Sentences with phrase «century as populations»

«Viewing the data on thousands of tornadoes that have been reliably recorded in the United States over the past half - century as a population has permitted us to ask new questions and discover new, important changes in outbreaks of these tornadoes,» Cohen said.

Not exact matches

Wide use of the death penalty against blacks would continue through the 19th century and into the 20th, pushed by Southern whites who saw capital punishment as necessary to restrain a dangerous black population.

21ST - CENTURY DETECTION AND PREVENTION Value Chain Track As the burden of chronic ailments increases along with our aging populations, public health experts are in near - universal agreement that we need to a far better job of preventing disease.

Demographic trends have shifted dramatically in the U.S. over the past half century toward an older population, and hence potential growth has to be structurally lower today, even as we hire great numbers of people (to say nothing of deploying ever greater numbers of robots).

We're so used to the default trope that China is «the world's most populous nation» that it will come as a shock to many that, by some demographers» estimates, China's current population, 1.4 billion, will shrink to 500 million by the turn of the next century.

One - eighth of the region's 481 million people belong to fundamentalist or evangelical churches, and in some countries, such as Guatemala, it is estimated that half the population will have switched into those churches by the end of the century.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

However, millenniums and centuries have passed by, but we, as of now, have the largest population of poor people in the world.

But in the United States, the uprooting of the rural population and the rapid migration of industry from one part of the country to another, as well as out of the country altogether, have represented a steady assault on community during the past half century.

As Gutjahr puts it, «a text that had provided the nation with a source of shared cultural memory and language for nearly two centuries would find itself increasingly «ghetto «ized» among specific, more Protestant segments of the nation's population.»

As populations shift, as overall church adherence expands, and as religious forces rearrange themselves, these bastions of an earlier, heavily Northern and Eastern Establishment will «decline» further from the amazing degree of domination they enjoyed in the first part of the 20th centurAs populations shift, as overall church adherence expands, and as religious forces rearrange themselves, these bastions of an earlier, heavily Northern and Eastern Establishment will «decline» further from the amazing degree of domination they enjoyed in the first part of the 20th centuras overall church adherence expands, and as religious forces rearrange themselves, these bastions of an earlier, heavily Northern and Eastern Establishment will «decline» further from the amazing degree of domination they enjoyed in the first part of the 20th centuras religious forces rearrange themselves, these bastions of an earlier, heavily Northern and Eastern Establishment will «decline» further from the amazing degree of domination they enjoyed in the first part of the 20th century.

For in this case Christians did not take the land by might of arms but by persuasion, and ruled not as foreign conquerors but as inhabitants and natives, harvesting the fruit of earlier centuries during which the bulk of the local population gradually adopted the new religion as its own.

Being the poor custodians of our planet, as we have proven ourselves to be, we have no right to expect more than a couple more centuries before the expected serious decline in the human population sets in.

The 1990s is now regarded as the crucial decade which will determine population trends over the next century.

The MIT projection is that if we continue on our way as at present, shortages of resources for industry will slow population growth within twenty years and stop it, early in the twenty - first century, at approximately six billion.

Rapid growth in coffee production in South America during the second half of the 19th century was matched by growth in consumption in developed countries, though nowhere has this growth been as pronounced as in the United States, where high rate of population growth was compounded by doubling of per capita consumption between 1860 and 1920.

Over the last two years, scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Sweden have examined projections and current data to identify ways in which the dairy industry may respond to challenges such as population growth, urbanisation, and climate change, in order to meet increased demand for dairy products over the next half century.

Equally, within the RPF and elsewhere, there exists a belief that the Congo's Rwandaphone population are under threat, and that the present Rwandan government has a special duty to protect them (Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu famously showed journalists a map on the eve of the Rwandan invasion of Zaire in 1996 in which pre-colonial Congolese kingdoms paying tribute to King Rwabugiri in the late 19th century were shaded in as part of «Greater Rwanda».)

Threading boundaries between and through centres of population on the pretext of ensuring fairness is also a great way to cheat for your own benefit — a practice known as gerrymandering, after a 19th - century governor of Massachusetts, Elbridge Gerry, who created an electoral division whose shape reminded a local newspaper editor of a salamander.

Viewing the thousands of tornadoes that have been reliably recorded in the U.S. over the past half century or so as a population has permitted us to ask new questions and discover new, important changes in outbreaks of these tornadoes.»

«It's shocking to see how few articles discussed risk to the general population, and when they did, they typically characterized risk as low,» said Pascale, who studies the social construction of risk and meanings of risk in the 21st century.

The Sydney Harbour is renowned as a beautiful landmark straddling our thriving city but a new study has shown it is also a source of significant carbon emissions, which requires careful management as the city is poised to double its population by the end of the century.

Now, as the global population heads for more than 9 billion by the middle of this century, we have the genetic wherewithal to consign Haber's 1909 trick to history.

The unanticipated, negative outcomes that can follow when non-native species enter naive populations — such as the now pestilential Kudzu (Pueraria lobata), a legume native to Japan that was introduced into the southern U.S. during the late 19th century — might not apply in the same way with a bioaugmentation approach to the chytrid problem.

This once important lake has seen its problems grow steadily worse as population and water use have increased over the past century.

Although otters were nearly hunted to extinction in the 19th century, populations rebounded as protective measures were put in place.

Water use has grown twice as fast as population over the past century.

As it stands, the people of the planet seem to be leaning toward a peak in population followed by a gradual decline — a 21st - century world of the aged, which can be seen today in Japan or parts of Europe — but there is still a good chance of continued growth in our numbers.

That problem may spread as the 21st century moves forward, thanks to human population growth.

Evidence from archaeological digs suggests that aboriginal Aleuts were wiping out local otter populations as much as 2,500 years ago, and European fur traders all but finished the job by the end of the 19th century.

The study compiles data from 20 years of field studies and suggests that if current trends continue, forests managed as short - rotation pine plantations will support the majority of Swainson's warbler breeding populations by the end of the 21st century.

This approach is ill suited to horses as the only surviving population of wild horses has experienced a massive demographic decline in the 20th century.

Some coral populations in peripheral seas (or extreme environments such as tide pools) live today in environments that climate change projections expect for the tropical ocean in about a century.

Food security will be one of the pressing issues of the next half - century as the world's population rises by several billion.

To find out, Ruben Arslan, a psychologist at the University of Göttingen in Germany, and colleagues analyzed data from census records from 17th and 18th century Germany, Canada, and Sweden, as well as a national population registry from 20th century Sweden, looking at more than 1.3 million people in total.

Ms. Belbin and her colleagues are investigating a variety of questions related to migration into New York City, population transitions among its ethnic enclaves, and effects of historical events and trends on recent generations as well as during the last few centuries.

With world population expected to increase as much as 50 percent over the next half century, analysts are indeed worried that increasing demand for water, coupled with industrialization and urbanization, will have serious consequences both for human health and the environment.

Humans have influenced nature since as early as the Ice Age, and over the past century our impact has become even greater with our many new technologies and a growing world population.

Nonetheless, with rising sea level and environmental refugeeism compounding the increased demand on water, food, and land of a growing population (albeit one likely to level out mid 21st century), the combined impacts of climate change and global population increase could potentially yield a world that doesn't look that different from the one portrayed in the movie — indeed, as Jim Hansen puts it, «a different planet» — by century's end.

By comparison, scenarios for fossil fuel emissions for the 21st century range from about 600 billion tons (if we can keep total global emissions at current levels) to over 2500 billion tons if the world increases its reliance on combustion of coal as economic growth and population increase dramatically.

First, the IPCC SRES (2000) states explicitly that «There is no business - as - usual scenario» (p. 27); and secondly, the population assumptions underlying A2 are totally unrealistic: the scenario assumes an end - century global population of 15.1 billion.

(above) Percent increase in number of days per month exceeding the threshold cold temperatures necessary to cause approximately 50 % mortality in mountain pine beetle populations as projected under two greenhouse gas emission scenarios (i.e., representative concentration pathways; see Climate chapter) at mid century and end - of - century.

Her dissertation, «Nothing but Nets: The History of Insecticide - Treated Nets in Africa, 1980s - Present,» examines how and why insecticide - treated bed nets became a cornerstone of malaria control in the 21st century, as well as the role of African scientists, health workers, health officials, and populations played in the construction of this biomedical, global health technology.

Geopolitical dimension of population: the demographic revolution as challenge of XXI Century

The Black - footed Ferret has been listed as an endangered species since 1967; more than a half century of misguided predator control campaigns and efforts to eradicate prairie dogs from farm and ranch land decimated the population.

In the 19th Century, as American's urban population grew and the demand for wild meat increased, thousands of men became full - time pigeon hunters.

One man, Weston A. Price, a dentist who lived nearly a century ago traveled the globe to meet and study populations of native people who had not been exposed to modern foods and as a result had perfect teeth without decay.

In the 20th century, Detroit's black population exploded as African - Americans left the South in search of a fair and prosperous place to call home.

A late - night conversation as Jiro waits for a date with his bride - to - be ends with a mysterious stranger telling him that Japan will burn along with technological ally Germany — and we know that it does burn, not just in the infernos of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but also in the devastation of Allied incendiary bombs dropped on a civilian population that had, for centuries, built their homes from paper and wood.

Utilising archival images and interview footage of the author and the three social - change giants, as well as historic misrepresentations of the black man in white American culture, I Am Not Your Negro offers an arcing, aching narrative that spans the centuries of abuse and oppression suffered by the African American population.