Tumours linked to herpesvirus are increasingly
affecting some populations of turtles in Australia and Florida — and pollution may be the cause
«Their stay is an unusual opportunity to look at predation and how it might
affect populations of the marine mammals they eat.»
Forest cover in the Amazon has been declining since the 1950s, but scientists still have a poor understanding of how this has
affected populations of individual species.
In a mouse model of type 1 diabetes, RGS1
affects the population of one type of T cell called a «T follicular helper cell» that is critical for B cells and antibody production, Dr. Kissler and his colleagues reported recently in Genes and Immunity.
Instead, an absence of fiber has been shown to harm our guts and to therefore
affect the population of friendly bacteria in those guts (AKA: the microbiome).
Modern fish farming practices often raise fish near the top of the food chain (
affecting populations of fish that eat or are eaten by these species) and contain thousands of fish in tiny pens (similar to commercial chicken or cow operations).
A short piece on how WW1 and WW2
affected the population of England and Wales using census data.
But Brice Semmens, an assistant professor in the marine biology research division at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, said sportfishing generally does not
affect populations of wild fish nearly as much as commercial fishing.
The stronger presence of this species, bound to become a new apex predator of arctic seas, will likely
affect populations of endemic arctic marine mammals such as the narwhal, bowhead, and beluga whales.
If that occurs, the premature removal of protection offered by subnivean birth lairs may expose young ringed seal pups to high levels of predation, which may negatively
affect populations of ringed seals and the polar bears that depend on them for food.
Thirty years to establish a climate state seems a long time, as within that period there may be notable shifts to a number of different prevailing patterns of cold / warmth / wet or drought that, on a human scale affects agriculture and horticulture by impacting on what crops may be grown successfully, may affect the tourism season, may cause a consumer to use more or less energy in their home, and also impact on nature by
affecting the populations of wild life and vegetation.
• Provided welding services when and where needed to aid in the installation of temporary shelters for the hurricane
affected population of New Orleans who came in strikingly high numbers, to seek refuge • Aided in other managerial shelter related tasks; labeling of camps, registering the affected members and compiling their data for submission to government aiding authorities
Not exact matches
In AFib — which
affects as many as 3 %
of the
population, with most cases occurring in those over 65 — the electrophysiology
of the heart is out
of whack, and its two upper chambers (the atria) fibrillate, or quiver, instead
of contracting fully.
That is, it is a benefit that doesn't
affect a huge share
of the immigrant
population at large.
However, these odds don't factor in a person's individual behaviors, age, sex, location, or other things that can
affect risks — they're averages
of the entire US
population.
OPM continues to work with US - CERT and the FBI to determine the type
of records that may have been compromised and the
population of individuals
affected.
Yet a lack
of sleep
affects about 40 percent
of the
population, with roughly 20 percent
of people suffering from insomnia.
Severe as these problems are, they tend to
affect the affluent portions
of the
population, with access to healthcare and the incomes to afford it.
And demographic changes that
affect the age distribution
of the
population could mask the real state
of the job market, too: «if the
population is aging, a greater percentage
of the
population may hit retirement age and willingly retire, which doesn't imply a weaker job market,» CEPR's Evan Butcher and Nicholas Buffie wrote in a blog post this week.
«Things that
affect large portions
of the [employee]
population really
affect small - and medium - sized businesses more than large businesses,» says Al Berman, executive director
of DRII, The Institute for Continuity Management, a New York City - based organization that certifies businesses in contingency planning.
But with roughly 10,000 Americans turning 65 every day, the elderly
population is growing so quickly that instances
of financial fraud
affecting the elderly are becoming ever more common.
Uber notes that about 20 %
of the
population is
affected by the flu each year, and getting a vaccine reduces the risk
of someone else being infected by 50 % -60 %.
Social Security spending has also been
affected by aging
of the
population.
It's also an acquisition that is tapping into another trend: we're living longer and getting more and more conscious
of our health, and in some cases we're not actually getting healthier, with weight issues
affecting a lot
of our sedentary
population, and other illnesses like diabetes growing in prevalence because
of wider changes in our diets.
The shutdown
affected diverse countries from all over the continent: whether they had small
populations like Gabon or big ones like Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic
of Congo; whether in the south
of the continent like Zimbabwe, in the north in Algeria, across the east in Burundi and Uganda, and in the west like the shutdown preceding the elections in The Gambia.
The PBO has provided credible estimates on the costs
of the F - 35 fighter, the costs
of the Afghan War as well as credible analysis on the fiscal
affects of an aging
population.
There was no discussion
of how an ageing
population will
affect labour force growth, or productivity growth.
It will cut through as many as 68 countries across Asia and Europe,
affecting an estimated 62 percent
of the world's
population.
There was no discussion
of the need for increased savings and investment to increase productivity growth or how an ageing
population will
affect savings in the economy.
On Thursday, CNN reported that «while the highly anticipated inter-Korean summit will capture much
of the world's attention Friday, another equally consequential meeting will unfold in China on the same day, the outcome
of which could
affect more than a third
of the world's
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.
Donations
of canned goods are rarely beneficial and the collection
of bottled water is highly inefficient, as both food and potable water can be purchased more inexpensively through merchants close to
affected populations.
Acknowledging this, however, would call into question the revelation vouchsafed to another
of the new environmentalism's ideological allies, the
population - control movement: namely, that people are a pollutant» a pernicious idea, born
of the earlier progressivist eugenics movement and brought to a popular boil in the Sixties by evidence - light propagandists like Paul Ehrlich, that continues to
affect U.S. foreign - aid policy to this day.
For example,
population processes associated with colonization, periods
of geographic isolation, socially reinforced endogamy, and natural selection all have
affected allele frequencies in certain
populations (Jorde et al. 2000b; Bamshad and Wooding 2003).
In contrast to its indiscriminate impact in countries
of its earliest and greatest spread, AIDS in the U.S. has disproportionately and overwhelmingly
affected that part
of the
population which is gay or bisexual; nearly three - quarters
of those in the U.S. who have contracted AIDS to date are gay or bisexual males.
They
affect populations which are marginalised and excluded from satisfying their need for the basic necessities
of life, and thus from the basis
of civilisation given their incapacity to transform these pressing needs into effective demands, monetary demands.
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.
First introduced in 1978, the controversial
population control measures
affected tens
of millions
of families.
Per your assertions, humans in the cradle
of humanity have been
affected by Malaria for millions
of years yet somehow, this negative trait is never bred out
of the human
population.
Populations throughout the world were
affected, by three successive waves
of the pandemic (as it is more appropriately called).
The following image shows how
population sizes
affect this rate
of allele fixation and as you can see, as the
population gets smaller, the rate
of allele fixation increases exponentially.
Having inside knowledge
of political decisions that will
affect population movements and land use gives opportunities for windfall profits for corrupt individuals.
In recent years the poorer regions
of the earth have been swept by a «
population revolution» which, though it has attracted comparatively little attention, is nevertheless both unprecedented and pregnant with consequences for the peoples
of the countries
affected.
Category five Hurricane Maria ravaged the island
of Dominica after making landfall on 18th September, leaving 98 per cent
of buildings damaged and thousands without power -
affecting almost the entire 70,000
population.
Failure to control
population, the possibility
of the possession
of atomic weapons by dozens
of nations, the issues
of race and colour which
affect every society and every civilization, disclose the human condition shared by all.
In addition, not that many people are
affected by the lie — less than five percent
of the
population — so it's not important enough to endanger Obama care.
Age profile, marital status, and lack
of paid employment are serious factors
affecting the income
of the bottom 20 percent
of the American
population.
If an individual acquires a character during its lifetime, that does not increase the probability that its offspring will exhibit the character; but if the development
of some members
of a
population are
affected by the environment in ways which improve their chance
of leaving offspring, this will obviously increase their contribution to later generations, that is to say, their natural selective value; and the frequency
of that character in later generations will be increased, not by any physiological or genetical change, but by the operation
of selection.
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.
Are you seriously suggesting that if something only
affects a small percentage
of the
population the media shouldn't report on the injustices?