Sentences with phrase «increasing percentage of the population»

Figure 2A shows that in the presence of the cytokine LIF, the majority of Venus - positive cells (70 %) were also SSEA - 1 positive (V+S +), while LIF withdrawal both increased the percentage of the population expressing high levels of the Venus transgene (mean level of fluorescence increases approximately 2-fold, Figure 2A) and led to a substantial increase in a second Venus positive population that is SSEA - 1 negative (V+S −).

The recently announced government efforts to reduce the salt content of processed foods will undoubtedly further increase the percentage of population at risk due to inadequate salt intake.

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That said, B.C.'s strong economic growth over the past three years, combined with a) the announced small business tax relief, b) the new training and youth employment programs (also announced today), and c) a lower - than - average percentage of our working population who actually make minimum wage (about 5 %, compared to 7.1 % nationally), leaves us in a position to cautiously view the announced increases as «reasonable.»

(1) employment growth, sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Economic Summaries in August 2016, with the percentage representing the employment change from June 2015 to June 2016 in each city; (2) population growth, based on and sourced from the 2014 and 2015 Census, with the percentage representing the change in population from 2014 to 2015; (3) increase in home values, based on Zillow Home Value, with the percentage representing the change in median home values for single - family homes from June 2015 to June 2016, sourced August 2016; (4) years to pay off property, which was based using the median home value for July 2016 and the median rent for a single - family residence for July 2016, both sourced from Zillow; median rent was multiplied by 12 to obtain yearly rent and then home value was divided by yearly rent to determine how many years it would take for the home to be paid off from rental income using current home values and rent prices for each city.

The percentage increases as you add the next tiers of scientists, but even then it is a far cry from the general population.

According to the latest census, the Asian population in the United States grew by 43.3 % between 2000 and 2010, the largest percentage increase of any ethnic or racial group.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

While there are more atheists than ever before as global population continually increases, the atheist percentage of the total population seem to be declining.

Pew has released the findings of their 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study, which shows that among the overall population, the number of people who do not believe in God has increased 3 percentage points.

A comparative study of population growth and the growth of the Sikh movement over the last four decades indicates a steady growth, substantially exceeding the percentage increase of the total population.

The percentage of church membership in the population greatly increased.

If the percentage of Americans attending church is stable, aggregate church membership should have increased as the American population grew.

Steve Clifford, general director of the Evangelical Alliance UK, who also chairs Hope, added: «We want to raise the bar in the UK population's understanding of who Jesus is, and increase the percentage of people in the UK who know a follower of Jesus who has positively shared life and faith with them.»

With increased average lifespans, it means a grayer and grayer Taiwan: In 1994 people over sixty - five years old accounted for only 7 percent of the population; by 2036 the figure will be three times as large - which means a smaller percentage of workers.

The percentage of residents who are of Hispanic origin of any race is 4.5 % of the total population in 2000, an increase of 65 % since 1990.

«We have used the phone call recordings because... we have had an increase in the percentage of our population that is gang affiliated and [are] using the phone calls to coordinate activities,» the department's chief of staff, Jeff Thamkittikasem, said.

And while the CDC reported that the percentage of middle and high school students who smoke declined from 2011 to 2015, it also said the use of electronic cigarettes in those populations has increased nearly tenfold over that period of time.

That seat is located in the Capital Region and Upper Hudson Valley, which experienced the largest percentage increase of population growth in the state since the 2000 U.S. census.»

However, like humans, their annual average percentage of deaths declined as the population increased.

«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

«Because the number breeding in urban areas has increased (though still a small percentage of the overall UK population), people do not realise that the herring gull is disappearing from our coasts,» she says.

An increased percentage of urban population in a county also showed a weak increase in rates.

In the future, due to population growth, and the increase of not only the percentage of Americans living in disaster - prone areas, but also the number of natural disasters, the problem is going to get bigger.

Lead author Anna Gassman - Pines found that when 1 percent of a state's working population lost jobs, suicide - related behaviors increased by 2 to 3 percentage points among girls and black adolescents in the following year.

«Although the definition of underrepresented minority is evolving to reflect local and regional perspectives, findings from this study demonstrate that faculty who are underrepresented in medicine, relative to the general population, have seen little increase in absolute or percentage representation across all schools during this time period, while the prevalence of individuals of underrepresented minority status in the general population had increased to greater than 30 percent by 2010,» the authors write.

Shamos believes that the modest objective of increasing scientific literacy from the current level of 5 per cent to 20 per cent — the percentage of the American adult population who are college graduates — will prove all but impossible.

We also need to increase public awareness of the importance of a good night's sleep to reduce the percentage of the population with insufficient sleep duration,» said Gottlieb.

Taking 2010 as the starting point, the government pledges to almost double the representation of Ph.D. - holders among the population age 25 to 34 by 2020 and increase research employment from 11.8 % to 16 %; raise to 10 % the share of publicly - funded Spanish papers ranked among the top 5 % of the most cited publications globally; increase Spain's share of European Union research funds, including a 90 % increase in the number of so - called Starting Grants from the European Research Council; boost the number of patent applications by 50 %; and raise the national percentage of innovative companies from 18.6 % to 25 %.

The researchers found that every 1 casino slot per capita gained was associated with an increase in average per capita annual income, a decrease in the percentage of the population living in poverty, and a decrease in the percentage of overweight / obesity.

In the Bureau of Labor Statistics» Jobs Report released Friday, May 8, the employment - to - population ratio for working - age people with disabilities increased from 25.3 percent in April 2014 to 27.0 percent in April 2015 (up 6.7 percent; 1.7 percentage points).

In the Bureau of Labor Statistics» Jobs Report released Friday, June 5, the employment - to - population ratio for working - age people with disabilities increased from 25.8 percent in May 2014 to 27.8 percent in May 2015 (up 7.8 percent; 2.0 percentage points).

In the last 75 years the percentage of sleep deprived people in the population has increased six fold: from 8 % to 50 %, to be exact.

As the percentage of thyroid disorders among the population steadily grows, the awareness about the importance of this organ and its functions increases as well.

In contrast, a negligible percentage of the hypertensive population of the U.S. and Canada is at increased risk of CVD events because of a sodium intake exceeding 7 grams per day.

Thus, a high percentage (about 40 percent) of the populations of the U.S. and Canada is already at significant increased risk of death and major CVD events due to low sodium intake.

In contrast, a negligible percentage of the population of the U.S. and Canada are at increased risk due to sodium excretion of more than 7 grams / day.

The percentage of difference increases as the population ages, especially because Russian women outlive men on an average of 12 years.

For example, a 12.1 - percentage - point increase (one standard deviation) in the fraction of a state's population that is black is associated with roughly a 2 - percentage - point increase in charter school enrollment in the state.

Between 1994 and 2004, the percentage of students with disabilities spending 80 percent or more of the school day in a regular classroom showed an overall increase of 5 percent, which shows that our nations schools are moving in the right direction but still have a long way to go to ensure a quality education for an increasingly diverse student population.

We estimated that an increase of 11 percentage points in the black population in a district increases the share of students enrolled in charter schools by about 6 percentage points.

The percentage African American slipped slightly from 85 percent to 83 percent of the total, but the percentage Hispanic increased from 9 percent to 10 percent, while the white population rose from 4 percent to 5 percent.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, about 50 percent of the public school student population is nonwhite (a percentage that's expected to increase for years to come).

On work, Murray notes the great increase in the percentage of the population on disability payments, from under 1 to more than 5 percent of the labor force, and the growth in the number of prime - age males who are not in the labor force, contrasted with almost all in the labor force in 1960.

The figures from UCAS show that, of the fifth of the young English population from backgrounds with the lowest entry rate to higher education, 13.6 per cent entered university in 2016, which represents an increase of 0.1 percentage point.

Changes in historical shares of Catholics in the population that are associated with a 10 - percentage - point increase in the private school share today lead to a $ 3,209 reduction in cumulative spending per student, or 5.6 percent of the average OECD spending level of $ 56,947 (see Figure 3).

A change in the historical Catholic population share that produces a 10 - percentage - point increase in the extent of contemporary private school competition generates an improvement of about 5.5 percent of a standard deviation in both science and reading — or more than one - fifth of a grade - level equivalent in these subjects.

The new data also showed that the overall population of white teachers has decreased and the percentage of Hispanic teachers has increased since the last survey.

According to the Education Department, two elementary schools made incremental steps toward reducing the large percentage of Hispanic students, one stayed the same, and one actually increased its Hispanic population.

For the other variables, each percent increase in the poverty rate would mean an increase of 0.35 percentage points in the boundary participation rate, each percent increase in the change of African American population over time would mean an increase of 0.75 percentage points in the boundary participation rate, and each percent increase in the share of the population that is African American would mean a decrease of 0.29 percentage points in the boundary participation rate.

Between 1984 and 2004, the percentage of the student population speaking English as a second language increased from 5 percent to 60 percent; the percentage of students receiving free or reduced - price lunch soared to 91 percent; and the once - stable neighborhood around the school turned into a community with a 60 percent mobility rate for families with school - age children.