Sentences with phrase «form large populations»

The weed species and biomass were similar in the two systems; however, with timely removal they did not form large populations or affect the growth of the strawberries.

The higher level of focus on genetic material from the few small fragments from the Central Asian cave shows the people Paabo calls Denisovans — clearly different genetically from Neanderthals but closely related to them and also to our own species — probably to have formed a larger population than the Neanderthals themselves, as they show a higher degree of variation in their genetic makeup.

Not exact matches

«Now that gaming is a mainstream form of entertainment, the games market follows the dynamic of the population at large, which is aging,» Van Dreunen says.

A similar risk is at large today in a world where many countries are unprepared to meet their demographics future in the form of the retirement needs of an aging population.

Stereotypes form because there is a large population that acts in a certain way, regardless of the fact that not all of that population act in that way.

The Bolivian experience provides a lesson hyperinflation - with the effect of daily pauperisation for the very large majority of the population - can serve to have people «accept» brutal neo-liberal policy measures, while preserving democratic forms.

While it is true that 80 to 90 per cent of all births out of wedlock are to black teen - agers, and that half of all black children live in female - headed families, it is also the case that black males form the largest unemployed group in the total population, and are the lowest - paid of employed males.

Megapolitan refers to the clustering of large cities together to form huge belts of dense population.

The only form of collectivism still embraced by a large part of the world's population is integralist Islam, which dominates most Muslim - majority countries.

No, there was never a successful attempt to implement communism on large scale (a country with 10 + million population, modern infrastructure, and not dependent in large part on external aid in variety of forms).

Large - scale testing and various forms of outreach to key populations are common strategies for locating people who are undiagnosed.

About half the world's population (over 3 billion people) are in infected with at least one of the three worms forming what Columbia University parasitologist Dickson Despommier calls the «unholy trinity» — large roundworm, hookworm and whipworm.

In the genomes of Latinos — many of whom trace ancestry to European, Native American and African populations — the mixed European, Native American and African sequences form a mosaic of large segments.

Valeriya Lyssenko of Lund University in Malmö, Sweden, and her colleagues set out to determine whether detecting common forms, or alleles, of nine diabetes - linked genes could predict who would develop the disease among a large population.

If so, says Grover Bagby, a hematologist who directs the Oregon Cancer Center at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, further work to decipher the protein's exact function could shed light on how to treat a much larger population of patients with leukemia, certain other forms of cancer, and aplastic anemia.

This research not only provides the first clear evidence that microorganisms were directly involved in the deposition of Earth's oldest iron formations; it also indicates that large populations of oxygen - producing cyanobacteria were at work in the shallow areas of the ancient oceans, while deeper water still reached by the light (the photic zone) tended to be populated by anoxyenic or micro-aerophilic iron - oxidizing bacteria which formed the iron deposits.

Developing therapeutic cell populations from human ES cells will be far more demanding: cells will have to be stable, predictable, pure, have proven functionality, be nontumor - forming, and be «scalable» — capable of growing in very large numbers.

Manou Sommen and colleagues report a study of a targeted resequencing panel for hearing loss was developed including 79 genes for nonsyndromic hearing loss (NSH) L and selected forms of syndromic hearing loss.They established a straightforward variant classification system to deal with the large number of variants encountered and showed that after GJB2, the most commonly mutated genes in a Western - European population are TMC1, MYO15A, and MYO7A.

This is the deepest large mm - wave dataset in existence and has already led to many groundbreaking science results, including the first galaxy clusters detected through their Sunyaev - Zel «dovich effect signature, the most sensitive measurement yet of the small - scale CMB power spectrum, and the discovery of a population of ultra-bright, high - redshift, star - forming galaxies.

Even though Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population, the majority of people in Bali practice a local form of Hinduism.

The concern expressed by states with large undocumented immigrant populations is that asking about citizenship will scare people off, forms won't get filled out and the count won't be accurate, affecting federal funding and the number of congressional seats.

This diversity is reflected in the form of the state which is the largest archipelago country in the world with about 17,500 islands, big and small islands with a population of around 245 million (estimated in 2014).

The contributors discuss two limited forms of choice in K - 12 education - vouchers and charter schools - when in fact a large share of the population has always exercised one or another form of choice.

And a convoluted tale it is, involving the country's wealth of natural resources (coal, iron, copper and water for powering machines and transporting goods), the comparatively high literacy rate that enabled common folk to educate themselves in science and technology, a patent system that protected the rights of inventors and gave them economic incentive to both create and refine devices, and a population large and wealthy enough to form a profitable market for products the new industries turned out.

For example, specific kinds of cardiac diseases are seen in a very large percentage of the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel population (and other forms in certain large breeds).

Lethal control has been used by animal control agencies for decades, but given the current problem of large populations of free - roaming cats, it is obvious that killing as a form of population control does not work.

The screening of the pure - bred dog population for new forms of PRA represents an important strategy to establish new large animal models.

Screening of the pure - bred dog population for new forms of PRA represents an important strategy to maintain breed health and to establish new large animal models.

The Mayan population still living here today form the largest indigenous population in the Americas.

I think living in a country which has the one of largest populations constantly influences me to think about human form.

** At LTE (local thermodynamic equilibrium) within a small volume of material (small enough to be isothermal) that is still large enough to contain a large enough population of molecules / atoms / electrons / etc, each population of a type of particle has the same temperature, and the distribution of energy among all particles and all forms it can take (translational, vibrational, rotational, potential, electronic, latent, etc) is an equilibrium distribution).

Two years ago the fecal stain method identified several large, hitherto unknown colonies and nearly doubled our estimate of the world's Emperor Penguins.1, 2 That didn't mean climate change had necessarily increased penguin numbers, but a larger more robust population meant Emperor Penguins were far more resilient to any form of change.

And with large segments of the developing world without access to modern forms of energy, Mr. Annan says that meeting the UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving, by 2015, the proportion of the world's population living on less than $ 1 a day would depend on providing these people with access to modern energy services for their basic needs and for income generation.

Large - scale impacts on pteropods and other calcifying organisms that form the base of the marine food chain could distress populations of larger fish that feed on them, leading to significant economic impacts on the multi-billion dollar U.S. seafood industry.

The only thing stopping such pragmatisim toward our planet's biosphere is the fact we are dealing with a very large population of «apes» that have very recently formed into a handfull of large (proxy) warring tribes surrounded by impoverished and malnourished outcasts.

As it turns out, for the DOD to continue weapons practice on the base without interruption, it'd have to do its damnedest to make sure the fluttering little butterflies make a comeback.According to biologists, checkerspot butterflies may have seen their populations plummet to near - extinction due to habitat loss, but ironically the fragile insects have found safe haven in the unlikeliest of places, forming one of their largest colonies on the firing range of the military base.

One possibility is that when we are presented with comments from experts on either side of an issue, we produce a mental representation of the disagreement that takes the form of one person on either side, which somehow contaminates our impression of the distribution of opinions in the larger population of experts.

Older adults make up a large segment of the population of Ontario and Canada: therefore, it can be difficult to form meaningful generalizations about their circumstances and experiences.

As we have seen in point 26 of this opinion, the Court considered that dealing in narcotics as part of an organised group was a diffuse form of crime and could reach a level of intensity that might directly threaten the calm and physical security of the population as a whole or a large part of it.

In countries with a large unbanked population or where currency values gyrate wildly, bitcoin can be a stabler form of payment and make commerce easier, especially for the poor.

However, millennials seem to have taken a liking to cryptocurrencies, and they form a large voting population thus offering an interesting campaign platform for politicians the world over.

The Combined Statistical Area (CSA) population of 2,659,937 is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the second - largest in Pennsylvania after Philadelphia and the 20th - largest in the U.S. Located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, which form the Ohio River, Pittsburgh is known as both «the Steel City» for its more than 300 steel - related businesses, and as the «City of Bridges» for its 446 bridges.

The Albuquerque MSA population includes the city of Rio Rancho, Bernalillo, Placitas, Corrales, Los Lunas, Belen, Bosque Farms, and forms part of the larger Albuquerque — Santa Fe — Las Vegas combined statistical area, with a total population of 1,163,964 as of the July 1, 2013 Census Bureau estimates.

The elephant in the room is the population of failures - in - waiting, and ORE well - paid bureaucrats et al are collectively along for the ride in the form of a very large overripe mega-pimple on the elephant's ass.