Sentences with phrase «of population control using»

Work towards ending pet homelessness in the United States by investigating its causes on a community and individual owner basis and developing cost - effective methods of population control using science - based, epidemiologically sound research methods.

Not exact matches

A population that has learned the value of owning and become adept at trading physical gold would prevent central banks from continuing to use fiat currencies as economic, political and societal control mechanisms.

(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.

That «bimbo» represents the 98 % of the population of women that use birth control at some point in their lives.

And I seem to recall Chad talking about birth control methods and dismissing those that would be outlawed by this measure because they were used by only 1 % of the population.

In population control, euthanasia, abortion, and eugenics, the human person is treated as an object or product to be used or eliminated according to the purposes of those who have power over others.

A most particular threat to the human rights project is the coercive use of foreign aid and other international programs in order to advance alleged rights related to procreation, population control, and the independence of children from their parents (in the name of «children's rights»).

I thought the original reason for the Catholic Church's insistence that no form of birth control was to be used was to increase the religion's population.

So while it is nice that the RCC assist the poor unless they also promote the use of artificial birth control, the assistance (i.e. the level of aid) will not be able to keep up with the population increase.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

Denying birth control (including the use of condoms), abortion and sterilization to the population in general is stupid.

The politics of international power, the strategies of population control, the discriminating use of force to check destructive outbreaks of violence, the patient search for new terms of internal co-operation, are all part of the task.

To control the insect population, and keep seedlings insect - free, inspect the plants daily, weed well around the peppers, dispose of diseased plants immediately, and use insecticide if necessary.

Although insecticides are used to some extent, their use is mitigated through the introduction of predator insects to control the populations of insects that could damage fruit.

GM cotton has been developed to be poisonous to certain pests; however many farmers end up using the same amount of pesticide to control a population increase in other pests.

The study, which used Growing Naturals» Organic Rice Protein made with Culver City, CA's Axiom Food's Oryzatein, followed a tightly controlled population of seasoned bodybuilders and examined how they built muscle and experienced repair and soreness.

«Use of a dummy (pacifier) during sleep and risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS): population based case - control study.»

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) provides advice and guidance to the Director of the CDC regarding use of vaccines and related agents for control of vaccine - preventable diseases in the civilian population of the United States.

To examine whether improved room ventilation by use of a fan or an open window affects the risk of SIDS, we analyzed data from a population - based case - control study of risk factors for SIDS that included detailed information on sleep environment.

The prone or side sleep position can increase the risk of rebreathing expired gases, resulting in hypercapnia and hypoxia.54, — , 57 The prone position also increases the risk of overheating by decreasing the rate of heat loss and increasing body temperature compared with infants sleeping supine.58, 59 Recent evidence suggests that prone sleeping alters the autonomic control of the infant cardiovascular system during sleep, particularly at 2 to 3 months of age, 60 and can result in decreased cerebral oxygenation.61 The prone position places infants at high risk of SIDS (odds ratio [OR]: 2.3 — 13.1).62, — , 66 However, recent studies have demonstrated that the SIDS risks associated with side and prone position are similar in magnitude (OR: 2.0 and 2.6, respectively) 63 and that the population - attributable risk reported for side sleep position is higher than that for prone position.65, 67 Furthermore, the risk of SIDS is exceptionally high for infants who are placed on their side and found on their stomach (OR: 8.7).63 The side sleep position is inherently unstable, and the probability of an infant rolling to the prone position from the side sleep position is significantly greater than rolling prone from the back.65, 68 Infants who are unaccustomed to the prone position and are placed prone for sleep are also at greater risk than those usually placed prone (adjusted OR: 8.7 — 45.4).63, 69,70 Therefore, it is critically important that every caregiver use the supine sleep position for every sleep period.

The Peconic Baykeeper, an environmental nonprofit on Long Island's East End, wants the Suffolk County legislature to ban the use of the pesticide methoprene that controls mosquito populations.

Crony capitalism is the means by which those who seize the power of the state use it to distribute the wealth of the state to a few oligarchs, mostly their friends, members of their families, or lovers — basically a narrow population — to control and dominate state wealth for the maintenance of the idea of private property.

With the Republican - controlled legislature's approved maps held up by lawsuits mostly concerned with the Voting Rights Act and minority population growth, Texas» legislative redistricting process remained heavily contentious into 2012, leaving the state to use a set of interim maps released in February by a San Antonio federal court.

Using herbivorous tortoise beetle populations in Florida's Apalachicola National Forest — where management areas experience controlled burns on a three - year burn schedule — a team of FSU researchers found evidence that factors like time since fire and population levels in surrounding areas can predict recolonization patterns in patches disturbed by burns.

Then they compared the Dmanisi population with a range of fossils belonging to ancient African hominins alive at the same time, and used modern humans and chimpanzees as control groups.

In order to assess whether an improved diet could reduce the risk of ovarian cancer in African - American women, Qin analyzed the diets of 415 women with ovarian cancer and 629 control patients, using data from the African - American Cancer Epidemiology Study, a population - based case - control study of ovarian cancer in African - American women in 11 sites in the United States.

Neutering, a surgical procedure which involves castration or removal of the uterus and ovaries, is used as an alternative to lethal means in feral cat population control.

Next steps include examining whether the viral infections play a role in controlling the population of toxic algae and continued studies on the nutrients these cells use to grow.

When asked, years ago, why he held a large stake in a boring company such as Gillette, at a time when high - tech companies such as Amazon and AOL were all the rage, legendary investor Warren Buffett replied, in essence, that when you control one - third of the market for a product that half of the world's population uses every day, you're in pretty good shape, businesswise.

At one level, optogenetics is nothing more than using light to control a targeted population of cells.

It also raises hope for using genetic engineering to control populations of invasive species or pests such as Asian carp in North America and disease - carrying mosquitoes throughout the world.

«Given that some strains demonstrated 100 percent non-Mendelian transmission ratios, far greater than the 50 percent expected for normal Mendelian transmission, this system could in the future be used to control populations of D. suzukii.»

Researchers conducted a population - based perspective birth cohort study of 7,046 pregnant women, and categorized subjects into three groups: negative anti-tTG (control), intermediate anti-tTG (just below the clinical cut - off point used to diagnose patients with celiac disease) and positive anti-tTG (highly probable celiac disease patients).

Much of the older research — including studies that found more of a protective effect of fruits and vegetables — was done using a case - control method, in which one group (the «cases») already has a condition and is polled about past behaviors and compared with a population that does not have the condition (the «controls»).

It also was the first randomized, controlled trial on this underserved population of children to use a computer tablet combined with an effective behavioral intervention.

Mosquitoes (Anopheles funestus) are vectors of malaria, and most strategies for combating the spread of the disease focus on control of mosquito populations using insecticides.

Or it could be used as part of a series of forensic techniques to separate ivory obtained during legal culls — necessary to control some elephant large populations — from illegal poaching, says Elias Sideras - Haddad of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, who proposed a similar dating technique in 2001.

At the time of the research no clear legal guidelines existed in France, but a new French biodiversity law is now to «implement the 2010 Nagoya Protocol, which complements the international Convention on Biological Diversity and aims to guarantee a greater control of the states rich in biodiversity, and their indigenous populations, over how their biodiversity resources are used and an equitable sharing of the benefits.»

It found that 19 percent of the 38.6 million Americans with mood disorders use prescription opioids, compared to 5 percent of the general population — a difference that remained even when the researchers controlled for factors such as physical health, level of pain, age, sex and race.

Although various studies propose a connection between childhood ADHD and obesity, «this is the first population - based longitudinal study to examine the association between ADHD and development of obesity using ADHD cases and controls of both sexes derived from the same birth cohort,» says lead author Seema Kumar, M.D., pediatrician and researcher at Mayo Clinic Children's Research Center.

Use negative controls (unstained and isotype control antibodies) to determine gating of populations.

Barbosa and colleagues ruled out research activity as the cause for the loss since both studied populations and those used as controls showed similar patterns of decline.

Staff Research Associate II, Dept. of ESPM January 2004 — July 2005 UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA Principal Investigator: Dr. Matteo Garbelotto The lab studies population genetics and phylogenetics of Phytophthora ramorum and evaluates the use of biological and chemical controls to manage the sudden oak death disease.

Traditional methods used to limit the impact of MSD include insecticides to control leafhopper populations (which are not affordable to most small - scale farmers and can be environmentally damaging), and conventional selective breeding of maize for resistance traits that naturally exist in some varieties.

It's been used to study automobile cruise control systems and population growth of certain animal species, and now researchers think Markov modeling could one day help a woman and her physician...

The hope is that the method could be used to engineer populations of insects in the wild, with the goal of reducing mosquito - borne diseases such as malaria or dengue fever, or controlling agricultural pests, such as those that transmit citrus greening disease.

Zooplankton species population dynamics, trophic interactions, production rates, seasonal species succession, biological / physical interactions controlling species distributions, mathematical modeling, field sampling, in situ optical imaging and automated analysis of mesoplankton using video and holography.

Case - control studies are encouraged to make use of the SciLifeLab Swedish Genetic Variant Database selected to genetically represent the Swedish population (see https://swefreq.nbis.se)

In this large population - based, case - control study, having ever used a statin was linked to lower risk of total NHL and certain NHL subtypes, including DLBCL.

«We came up with a solution to allow for wireless control using similar technology that's in your cell phone to actually control these micro-LEDs, and then in turn control inside, deep inside the brain, various populations of neurons that we're interested in studying,» Bruchas said.