Sentences with phrase «mobile population of»

I understand that virtual charter schools may have a highly mobile population of students, but in most graduation accounting schemes, students discharged to other schools will be removed from the denominator of the graduation rate, and not count against the school.

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In a little over two years, the service has registered 31 % of Zimbabwe's adult population, a group responsible for more than $ 200 million in transactions per month — that's about 22 % of the country's GDP — using their mobile phones.

And according to the MPAA's stats about these frequent moviegoers, they love their mobile devices: «Frequent moviegoers tend to own more key technology products, such as smartphones and tablets, than the general population of adults 18 years and older,» reads the report.

In Asia - Pacific, SES Networks signed and implemented an important new network with mu Space, delivering reliable and affordable connectivity for a significant increase in mobile and WiFi coverage in Thailand, where only a small proportion of the population currently has broadband access, as well as extending and substantially expanding business with Palau Telecom on the O3b fleet as part of its 4G implementation plans.

That's ten percent more than members of the general population concerning mobile - streamed podcasts.

Mobile is contributing to economic and social development across the globe, delivering financial inclusion to unbanked populations with 270 live services in 90 countries as of December 2015 according to GSMA Mobile Economy Report.

The ITU forecasts there will be 2.1 billion mobile Internet users in 2013, or 71 % of the total global Internet population.

Mobile Vaani estimates that roughly 65 percent of the poorly - literate / low - income population in India is unlikely to have access to the internet in the next decade, but 40 percent of those already have access to mobile pMobile Vaani estimates that roughly 65 percent of the poorly - literate / low - income population in India is unlikely to have access to the internet in the next decade, but 40 percent of those already have access to mobile pmobile phones.

The number of people who make a mobile payment at least once a year will grow from nearly 8 % of the US consumer population in 2014 to 65 % by 2019.

For investors, the report notes four key indicators which are a guide to countries and banks most likely to win the app war and accelerate cost saves: Technology infrastructure, a population's propensity to embrace mobile, regulations and ease of cost cutting.

They were founded at a time when the efficiency of the traditional industries was low: e-commerce gained massive user number because classical retail was underdeveloped; delivery companies expanded because of the unreliability of China Post; healthcare apps gained momentum because of the inefficiencies of the healthcare system; mobile payments took the population by storm because plastic never had time to gain traction.

China is a country that is rapidly developing, extremely QR code and mobile payment savvy, and home to a large population of early adopters; if not for the government prohibitions, China would arguably be the «perfect» crypto investor base and the place to market to.

«We see Southeast Asia as a region with huge growth potential for WeLab due to its high percentage of unbanked population (73 % out of 600 million) which makes it impossible to borrow and its high mobile penetration rate (133 %),» said Loong.

But with China's nearly 1.4 billion population with 25 percent of the population (about 350 million) comfortable with mobile payments, the dynamics of the crowdfunding market could change dramatically as the trend matures.

This is especially critical in a country with high internet speeds, and where almost 90 % of the population has access to a mobile phone.

It adds focus to the importance of fintech solutions that reach further into populations that often rely solely on mobile phones for access.

The second largest country by population, mobile phone users, smartphone users, and internet users, India is once again at the center of attraction for the management of the world's most influential online platform.

Icici has unveiled a mobile app specifically designed for India's huge rural population, providing a host of banking services as well as useful information such as crop prices.

The company provides mobile telephone coverage to 92 % of the Australian population.

One of the challenges we're finding in Haiti is that families are still moving, so the target population is quite mobile.

Moreover, samples are often unrepresentative of the population, introducing systemic biases by overweighting the preferences of certain demographics: Yair Lapid had always predicted that he would win more seats than he was forecast, because pollsters relied on calling people by landline, and his supporters, predominantly young, had only mobile phones.

Over the period surveyed, the percentage of mobile web traffic to this population of websites (which considering Brick Factory's client base, likely mirrors the broader political advocacy world online) doubled every year between 2010 and 2013 (so far).

With 212 million cell phone users in the US — about 75 % of the population — the potential for using mobile phones («mo - phos,» as the kids call them) as a tool to grow your organization's visibility and spread your message is enormous.

But I also think we need to look into the future a bit as well, and in particular patterns of convergence - in other words, a point where the capabilities of the internet are built into other devices which the vast majority of the population are familiar with, such as televisions and mobile phones.

According to The Road to Somewhere, roughly 25 % of the population are «anywheres» — they are mobile, metropolitan, liberal, tolerant, at home wherever they may be, and wary of group attachment.

The warped statistics will also mean the boundary changes review coming next year will redraw Britain's electoral map in favour of the Conservatives, enlarging rural constituencies and shrinking the total number of the urban ones with mobile populations that usually favour Labour.

Digital trends include real - time mapping and analysis using social media, crowd sourcing and data mining, the use of mobile phones to disseminate information, online campaigns bringing publics and affected populations closer together, digital platforms for cash transfers and new digital tools for assessment work, as well as monitoring and evaluation.

In a country where close to 80 percent of the population are unbanked, Mobile Money service, popularly referred to as MoMo transformed the banking industry while promoting financial inclusion using proximity and access in a convenient way.

Unemployment had been with us for years and when in 2009 telecommunication giant, MTN introduced Mobile Money services it was welcomed and hailed by many and the reason was obvious; it was an opportunity to take advantage of rising unemployment situation, growing number of the unbanked population and massive progress in ICT or telecommunications.

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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.

Examples include changing policies to encourage older adults to remain part of the workforce for longer (e.g., removing tax disincentives to work past retirement age), emphasising low - cost disease prevention and early detection rather than treatment (eg, reducing salt intake and increasing uptake of vaccines), making better use of technology (eg, mobile clinics for rural populations), and training health - care staff in the management of multiple chronic conditions.

The survey group comprised an ethnically diverse population of 934 mobile phone users, of whom 263 (28 percent) say they use a health app to keep tabs on how long they sleep, what time they turn out the lights, whether they wake up in the middle of the night, and whether they snore, have trouble breathing, or change sleeping position.

Predictive models suggest the ongoing Zika epidemic may run out of steam after two or three more seasons, but these models do not consider how urban slums and their highly mobile populations affect the disease's dynamics, according to the study.

To put human prediction to the test, Yasseri is part of a European team building a «social data bank,» which, like a genetic data bank, would provide deep information — demographics, health records, traces of online browsing, and even mobile phone data — on a slice of the population.

Most of the global adult population own mobile phones, and around 14 % of couples in high and middle income countries have difficulty conceiving.

This year, the number of mobile phones on cell networks is expected to surpass the Earth's population.

As the proliferation of smartphones and other mobile devices continues, healthcare professionals — and patients — see promising vehicles for the delivery of health - related interventions to large segments of the population.

A deadly virus in a part of the world that had no experience with it, health systems neglected during years of civil war, and a population that was highly mobile across borders, distrustful of governments, and more inclined to seek out traditional healers.

The legion of social scientists, community planners, and businesses that uses data from the once - a-decade head count of the U.S. population say it was an unreasonable demand given inflation and a growing and more mobile population.

In other words, people with mobile phones in search of free ringtones will act as the distributed phone verification system to compensate for Craigslist's antispam initiative: a random voluntary population, organized remotely by machine, helping advertisers to swamp the community platform without ever realizing that they're doing it.

«Enhanced ozone production in urban areas is a concern because of the population size potentially impacted and because air pollution levels could be already elevated due to local and mobile sources,» explains Larsen.

She is also passionate about creating access for natural medicine to all populations, which fueled the development of her non-profit mobile medical clinic.

Twenty percent of people ages 18 to 24 use mobile dating apps and account for the biggest sector of the population using these apps.

Already more than 20 % of the U.S.A. population aged 18 to 44 use online dating sites or mobile apps according to Pew Research (1).

Aus is well connected, with 17M online (80 % of population) and 18M mobile subscribers.

The dating sites have come under pressure from a new wave of free mobile apps led by Tinder, which has already been adopted by 5 % of the Australian population.

And, in Mobile, as in New Orleans, there was a sizeable population of Creoles of color and.

Sunday was the busiest day of the year for online dating — «Half of the single U.S. population has tried online dating or a mobile dating app,» she said.

Hispanics comprise 23 % of mobile TV subscribers, while they represent 10 % of the U.S. wireless user population.