Sentences with phrase «percent of population»

The RDA is the amount of each component needed to prevent nutritional deficiency in 97.5 percent of the population above the age of 4, not including pregnant and nursing women.

These milder WNT10A mutations occur surprisingly frequently, in about 1 to 2 percent of the population.

This finding jibes with past studies that observed an optimism bias in about 80 percent of the population.

Estimates are that 20 percent of the population carries the?

According to this study, by 2100 that will increase to about 70 percent of the population, and about 2 percent of the people will sometimes be exposed to the survivability limit of 35 degrees.

It may be part of your life, and of my life, yet only 2 percent of the population is listening to NPR.

But Jon Krosnick, a professor at Stanford University, said the only group affected by cold weather in terms of belief about climate change is the 30 percent of the population who distrust scientists.

That in itself is significant, and could reduce food security for 4.5 percent of the population in an already - struggling region.

BRAN FERREN: A poll of the panel: When do you think 50 percent of the population on the planet will be connected by the Internet?

According to the National Center for PTSD in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, about 8 percent of the population will have PTSD at some point in their lives.

Two thirds (66 percent) of people with dementia live in low - and middle - income countries, where less than 10 percent of population - based research has been conducted.

That number rises to about 24,000 people (4 percent of the population) if all additional public green spaces were converted.

Of Al - Sayyid's 3,500 residents, about one in 25 is deaf — 4 percent of the population.

So, too, areas in which people of color make up at least 25 percent of the total population average nearly five times as many pounds of chemical emissions from industrial facilities per square mile, compared with communities where less than 5 percent of the population are people of color.

After nine generations, the transgenic mosquitoes made up 70 percent of the population, meaning they survived better and laid more eggs than the ordinary ones.

Scott Weaver, a virologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, notes that in places where chikungunya immunity was measured, «typically from 20 to 50 percent of the population became infected as the outbreak swept through a given region.»

The findings of the studythe first to measure cumulative exposure to environmental hazards of all kinds in the stateare dramatic: communities in which people of color make up at least 15 percent of the population average more than four times the number of hazardous waste sites, compared with communities having less than 5 percent people of color.

«People with physical disabilities constitute 16.2 percent of the population and the majority of the population will experience physical disability at some point during their lifetime,» Borrelli says.

«It's not out of the question that Miami Beach loses 20 percent of its population and most of those people go to the mainland,» he said.

Despite making up 37 percent of the population, the 16 states plus the District of Columbia that constitute the American South accounted for half of the 45,000 new cases of HIV infection in the U.S. in 2009.

Even though Botswana is a relatively wealthy country by African standards, some 38 percent of the population is classified as poor.

Schizophrenia affects about 1 percent of the population, causing hallucinations, depression and impaired thinking and social behavior.

The earlier paper, published in 2013, already had shown a decline of 62 percent of the population between 2002 and 2011 — to less than 10 percent of its potential historical size, and that elephants occupied only a quarter of the forests where they once roamed.

After finding that two closely related species, the desert and Bryant's woodrats, could interbreed and produce hybrid offspring, scientists set out to determine why only 14 percent of the population in a «contact zone» had genetic signatures from both species.

Under this scenario, the new study finds that 4 percent of the South Asian population would experience deadly wet - bulb temperatures exceeding 35 ° C. Approximately 75 percent of the population would experience humid temperatures higher than 31 ° C, which are dangerous for most humans, but rarely reached right now, Pal and colleagues report.

In the United States, more than 25 percent of the population was affected by the extremely virulent influenza A H1N1 virus, forcing schools, theaters and public places to close.

MDD remains highly prevalent disease with some 15 to 20 percent of the population experiencing MDD at some point.

She and her fellow researchers defined higher SES areas as those areas where at least 85 percent of the population had graduated from high school; all other areas were considered lower SES areas.

A commonly diagnosed disorder that underwent diagnostic changes is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), which affects an estimated six percent of the population — or about 19 million people in the United States.

This technology may be a boon for many people in the future, since 2 percent of Americans wear hearing aids, but perhaps 10 percent of the population could benefit from wearing one, Hall said.

And it shows that almost 90 percent of the population of osprey is from New England as well from the east part of Canada migrate or winter in Cuba.

«The percentages we saw last week, they were as high as 40 to 60 percent of the population that's showing signs of wasting,» said Bruce Menge, a marine biologist at Oregon State University, who is studying the wasting disease in Oregon.

In particular, the smallholder farms in sub-Saharan Africa, which account for more than 90 percent of agricultural production and the primary livelihood of 65 percent of the population, need to be more productive.

Meanwhile, disease - specific barcodes are likely to be more rare, found in less than 10 percent of the population.

An estimated 40 percent of the population has the primary gene variant associated with celiac disease, but only 1 percent of people with these genes go on to develop intestinal inflammation and damage — the hallmarks of the disease — after ingesting gluten.

Italian engineer and social scientist Vilfredo Pareto observed a century ago that 80 percent of wealth is controlled by 20 percent of the population.

Eighty percent of a population of Burmese long - tailed macaques on an island in southern Thailand use stone and shell tools to crack open seafood, and do so using 17 different action patterns, according to a study published May 13, 2015 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Amanda Tan from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and colleagues, under an 8 year field project led by Michael D Gumert, also from NTU.

European Eel The unsustainable harvest rates of European eel and diminished migration (because of dam construction around Europe) add up to a decline of at least 80 percent of the population since 1968.

A portable detector would greatly aid efforts to fight the infection in developing countries, particularly parts of Asia and Africa where as much as 40 percent of the population carries the microbe, says Robert Belknap, a physician and TB expert at the Denver Health Medical Center in Colorado.

They estimate that some 1.8 billion people — 28 percent of the population worldwide — was using unsafe water as of 2010.

On the continent as a whole, more than 90 percent of the population relies on firewood or charcoal.

Even with 94 percent coverage [via the injected vaccine with the dead virus] you still have 6 percent of the population that can get the virus, and there are still risks among the 94 percent, too.

Six months on land would kill off 28 percent of the population even if bears spent that period mostly resting, based on estimates of their fat reserves.

People with the rare AB blood type, present in less than 10 percent of the population, have a higher than usual risk of cognitive problems as they age.

About 2 percent of the population also has [is born with?]

But I know you have your very good reasons for being among the 98 percent of the population that shuns public transportation: • You can read, check email, send text messages, or catch a few winks while you're swerving into oncoming traffic and pedestrians • You have built - in motivation for stopping at Wendy's for celebration takeout, given that you haven't had to walk more than nine consecutive steps the entire day • You feel good about the copious burning of hydrocarbons, which is creating valuable new beachfront property • You get to trade hand gestures and occasional gunfire with fellow traffic jammers.

In the summer of 2015, Cox showed me several hives that bore the standard signs: healthy brood; good stores of pollen and nectar, or «bee food,» and little else; a few straggling workers, maybe 10 percent of the population he had last week; and a big queen, running around her now - empty castle like a mom, knowing that without her stable of workers she'll be unable to feed her babies.

As a consequence, the population of the area is dropping — the state has lost about 18 percent of its population over the years.

The SCARB1 mutation affects 43 percent of the population, and within this group the carriers for the rs10846744 variant have a 45 percent increased risk of heart attack — likely due to low LAG3 protein in their plasma.

In the US and other developed nations, more than 90 percent of the population becomes infected by age 20.