Sentences with phrase «most in a given population»

Although it's technically caused by a coronavirus, many cats — even most in a given population — can test positive for the virus and never become ill.

Not exact matches

Many of these areas consist of fewer than 200 households or populations with less than 500 people to give us the most precise glimpse possible of what life is like in each of these communities.

Christians can not imagine that anyone could possibly contemplate death without having the «assurance» that a beautiful heavenly existence awaits them, but in fact most true atheists (as opposed to those who are simply indifferent, which is a growing segment of the population) have given this quite a bit of thought and have come to a different conclusion.

This, in a nut shell, is evolution: 1) mutation produces variation in a population; and 2) selection (via host immunity) filters for those strains which are most fit (i.e. best suited to reproduce in a given environment).

For me mission is to the local population, being given the chance to journey with them in their happy times and their most difficult times.

Most forms of higher education lower the rate of theism in a given population group.

Stephen, seeing as how the Separatists (sorry, can't use the term Pilgrims) survived the first couple of weeks on food caches they stole from the Wampanoag, and then those same Native Americans taught them how to farm in the poor New England soil, they definitely had more to thank the local Native population for than most people give them credit.

Given that American society is one of the most urbanized in the world — 82 percent of Americans live in cities or in the suburbs (a number on the rise)-- the slump in urban population support should be a wake - up call for the GOP to immediately change direction.

Elections are also simultaneously held for the Water Board, arguably the most important institution in the Netherlands given its responsibility for water levels, dyke planning and maintenance and other such responsibilities that keep the population's feet dry.

Because most Israeli adults undergo military service, any increase (or decrease) in population has a direct effect upon Israel's military readiness — no small thing given Israel's famously hostile environment.

Perhaps Polis» most important contribution was assembling a list of cannibalism - related generalizations under which most examples of invertebrate cannibalism could be placed: 1) Immature animals get eaten more often than adults; 2) Many animals, particularly invertebrates, do not recognize individuals of their own kind, especially eggs and immature stages, which are simply regarded as a food source; 3) Females are more often cannibalistic than males; 4) Cannibalism increases with hunger and a concurrent decrease in alternative forms of nutrition; and 5) Cannibalism is often directly related to the degree of overcrowding in a given population.

Sadly, the information gathered by Dublin and colleagues was limited in terms of quantity and quality and the report gives an unsatisfactory picture of the situation in some countries, sometimes even excluding the most important elephant populations.

«Today, people who have been given a new heart experience increased physical function, quality of life, and overall life span; however, most patients continue to have limitations in their physical function and reduced quality of life compared to the general population due to side - effects from anti-rejection medications and because heart rate regulation is impaired after heart transplantation,» said Dall.

That finding is profoundly disturbing for wild tigers, given that in most sites where wild tigers persist they are limited to populations of less than 25 breeding adults.1

There are island populations that have allowed the discovery of recessive mutations that are rare in most of the world, but happen to be more common on a given island.)

«This study addresses one of the most relevant issues in healthcare and research on aging populations: how to diagnose and assess frailty, given the availability of many different frailty scores and the lack of a gold standard», says Dr Aguayo.

Dr. Chung added, «Given that Lynch syndrome is not rare in the general population, this finding has the potential to impact tens of thousands of people in the U.S. and could change standard practice related to one of the most common cancer predisposition syndromes.»

-- In providing assistance under this section, the Administrator of USAID shall give priority to countries, including the most vulnerable communities and populations therein, that are most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change, determined by the likelihood and severity of such impacts and the country's capacity to adapt to such impacts.

Dr Gambhir said the team looked at whether a randomized control trial (RCT)-- where all people in the population have the same chance of being selected; or a stepped - wedge cluster trial design — which would give vaccine to healthcare workers and eventually treat all of them — is most safe and effective in evaluating a vaccine.

«The biggest challenge is how to manage the oceans given that most of the world's population will be using and living next to an ocean in the next 50 years or so.

the most recent Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) removed dietary cholesterol as a nutrient of concern, given that there is «no appreciable relationship between dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol or clinical cardiovascular events in general populations

However, the most recent Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) removed dietary cholesterol as a nutrient of concern, given that there is «no appreciable relationship between dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol or clinical cardiovascular events in general populations,» so cholesterol content should not deter you from consumption of saturated fat (Mozaffarian & Ludwig, 2015, p. 2421).

Given the limitations of nutrition research, and the absence of it in pregnant populations, some of the most useful dietary information was amassed and analyzed by a pioneering researcher / clinician named Weston A. Price.

Nonetheless, it underestimates the diversity in culture and values of the American population to take it as a given that we will not see among schools of choice a number that will outrage even the most fervent advocates of the freedom to choose one's school and one's education.

Given the evidence that students from disadvantaged backgrounds lose ground academically over the summer while other students do not, districts that serve large populations of low - income students should be most interested in trading class size for school days as a strategy to improve student achievement.

Another, Communities In Schools, is a large drop - out prevention organization that provides schools with services (from dental care to clothing distribution) needed by the school's population as a whole, while giving special attention to the children most likely to fall through the cracks.

Given that children living in poverty are most at risk for not finding these mitigating relationships, ignoring the potential for harm to this student population is incredibly dangerous (Anda et al., 2004).

Also, while military conquest or economic domination often introduces a new language into an established language community, in most cases it takes long - term immigration or the collapse of the native population to give the new language a foothold (witness the indigenous cultures of Latin America wiped out by the diseases brought to their shores by Europeans).

There have been minimal and generally insignificant protests against the treatment of the animals involved, and most often those protesting have been brought in from out of town for that specific purpose so they're given very little credence by most of the population.

Dr. Julie Levy, Director of Maddie's ® Shelter Medicine Program at the University of Florida, and Shaye Olmstead, Executive Director of Operation Catnip, gave a presentation at Face - to - Face with Feral Freedom in Jacksonville, FL, demonstrating how a tiny staff, a giant volunteer pool and a relentless will to save cats can end euthanasia as a way to manage populations, even in the most challenging communities.

Rather, studies show the most popular breeds at any given time tend to top the list because, of course, there are more of those dogs in the general population.

Now we are a smart species and our agriculture science and production has substantially reduced famine on our planet and has given us more time than most species have before these population reductions occur (although global climate shift and higher energy costs are wildcards in food production and availability in the future).

I encourage you to read the entire note, given that the issues explored by DeLisi are relevant around the world, and given the reality that a mix of technologies and techniques is going to be required in most places to satisfy growing human populations and appetites without consuming ever more land needed either for wildlife or human settlements.

I think that rather than comment on the story (which is still timely), I would like to say that we have been fortunate that out of a world population of nearly 7 billion people, Dr. Hansen and you, Andy (among others who have stayed more in the background) were in the right place at the right time with the requisite intelligence, experience, and character to bring this information to the public, and that we are most fortunate that, 20 years later, neither of you has given up on this the most important issue of our time.

Polar bears are one of the most sensitive Arctic marine mammals to climate warming because they spend most of their lives on sea ice.35 Declining sea ice in northern Alaska is associated with smaller bears, probably because of less successful hunting of seals, which are themselves ice - dependent and so are projected to decline with diminishing ice and snow cover.36, 37,38,39 Although bears can give birth to cubs on sea ice, increasing numbers of female bears now come ashore in Alaska in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.in northern Alaska is associated with smaller bears, probably because of less successful hunting of seals, which are themselves ice - dependent and so are projected to decline with diminishing ice and snow cover.36, 37,38,39 Although bears can give birth to cubs on sea ice, increasing numbers of female bears now come ashore in Alaska in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.in Alaska in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.45

Frankly, given that most of the other countries in the world (i) are either governed by their aboriginal populations, (ii) have succesfully killed them off or assimilated them into their broader population, or (iii) will just ignore anything the UN says anyhow, I'm not too inclined too give much weight to what they have to say on the issue.

Given that the majority of Canadians live in urban settings, it may that most children have never seen the stars; and in time most of the population will be included in that unfortunate group.

He'll explain it to you in the video below, but essentially it comes down to this, that by asking a random selection of people in the target population to nominate their friends, we can identify the most popular people in a network, and, consequently, those who are most likely to become infected at the start of an outbreak of disease; watching these popular people gives us considerable warning of the impending epidemic.

There have been minimal and generally insignificant protests against the treatment of the animals involved, and most often those protesting have been brought in from out of town for that specific purpose so they're given very little credence by most of the population.

Also, we used objective approaches to quantify neighbourhood attributes that allowed us to partially control for potential reverse causality due to depressed individuals tending to exhibit negative cognitive bias resulting in negative thoughts and perceptions.65 Residential self - selection bias is likely to be a trivial source of reverse causality in this study because Hong Kong's high levels of population density (6760 people / km2) and low percentage of developed land (less than 25 %) 66 limit most residents» choice of accommodation and 37 % of Hong Kong older adults live in public rental housing.67 Given the satisfactory response rate and the level of similarity in depressive symptoms and sociodemographic characteristics of participants recruited from two types of recruitment centres, the findings from this study are likely to be generalisable to the population of Chinese Hong Kong older adults matching the study eligibility criteria and other populations of older adults living in similar ultra-dense metropolises of Southeast Asia.

We believe investigating the effects of internet - delivered treatments are particularly relevant for rural populations, 27 as these communities typically struggle to access counselling opportunities, 28 and the rates of problematic gambling are sometimes higher for rural persons than the Albertan average.2 Furthermore, given that most telemedicine applications in Alberta are focused on delivering training or non-clinical services, 28 and that the government of Alberta may legalise on - line gambling in the near future, gambling harm and treatment need are likely to increase for rural and remote Albertans.29 Also, as gambling and the internet are ubiquitous phenomena in western countries, this study may be relevant to other rural and remote jurisdictions.