Sentences with phrase «national population study»

Adverse associations of sleep problems in Australian preschoolers: national population study.

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Overall, the national study revealed there are more similarities than differences between small business owners in all diverse segments and those in the general population.

Sources: Bankrate, US Census Bureau 2015 American Community Survey, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, government websites, SmartAsset * For this study we looked at all U.S. cities that have a population greater than 200,000 with available data.

I met with a researcher studying the populations, who escorted me past white U.S. Border Patrol SUVs into the Coronado National Forest.

Data from this study were from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Study, a cross-sectional health interview survey representative of the U.S. civilian, noninstitutionalized populastudy were from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Study, a cross-sectional health interview survey representative of the U.S. civilian, noninstitutionalized populaStudy, a cross-sectional health interview survey representative of the U.S. civilian, noninstitutionalized population.

Shedd Aquarium has teamed up with the Bahamas National Trust (BNT) as part of a group of conservation organizations (collectively known as partners in «conchservation») studying queen conch, Lobatus gigas, in The Bahamas to understand why local populations are in decline.

In a study of 1001 home births in the Toronto area before the regulation of midwifery, the transport rate during labour and post partum was 16.5 %.8 In other national, population - based studies of planned home births, rates of intrapartum transport ranged from 14.5 % in Australia9 to 20.3 % in the Netherlands.3

«We welcome the opportunity to share additional information about our affected populations as part of a national effort to develop a plan to study health outcomes in multiple PFAS - affected communities,» the letter states.

For example, in his 2011 meta - analytic studies, Hickman recounts that the primordial political cleavage in Kenya maps membership in three ethnic blocs — «Kikuyu / Embu / Mem, Kalenjin / Maasai / Turkana / Samburu, and Luo»; «none of which comprises a majority of the national population».

The study allows for deeper analysis of a wide range of sections of the population as they respond to regional, national and international change.

The National Institute of Mental Health has studies that show Americans with a major mental illness die 14 - 32 years earlier than the general population.

An interesting stat from 2004, in a report by National Transfer Accounts, which studies populations and economic change and is based at Berkley University in California, said that Nigerians spent more than they earned until they were 32.

«Organisms can deal with these stressful transitions from warm to cold by either acclimating - think about dogs putting on their winter coats - or by populations genetically evolving to deal with new stresses, a phenomenon known as rapid climate adaptation,» said Alison Gerken, a post-doctoral associate with UF's Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology and the lead author of a new study, published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provided the first - ever comprehensive comparison of Earth's 27 megacities, defined as metropolitan areas with populations of 10 million or more.

«Before this study, we knew that these HIV prevention measures worked at an individual level, yet it was not clear that they would substantially reduce HIV incidence in a population — or even if it would be possible to get large numbers of people to adopt them,» said Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of NIH.

Sam Droege of the US Geological Survey and Sean Brady of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History study native bee populations on the base.

Juan Esteban Rodríguez, a graduate student in population genetics at the National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO) in Irapuato, Mexico, initially planned to study a recent thread in the global tapestry that is Mexican ancestry.

The sex ratio in the overall population is «nothing out of the ordinary,» with roughly one juvenile male for every four juvenile females, says study coauthor Michael Jensen, a marine biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in La Jolla, Calif..

Climate is increasingly controlling synchronous ecosystem behavior in which species populations rise and fall together, according to the National Science Foundation - funded study published in the journal Global Change Biology.

Dr. Martin O'Donnell, a co-author on the study and an associate clinical professor at McMaster University and National University of Ireland Galway, said: «This study adds to our understanding of the relationship between salt intake and health, and questions the appropriateness of current guidelines that recommend low sodium intake in the entire population.»

Of the handful of similar analyses, a 2008 study found population losses in amphibians living in Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming, and another found that small mammals in Yosemite National Park in California had tracked warming temperatures in the past century by shifting their range.

To test the hypothesis that the web is a primary driver of rising polarization, Shapiro and his coauthors used data from the American National Election Study (ANES), a nationally representative, face - to - face survey of the voting - age population that has been conducted both pre - and post-election since 1948.

The researchers analyzed data collected between 2002 and 2011 from patients in the Rochester Epidemiology Project, a National Institutes of Health - funded medical records pool that makes Olmsted County, Minn., the home of Mayo Clinic, one of the few places worldwide where scientists can study virtually an entire geographic population to identify health trends.

Last year a study by the National Academy of Sciences reported that in the last three decades the Steller sea lion population dropped from several hundred thousand to about 30,000 — so few that they are now listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

The study, published this month in the journal of Urban Forestry & Urban Greening, draws on Seattle's current land use, light availability and national nutritional guidelines to determine the city's carrying capacity for feeding its population.

«For the first time, our study points to a risk difference between drinking daily and drinking five or six days a week in the general male population, since earlier studies were conducted on alcohol misusers and patients referred for liver disease and compared daily drinking to «binge pattern» or «episodic» drinking,» observed lead investigator Gro Askgaard, MD, of the Department of Hepatology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, and the National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.

One study suggests the population of raccoons, opossums, and bobcats have declined significantly in the regions of Everglades National Park where pythons have been established the longest.

In the first study of human fungal skin diversity, National Institutes of Health researchers sequenced the DNA of fungi at skin sites of healthy adults to define the normal populations across the skin and to provide a framework for investigating fungal skin conditions.

For the retrospective, population - based study, the researchers used the National Cancer Database (NCDB), a nation - wide outcomes registry of the American College of Surgeons, the American Cancer Society and the Commission on Cancer that captures approximately 70 percent of newly - diagnosed cases of cancer in the country.

However, a new study in eLife has shown that the long - tailed macaques of Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park in Thailand are threatening to drive shellfish populations extinct with their tools.

National Institutes of Health researchers studying zebrafish have determined that a population of cells that protect the brain against diseases and harmful substances are not immune cells, as had previously been thought, but instead likely arise from the lining of the circulatory system.

For example, the frogs of La Selva Biological Station in Braulio Carrillo National Park in Costa Rica's Caribbean lowlands have endured a 75 percent drop in population since 1970, perhaps due to climate change, according to a study by biologist Steven Whitfield of Florida International University in Miami, who was not affiliated with this study.

The study was performed in Udawalawe National Park, which has an exceptionally large elephant population.

The study was conducted on a free - living population of European shags (Phalacrocorax aristotelis) that breed on the Isle of May National Nature Reserve in the Firth of Forth, Scotland.

In the first national study of a large, diverse population, researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and colleagues, found that 1.2 percent of the study population engaged with devices, and that most of the individuals who started using an activity tracker were younger and had higher - incomes than people who opted not to use the devices.

This change was even more marked — more than a full week earlier — for plants that originally derived from a population that enjoyed wetter conditions in a California marsh, according to the study's findings published online January 8 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Patients with mental illness are two and a half times more likely to be victims of homicide than people in the general population, according to a national study examining the characteristics of homicide victims across England and Wales, published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal.

«Many studies keep population constant, which is not really adequate,» explained Elisaveta Petkova, project director at the National Center for Disaster Preparedness at Columbia University's Earth Institute.

The team analyzed data from the National Cancer Institute's Transplant Cancer Match Study, which contains information on all solid organ transplant recipients in the United States, as well as data from 15 population - based US cancer registries.

Previous studies by D'Odorico, who, in addition to his faculty position at U.Va., is a sabbatical fellow with the National Socio - Environmental Synthesis Center at the University of Maryland, have suggested that the coupling of population and food dynamics might be becoming increasingly unbalanced and that, because of trade dependency, exposure to food insecurity is increasing.

This study compared data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program (SEER) of the National Cancer Institute, a population - based registry collecting cancer incidence and survival data from 18 geographic areas through the United States, with data from the USIDNET registry.

That makes studying the genetics of specific indigenous groups vital for understanding risk factors that could be present in the broader Mexican population, says Xavier Soberón, head of Mexico's National Institute of Genomic Medicine (INMEGEN), who was not involved in the research.

«Our study suggests that highly polygynous, predominantly Maasai, villages do poorly not because of polygyny, but because of vulnerability to drought, low service provision and broader socio - political disadvantages,» said David Lawson, a population health lecturer at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and lead author of the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In the experiment, we asked a national sample of the US population to participate in a public opinion poll about popular topics (participants did not know that the study was really about climate change).

«We knew that the population was expanding, both in numbers and spatially on the landscape,» said Joshua Schmidt, a biometrician for the National Park Service Inventory and Monitoring Program and a co-author of the study.

In a study published today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by atmospheric scientists Logan Mitchell and John Lin report that suburban sprawl increases CO2 emissions more than similar population growth in a developed urban core.

The study is based on data from nation - wide, population - based registers in Sweden including the Cancer Register, The Cause of Death Register and the National Prostate Cancer Register (NPCR) of Sweden.

This population - based study examined the cohort of all 1,534,425 military conscripts in Sweden during 1969 - 1997 (covering a period when national service was compulsory in Sweden and including 97 - 98 % of all 18 - year - old men nationwide each year).

About 4 percent of the populations in the study experienced a black swan event, the team reports in the March 21 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

«We studied asymptomatic individuals with a low risk of cardiovascular events at baseline and used noninvasive imaging to predict the risk of an event downstream,» said David A. Bluemke, M.D, Ph.D., from the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center in Bethesda, Md. «This is the first population - based prospective study to determine if vulnerable plaque features by MRI add to the risk of a cardiovascular event beyond the traditional risk factors.»