Sentences with phrase «from particular populations»

Some suggestions for specific protocols for online work with couples from particular populations do show promise (here's an example), but these have not been empirically evaluated.

Not exact matches

In particular, «agricultural commodities are supported by the dynamics of water shortages in Asia and the Western United States, the declining payback from the green revolution in terms of improving crop yields and the increasing demand from Asia for a diet based more on grains and meat as the population becomes wealthier,» the group responded by e-mail.

«But some of these areas, in particular the Campi Flegrei, are densely populated and therefore even small eruptions, which are the most probable, fortunately, can pose risks for the population,» said De Natale, from the Vesuvius observatory at Italy's National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology.

For one thing, if (a) you had taken 225 million orangutans distributed roughly as the U.S. population is; if (b) 215 winners were left after 20 days; and if (c) you found that 40 came from a particular zoo in Omaha, you would be pretty sure you were onto something.

A most particular threat to the human rights project is the coercive use of foreign aid and other international programs in order to advance alleged rights related to procreation, population control, and the independence of children from their parents (in the name of «children's rights»).

Throughout the essays are scattered references to everything from ozone depletion to recycling strategies to the effects of American pet shops on the population of parrots in New Guinea — and recommendations of particular courses of action: Aeschliman's commendation of conservancy strategies, for instance, through which churches purchase endangered land to ensure preservation.

A third implication for religious television arising out of the uses - and - gratifications research is that the gratifications found from particular programs and the uses made of them differ with different population groups.

Beginning the hunt in earnest in Tucson, we went to visit the Arizona - Sonora Desert Museum in order to familiarize ourselves with the environment and particular «habits» of the chiltepín (for example, its predilection towards association with hackberry and mesquite bushes) and to sample from the chiltepín population in the Wild Chile Botanical Area, located in Tumacacori Mountaints, right off of I - 17.

The particular doctor who was interviewed from the research team said CA does WAY too many c - sections and that that, combined with an increasingly obese population (which I guess is something that makes OBs want to do c - sections?)

Your child will be exposed ONLY to children with his particular diagnosis, which means he will be quite isolated from the general population (this is true to some degree even if the school is eager to take your child on «outings» into the community).

As Lucinda Platt and others have shown, Britishness is especially common among migrants and minority ethnic populations — and in particular those from South Asian and / or Muslim groups — who are far more likely to identify as British than their white British neighbours are.

Survey after survey has shown the population as a whole, and young people in particular, increasingly turning away from religious beliefs and influences entirely — and yet there has been no detrimental effect on the wellbeing of the nation.

While the Windrush scandal revolves around a particular group of people, the incident has broader implications for any political party hoping for support from Britain's wider black Caribbean population.

A big «Invest to Save» in Health Prevention an injection of invest to save funding to tackle our biggest population challenges, in particular obesity, fuel poverty, employment for those with health problems and harm from alcohol, as part of a wider locally led health and wellbeing plan

He said people's concerns should be allayed by extra government funding to invest in public services where there is particular pressure from a higher population.

Severity is tricky to define as it includes everything from the virulence of a particular influenza strain to the vulnerability of a particular population and its ability to respond, Fukuda said, which means it can differ from place to place.

«With more and more consumers recognizing the importance of protein for their overall health and well - being, the results of this study have particular relevance to a large segment of the population, from the serious sports and fitness enthusiast to the mainstream consumer.»

The site was of particular interest to population geneticist Andrea Manica of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom because the skeletons of five humans were found with pottery, harpoons, and the remnants of nets and mats woven from twisted blades of wild sedge grass — which some (but not all) researchers consider a rudimentary form of early agriculture.

The duskywing doesn't fly as well, and it eats oak leaves only as a caterpillar, so many populations may live in particular Garry oak sites like little islands, never breeding with butterflies from the next savanna over.

In particular, the Southern states suffer from high rates of infant mortality, along with several other negative population health indicators such as obesity and diabetes.

In particular, the Neandertal genome sequence can now be used to catalog changes that have become «fixed» (are invariant within a population or species) in modern humans during the last few hundred thousand years and should be helpful for identifying genes affected by positive selection since humans diverged from Neandertals.

Californians are at particular risk from wildfire - related health impacts, because the state has the largest population in the U.S. living in wildland - urban interface (inhabited areas approaching wildland areas) where there is an elevated risk of being exposed to wildfires.14 More than 11 million people, about 30 percent of the California population, live in these wildland - urban interfaces.5

What may be unique at the intersection of genomics and infectious disease control are ethical challenges that stem from the inherent tension between the goals of personalized medicine, which are to benefit particular individuals, and those of public health - to benefit and protect entire populations.

«Often, we want to generate a particular cell population from stem cells for introduction into patients,» says co-senior author Young - sup Yoon, MD, PhD, professor of medicine (cardiology) and director of stem cell biology at Emory University School of Medicine.

The Adelie penguin population has declined by 80 percent since the 1970s with one colony in particular dropping from 320 to 54 breeding pairs during the 14 years since observation began in 1990.

The different FY allelic frequencies in individuals from North compared to Southeastern Brazil, may be due to the contribution of the three major ethnic groups (Europeans, in particular Portuguese; Blacks and Amerindians) in the formation of both populations.

However, the GVPs analyzed in this study originate from one position on the genome and genetic databases allow for accurate estimation of the distribution of a particular SNP in a sample population.

~ Resistant starch and «the butyrate revolution» (review — abstract) «Early epidemiological studies indicated that populations that consume a high proportion of non-starch polysaccharide (NSP) dietary fibre (DF) in their daily diet suffer less from gastrointestinal diseases, in particular colorectal cancers, than populations that consume diets that are high in fat and protein but low in NSP fibre.

Travel marketers, automobile manufacturers and even entertainment (movie makers, book sellers and video game developers) would all benefit from this particular segment of the population.

In particular, our findings suggest that conclusions derived from young, college - aged samples may not be generalizable to the online dating population in general and especially to the experiences of «older» adults.

A fabulous mosaic of one particular pocket of America's invisible homeless population - families living hand - to - mouth in motels originally designed to catch the tourist overspill from the flashy theme - park resorts across town.

This is not to dispute the importance of additional research to investigate the particular settings in and populations with which nudge strategies are most effective, or the mechanisms through which nudges affect students» decisions, but rather to observe that, in fact, multiple researchers have demonstrated, through well - designed experiments, positive impacts from nudge strategies.

First, to what extent will the conclusions drawn from this particular online program apply to other populations and subjects?

And they must report the results, for both the student population as a whole and for particular «subgroups» of students, including English - learners and students in special education, racial minorities, and children from low - income families.

The schools» transition from stately, which was characteristic of the early 20th century, to sterile has several explanations: the spread of modernism generally, the devaluation of public architecture in particular (city halls have been victims too), the physical growth of schools through both district consolidation and population increase, and fiscal pressures in the public sector.

In particular, he overlooked the Chinese hukou, an internal passport system that culls migrant children from Shanghai's student population as they approach the age for PISA sampling, fifteen years old.

Voucher programs narrowly targeted to income - disadvantaged urban students reach a particular student population that appears to benefit most from access to private schooling.

UN Security Council will adopt Resolution 1566 in 2004 and gives a definition of terrorism as «criminal acts, including against civilians, committed with the intent to cause death or serious bodily injury, or taking of hostages, with the purpose to provoke a state of terror in the general public or in a group of persons or particular persons, intimidate a population or compel a government or an international organization to do or to abstain from doing any act.»

The report was a demographic study outlining major demographic shifts in our population, focusing in particular, on the changes from early childhood education through college and career systems.

It includes examples of attendance initiatives from communities across the U.S. showing that how chronic absence can be turned around, even when it reaches high levels in a school or district or among a particular student population.

Two new studies from the Kinder Institute's Houston Education Research Consortium confirm the broad variations of pre-kindergarten offerings across the state's largest school district, Houston Independent School District, as well as the impact high quality programs can have for disadvantaged populations in particular.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

Regardless of one's opinion of the views of any particular Sad Puppy supporter, it is entirely possible that without the infusion of interest and funds inspired by the Sad Puppy campaigns (whether from Puppy supporters or those dedicated to keeping the Sad Puppies from «destroying» the awards) that the Hugo Awards could have ceased to exist as lack of interest reduced the voting population to single digits.

The departure of Croatia, a republic with a large Serbian population, was of particular concern to Slobodan Milosovic, Serbia's party leader and president, who also served as president of the Federal Republic of of Yugoslavia from 1997 to 2000.

Quantitative analysis» main contribution in thesis writing is its ability to display the fact of an argument as a result of making a statistical inference about a particular sample of data drawn from a population.

For one thing, if (a) you had taken 225 million orangutans distributed roughly as the U.S. population is; if (b) 215 winners were left after 20 days; and if (c) you found that 40 came from a particular zoo in Omaha, you would be pretty sure you were onto something.

For this particular study, an arbitrary population cutoff was set at 1,000, meaning any town or city with a population below 1,000 was eliminated from further analysis.

Natural breeds rose through time in response to a particular environment and in isolation from other populations of the species.

Dispersal sinks or habitat sinks, are patches of low - quality habitat that are unable to sustain a population of a particular species were it not for immigration from higher quality habitat patches — called sources — nearby.

To reinforce those opinions, the TICA designation of the Pixie - bob as a «native new breed» carries this definition: «A new breed which has been identified through selection of phenotypically similar individuals from a naturally occurring population indigenous to a particular geographic region.»