Sentences with phrase «population average»

They used population averages to estimate sexual partnerships, needle sharing and other risk behaviors.

Certainly, more accurate population averages would be obtained if each sample were composed of equal numbers of males and females.

Comparing these body weights to population averages shows that these champions carry 24 - 26 % more lean body mass than the average person of their height and bone structure.

Plumbers are quickly becoming an aged workforce, with an average age of 55 vs. the general workforce population average of 39.

Standard weight evaluations such as the Body Mass Index (BMI) measure total body weight based on population averages for height and body frame sizes.

C4 - 2B cell population averaged PNB lifetimes (ns) under various NP targeting and laser excitation conditions (wavelength, nm / fluence, mJ / cm2).

Children in both groups scored close to the general population average on these measures, but the authors also acknowledge the sample may have been too small (only 92 children) to detect any differences.

Rikers Island's jail population average for December is on track to hit below 9,000, a number not seen since 1982, Mayor Bill de Blasio's office said on Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017.

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.

Transwell assays could only compare population averages and lack single cell resolution.

In this regard, it is essentially impossible for Morton to have exploited sexual differences in cranial capacity to alter population averages.

Of all the variations in breeding strategies, the most effective at reducing the rate of inbreeding over the long term in this particular simulated population was to restrict breeding to the animals with the lowest average genetic relatedness to the other animals in the population

According to U.S. Census Bureau data, in 2008, blacks and Hispanics constituted only 1.5 % and 4.7 % respectively of the Valley's tech population — well below national tech - population averages of 7.1 % and 5.3 %.

A recent study of the gluten - free diets of new and experienced coeliacs found that significant numbers of adult female participants did not achieve the recommended dietary intakes (RDI) or even the population averages of thiamin, folate, calcium, iron or fibre.

Not surprisingly, the area where the people with stroke were most affected was physical functioning, where 63 percent had scores considered meaningfully worse than those of the general population, with an average score of 59, where a score of 50 is considered the population average.

The thinking skills of people with stroke in executive function, or planning and organizing, were also affected, with 46 percent having scores that were meaningfully worse than the population average.

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.

Because traditional rigid implanted probes are invariably unstable, he explained, researchers and clinicians rely on decoding what they call the «population average» — essentially taking a host of neural signals and applying complex computational tools to determine what they mean.

(That's about double the population average, probably because these women are younger than the average driver.)

The results showed that normal physical fitness, even up to 20 % below the population average, is sufficient to have a preventive effect on five of the eight risk factors affecting people with cardiovascular disease — abdominal circumference, diabetes, hypertension, obesity, and excess weight.

Testing for these variants combined with all 21 previously identified using genetic sequencing identified men with a 10-fold higher risk of testicular cancer than the population average.

Furthermore, it becomes increasingly evident that genome architecture varies significantly in individual cells and that many known features of genome folding, such as partitioning of chromosomes into topologically - associating domains, represent a population average.

Although skin fold assessments are based on a population average, measuring key areas such as your bicep, tricep, stomach and back can show you how much fat loss you have achieved.

«Normal» range comes from a population average, but each individual is different.

If someone needs 10 hours of sleep to feel rested, but only gets 8 hours, they will gradually become sleep deprived even though they may seem to be getting enough sleep based on the population average.

Extending a theoretical model of causal inference, I define, identify, and estimate the population average and the between - site variance of the direct and indirect effects.

You might be anticipating that your personal longevity will reach beyond the population average.

The impact of top - ranked popular sires is even more obvious in this figure of the maximum number of pups produced by a single sire in a year compared to the population average.

The expected level of inbreeding assumes that breeding is random; the higher observed level indicates that the animals being bred together that are more closely related than the population average.

:: An Anamoly describes the sum of difference over a year, when this sum is added to the baseline Temperature, average annual global Temperature for the year is described, when this figure is added to the population the average is increased, if the Anomaly is positive.

Graph shows that adding the interaction of slowly and quickly migrating species in response to climate change, increases the overall time lag (of population average) compared to the geographically shifting temperature gradient — and therefore the overall extinction risk associated with this warming.

90th Percentile means roughly that if you had a room of a hundred people randomly chosen from the population an averaged lawyer would be more skeptical than 89 people in the room and less skeptical than 10 of them (I'm curious as to who those 10 would be and what they do for a living, maybe debt collections and lobbyists?)

This brief presents the findings of a larger research paper, currently under review, in which we review the evidence for four home visiting program being implemented with MIECHV funding and compare these effects to population averages and professional recommendations to provide a context in which to interpret those effects.