Sentences with phrase «compare population averages»

Transwell assays could only compare population averages and lack single cell resolution.

Not exact matches

Demographic data from the new survey shows that on average, prisoners of color were slightly overrepresented in solitary confinement when compared with the overall prison population.

There are more than 35 people per 1,000 population employed in health occupations in PEI compared to 28 per 1,000 in Alberta and 33 per 1,000 on average in Canada.

One way to do so is to look at dozens, or perhaps hundreds, of cities in terms of population, or average income, and compare them with the number of bookshops in each city.

That said, B.C.'s strong economic growth over the past three years, combined with a) the announced small business tax relief, b) the new training and youth employment programs (also announced today), and c) a lower - than - average percentage of our working population who actually make minimum wage (about 5 %, compared to 7.1 % nationally), leaves us in a position to cautiously view the announced increases as «reasonable.»

Globally, the Muslim population is forecast to grow at about twice the rate of the non-Muslim population over the next two decades — an average annual growth rate of 1.5 % for Muslims, compared with 0.7 % for non-Muslims.

By evaluating the scale insect remains attached to each specimen, Youngsteadt estimated scale population density and compared it to the average August temperature for the year and place where the specimen was collected.

According to the nationally representative study, patients who will gain Medicaid under expansion programs supported by the ACA will be younger (average age of 36 versus 38), with a larger proportion being male (49 percent versus 33 percent) and white (60 percent versus 50 percent) compared to the current Medicaid population.

The findings of the studythe first to measure cumulative exposure to environmental hazards of all kinds in the stateare dramatic: communities in which people of color make up at least 15 percent of the population average more than four times the number of hazardous waste sites, compared with communities having less than 5 percent people of color.

So, too, areas in which people of color make up at least 25 percent of the total population average nearly five times as many pounds of chemical emissions from industrial facilities per square mile, compared with communities where less than 5 percent of the population are people of color.

The bad news is that the average male physicist is insecure, anxious and unhappy compared to the rest of the population, while the average female physicist can be a bit bloody - minded and occasionally slightly obsessive.

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers found that men, blacks, and low - income populations had higher risk estimates from PM2.5 exposure compared with the national average, with blacks having mortality risks three times higher than the national average.

For the Spanish population, the FAO finds it to be 75.3 kg / year, compared with the European average of 70.1 kg / year (equivalent to around 0.19 L / day).

McArdle recommends you to measure skin thickness in exact seven locations where you can then enter the data to calculate your body fat percentage and lean weight, which is then compared to average of the general population.

Students might compare population figures, average temperatures, and more.

In one Philadelphia district, for instance, nearly 30 percent of school - to - career students have a grade point average of 3.0 and higher, compared with 19.8 percent of the general student population.

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).

Classic game - compare population, area, bordering countries highest and lowest point, average height of land, length of coastline, amount of country that is forest, average age and life expectancy for men and women

Social mobility was a key theme of Education Select Committee's evidence check on grammar schools held on 8 November and statistics quoted suggested that only 2.5 per cent of pupils in grammar schools are on free school meals, compared to an average of nine per cent of the school population in the same areas.

On average, a black student with a black teacher in a school where more than two - thirds of the student - body is black is still more likely to experience exclusionary discipline, compared to a black student assigned to a white teacher in a school where black students accounted for less than a third of the student population.

It's usually comparing everything to pre-Katrina when the population was larger and poorer on average.

[18] These differences are particularly strong for demographic characteristics: elementary school neighborhoods that draw the highest proportion of in - boundary students are likely to have proportionally smaller African American populations (14 percent on average, compared to 69 percent for the rest of the city) that are not decreasing as fast as they are in the rest of the city; the later dynamic could be related to the first because these neighborhoods tend to be historically white, and have very small African American populations to begin with.

With a population that is 75 % first generation college bound, our approach is specifically designed to increase student engagement, deepen integration and understanding, promote active learning, and ensure college success compared to national averages of 60 % and 70 % respectively for those two important indicators.

Closing the Achievement Gap (15 points) Looks at the bottom 25 % of school's student population compared to state averages.

Median household income in Elwood is $ 108,401 compared to a statewide median of $ 58,687, and only 2.7 % of the population lives below the federal poverty line while the average is 15.6 % statewide.

And the schools also have a high population of economically disadvantaged students: 76 to 95 percent, compared to the district's overall average of 52 percent in its elementaries.

The network expects an overall special - education population of more than 15 percent this school year — with a concentration of 22 percent at Cohen High School — compared to what Kleban described as a citywide average that traditionally hovers around 12 percent.

In other cases where overall performance is at least average, several states with narrower - than - average achievement gaps serve student populations that are less diverse compared to the make - up of the student population nationally.

People with FICO scores of 800 or higher have a median total revolving credit balance of $ 1,446, compared with $ 2,040 for the U.S. population overall (who have an average score of 700).

Hamilton County when compared to Butler County has more renters, a higher average salary at $ 40,000, a larger black population [23 % vs. 5 %] and a lower median house value at $ 148,000.

The impact of top - ranked popular sires is even more obvious in this figure of the maximum number of pups produced by a single sire in a year compared to the population average.

In the meantime, the world's poorest two or three billion people, emitting less than one ton of carbon dioxide per person per year (compared to the 20 tons per - capita average of the United States), could be propelled out of poverty with additional fossil fuel use without substantially interfering with efforts to rein in the richest populations» emissions.

As for demographics, looking at the losses for 2009 from http://www.weather.gov/om/hazstats.shtml by state, and comparing the percent population growth (compared to the national average growth — we've already corrected for that) in the top 25 loss states (94 % of the total losses), we find that the average population growth is only 52 % of the population growth for the nation as a whole.

Across the 20 countries with the largest clean cooking access gaps representing 84 percent of the global population without access, annual finance committed averaged just $ 32 million, compared to the estimated annual investment need of at least $ 4.4 billion.

Estimate of the average urbanization bias in the urban U.S. stations (top) compared to the total urban population in the U.S. Click on image to enlarge.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

For instance, if you compare neighboring thermometers around the world, and also compare their population densities (as a rough indication of UHI influence), it can be easily demonstrated that substantial average UHI warming occurs even at low population densities, about ~ 1 deg.

Graph shows that adding the interaction of slowly and quickly migrating species in response to climate change, increases the overall time lag (of population average) compared to the geographically shifting temperature gradient — and therefore the overall extinction risk associated with this warming.

96 of the nation's top 100 markets (by population) had drops in traffic congestion levels in the first half of 2008 compared to 2007, with a 3 % nationwide average decrease in travel times during peak hours.

Thankfully, relatively few families should find themselves in the tail areas of the bell curve; again assuming a normal statistical distribution, the outcomes obtained by less than 5 % of the total population, those in the third and forth deviations, ought to be unfair or very unfair compared to an average result.

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.

Compare this figure with the average population density for the entire state of Minnesota, which is only about 69 people per square mile.

The five largest cities in population almost all have lower than average car insurance rates compared to those living in the city proper.

High winds, severe storms, dense populations, high crime rates, and inflated living and medical costs might sometimes be present in the Gem State, but when you compare Idaho to states like Louisiana, California, and Texas, the average Idaho home and household is far less likely to cost an insurance company a ton of money over the life of a policy.

For -LSB-...] the average total increase in Math proficiency was 26.4 % as compared to an expected general population increase of 13 %.

As reported in the Social Justice Report 2002, preliminary findings of a Victorian study on the prison population in that state found a rate of re-offending of 71 % among Indigenous women compared to a rate of 61 % average in 2000 among the female population.

Since 1991, the Indigenous prison population has grown by an average of 8 % per year (compared to 3 % per year for non-Indigenous people).

The average median age of an Indigenous person in Australia is 21 years compared with 36 years for the non-Indigenous population.

This brief presents the findings of a larger research paper, currently under review, in which we review the evidence for four home visiting program being implemented with MIECHV funding and compare these effects to population averages and professional recommendations to provide a context in which to interpret those effects.

Some maltreated children likely remained in our comparison sample, given the prevalence rate of maltreatment in the general population.15 However, any bias introduced in our estimates would be toward zero if maltreated children in our comparison group had higher expenditures on average compared with nonmaltreated children.