Sentences with phrase «about changes in population»

We used sequence variation in the mitochondrial COI gene to ask (i) whether cyamid population structures might reveal associations among right whale individuals and subpopulations, (ii) whether the divergences of the three nominally conspecific cyamid species on North Atlantic, North Pacific, and southern right whales (Euba.laena glac.ialis, Eubal.aena jap.onica, Euba.laena aust.ralis) might indicate their times of separation, and (iii) whether the shapes of cyamid gene trees might contain information about changes in the population sizes of right whales....

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That the bragging happened a decade ago doesn't change the reality that a man who might be president sees half the country's population not just as objects for his own aesthetic gratification — we knew that thanks to the beauty pageants and the string of model wives — but objects for his physical gratification as well, regardless of how the women in question feel about it.

However, the reality is that the overwhelming percentage of the population needs to change how they think about the world at a fundamental level in order to actually follow through on starting a business and getting customers.

While the assumptions about the future unemployment rate may be affected by policy, the fact is that slower U.S. population growth, coupled with an aging population, place substantial limits on labor force growth, which will leave U.S. GDP growth almost entirely dependent on changes in productivity.

We spoke with Coolbroth about COCO's early days, its changing membership, its business model, and how its growth has paralleled the change in coworking populations.

It is hard to imagine how a population planner would have arrived at an accurate assessment of the present value of a birth in Korea in 1955, much less make confident assertions about the ways in which the present value of that birth would be changed through alterations in the contemporary Korean birthrate.

In summary of Harney Sushi's environmental ethos, the creed imprinted on the first page of the menu perhaps says it best: «Harney Sushi appeals to the growing population of sushi lovers who care enough about our planet to change the way they eat; they realize that consumerism, along with the public zeal for exotic seafood, is sucking the breath out of our oceans.

See for example complaints about the British NHS and understaffing in L&D due to population demographics changing faster than expected.

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

Their work on ancient DNA from Viking Age horses is more promising: Kool and Boessenkool have collected about 100 samples, in different states of preservation, from which they hope to build a detailed picture of how equine populations moved and changed.

«Much of our historical data about species» population - level responses to climate change comes from observational studies, which can suggest but not confirm causation,» said Anne Marie Panetta, lead author of the study and a post-doctoral researcher in CU Boulder's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EBIO).

They said that if you are talking about changes in the education of a population, it takes time.

In northwest Africa, where what Werz has called an «arc of tension» runs through Nigeria, Niger, Algeria and Morocco, he said the projected massive population growth combined with small - onset changes brought about by climate change — like sea - level rise along the Niger Delta, the loss of hundreds of villages through desertification and the virtual disappearance of Lake Chad — is bad enough.

«Understanding changes in prevalence according to population subgroups is important to inform clinicians about care that will be needed for the pediatric population living with diabetes and may provide direction for other studies designed to determine the causes of the observed changes,» the authors write.

Population geneticist Richard Lewontin gave a talk here at UMass Amherst about six years ago, and he mathematized all of it — changes in the population, random mutation, sexual selection, cost and benefit.

Some experiments were considered quirky by 19th century standards, but the work provided data supporting Darwin's notions about trait variability in a population and how natural selection drives changes in populations over time.

A commonly diagnosed disorder that underwent diagnostic changes is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), which affects an estimated six percent of the population — or about 19 million people in the United States.

In the year 2100, 2 billion people — about one - fifth of the world's population — could become climate change refugees due to rising ocean levels.

«These studies from AAIC 2014 underscore the need to fund larger, longer - term studies in different and diverse populations to enable us to develop helpful «prescriptions» for lifestyle change — for example, which foods to eat and avoid, how much physical activity and what types — and to learn more specifically about how Alzheimer's and dementia risk factors change as we age,» Snyder added.

But while wildfires are estimated to contribute about 18 percent of the total PM2.5 emissions in the U.S., many questions remain on how these emissions will affect human populations, including how overall air quality will be affected, how these levels will change under climate change, and which regions are to most likely to be impacted.

Scientists have failed to either warn about or explain changes in dolphin populations.

A new study by WCS and other groups offers a glimmer of hope for some amphibian populations decimated by the deadly chytrid fungus: climate change may make environmental conditions for the fungus unsuitable in some regions and potentially stave off the spread of disease in African amphibian populations struggling to adapt to changes brought about by global warming.

But Jon Krosnick, a professor at Stanford University, said the only group affected by cold weather in terms of belief about climate change is the 30 percent of the population who distrust scientists.

The more distant ties to chipmunks in Indiana and Michigan suggested a merging of multiple distinct populations about 200,000 years ago, most likely because of habitat change.

As for our different ear odors, they came about because of a tiny change, just one little letter in the genetic alphabet that long ago granted an East Asian population a reprieve from both smelly underarms and sticky earwax.

Those preferences could coevolve with male traits as opinion in a population changes, one feeding back on the other in a scientifically interesting way, the same way short skirts can come in and out of fashion even though they say nothing about the woman wearer.

Some coral populations in peripheral seas (or extreme environments such as tide pools) live today in environments that climate change projections expect for the tropical ocean in about a century.

«When we got those results everybody was really excited about it, because pulling out epigenetic changes from a cell population during an infection in vivo is really pretty remarkable,» Tarrio said.

There is a long history of theoretical work about how genomes might change in small populations.

In the experiment, we asked a national sample of the US population to participate in a public opinion poll about popular topics (participants did not know that the study was really about climate changeIn the experiment, we asked a national sample of the US population to participate in a public opinion poll about popular topics (participants did not know that the study was really about climate changein a public opinion poll about popular topics (participants did not know that the study was really about climate change).

The camera trapping tells a lot about populations — like, the numbers at any point in time, densities, how those numbers are changing over time.

«If we are serious about climate change, the 10 per cent of the global population responsible for 50 per cent of total emissions need to make deep and immediate cuts in their use of energy — and hence their carbon emissions,» says Anderson.

Studying the severe drought in São Paulo, the largest city in South America with a population of about 20 million, a team led by Friederike Otto found that human - induced climate change was not a major influence.

Through her research, Dr. Gallagher addresses questions about the mechanisms governing how global climate change affects plant - pollinator interactions and the extent to which changes in the levels of pollination influence the ecology and evolution of plant populations.

Other research is looking into questions about how seamount populations change in response to climate - induced shifts in ocean circulation and whether habitats disturbed by human activity can recover.

Overall, about 30 % of the bacterial types found in the intestine showed dramatic population changes after a course of ciprofloxacin.

As we learn more about the makeup of good and bad bacteria in the gut biome, researchers are also doing cutting edge DNA microbiome sequencing to show how people's gut biomes are changing on a population level.

Average long - term weight gain in nonobese populations is gradual — in the cohorts we studied, about 0.8 lb per year — but accumulated over time, even modest increases in weight have implications for long - term adiposity - related metabolic dysfunction, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.21 - 24 Whereas weight changes associated with any single lifestyle factor were relatively modest in our three cohorts, in the aggregate, changes in diet and physical activity accounted for large differences in weight gain.

We identify strengths and weaknesses of the different entitlements (rights, responsibilities and obligations) in order to develop an action strategy which will help bring about a change in the standard of living of the most vulnerable populations.

A change in the historical Catholic population share that produces a 10 - percentage - point increase in the extent of contemporary private school competition generates an improvement of about 5.5 percent of a standard deviation in both science and reading — or more than one - fifth of a grade - level equivalent in these subjects.

But in Lawrence, explains Schueler, the state «only actively replaced between 8 to 10 percent of teachers,» with about 20 percent more of the teaching population changing over due to resignations and retirements.

San Francisco — Secondary - school principals, challenged by dramatic changes in the character of their student populations, appear to be increasingly concerned about improving their schools and dealing more effectively with student «learning styles.»

In fact, we come to the same conclusion in both analyses: the expected increase in student outcomes after the hurricanes due to population change is no more than 0.02 to 0.06 standard deviations, or about 10 percent of the difference - in - differences estimates in Figure In fact, we come to the same conclusion in both analyses: the expected increase in student outcomes after the hurricanes due to population change is no more than 0.02 to 0.06 standard deviations, or about 10 percent of the difference - in - differences estimates in Figure in both analyses: the expected increase in student outcomes after the hurricanes due to population change is no more than 0.02 to 0.06 standard deviations, or about 10 percent of the difference - in - differences estimates in Figure in student outcomes after the hurricanes due to population change is no more than 0.02 to 0.06 standard deviations, or about 10 percent of the difference - in - differences estimates in Figure in - differences estimates in Figure in Figure 1.

The data book assembles a wide set of statistics about the Hispanic population in Idaho which includes information on topics like demographic change, morality, health, employment, and education.

If you point out that the teaching workforce has increased by about 40 % in the last three decades (adjusted for changes in student population), people blame special education (see below).

Given standardized coefficients, to have an equivalent change in boundary participation to the Wilson boost, the poverty rate would have to be about 70 percentage points higher, or share of the population that is African American would have to be about 84 percentage points higher or growing by about 32 percentage points over the last five years.

Yet many suburban districts now rival urban districts in the challenges they face, having experienced dramatic population changes in just the past decade, with fast growing numbers of English Language Learners and students living in poverty attending Read more about Suburban Schools: The Unrecognized Frontier in Public Education -LSB-...]

The results are most useful when they are considered in combination with other knowledge about the student population and the educational system, such as trends in instruction, changes in the school - age population, and societal demands and expectations.

The board may give priority to applicants that have demonstrated broad community support, an innovative educational plan, a demonstrated commitment to assisting the district in which it is located in bringing about educational change and a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve.

You can read about the changes occurring in mosquito populations here.