Sentences with phrase «done on a population level»

Although this type of vaccination «does not offer immediate protection on an individual level,» Kumar says, «if done on a population level, the transmission of malaria might be curbed in the long run.»

Not exact matches

The only projection that does not lead to catastrophe is the quite impossible one of immediately stabilizing population and industry on a worldwide basis at present levels.

Nevertheless, failing to adopt efficient solutions for high - level political corruption and focusing exclusively on administrative corruption, as did the previous government, will not sit well with the Bulgarian population.

«I don't think that this population, given the explosion in the number of millionaires since the tax has been in place and the level of income that these folks have, that this would be a good time to provide a $ 3.7 billion tax cut to the wealthiest,» Deutsch testified at a budget hearing on Tuesday.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

«The study does not provide any evidence to show that an effect on that group of fish would have had a population - level impact,» BP spokesman Ryan Jason wrote in an e-mail.

By contrast, Miller says, greater levels of enforcement in Niger's national park were associated with sharply decreasing income levels among park neighbors but did not have as statistically significant effect on wildlife populations.

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.

Conversely, within non-diabetic populations, periods of IER (75 - 85 % ER on restricted days) do not typically affect fasting glucose levels 37, 41, 45, 48 or HbA1c 41, 48; results of which can often be replicated by short term CER studies.62 - 65These findings are unsurprising given that frank hyperglycaemia within the T2DM diagnostic range is effectively a late - stage manifestation of IR, which along with compensatory increases insulin secretion, can precede the onset of T2DM by many years.66, 67 Findings from one large scale prospective cohort study, Whitehall II, reveal a sharp increase in the trajectory towards fasting hyperglycaemia which is only detectable three years prior to diagnosis with T2DM.67 Consequently, it can be argued that changes in circulating insulin concentrations, fasting (hepatic) insulin sensitivity and glucose uptake / clearance are more sensitive markers of deteriorating glucose control than fasting glycaemia in non - diabetics.68 - 70

As we learn more about the makeup of good and bad bacteria in the gut biome, researchers are also doing cutting edge DNA microbiome sequencing to show how people's gut biomes are changing on a population level.

However, we do not know what happens when people consume this diet for 40 + years on a population level.

A good amount of the world population is returning to the office every fall, but this fall in particular, why not do it on a higher fashion level?

«We'll be looking very carefully at what's happening in those local authorities with the same sort of population, with similar levels of deprivation, similar numbers of children on free school meals, where one particular local authority does extremely well and another one doesn't.

That is, bias (a highly controversial issue covered in the research literature and also on this blog; see recent posts about bias here, here, and here), does also appear to exist in this state and particularly at the school - level for (1) subject areas less traditionally tested and, hence, not often consecutively tested (e.g., from one consecutive grade level to the next), and given (2) the state is combining growth measures with proficiency (i.e., «snapshot») measures to evaluate schools, the latter being significantly negatively correlated with the populations of the students in the schools being evaluated.

Unless it's performed with very high levels of resources and manpower and addresses over 50 % of a targeted population on an ongoing basis, it doesn't offset the root of the problem: continued reproduction of un-trapped unsterilized cats.

These competitions require Rally Tickets to play (earned by completing Tour stages and collecting coins), but losses will also cost Toads from one's personal stock, a gut - punch that doesn't exactly encourage players to take on higher - level opponents, for fear of eroding their already meager population even further.

The likelihood of serious sea level rise under «business as usual», and impacts on water resources may not have the acute drama associated with polar bear population decline or the possibility of massive methane clathrate releases, but they are much more likely to figure on policy makers agendas — just as other long term chronic issues (such as pensions) do.

I am very skeptical that on a global population level, humans will bother to do anything other than lip service when it comes to addressing climate change and the changes to our lifestyle required to significantly reduce our emissions, until it is far too late.

But I don't think this requires achieving the same level of wealth, if the methods are chosen well; and also, pursuit of population stabilization may achieve greater wealth as a byproduct and / or knock - on effect, which is a good reason for pursuing it.

I don't see that ever happening... humans are going to keep on having more and more babies and demanding a safer and safer society with higher birth rates and lower and lower death rates until some kind of crash occurs and we have a drastic reduction in population to a level that the planet can handle — until it happens again.

I have simply pointed out a) that your «extrapolation» of human - induced CO2 increase does not take into account expected future trends in human population growth, and b) that your 2100 level of 1000 ppm exceeds CO2 increase that would occur from consuming all the optimistically estimated fossil fuel resources remaining on our planet.

Which experts on sea level rise, ice sheet dynamics, and polar bear biology / ecology did you contact for your articles on polar bear populations and sea level rise?

One of the reasons people don't act on an individual level is because at some point in the past the human race became entombed in economic slavery, and due to a now huge global population, now must have money to survive.

However, in the IAMs, many of which are used in producing the IPCC reports, population levels are obtained from a demographic projection like the UN's population projections discussed in the first and second Sections, which do not include, for example, impacts that climate change may have on the Human System [181].

For example, there is evidence of local systemic stigma based on population data analysis, in that children registered in tertiary mental health services receive less emergency and inpatient treatment for their physical disorders after psychiatric diagnosis than do children with no mental disorder, even though they have more physical and biomedical diagnoses at the levels of ambulatory and provincial physician billing.28

We will use two comparison groups for this analysis: (1) children recorded in the KiDS database as eligible for the Brighter Futures Program who did not participate; and (2) a propensity - matched comparison group from the whole study population, matched on individual - level characteristics similar to those outlined in the methods to address objectives 1 and 2.

In 50 years of evaluation, PCHP has documented important longitudinal impacts for program participants: graduates enter school as well or better prepared than their classmates, perform significantly better than their socioeconomic peers and as well as or better than the overall population on school readiness measures in kindergarten and first grade, and are reading and doing math on grade level in third grade.

The report also predicted that although there's a chance the world's population will level off sometime in this century, there will be at least 5.9 billion more people on Earth before it does.