Sentences with phrase «as population size»

Looking at 17 countries as case studies, the report calculates the costs of taking particular interventions to scale by factoring variables such as population size and delivery costs.

Overall characteristics of societies and economies, such as population size, economic activity, and land use, are highly dynamic.

In particular the pupils are investigating how success should be measured in the Olympic Games — for example, number of medals, number of gold medals, or other considerations such as population size and gross domestic profit (GDP).

Stephen Shennan, a professor of archaeology at University College London, explained that as population size increases, culture increases exponentially: greater contact between human groups leads to much more copying of creative innovations.

Not exact matches

«Our results show that the size of a country's economy is significant in determining their success at the Winter Olympics, with gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and population appearing as significant variables» they noted.

The goal, he says, is not to sell to all 300 million Americans; rather, the goal is to expand his company's reach in the U.S. Northeast, which, he adds, is about the same size as Canada in terms of population.

As a result, you are asking a very small subset of the overall entrepreneurial population — both in absolute terms and size of business — for opinions.

Alibaba is also expanding at a rapid clip as its network of online services, including Taobao, Tmall and Alipay mine a Chinese Internet market that already has 618 million Web surfers, roughly twice the size of the U.S. population.

Researchers of the Canadian study says factors such as work, urban size, population density, economic opportunity or deprivation, and access to and quality of infrastructure, amenities and services may explain the community - level differences in life satisfaction.

Also, as each species is profiled, there are maps and symbols that further explain the animal's life and habitat, size, population, and conservation status.

This is especially true in large countries, such as China and India, where the sheer size of the millennial population is already having a global impact, but also here at home in Canada, where the millennial cohort is becoming an important strategic voting bloc.

In that case, the number of bookshops, which is a systems output — generated organically by the size of the city, the rate of literacy, the income of residents, and other relevant factors — would serve as a proxy for literacy, while population or income would serve as proxies for whatever variable one wants to measure.

There are other fertility measures out there such as births per woman aged 15 to 44 years but per capita births is a nice intuitive measure that adjusts for population size and can be readily compared to other numbers — such as per capita income.

They did want to preserve state rights as much as possible — why shouldn't they, considering the size and population of Virginia relative to the others at the time.

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.

It also adds more detail about the expected impact of conversions, which don't change the size of religious populations as dramatically as birth rates.

The figure of 42,000,000 for China and Korea is based on the estimates as to the size of the Muslim community before the present government came into power, with a conservative allowance for population increase.

Even as the affluent population in the U.S. has increased in size and financial resources (according to the Ipsos Survey USA»), a shrinking middle class is looking to more cost - effective options.

China has observed declining population growth for over a decade as a result of the one - child policy and a therefore subsequent reduction in household size.

But to the extent some districts (because of labor costs, size of the free / reduced population, lack of facilities, etc.) can't match those exemplary meals, I'd love to get parents more up in arms over school meal funding as well.

Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.

As a way of accommodating the general population of women, this baby bottle has two different nipple sizes and three fluid flow rates.

Definitions vary according to the size of the window that constitutes life, (when it starts and stops), its quality or relative value as measured by those in power, (i.e. slaves regarded as half - people, uncharismatic mutations, the sick and aged, outsiders, outlaws, enemies, militarily weaker populations with confiscatable possessions, those with «fates worse than death», et al), and whose lives, (responsibility for all of a wars» deaths might be attributed to the defeated).

As China rises, as India and other large population countries follow and with the USA already so powerful; so to maintain strength and influence, to defend our interests adequately, nations of our size will cooperate based on proximitAs China rises, as India and other large population countries follow and with the USA already so powerful; so to maintain strength and influence, to defend our interests adequately, nations of our size will cooperate based on proximitas India and other large population countries follow and with the USA already so powerful; so to maintain strength and influence, to defend our interests adequately, nations of our size will cooperate based on proximity.

Rikers has come under scrutiny from federal law enforcement over the treatment of inmates as well as the size of the inmate population there.

Population size and age, fertility, mobility, poverty, equity, and resource availability and consumption all influence the impact on the environment» «Nigeria should focus on more influence in advocacy of family planning, the need to enhance people's knowledge on the modern family planning especially in rural areas» said Fayehun According to United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs as published on 21 June, 2017, global population will reach to 9.80 billion by 2050.

When comparing human and veterinary use of antibiotics, it failed to acknowledge the vastly different population sizes as well as the fact that livestock such as cattle and pigs weigh more than people and thus will require a larger volume of antibiotic to treat an infection than a person will.

As the population rises and the size of households shrink, there is also a desperate shortage of new homes for consumers to live in.

Poughkeepsie... Dutchess County Government has been ranked # 1 in the nation in the 2012 Digital Counties Survey as the leading example of counties using information and communication technology for population size between 250,000 — 499,999.

The early warning report will use nine financial indicators, including the amount of cash on hand, the size of operating deficits, as well as demographic trends like population size and tax growth that the Comptroller's office has recently studied.

The report says the new jails «would vary in size, based on the expected population in each borough,» and would be built as close as possible to courthouses.

The increased risk of extinction occurred because at small population sizes, as the flies spent more time being vigilant and less time eating, populations that declined could not quickly rebound.

As well as recording population sizes, we discovered that although Diana monkeys change their behaviour in areas where poaching takes place, western red colobus monkeys have not developed an efficient antipoaching strategy and are particularly badly affected by poachinAs well as recording population sizes, we discovered that although Diana monkeys change their behaviour in areas where poaching takes place, western red colobus monkeys have not developed an efficient antipoaching strategy and are particularly badly affected by poachinas recording population sizes, we discovered that although Diana monkeys change their behaviour in areas where poaching takes place, western red colobus monkeys have not developed an efficient antipoaching strategy and are particularly badly affected by poaching.

As the petition asserted, «the giraffe has suffered a major reduction in population size across its range primarily due to habitat loss, commercial overutilization, and severe poaching, and such decline continues unabated.»

In 2012, research by FFI and partners led to the species being formally designated as critically endangered due to its small population size and threats from hunting and habitat loss.

«You see a rapid increase in population size from about 18,000 years ago, just as the climate began warming up after the last Ice Age,» says lead author Rebecca Dew.

Unless you systematically tabulate violent deaths as a proportion of all deaths or as a proportion of population size, you will be misled.

Indeed, if land managers in Africa were as well funded as Yellowstone National Park, at around $ 4,100 per square kilometer, they could afford to manage the average unfenced lion population at around two - thirds its potential size, a step up from the current status quo.

But those estimates aren't reliable, as DNA isn't a good record of population size, says Allentoft.

«Thus, the use of small populations artificially bred for desired traits, such as smaller body size or coat color, may have led to an accumulation of harmful genetic variations in dogs.»

«Until now, it has been unclear as to how precise drone technology might be when monitoring the size of populations of wildlife.

They found that domestication may have led to a rise in the number of harmful genetic changes in dogs, likely as a result of temporary reductions in population size known as bottlenecks.

Looking at indicators of population size and density (such as the number of stone tools, animal remains, and total number of sites), he concluded that modern humans — who may have had a population of only a few thousand when they first arrived on the continent — came to outnumber the Neanderthals by a factor of ten to one.

A population sample of size 1000 individuals contains 1000 times as much information.

As for how many people the planet can sustain, the first such estimate came from microbiologist Anton van Leeuwenhoek who calculated roughly 13.4 billion people back in 1679, based on the population density of his native Holland and its size relative to the rest of the globe.

So for his final - year research project he went to the Institute to study population genetics — in particular, how parameters such as population and genome size may affect the evolution of populations — using computer models.

However, this method entails many uncertainties, such as the extent of ancestral polymorphisms, effective population size, and generation time.

He also shows how these are moulded by geological history and factors such as the fluctuations in population size of lynx and hares, and the frequency of forest fires.

«Our study suggests that the cumulative survival from hatchling to maturity, which may take 30 years, combined with present - day climate effects on mature females, has a greater influence on annual nesting population size than does the exclusive impact of survival during the first year of life as hatchlings,» Saba said.

Indeed, it's possible to argue that without the post-World War II explosion in industrial diversity, the size of the cattle population in this country could never have grown as large as it has.