Sentences with phrase «change in the population at»

For insects, it could take only a couple of years to see a desired change in the population at large, while slower - reproducing organisms would require much longer.

The left bar shows the net change in the population at risk due to climate change alone, while the right bar shows the total population at risk after accounting for both climate change and non-climate-change related factors.

Not exact matches

And when you look at the changes in demographics in the US population alone, choosing not to represent your evolving customer group will increasingly become a liability.

In a country where more than 230 people have been killed by terrorist attacks since January 2015 and unemployment still stands at 10 % nine years after the financial crisis, a growing part of the population is ready for a radical change.

This lack of change in smoking cessation under such a dramatic tax increase accentuates the difficulty in improving quit rates at the population level.23 It does provide a reference point to evaluate the magnitude of change reported for the 2014 - 15 US Current Population Survey - Tobacco Use Supplement (CPS - TUS).

However, the reality is that the overwhelming percentage of the population needs to change how they think about the world at a fundamental level in order to actually follow through on starting a business and getting customers.

By using the known rates of increase in the money supply and the population and a «guesstimate» of the rate of increase in labour productivity we can arrive at a theoretical rate of change for the purchasing power of money.

What they're saying and what they argue is that the issue is that the demographics which are changing dramatically... You know the baby boomers aren't buying as much, the Millennial's don't have as much money, at least in the United States, but around the world even in China where we've had a dramatic reduction in the growth in population, we don't have the youth that's coming on in relationship with the accumulation of wealth that the previous generations have had.

In the long term, knowing this structure may allow us to find chemical and mechanical tools to change it — fixing it where it has gone wrong in an individual and improving it where it puts whole populations at risIn the long term, knowing this structure may allow us to find chemical and mechanical tools to change it — fixing it where it has gone wrong in an individual and improving it where it puts whole populations at risin an individual and improving it where it puts whole populations at risk.

One can of course not hide the fact that in the United States, too, the Christian heritage is decaying at an incessant pace, while at the same time the rapid increase in the Hispanic population and the presence of religious traditions from all over the world have changed the picture.

It is hard to imagine how a population planner would have arrived at an accurate assessment of the present value of a birth in Korea in 1955, much less make confident assertions about the ways in which the present value of that birth would be changed through alterations in the contemporary Korean birthrate.

Rapid population growth is a pervasive fact of life in less - developed countries today — a form of social change so typical, and at the same time so profound, that it may spuriously be associated with almost any other social phenomenon of the present generation.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risin our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risin many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risin the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risIn the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

The population explosion is also changing the economic balances, for it is the nations that are already economically poor, and in many cases saddled with massive international debt, that will bear the burden of feeding between two and three times as many more mouths than they do at present.

As it seems that the Domino effect is really taking effect for countries falling one after another as all idols fell at times of winds of change (El - Zalzalah) the Earthquake... to those countries which have not invested in their populations but rather treated as if in a major Prison system.

It may also represent where the rest of the population will be at the end of this decade, given the rate of change in the past decade.

If we really stop and look at the dramatic changes going on all over the world and in the US (demographics, ethnic population shifts, a new era in how people under 50 look at the world, etc.) it points to a need to focus more than ever on the centrality of Christ Jesus.

A recent study from researchers at Oxford University published in the medical journal The Lancet looked at how changing weather patterns will affect the planet's ability to grow enough food to adequately feed the global population, and the results are terrifying: They predicted that because of large scale agricultural changes, 247,970 could die in China alone by the year 2050.

Michael Behe (in The Edge of Evolution) points out that there is abundant evidence for «microevolution» (smaller population change), but there is a boundary at which the evidence for microevolution stops and evidence for macroevolution either doesn't exist, or any clues that do exist are beset with problems so serious that explanatory attempts boil down to «just - so - stories.»

Unfortunately honey bee populations in some parts of the world are at risk from a number of interacting factors such as agriculture intensification, Varroa mite, bee pathogens, changes in bee food supplements and pesticides.

We estimated the variability of differences in the population prevalence of maternal cancers, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, MI, and premature mortality when women breastfed at current compared with optimal rates and the proportion of current disease burden that this change would reflect.

A key requirement of democracy is equal protection of all stakeholders - i.e., if at some point there is a completely fair vote of 2/3 population preferring the choices advocated and implemented by party A; and 1/3 preferring the choices of party B - then a system must ensure that the minority gets adequate protections and fair treatment; so that while at this moment country gets steered to choice A, the minority doesn't get punished in any way for saying that in their opinion choice B might be best; and if some of the original voters change their mind, the choice B can still be known even if the governing clique that was elected on the idea of A wants to continue with A forever.

Meath East and Meath West: the population per TD ratio that is 1.8 % % below the state average in Meath East and 3.0 % below the state average in Meath West, so at first glance there is no need to make boundary changes here.

Of course, quick changes in population can have an effect of queues in doctor's surgeries and at hospitals — but the fact is that our health service would be in dire straits if EU nationals weren't treating our sick and frail every day.

«We know that population ageing is pervasive, in fact it's a global phenomenon affecting everyone - but countries are at various stages of the process, and the pace of change differs greatly.

While many residents at Tuesday night's Southold Town Board meeting agreed that having affordable housing for the area's workers and retired population is important, others said they feared how a proposal to increase the number of units allowed in an affordable housing development will change the North Fork's rural character.

We can see a shift in the population and if we're not dealing with the reality that the world is changing then we're always going to be at odds with one another.

An interesting stat from 2004, in a report by National Transfer Accounts, which studies populations and economic change and is based at Berkley University in California, said that Nigerians spent more than they earned until they were 32.

The debate comes in the middle of Energy Saving Week, a campaign run by the Energy Saving Trust aimed at reducing the population's carbon footprint through simple changes in the home.

Event attendee Chris Karmosky of Treadwell, a climatologist who teaches meteorology at SUNY Oneonta, said the climate is changing and though many in his profession believe that humans are to blame for accelerated climate change, the general population does not believe that is the case.

This massive environmental change is believed to have created population bottlenecks in the various species that existed at the time; this in turn accelerated differentiation of the isolated human populations, eventually leading to the extinction of all the other human species except for the branch that became modern humans.

This blog appears in the In - Depth Report Science at the Sochi Olympics Climate change poses a well - documented threat to ecosystems and human populations worldwidin the In - Depth Report Science at the Sochi Olympics Climate change poses a well - documented threat to ecosystems and human populations worldwidIn - Depth Report Science at the Sochi Olympics Climate change poses a well - documented threat to ecosystems and human populations worldwide.

Ida Kubiszewski and Robert Costanza at the Australian National University in Canberra and their colleagues gathered estimates of GPI for 17 countries — totalling more than half the world's population and GDP — and assembled them into the first - ever global picture of how GPI has changed over the years.

Population geneticist Richard Lewontin gave a talk here at UMass Amherst about six years ago, and he mathematized all of it — changes in the population, random mutation, sexual selection, cost and benefit.

Rolf Ims and colleagues at the University of Tromsø trapped Norway lemmings and grey red - backed voles at 109 locations in north - east Norway to monitor population changes before, during and after a lemming population outbreak.

An in - depth look at how plants respond to climate change shows mixed results for the phenomenon of «demographic compensation» as a way for plants to avoid severe population declines.

«When a population loses genetic diversity, they lose the ability to adapt to change,» Hundertmark said, adding that although Alaska herds are expected to fair slightly better at least in the near future, they are still facing significant challenges.

Varner is an assistant professor of biology at Colorado Mesa University and a co-founder of Cascades Pika Watch in Oregon, a collaborative citizen science program that invites volunteers to track populations of pikas, tiny mammals that are vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

And the whales are beginning to feed at various depths as well as along the sea floor, a shift that may have to do with changes in the population densities of their prey.

Dr Nathalie Pettorelli, co-author of the comment and researcher at ZSL, said: «With global wildlife populations halved in just 40 years, there is a real urgency to identify variables that both capture key aspects of biodiversity change and can be monitored consistently and globally.

The research is unique in linking local population changes for multiple bird species to broad - scale climate changes, says Beatrice Van Horne, a wildlife researcher at the U.S. Forest Service in Arlington, Virginia: «Things that happen at a large scale are hard to see because local variance often confuses us.

This mismatch between these numbers and 1880 estimates of at least three billion suggests that the passenger pigeon may have been what is known to ecologists as an «outbreak» species, like locusts, that boom and bust with changes in conditions, rather than a species that experiences a singular population explosion, as Homo sapiens has in the last 200 years.

The plague has caused death and destruction in Europe at least since Roman times, launching at least three major pandemics that changed the course of history — the Plague of Justinian from 541 to 544, which weakened the Byzantine Empire; the Black Death, which killed almost half the population of Europe between 1347 and 1351; and the Great Plague of 1665, which lasted more than 30 years.

«The marine environment is always changing, and their population is at a point where it responds very quickly to changes in the environment.»

But Jon Krosnick, a professor at Stanford University, said the only group affected by cold weather in terms of belief about climate change is the 30 percent of the population who distrust scientists.

At the close of the Fourth International Polar Year, we take stock of the ecological consequences of recent climate change in the Arctic, focusing on effects at population, community, and ecosystem scaleAt the close of the Fourth International Polar Year, we take stock of the ecological consequences of recent climate change in the Arctic, focusing on effects at population, community, and ecosystem scaleat population, community, and ecosystem scales.

'' [D] rought conditions are a serious problem both in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world, and with climate change and population growth that problem is likely to get worse,» said Stanley Grant, lead author of the article and a professor of engineering at the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Melbourne.

A new report by the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford concludes that better governance could have lessened the impact on the poorest and most vulnerable, and affected populations have been let down by the authorities in the past.

In search of better ways to teach the subject, researchers at Michigan State University developed complete evolutionary case studies spanning the gamut from the molecular changes underlying an evolving characteristic to their genetic consequences and effects in populationIn search of better ways to teach the subject, researchers at Michigan State University developed complete evolutionary case studies spanning the gamut from the molecular changes underlying an evolving characteristic to their genetic consequences and effects in populationin populations.

Rather than look at the overall number of DNA changes, Harris focused on the frequency of changes in each kind of DNA base in the populations she studied.