Sentences with phrase «desired population size»

Quite aside from determining the management mechanism, this problem begs the rarely addressed question: what is the desired population size, why, and how is that number derived?

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«Thus, the use of small populations artificially bred for desired traits, such as smaller body size or coat color, may have led to an accumulation of harmful genetic variations in dogs.»
He says that improvements to women's education in particular reduce fertility rates, by overcoming obstacles to using contraception and lowering desired family sizes, and that UN population projections ignore this.
However, the timing of this shutdown is important because if the competing pathway is necessary for cell growth, turning it off limits the population size, and the bacteria won't produce enough of the desired compound.
Nearly all reform efforts include a push for smaller class sizes and as the population continues to increase, so will the desire for more teachers.
They have reduced its population size in order to achieve desired changes in the bulldog's phenotype.
Even when some of the variables are aggregated or coded, from the perspective of a large statistical agency desiring to release data to the public, the study concluded that a population size of 500,000 was not sufficient to provide a reasonable guarantee that certain individuals could not be identified.
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