Sentences with phrase «between human numbers»

Really, it is a choice between human numbers and average per capita consumption.

Not exact matches

Notably, there are no significant differences in attitudes toward an FTA with China between those who believe human rights issues should be the number one priority for Canada government, and those who do not.

Geneticist Svante Paabo told Science, in an article entitled «Relative Differences: The Myth of the 1 Percent,» «I don't think there's any way to calculate a number,» or at least a precise percentage, of differences between chimpanzees and humans.

From within the human community, the full number of those who occupy that «in - between» place, a great divide erupts.

Growing numbers of theologians are consciously adopting the thesis of radical human creativity to the extent that the difference between religious humanism and such theists as Tillich, Bonhoeffer, Novak and Duméry is not as great as we may think.

He saw human beings as tending to create a number of small and hospitable polities» the household and the city, especially» whose proportions allow a sane balance between collective duty and individual prudence, universal truth and local idiom, society and the citizen.

The point, and I make it a number of times in this book, is that there is an enormous gap between what natural science describes and what we know as living, sensing, experiencing human beings.

Moreover, each human being must be constituted of many millions of these «unit - happenings» or «experiences,» because Hartshorne affirms that persons have about ten new ones per second and that they fit together so smoothly that the transitions between them go largely unnoticed.12 And inasmuch as everything in the universe is composed of similar unit - experiences or actual entities, the number of them that occurs at any given instant of time (if we may legitimately speak of such instants) must be stupendously large.

There's some great research being done on the topic of evolution, especially the claim that there are only so many differences between other primates and humans genomes (I don't remember the exact number).

(Adoptive Families doesn't measure second - parent adoption costs, but the Human Rights Campaign puts the number between $ 2,000 and $ 3,000.)

To test his hunch that early puberty tracks insecure attachment between mom and baby, Belsky crunched numbers on 373 girls who were followed from birth until their 15th birthday as part of a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development study on early child development.

Data on the actual adjusted (per kg) volume of human milk provided to VLBW infants would be useful to detect a potential dose - response relationship between the amount of human milk provided and either the incidence or the number of infections per infant.

There was no dose - response effect between the proportion of human milk provided and the number of infections (Table 3).

Regardless of one's perspective, Marshall reminds us that worldwide membership to religious organizations dwarfs civil society in terms of numbers; given this reality, her efforts to bridge understanding between communities of faith and non-believers is particularly relevant to promoting human development.

We differentiated between computational approaches (either based on volume data, such as the number of mentions related to a party or candidate or the occurrence of particular hashtags; or endorsement data, such as the number of Twitter followers, Facebook friends or the number of «likes» received on Facebook walls), sentiment analysis approaches, that pay attention to the language and try to attach a qualitative meaning to the comments (posts, tweets) published by social media users employing automated tools for sentiment analysis (i.e., via natural language processing models or the employment of pre-defined ontological dictionaries), and finally what we call supervised and aggregated sentiment analysis (SASA), that is, techniques that exploit the human codification in their process and focus on the estimation of the aggregated distribution of the opinions, rather than on individual classification of each single text (Ceron et al. 2016).

The Cuban government does not publish statistics on the number of people convicted on these grounds, but the non-governmental Cuban commission for human rights and national reconciliation, estimates that there are currently between 3,000 and 5,000 people in prison in Cuba convicted of «pre-criminal social dangerousness.»

A number of partnerships are also included in the 2010 Executive Budget, including the implementation of a merger between the Department of Health and Human Services, the Aging and Disability Resource Center and Veterans Services Office and the creation of a Criminal Justice Collaboration Council task force to examine the future of the Huber facility and its programming.

The Coalition's working groups have produced a number of resources including an annotated bibliography of science and human rights, guidelines for scientists working on human rights projects, examples of collaborations between scientists and human rights organizations, a primer on scientific freedom and human rights, and more.

Then they counted the number of mtDNA differences between individuals and used the modern human mutation rate to estimate how long it might have taken those mutations to appear.

The research documented a connection between various human activities and declining numbers of fish, including Moi, a species (Polydactylus sexfilis) of threadfin.

With between 80,000 and 150,000 different synthetic chemicals manufactured regularly, it might be too much to expect that a small number of laboratory tests could be used to judge their effect on humans.

The similarity between chicks and humans suggests that humans» «mental number line» is likewise innate, yet there is still a cultural component, as the left - right tendency can vary based upon language.

The results showed a statistically significant number of genes associated with domestication which overlapped between domestic animals and modern humans, but not with their wild equals, like Neanderthals.

As you said it is an extremely small number of differences that you find genetically between humans and chimps, but it is an extremely important one, and what seems to make it so important is that a lot o these differences seem to affect what are in effect regulatory sequences.

The Endangered Species Act has significantly improved the number of alligators in the wild, but there are still ongoing encounters between humans and alligators that are not desirable for either species and, in many places, alligator habitats are being destroyed or humans are moving into them, Whiting said.

When looking at similarities between the 54,000 measurements we have on the human genome, p16 would be number one and estrogen would be 54,000.»

The small number of genetic differences suggest the lice transferred between gorilla and early humans as recently as 3.3 million years ago.

Stirling's team found that around the town of Churchill on the shores of Hudson Bay — the «polar bear capital of the world» — the number of bears reported as attacking humans, homes and hunting camps more than tripled between 1970...

In a new study in this month's Cognition, scientists show that Alex correctly inferred the relationship between cardinal and ordinal numbers, an ability that has not previously been found in any species other than humans.

Steven Grant, a researcher at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, says that the new findings will help untangle a «chicken and egg problem» with human addiction studies: Previous research found a correlation between the D2 - family receptors and drug abuse, but it was unclear whether fewer receptors contributed to addiction or if chronic drug use led to a drop in the number of receptors.

The rising numbers have raised fresh fears that MERS has adapted and is becoming more easily transmissible between humans, which could result in global spread.

Calling the study «fantastic,» psychologist Lisa Feigenson of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, says that because there is such a «drastic» difference in number sense between the Pirahã and most other human groups, it must be their language that limits their conceptual abilities.

Now, they've demonstrated that a single amino acid — known by its number along the protein chain, 139 — is the key to this prion protein variant adopting a «human - like» versus a «hamster - like» structure, while another amino acid, 112, governs the structural differences between the human and mouse versions of the protein.

Gene expression divergence levels were obtained from [71] and were measured in terms of the number of commonly co-expressed genes between human and mouse one to one orthologs.

This is likely true for two reasons; 1) there would not have been much time for a large number of chromosomal rearrangements to occur between these early ancestral human and mouse genomes, 2) and that since divergence with the boreoeutherian ancestor the human genome has undergone only a small number of chromosomal rearrangements meaning that many human telomeric regions are ancestral [58, 73].

Often more than one SNP differs between one population of humans and another — for example, mitochondrial genomes whose origin can be traced to France differ in a number of SNPs from those in people in Central Asia.

To identify methodological categories, the outcome of each paper was classified according to a set of binary variables: 1 - outcome measured on biological material; 2 - outcome measured on human material; 3 - outcome exclusively behavioural (measures of behaviours and interactions between individuals, which in studies on people included surveys, interviews and social and economic data); 4 - outcome exclusively non-behavioural (physical, chemical and other measurable parameters including weight, height, death, presence / absence, number of individuals, etc...).

Human and bacterial cells interact in a number of ways, including physical cell - to - cell contact in which molecules are passed back and forth between the cells.

A number of studies have examined the relationship between temperature and human mortality.

Dunbar predicted famously that human beings can only maintain meaningful relationships with between 100 to 230 other people, and that number is typically 150 (now known as Dunbar's Nunumber is typically 150 (now known as Dunbar's NumberNumber).

British anthropologist Robin Dunbar famously predicted that human beings can only maintain meaningful relationships with between 100 to 230 other people, and that number is typically 150 (now known as Dunbar's Nunumber is typically 150 (now known as Dunbar's NumberNumber).

These microbes transfer genetic information between each other and to the human host, and also carry out a number of activities such as production of fatty acids, neurotransmitters, B vitamins, digesting gluten, and even detoxification of environmental chemicals.

By calling the film Predators the filmmakers are evoking the relationship between the original Alien film and its sequel Aliens by implying that Predators is the rightful follow - up film to Predator and promises to up the ante in terms of action and the number of creatures for the human characters to contend with.

Simple worksheet focussing on the comparison of the number of body parts between a donkey and a human.

The Human Security Report project brings forth the argument that while «the average number of battle deaths per conflict in the region has declined by 90 percent since 2000» across the Sub-Saharan Africa, nearly half of the world's state - based battle deaths between 1989 and 2009 were caused by wars in sub-Saharan Africa, most of them in the 1990s» (2012:163).

According to data collected by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the estimated number of victims of abuse or neglect per 1,000 children in the national population dropped from 13 to 12 between 2001 and 2004.

It's easy to forget that statistics are just numbers that quantify the interactions between one human and another, but that it's impossible to fully quantify something as fluid and emotional as human relationships.

There are other differences between hamster and human teeth than number.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) noted a 28 percent increase in the U.S. human incidence rate between 2005 — 2013,5 with 30,000 cases reported annually6 while the number of actual cases is projected at 288,000.7

Between the years of 1979 and 1998 this breed held the number - two position in fatal human bites as reported by the CDC.