Sentences with phrase «when rural populations»
When rural populations move to cities, birth rates tend to fall dramatically.
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With this rising population and the lack of radical reform in most underdeveloped countries, particularly in the rural communities where the large masses of these people live, the world food crisis will recur when again the crops are less favorable; the danger is that it will then gradually take on an ever more permanent and disastrous dimension.
This seems surprising when one looks at the statistics — after all, the developing middle class, an indicator of a more urban and modernizing society, is still a minority (perhaps 300 million of China's 1.3 billion population), albeit a fast - growing one, and China remains a very poor country in terms of per capita GDP, as well as substantially rural.
But, only about 2 % of the population of the United States is employed in farming, and even if you have a substantial multiplier for people who economically benefit when farmers are doing well, this is still only a modest share of the rural population in the United States.
Saatchi, which is owned by France's Publicis Groupe, SA, chose LifeStraw over a field of competitors that included a reusable controller to improve the distribution of IV fluids, a collapsible wheel that can be folded down for easier storage when not in use on bicycles or wheelchairs, an energy - efficient laptop designed for children in developing countries, a 3 - D display that uses special optics and software to project a hologramlike image of patient anatomy for cancer treatment, an inkjet printing system for fabricating tissue scaffolds on which cells can be grown, a visual prosthesis for bypassing a diseased or damaged eye and sending signals directly to the brain, books with embedded sound tracks to help educate illiterate adults on health issues, a phone that provides telecommunications coverage to poor rural populations in developing countries, and a brain - computer interface designed to help paralyzed people communicate via neural signals.
This is an important distinction, because a higher percentage of the population in the Midwest lives in rural areas, when compared with other regions in the U.S., the researchers note.
Persisting high insulin sensitivity among middle - aged and older individuals in non-westernized traditional populations at a time when they still maintained their ancestral lifestyle, such as the African pygmies, the Ainu people of Japan, rural communities in Papua New Guinea, and traditional Pacific Islanders.
Interestingly, when these rural Chinese populations migrate to Western countries and adopt our diet and lifestyle, their rates of chronic disease soar to Western levels.
When Black Panther star Danai Gurira was five - years - old, her parents moved her from Grinnell, Iowa, population 9,218, to their homeland of Harare, Zimbabwe — a bustling, urban city over two - and - a-half-thousand times bigger than the rural former factory town where she was born.
was determined to be rural prior to October 1, 1990 and whose population after the 1990 decennial Census did not exceed 25,000 (this provision may be changed — either to update it when data from the 2000 Census become available or, as proposed in Congress in 2000, to maintain eligibility based on the 1980 Census through 2010).
However, when you take into account the relatively low population density across the Tar Heel state and consider the fact that until recently North Carolina's rural population was higher than its urban population, the low rates begin to make sense.
When writing his seminal work, «The Souls of Black Folk,» civil rights activist W.E.B. Du Bois created a series of data visualizations about black advancement in the United States — from circular charts that show taxable property owned by African Americans to others that tracked city - versus - rural populations.
For example, in the region investigated by Dole et al (50N - 60N / 35E - 55E) no single (or combined) rural GISS station (with a population less than 10,000) covers the post-Soviet era, a period when Moscow expanded rapidly.
Displacement risk increases when populations that lack the resources for planned migration experience higher exposure to extreme weather events, in both rural and urban areas, particularly in developing countries with low income.
A weather station doesn't suddenly switch from being «rural» to «urban» when the population increases from 99,999 to 100,000!
Its basic premise is that the world's climate is cooling and will revert to conditions prevalent between 1600 and 1850 — when the earth's population was less than 1,000 million and its rural, pre-industrial era civilisations were largely capable of feeding themselves.
Together with the fact that the population of Armagh when compared with other Irish and UK cities has increased relatively little since the late 18th and early 19th centuries (population 1816: 7,000; 1911: 7,600; 1991: 14,265), its rural environment has ensured that the observatory suffers from little or no urban micro-climatic effects (see Coughlin and Butler (1998)-RRB-.
It's also a «homogenizing» process that tries to account for the many variables that affect temperature over time — like when a population boom in a formerly rural area leads to an «urban heat island.»
During my articles, I realized that when serving low - income and rural populations, it is not only important to reach out to the clients, but also to establish and build relationships with the community agencies that serve them.
DC simply doesn't have the kind of open areas and rural spaces that you'll find in whole states, which makes comparisons District of Columbia insurance rates seem inflated, especially when compared to costs in low - population density states like Wyoming or Montana.
However, when you take into account the relatively low population density across the Tar Heel state and consider the fact that until recently North Carolina's rural population was higher than its urban population, the low rates begin to make sense.
Policymakers also should use the available information, such as evidence - based practices for working with rural populations, when making and evaluating rural child welfare policy.
Because a higher proportion of the Indigenous population live in rural and remote areas, the doctor shortage in the bush is having a greater impact on Indigenous peoples when compared to the non-Indigenous population, for example.