Sentences with phrase «for estimating population»

Multilocus methods for estimating population sizes, migration rates and divergence time, with applications to the divergence of Drosophila pseudoobscura and D. persimilis

That's the central question behind a University of Arkansas biologist's three - year, $ 465,098 study to test a new method for estimating population densities of two species of rare snakes.

Not exact matches

The United Nations estimates that by 2050 more than 60 % of the world's population will lack fresh water for drinking and cooking.

According to the Census Bureau's population estimates for 2014 and their tabulations of the land area of each county, 50.1 % of the US population lives in those counties:

Urban areas accounted for only 20 % of the nation's population growth for the 12 months ended July 1, 2015, according to the latest Census Bureau estimates.

The US Census Bureau recently released estimates for the major components of population change — natural change (births minus deaths), net domestic migration, and net international migration — for the states between July 1, 2015 and July 1, 2016.

«This scenario reconciles the discrepancy in the nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA phylogenies of archaic hominins and the inconsistency of the modern human - Neanderthal population split time estimated from nuclear DNA and mitochondrial DNA,» says researcher Johannes Krause, also of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

The US Census Bureau recently released its annual population estimates for each of the country's 3,142 counties and county equivalents.

In addition to showing the estimated total population change in those areas between July 1, 2016 and July 1, 2017, the Census Bureau also included a breakdown of the components of that change, including net international migration, or the number of immigrants from other countries moving into a county minus the number of people leaving that county for another country.

The US Census Bureau recently released its population estimates for each of the 50 states and Washington, DC, for 2016 and how populations changed from July 1, 2015, to July 1, 2016.

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific estimated that, in 2014, 4.3 billion people lived in the Asia - Pacific region, accounting for 60 percent of the global population — more than half of the people in the world!

The number of consumer fixed Internet users was not taken directly from an analyst source but was estimated from analyst forecasts for consumer broadband connections, data on hotspot users from a variety of government sources, and population forecasts by age segment.

Our new white paper explores urban analytics for digital cities with an estimated more than 50 % of the worlds population now living in cities, many city leaders are turning to «Smart Cities» as the solution for their urbanization challenges.

The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at the City University of New York estimates that Puerto Rico will lose up 470,335 residents by the end of 2019 — about 14 percent of the population.

For the population that leaves the workforce early because of diabetes - associated disability, we estimate that their average daily earnings would have been $ 166 per person (with the amount varying by demographic).

Today the U.S. Census Bureau released its 2015 population estimates for counties and metropolitan areas.

The Center for Puerto Rican Studies at the City University of New York estimates that Puerto Rico will lose up to 470,335 residents by the end of 2019 — about 14 percent of the population.

China, for example, has a vast population, estimated to be at around 1.4 billion people, or approximately nineteen percent of the global population.

It is no surprise that there would be such great interest in Africa, as it has an estimated population of roughly 1.2 billion people who have a need for goods and services.

You can enroll in the program if you work for a government or nonprofit organization — which means an estimated 25 percent of the population is eligible, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Prevalence estimates for alcoholic hepatitis (AH) range from 10 % -35 % of alcoholics (about 8 % of the US population) or about 2.4 - 8.4 million US patients may have alcoholic hepatitis (World J Hepatol 2011 Vol 3 (5) 108 - 113).

Officials estimate that emergency shelters and food support will be needed by a large portion of the population in both territories for weeks.

Yet, by State Department estimates, Christians accounted for up to 10 percent of Syria's population.

To make the economic case for an active population policy, population planners would ultimately need to center their arguments on estimates of the economic value of human life.

I am very excited, for example, by the estimate that in 1987 there will be a statistical balance of Christian population between the north (Europe, Soviet Union and America) and the south (Latin America, Africa, Asia and Oceania).

In 1900 there were an estimated 9 million Christians (accounting for about 7 per cent of the population of Africa).

The United Nations Population Database estimates that fertility will have nudged up to 1.37 by 2010, still on track for rapid population decline.

The figure of 42,000,000 for China and Korea is based on the estimates as to the size of the Muslim community before the present government came into power, with a conservative allowance for population increase.

For example, 1 cup of buckwheat contains almost 25 % of our need for magnesium, a mineral that is estimated to be deficient in up to 75 % of the Western populatiFor example, 1 cup of buckwheat contains almost 25 % of our need for magnesium, a mineral that is estimated to be deficient in up to 75 % of the Western populatifor magnesium, a mineral that is estimated to be deficient in up to 75 % of the Western population.

Magnesium is necessary for healthy artery, blood, bone, heart, muscle, and nerve function, yet experts estimate that approximately 80 percent of the population in Europe may be deficient in this important mineral.

«This means farmers are now harvesting more rice per hectare, which not only lifts them out of poverty, but it is contributing towards the world - wide challenge of feeding the estimated global population of 9 billion people in 2050,» said Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs Kevin Rudd.

With estimates that 70 - 75 % of the world's population may be lactose intolerant and with total milk, yogurt and cheese consumption at over 200 million tonnes in 2011, lactose free dairy products represent a substantial opportunity for dairy manufacturers.

In future updates, we will use fixed - effect meta - analysis for combining data where it is reasonable to assume that studies are estimating the same underlying treatment effect: i.e. where trials are examining the same intervention, and the trials» populations and methods are judged sufficiently similar.

Although we could not find estimates of fan use in the US population, we examined the potential selection bias by evaluating characteristics associated with SIDS risks in study participants and nonparticipants in a previously published article.16 Using California birth certificate data, we compared the ORs for maternal age, maternal education, parity, birth weight, infant sex, and late initiation of prenatal care (> 5 months» gestation).

We found little evidence that between - study heterogeneity in estimates was explained by age at measurement of blood pressure (p = 0.5), decade of birth (p = 0.2), stipulation of a minimum duration of breastfeeding (p = 0.5), proportion of the target population in the main analysis (p = 0.2), whether breastfeeding was exclusive for at least 2 months (p = 0.2), method of blood pressure measurement (p = 0.4), or whether effect estimates controlled for socioeconomic factors (p = 0.9), maternal factors in pregnancy (p = 0.9), or current weight (p = 0.9).

Two prominent studies find modest effects, in one case estimating that each 1 % increase in the share of migrants in the UK working age population leads to a 0.6 % decline in the wages of the 5 % lowest paid workers, which would mean about 3p less per hour for someone earning just over the minimum wage of # 6.19.

There are some factors to consider prior to estimating the population required for a single state to control both the House and the Electoral Collage.

For simplicity I'm going to use 2016 population estimates from here.

The U.S. Census Bureau released an estimate at the end of 2016 that found the state's population declined for the first time in a decade.

For the first time in its history, Rochester does not rank among the 100 largest cities in the nation, according to new population estimates released by the U.S. Census Bureau.

For instance, before Britain's referendum on European Union membership last year, a poll by Ipsos Mori found that voters typically estimated the number of migrants living in the UK to be 31 % of the population.

To look at it from another angle, it wouldn't be fair (or legal) for Upstate's Fulton County with a 2009 estimated population of 55,053 to have one NYS senator just like Kings County (i.e. Brooklyn) which has a 2009 estimated population of 2,567,098.

The state's population declined for the first time in a decade, losing 191,367 people to other states in the year ending last July 1, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's most recent population estimates.

The commitment will also do little to tackle problems outside London and the south - east of England: London Councils already estimates that the capital will need at least 800,000 new homes by 2021 as its population continues to grow, leaving slim pickings for the rest.

Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that youth ages 15 - 24 make up just over one quarter of the sexually active population, but account for half of the 20 million new sexually transmitted infections that occur in the United States each year.

This accounts for the large percentage of the state population taken up by New York City and its suburbs (usually estimated at about 60 %, depending on which counties are included as suburbs).

Long Island notched small population gains from 2014 to 2015 on the strength of growth in Nassau County, while Suffolk County's population dipped — largely the result of people leaving for other parts of the nation, according to U.S. Census Bureau estimates released Thursday.

Nigeria has been ranked highest in Africa with an estimated 311 per 100,000 population carrying tuberculosis, the Anambra State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Lawrence C, Ikeakor has disclosed.

Nigeria has been ranked highest in Africa with an estimated 311 per 100,000 population carrying tuberculosis, the Anambra State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Lawrence C, Ikeakor...

In researching demand for senior housing in the Southtowns, Calamar said it estimates the «over 60» population of Orchard Park, Hamburg and West Seneca will increase from a current 27.9 percent of the population, to over 34 percent in the next five years.