Sentences with phrase «human death rates»

Singer, founder of the Science and Environmental Policy Project, concludes that since global warming would raise maximum summer temperatures modestly while raising winter minimum temperatures significantly, it «should help reduce human death rates.»

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Apparently your God liked more babies dying but science had a heart and now birth mortality rates are higher than they have ever been in human history with fewer diseases and complications causing baby deaths.

According to the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, babies that sleep on their stomachs suffer far greater rates of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) otherwise known as «cot death.&rDeath Syndrome (SIDS) otherwise known as «cot death.&rdeath.»

Cosleeping and Biological Imperatives: Why Human Babies Do Not and Should Not Sleep Alone «In Japan where co-sleeping and breastfeeding (in the absence of maternal smoking) is the cultural norm, rates of the sudden infant death syndrome are the lowest in the world.

Clearly, while fit for evolutionary purpose, it wasn't physiologically consistently reliable and this led to the dreadful death rates amongst mothers and infants for so much of human existence — birth and then early infancy were incredibly risky.

Nearly all human societies have the practice of assisting women as they give birth, and many anthropologists believe that the death rate in truly unassisted childbirth is too high for the human race to survive without it.

Human reproduction is perfectly compatible with a natural neonatal death rate of approximately 7 % and a natural maternal death rate of approximately 1 %.

Since then, human rights groups say the death rate has increased 50-fold.

A standardized mortality ratio (SMR) was calculated based on the actual death rate of the cyclists compared to the death rate in the age - matched French population according to the Human Mortality Database.

It turns out that chimpanzees and human hunter - gatherers and primitive farmers have about the same rates of death due to violent attacks within and between groups.

Many hospitals in the country now have AI units to stanch the tide, and with good reason: Of the 141 human bird flu cases in Indonesia reported to the WHO, 115 people have died, a death rate of more than 80 percent.

The two demographers modelled the impact on the human population of extreme changes to birth and death rates.

When researchers asked participants to rate statements about killing humans under various conditions, the death prime did not have the same effect; those who saw the death prime were not more likely to support killing humans.

The study finds that overwhelmingly the greatest risk of canine rabies is in the poorest countries; the death rate (deaths / 100,000 people) is highest in countries in sub-Saharan Africa, while India has the highest number of fatalities, with over 20,000 human deaths annually.

Based on the rates of lethal violence seen in our close relatives, Gómez and his team predicted that 2 % of human deaths would be caused by another human.

To better understand the contributing factors that lead to high rates of infant mortality in the South, researchers from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services» Maternal and Child Health Bureau analyzed the most recent National Center for Health Statistics Period Linked Birth / Infant Death Data Files from 2007 - 2009.

By the end of May, when the outbreak had mostly subsided, there were 132 laboratory - confirmed human cases and 37 deaths — a nearly 30 % case - fatality rate.

Falk says the new findings challenge the idea that, starting around 5,000 years ago, states reduced rates of violence and war deaths characteristic of earlier, much smaller human groups (SN: 8/10/13, p. 10).

Yes, an evaluation of the cytotoxic and genotoxic activity of yerba maté on human white blood cells found it caused a significant increase in the rate of cell death.

According to the Latest report by Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, the UN human rights rapporteur, ever since Rouhani became the president of Iran, a surge in executions has given Iran the world's highest death penalty rate per capita.

Dogs often get cancer at about the same rate as humans, accounting for nearly half of animal deaths, especially among pets older than 10 years of age.

These delights contain theobromine which, although harmless to humans, can be lethal to your dog, resulting in increased heart rate, shaking, seizure, and death.

As with human flu infections, there are rare deaths associated with the flu virus, but the fatality rate is low (less than 5 percent) and most dogs recover in two to three weeks.

A recent human study showed an increased death rate for patients with severe acute pancreatitis when probiotics were administered, possibly due to reduced blood flow to the small intestine.

Recognizing subtle signs early on can slow the rate of decline, but at the end of the day, ageing and death are natural processes and unlike humans, cats do not seem to fear the end.

In Bangladesh, dog vaccination programs implemented since 2011 have dropped the rate of human death from rabies by 50 %.

Despite advances in the treatment of ARF, the death rate amongst both humans and animals remains unacceptably high, however, with appropriate care many animals can still recover.

From human studies, however, we know that the death rates of measles, whooping cough, and polio had fallen significantly prior to the introduction of vaccination; in the case of measles it had dropped 95 percent.

Recognising subtle signs early on can slow the rate of decline, but at the end of the day, ageing and death are natural processes and unlike humans, cats do not seem to fear the end.

Besides, take the worst rate of deaths in human war history and extrapolate out.

I don't see that ever happening... humans are going to keep on having more and more babies and demanding a safer and safer society with higher birth rates and lower and lower death rates until some kind of crash occurs and we have a drastic reduction in population to a level that the planet can handle — until it happens again.

We believe abundant, affordable energy is indispensable to human flourishing, particularly to societies which are rising out of abject poverty and the high rates of disease and premature death that accompany it.

Amnesty International, a global movement, promoting human rights, had called for a moratorium on the use of Taser guns since the death rate has been rising so precipitously.

In an opinion piece for the Winnipeg Free Press, columnist Gwynne Dyer summarized the core of the pro-driverless argument when she stated that «the widespread use of self - driving vehicles almost certainly will bring down the death rates sharply everywhere, because even if computers can be as stupid as human drivers, they can not be as impatient or angry or drunk.»