Sentences with phrase «more stable populations»

The regrowth accommodates a wider variety of wildlife, leading to more stable populations

States and districts with more stable populations have fewer teaching jobs.

Not exact matches

If we also take into account the fact that many women who are able and willing to have a child are unable to have more than one, one finds that those women who are able and willing to have more than one child must actually average almost 3 children just to keep the population stable.

The project aimed to improve the quality of life for the population by creating more stable local economies, greater food security, improved gender relations and increased social capital.

Iran is one of the more stable nations in the region; they have a well - educated population.

Nassau, more so than Suffolk, has become the focus of the debate over expanding the service beyond New York City, where it has been legal since 2013, due to its denser population and stable of well - established, politically connected cab companies.

According to the researchers, the presence of Osedax at these latitudes could be related to the contact with the deeper and colder waters in Blanes» underwater canyon, an area where they think more abundant and stable populations of the new Osedax species could live.

Although aspirin reduces the risk of major cardiovascular events by 19 per cent, a more effective antithrombotic strategy could have major benefits for the large population of patients with stable cardiovascular disease.

The resulting improvement in soil fertility may have allowed the land to support a larger, more stable crop - based population, although studies of fossilized pollen have not yet revealed the specific plants they cultivated.

The changes in biomass are worrying, says Michael Hirshfield, chief scientist of the advocacy group Oceana, based in Washington, D.C. Populations of small fish tend to boom and bust — making ecosystems less stable — much more when the ranks of top predators have been gutted.

Our political leaders fail to realize that other Islamic populations are far more stable economically, politically and socially — and that the root of the crisis in the dryland countries is not Islam but extreme poverty and environmental stress.

«Methods such as the stable isotope assignment approach in this paper are extremely important because they give us a starting point for making these kinds of assignments, and pave the way for more effective and targeted management of Golden Eagle populations.»

There would be more variability in an African population because Africa has a less stable climate and environment.»

A more alkaline growth medium, for example, made the autoinducer less stable, slowing activation of the cell - suicide gene and increasing the population.

By focusing on the possibilities of aggregating offsets to create larger protected areas, a coherent and a more stable and genetically healthy population is likely in the long term, they suggest.

«Since 2004, lower income populations experienced a large decline in living donation, while living donation in higher income populations was more stable,» said Dr. Gill.

Developing therapeutic cell populations from human ES cells will be far more demanding: cells will have to be stable, predictable, pure, have proven functionality, be nontumor - forming, and be «scalable» — capable of growing in very large numbers.

The model projects that for the next 2 decades, populations will remain stable, and may even increase slightly as the penguins move to locations that are more habitable.

While estimates of the amount of small mammals snow leopards consume may have been overstated, the importance of large ungulate populations to the snow leopard's diets may have been understated, as this study suggests stable snow leopard populations are possibly more reliant upon large ungulate prey than previously understood.

More particularly, we have developped a protocol to induce efficicent and synchronized differentiation of PSC into the neural lineage in order to capture stable populations of self - renewing neural stem cells (NSC).

This models depicts the ES cell as a highly plastic but nevertheless discrete and stable cellular entity, one that in turn gives rise through a massive switch in gene expression to discrete progenitor populations with more limited developmental potential.

Just as investing money in multiple stocks can provide more stable returns than investing in one stock, having multiple sub-populations that act independently can lead to a more stable overall population in a natural system, a phenomenon known as the «portfolio effect».

From a hunter - gatherer society, agriculture allowed populations of humans to stay in one area and resulted in more stable food availability.

In ecological terms, it is more stable to have diverse populations in any ecosystem.

These studies have covered more than a hundred thousand people across more than 30 countries and have shown that salt consumption is remarkably stable among populations over time.

Virtually all the characteristics and resources that educators talk about as desirable in a school — high standards and expectations, good teachers, involved parents, a safe and orderly environment, a stable student and teacher population — are more likely to be found in economically mixed schools than in high - poverty schools (Kahlenberg, 2001).

Amderson said the population in Wildwood Crest is more stable and test results are much better.

Finally, populations of declining mammal species are more stable in the absence of cats, on island or in large enclosures [27], [28].

In 2004, each of the island fox subspecies was federally listed as endangered, but a captive breeding programme combined with other measures saved this species from extinction, and populations are now more stable.

In 2004, each of the island fox subspecies was federally listed as endangered, but a captive breeding program combined with other measures saved this species from extinction, and populations are now more stable.

I'll be adding more here on presentations made at the meeting, but I'm off to another one now, on how the Internet might help smooth the journey toward a stable prospering human population.

Ms. Roberts is not alone in pressing the case for action on family planning, a greater focus by scientists on clarifying population trends and their implications and a lot more resources committed to facilitating a smooth transition toward stable populations in places now seeing explosive growth (the «population cluster bombs» I wrote about early in Dot Earth).

But if Obama and others focus first on consumption subsidies the motives look less like fiscal responsibility and a stable climate, and more like a finger pointing exercise or negotiating tactic designed to show that the developing world has plenty of funds available to adapt to climate change and invest in clean energy, if only they would stop making energy affordable for their populations.

«The question remains as to whether drought would have exacerbated the refugee situation in East Africa had there been slower expansion of population, positive economic growth and more stable political regimes in the region,» said Erin Owain, first author of the study.

Achieving a stable human population will require a net increase in total consumption as all people move out of poverty and follow the common trajectory of investing more in smaller families, for which they have greater security.

While population and a stable economy are good for property tax, it also means more cars on Birmingham roads.

Validation for preschool MDD (based on meeting all DSM - IV symptom criteria) has been supported by the finding of a specific symptom constellation that was distinct from other psychiatric disorders and stable during a 6 - month period.22 Additionally, alterations in the hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal axis reactivity similar to those known in adults with depression, greater family history of mood disorders, as well as observational evidence of depressive affects and behaviors were detected in preschoolers with depression, providing further validation.22,25,27 - 30 More recent findings from a larger independent sample (N = 306) ascertained from community sites (and serving as the population for this investigation) have replicated the findings described above and have also demonstrated that preschoolers with depression display significant functional impairment evident in multiple contexts rated by both parents and teachers.24

145 stable couples living together for more than 5 years, and representative of the Belgian population.

Effort Reward Imbalance (ERI), which has a structure more stable among the nurse population, has shown concurrent validity in terms of intent to leave the nursing profession.

Having a very a stable and diversified economy, Tri-Cities is one of the country's least expensive places to start a business, has one of the lowest cost of living indexes in the nation, and has proven itself to have steady growth in both population and high - tech jobs for more than twenty years.

The report defined suburb through five categories: «economically challenged,» or one with lacking population growth and lower home values; «stable middle - income,» or one with a range of home values; «established high - end,» or one in proximity to employment and high home values; «greenfield lifestyle,» or one in proximity to the edge of metropolitan areas; and «greenfield value,» or one in proximity to the edge of metropolitan areas but more affordable than greenfield lifestyle areas.