Sentences with phrase «given the population size»

Another extra credit question: what is a «substantial number» given the population size?

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«Given the size of its economy, population, and given its political clout, Nigeria's stance towards the African Continental Free Trade Area is key,» Imad Mesdoua, senior consultant for Africa at Control Risks, a global risk consultancy with offices in Lagos, told CNBC via eGiven the size of its economy, population, and given its political clout, Nigeria's stance towards the African Continental Free Trade Area is key,» Imad Mesdoua, senior consultant for Africa at Control Risks, a global risk consultancy with offices in Lagos, told CNBC via egiven its political clout, Nigeria's stance towards the African Continental Free Trade Area is key,» Imad Mesdoua, senior consultant for Africa at Control Risks, a global risk consultancy with offices in Lagos, told CNBC via email.

«Given the size and growth of the American millennial population, it is critical for city and state leaders to understand the homeownership aspirations of this large demographic,» says Andrew Tam.

Irma is expected by some experts to top Harvey's damage, given the size of the storm and the population that was in its path.

«We lost some momentum toward the end of 2013 from disappointing job growth and limited inventory, but we ended with a year that was close to normal given the size of our population,» said Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist.

Given the size of the millennial population, any of these scenarios will have a profound impact on homeownership and renting in our society.

Given the sparse population west of Lake Superior at the time, the need for a subsidy for a large indivisible capital project is not in question but the size of the subsidy has been subject to debate.

Its economic size and population give Germany international responsibilities which it ought to have the courage to meet.

Given its tiny population (1.8 million - equivalent to the size of Hampshire), its engorged public sector and its high, structural poverty and worklessness, it should think twice before jumping off the ledge.

Morgan has said the WHLDC board lacks Latino representation given the size of the Latino population in West Harlem.

And today, a number of council members pushed the administration on whether such efforts would significantly reduce the homeless population given its overwhelming size — in January, shelter occupancy reached a new high of 53,615 people and Commissioner Taylor testified today that 10,357 families entered the shelter system in calendar year 2013.

The first, Damuth's law, is an inverse relationship between body size and population density: the bigger the species, the fewer of individuals cohabitate in a given area.

But the fact that passenger pigeons persisted at relatively small population sizes gives fresh hope to efforts to bring them back — so - called de-extinction.

The project's data show a continuing drop in the «carcass ratio», which relates the number of carcasses found in a given area to the size of the local elephant population.

If lots of plants from one species grow in the same place, fungi quickly cut their population down to size, levelling the playing field to give rarer species a fighting chance.

A new study from The Condor: Ornithological Applications provides the first direct estimates of the population size and annual survival of young birds in Oahu's Laysan Albatross population, giving important new insights into the demographics of these «prebreeders.»

But as population went from sparse to dense in a given area, cranial size declined, highlighted by a sudden 3 to 4 percent drop in EQ starting around 15,000 to 10,000 years ago.

As for the role of population size in spurring our evolution, he and Wang had not given it much thought, but they saw the idea as complementary to their own view, since cultural innovations allowed more people to survive.

«Given the enormous size of this study, further work is needed to see if these results can be repeated in other populations, and to determine possible biological mechanisms which might underlie any possible link between the pill and depression.

The demographic scenario consisted of two populations of a given effective population size that have diverged in the past and have subsequently exchanged genes.

In population genetics, effective population size is not a direct measure of the total number of people that lived at a given time.

We implemented rarecoal in a software package (available from www.github.com/stschiff/rarecoal) that can learn the parameters of a given population tree topology from the data using numerical maximization of the likelihood and subsequent Markov Chain Monte Carlo to get posterior distributions for each split time and branch population size.

Points illustrate the mean probability that a tiger population of given starting size will decline to extinction over 1,000 model simulations both with canine distemper virus (CDV) infection (black dots) and a control scenario without CDV (open diamonds).

Boston was declared the best — the article discusses that Boston's smaller size (relatively speaking) and high population as giving its...

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«Given our country's unique mixture of democratic values, diverse populations, and sheer size,» she wrote, «this use of standards has been a wise approach to bridging these two needs.»

This will always be a modestly sized program, given the school's population, but it has had a major influence on the way all teachers think about how they approach their work, and the tools and equipment that they use to introduce and reinforce concept development.

[ii] At the state level, one can calculate the proficiency rate one would expect to see in a state given factors such as state size, population density, median household income, and unemployment rates.

Given the evidence that students from disadvantaged backgrounds lose ground academically over the summer while other students do not, districts that serve large populations of low - income students should be most interested in trading class size for school days as a strategy to improve student achievement.

Given the large and increasing size of the ELL student population in Arizona, the current focus on testing and accountability, and the documented problems in current assessment practices, improvement in instruments and procedures is critical.

Robin and Beth varied their approach depending upon the size of the given school's ELL population and its cultural and linguistic makeup.

That's especially true in more northern locations with dense populations — its compact size and all - weather capability give it the upper hand against the BMW and Audi.

If you know the size of the population served by your shelter, you can estimate the number of un-owned cats out and about on a given day by dividing the population by the mid-point number or either end of the range that makes sense to you.

Every habitat has a carrying capacity, the maximum population size of a given species that can be sustained in a particular area.

The estimated population size assumes that only 50 % of the interior population was trapped in a given year.

More recent reports of high pup production (up to 5000 pups) and increase in colonies size seem unlikely: given the scarce breeding outside of Sea Lion Island, we think that the whole population size may be significantly smaller.

A given maximum room size rarely divides evenly into the concurrent population.

Our model shows how variation in future energy supplies may affect the size of the future global population, given the empirical relationship shown in Figure 1.

As a result, the changing severity and intensity of wind and storms, as well as the changing habits and population sizes of animals all determine whether a plant will move an inch or a mile in a given season, regardless of temperature.

[Response: The effect diminishes with the size of town, it is actually larger than corrections based on population rises, and it gives results that are regionally coherent and you have yet to show that any objective subsampling of the rural stations makes any difference.

Looking at SustainLane's very thorough overview of its methodology gave us a better sense of how and why some cities fared as well as they did.First, the only criteria for inclusion in the survey was the size of a city's population, so while the folks at SustainLane chose urban areas that represent a large proportion of the US» overall population, they immediately ruled out smaller cities, like Burlington, VT, and Durham, NC, that are doing wonderful things but didn't make the cut because of their size.

Comparing nations can be misleading, given their vastly varied sizes and populations.

Seeing how much passenger pigeon DNA varied among individuals over time can give him and his colleagues some clues to the size of the pigeon population over the past few thousand years.

With a size larger than seven states and a population larger than 23 of them, there are plenty of Arizona traffic tickets given out every day.

Many of the scales demonstrated weak psychometrics in at least one of the following ways: (a) lack of psychometric data [i.e., reliability and / or validity; e.g., HFQ, MASC, PBS, Social Adjustment Scale - Self - Report (SAS - SR) and all perceived self - esteem and self - concept scales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high false positive and false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent, teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsivity).

Given the size and growth rate of the U.S. Hispanic population (Marotta & Garcia, 2003), as well as the large proportion of children and adolescents within this population (Ramírez & de la Cruz, 2003), identifying predictors of engagement into parent - centered preventive interventions for Hispanic youth is an important research direction.

«We expect 5.3 million existing - home sales this year, up from 4.9 million in 2010, with additional gains in 2012 to about 5.6 million — that's a sustainable level given the size of our population.»

«We lost some momentum toward the end of 2013 from disappointing job growth and limited inventory, but we ended with a year that was close to normal given the size of our population.»

Given the average household size of 2.5 persons, a total of 6.9 million new housing units would be needed to accommodate the country's rising population.

«Job creation will give home buyers more confidence, but the market over the next few months is likely to be below what we would expect for the size of our growing population,» Golder says.