Sentences with phrase «average population size»

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Now if the population in 2014 was 318.9 million and 83 percent claim to be Christian, that means there are 264,687,000 Christians in the U.S.. Now, let's adjust that for the average family size of around 3.14 people.

Both the size of the human population and the environmental impact of the average individual must eventually be reduced well below what it is today.

LATFOR must first follow federal law which requires adherence to the Voting Rights Act and the creation of state legislative districts whose populations are within 5 percent of the average size district.

We can readily calculate that a population with a mean brain size of 1,750 cc would be expected to have an average IQ of 149.

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.

Census tracts within a nonmedical exemption cluster were 2.5 times more likely to be within a pertussis cluster, even after accounting for population characteristics including racial demographics, population density, household income, average family size, percentage of residents with a college degree and location within a metropolitan area.

This explains the decline in the hatchery population's average egg size from 0.27 grams in 1988 to 0.20 grams in 2001, they say.

But the two do not scale linearly — if a population grows to 10 times its original size, the number of centers is multiplied by five, on average.

Note that the curve is not plotting GDP, which would grow with population and the overall size of the U.S. economy, but GDP per capita, which reflects something like the average income of each individual.

For instance, a nearly 1 percent average annual death rate for the Soviet Union during World War II versus near zero for India had more to do with India lying thousands of miles away from major theaters of war than population sizes, he argues.

In California, both NME and pertussis clusters were associated with factors characteristic of high socioeconomic status such as lower population density; lower average family size; lower percentage of racial or ethnic minorities; higher percentage of high school, college, or graduate school graduates; higher median household income; and lower percentage of families in poverty.

The denominator consisted of person - years, namely the average size of the young population (either athletes or nonathletes) in the Veneto region at risk × duration of the observation period.

Cells with average speed represented cells with a spindle - like fibroblast shape, medium size, and a percentage of senescent cells in - between the fast and slow population.

Bigeye and yellowfin tuna populations are falling and the average size of captured fish is shrinking, a clear sign that those tuna are in dire need of conservation measures.

We estimated the neutral mutation parameter (4Neμ for autosomal loci and 3Neμ for X-linked loci), where Ne is the effective population size and μ is the mutation rate per site per generation, using two estimators: Watterson's θw [67], the proportion of segregating sites in a sample, and π [68], the average number of pairwise differences per sequence in a sample.

This is far more than the 40 - 50 grams recommended for an average - sized adult and on the level of the protein consumption in the general population.

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD - Jan 15 - Taiwan's fertility rate, the average number of children born to its women in their lifetime, fell to 0.91 last year, far below the rate of 2.1 needed to sustain population size.

They also do not differ significantly in their initial per - pupil spending, average class size, percentage of students receiving subsidized school lunches, percentage of students with limited English proficiency or disabilities, and the mobility of their student populations.

Research (by Irenee Beattie, Josipa Roksa, and Richard Arum) that examined appellate court cases from 2000 to 2002 found that, on average, those cases emerged from secondary schools with 29 percent nonwhite students compared to 37 percent nonwhite students in the national population of secondary schools (the latter weighted for enrollment size to be comparable to the court case data); appellate cases also emanated from schools with more educational resources per student (student / teacher ratios of 16.3 compared to 17.5 nationally).

Harbor City International School Minnesota Reward School for 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 Authorizer is Volunteers of America Located in downtown Duluth near Canal Park and Lake Superior Our student population is 215; our average class size is 18.

A sample of 36 Great Expectation model elementary schools were matched with 556 Oklahoma non-Great Expectations elementary schools based on the following variables: ethnicity, free and reduced lunch eligibility, school size, average number of days students absent, percent of parents attending conferences, percent of teachers with advanced degrees, percent passing third grade reading test, district population size, unemployment rate, average household income, teachers per administrator, percent of student's in special education, instructional support budget, and district percent passing Algebra I. Five years of pass rates on third grade reading and third grade math state exams were examined.

Oklahoma serves relatively fewer black and Hispanic students; that said, Oklahoma's public schools serve an above - average sized population of Native American students.

In 2009, the Justice Policy Institute noted that some states have begun to decrease the size of the prison population — thereby reducing spending — by providing community - based substance - abuse treatment programs, increasing rehabilitation efforts, improving parole mechanisms and services, and decriminalizing nonviolent offenses.105 States that intentionally decreased their prison populations saw crime decrease even faster than national averages.106 Other states should consider such reforms.

Provide a complete picture of a school's ability to deliver quality services by including multiple indicators of school progress (e.g., percentage of graduates attending college, average teacher salaries, class - size ratio, and percentages of underserved populations enrolled in AP and IB courses).

That a group of women did achieve a family size close to replacement (an average of about 2.1 children is required to insure the same population in the next generation) several decades ago when contraceptive techniques were less sophisticated than even today's unsatisfactory variety is compelling testimony to the fact that lower fertility is attainable even without a revolution in contraceptive technology.

A global economy growing at an average rate of 3.4 % per year, a population that expands from 7.4 billion today to more than 9 billion in 2040, and a process of urbanisation that adds a city the size of Shanghai to the world's urban population every four months are key forces that underpin our projections.

In the supporting information (PDF) appendix the researchers show all their data, including the full list of the 100 bird species, whether the date for their spring migration has shifted (days per year from 1970 - 2000), population size has changed (1 = small change, 3 = large change) and during which time interval (either 1970 - 1990 and 1990 - 2000), what their average migration distance is (expressed in latitude change) and whether these birds winter in (southern) Europe or in Africa.

As more and more cities grow and reach a level of what I would call «UHI saturation», the slow growth of big cities and smaller in absolute values UHI increase for cities from a certain size explains a smaller delta UHI for an urban group that contains cities, in comparison with a UHI contaminated average containing many small locations growing — consistent with the results from the BEST study — divergence appearing in the 1950s — and with the logarithmic dependency of UHI growing trend based on population.

To a first approximation Bartlett states that «the magnitude of the effect of humans in producing global climate change is proportional to the product of the size of the global population P and the average percapita annual consumption of resources, A the total annual consumption of resources (tons per year).

Global Wind Energy Council, Global Wind 2008 Report (Brussels: 2009), pp. 3, 56; Erik Shuster, Tracking New Coal - Fired Power Plants (Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory, January 2009); «Nuclear Dips in 2008,» World Nuclear News, 29 May 2009; 1 megawatt of installed wind capacity produces enough electricity to supply 300 homes from American Wind Energy Association, «U.S. Wind Energy Installations Reach New Milestone,» press release (Washington, DC: 14 August 2006); number of homes calculated using average U.S. household size from U.S. Census Bureau, «2005 — 2007 American Community Survey 3 - Year Estimates — Data Profile Highlights,» at factfinder.census.gov / servlet / ACSSAFFFacts, viewed 9 April 2009, and population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & Country QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 February 2009.

Figure 2: National average per capita CO2 emissions based on OECD / IEA 2006 national CO2 emissions (OECD / IEA, 2008) and UNPD 2006 national population size (UNPD, 2007).

27, no. 1300 (1 August 2008); 1 megawatt (MW) of installed wind capacity produces enough electricity to supply 300 homes from AWEA, «U.S. Wind Energy Installations Reach New Milestone,» press release (Washington, DC: 14 August 2006); average U.S. household size from U.S. Census Bureau, «2005 — 2007 American Community Survey 3 - Year Estimates — Data Profile Highlights,» at factfinder.census.gov / servlet / ACSSAFFFacts, viewed 9 April 2009, with population from Census Bureau, op.

In part, this is because of the average younger age of the GTA as compared to the rest of Canada, but also the sheer size of the population.

As of the 2000 census, the city population was 133,936, making the city below average, in terms of size.

In fact, when you consider the Frontier State's extreme weather, its huge geographical size and spread out population, and Alaska's unforgiving and active geology (Alaska experiences an average of 1,000 earthquakes per month.)

Limitations include the lack of a control group at the 6 - month postintervention follow - up, small sample size, concerns about the generalizability to other populations due to the largely college educated, married, above average income sample and the use of self - referred families, who may be more willing to complete self - directed work than others.

Area - level explanatory variables will include: accessibility and remoteness, as measured by the Accessibility / Remoteness Index of Australia Plus (ARIA +); 54 socioeconomic disadvantage, as measured by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Socioeconomic Indexes for Areas (SEIFA); 55 presence of Aboriginal Medical Services; presence of an AMIHS; proportion of Aboriginal pregnancies / births in an area managed by an AMIHS; numbers of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal children attending preschool; numbers of full - time equivalent health workers (including general medical practitioners, nurses, midwives and Aboriginal health workers) per 10 000 population; measures of social capital from the NSW Population Health Survey; 56 features of local communities (derived from ABS Census data), such as information on median personal and household income, mortgage repayment and rent; average number of persons per bedroom and household size; employment; non-school qualifications and housing type for Aboriginal residents in each area.57

[25] By 2001 the Community Housing and Infrastructure Needs Survey (CHINS) estimated there were 991 discrete communities with a population of less than 100 people — with an average size of 20 people and a total number of 19,817 people.

The Neighborhood Demographic Report Demographic information for an immediate neighborhood and the county in which it lies - total population, number of households, average household size, per capita income, median household income, education levels, marital status, types of families, employment information, shopping centers within the area, and more.

Given the average household size of 2.5 persons, a total of 6.9 million new housing units would be needed to accommodate the country's rising population.