Sentences with phrase «lower average population»

The good news is, by becoming more efficient, shelters can lower average population numbers while providing good care.

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The five cities we identified as the most affordable location all have something in common: lower population density as well as lower average travel time to work in comparison with the most expensive cities.

GOBankingRates also performed the same analysis for the top 100 U.S. cities by population, ranking the average savings account rate in each from highest to lowest.

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.»

Other rural constituencies that have a notable lower than average population of voters include Peace River with 20,464, Lac La Biche - St.

The average age of death of homeless people is just 47 - 30 years lower than the general population.

Immigration is indeed found to have an impact on lower paid occupations, but a ten per cent increase in the total foreign - born population is required to produce a 1.5 p decrease / per pound in average wages.

The announcement of the penalties for senior - level DOC officials comes the same day City Comptroller Scott Stringer released a report showing the Department's spending has soared to a record $ 1.36 billion this year, growing 44 percent over the past decade, even as the inmate population hit a record low — an average of 9,500 inmates each day.

The 65 + population in downstate suburban areas were generally above the national average — but not far above, ranging from a low of 15.4 percent in Rockland County to 17 percent in Nassau County.

Those with a low score — meaning they have a healthier than average population — pay those with a higher score.

Also, crime rates are lower in rural areas than in urban city centers, and police response times are much slower in rural areas than in urban areas due to the lower population density which means long distances from a police station to the average crime scene.

Even in old age, the subjects of the study had far lower levels of belief in God than the average population.

While far - left groups had little support in the 1990s, and many basically perceived themselves as enemies and oppressors of the average population, the trend towards «harsh» capitalism, with lowering wages, dismantling of social security and welfare cuts led to a «left renaissance» in the mid-2000s.

Homes have a lower average value and one - third of the population in the city lives in poverty.

In fact, Antarctica has the highest average concentration of research personnel in the world — scientists make up 100 % of its population (which is still quite low with only 4000 «inhabitants» during the summer and about 1000 during the winter).

The investigators found that people with only one working copy of the gene had LDL cholesterol levels an average of 12 milligrams per deciliter lower than the wider population of people with two working copies of the gene.

Although a lower percentage of the U.S. adult population owns them, those who do own several; the average number of guns per owner is up from 4.1 per person in 1994 to 6.9 in 2004.

On average, women in the study had even slightly lower HCB blood concentrations than those measured in the general population.

It isn't true that everyone died young back then, either — high infant mortality can produce a low average life expectancy for a population, even if many people live to a ripe old age.

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health researchers found that men, blacks, and low - income populations had higher risk estimates from PM2.5 exposure compared with the national average, with blacks having mortality risks three times higher than the national average.

The average carbon footprint of households living in the center of large, population - dense urban cities is about 50 percent below average, while households in distant suburbs are up to twice the average: a factor of four difference between lowest and highest locations.

Similarly, they found higher than average rainfall in areas that typically experience lower annual rainfall saw positive effects on wood frog population growth.

And for most of the diseases the researchers studied, people who were classified as low - risk based on their genome still had a risk that was more than half that of the general population — thus, lower than average, but not exactly null.

According to the thesis, apart from its environmental benefits, a rainwater harvesting system would allow an average saving of 119 Euros per year in the city of Barcelona, with savings ranging from 80 Euros and 158 Euros per year depending on the type of district (greater or lower population density in relation to the type of buildings).

Across 10 different areas of life, adolescents with cerebral palsy only ranked their quality of friend and peer relationships as on average lower than adolescents in the general population, challenging the widespread perception that adolescents with disabilities have unhappy, unfulfilled lives», says lead author Allan Colver, Professor of Community Child Health at Newcastle University in the UK.

In California, both NME and pertussis clusters were associated with factors characteristic of high socioeconomic status such as lower population density; lower average family size; lower percentage of racial or ethnic minorities; higher percentage of high school, college, or graduate school graduates; higher median household income; and lower percentage of families in poverty.

«As a group, the bumblebees were consistently lower than average in their heat tolerance, and their populations tended to decline,» said Youngsteadt, adding, «Almost all of the species we looked at declined with warming.»

Moreover, the 2.3 billion people likely to be added to the human population by 2050 will undermine those systems much more seriously than did the previous 2.3 billion, as each additional person will, on average, have to be supported by scarcer, lower - quality resources imposing ever greater environmental costs.

He also noted that earlier this year, the influential U.S. Preventive Services Task Force «suggested that certain populations at average risk of colon cancer may benefit from taking low - dose aspirin.»

An AI is specifically defined as the intake found in a healthy population, but no First World population has a sodium intake anywhere as low as the 2004/2005 IOM targets.2 In comparison to the sodium adequate intake of 1500 mg per day for adults, the average sodium intake in the U.S. and Canada is 3300 mg per day (8.3 grams salt or just over one and one - half teaspoons).

RECENT STUDY ON ADVERSE EFFECTS OF LOW SODIUM INTAKE About the same time that U.S. health officials announced their new initiative to reduce salt intake, The Lancet published a large population - based study which showed persuasively that the risk of mortality and serious cardiovascular events increases significantly when salt intake drops below 3000 mg per day (two - thirds teaspoon) in an adult of average weight.3 The study also found that sodium intake in excess of seven grams per day (over three teaspoons salt) was associated with an increased risk in those with hypertension, but not in those without hypertension.

Their plant - based diets may have played a factor given that the only population in the Western world that enjoys such low average pressures may be those eating strictly plant - based.

Researchers found that in a Japanese population, «low» sodium intakes (about 20 percent above Americans» average intake) had one - third the incidence of fatal strokes of those consuming twice as much sodium as Americans.

Many studies have shown that cancer patients have much lower amounts of these methyl groups on their DNA than the average population.

Some of these differences may relate to cultural preference for certain beans among minority populations, who tend to have lower average income levels than Caucasians.

In our data, the student populations of schools at risk of a Low - Performing rating were, on average, 23 percent African American and 32 percent Hispanic, and 44 percent of students were poor.

LACES» results stand out even more because the school has many of the challenges that often sink urban schools into the lower - performing category and anchor them there: a predominately urban, minority population; large classes (the average is 29 students in middle - school classes, 34 in high school); few computers, no computer lab, and a building that was new when Franklin D. Roosevelt served as president.

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A low average salary for teachers suggests that a country may be drawing its teaching population from a pool of less - skilled workers.

Classic game - compare population, area, bordering countries highest and lowest point, average height of land, length of coastline, amount of country that is forest, average age and life expectancy for men and women

Several of the most significant features of recent education policy debate in the United States are simply not found in any of these countries — for example, charter schools, pathways into teaching that allow candidates with only several weeks of training to assume full responsibility for a classroom, teacher evaluation systems based on student test scores, and school accountability systems based on the premise that schools with low average test scores are failures, irrespective of the compositions of their student populations.

Schools that report very high and very low scores may report future scores that come closer to the average for the whole population.

A substantial body of research demonstrates that schools with large populations of poor, non-white and low - achieving students, on average have more difficulty attracting and retaining teachers (Boyd et.

When the overall population contains a greater share of students from lower - performing racial / ethnic groups, then achievement must go up even more to produce gains in the average score for all students.

On average, charters outperform their host districts in math and English, and they are doing so with larger populations of low - income students and students of color.

While they are considered «high - performing» charters, close inspection of Plato Academy student populations in Pinellas County reveal that their enrollment of African American, disabled and low socio - economic students is far below the Pinellas district average (According to the DOE School Public Accountability Reports, 2015 - 16.)

EDUCATION A new report by the National Center for Education Statistics found that 94 % of teachers spend an average of $ 479 for classroom supplies per year, with teachers who work at schools with a large population of low - income students spending the most money.

Students from low - income backgrounds, who make up over 80 % of the public school population, have improved at an even faster rate than the city's average.

Studies of college enrollment and graduation rates of scholarship alumni have shown that, despite coming from socioeconomic backgrounds associated with lower rates of college enrollment, Children's Scholarship Fund students enroll in college at an average rate that is similar to or higher than the general population.

While Trumbull FRL students perform lower than the general population of their school in science, they outperform the statewide average for all students.