Sentences with phrase «population center on»

Hawaii is the most isolated population center on the face of the earth.

Hawaii is the most isolated population center on the face of the earth.

It is the second largest population center on the island.

Before Kihei and Wailea existed, Makena was the thriving population center on the island's southern coast.

The state is one of the most isolated population centers on earth, located 2,390 miles from the U.S. mainland and 3,850 from Japan.

Another problem is that the best wind - and solar - generation sites are in the Midwest and Southwest, far from the energy - hungry population centers on the east and west coasts.

Not exact matches

That said, there are certain populations that are overrepresented on Twitter in the U.S., according to the Pew Research Center: young people aged 18 to 29, African - Americans, city dwellers, and audiences reporting a household income of $ 75,000 or more.

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.

Similarly, the growth in the Aboriginal population is much faster than the growth in the general population and prices experienced on reserves are significantly higher than in urban centers.

Two local - news companies have focused on the large millennial populations in urban centers.

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.

Nonetheless, out of a population this large, the number of Muslim Americans who either perpetrated or were arrested for terrorist crimes in 2010 was... 20, according to the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security (a consortium of Duke University, the University of North Carolina and RTI International, a think tank).

A comprehensive demographic study of more than 230 countries and territories conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life estimates that there are 5.8 billion religiously affiliated adults and children around the globe, representing 84 % of the 2010 world population of 6.9 billion.

To make the economic case for an active population policy, population planners would ultimately need to center their arguments on estimates of the economic value of human life.

Your lifestyle directly causes misery on another part of the planet by supporting the corporations that spread misery to billions of people through the effects of industrialization, taking all natural resources from the masses, and herding humans into ever denser and easily manageable population centers.

Nazi racist ideology has its roots in hindu, pagan Egypt, ancestral home land of Saxons, meaning tied to or forged with essence, meanings god's, subcontinent never was part of hindu denial of truth absolute but hinduism, racism was imposed by force by hindu's, criminals of Egypt and Persia on nomadic population of subcontinent by declaring themselves to be god's, while native's of Europe were slaughtered to extinction by hindu Gaul's, criminal self centered after they were defeated as hindu, deniers of truth abolute Pharaoh's by the king's of Sudan.

Back in the period I am talking about, the 1930s and 1940s, Jews living in the major population centers of American Jewish life — New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and so on — might at least in some part of their daily lives have experienced a sense of cultural dominance: in their neighborhoods, on their blocks, most people lived as they did, and spoke as they did, and viewed the world as they did.

The cathedrals were built in the center of the population on the highest hill to dominate the countryside, just as the Christian faith dominated the culture.

Observing that the attack on the World Trade Center was the first assault against the American mainland since 1812, Chomsky declared that between 1812 and 2001, the United States «annihilated the indigenous population (millions of people), conquered half of Mexico, intervened violently in the surrounding region, conquered Hawaii and the Philippines (killing hundreds of thousands of Filipinos), and, in the past half century particularly, extended its resort to force throughout much of the world.

As the population expanded around those centers, political processes incorporated the suburbs into separate towns whose residents could pretend not to be dependent on the city and whose political concerns did not stretch beyond their own boundaries.

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.

She is always heading off somewhere: striking out on British Army or scientific expeditions to remote portions of the Belizean jungles; roaring up the Western Highway to Belmopan, the capital city, where her opinions are solicited with frequency by government ministers (she is now an official — albeit unpaid — land and resources adviser); or careering into Belize City, the country's population center, for a high - society cocktail party.

Tufts Medical Center and its Floating Hospital for Children established the Office of Community Health Programs in 1992 to respond to the challenges of an increasingly complex health care delivery environment, to meet the changing needs of Tufts Medical Center's diverse patient population and to focus on public health and disease prevention.

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.

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.

Cuomo addressed that seeming contradiction in a briefing at Indian Point on Sunday, saying the difference is that the Westchester nuclear power plant is near one of the world's largest population centers, and logistically, there can be no safe way to evacuate people if something major goes wrong.

New York officials believe, rightly or wrongly, that investors in New Jersey might be scared off if officials on the east side of the Hudson River were to also permit casinos in such population centers as Manhattan.

To allow for more meaningful comparisons, the Empire Center recalculated the OSC data on taxes, debt and spending as per - capita values — i.e., relative to population.

That popularity is centered on the bulk of the US population.

Rather, it must be the center of a health network that provides for emergency and acute care while also embracing an ambulatory care model that focuses on managing population health and keeping people from having to use the acute care portion of the building.

Owing to its vast shopping centers along its bustling Wolf Road, the population balloons to more than 200,000 on a daily basis.

If there are intelligent beings on Mars, they must find some means of conducting the scant supply of water from the poles to the centers of population.

Considering its small area, La Corona's population center contains a surprising amount of writing on carved stones, said epigrapher Simon Martin of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia.

Subica and his colleague, Li - Tzy Wu, a professor at Duke University Medical Center, took on the project in part because national estimates of Pacific Islander, American Indian, and multiracial adolescent substance use and suicidality are scarce, presumably due to their small population sizes.

Eben Paxton of the U.S. Geological Survey Pacific Islands Ecosystems Research Center at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and colleagues looked at population trends for seven species of native forest birds living on Kauai's Alakai Plateau, the eroded crater of a long - extinct volcano.

Dr. Iwona Rudkowska, a research scientist at the Endocrinology and Nephrology Department, at the CHU de Québec Research Center and assistant professor at Laval University, says «additional well - designed intervention studies are needed to ascertain the effects of increased dairy consumption on metabolic health in healthy and in metabolically deteriorated populations.»

«Though humpback whales are found in all oceans of the world, the North Pacific humpback whales should probably be considered a sub-species at an ocean - basin level — based on genetic isolation of these populations on an evolutionary time scale,» said Scott Baker, associate director of the Marine Mammal Institute at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center and lead author on the paper.

The analysis in this report relies primarily on data from a Pew Research Center survey of the general public, using a probability - based sample of the adult population by landline and cellular telephone Aug. 15 - 25, 2014, with a representative sample of 2,002 adults nationwide.

These women were at the white - hot center of the memory wars, and yet, Clancy says, «nobody was doing laboratory research on memory formation in this population.

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.

In the first study to report on the association of aspirin use with breast cancer outcomes in a large patient population, researchers examined the pattern of aspirin use, cancer pathology and overall survival in 1,000 patients treated at the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania and diagnosed with breast cancers, including receptor positive, HER2 - positive and triple negative cancers.

«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.

But projections spelled out in a new report reviewing the issue by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change suggests that by 2050 the total amount of carbon pollution from these sources could increase tenfold, depending on population, economics, and technology trends.

Recent studies have centered on potential water pollution from this process that may increase endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in surface and ground water and whether populations living near these operations have an increased risk of disease.

«When we look forward several decades, climate models predict such profound loss of Arctic sea ice that there's little doubt this will negatively affect polar bears throughout much of their range, because of their critical dependence on sea ice,» said Kristin Laidre, a researcher at the University of Washington's Polar Science Center in Seattle and co-author of a study on projections of the global polar bear population.

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.

«Given the aging of the population, emergency physicians need to be prepared to balance their obligations to the patient by documenting findings, reporting suspicions and referring patients to appropriate agencies,» said Marguerite DeLiema, Ph.D, of the Stanford University Center on Longevity in Stanford, Calif., the lead study author of «The Forensic Lens: Bringing Elder Neglect into Focus in the Emergency Department.»

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.

The research focus within the medical community has increasingly centered on the human intestine and its bacterial population, the so - called microbiome, especially in neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis.

Based on data from the large H70 and women's population studies, researchers at the University of Gothenburg Center for Aging and Health (AgeCap) have examined the sexual attitudes of senior citizens and identified the factors that determine whether or not they remain sexually active.