Sentences with phrase «at the female population»

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For example, Berekeley Haas» female student population has grown from 29 % to 41 % in the last two years alone (it has grown by five full percentage points at both Booth and Kellogg in the last year).

The organization's 2015 Military Lifestyle Survey found that female military spouses experience unemployment at nearly three times the rate of their civilian counterparts despite also demonstrating greater educational and professional experience than the general population.

Nor, for that matter, will there be many Greeks; with a fertility rate of only 1.37 children per female, one of the world's lowest, Greece by mid-century will have a population two - thirds of which exceeds the age of sixty, and very little population at all by the end of the century.

Medical statistics indicate that in the adult U.S. population approximately 12 per cent of males and 18 per cent of females have had a major depressive episode at some time.

And when the folks over at talkSPORT hit the streets of London to find out exactly what the female population thought of his whiskers they got a delightedly varied response.

I read somewhere that 81 % of the world's female population will give birth at least once by age 44.

The equation predicts an age at weaning for humans at between 2.8 and 3.7 years, depending on average adult female body weight, with larger - bodied populations nursing the longest.

One newspaper, looking to augment the number of female and young readers, regularly published violations concerning these particular demographics, at the expense of other vulnerable populations, such as the elderly or indigenous.

At the INEC office in Zamfara State, Asmau met a female population of only three.

The number of men to women on the council, however, remains unchanged — with female representation at 33 percent, despite making up 52.7 percent of Albany's population.

The study, led by Dr Allan Debelle and Dr Rhonda Snook in the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, looked at the mating patterns of fruit flies after they evolved for 100 generations in either polyandrous populations (where several males have to compete for a single female) and monogamous populations (where each male has access to only one female).

Males who evolve in male - dominated populations become far better at securing females than those who grow up in monogamous populations, according to new research into the behaviour of fruit flies at the University of Sheffield.

Just by looking at the activation of these two neural populations, the scientists could reliably determine whether an animal was interacting with a male or a female.

Dr Allan Debelle, who conducted the study as part of his PhD under the supervision of Dr Rhonda Snook at the University of Sheffield, said these results suggest that mate choice can be an important driver of the evolution of motor performance, «Our research shows that when, at each generation, females are given a choice among several mates performing energetically costly courtship, the motor performance of males in that population can respond to this selection process and progressively improve.»

The population likely peaked in 2010 at 483, including 200 females, according to a recent reanalysis of data from 1990 to 2015 done by a team led by Richard Pace of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Northeast Fisheries Science Center in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

The basic plan: Distribute the oral vaccines at night once every two years, vaccinate at least 40 percent of a chosen wolf population and use motion - sensing cameras to see if each pack's high - ranking males and females — the primary pup producers — take the bait.

TURTLE TROUBLE Green sea turtle populations in parts of the Great Barrier Reef are becoming increasingly female because their eggs are being incubated at higher temperatures due to warming ocean waters.

The United States stands at the cusp of population decline because American females are having an average of only 2.06 children apiece.

«For marine animal populations to thrive and support sustainable fisheries, the males and females of each species need to reach sexual maturity, and deliver their eggs and sperm in the right place and at the right time.

As a research partner of an $ 11.7 million Autism Center of Excellence (ACE) grant from the National Institutes of Health to the George Washington University Autism and Neurodevelopment Disorders Institute, the Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders at Children's National will continue investigations into sex differences, and aims to develop self - reporting measures for adolescents and adults that better capture additional populations — including females and non-cisgender males.

Biologists have looked at the sex ratio in animal populations for generations, typically just by counting the males and females in a pack or herd.

But the remarkably high rate of infection during hibernation leads to high mortality rates at the time of year when bat populations are naturally at their lowest, before the females give birth in the summer.

«Females do not find a mating partner within the small isolated populations any more,» explains Petra Kretzschmar, scientist at the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW), «the long non-reproductive periods lead to the development of reproductive tract tumours.»

The disease can start at any age, but is most common in female minority populations, and 90 percent of people with lupus are women.

Liam Dougherty at the University of Western Australia and his colleagues have now found a correlation between the thickness of female reproductive tracts and the length of penis spikes in 13 independently bred populations of the cowpea seed beetle (Callosobruchus maculatus).

The last surviving Hainan gibbon population contains only three social groups, in which male and female gibbons still sing duets with each other at dawn.

The researchers documented the concentration of sexual females and asexual females at multiple sites in the same lake and compared how their populations were affected by a parasitic worm commonly associated with the snails.

The company says they can be effective at controlling pest populations: Altered male mosquitoes are released into the wild to mate with females.

This doesn't achieve much in terms of controlling toad populations, because a single male can fertilize the clutches of many females — so the few lucky males that are left behind may have a pretty exciting life, and the number of fertilized eggs laid in that pond isn't reduced at all.

Later on, when she worked at an HIV clinic in New York City, she saw the power of makeup in a new light, working with her large population of male - to - female transgendered clients.

I think that's at least 80 % of the female population when I last checked!

In this study, the pre-WWII mannequins had levels of body fat that were consistent with those seen in a healthy, young female of reproductive age population: up to 23 percent, at least.

While a large part of the information on it has relevant crossover elements to the female population, it is not a site targeted at female trainees, nor does it cover any of their specific issues.

Surveys show that 40 % of the female population experience at least some symptoms of PMS.

These were my conclusions for at least the female population who chose to dabble with IF and Warrior.

JS of gnolls.org has called this in personal correspondence with me the female half of the population's desperate attempt to live at a «misery set - point.»

The prevalence of type 2 diabetes in women with PCOS at middle age is 6.8 times higher than that of the general female population.

The key reason of such high fame is that a great part of female population of many ladyes of Ukraine look for their sweethearts at on - line dating / marriage sites?

Especially noticeable are these differences when looking at the female part of the Czech population.

Our mission is to create awareness and be a part of revolution aimed at reducing health burden among female population.

After close looking at the statistics data from the leading motorcycle dating service BikerKiss, we find a troubling picture there is a population imbalance of male bikers to females in all biker groups and clubs.

A Suitable Girl proves a somber lament for a part of the world still clinging to its restrictive past, at great cost to (particularly) its female population.

At a time when women make up 50.8 % of the U.S. population, just 4.2 % of the 100 top - grossing American films are made by female directors; and that statistic hasn't changed over the last decade.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, 4.85 million English language learners, or ELLs, were enrolled in public schools during the 2012 - 13 academic year, representing nearly 10 percent of the total K - 12 student population.17 Nearly one student in four speaks a language other than English at home — the same is true for only about one in eight teachers.18 Teaching also remains a female - dominated profession.

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In this population, we found females that kept their ovaries for at least 4.5 years had a statistically significant 37 % reduction in mortality rate (1).

Because female puppies were often drowned at birth to prevent unwanted litters from being born later, the Trumbulls found in 1938 that unsterilized male dogs had come to make up nearly 90 % of the total U.S. dog population.

Neutered mixed breed females were at less risk for lens luxation than that seen for the general population.

The colony population is barely holding at 3 adult unspayed females, 1 spayed, 7 currently unneutered males and 4 very wild babies.

Males have a lower threshold than females, meaning in a population of dogs with the same genotype, male dogs will develop MMVD at a lower age than females.