Sentences with phrase «human population centers»

The Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary is recognized regularly as an ecologically significant place with tremendous biodiversity, but which is also in close proximity to the greater Los Angeles area - one of the largest human population centers in the country.

Hopefully at least some local governments in developing countries have taken heed and stepped up efforts to site potentially hazardous industrial facilities away from both human population centers and environmentally sensitive landscapes.

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Atheist means, a secular or a self centered, so does word pig, do means 19 % of American population is not of human nature but of pig's?

To make the economic case for an active population policy, population planners would ultimately need to center their arguments on estimates of the economic value of human life.

Your lifestyle directly causes misery on another part of the planet by supporting the corporations that spread misery to billions of people through the effects of industrialization, taking all natural resources from the masses, and herding humans into ever denser and easily manageable population centers.

It was this human capital that took a desperate refugee population in Hong Kong and turned it into a world - class financial center; this human capital that saw Japan and South Korea arise from the ashes of war; this human capital whose success in turning around centuries of poverty has led to what the World Bank calls «The East Asian Miracle.»

In Africa alone, the continent with the highest fertility rate and lowest use of modern contraceptives, 26 countries will double their population by 2050, according to the U.N. «Fundamentally if you're looking at World Population Day, it is at heart a women's rights issue,» said Roger - Mark DeSouza director of population, environmental security and resilience at the non-partisan policy Wilson Center, based in Washington, D.C. World Population Day is meant to draw attention to the challenges we face with a human population that is constantly growing.

Even in Africa, at the heart of the pandemic, in Malawi, 21 percent of MSM are infected with the virus compared with 11 percent of the general population, whereas Zambia's rates are 33 percent versus 15 percent, respectively, says Chris Beyrer, director of the Johns Hopkins Center of Public Health and Human Rights.

«It's a nice story that solves a cool mystery — how did Neandertals end up with mtDNA more like that of modern humans,» says population geneticist Ilan Gronau of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel.

Prehistoric human populations of hunter - gatherers in a region of North America grew at the same rate as farming societies in Europe, according to a new radiocarbon analysis involving researchers from the University of Wyoming and the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Writing in a linked Comment, Dr Abraham Goorhuis and Professor Martin P Grobusch, Center of Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands say: «An important prerequisite for the occurrence of large - scale epidemics is the presence of an immunologically naive human population.

The research focus within the medical community has increasingly centered on the human intestine and its bacterial population, the so - called microbiome, especially in neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis.

«This program reaches an extremely vulnerable population at an extremely vulnerable time with the best treatment available for opioid use disorder,» said study co-author Dr. Josiah «Jody» Rich, professor of medicine and epidemiology at Brown University and director of the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights at The Miriam Hospital in Providence.

Changes in precipitation patterns and possibly decreased precipitation in some parts of Africa, which will be unable to support crops and human habitation in the future, would have repercussions, said Roger - Mark De Souza, director of population, environmental security and resilience at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

VectorBase is a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Bioinformatics Resource Center (BRC) providing genomic, phenotypic and population - centric data to the scientific community for invertebrate vectors of human pathogens.

This center fosters collaborations among researchers at MD Anderson Smithville, in Houston and with other instutions in central Texas to reach the goal of understanding how environmental exposures influence cancer outcomes in the human population by identifying new targets and strategies for cancer prevention and treatment.

The Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health (CRGGH) aims to facilitate a global understanding of the relationship between human genetic variation and population differences in disease distribution, with the ultimate goal of informing health inequalities.

How to Use Yoga in Various Settings: acute care, outpatient, pediatrics, long - term care, home car, school - based / after school programs, adapted / regular physical education, athletics training, wellness populations, human services agencies, senior centers and aquatics.

«Dawn of the Planet of the Apes «centers on a growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a group of human survivors following the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier that killed large part of the human population.

International Wolf Project http://www.wolf.org The International Wolf Center advances the survival of wolf populations by teaching about wolves, their relationship to wild lands and the human role in their future.

Beluga whales are a mysterious, little studied species that lives surprisingly close to Alaska's few major centers of human population.

Plainly, what is necessary now is intellectual honesty and courage as well as a willingness to begin «centering» the attention of the leaders of the human community on the threat to humanity, life as we know it, the environment and the integrity of Earth that is posed by the gigantic scale and patently unsustainable growth rate of the human population worldwide.

While majorities in several countries doubt that climate change is caused by human beings, and while roughly half the population tends to be right - of - center, in most newsrooms the climate skeptic perspective — and the conservative perspective — remains significantly underrepresented.

As a result, these large cities and population centers are highly vulnerable to impacts from human - forced climate change related to sea level rise.

The heaviest investments in this effort center on education and health, which are the cornerstones of both human capital development and population stabilization.

The Asian Pacific Development Center provides a variety of human services to the Asian Pacific population in Colorado.

Source: National Center for Cultural Competence Health and human service organizations are recognizing the need to enhance services for culturally and linguistically diverse populations.