Sentences with phrase «affect the population at»

Fifteen percent of the affected populations at two sites bore brown - black growths, some of them raised and almost scablike.

Not exact matches

That is, it is a benefit that doesn't affect a huge share of the immigrant population at large.

And the health system costs related to smoking and diabetes are not the only problems that will affect China's ability to maintain a healthy and productive population at an affordable cost.

«But that's not the case with mental - health issues,» including depression, which he believes affects entrepreneurs at a higher rate than the general population.

Band Together Bay Area, a benefit concert hosted at iconic AT&T Park on November 9, mobilized the Bay Area in a show of support for the most vulnerable populations affected by this crisis.

There is no globalisation of political regulation, state or democratic institutions which provide guarantees and exert control over decisions affecting the various regions and populations of the world, in the general interest of the world at large.

A recent study from researchers at Oxford University published in the medical journal The Lancet looked at how changing weather patterns will affect the planet's ability to grow enough food to adequately feed the global population, and the results are terrifying: They predicted that because of large scale agricultural changes, 247,970 could die in China alone by the year 2050.

Experts are saying older men shouldn't worry about their higher risk of fathering a child with bipolar disorder (men 45 + are 25x more likely than a man in his 20s to father a child with bipolar disorder) because it's such a rare disease but recent studies show it's not rare at all and affects 4 - 5 % of the population.

At the end of the day the goal is to have a camp that supports health, that is what we want, a healthy camp with healthy individuals and healthy population in it, so WHO and it's partners, should be looking at breastfeeding as one of the key services and health promoting interventions that should be ensured in a place which houses affected populationAt the end of the day the goal is to have a camp that supports health, that is what we want, a healthy camp with healthy individuals and healthy population in it, so WHO and it's partners, should be looking at breastfeeding as one of the key services and health promoting interventions that should be ensured in a place which houses affected populationat breastfeeding as one of the key services and health promoting interventions that should be ensured in a place which houses affected populations.

As such, two - way information flows will be at the heart of effective response.At the same time the «2025 communicator» will face a shift in power relations in the direction of affected populations as a result of better connectivity.

At the operational level, information communication failures mean that information on urgent and fast - changing needs is not easily transmitted, including from affected populations to existing providers of public goods.

We elect a relatively moderate guy (center - Left at most), whose own politics seem timid to many progressive activists, but the Right hypes up the rhetoric to try to defeat even the relatively mild policy changes he wants (pardon me, but a healthcare «public option» that will affect about 3 % of the population ain't exactly going to destroy our market economy).

The Regional manager however said the company is injecting more transformers into the system to beef up power supply and be at length with the growing demand of power in the region, he said «there is an increased demand of power from our growing population in the region so we have started injecting a number of transformers in some areas in the region to help solve the increased demand and also eradicate the problem of low voltage which affects our customers in the Region, we have installed a number of these transformers and we will continue to install more in 2017 to meet the growing needs as they come.»

Standing with firefighter - union officials outside an Upper East Side firehouse, Mr. Schumer, a New York Democrat, said the registry would work by collecting anonymous data from firefighters diagnosed with cancer, a disease he said affects them at higher rates than it does the overall population.

«We know that population ageing is pervasive, in fact it's a global phenomenon affecting everyone - but countries are at various stages of the process, and the pace of change differs greatly.

Government had to tighten its belt,» Silver said at a joint press conference announcing the plan, adding that he was able to «achieve critical restorations which will soften the cuts affecting working families, our senior citizens, our most vulnerable populations and the children in our classrooms.»

However, if, as we showed, the scent is sufficient to continue population decline, then even if the predators move on to other prey, and their scent disappears, this is unimportant for the survival of the population that is at risk whose numbers and reproductive ability have been critically affected by the passing smell of death.»

«The geological similarities between the sediments at the place where the skull was found and sediments laid down during the 1998 tsunami that hit this same coastline have made us realise that human populations in this area have been affected by these massive inundations for thousands of years.»

The research also looked at how the microsporidian parasite Nosema ceranae, which is a potential major threat to honey bee populations in Europe, affects the memory and learning of both species.

Steve Kell, GP and co chair of the NHS Clinical Commissioners representative group, said: «CCGs are trying to develop a sense of joint responsibility for populations, so people in the hospital are thinking beyond their hospital walls to look at nursing home quality, and anything that affects our patients.

This allows us to reveal how drugs affect heart functions in a scenario where the two cell populations are closely coupled,» said Ben Maoz, Ph.D., a co-first author on the second study, who also is a Technology Development Fellow at the Wyss Institute and a member of Parker's group.

The researchers collected data on a wide variety of ecological variables that could affect gloomy scale populations, including habitat characteristics, the temperature at each tree site, and the abundance of predators and parasitoids.

Some physicians argue that although tiny blood pressure drops will not have a big effect on individuals — they will not really affect your risk of having a heart attack — they may end up saving lives at the population level, in part because a small percentage of the population, including some African - Americans and elderly individuals, seem to be hypersensitive to salt.

To see how the new habitats affected these populations, evolutionary ecologist Alexander Badyaev of Auburn University in Alabama and colleague Geoffrey Hill tagged thousands of birds at each site and followed their offspring from hatching through adulthood.

«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

That trend is problematic considering that African - Americans — the most at - risk population for multiple myeloma — have different genetics that can affect how this type of cancer progresses and what kind of targeted therapies are most effective, said Zarko Manojlovic, lead author of the study.

«Their stay is an unusual opportunity to look at predation and how it might affect populations of the marine mammals they eat.»

«When we look forward several decades, climate models predict such profound loss of Arctic sea ice that there's little doubt this will negatively affect polar bears throughout much of their range, because of their critical dependence on sea ice,» said Kristin Laidre, a researcher at the University of Washington's Polar Science Center in Seattle and co-author of a study on projections of the global polar bear population.

The study is the first to look at these different biological markers, as well has how the gene's impact on dopamine production specifically affects Caucasian populations.

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.

A new report by the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford concludes that better governance could have lessened the impact on the poorest and most vulnerable, and affected populations have been let down by the authorities in the past.

Now, a researcher at the University of Missouri has applied the Public Health Index (PHI) model, a tool he designed that has been adopted by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, to help the Brazilian government identify and prioritize health risks affecting its population.

Knowing that researchers in the early 20th century had shown that avian predators can wipe out an entire population of cicadas that emerges out of sequence, Koenig decided to take a look at how bird populations might affect the insects» cycles.

Countries with large volumes of travellers arriving from Zika virus - affected areas of the Americas and large populations at risk include India (67422 travellers arriving per year; 1.2 billion residents in potential Zika transmission areas), China (238415 travellers; 242 million residents), Indonesia (13865 travellers; 197 million residents), the Philippines (35635 travellers; 70 million residents), and Thailand (29241 travellers; 59 million residents).

Many countries across Africa and Asia - Pacific may be vulnerable to Zika virus outbreaks, with India, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Nigeria, Vietnam, Pakistan, and Bangladesh expected to be at greatest risk of Zika virus transmission due to a combination of high travel volumes from Zika affected areas in the Americas, local presence of mosquitos capable of transmitting Zika virus, suitable climatic conditions, large populations and / or limited health resources, according to a new modelling study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

The study, recently published in the journal Ecology Letters, reveals that contrary to expectation, the massive glaciers that expanded and contracted across the region affected animal populations in different ways at different times.

At the college level, teacher subject knowledge is not a problem, the student population is far more homogeneous, and there are far fewer issues that may affect learning.

«We initiated the Great Ape Aging Project 20 years ago because we saw an aging chimpanzee population under human care that would need geriatric attention for disorders similar to those affecting aging humans,» said Joseph Erwin, Ph.D., research professor of anthropology at the George Washington University.

This work defines an element, often missing from health policy discussions, in improving outcomes for this important population and underscores the importance of social factors in affecting health outcomes both for people at risk of becoming infected with HIV and for those living with HIV or AIDS, said the researchers.

The team wanted to determine if the investigated ancient populations were affected at the genetic level by foreign conquest and domination during the time period under study, and compared these populations to modern Egyptian comparative populations.

Dr. Katie Dugger, a research biologist at the USGS Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Oregon State University and lead author on the report, said that «This study provides strong evidence that barred owls are negatively affecting spotted owl populations.

Low back pain is an extremely common problem that affects at least 80 percent of the population at some point in their lifetime.

This confounding of perception — called synesthesia — was thought to affect at most about 4 percent of the population, but University College London psychologist Jamie Ward has uncovered the best evidence yet that we may all have a bit of synesthesia.

That's a good thing, says Mark Keim, associate director for science in the Office of Environmental Health Emergencies at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), it can both improve disaster response and allow affected populations to take control of their situation as well as feel empowered.

«We have identified key elements of the WTC response that have affected the health of the exposed population and ongoing population monitoring and treatment,» comments lead author Michael Crane, MD, MPH, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

«These findings dispute the commonly held notion that the gap in donor supply in certain geographic areas is due to large populations of racial and ethnic minorities who are less likely to consent for donation, thus affecting the geography of available organs,» said the study's lead author, David Goldberg, MD, MSCE, an assistant professor in the division of Gastroenterology at Penn..

Examining how land - use changes may affect water quality and fisheries resources in lakes and rivers will help natural resource agencies manage wildlife populations, according to Steven Chipps, leader of the U.S. Geological Survey, South Dakota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at South Dakota State University.

«While there is information available about counties in the United States that exceed EPA air pollution standards, there has not been a similar source of information about how that air pollution actually affects the health of people living in those areas,» said lead study author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and assistant professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine.

Depersonalisation disorder is not as rare as you might think, says Anthony David at King's College London and the Maudsley Hospital: it may affect almost 1 per cent of the British population (Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, DOI: 10.1007 / s00127 -010-0327-7).

Such a sudden and rapid depletion of salamander species, especially ones with dense populations such as the eastern newt, could have «cascading effects» in affected ecosystems, says Michael Lannoo, a herpetologist at Indiana University and expert on amphibian declines.