Sentences with phrase «population increases in size»

It will continue to experience rapid growth as America's aging population increases in size, creating an even greater demand for healthcare services.

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It is therefore reasonable to conclude that if the limb size in our hypothetical population evolved in the most conservative manner, it need only increase at a rate of 0.005 cm per generation (= 50 cm / 10, 000 generations), despite its abrupt appearance in the geological record.

Further population increase is likely to produce more schisms if denominations continue to grow in size.

Ready meals have experienced significant growth in Japan (over US$ 15 billion market size) largely due to their growing elderly population.43 Chilled and frozen ready meals are also seeing growth across Asia with the increasing reach of the cold chain and growing levels of refrigerator ownership in cities.

Even as the affluent population in the U.S. has increased in size and financial resources (according to the Ipsos Survey USA»), a shrinking middle class is looking to more cost - effective options.

«You see a rapid increase in population size from about 18,000 years ago, just as the climate began warming up after the last Ice Age,» says lead author Rebecca Dew.

«What happened here was most likely an increase in population size, with increasing fecundity, and higher levels of mobility and gene flow so that, over time, Neolithic Near Eastern villages became more cosmopolitan, and this eventually triggered expansion into Europe.»

The size of the dialysis population increased 4 percent in 2013, reaching 466,607, and is now 63.2 percent larger than in 2000.

In fact, it is questionable whether we can continue to afford the cost of our current trajectory of increased longevity and population sizes combined with increased chronic morbidity.

During this long period, randomly spaced extremes in the environment alternately increased and decreased the population size so that it could be contained within territories.

If such populations are prevented from emigrating, the populations might again increase in size, but then some other limiting factor manifests itself.

Increased human fishing pressure has reduced the size of the population of scalloped hammerhead populations to a negligible size in the Gulf of California, with the species becoming extremely rare in the Mexican Pacific.

The increase in population size also seems to have levelled off in the Turku region, whereas the breeding population continues to grow outside large urban areas both in the coastal archipelago and on inland lakes.

Hunter - gatherers were replaced in many places by sedentary farmers, and there were large increases in population size that laid the foundation for larger towns and eventually complex societies.

The lack of genetic differences in Namibian elephants could also be attributed to their long distance migrations; large home ranges; recent increases in population size and range; or gene flow provided by male elephants breeding with different groups of female elephants.

Interestingly, the gradual intensification of turkey farming does not directly correlate to an increase in human population size, a link you would expect to see if turkeys were reared simply as a source of nutrition.

The tight regulations constrained FWS's ability «to release additional wolves from captivity» and «to increase the size of the wild population,» the agency said in a press release today.

These results collectively suggest that neural stem cells need MSI1 to generate enough neurons for normal brain size, but the presence of MSI1 also increases the vulnerability of these cells to Zika infection, leading to the death of the population which ultimately results in microcephaly.

If, due to chance, there is a random increase in the number of cheats then there is not enough food to go around and total population size will decrease.

This new information on the historic population size greatly increases the mystery surrounding the abrupt decline in the recovery of this endangered species since 2009.

Having grandparents around in large numbers would have significantly increased population size, thus fostering innovation and self - expression, and it would have facilitated the transfer of valuable knowledge and cultural traditions to the next generation.

This rapid increase in planet occurrence with decreasing planet size agrees with core - accretion, but disagrees with population synthesis models.

In the face of declining populations, some nations are demanding the right to increase the size of their fishing fleets.

The increase in genetic diversity that Rogers and his colleagues found corresponds to a roughly tenfold increase in effective population size.

The original intention of the food industry was to feed more people as our population boomed, but as this industry increased in size, intentions got lost, money prevailed, and greed entered into the equation.

Hence, an increase in the size of this group of individuals as indicated by an increase in a state's search volume index for Facebook, would likely lead to a decrease in the number of Chlamydia cases, holding population and other factors constant.

The size of this estimated effect is similar to the effect of a larger black population, about 2 percent greater enrollment in charter schools accompanying a one - standard - deviation increase in the fraction of college - educated adults in the state.

Microsoft believes an educated population is the one natural resource that increases in value as it increases in size.

In Cleveland, we have less funding to do things we need to do, class sizes have increased, our population has gone down as far as student population.

Given the large and increasing size of the ELL student population in Arizona, the current focus on testing and accountability, and the documented problems in current assessment practices, improvement in instruments and procedures is critical.

In 2009, the Justice Policy Institute noted that some states have begun to decrease the size of the prison population — thereby reducing spending — by providing community - based substance - abuse treatment programs, increasing rehabilitation efforts, improving parole mechanisms and services, and decriminalizing nonviolent offenses.105 States that intentionally decreased their prison populations saw crime decrease even faster than national averages.106 Other states should consider such reforms.

-- Demographics: German population growth is broadly neutral, but is experiencing pronounced trends in favour of urban migration, smaller households & increasing floor size per capita.

As an aside, we may note that the interbreeding between Miniature Bull Terriers and Bull Terriers to save the former breed whilst a DNA test was developed for Primary Lens Luxation, has resulted in such increased genetic diversity in Miniatures that their effective population size is now high enough to be officially described as sustainable.

«The demand is related to the increase in the size of the human population, an increase in affluence in developing countries, as well as an increase in overall urbanization.»

Right now, there's a confirmed outbreak of the highly contagious H3N2 strain of canine influenza virus (CIV) in Florida, Georgia and six other states, which is combining with kitten season to increase population size and disease risk in many shelters.

When the size of the population starts to decrease, other members of the species move in or reproduction rates increase so that the population goes right back to where it started.

More recent reports of high pup production (up to 5000 pups) and increase in colonies size seem unlikely: given the scarce breeding outside of Sea Lion Island, we think that the whole population size may be significantly smaller.

Of course, even a modest increase in fertility rates among the most developed countries will imply that the population size in these countries declines less rapidly, or grows somewhat more rapidly than would otherwise have been the case.

We estimate that the 1 °C increase in the Ottawa temperature is equivalent to an increase in population size of ~ 400,000.

It seems to me that doing carbon emissions on a per capita basis for developing countries ignores the elephant in the room of increasing population size.

Put another way, not seeing that the colossal size of the multi-trillion dollar global economy is soon to become unsustainable in the relatively small, bounded world we inhabit is a misperception; not seeing that increasing per - capita consumption of Earth's limited resources by six billion, soon to be nine billion, people can not go on much longer, much less forever, is a mistaken impression; and not seeing that absolute global human population numbers, just like the population numbers of other species, can not increase endlessly, relative to a limited resource base, is a misconception, I suppose.

This natural variation in population size is seldom mentioned by those who rush to blame all polar bear subpopulation declines on recent increases in the open water season.

As more and more cities grow and reach a level of what I would call «UHI saturation», the slow growth of big cities and smaller in absolute values UHI increase for cities from a certain size explains a smaller delta UHI for an urban group that contains cities, in comparison with a UHI contaminated average containing many small locations growing — consistent with the results from the BEST study — divergence appearing in the 1950s — and with the logarithmic dependency of UHI growing trend based on population.

@Col Mosby at 12:11 pm 1) one gets increases in accuracy as sample size increases, but it is a matter of dimishing returns — you don't need a large sample to get a pretty good fix on the population's characteristics,

Driving this has been a six-fold expansion of the human population since 1800 and a 50-fold increase in the size of the global economy.

Several things one learns from studying statistics: 1) one gets increases in accuracy as sample size increases, but it is a matter of dimishing returns — you don't need a large sample to get a pretty good fix on the population's characteristics, and 2) biased samples will kill you.

Col Mosby: «Several things one learns from studying statistics: 1) one gets increases in accuracy as sample size increases, but it is a matter of dimishing returns — you don't need a large sample to get a pretty good fix on the population's characteristics, and 2) biased samples will kill you.»

The apparent paradoxes of individual tree growth increasing with tree size despite declining leaf - level8, 9,10 and stand - level10 productivity can be explained, respectively, by increases in a tree's total leaf area that outpace declines in productivity per unit of leaf area and, among other factors, age - related reductions in population density.

This increased search for water has amplified foal mortality rates, in turn leading to a dwindling population size.»

In fact, warm incubation temperatures may have a short - term conservation benefit on the turtles, increasing the number of breeding females and hence the total size of the population