Sentences with phrase «affected population numbers»

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For months, a hacker group hoovered up the credit giant's prized data: including names, birth dates, addresses, and Social Security numbers, in an attack that likely affected almost half the U.S. population.

Given the structural damage caused by the earthquake to water supply systems, there is an additional risk of water borne diseases affecting large numbers of the urban, rural and displaced populations.

The study may include an analysis of ridership numbers, a review of economic development or population changes that could affect ridership and any plans for future expansion.

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.»

«All three of the researchers said pretty much the same thing,» Landers said, explaining that while no one wants the turtles to die, protection efforts are based on whether the population — which in this case is threatened but recovering — will be affected by a certain number of deaths caused by operations such as harbor dredging.

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.»

«Doubling the number of recruits coming into a population is almost always going to affect the adult population size quite substantially,» Russ says.

However, because of population growth, the numbers of people affected increased substantially.

That suggests that the removal of a limited number of sea lions in such programs is unlikely to affect the population as a whole, Melin said.

By measuring the sediment chemistry, we were able to estimate the population numbers throughout the period and see how penguins were affected by the eruptions.

As the global population ages, it is thought that the number of people affected will increase.

By studying rare «copy number variations,» which are individual errant insertions or deletions of DNA segments (each of which occur in less than one percent of the population), researchers discovered a new cluster of genes that are affected in some autistic individuals as well as a number of mutations that were present in autistic children but not their parents.

The researchers also found that different levels of reciprocity and transitivity don't affect group size and number very much, and that increasing the population makes for a few big groups rather than lots of little ones.

Using this information, the scientists were able to determine whether and to what extent the virus first affected various avian populations, and whether the birds» numbers have recovered or are still declining.

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

The study by OSU's Institute for Natural Resources focused on how three carnivores — ringtails, foxes, and fishers — affect each other's population numbers and colonization behavior.

Professor Morgan added: «Alzheimer's disease affects around 520,000 people in the UK and this number is continually growing as the population ages.

In this case, celiac disease, affects a surprising number of people; it's about 1 percent of the population worldwide, and in the U.S. that translates to around 2 million people.

However, high rates of multidrug - resistant (MDR) TB and TB affecting vulnerable populations, such as the homeless, drug and alcohol abusers and migrants from countries with high numbers of cases TB continue to challenge TB elimination.

According to the National Eye Institute, age - related macular degeneration affects more than 1.75 million Americans, a number that is expected to increase to almost 3 million by 2020 due to the aging of the U.S. population.

By analyzing genome sequence data from human populations, including 1269 individuals from sub-Saharan Africa, we identify a diverse array of large copy number variants affecting the host invasion receptor genes GYPA and GYPB We find that a nearby association with severe malaria is explained by a complex structural rearrangement involving the loss of GYPB and gain of two GYPB - A hybrid genes, which encode a serologically distinct blood group antigen known as Dantu.

It depends on the number of genetic variants affecting a trait, their frequencies in the population, the magnitude of their effects and their interactions with each other and the environment.

Food allergies are known to affect quite a large number of our population, with estimates that about three percent of adults and up to eight percent of our children are affected.

Dr. Fasano's team estimates the condition affects 6 percent to 7 percent of the population (around one in five people), but other researchers (and advocates) place the number far higher — perhaps as high as 50 percent of the population.

Diabetes, cancer, autism and Alzheimer's disease continue to affect the population in record numbers.

Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) affects up to 15 percent of the U.S. population, a number that is likely way below the actual truth, as only about one quarter of people with IBS symptoms seek medical treatment.

The researchers found that «1) ingestion of a large number of calories at one time (binge eating) impacts metabolic parameters even when total calories and macronutrients are appropriate for weight; 2) the timing of energy intake is an independent determinant of the diurnal rhythm of leptin secretion, indicating a relatively acute affect of energy balance on leptin dynamics; 3) the mechanism of exaggerated insulin secretion after a binge meal remains to be determined, but may be related to the altered diurnal pattern of leptin secretion; and 4) as most binge eating episodes in the population are associated with the ingestion of excess calories, it is hypothesized that binge eating behavior is associated with even greater metabolic dysfunction than that described herein.»

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

Affected populations tend to be concentrated in low - income areas home to large numbers of minorities.

Now new numbers are revealing, this virus now affects 2 / 3th of the world population and most of the people with this infection do not know they have it.

The concern expressed by states with large undocumented immigrant populations is that asking about citizenship will scare people off, forms won't get filled out and the count won't be accurate, affecting federal funding and the number of congressional seats.

Affecting sufficient numbers of Indigenous students: The effort made needs to be commensurate with the improvement goal and the size of the target population.

He said a number of variables — including charter school enrollment — could affect overall student population by a swing of as much 5,000 to 10,000 students in either direction.

Although a large number of consumers and buyers had opted for offers with locked mortgage rates, according to the Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals, there is still a large population, constituting almost 31 percent of all mortgages, who will be directly affected by any sudden hike in the interest rate.

Allergies great affects almost 20 % of the total population of dogs in the United States, and that is a pretty alarming number.

The National Canine Research Council states that despite a lack of concrete evidence linking specific breeds to a higher rate of dog bites, as well as an outright lack of success in reducing the number of dog - bite related injuries, BSL is incredibly expensive for the communities affected by it, draining resources that could otherwise be used to promote more humane and effective forms of population control and in turn, reduce overcrowding in shelters.

No doubt about it, this will have reduced the numbers of affected hounds and carriers within the International breed population.

TNR programs fail because they do not operate in an enclosed system and can not spay or neuter a sufficient number of cats to affect feral cat numbers at the population level.

In the same way that inbreeding among human populations can increase the frequency of normally rare genes that cause diseases, the selective breeding that created the hundreds of modern dog breeds has put purebred dogs at risk for a large number of health problems, affecting both body and behavior.

In consequence, a large number of carriers and affected dogs must be present in the Old English sheepdogs» population.

Selective breeding will reduce the number of HOD affected puppies in the general population and perhaps save puppies and owners from the devastating outcome of euthanasia.

The exploding population of the felines has drastically affected the ecosystem, causing the loss of 29 native species and placing a number of others under threats of disappearing.

Cities other than Kathmandu affected: In the 8 affected settlements with population greater than 60,000, the sum of the population is about 1.2 million, the average IMM = 8.5, the number of fatalities is estimated to have been 6,500.

These risks are three-fold: the increased number of events like floods and cyclones; droughts in some parts of the country and in long - term effects of coastal erosion affecting a large portion of the population.

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.

Changing temperatures can affect the timing and number of offspring in a population.

In terms of the rural population affected, the greatest numbers are in China, with nearly half a billion, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh and Brazil.

CNN reported the largest increase in the number of deaths was in those over the age of 85, but younger populations are also affected.

When it first announced the breach, the credit bureau believed 143 million people were potentially affected by the hack, but that number has since grown to 145.5 million — or just more than 45 % of the U.S. population.

Carl Stepnowsky, the chief science officer for the American Sleep Apnea Association and an associate adjunct professor at the University of California San Diego, estimates a more conservative number than that — somewhere between 18 million and 22 million people — but says apnea affects about 4 percent of the female population and 9 percent of the male population.