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The decision to isolate high - risk offenders system follows a government report which highlighted the dangers of leaving religious extremist prisoners as part of the general prison population.

As described in this 2015 YouTube video (embedded below), a low social credit score is meant to isolate unruly citizens from the rest of the population and deny them access to state services and benefits via travel bans, increased prices for day - to - day products, higher bank interests, and others.

It happens over generations as later generations stay in many ways quite similar but in certain respects become rather different from earlier generations, especially in small, isolated populations facing novel selection pressures.

See Appendix A. 1 for more information * There are a number of broad Australian comparative disadvantages such as high labour costs, a dispersed and geographically isolated market and small population which impact the MTP sector.

Those neighborhoods have only become more challenged in the last few decades as the population that remains has become more isolated from the rest of Chicago.

In contrast, some languages with large populations of speakers, such as Mandarin, Hindi, and Arabic, are relatively isolated in these networks.

As this resource becomes less permanent due to warming, wolverine populations may become physically and genetically isolated — leading to decline of the species

The authors examine the concept and importance of maintaining connectivity (ability of wildlife populations to move among landscapes between habitat «islands» such as mountain tops, forest fragments and isolated wetlands) and corridor ecology.

Local involvement in, and support for, wildlife research is particularly important in the event that isolated or threatened populations are identified, as resulting management decisions could directly impact their lives.

«We were really surprised to see that the levels of resistance of the individual isolates were considerably lower than the population as a whole,» explains Collins, who published his results recently in Nature.

Then there's Pailin's tragic history as the last stronghold of the Khmer Rouge, which left the population shattered, isolated, uneducated, suspicious, and devastatingly poor.

Caribou populations are predicted to become more isolated and fragmented as climate change shrinks habitat and as caribou have fewer opportunities for genes to flow between individuals and herds, explained Hundertmark.

Infectious disease experts say the outbreak underscores one lesson of the Ebola epidemic of 2 years ago: As cities burgeon and populations become more mobile, once - isolated diseases are increasingly likely to reach cities, where they can race out of control.

As Finnish geneticist Leena Peltonen wrote in a recent review, «The enthusiasm regarding the use of population isolates for the identification of predisposing genes for common, polygenic diseases has turned to a silent drudgery.»

As Hudson Pinheiro, a researcher from the Department of Oceanography and Ecology at the Federal University of Espírito Santo in Brazil, explains: «Populations of this new species have been isolated in the archipelago for a long time due to the distance from the coast, and have developed clear differences in comparison with other «sibling» species living on the continental margin.»

Other factors include collisions with automobiles, territorial disputes with other panthers as habitat shrinks, and inbreeding resulting from their isolated population.

The recommendations became FUNAI policy, and a model for other countries where isolated populations are emerging, such as neighboring Peru (see companion story).

«I see these populations as an isolated case,» Pinhasi says, rather than a typical example of forager - farmer interactions.

Such small, isolated populations are essentially doomed: even if the forest fragments survive, sooner or later dwindling gene pools or disasters such as forest fires and disease outbreaks will wipe them out.

In addition, the team found that H. pylori populations become more isolated as they move farther from East Africa, differing less genetically within the population, but more compared with East African populationsa finding that also held for human DNA.

For species such as the jaguar, which rarely crosses into territory disturbed by humans, survival may hinge on the creation of habitat corridors linking isolated population pockets.

Once separated, as happened to antelope squirrels on either side of the Grand Canyon in the US, the populations evolve independently, eventually becoming distinct and reproductively isolated.

After that heyday, the bears must have been split up into small, isolated populations — genetic bottlenecks — perhaps as they sought refuge on islands and other areas not covered by advancing glaciers during the most recent ice age.

Lindqvist says that the analysis reveals that polar bear DNA has lost diversity as populations have dwindled, drifted apart and become genetically isolated, suggesting today's bears have less resilience to the environmental change, habitat loss, pollution and diseases they now face.

As their intake of displaced orang - utans increases, and as suitable habitat for reintroductions declines, there have been suggestions that they hybridize Bornean orang - utan subspecies — either in isolated, «mixed» populations, or within existing wild populationAs their intake of displaced orang - utans increases, and as suitable habitat for reintroductions declines, there have been suggestions that they hybridize Bornean orang - utan subspecies — either in isolated, «mixed» populations, or within existing wild populationas suitable habitat for reintroductions declines, there have been suggestions that they hybridize Bornean orang - utan subspecies — either in isolated, «mixed» populations, or within existing wild populations.

But sage grouse «leks,» or mating grounds, are becoming less and less lively as habitat dwindles and numbers decline — especially in the Mono Basin area, where an isolated, genetically distinct population is holding on by a thread.

The loss of the already isolated Mono Basin population would create a gap in the range of the species as a whole, covering 14 counties across two states and spanning thousands of square miles.

As a result, these species would have become isolated from other populations.

Since very few studies have demonstrated the formation of macro-metastasis from low numbers of sorted CSCs and currently proposed CSC markers might not be sufficient to identify all stem cell populations [13], we believe that our study presents a promising approach to isolate stem - like and metastatic breast CSCs as opposed to the cell - sorting strategy based on putative stem cell surface markers.

The isolated populations then undergo genotype and phenotype divergence as natural selection pressures differ in their separate ecosystems, they undergo genetic drift in separated populations, and different mutations differ in their isolated gene pools.

However, as demonstrated by a recent report from Stuelten and colleagues [13], the complexity of CSC markers continues to pose challenges for identifying and isolating the putative tumor stem cell populations by the cell - sorting approach.

As a first step towards determining whether human glial progenitor cells (hGPCs) can generate functionally distinct astrocyte populations, we exposed embryonic hGPCs isolated from spinal cords of 9.5 week old abortuses to BMP or CNTF.

As a model of an isolate population, we sequenced the genomes of 1463 Finnish individuals as part of the Sequencing Initiative Suomi (SISu) ProjecAs a model of an isolate population, we sequenced the genomes of 1463 Finnish individuals as part of the Sequencing Initiative Suomi (SISu) Projecas part of the Sequencing Initiative Suomi (SISu) Project.

Subsequently, we isolated (through FACS) and cultured the top 10 % and bottom 10 % of the SSEA3 / 488 fluorescing cells as our SSEA3 - positive and negative populations respectively (Figure 2B).

Caribou populations are predicted to become more isolated and fragmented as climate change shrinks their habitat and they have fewer opportunities for genes to flow between individuals and herds, explained Hundertmark.

By the latter, Price laid out his intention to compare isolated and modernized subgroups of various «racial stocks» to control for confounders such as heredity, culture, climate, altitude, and latitude, and hoped to include disease - free populations that could be compared to populations ravaged by disease.

Throughout his studies of isolated populations on native diets, Price was continually struck by the contrast of native sturdiness and good health with the degeneration found in the local white populace, living off the «displacing foods of modern commerce» such as sugar, white flour, canned foods and condensed milk.

Just as some traits (even metabolic traits) run in families so too will they run in populations, especially within rather small isolated tribal ones (they are less diverse).

The use of isolated supplements doesn't have a good track record as a recommendation for general populations.

As a rural school in Murphy, North Carolina — in Southern Appalachia — we have become acutely aware of the challenges facing our student population: They live in a historically isolated community with little access to cutting - edge, well - paid jobs.

And finally, in New Haven, where the commissioner portrayed the Amistad Academy as an extraordinary success, the public schools have 86.9 % minority populations while Achievement First's Amistad Academy is far more racially isolated with 98.1 % of students being minority.

This isolated wedge of backcountry — almost as big as New Jersey, yet traversed by a single paved highway — is known as the Arizona Strip, and it has one of the lowest population densities in the forty - eight conterminous states.

For two decades, she's been isolated from her family, treated as a test subject, and locked away — told only that the virus has wiped out the rest of the world's population.

The virus was first identified in the pet population in spring 2005, when the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine isolated and identified a strain of the influenza virus as a cause of a serious respiratory illness in dogs in shelters, humane societies, boarding facilities, and veterinary hospitals in that state.

We always have a veterinarian on the premises as well as ample staff to monitor our guests at all times.If your dog is too fragile or aggressive to mingle with the general population, we have private rooms and fenced off outdoor areas so that your dog will be separate and safe without feeling isolated.

Range: Although their range spreads up to northern Alaska, the southernmost continually - returning natural population of endangered coho is found in Redwood Creek, and is recognized as a reproductively isolated and distinct population.

For spotted skunks we found levels of genetic differentiation between the 2 island populations that were roughly equivalent to that between island and mainland localities, suggesting that island populations have been isolated from each other for about as long as they have been isolated from the mainland.

As pockets of forest habitat are isolated, their edges are exposed to harsher, brighter, drier conditions and plant and animal dispersal between habitat fragments is made more difficult; in addition, habitat fragments may be too small to sustain populations of some species.

If you're going to say that you «don't think we actually have statistics of the racialized status of all law schools», you can not suggest, as you did in your original post, that law schools are filled with a homogenous population that isolated from the rich diversity of the Canadian population and lacking in experience dealing with diversity.

A coalition of environmental groups are suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) for not listing an isolated population of Greater Sage Grouse on the CA - NV border as endangered.