Sentences with phrase «other population center»

(Recent climate models suggest that America's East Coast might see sea levels rising higher and faster than any other population center in the world.)

Yet because it moved west to avoid a full - on hit on Miami and other population centers, major benchmarks climbed more than 1 % today.

Not exact matches

The left - leaning Center for Economic and Policy Research noted the other day that the share of the prime working - age population with jobs is still below where it was in December 2007.

These population centers often lean one way while rural parts of the same state lean the other.

From a small trading post in the 15th century to a metropolitan area with a population of over 14 million, this massive city dwarfs Thailand's other urban centers.

Other surveys — such as the General Social Surveys, conducted by the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago since 1972 — find that the Catholic share of the U.S. adult population has held fairly steady in recent decades at around 25 %.

Talk about destroying the population centers of other countries springs from a combination of fatalism and callousness.

And on the world - food security front, ARS» Stuttgart center is closing in on genes that regulate rice's uptake and storage of iron, thiamine and other important vitamins and minerals — a pursuit that could bolster the nutritional value of this cereal grain crop as a staple food for roughly half the world's population.

Her courses are taught primarily in medical centers, rehabilitation hospitals for special needs children, and other programs that focus on the zero to 5 populations.

The Comptroller also discussed other recent work of his office, including the release of his Immigrant Rights guide — a comprehensive guide to local legal, social service and community resources for immigrant communities — and a letter he wrote to the Department for the Aging urging them to ensure the City's senior centers provide culturally sensitive services for emerging immigrant senior populations.

Cuomo is considering converting the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center campus in Queens into lodgings for some of New York City's homeless population, as well as using other state psychiatric facilities.

This year, the Center School serves a population that's 58 percent white, 12 percent black, 18 percent Hispanic, 6 percent Asian and 6 percent «other.»

«We find that fires that are upwind from population centers increase pollution levels in those areas and other fires don't increase pollution nearly as much,» Vogl said.

However, along with this seemingly linear storyline in which retinoids block progesterone's promotion of CK5 + cells, previous work in the lab of CU Cancer Center investigator Peter Kabos, MD, and others shows that breast cancers treated with anti-estrogen drugs like tamoxifen or aromatase inhibitors show an increased population of CK5 + cells — it is as if these therapies remove the roadblock of estrogen - dependent cells, leaving CK5 + cells to proliferate.

Seeking additional insight into similar mechanisms at work in other centers of the brain, Donato and his team discovered that the signal to develop one area known to be involved in more abstract functions, including memory and navigation, originated from deep within the brain, in a specific population of neurons that kicks off the maturation of an entire neural network.

On the other hand, they say the city could grow even more resilient due to the ongoing efforts to reduce the urban heat island effect — for instance through programs to install reflective roofs and plant trees, as well as to protect vulnerable populations through heat warning systems and the availability of cooling centers.

The researchers used high - resolution X-ray computed tomography (CT) at the Museum's Microscopy and Imaging Facility, the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, and the Biomaterials Science Center of the University of Basel in Switzerland to scan the skulls of 21 felid specimens, including seven modern cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) from distinct populations, a closely related extinct cheetah (Acinonyx pardinensis) that lived in the Pleistocene between about 2.6 million and 126,000 years ago, and more than a dozen other living felid species.

The team accounted for this, and was able to show that the velocity dispersion or random motion of the RR Lyrae star population was very high relative to the other stars in the Milky Way's center.

If so, says Grover Bagby, a hematologist who directs the Oregon Cancer Center at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland, further work to decipher the protein's exact function could shed light on how to treat a much larger population of patients with leukemia, certain other forms of cancer, and aplastic anemia.

And so critics from left, right and the intellectual center gang up on the handful of environmentalists and other activists who try to get population into national and global discussions.

Located near the center of the brain, the nucleus accumbens is connected, by intermingled populations of cells, to many other brain structures having roles in pleasure seeking and drug addiction.

The Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice, and other groups say they are particularly alarmed by the plan's goal of establishing a population of just 300 to 325 animals, and the provision that blocks the wolves from living north of U.S. Interstate 40.

The best way to do that was placing monitoring equipment far from population centers, where CO2 streaming from power plants, automobiles and other infrastructure could skew attempts to determine the average global level of CO2.

In 2011 the Center reached a landmark agreement with the Fish and Wildlife Service compelling the agency to move forward on protections for the Mono Basin sage grouse population — as well as the greater sage grouse as a whole and more than 750 other species.

This center fosters collaborations among researchers at MD Anderson Smithville, in Houston and with other instutions in central Texas to reach the goal of understanding how environmental exposures influence cancer outcomes in the human population by identifying new targets and strategies for cancer prevention and treatment.

Ernest Hawk, vice president and head of the division of cancer prevention and population science at MD Anderson Cancer Center, said that stepped - up prevention efforts could deliver further gains because «we already know how to prevent the bulk of tobacco - and HPV - related cancers, as well as how to reduce deaths from other cancers. . .

The comparison suggests that the ancestors of Ancient Beringians and those of other Native Americans descended from a single founding population that first split from East Asians around 36,000 years ago, although gene flow with North Eurasians — possibly centered around Lake Baikal in southern Siberia — continued until about 25,000 years ago.

August 11, 2009 — The Center petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to formally separate the Mexican gray wolf from other U.S. wolf populations and list it under the Endangered Species Act as either an endangered subspecies or a «distinct population segment.»

Moreover, all of the study participants lived in northern Denmark, so the findings don't necessarily apply to other populations and regions, including the United States, says Jennifer Y. Lin, M.D., a dermatologist at the Dana - Farber / Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, in Boston.

Others suffer from a gluten allergy or a non-celiac gluten sensitivity, which is estimated to affect 6 percent of the U.S. population, according to the Center for Celiac Research and Treatment.

For sixteen years, Andres has taught yoga to diverse populations throughout the world, including Baltimore City Public School students, drug treatment centers, mental crisis facilities, homeless shelters, wellness centers, colleges, private schools and other various venues throughout the nation and throughout the world.

Other significant population centers include Mount Gambier (approx. 23,494), Whyalla (21,122), Murray Bridge (18,364), Port Augusta (13,257), Port Pirie (13,206), Port Lincoln (13,044), and Victor Harbor (10,380).

Other major population centers include Launceston in the north and Devonport and Burnie in the northwest.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

In the training area we also have other projects such as INAV, which is the first online secondary education center for adults, with an integrated training program which allows to take the second cycle of secondary education in a single academic year and it is designed for the adult population.

Regression models with nationally representative data revealed that children from Mexican immigrant families were overrepresented in parental care and underrepresented in center - based care compared to their native peers from other race / ethnic populations, which helped to explain a significant but small portion of their generally lower rates of both math achievement and externalizing symptoms in kindergarten.

This region is home to a complex multimodal network of transportation infrastructure and several large population centers, and it plays a critical national economic role in the import and export of oil and gas, agricultural products, and other goods.

In Mississippi, the population is less concentrated in urban centers than in other states, largely because of the influence of agriculture on the economy.

Other less rural areas outside of major population centers with a serious lack of mortgage credit may qualify with populations between 10,000 - 20,000 residents.

Through her work at UC Davis, the Center for Shelter Dogs / Animal Rescue League of Boston, Maddie's Fund ® and others, she's developed strategies to identify those effects not only in individual cats, but in the entire population of cats in a facility - a phenomenon known as «whole - shelter stress.»

The Animal Health Diagnostic Center (AHDC) at Cornell has since confirmed that Canine Influenza has reached other states and the non - greyhound canine population.

Through her work at UC Davis, the Center for Shelter Dogs / Animal Rescue League of Boston, Maddie's Fund ® and others, she's developed strategies to recognize those effects both in individual dogs and in the whole shelter population - yes, it happens!

The Trap - Neuter - Return method of humanely controlling feral cat populations is endorsed by the American Veterinary Medical Association, Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, the Cornell Feline Health Center, Alley Cat Allies, and many other national organizations.

Dogs that come through other shelters reside temporarily in our Stewart Transport Center at our main shelter in North Philadelphia, secluded from the adoptable population until they can be cleared by our medical staff.

The Marine Mammal Center is now equipped with a new facility that can accommodate up to four otters and is looking at how domoic acid and other threats are impacting California's otter population, which is concentrated in the central part of the state.

Volunteers interact with Sea Center visitors, discussing comparative anatomy, population density, and other intriguing facts about marine mammals.

But as the largest population center in the country it is the commercial capital and the place to do business and connect to other areas of this Caribbean Destination.

Self - sufficient compared other cities in the region (the latter of which were hopelessly dependent on its urban population), it managed to last almost a full century longer than other centers in the area after the Mayan collapse.

In other parts of the Philippines, town - size resettlement and training centers have been established to deal with a rotating population of evacuees and resettled slum dwellers.

Of course these figures are based on reality in the UK, where distances between population centers are much shorter than in many other countries — but it's enough to get your average gas station owner nervous.