Sentences with phrase «little population aging»

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Nor, for that matter, will there be many Greeks; with a fertility rate of only 1.37 children per female, one of the world's lowest, Greece by mid-century will have a population two - thirds of which exceeds the age of sixty, and very little population at all by the end of the century.

We found little evidence that between - study heterogeneity in estimates was explained by age at measurement of blood pressure (p = 0.5), decade of birth (p = 0.2), stipulation of a minimum duration of breastfeeding (p = 0.5), proportion of the target population in the main analysis (p = 0.2), whether breastfeeding was exclusive for at least 2 months (p = 0.2), method of blood pressure measurement (p = 0.4), or whether effect estimates controlled for socioeconomic factors (p = 0.9), maternal factors in pregnancy (p = 0.9), or current weight (p = 0.9).

Over the last 40 years or so, only a little over half of the voting age population participated in presidential elections.

«The idea that population ageing may be responsible is interesting and may serve as an alternative to the oft - proposed — but empirically little - supported — selective fertility patterns,» says Jakob Pietschnig of the University of Vienna in Austria.

«Our results suggest that, up to the age of 45, there is little effect of male age on treatment outcome, but sperm donors are a selected population based on good sperm quality.

Until recently, very little was known about the genetic relationship between modern humans of the Upper Paleolithic age (the period of time between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago, also called the Late Stone age) and today's populations.

There is a finely graded inverse association between age and cognitive performance, 3 4 5 but the age at which cognitive decline becomes evident at the population level remains the subject of debate.5 6 7 A recent review of the literature concluded that there was little evidence of cognitive decline before the age of 60.8 This point of view, however, is not universally accepted.5 6 Clinicopathological studies show good correlation between neuropathology and the severity of cognitive decline, 9 10 11 and neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques, the hallmarks of pathology, are known to be present in the brains of young adults.12 13 Emerging consensus on the long gestation period of dementia14 15 also suggests that adults aged under 60 are likely to experience age related cognitive decline.

LA JOLLA, CA — The current pace of population aging is without parallel in human history but surprisingly little is known about the human aging process, because lifespans of eight decades or...

Twenty percent of the population is estimated to sleep too little (less than 6 hours a night); this can lead to changes in genes that regulate stress, our immune system, sleep - wake cycles, inflammation, and aging.

Because its population (6 million +) is a wide mix of ages, genders, sexual orientations, races, religions, cultures, lifestyles, and backgrounds, people have given Maryland the nicknames Little America or America in Miniature.

Don't despair — I have a little secret that is Muslims account for over twenty percent of the population of the world and more than that fraction of prime - aged girls.

Here's how to be chill about the height difference, with as little Muslims account for over twenty percent of the population of the world and more than that fraction of prime - aged girls.

For instance, the racial composition of the school age population of the entirety of New York City has little relevance to concerns about and efforts to improve the racial balance of schools on Staten Island, which by virtue of its geography might as well be a part of New Jersey.

At that time, everyone was concerned with Japan's aging population, its tremendous sovereign debt, its deflationary environment, and the fact that corporate management had little concern for shareholders.

According to a recent Globe and Mail article which references Statistics Canada numbers, «the total amount of debt held in households led by people aged 55 to 64 almost quadrupled between 1999 and 2012, while the level for the overall population did little more than double (these are inflation - adjusted numbers).

Because they feed in Arctic and subarctic benthic environments, gray whales are thought to be relatively sensitive to changes in climate, and climatic events such as the Medieval Warm Period (ca. 900 — 1200 AD) or Little Ice Age (ca. 1300 — 1850 AD) could have caused a population decline.

Andrew, I'd like to see you do a piece on the total tonnage of food the world now enjoys in order to sustain the population, as compared to, say, 200 yrs ago during The Little Ice Age.

Wind mills and solar panels will not provide for huge energy new demands of an exploding US population if the Sun does not resume the high level of activity we have enjoyed since the end of the «Little Ice Age» 150 years ago.

Recovery of forests following the collapse of human populations in the Americas after the arrival of Europeans may have driven the period of global cooling from 1500 - 1750 known as the Little Ice Age, report researchers speaking at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.

At present population levels a repeat of the Little Ice Age a mere 400 years ago will cause mass starvation worldwide.

Thus, when disease wiped out most of these populations, the return of the rain forest was accompanied by the «little Ice Age».

At present human population levels a repeat of the Little Ice Age a mere 400 years ago will cause mass starvation worldwide.

Given the UK's ageing population, the decision to bring forward the increase in state pension age should come as little surprise to many, indeed earlier this year the WEF (World Economic Forum) recommended a retirement age of 70 by 2050.

«While Article 81 guardianships are well - intentioned, the guardianship system is plagued by long delays and has little oversight, leaving a vulnerable population of older adults at further risk,» according to the Brookdale Center for Healthy Aging at Hunter College.

The participation rate, a little reported number that tracks Canadians with jobs and those looking for jobs as a percentage of the working - age population, dipped to 66.1 per cent in the latest employment data for April, down from 66.5 per cent from a year ago and from 67.8 in February 2008.

So, we have a comparatively high, older population of managing brokers, aging in place and like the Dead Sea, with relatively little fresh water being added.

While little can be done about the demographic - based causes of the rate gap (e.g., age of population), study author Felipe Chacón, housing economist for Trulia, notes the potential for policy implementations to address the other issues driving inequality: