Sentences with phrase «diverse than the population»

«Internet users are more demographically diverse than the population conventionally sampled for behavioral research in psychology — a fact that could contribute to results that better reflect the population at large.»

Not exact matches

Not only does this suggest modern humans might have been stepping tentatively into Europe and getting friendly with Neanderthals long before the wave of migration that led to today's population, it shows Neanderthals were more diverse than we thought.

Signs of this mysterious early migration remained in the DNA of the Neanderthal who left the leg bone behind, revealing not only a previous tryst between the two hominin populations, but a sign that Neanderthals were far more diverse than we thought.

He went on to talk about how important it is to have a diverse bench of leadership to ensure more sound decision - making, rather than having one person from the «diverse group» represent his or her entire population.

Overall, the national study revealed there are more similarities than differences between small business owners in all diverse segments and those in the general population.

Financial Aid: In 2017, for the first time ever, America's public universities received more revenue from tuition than they did from tax dollars — a funding model that places a higher burden on students and their families and risks widening economic inequality, even as the population of would - be students becomes more diverse.

An eight - page document spells out basic requirements: a metro area with more than 1 million people, a diverse population, high quality of life, abundant technical talent, strong university system, a business - friendly environment and access to mass transit.

Private groups can often deliver assistance to the needy more quickly, cheaply and humanely than can government bureaucracies, with greater sensitivity to the diverse interests, backgrounds and beliefs of the client population.

Not only do such actions represent a radical departure from past times in America, when government refused to legitimate ethnic - group rights and claims, but they also encourage a polarization rather than unification of our diverse population — a trend that can result only in the eventual creation of de jure ethnic and racial geographic enclaves and political parties, with the appointment and election of individuals mandated along racial, religious and ethnic lines.

Furthermore, today's college campuses feature more diverse populations than ever and that will remain the case for the foreseeable future.

The Fox Valley Park District is a dynamic and growing park district that serves a diverse population of more than 236,000 people.

There, an overflow crowd numbering well over 100 — with more than 100 more turned away by security at the Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., State Office Building on West 125th Street — was testament to the hunger in Harlem for forging stronger social, political, and support ties among a diverse and growing queer population there.

The end sample of 1,162 brains was a bit more diverse than the U.S. population.

He and colleagues collected data on more than a million people from more than 100 culturally diverse populations and calculated the effect inbreeding has on traits related to evolutionary fitness.

But the catalogued planetary population has just gotten a lot larger and more diverse, thanks to word this week of a newly identified planet orbiting two suns, more than a dozen newfound «super-Earths,» and strong indications that the Milky Way Galaxy is home to an almost unfathomable number of planets awaiting discovery.

In the first national study of a large, diverse population, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues, found that 1.2 percent of the study population engaged with devices, and that most of the individuals who started using an activity tracker were younger and had higher - incomes than people who opted not to use the devices.

Today, moderate to severe periodontal disease affects more than 10 % of the world's population and is linked to diverse systemic diseases, including cardiovascular disease, stroke, pulmonary disease, and type II diabetes.

This is a particular problem for African or African American populations, which are more genetically diverse than other groups.

Anthropologists and geneticists know that populations throughout the world migrated from Africa more than 60,000 years ago (see diagram), and that the human genome is at its most diverse in our continent of origin, but previous studies have only scratched the surface of African genetic diversity.

This ancient population was «more diverse than any one population of brown bears in the world today,» says Cooper.

Diverse immigrant populations do more than enrich a city's cultural fabric.

William Sutherland, a population biologist at the University of East Anglia, has shown that the places on Earth with the most biodiversity are the most linguistically diverse as well and that languages are even more at risk for extinction than are birds or mammals.

Many scientists believe that disease - causing mutations are easier to find in genetically homogenous populations, such as Iceland's, whose genomes have less «noise» than those of more diverse societies.

Loyola's more than 50 accredited residency and fellowship programs provide the highest quality of medical education, research and patient care at a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings to a diverse patient population.

In addition to increased power to find variants associated with asthma risk, the EVE dataset comprised a more ethnically diverse population than similar efforts in other countries by including European Americans, African Americans / African Caribbeans, and Latinos.

In addition, the data reveal that this was a more genetically diverse population than the central and western European hunter - gatherers living during the same epoch and that they also show pattern of adaptation to high latitude environments, including high frequencies of low pigmentation variants as well as a gene region associated with physical performance, which shows strong continuity into modern - day northern Europeans.

A healthy microbiome is a diverse microbiome, and there's no better way to diversify your microbial ecosystem than to spend time outdoors in nature, play in the dirt, and hang out around animals as often as you are able — all will contribute valuable additions to your resident populations of microbes.

«More diversity is probably better than less, because a diverse ecosystem is generally more resilient — and diversity in the Western gut is significantly lower than in other, less - industrialized populations,» writes Pollan.

The important thing to consider when approaching a large, diverse population is that we are examining the probable result of applying the principle rather than a 1 +1 = 2 approach.

So today, calling students to the front means more than what you may imagine with our diverse student population.

The school serves an economically disadvantaged and diverse population of students who speak more than 50 different languages.

And middle schools often serve a more diverse student population than many students encountered in elementary school.

American schools already have achievement data for every child starting in third grade — and universal screening yields a more diverse population of «gifted» students than waiting for teacher recommendations and pushy parents.

Carroll: We have a much more diverse student population than we've ever had before — diverse in learning background, skills, languages.

The achievement results are strong, and the pilot schools are doing better than the charter schools at attracting special - education students and English - language learners to their already diverse student populations.

Thirty - two percent of the student population qualifies for free or reduced - price lunch.45 The median family with children earns $ 102,000, around $ 14,000 less than in Montgomery County.46 However, Anne Arundel County is much less racially diverse.

California's charter public schools performed better than the state averages on Math and English Language Arts while serving a diverse population of students.

South Bend Schools has a diverse population with students speaking more than 70 languages.

Lourdes Alvarez - Ortiz is a highly accomplished bilingual / bicultural school psychologist with more than two decades of experience working in inner - city school districts serving culturally and linguistically diverse student and family populations.

Some schools buck the trend Of the schools with higher in - boundary participation rates than expected, Powell ES and J.O. Wilson ES are located in racially diverse neighborhoods with declining African American populations.

The Unites States may have a much more diverse population than most countries surveyed.

Of the three schools that draw higher proportions of in - boundary students than expected, Powell ES and J.O. Wilson ES are located in racially diverse neighborhoods with declining African American populations.

As Montessori programs in public schools expand, Montessori education is becoming available to a more diverse population of American students than ever before.

In a three - year pilot study at 20 elementary schools in New York City with a diverse population of children, students using CKLA had significantly larger gains than students in similar schools.

Not only are American teachers less diverse than the student population they serve, but the teaching profession is also less diverse than the working - age population in the United States.

Sarah supports three groups of teacher scholars: a cross-district team of Oakland Unified Computer Science teachers participating in a two - year effort to bring quality computer science instruction to every Oakland school; the staff at Lorenzo Manor Elementary in San Lorenzo Unified serving a diverse population of more than 600 students; and the teachers at MetWest High School, a small Oakland public school and member of the Big Picture Schools network.

Regie Routman has more than four decades of experience as a national and international leader, teacher, and coach working in diverse schools with large populations of students from low - income families and English language learners.

Few examples exist in states with diverse student populations where strong overall performance pairs with better - than - average achievement gaps.

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.

Even with a highly diverse pupil population, limited resources, and higher academic standards, more students now are graduating from high school than at any time in history.