Sentences with phrase «for populations»

When he and colleague Donald Miles of Ohio University went looking for populations that other researchers had studied in the 1980s and 90s, they found that many had disappeared.

For both populations, though, disease prognosis remains poor: the median progression - free survival for docetaxel - treated patients was 3.4 months, compared with 2.4 months for erlotinib.

The only way Morton could have done so is by including more females for the populations he considered «inferior» and more males for «superior» populations.

Another benefit of Kamchatka's isolation is protection for populations of chum, sockeye, chinook, coho and pink salmon, which return by the millions to spawn in Kamchatka's rivers.

This means that we probably won't need to bring back billions of birds in order for their populations to be sustainable, as long as we can keep ourselves from killing them.

«We identified culturally appropriate topics for populations with low health literacy, including defining skin cancer and melanoma, dispelling the misbelief that dark - skinned individuals are not at risk, and emphasizing skin self - checks,» wrote the study authors.

«The consequences of this phenomenon for both native plants that did not evolve with the honey bee and for populations of native insect pollinators is well worth studying,» said Joshua Kohn, the study's senior author.

Yet the proposal currently includes «example» catch limits for these populations, even though some of the scientists are uncomfortable with the IWC political delegates including catch limits before researchers have finished their assessments.

«Since there is this high climatic zonation in the tropics and narrow thermal tolerances, there are more opportunities for populations to become divergent and isolated, which is what you need for speciation to happen,» Gill explained.

«Our findings provide a solid basis for recommending that this type of therapy be considered for populations at risk for suicide,» she says.

Targeted protection should be provided for populations that are important from an evolutionary perspective and whose stocks have already been reduced by 90 percent, water bodies with a high level of mussel species diversity, and also healthy mussel stocks in intact habitats.

And so we really had in our minds that Ebola was that sort of disease that appears sporadically in remote regions of Africa, causes extreme tragedy for those populations, but not really something that we need to have on our radar in the bigger picture.

While the specific cause of the Yosemite toad's decline is unknown, meadow restoration across the high Sierras is of importance to land managers focusing on watershed health to maintain clean and sustainable water supplies for the populations at lower elevations.

The area sits at the meeting point of two tectonic plates — giving it scientific importance — but it is considered a recreation hot spot for the populations of nearby San Francisco and Sacramento.

The genome analysis also questions previous findings that modern humans populated Asia in two waves from their origin in Africa, finding instead a common origin for all populations in the Asia - Pacific region, dating back to a single out - of - Africa migration event.

It is time to dismiss «one size fits all» and populate trials with statistically - appropriate numbers and analyze by sex in order to achieve the right medication and correct dosage for all populations.

However, the different virus genotypes coupled with the complexity of the disease means there is still a major unmet need to improve options for all populations.»

Although researchers still debate the overall influence of black carbon on the atmosphere, scientists do agree that it has become a serious health issue for populations on the ground.

It enabled predation and grazing to play roles equally important to resources or habitat, with predation having the key role for some populations and resources having the dominant role in others.

«There needs to be more joined - up thinking between those who understand the tsunami sources and the implications for populations and infrastructure.»

Just how often and why, and what that means for their populations» survival, is the subject of intense research.

«The same rate of growth measured for populations dwelling in a range of environments, and practicing a variety of subsistence strategies, suggests that the global climate and / or other biological factors — not adaptability to local environment or subsistence practices — regulated long - term growth of the human population for most of the past 12,000 years.»

Another criticism is that there are no good and relevant norms — at least for the populations companies want to test; comparing them with North American samples, mostly white undergraduates, is dangerously misleading.

«For populations that are expanding their range, for example due to climate change, we have found that organisms are moving faster in ways that are hard to predict,» said Hufbauer.

Steve Kell, GP and co chair of the NHS Clinical Commissioners representative group, said: «CCGs are trying to develop a sense of joint responsibility for populations, so people in the hospital are thinking beyond their hospital walls to look at nursing home quality, and anything that affects our patients.

When these improved waters were tested and compared with survey data about where people got most of their water, the estimates for the populations that have access to safe drinking water fell by 16 percent in Nicaragua, 15 percent in Nigeria, 11 percent in Ethiopia and 7 percent in Tajikistan.

The results showed that even before the peak had passed the first affected population, both R0 and pC could be well estimated and predicted for all populations.

We really had in our minds that Ebola is the sort of disease that appears sporadically in remote regions of Africa and causes extreme tragedy for those populations but not really something that we need to have on our radar in the bigger picture.

It works to combat poverty and promote sustainable development by financing and supporting projects that improve living conditions for populations, promote economic growth and protect the planet.

For these populations, the status quo is not satisfactory.

Look away from the bubble and see municipal politicians such as Sir Richard Leese, Labour leader of Manchester City Council, doing their best to use the heavily circumscribed powers of local government to gain real results for their populations.

The increased risk for these populations is due to low levels of consumption and difficulty with vitamin absorption.

It is an important beginning point for understanding the complexities involved in explaining why outcomes related to bedsharing (recall, one of many types of cosleeping) vary between being protective for some populations and dangerous for others.

In this 6 hour workshop for professionals, you will learn the strategies and skills to be effective with families while doing field based services and create real change for the populations who need it most.

We take pride in our results and know just how important fostering a healthy breastfeeding relationship is for both mother and baby and we do our best to deliver personalized care that stands out for these populations.

In attempting to attribute atrocities of past regimes to atheism, posters like the one below will make broad generalizations, that, in order to be true, would require that one know of the religious / non-religious thinking involved for the populations that had to endure those past regimes.

It is even more difficult, and I would claim impossible to claim what the religious beliefs were for the populations that existed under such totalitarian regimes.

But in this case the whole populations are rejecting the president and the whole of his political party which he represents whom been lying to the people for 30 years and achieved nothing for their populations but manage to secure their people while populations are starving with no jobs, prices rising currency dropping!?

Natural selection affords a measure of stability and durability, for those populations which happen to be best adapted to their environments continue to survive as other populations tend to die out.

None of this augurs well for the populations upon which far - reaching and purportedly scientific population policies are to be applied.

For populations that cope poorly with change, any quickening in the pace of change — including the pace of demographic change — is likely to prove difficult and perhaps even costly to society as a whole.

The Schultz Family Foundation, established in 1996 by Howard and Sheri Schultz, creates pathways of opportunity for populations facing barriers to success.

«Melinda and I are pleased to make this investment in the University of Washington to help dramatically accelerate their 25 - year vision to achieve positive health outcomes for populations around the world,» Gates said in a statement.

So while the impact on Climate Change of the electric car may not be all its visionaries claim, the alternative of a world powered by coal and oil is — particularly for the populations of China's and India's cities — unthinkable.

You especially see this from foreign government pension funds that are ramping up their assets to fulfill the needs for income that they're gonna have for their populations for decades to come, and they're not there.

Adjusting for population, rates of net international migration ranged from 0.55 per 1,000 Montana residents in 2015 to 6.14 per 1,000 Washington, DC residents.

Accounting for population, Copenhagen - Malmö comes in first in the European venture capital rankings, followed by Geneva and Edinburgh.

Here's a list of the top 10 cities for venture capital, adjusted for the population of each metro area:

Beijing, which is ranked ninth overall, falls to 55th place after adjusting for population.

On average, Canadian women are having only 1.5 children each, far below the 2.1 necessary for a population to sustain itself.