Sentences with phrase «affected population»

These predators and competitors can affect the populations of Caribbean mammals that survived previous extinction waves.

Many climate processes did not affect population growth rates as expected, based on range position.

Moreover, these economic struggles have not affected all populations equally, contributing to large gaps among black, white, and Hispanic youth.

Climate change will affect the population dynamics of many species, yet the consequences for the long - term persistence of populations are poorly understood.

In a second course, students study how an environmental disturbance affects a particular community and how geographic and cultural factors affect the population's ability to deal with it.

And, like many other public health issues, affected populations tend to be concentrated in low - income areas home to large numbers of minorities.

These results indicate how crucial it is to update or adapt existing methods of data collection to identify persons with disabilities within affected populations.

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.

The research focused on how climatic variation affected population growth rates and how these relationships varied with respect to long - term climate.

Prior to the draft regulations, there were several pieces written about how the law affects these populations.

Your veterinarian and local veterinary medical association will have information on disease outbreaks currently affecting the population.

They are strongly related to the internal variability observed at basin scale and these variations can strongly affect population living in coastal areas.

These lifestyle factors can affect the population of sensitive healthy bacteria.

Specifically, given the theoretical and empirical relation between energy - use and population growth rates, we ask how the availability of energy is likely to affect population growth through 2050.

Non-humanitarian actors may take advantage of this ability to reach and access affected populations in less politically complex crises and are likely to marketise these situations.

Humanitarian discourses are concerned with affected populations, beneficiaries and recipients on one side and providers, aid - givers, donors and charities on the other.

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.

The thing about «a fundamental moral realignment of the country» is, these religious issues don't affect the population at large.

This guidance document is based on how climate change increases the risk of natural disasters and places a strain on livelihoods, contributing to high - risk behaviours and other negative coping strategies among affected populations, such as resorting to unscrupulous recruitment agencies associated with human smuggling and trafficking.

But the authors also point out that, «despite occurring at very high densities, the summed effects on prey populations appeared unlikely to affect population size for the majority of prey species.»

At Vanderbilt University Medical Centre, Nashville, Alford and Louise Rollins - Smith found that a population of Australian green - eyed tree frogs previously decimated by the fungus produced more anti-microbial peptides — which inhibit fungal growth — on their skin than a less affected population (Diversity and Distribution, vol 16, p 703).

Behavioral health concerns affecting this population include anxiety, alcohol misuse, depression, suicide, Alzheimer's disease, and dementia.

Influenza epidemics seriously affect populations worldwide, with an estimated three to five million cases of severe illness and 250,000 to 500,000 deaths, yearly.

Dr. Chiaravalloti has begun exploring cognitive issues affecting the population with spinal cord injury (SCI) in collaboration with colleagues in SCI Research at Kessler Foundation, also the site of the Northern New Jersey SCI Model System.

Having inside knowledge of political decisions that will affect population movements and land use gives opportunities for windfall profits for corrupt individuals.

The studies were not intended to address questions related to the efficacy of GR2E Golden Rice in helping to address vitamin A deficiency in affected population sub-groups, which can only be adequately addressed following regulatory authorization.

Warmer waters in some parts of the world have affected population numbers, diet, and intensified contaminants in the bodies of fish.

Digital trends include real - time mapping and analysis using social media, crowd sourcing and data mining, the use of mobile phones to disseminate information, online campaigns bringing publics and affected populations closer together, digital platforms for cash transfers and new digital tools for assessment work, as well as monitoring and evaluation.

«In sperm whales, and likely other whales and dolphins, culture has the potential to affect population biology, and so issues as diverse as genetic evolution and the impacts of global warming on the species.»

The results showed that even before the peak had passed the first affected population, both R0 and pC could be well estimated and predicted for all populations.

Tumours linked to herpesvirus are increasingly affecting some populations of turtles in Australia and Florida — and pollution may be the cause

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.

«What we've shown in this new work is that it is possible to selectively remove specific strains of bacteria without affecting populations of good bacteria.»

Health departments also engage in activities that attempt to influence county populations to adopt healthier habits, which primarily affect population health over the longer term.

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.

No previous studies model how migration caused by sea - level rise will affect population other than in the directly affected coastal areas.

«Many of the people hardest hit by dyslexia are minority students and those from low - income families,» Shaywitz said, even though the condition affects all population segments and languages.

Predation is not the only way that people affect populations.

For individual species with dwindling numbers, he imagines window kills might affect population trends.

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.

«Establishing what these factors are,» they emphasize, «is of great importance to improve the health of highly affected populations such as those in sub-Saharan Africa.»

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.

If it was a service entity, such as the Red Cross, I'd deal with mass - care issues for disaster - affected populations needing shelter and ongoing community care.

«From the scientific perspective, this study suggests that ecosystem and species - level migration processes affecting population dynamics in marine environments such as the Gulf of Mexico may be operating at a larger scale than typically appreciated or examined,» Jue said.