Sentences with phrase «on early population»

(This effect was not lost on early population control adherents.

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Canada earns its only «A» on the new indicator, entrepreneurial ambition — a measure of the share of the working - age population reporting early - stage entrepreneurial activity, such as attempts to establish or own a new business.

Early on, Berkeley opened its doors to the entire population.

A striking 46 percent of renters ages 25 to 34 — the core of the millennial population — spend more than 30 percent of their incomes on rent, up from 40 percent a decade earlier, according to a report by Harvard University's Joint Center of Housing Studies.

However, given the ageing of the population and the accompanying pressures on health care costs, it is important that such discussions begin much earlier and involve the public, rather than being held behind closed doors.

While it is too early to assess the economic cost of the south Asian tsunami fully, at this stage the overall impact on GDP is expected to be limited as the major population and industrial centres were largely undamaged.

On December 7, 2017, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy's Midwest Early Recovery Fund hosted the webinar, «Wildfires & Vulnerable Populations,» to address the devastating 2017 wildfire season and what funders can do to help Midwest communities recover.

Early on, Luther took a «noble savage» approach to Europe's Jewish population.

@religion I feel sure that mass population control was not on the agenda of the early embattled Christians.

In some smaller fields the whole population has been completely gathered into the Christian fellowship that no non-Christian community remains outside, and in some the early relation of mother and daughter Church has practically merged into that of sisterhood, the younger Church being now no longer dependant for the maintenance of its activities on the older.

The MIT projection is that if we continue on our way as at present, shortages of resources for industry will slow population growth within twenty years and stop it, early in the twenty - first century, at approximately six billion.

A close parallel is observable between a comment by an early protagonist of the theory, Dorwin Cartwright, who in 1949 suggested that, «it is conceivable that one persuasive person could, through the use of mass media, bend the world's population to his will,» (3) and the 1979 affirmation by NRB Executive Secretary Ben Armstrong, «I believe that God has raised up this powerful technology of radio and television expressly to reach every man, woman, boy, and girl on earth with the even more powerful message of the gospel.»

In early March, a crowd of over 18,000 at Allianz was on hand to see Sydney FC upset reigning champions Guangzhou Evergrande, although almost half appeared to be in support of the visitors, a reflection of the large Chinese (or Cantonese) Australian population.

Referrals to craniofacial centers for evaluation of deformational plagiocephaly and brachycephaly are increasing.8 This increase in deformations has been temporally linked to the Back to Sleep program advanced by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1992 that advises the avoidance of the prone sleeping position as a method of reducing the rates of sudden infant death syndrome.10,, 12,13 There is a delay in early gross motor milestones in children forced to sleep supine but these delays seem transient and have not been linked as yet to any longer term problems.14 Children who are encouraged to sleep on their backs and develop abnormal head shapes as a result are a different population than children who spontaneously restricted their movement in bed for one reason or another.

The burgeoning deer population on Syracuse's East Side became a hot topic in early 2012, when neighborhood complaints began to surge about deer - ravaged gardens, deer - car accidents and related issues.

«In the community of Brentwood, where there is a big El Salvadoran population, we have had over the last nine months or so 11 bodies turned [sic] up,» Sheriff DeMarco told John Catsimatidis during an early morning interview on «The Cats Roundtable.»

Syria accused the UN of meddling in its internal affairs and creating chaos in the country but the international community has lost patience with the regime since it stepped up its attacks on the population in the wake of the Russian and Chinese veto earlier this year.

One of the themes that emerged early on was the difference between the perception that immigration is a real problem — and that immigrants are taking jobs, houses and money from the indigenous population — and the reality, which is the opposite.

Federal figures from earlier this year showed that 190,900 Erie County residents were on Medicare, and that figure would grow as the population ages.

- People with mental health problems are more likely to have poor physical health, dying, on average, 10 years earlier than the rest of the population.

The early warning report will use nine financial indicators, including the amount of cash on hand, the size of operating deficits, as well as demographic trends like population size and tax growth that the Comptroller's office has recently studied.

The early warning system will include nine financial indicators, such as cash - on - hand and patterns of operating deficits, together with broader demographic information like population trends and tax assessment growth.

The stop in shelter openings came just as the homeless population was surging in early 2015, and the de Blasio administration was relying on optimistic estimates of how quickly new rental subsidy programs would slow the flow of people needing emergency shelter.

On the other hand, Gov. Andrew Cuomo earlier in the month said DOCCS was hiring guards because, even though the prison population — now about 52,000 — is shrinking, the inmates who remain are tougher than ever.

It will be part of a third round of public hearings on the district changes, which are made by a 15 - member panel every decade to account for population shifts identified by the U.S. Census, after the process was thrown into reverse earlier this year.

The new study builds on this earlier research, extending the projections globally using a variety of climate models and taking into account future population growth.

Overall, the study's data from mitochondrial DNA — different from nuclear DNA in that it helps scientists trace maternal lineages — reveal that population structure in humpback whales is largely driven by female whales that return annually to the same breeding grounds and by the early experience of calves that accompany their mothers on their first round - trip migration to the feeding grounds.

«Part of what was exciting about the design of this clinical trial is that we decided early on to accept women from a younger and generally sicker population than is typically enrolled in clinical trials,» says Dr. Cristofanilli, who is also a researcher at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University.

If these numbers on attacks were consistent throughout multiple generations, the researchers concluded, the mortality within the population could have reached more than 8 % in earlier days, when iron weapons such as knifes were rare in the Agta population.

On average, the simulations suggested that the world's population could peak as early as 2070 at around 9 billion.

According to the senior author Ken Smith, Ph.D., a population health researcher at Huntsman Cancer Institute and a distinguished professor of family studies and population science at the University of Utah, «This study shows that early - life socioeconomic status, based on factors such as parental occupation at birth, may be associated with cancer risk in adulthood.

«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.

Although this study is limited by the lack of data on the effects of clinical interventions and neonatal resuscitation efforts that may have been performed at the time of birth, these findings suggest that early detection of perinatal asphyxia is particularly relevant among infants of overweight and obese women although more studies are necessary to confirm these results in other populations.

«The existing totality of evidence suggests an urgent need to increase the use of varenicline in the general population as well as in those with serious mental illness who on average die about 20 years earlier than the general population, in part, because their smoking rates may be as high as 75 percent,» said Hennekens.

In 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) downgraded giant pandas (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) from endangered to vulnerable, on the basis of a 2011 — 14 population survey by the Chinese government that reported 1,864 adult pandas, up from 1,596 in the early 2000s.

The study also uncovers several other major findings on early human populations.

That's an important clue, he added, about what was going on in the early solar system — including on Earth — because «the same population [of objects] that was hitting the moon certainly was hitting the Earth.»

Scientific studies of the bones will continue over the next decades, providing one of the first and possibly the biggest samples of research on an early Mediterranean population ever undertaken.

The current findings build on earlier work by the same researchers, showing that dietary supplementation with Omega - 3 DHA improved both reading progress and behaviour in children from the general school population who were behind on their reading.

«The current analyses reported here were performed to update the earlier evaluation by expanding the diagnosis years from 2004 to 2011, and including data on 100 percent of the Appalachian and non-Appalachian populations,» Wilson said.

They suggest a population of P. transitus traveled miles of then - open water between South and North America, perhaps on a raft — the earliest mammals known to have made this intercontinental migration by more than 12 million years.

For each decade that a father aged, his children had somewhere between 5 % (in modern Sweden) and 13 % (in the early German population) fewer children of their own, the team reports this month in a preprint available on bioRxiv.org.

Strikingly, the same signature was discovered in the blood of women without a BRCA1 mutation but who went on to develop breast cancer, making it a potential early marker of women's cancer in the general population.

Very early farming sites have been excavated on Cyprus, but researchers were not sure whether they represented a small population pushed off the mainland — perhaps by population pressure or competition with other farmers — or the beginnings of a major migration across the sea to Europe.

Previous research suggests our ability to cooperate and exhibit empathy — both thought to be critical to human success — relied in part on the large brains of our hominin ancestors, relative to body size; and that selection against aggression within early human populations allowed us to thrive.

Intrigued by the genetic similarities between the two populations, geneticist Ariella Oppenheim of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, who collaborated on the earlier study, focused on Arab and Jewish men.

To determine which island invaders were doing the most damage, Hanna and her research adviser Marcel Cardillo created and analyzed what she calls a «ridiculously large» database comprising 934 living and extinct populations of 107 mammal species on 323 Australian islands between the early 1800s and today.

In fact, claims that size variation in Australopithecus and / or Paranthropus was larger than that in recent human populations include inferences on sexual dimorphism (Richmond and Jungers, 1995; Plavcan et al., 2005; Lockwood et al., 2007; but see Reno et al., 2003), whereas arguments referring to early Homo are usually associated with eco-physiological variants (Antón et al., 2014; Di Vincenzo et al., 2015).

To capture the early spatial patterns of a newly emergent virus in swine populations prior to extensive geographical mixing, this study focused on an H1 influenza virus that was introduced twice from humans into swine around 2003.

The modern populations of these valleys, who share cultural and linguistic affinities with peoples found today on the Tibetan plateau, were commonly assumed to be the descendants of the earliest inhabitants of the Himalayan arc.