Sentences with phrase «population centers make»

Good wind speeds, shallow water, and proximity to population centers make offshore wind a promising grid - scale renewable resource.

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In an analysis of the changing shape of the American middle class, Pew Research Center divided the population into three groups: Lower - income Americans made less than 2/3 of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 % of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.

A report from the nonpartisan Fiscal Policy Institute's Immigration Research Center, for instance, looked at data from the Survey of Business Owners and the American Community Survey and determined that though immigrants make up 13 percent of the U.S. population in general, they make up 18 percent of small business owners, and that immigrant - owned businesses account for 14 percent of private sector employment.

Latin America's Catholics make up 39 % of the world's Catholic population, according to the Pew Research Center.

Christians and Jews were peoples of the book whom Muslims would tolerate» indeed Jews, who were a majority of the city's population, thrived in Ottoman Salonica and made it a center of rabbinical learning» but only if they paid a high tax and accepted second - class status.

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.

Church attendance is decreasing, though, and a larger share of the population is made of recent immigrants and their children who have no history of center - right political activism.

What hope is there that this still very large but mostly confused and silent religious center of the American population may yet rouse itself and make a contribution to public civility worthy of what it made in the past?

It turns out to be much easier to make a living as a freelancer of any kind (midwife included) if you live in a major population center, among a geographical cluster of patients.

Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that youth ages 15 - 24 make up just over one quarter of the sexually active population, but account for half of the 20 million new sexually transmitted infections that occur in the United States each year.

Cuomo's office did not respond directly to Bloomberg's comments but referred POLITICO New York to remarks the governor made last month regarding Indian Point's proximity to one of the biggest population centers in the world.

A lot of discussion and energy went into making sure that this proposed workforce development center is able to reach the diversity of the city's population.»

Regardless, since New Hampshire has a very popular Democratic governor (70 % in the polls), the Bush regime and the kiss - ass Republicans in Congress have been like maggots under the skin (which is why both Repub reps got zapped - and Sen. Sununu is about to), and the dramatic increase in liberal voters in the southern tier population centers — all makes it more than likely that NH will be going Democratic this year no matter who heads the ticket.

Its central location within 500 miles of the major population and distribution centers of the Northeast and North Central States, and within 500 miles of 75 percent of the Canadian population, makes it ideal for industry and distribution.

«This study is significant because the intervention was done in the home and did not require the infrastructure of a center - based intervention, making it feasible for low - resource populations and middle - low - income countries to implement.»

«As Hispanics make up an increasingly larger share of the Texas population, it's critical that we consider their needs when developing and implementing policies about health insurance,» said Vivian Ho, the chair in health economics at Rice's Baker Institute and director of the institute's Center for Health and Biosciences, a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

Part of the problem is that trials involving vitamin D and calcium are inconsistent — they test different doses for varying lengths of time in diverse populations, which «makes it extra tricky when you try to put them all together and come up with a final analysis,» says Erin LeBlanc, an endocrinologist at the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in Portland, Ore..

China's aging population and rapid migration to coastal urban centers will make the country more susceptible to effects of climate change like rising sea levels and extreme weather events, recent research by scientists at University College London and experts from the United States, China and India has found.

The combination of a hot, humid climate ideal for breeding mosquitoes and large population centers in southern China combine to make this area a particular concern for public health officials.

The valley comprises some 11 percent of the state's land area and includes population centers such as Sacramento and Fresno, but the majority of the region is made up of farmland — some of the most productive on the planet.

Since then, he has overseen the expansion of Wake Forest Baptist Health and Wake Forest School of Medicine with new programs and facilities, the advancement of Wake Forest Baptist's Comprehensive Cancer Center to the highest ranked cancer center in the Southeast as determined by US News & World Report, and the development of regional partnerships that have made the Medical Center a leader in population health managCenter to the highest ranked cancer center in the Southeast as determined by US News & World Report, and the development of regional partnerships that have made the Medical Center a leader in population health managcenter in the Southeast as determined by US News & World Report, and the development of regional partnerships that have made the Medical Center a leader in population health managCenter a leader in population health management.

«And even the researchers considered a wide range of factors, such as diet, exercise, alcohol consumption, smoking, body mass and marital status, it's still possible that people who drink coffee differ from the rest of the population in as - yet unidentified ways that make them less vulnerable to disease and early death» — says Susan Fisher, Ph.D., chair of community and preventive medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center, in Rochester, New York.

By 2005, young singles made up 46 % of China's total population, according to China Youth and Child Research Center and the population research center of the Renmin University of Center and the population research center of the Renmin University of center of the Renmin University of China.

Though a small village until the late 1960s, with only 6,392 people living in the entire municipality in 1950, by March 1, 2007 this number had grown to 118,483, making Zoetermeer the third largest population center in the province of South Holland, after Rotterdam and The Hague.

Her most recent projects include bringing maker - centered learning experiences to underrepresented populations and rural areas in her mobile studio for creating and making named EMMA (E) veryone (M) ay (M) ake (A) nywhere.

A report released by the Center for American Progress (2011) indicated minority students made up more than 40 percent of the national public school population, while only 17 percent of the nation's teachers are teachers of color.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities» analysis found that since the end of the recession, local revenue growth has only averaged 1.5 % above inflation, not remotely enough to make up for lost state funds and increasing student populations.

The big storms that blow down from Alaska make weather a daily topic of conversation, especially in the vicinity of Seattle, where 60 percent of the population is centered and which gets 37 inches of rain per year.

And with over 190 million inhabitants, Brazil's general population growth pushes lower - income people to the borders of affluent city centers, making the differences in socio - economic status even more obvious.

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A recent study by the American Society of News Editors, the Women's Media Center and the advocacy group VIDA, revealed that Hispanics make up less than six percent of the population in newsrooms.

The population initially centered on the shipping towns in the north and then pushed inward in both a spirit of exploration and an attempt to make their country more defensible against attack.

And I made my task harder by centering this blog on a broad question: How do we limit regrets as we head toward a global population of 9 billion people seeking better lives?

«I was gob - smacked as we made our final approach into the ruins of the airport in Tacloban — the first major population center in the Philippines to be struck by Super Typhoon Haiyan.

Specifically, the claim was made that temperatures in Churchill, Manitoba (close to the center of the Western Hudson Bay population of bears) had not risen, and that instead, any multidecadal variations in temperatures affecting the bears were related to the Arctic Oscillation (AO), a mode of natural variability.

This project actually made it possible for wind - generated electricity to move from wind farms in West Texas and the panhandle to larger population centers, such as San Antonio and Dallas.

The term refers to the fact that buildings and asphalt are darker than surrounding countryside, often making cities and population centers hotter.

With falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures making it difficult to feed growing populations, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the global struggle for food security.

Women survivors of sex trafficking, labor trafficking, and domestic servitude make up 90 % percent of HT Legal Center's client population.

For example, if you're volunteering in central Africa, this coverage could make the difference between being transported to a hospital in a major population center of your volunteer - site country, being transported to a hospital in a more developed nearby country such as South Africa, or being transported back to a hospital in your home country.

And Mary Black of Baton Rouge cited a 2008 report from the Center for American Progress, which said that small business owners and employees make up «the largest share of the uninsured population» - 27 million of the 47 million Americans without health insurance.

Located in Central Florida, it is the center of the Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,387,138, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures released in March 2016, making it the 24th - largest metropolitan area in the United States, the sixth - largest metropolitan area in the Southern United States, and the third - largest metropolitan area in Florida.

year Publication year, N total sample size, #ES amount of effect sizes, AC child age category of the child at the start of the program, Design research design, PCDC parent child development centers, CB community - based, CPEP child — parent enrichment project, FGDM family group decision making, HS healthy start, PCIT parent — child interaction therapy, CBFRS community - based family resource service, PUP parents under pressure, SEEK safe environment for every kid, HF healthy families, STEP systematic training for effective parenting, TPBP teen parents and babies program, TEEP Turkish early enrichment project, IFPS intensive family preservation services, ACT adults and children together, CBT cognitive behavioral therapy, PSBCT parent skills with behavioral couples therapy, PCTT parents and children talking together, FIRST family information, referral and support team, NFP nurse family partnership, HSYC healthy steps for young children, REACH resources, education and care in the home, PMD parents make the difference, CPC child — parent center, MST - BSF multisystemic therapy — building stronger families, PriCARE primary child — adult relationship enhancement, SSTP stepping stones Triple P, CAMP Colorado adolescent maternity program, STEEP steps toward effective and enjoyable parenting, FGC family group conferences, MST - CAN multisystemic therapy for child abuse and neglect, PAT parent as teachers, CM case management, CPS child protective services, NS not specified, QE quasi-experimental, RCT randomized controlled trial, R risk group, GP general population, M maltreating parents

Unless VREB is making recommendations that center around population growth (through immigration), they are simply ignoring their existing clients.

Last fall, the Pew Research Center released an interactive map on patterns of global population migration, making it easy to visualize the...