Sentences with phrase «as the population decreases»

As populations decrease, they become more vulnerable to chance events that precipitate extinction.

The percentage of tax revenue from each citizen that goes to paying interest on debt will keep rising as the population decreases.

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During the 2014 - 24 period, the growth of the labor force will be due entirely to population growth, as the overall labor force participation rate is expected to decrease even further by 2024.»

As decreasing costs for both devices and data make smartphones more accessible to a larger percentage of the population, a digital stored value solution becomes even more feasible.

Both of these prices continue to rise as the number of insured Americans rises and the health of the insured population decreases on average.

Further, the popularity of marriage among the population as a whole is dramatically decreasing.

The report goes on to say that the prison populations decrease only as people are deliberately starved, forced into excessive labor, executed, tortured, raped, are forced into having an abortion or have their children killed.

As the authors note, the vampire population increases geometrically and the human population decreases geometrically.

If there was a decrease population would grow as a result.

Nevertheless, basing their position on developments in molecular, organismic, and population ecology, Cobb and Birch characterize life as an increasingly complex special form of the organization of molecules and atoms that also involves a temporary and local decrease in entropy; there is no absolute, dualistic distinction between the living and non-living, animate and inanimate.

The animals featured will represent some of the animals that are likely to experience an increase or decrease in population as a result of climate change.

It's true that support for the reformed denominations have decreased from 37 % in 1960 to 18 % in 2015 (cbs), but the population has grown as well.

As of July 2016 [update], the population was 256,902, a slight decrease from the 2010 census.

The New York State Department of Community and Correctional Supervision has claimed that as crime rates decline and inmate populations decrease, taxpayers can not afford to continue paying for empty prison beds.

Perhaps Polis» most important contribution was assembling a list of cannibalism - related generalizations under which most examples of invertebrate cannibalism could be placed: 1) Immature animals get eaten more often than adults; 2) Many animals, particularly invertebrates, do not recognize individuals of their own kind, especially eggs and immature stages, which are simply regarded as a food source; 3) Females are more often cannibalistic than males; 4) Cannibalism increases with hunger and a concurrent decrease in alternative forms of nutrition; and 5) Cannibalism is often directly related to the degree of overcrowding in a given population.

«Our results can help us when we want to predict population responses in the face of global challenges such as prevailing epidemics, ageing populations and decreasing fertility.»

If these cuckoos become established in North America, the native bird population will decrease as a result.

Scientists are collecting hairs from live bears to prevent population declines as a result of decreases in a principal food source: salmon

Spayed and neutered cats live longer so the population does not decrease as fast as it would otherwise.

The form of phosphate plants can use is in danger of reaching its peak — when supply fails to keep up with demand — in just 30 years, potentially decreasing the rate of crop yield as the as the world population continues to climb and global warming stresses crop yields, which could have damaging effects on the global food supply.

The results also revealed trends key to understanding and improving applications like jet propulsion, such as an increase in normalized drop diameter and a decrease in droplet population as chamber temperatures increased.

By the 1950s, a declining mayfly population in the western basin of Lake Erie indicated widespread anthropogenic eutrophication (human activities resulting in more nutrients such as phosphorus in the water, leading in turn to decreased oxygen levels).

«Secondary benefits of this trial include the significant improvement in clinical care for children with sickle cell disease at each of the 29 sites because each location had a designated hematologist, neurologist, neuroradiologist and psychologist working as a team to identify and decrease further injury to the brain in this vulnerable population.»

Human population has doubled in the past 35 years; in the same period, the number of invertebrate animals — such as beetles, butterflies, spiders and worms — has decreased by 45 percent.

Perceptions of all fat as unhealthy have resulted in decreased fat consumption in the US population, but the epidemics of obesity and diabetes have continued to grow.

By contrast, Miller says, greater levels of enforcement in Niger's national park were associated with sharply decreasing income levels among park neighbors but did not have as statistically significant effect on wildlife populations.

The team, composed of researchers in Canada and the UK, and led by Lauren Mokry, carried out a Mendelian randomization study in large population datasets to investigate whether genetically determined obesity was associated with increased risk of MS.. Such a study decreases the probability that exposures linked to obesity, such as smoking, can explain the findings.

This research could have important implications for developing countries whose populations rely on rice as a staple of their diets and are in need of cheap, readily available material to improve soil quality and decrease arsenic levels that threaten human health.

Mills» group previously found that winter white snowshoe hares confronting snowless ground have higher mortality rates that could drive massive population declines as snow duration continues to decrease.

As a result of the large - scale actions aimed at alleviation of poverty, the size of poor populations in rural areas of China decreased from 250 million in 1978 to 82 · 49 million in 2010.

Furthermore, pollution did not scale linearly with population - pollution per person decreases as population grows.

The researchers found that the amount of proline in the gut decreased as the population of C. diff increased.

The team believes this may mean that overly high salinity can decrease the frog population as salt molecules mimic testosterone, causing the masculinization of tadpoles.

The scrupulous research conducted by IUCN volunteers on each of its studied species develops excellent data on important matters such as decreasing population, decreasing range and range fragmentation, but little ecosystem context is given.

The ability of a population to behave as a portfolio, however, might decrease with increased connectivity (exchange) between sub-populations due to two processes.

Increased expression of genes such as ABCG2 (37), CD44 (32), DNER (38) and ALDH1 (30), and decreased expression of ESR1 (34) support the use of this CSC enrichment method as all of these changes are expected in a CSC - enriched population.

Expectations of decreases in large source regions such as China [195] may be counteracted by aerosol increases other places as global population continues to increase.

We are shifting our services to meet the changing needs on the ground — as shelter populations decrease, federal and state programs support more short - term housing solutions, and people look to establish a semblance of normalcy in their lives

Furthermore, morphological alterations of the skull due to adaptations to different food items [47] in the study population (see Material and methods) relative to the source populations (probably spillovers from harvest and fodder on farms), can not be ruled out as a source of the observed decrease in head length, but also can not explain the reversed trend in later years.

«I would hope and expect that as this data is collected over decades, we will also see the older population have a corresponding decrease in melanoma rates as we see their exposure to UV rays decrease in their early years,» she said.

It has been observed that as the population ages, the percentage of left - handed survivors decreases from 10 per cent of young adults to only one per cent of 80 - year - olds.

This was a public health measure to increase the population - wide consumption of folic acid as a widespread tool for decreasing the risk of NTDs.

For instance, a decrease in bifidobacteria populations leads to intestinal hyper - permeability, or leaky gut, which in turn leads to the translocation of metabolic byproducts, food antigens, bacteria, and lipopolysaccharide (also known as LPS, an immunogenic cell wall component from Gram - negative bacteria) across the gut barrier into systemic circulation (Rapin & Wiernsperger, 2010).

Antibiotic use drastically decreases B. bifidum population, as does everyday environmental factors.

The authors suggest a mechanism whereby HMB inhibits inflammation and muscle apoptosis in these populations, as well as improving protein synthesis and decreasing protein degradation, which results in increasing lean mass.

Lo & Chan, 2013 Regular PPI users can also be more prone to Clostridium difficile infections Janarthanan et al, 2012 as well as looking forward to a decreased population of small intestine Bifidobacteria concentrations.

A mild deficiency in humans can decrease various T cells and their sub populations, as shown in an experimental model study.1, 2

In obese subjects, a modified 8 - 10 week alternate - day fasting regimen resulted in weight loss, reduced blood pressure and heart rate, and improved markers for cardiovascular health, such as decreased total cholesterol, decreased LDL and triglycerides, increased HDL concentrations and decreased oxidative stress and systemic inflammation, suggesting that alternate - day fasting might be a novel strategy for decreasing body weight and improving cardiovascular health in the obese population (64,68).

The association is documented in several different population groups and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes decreases as coffee consumption increases5.

Hence, an increase in the size of this group of individuals as indicated by an increase in a state's search volume index for Facebook, would likely lead to a decrease in the number of Chlamydia cases, holding population and other factors constant.