Sentences with phrase «known changes in a population»

In some cases, the counts agreed with known changes in a population.

Not exact matches

«When you change your trading relationship and population movements with the world, it has to change everything from the cost and supply of labour, the cost of good (exchange rate), the availability of market access (in and out), government finances (fiscal policy) or as we know very well monetary policy.

That the bragging happened a decade ago doesn't change the reality that a man who might be president sees half the country's population not just as objects for his own aesthetic gratification — we knew that thanks to the beauty pageants and the string of model wives — but objects for his physical gratification as well, regardless of how the women in question feel about it.

By using the known rates of increase in the money supply and the population and a «guesstimate» of the rate of increase in labour productivity we can arrive at a theoretical rate of change for the purchasing power of money.

What they're saying and what they argue is that the issue is that the demographics which are changing dramatically... You know the baby boomers aren't buying as much, the Millennial's don't have as much money, at least in the United States, but around the world even in China where we've had a dramatic reduction in the growth in population, we don't have the youth that's coming on in relationship with the accumulation of wealth that the previous generations have had.

In the long term, knowing this structure may allow us to find chemical and mechanical tools to change it — fixing it where it has gone wrong in an individual and improving it where it puts whole populations at risIn the long term, knowing this structure may allow us to find chemical and mechanical tools to change it — fixing it where it has gone wrong in an individual and improving it where it puts whole populations at risin an individual and improving it where it puts whole populations at risk.

A key requirement of democracy is equal protection of all stakeholders - i.e., if at some point there is a completely fair vote of 2/3 population preferring the choices advocated and implemented by party A; and 1/3 preferring the choices of party B - then a system must ensure that the minority gets adequate protections and fair treatment; so that while at this moment country gets steered to choice A, the minority doesn't get punished in any way for saying that in their opinion choice B might be best; and if some of the original voters change their mind, the choice B can still be known even if the governing clique that was elected on the idea of A wants to continue with A forever.

It is known that people tend to overestimate the share of immigrants (for instance Ipsos 2014 report shows that British respondents think that 31 per cent of population consists of foreign - born respondents, where the figure is closer to 13 per cent according to 2011 Census); here we also show that people's estimations of levels of immigration do not correspond to actual change in their local areas, it is the perception that seems to be linked with anti-immigration vote.

«We know that population ageing is pervasive, in fact it's a global phenomenon affecting everyone - but countries are at various stages of the process, and the pace of change differs greatly.

He continued: «Jacqui Smith should concentrate on getting the basics right first: an integrated border force with exit controls so we know who is coming in and out of the country; proper planning and money for local authorities dealing with sharp population changes; and greater promotion of integration.»

But according to the Times, no matter who is in charge, the population percentage changes are expected to be so great that Democrats are almost sure to get a handful of new seats in the Senate.

You know, you said the vast majority of the population was in the countryside, but that has already begun to change.

Knowing how to grow plants in environments degraded by climate change will be crucial to feeding an exploding human population.

In a recent paper published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Woolbright describes how populations and communities like these, known as climate relicts, can help scientists understand how ecological communities are affected by climate changIn a recent paper published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Woolbright describes how populations and communities like these, known as climate relicts, can help scientists understand how ecological communities are affected by climate changin Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Woolbright describes how populations and communities like these, known as climate relicts, can help scientists understand how ecological communities are affected by climate changin Ecology and Evolution, Woolbright describes how populations and communities like these, known as climate relicts, can help scientists understand how ecological communities are affected by climate change.

But as global populations grow and climate change kicks in, one thing is certain: we can no longer count on the water to be where we expect to find it.

Along with a postdoc in Kaplan's lab, Alice Liou, they decided to test whether the surgery itself caused the changes in the population of gut microbes — known as the microbiota.

They found that domestication may have led to a rise in the number of harmful genetic changes in dogs, likely as a result of temporary reductions in population size known as bottlenecks.

The researchers used statistical methods from population genetics to analyze three well - known changes in the English language: how past - tense verbs in American English have taken the «- ed» ending, (as when «spilt» became «spilled»), how the word «do» became an auxiliary verb in Early Modern English (as in «Did you sing?»)

This mismatch between these numbers and 1880 estimates of at least three billion suggests that the passenger pigeon may have been what is known to ecologists as an «outbreak» species, like locusts, that boom and bust with changes in conditions, rather than a species that experiences a singular population explosion, as Homo sapiens has in the last 200 years.

It's currently a challenge to do this kind of microbial redesign — antibiotics reduce microbial burden but fail to induce major changes in bacterial composition, and from fecal transplant studies in the gut we know that bacterial populations return to a baseline population even after a major shift — so more work is needed to attempt a durable change in the vaginal microbiome.

In contrast to positive selection, the role of purifying selection (also known as negative selection, which is the selective removal of deleterious genetic changes from a population) has rarely been considered in venom evolutioIn contrast to positive selection, the role of purifying selection (also known as negative selection, which is the selective removal of deleterious genetic changes from a population) has rarely been considered in venom evolutioin venom evolution.

Some changes are well - known, such as declines in polar bear populations and stresses to walruses being forced out of their shallow feeding grounds as ice retreats into deeper waters.

In the experiment, we asked a national sample of the US population to participate in a public opinion poll about popular topics (participants did not know that the study was really about climate changeIn the experiment, we asked a national sample of the US population to participate in a public opinion poll about popular topics (participants did not know that the study was really about climate changein a public opinion poll about popular topics (participants did not know that the study was really about climate change).

The study was limited in that it did not represent the overall U.S. population because participants were selected based on location and also may have changed their sodium consumption during the study because they knew that it was under watch.

«As we enter an era where the DNA sequences of entire human populations are increasingly accessible, we would like to know the functional significance of changes in gene regulatory regions.»

The team wanted to know how the bacterial populations in the gut change when exposed to the medicinal herbs.

These benefits are especially important for the prenatal population, as certain anatomical changes of pregnancy (e.g., change in center of gravity, joint laxity, etc.) are known to precipitate negative effects on the pregnant body.

Dr. Oppenheimer's population history of the British Isles relies not only on genetic data but also on the dating of language changes by Review Alex Gibney revisits the Irish Troubles in his angry true - crime doc «No Stone Unturned»

In light of these paradoxes and contradictions, and perhaps due to them, is well known that migrations has not only changed its population, but it also has became the new reality regarding the economy (remittances), the culture (migration), the environment (deterioration and depredation), and the society (poverty).

In order to best serve this high - needs population, Swagerty knew changes had to be made in the school's approach to learninIn order to best serve this high - needs population, Swagerty knew changes had to be made in the school's approach to learninin the school's approach to learning.

I know that they have analysed this survey and found trends due to climate change in plankton populations — they have some links to publications from the above page.

Since «ordinary» people make up the masses in our population, I would like to know how to make «ordinary» people understand that we breathe the same air, drink the same water and are all connected, and that the uninformed choices we make are escalating climate change and destroying the Earth's systems that support all life.

Plaintiffs allege that ExxonMobil hired these troops knowing they would likely engage in massive human rights violations against the local population, and that all of the claims date from 2001, well after ExxonMobil had specific knowledge of massive human rights violations and could have changed their practices.

Despite satellite estimates that more than doubled the population of known Emperor Penguins, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) changed their ranking of Emperors from a species of Least Concern to a Near - Threatened species based on modeling studies blaming the decline of DuDu's penguins on climate change as presented in Jenouvrier and Caswell's study.

A number of observers also criticized Sanchez last May for offering a Vatican platform to known proponents of abortion and population control like Jeffrey Sachs and UN General Secretary Ban Ki - moon, whom Sanchez had invited to speak at the Vatican in an earlier conference on climate change.

The Vatican point man behind the workshops is Argentinian Bishop Marcelo Sánchez Sorondo, who came under fire in May for offering a Vatican platform for known proponents of abortion and population control like Jeffrey Sachs and UN General Secretary Ban Ki - moon, whom Sánchez invited to speak at the Vatican in an earlier conference on climate change.

This pattern fits with a proposed period of population expansion and intensification of resource use in the Coorong, along with more general changes known to have occurred in parts of coastal Australia during the mid - to late Holocene.»

In a world where climate change, diminishing natural resources and an increasing global population have become indisputable facts of life there is now a rising demand for evolved buildings that no longer endanger the Earth's fragile ecological systems.

sea was converted to land and agriculture, heather fields to forests and since 1.5 century industrialization, increased population and transport... The local offset (~ 40 ppmv in Giessen, SW Germany) can be calibrated away by comparing the stomata data to direct measurements and ice cores in the previous century, but nobody knows the influence of land use changes in the main wind directions and of changes in the main wind directions themselves (MWP - LIA) in the course of the centuries.

We are experiencing a step - change in the growth rate of energy demand due to population growth and economic development, and Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy - to - access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand.

As we know from South African penguins, overfishing and changes in ocean temperatures are affecting their prey source, which means the populations of the penguins are affected.

The same can be said about how we do not know precisely how warm the globe will get in 25, 50, 100, or 150 years, dynamics do change; the 1990's was the height of recent population explosion, and even though the global population is rising steadily, the incline has decreases a bit; China, India, japan have issues with pollution, overcrowding, exponential GDP growth or decline, respectively.

Germany has quite a few people to be sure but 82 million and change is no where near the population of the US, India or China... even with efforts by China and India in «geern tech» there are great limitations.

We can reasonably surmise that Lomborg is simply expressing his fear in the only way he knows how, by attempting to fight off the harsh realities of climate change and all that it portends for human populations with another version of reality painted by his own imagination to protect him from facing the difficult and highly inconvenient truths our planet is communicating to us.

We are going to have to increase food and timber production to meet the demand of a growing population, but we know we must do so in a way that addresses climate change.»

I suspect that now they are going to do something about it because capping the deductibility of state and local taxes (SALT, as it is known) has the potential to result in a population migration so large that it would result in profound economic and social changes.