Sentences with phrase «population decreased by»

Santa Cruz County's population decreased by 152 people in 2016.

As of the 2010 United States Census the population decreased by 0.5 % to 68,406; a recent 2014 Census estimates the population at 68,364, making it the sixth - largest city in the state.

North Dakota, where the population decreased by 0 % and the economy shrunk by 32 % between 1990 and 2001, had a 17 % rise in carbon dioxide emissions to 51.8 million metric tons.

District of Columbia, where the population decreased by -5 % and the economy shrunk by 12 % between 1990 and 2001, had a -7 % fall in carbon dioxide emissions to 4.1 million metric tons.

The campus cat population decreased by 85 % to 23 cats in 2002, demonstrating that a long - term program of neutering plus adoption or a return to the resident colony can reduce freeroaming cat populations in urban areas (Levy et al., 2003).

It is estimated that the native Mahlemiut population decreased by 50 % during this time.

Here, the population decreased by 2,081 people, or 0.4 percent.

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Changes were then made to immigration law to reduce admissions, decreasing the foreign - born population until it fell to about 9.6 million by 1970.

According to a study done by the Pew Research Center, between 2000 and 2014, middle - class populations decreased in 203 of the 229 metropolitan areas.

The Pittsburgh area also saw a population decrease while the Milwaukee metropolitan area squeaked by with a gain of less than 100 people, Frey said.

«Based on [current population survey] data from 1980 - 2015, we find that increasing the minimum wage decreases significantly the share of automatable employment held by low - skilled workers,» the study says.

During the 2014 - 24 period, the growth of the labor force will be due entirely to population growth, as the overall labor force participation rate is expected to decrease even further by 2024.»

According to the Intercept, the island's population has decreased by 10 % in the past decade.

By 2050 Russia's population will have decreased by about 35 millioBy 2050 Russia's population will have decreased by about 35 millioby about 35 million.

Joseph Stalin atheist murdered 24 million citizens not counting his war dead Pol Pot atheist decreased Cambodian population by over two milllion Tell us again about the «kind» «helpful» «do no harm» atheists

By the year 2000 at least 53 million people will be added to its population, even allowing for some decrease in birthrate.

However, penetration — the percentage of the population buying a brand — has fallen for each of the names included in the British top 10, and overall branded sales have decreased by 1.6 % in comparison to private label growth of 1.7 %.

But discouraging harsh physical discipline — a response to child behavior practiced by close to half of American parents — could yield important payoffs, the authors wrote, concluding that «reducing physical punishment may help to decrease the prevalence of mental disorders in the general population.»

• Assumptions about different cultural groups and how they impact breastfeeding support • Shoshone and Arapaho tribal breastfeeding traditions shared through oral folklore • Barriers to decreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African Americdecreasing health disparities in infant mortality for African Americans • Effects of inflammation and trauma on health disparities that result in higher rates of infant mortality among minority populations • Barriers to breastfeeding experienced by Black mothers and how lactation consultants can support them more effectively • Social support and breastfeeding self - efficacy among Black mothers • Decreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African AmericDecreasing pregnancy, birth, and lactation health disparities in the urban core • Positive changes in breastfeeding rates within the African American community • Grassroots breastfeeding organizations serving African American mothers

The prone or side sleep position can increase the risk of rebreathing expired gases, resulting in hypercapnia and hypoxia.54, — , 57 The prone position also increases the risk of overheating by decreasing the rate of heat loss and increasing body temperature compared with infants sleeping supine.58, 59 Recent evidence suggests that prone sleeping alters the autonomic control of the infant cardiovascular system during sleep, particularly at 2 to 3 months of age, 60 and can result in decreased cerebral oxygenation.61 The prone position places infants at high risk of SIDS (odds ratio [OR]: 2.3 — 13.1).62, — , 66 However, recent studies have demonstrated that the SIDS risks associated with side and prone position are similar in magnitude (OR: 2.0 and 2.6, respectively) 63 and that the population - attributable risk reported for side sleep position is higher than that for prone position.65, 67 Furthermore, the risk of SIDS is exceptionally high for infants who are placed on their side and found on their stomach (OR: 8.7).63 The side sleep position is inherently unstable, and the probability of an infant rolling to the prone position from the side sleep position is significantly greater than rolling prone from the back.65, 68 Infants who are unaccustomed to the prone position and are placed prone for sleep are also at greater risk than those usually placed prone (adjusted OR: 8.7 — 45.4).63, 69,70 Therefore, it is critically important that every caregiver use the supine sleep position for every sleep period.

New York's prison population is decreasing, but the number of inmates age 50 and over rose 46 percent from 2007 to 2016, and the state must adjust its policies to meet the unique needs of this population, according to a report issued today by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office.

The Republican and Democratic party are merely political actors controlled by behemoth sized financial actors to «divide and conquer» the american population in order to decrease their political energy and allow their agenda to unfold.

While the decrease was slight — just 0.01 percent — 2015 - 16 marks the first year since 2005 - 06 in which New York State's estimated population dropped by any amount.

For most of the past three decades, B&ECPL has operated under the constraints imposed by Erie County's struggling economy and decreasing population.

Since the United States» trade deficit appeared in 1975, the number of Americans employed in the manufacturing sector has decreased year by year from twenty five percent of the population to ten percent in 2010.

«ICCAT has consistently set catch quotas for the East Atlantic and Mediterranean stock above levels recommended by its scientists and the failure of its management measures is demonstrated by the continuously decreasing population,» Monaco government officials say in their application.

«Obesity is a well - established risk factor for breast cancer in the general population and some studies suggest that maintaining a healthy lifestyle by exercising or avoiding obesity may decrease the likelihood of developing cancer in BRCA mutation carriers.»

Researchers also report that eelgrass declined by 64 percent between 1990 and 2008, and adult oyster populations have decreased from 125,000 in 1997 to 10,000 in 2009.

Unlike UN projections, the team expects a slow decrease in world population to 8.4 billion by 2100.

To stave off a complete collapse of gulf fisheries and shrimp populations, Scavia finds, the dead zone must shrink drastically, to 2,000 square miles or less — and for that to happen, agricultural nitrogen runoff will have to decrease by at least 40 percent.

Rusty Blackbird (Euphagus carolinus) populations have decreased by about 95 % in the last fifty years, but the reasons are not well understood; it doesn't help that their preferred breeding habitat, stunted conifers deep in the wetlands of the boreal forest, makes finding and studying them difficult.

Glaum and Kessler developed a computer model showing that decreased growth of individual plants can benefit overall populations and community resilience by indirectly controlling herbivore population growth.

Removing the flowers from villages in Mali decreased the local mosquito vector population by nearly 60 %.

Simply by aging, our dopamine production decreases to the point that the effects from a mutation in this gene are not noticeable in older adults, but make a big difference in younger populations,» Webb said.

Rapid deforestation, mainly due to the oil palm industry and other agricultural plantations, illegal pet trade and poaching by killing mothers so their young can be taken, has resulted in the population in Borneo decreasing by more than 50 percent.

By the 1950s, a declining mayfly population in the western basin of Lake Erie indicated widespread anthropogenic eutrophication (human activities resulting in more nutrients such as phosphorus in the water, leading in turn to decreased oxygen levels).

According to estimates by the World Conservation Organization IUCN, the world's giraffe population is about 100,000 individuals — showing a decreasing trend.

Human population has doubled in the past 35 years; in the same period, the number of invertebrate animals — such as beetles, butterflies, spiders and worms — has decreased by 45 percent.

«Ulcerative colitis is often associated with decreased mucus production and the worms seem to somehow restore mucus production, possibly by inducing a population of immune cells that make IL - 22,» Loke says.

Total spending decreased by $ 136 annually per beneficiary across the overall Medicare population and $ 456 annually per beneficiary in the multiple conditions subgroup.

Since 2000 the 50 fastest - growing counties by population decreased their per capita emissions by only 12 percent — a reduction that was not enough to offset the total emissions growth in those same areas.

By contrast, Miller says, greater levels of enforcement in Niger's national park were associated with sharply decreasing income levels among park neighbors but did not have as statistically significant effect on wildlife populations.

The team, composed of researchers in Canada and the UK, and led by Lauren Mokry, carried out a Mendelian randomization study in large population datasets to investigate whether genetically determined obesity was associated with increased risk of MS.. Such a study decreases the probability that exposures linked to obesity, such as smoking, can explain the findings.

Now Prof. Daniel Offen and Dr. Adi Shruster of Tel Aviv University's Sackler School of Medicine have discovered that by reestablishing a population of new cells in the part of the brain associated with behavior, some symptoms of Alzheimer's disease significantly decreased or were reversed altogether.

They found that, compared to using the conventional treatment in this population, which only reduced current MDR - TB incidence by 14 percent, using the new short - course treatment decreased the incidence of MDR - TB by 23 percent in eight years in the model.

They found that with no migration, Europe's population is set to fall 17 per cent by 2050 — with a 30 per cent decrease in people of working age.

To make mortality estimates, the researchers took temperature projections from 16 global climate models, downscaled these to Manhattan, and put them against two different backdrops: one assuming rapid global population growth and few efforts to limit emissions; the other, assuming slower growth, and technological changes that would decrease emissions by 2040.

The trend was countered, however, by the finding that there was no difference in the proportion of increasing versus decreasing jellyfish populations over time.

We demonstrate that, whereas the mean admixture under assortative mating is equivalent to that of a randomly mating population, the variance of admixture generally increases with higher levels of positive assortative mating and decreases with negative assortative mating, analogous to classic theory on assortative mating by single locus genotypes or traits.

For rare cell populations, these losses in recovery and viability present challenges for end users performing research on a process with potential for transfer to clinical scale by decreasing the ability for process time and cost efficiency.