everybody — and get more fat and tend to lose lean mass up to about age 65, and then what happens is that there's a downward trend: Now people start to kind of slowly lose weight — again, not everybody, but the trend is that as you get older — the general population I see is in the 70s and 80s — they tend to lose weight,» says Michi Yukawa, MD, MPH, acting instructor in the department of medicine and the division of gerontology and geriatric medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle.

And, of course the vast majority of the population are meat eaters and gain fat tissue on top of that as a result.

To gain empathy, we must, as much as we can, walk in the shoes of our learner population.

Over this time period, other populations, such as Hispanic and Asian students, have gained enrollment share (see Figure 1c below).

Flexible funding enables schools with more challenging populations to gain access to more resources so they can take needed steps such as reducing class size, hiring more experienced and effective teachers, and implementing other programs and services to support students with greater needs.

Human emotions and behaviours are contagious and as such, students F immediately stand to gain from progress within the teacher population.

House Education Committee Chairman Dave Quall, D - Mount Vernon, who supports the charter law, said in the conference that schools gain and lose per - pupil funds every year as student populations fluctuate, and that the effect of larger demographic trends dwarfs the effect of charter school transfers.

As reflected in Figure 1, achievement gains for students identified as having disabilities have been dramatic in many grades, with no decrease or even plateauing of performance among the general student populatioAs reflected in Figure 1, achievement gains for students identified as having disabilities have been dramatic in many grades, with no decrease or even plateauing of performance among the general student populatioas having disabilities have been dramatic in many grades, with no decrease or even plateauing of performance among the general student population.

Arizona saw modest gains in student enrollment over the last decade with a 5.8 percent increase, but enrollment is projected to rise dramatically as our state's K - 12 population could grow by 57 percent over the next 14 years.

Designed to help busy educators gain a deeper understanding of the literacy needs of their various student populations, Leadership Edition presents key metrics such as student usage, performance, and progress towards college and career readiness in easy - to - read, visual formats.

Both countries and the river are named for the early settlers to the area known as the Kongo people, and for the Kingdom of Kongo which controlled much of the area between about 1400 and 1914: The Republic of Congo Also known as Congo - Brazzerville or the Congo, The Republic of Congo was a former French colony which gained independence in 1960 and currently has a population of a little over four million.

As he gained power and control of the national media in all aspects — from news to poetry to films to music to national holidays and celebrations — his hold on what the Russian population believed of him gained strength.

This notion is gaining traction among parts of the population as well as the religious community, though it has not yet gained any purchase with local employers.

With population growth the city was able to gain a foothold in other industries such as factories, stockyards, and railroads.

Canada's condo market to dodge hard landing as population, job gains drive demand: study A contractor walks along the outer edge of a condominium under construction in downtown Vancouver.

Meanwhile, the TD report said home prices in Edmonton and Calgary were expected to post the biggest growth rate over the next two years, as those cities continue to see population and employment gains.

In 1989, this strategy had already begun to gain support as the most effective and humane method of controlling homeless cat populations.

As this program gains recognition, I hope other residents of Albuquerque and New Mexico will turn to this solution to any nuisance cat problems and gradually and humanely reduce feral cat populations.

RTF programs are gaining acceptance across the country as both an effective and humane approach to managing community cat populations.

In the winter of 2011, as the feline population on campus continued to grow, volunteers with Salem Friends of Felines decided to introduce a feral cat management program without gaining permission from college officials.

Cortez, after dividing the local population, perhaps posing as the banished Quetzalcoatl returning for revenge, gaining Spanish reinforcements, and kidnapping Moctezuma who eventually died during the Spanish siege of Teotihuacan.

By the fourteenth century Stresa's population had grown sufficiently for it to be officially recognised as a village and gained the right to hold a weekly market; a tradition still upheld in the town each Friday morning.

PS when molecular collisions are frequent relative to photon emissions and absorptions (as is generally the case in most of the mass of the atmosphere), the radiant heat absorbed by any population of molecules is transfered to the heat of the whole population within some volume, and molecules that emit photons can then gain energy from other molecules.

Although the country's demographers projected major future gains in population, Gasana said that he did not see how Rwanda would reach 10 million inhabitants without social disorder «unless important progress in agriculture, as well as other sectors of the economy, were achieved.»