Sentences with phrase «for entire populations»

These stopover sites throughout the Americas are of vital importance to the survival of migratory birds — on an individual level as well as for entire populations of species.

«Like Weight Watchers and other group programs, they work really well for some people but not for entire populations,» says Cross.

Immorality in one segment of the population's eyes doesn't necessarily make it immorality for the entire population.

Perhaps surprising is that these firms are targeting meat eaters, not vegans or vegetarians, and they are doing so by focusing on the need for the entire population to cut down on animal consumption to conserve valuable water and land resources.

It was only fair game for the entire population of the store to pile on him.

In order to compare managed and unmanaged nests, and deduce what protection means for the entire population, the researchers integrated their data with a modeling framework that looks at:

That suggests the younger adult cohort may not be the best measure of educational attainment for the entire population.

Electronic tracking devices can work well for individual birds, but may not yield insights for an entire population.

The country is one of the few in the world that collects detailed information on cancer and medication prescriptions for its entire population, and for which no comparable North American data source exists.

The new paper does not add experimental evidence; instead, the authors have for the first time tried to model what fever suppression could mean for an entire population.

Some scientists (that aren't influenced by big business) believe that GM corn, soy, and other GM crops could cause major long term health issues for our entire population, even if acute health issues are not observed.

But I don't think that what might have been a specific condition for him is necessarily a general rule for the entire population.

Data for the entire population of 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th graders in public schools in the state of Texas during the 1990s were used.

Oil & Gas companies can gouge at the gas pumps and get away with it because gas is a commodity and without some drastic changes for the entire population, people couldn't go without gas.

Although homeowners have lower rates of unemployment than renters, the unemployment rates for the entire population were higher in areas with higher rates of home ownership.

Juicy Excerpt: Taleb writes: «It suffices for an intransigent minority — a certain type of intransigent minorities — to reach a minutely small level, say three or four percent of the total population, for the entire population to have to submit to their preferences.

The population included in this study represents approximately one third of the Danish Cocker spaniel population and thus, can be assumed to be fairly representative for the entire population.

Scientists do not have a good estimate for the entire population, but estimates for the eastern North Pacific range from 26,000 to 100,000 individuals.

Which why saying a certain program is best for an entire population, or even a majority of an entire population, is quite a bold statement.

I will argue that early breakup years in Western Hudson Bay weed out individual polar bears that do not have the physiological or behavioral characteristics necessary to be useful members of the population — and that this is a good thing for the entire population.

Should you not be calling for the entire population of Haiti to be relocated after 300,000 of them were killed this summer?

The AAAS has over 10 million members, and the results of the survey are statistically valid for the entire population with a theoretical sampling error of + / - 2.5 %.

If 90 % of known SST measurements in 1970 were still being made by buckets, then the most reasonable estimate for the entire population is that 90 % of all SST measurements were still being made by buckets in 1970.

An age - varying spline fits a different form to the population than a negative exponential but it's still one curve for the entire population.

The firms advised the government and health ministry on all aspects of the project, from the central procurement of supply to kitting out 94 hospitals across the country with internationally accredited medical gear, thereby ensuring Kenyans no longer have to travel for first - class medical treatment (part of Kenya's Vision 2030 plan to provide affordable, accessible and quality healthcare for the entire population).

This coverage hopes the promise of free medical tests and medicine at government hospitals, health insurance for the entire population, etc, will pay electoral dividends.

It is possible to construct crosswalks between health, early child development and education databases that integrate population - wide, person - specific data at national, provincial and community levels.60 As such, it is possible to create a historical perspective of developmental trajectories for an entire population of children.

These guidelines indicate that while the State is not required to build housing for the entire population, those individuals or groups who are homeless, inadequately housed or generally unable to meet their own housing needs are entitled to adequate housing, provided by the State.33

One in three young Irish people are drinking sugar - sweetened drinks on a near daily basis sugar and the average consumption for the entire population equals 200 cans of sugar - sweetened drinks on a yearly basis.

Not exact matches

That figure could serve as a bellwether for the future of American health care, because Massachusetts led the nation in extending insurance to virtually its entire population through Romneycare, starting in 2006.

«For anyone receiving the diagnosis, or supporting a loved one through it, cancer can be overwhelming,» Kyu Rhee, MD, chief health officer, IBM Watson Health, said in the release, adding, «With this first - ever U.S. rollout of the technology, the full breadth and depth of Watson's services can benefit an entire population of individuals who need them.»

And the fact that Cavendish bananas are seedless clones of each other means there's zero genetic diversity in the entire global population to allow for a resistant population to develop.

Using the latest US Census data, we determined that just nine states — California, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Georgia and Florida — account for half of the entire US population.

That loss, it says, is the equivalent of the entire populations of Cardiff and Birmingham not working at all for a whole year.

The chart above does not account for a person's specific behaviors, age, sex, location, or other factors that can shift the results; it's an average of the entire US population.

That's lower than the current unemployment rate of 4.1 percent for the entire U.S. population and 14.4 percent for teens.

That's lower than the current unemployment rate of 4.1 percent for the entire U.S. population and a steep 14.4 percent for teens.

And it would then be obvious that to the extent the interests of the shareholders clash with those of «the community» — a community that, for all intents and purposes, includes the entire population of the developed world — it's the responsibility of the community's elected representatives in Congress to make rules that align those incentives.

In this case, the poll is accurate to within ± 3 percentage points, for each of the retired and not retired samples, of what the results would have been had the entire population of adults in Canada been polled.

The whole of the law is do unto others as you would have them do unto you, if the midianites (for instance) can wipe out an entire population of their own enemies in warfare, than it is only just that the same can be done to them.

Let me clarify... when I said it pays for EVERYONE»S care, I mean everyone that is in your group... not the entire population.

Assuming we're all taking about the same sin (Adam and Eve), in their own stories the entire population was wiped off the face of the Earth once (except for Noah's family, who apparently «God» had forgiven for the sin or he wouldn't have saved him); and then absolved of all Old Testament sins by «God» letting his own son (or himself if you think that way) get tortured and killed.

They can even determine the fate of an entire population of people for centuries.

It's more, for example, than the entire female population of the United States.

This makes about as much sense as holding the entire population of England responsible for the sins of Henry VIII.

They are seen in the struggle against the MAI for the cancellation of Third World debt, the struggle against embargoes imposed by an imperial power, the United States, on entire populations who are paying the price.

So indoctrination of nearly the entire population, most since before they could even walk or talk, and the perpetuation of a myth for 2,000 years equals not being able to fathom a world without Jesus.

It would be one thing if he were calling for the entire damn state or something to bow down to Islam, but if NYC has 12 % of its population following Islam and if he's only speaking to NYC schools, I think he absolutely has a point.

Secondly, thanks for over-generalizing the entire Southern population as military - loving Conservatives.

Legion may be set 40 years too early for the NSA to record the entire population's cell phone records, but the sentiment feels eerily similar.