Sentences with phrase «from high risk areas»

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Taking into account past patterns of drought and water use, the Columbia study reveals that several major metro areas, including New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, are at high risk for water scarcity, along with the Great Plains agricultural belt extending from North and South Dakota down to North Texas.

Tutoring franchise CEO Hao Lam from Vietnam and brothers Edi and Etrit Demaj from Kosovo — who launched a number of high - tech real estate enterprises in the Detroit area — did more than just risk their careers to get where they are; they risked their lives.

Conversely, when their risk outlook changes, and they become fearful, pulling money from speculative areas of the market in favor of «flight to quality» investments such as cash and high - quality fixed income.

The Yellow Fever vaccine is one of the recommended travel vaccinations for babies over nine - months - old if visiting high - risk destinations, and may be considered for infants from 6 to 8 months of age if traveling to areas where risk of Yellow Fever is the highest.

The data relate to pregnancies that received maternity care from one of fifteen hospitals in the former North West Thames Regional Health Authority Area in England, and which resulted in a live or stillbirth in the years 1988 — 2000 inclusive, excluding «high - risk» pregnancies, unplanned home births, pre-term births, elective Caesareans and medical inductions.

«We are running out of time to make sure that people in high risk areas are properly protected from the devastation flooding can cause and the ball is now in the government's court.

Despite high shipping volume in this area, the North Sea is actually not at high risk from invasive species.

The researcher team agreed that including extreme sea levels into coastal impact studies is imperative in helping vulnerable parts of the world effectively protect themselves by adapting through new or upgraded infrastructure such as dikes, pumping systems, barriers, or other tools like new building codes or flood zoning that prevents new infrastructure from being built in high - risk areas.

The authors searched for genetic mutations that might explain the disproportionately high risk of SUDEP in people with poorly controlled focal epilepsy, which, by definition stems from a specific area of the brain.

It would also suggest that the area is at high risk from volcanic eruptions.

The risk for children of mothers living in a high traffic air pollution area for NO2 during their second trimester was 30 % higher than those from less polluted areas.

«Today, not only are more people in harm's way than there were 50 years ago, but building in flood plains, earthquake zones and other high - risk areas has increased the likelihood that a routine natural hazard will become a major catastrophe,» warns a 2015 report from the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), which maintains an international disaster database.

«Linking these findings with other results from the same population suggests that persons living in a more polluted part of town may have a 2 percent higher risk of stroke as compared to people in a less polluted part of the same metropolitan area,» Adar said.

Many countries across Africa and Asia - Pacific may be vulnerable to Zika virus outbreaks, with India, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, Nigeria, Vietnam, Pakistan, and Bangladesh expected to be at greatest risk of Zika virus transmission due to a combination of high travel volumes from Zika affected areas in the Americas, local presence of mosquitos capable of transmitting Zika virus, suitable climatic conditions, large populations and / or limited health resources, according to a new modelling study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

These procedures should result from scientifically mapping a community's high - and low - risk areas of exposure to both the fire and embers generated during WUI events (as will be possible using the WUI Hazard Scale).

«This analysis of data from the new National Seismic Hazard Maps reveals that significantly more Americans are exposed to earthquake shaking, reflecting both the movement of the population to higher risk areas on the west coast and a change in hazard assessments,» said co-author Bill Leith, senior science advisor at USGS.

Results of their study suggest too much noise around these highways keeps birds from hearing warnings from fellow birds about predators in the area, and that puts them at a higher risk of being eaten.

Professor Zoe Davies, from DICE at Kent, said: «Notably, though, while the risk of a güiña being killed by a human is higher in more densely populated farming areas, our questionnaires indicate that only 10 % of the rural inhabitants have killed a güiña over the last decade.

This is because there is a higher risk of human interaction and persecution in areas where there are more farms, a greater pressure on natural resources through increased timber extraction and livestock grazing, and even competition for food from domestic animals kept as pets.»

Dr Rebecca Ghosh, co-author of the study from the School of Public Health at Imperial, said «Putting this in context, an individual who lived in a higher polluted area in 1971 had a 14 per cent higher risk of dying in 2002 to 2009 than someone who had lived in a lower polluted area.

Women exposed to high levels of fine particulate matter specifically during pregnancy — particularly during the third trimester — may face up to twice the risk of having a child with autism than mothers living in areas with low particulate matter, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

A Dutch - Texan team found that most Houston - area drowning deaths from Hurricane Harvey occurred outside the zones designated by government as being at higher risk of flooding: the 100 - and 500 - year floodplains.

Firstly, says Podgorski, water from wells in high - risk areas must be tested.

Initiated in 2005, the study follows 560 families from four disadvantaged urban areas who are at high risk for asthma to uncover potential risk factors that contribute to increased asthma rate in children growing up in impoverished neighborhoods.

Our objective was to develop an eco-epidemiological modeling approach to characterize the spatial relationships between areas of higher than expected ALS incidence and lake water quality risk factors derived from satellite remote sensing as a surrogate marker of exposure.

Whenever you heat fat to a very high temperature, toxic substances are created which the body tends to store in areas that are far away from the important organs in order to avoid any risks.

All athletes may benefit from a greater awareness of their biomechanics and the steps they can take to minimize injury in high - risk areas.

«Small injuries to the vascular wall that can be caused by anything from high blood pressure to toxins attract all sorts of metabolic riff - raff, from bacteria to oxidized (damaged) LDL particles; the immune system sends inflammatory cytokines to the area, and more oxidation and inflammation takes place eventually resulting in the growth of plaque and, ultimately, to an increased risk for heart disease.

The school offers at - risk young people from the St. Paul area a chance to earn a high school diploma while learning about the music business.

The road safety training concept was piloted earlier this year to 3,300 primary school children in high - risk areas of Birmingham who learned safety messages from a Conies «Walking to School Safely» workbook.

«Every Victorian government school has a place to shelter from bushfires as a last resort, and this program will make sure the shelters at 200 schools in the highest fire risk areas are even safer.»

A performance based pay system would keep many of the best teachers from pursuing jobs in those high risk areas because of nearly impossible odds to meet the performance measures needed to make it worth the while.

Test results from the inflators recovered from consistently high absolute humidity areas have shown a possible elevated risk for Passenger airbag inflator rupture.

An independent agent may be able to sell you coverage from a regional insurance company or one that specializes in high - risk motorcycle insurance in your area.

The intensity of tremors can be felt miles away from the epicenter, so it might still be worthwhile to insure against one if you're outside of the high - risk areas.

Rates for earthquake insurance can vary significantly, from fairly inexpensive in lower risk areas to a relatively high cost in places that are more prone to earthquakes.

It's important that puppy owners prevent their puppy from frequenting high risks areas such as parks, pet stores and areas frequented by stray dogs.

[43][44][45][46] All distribution areas have more females than males, because males are at higher risk from predators, as they can not move as quickly.

By funding the furniture and tablets SAFe Rescue needs to go paperless, this grant will make it possible to perform more adoptions and save 150 additional cats and kittens from high - risk areas this year alone.

Dogs should be discouraged from playing where power tools are being used or in other high - risk areas.

You should know that smaller dogs have an increased risk of suffering from dehydration because of their high body surface - area - to - volume ratio.

History of recent introduction of a high risk dog into the shelter population, such as a dog from a canine influenza endemic area or a racing track

Founded in 2003 by Rande Levine, Karma Rescue saves «at - risk dogs from the high - kill Los Angeles area shelters.

To protect your dog from the dog flu, keep your dog away from high - risk areas that include dog parks, kennels, doggy day care, grooming, training facilities and pet stores.

It continues to save pets from rural animal control facilities where they are at a high risk of euthanasia, and instead offer them a second chance at a loving home in the Chicagoland area.

Tri further said the risk of subsequent landslides remained high because there was a crack spanning from the slope of Bukit Gede to areas within a 150 - meter radius on its left and right side.

In the wake of the last two hurricane seasons, including the 2004 season when four hurricanes crossed Florida, reconstruction is still ongoing, insurance costs are climbing, and private insurance companies are withdrawing from high - risk coastal areas.

But the report said the widest area of high risk was in the southern Caribbean, from Nicaragua's east coast across the south coasts of Haiti and the Dominican Republic and from Puerto Rico south along the Lesser Antilles.

Climate Central has a good graphic showing areas of New York City at risk from the higher end of the surge projections.

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,