Sentences with phrase «affect the populations of»

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?