Sentences with phrase «on entire populations»

«If I as a university professor approached my institutional review board and said I want to experiment on entire populations by introducing wavelengths of light most associated with harmful biological and ecological effects, they would laugh me out the door, down the street and out of my office,» Longcore says.

If scholars want to talk this way among themselves, he says, that is their prerogative, but we must fight their efforts to impose these theories on entire populations.

They are seen in the struggle against the MAI for the cancellation of Third World debt, the struggle against embargoes imposed by an imperial power, the United States, on entire populations who are paying the price.

«What the market is demanding is not what the BLS is producing,» Schnapp (left) told AdvisorOne, noting that the BLS jobs report is based on mere survey data (i.e., not based on the entire population).

They are seeking to impose their religious beliefs on the entire population through the government.

«If you only consider local birds in an environmental assessment, you're not really evaluating the effect that facility may have on the entire population,» Katzner said.

To my mind, this is lot like a reformed alcoholic pushing abstinence on the entire population, even though most people seem to be able to take a drink or two and not fall prey to the ravages of demon rum.

Her presentation had a significant impact on our entire population of both male and female students.

Imagine if resistance could have existed at all against the Gestapo or KGB during Stalin with facebook profiles available on the entire population.

Interestingly, some regular commenters here seem greatly concerned to prevent that message from getting out, to the point of calling anyone who dares to suggest such a thing a paid shill and part of a deliberate «Merchants Of Doubt» disinformation campaign — while they continue to repeat (with no supporting evidence whatsoever, and often contrary to observed facts) that rapid, major emissions reductions MUST impose draconian «deprivation and hardship» on the entire population.

The size of the CfC impacts on most outcomes was small, but can be considered positive relative to what was observed in the early phase of the UK Sure Start evaluation.3 The current results are also comparable in size to those found in the later impact evaluation of the Sure Start programme, in which 3 - year - old children were exposed to mature SSLP throughout their entire lives.4 Reviews of the effectiveness of early childhood interventions have found that most studies reported effect sizes on parenting and child outcomes that were small to moderate.14 15 When comparing CfC and SSLP with other interventions, it is important to remember that the evaluations of these interventions measured effects on an entire population, rather than on programme participants, as is the case in the evaluation of many other interventions.

Not exact matches

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

He went on to talk about how important it is to have a diverse bench of leadership to ensure more sound decision - making, rather than having one person from the «diverse group» represent his or her entire population.

A single foreclosure on a street impacts the entire population of the street not just the household that lost their home.

Entire populations within currency zones can literally nuke themselves to the verge of oblivion, and yet a portfolio that is maximally diversified in the investments of that territory, will never experience a nominal decline, since the return of such a portfolio is a function of aggregate revenues, which by definition is on a fixed growth path.

Nate lives in the small town of Grande Prairie, Alberta (population: 68,000)-- a four - hour connecting flight from Vancouver — and we'd spent our entire relationship dealing with the toll the long distance was taking on our hearts and bank accounts.

Irma made landfall Sept. 6 on the island of Barbuda as a Category 5 storm packing winds of up to 185 mph, one of the most powerful Atlantic hurricanes on record and ultimately forcing the evacuation of the entire population of the island.

How can you in all seriousness blame the whole entire problem on over population?

On one hand your god tells you killing is a sin — period — no modifiers, then he tells his followers to wipe out entire populations (plus their livestock as an added bonus).

Yeah, lets all pick one thing that a small population from a group participated in, then base the entire morality of that group on the few actions of a small population.

If only one vampire where to exist on earth it wouldn't be long before the entire human population was decimated.

Here is how one of them, looking back on the period, summarized what happened: «It is exceedingly rare in the history of populations that sudden changes appear across the entire set of demographic indicators.

Category five Hurricane Maria ravaged the island of Dominica after making landfall on 18th September, leaving 98 per cent of buildings damaged and thousands without power - affecting almost the entire 70,000 population.

Even though Jeezus said he was coming back before his generation died out and then failed to do so, they MUST HAVE MEANT something else... like... oh... gee, what can we make up to fit because Jeezus couldn't have been lying or else our religion will fall apart... oh, it MUST HAVE MEANT the entire population of Jews forever and ever on the face of the planet!

Some 200 million Christians» two - thirds of the entire population of the United States» are now suffering oppression, even to the point of death, on account of their faith.

The Preamble of the Declaration of the Right to Development, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1986, describes «development as a comprehensive economic, social, cultural and political process that aims at the constant improvement of the well - being of the entire population and of all individuals on the basis of their active, free and meaningful participation in development and in the fair distribution of resulting benefits».

Mine begins by literally drowning the entire earth and then forcing a family to inc.estually restart earth's population, there's also the whole smiting other people like the egyptians because they're heretics, or the amalekites and so on.

to bash someone for their race or sexuall orientation but apparently it is O.K. to condemn an entire population based on their beliefs.

Perhaps surprising is that these firms are targeting meat eaters, not vegans or vegetarians, and they are doing so by focusing on the need for the entire population to cut down on animal consumption to conserve valuable water and land resources.

It was only fair game for the entire population of the store to pile on him.

But on July 29, the team of mostly 13 - year - olds «'' along with potentially the entire population of Lemoore «'' hopes to be traveling to the same town it sent Granada home to: Livermore, the host city for the first Little League Intermediate 50/70 International World Series.

The consumer metrics that panel companies provide are based on statistically - derived estimates that are derived from a representative sample of consumers; in this instance, the behaviors of the sample are weighted and extrapolated to represent the entire internet browser population.

The design features a central viewing chamber with a system of mirrors that allows a single guard to keep watch on the entire prison population in their cells.

For comparison, here I applied Webster / Sainte - Laguë to the entire United States population without splitting them based on state:

In the independence referendum the SNP appeal to Labour voters was based on a highly positive, if rather romantic, view of Scotland's future and the entire population was highly engaged in the debate.

Under current law, the U.S. is on track to issue more new permanent immigrants on green cards over the next five years than the entire population of South Carolina.

Back on Earth, a gruesome facial cancer is threatening populations of Tasmanian devils, and it could destabilize an entire ecosystem.

An expanding ice - free season also means bears» stay on land would overlap the entire caribou calving season and a good portion of a booming geese population's molt and egg - laying season.

In 2009, Lewis and Rotjan surveyed the entire hermit crab population on Carrie Bow Cay.

Although the king of the jungle is fairly well studied, most research efforts have focused on individual populations rather than the entire species, which is down to perhaps as few as 20,000 individuals.

«Any planned infrastructure development in the region's sensitive Andean headwaters must consider the cumulative impacts on the entire ecosystem, especially to fish populations that are vital for the region's food security.»

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.»

«A study covering a large number of subjects, like the one in 2015, makes it possible to identify the relevant genes across the entire population; but their variations have only a limited impact on individuals.

A critical assumption of any research is that the animals being studied represent their entire population,» said M. Brad Eppard, a fisheries biologist with the Portland District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and a co-author on the paper.

Before the first reintroduction, in 2000 on a 989 - square - kilometer island off Estonia called Hiiumaa, hunters and a trapper killed the island's entire American mink population, the legacy of a defunct fur farm.

Newly developed approaches that use CRISPR / Cas9 gene editing technology can generate offspring that carry copies of the altered gene on both chromosomes — a phenomenon called super-Mendelian inheritance that, in theory, should quickly convert an entire population.

The country is one of the few in the world that collects detailed information on cancer and medication prescriptions for its entire population, and for which no comparable North American data source exists.

Commenting on the findings, Prof Robert Pirker, programme director for lung cancer at the Vienna General Hospital in Vienna, Austria, not involved in the study, said: «This subgroup analysis shows that the effect of necitumumab was slightly greater in patients with EGFR expressing tumours than it was in the entire SQUIRE population.

And now that investigators can sequence entire ancient populations, ancient DNA is revealing that humans on every continent are a complex mix of archaic and modern DNA.

By linking their database of environmental impacts to the individual, self - reported diets in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, the U-M and Tulane researchers were able to estimate the distribution of diet - related impacts across the entire U.S. population on a given day.