Sentences with phrase «population of any given area»

If said areas have first - past - the - post voting, a minority opinion population of any given area is basically robbed of being a full participant in a democratic process - the votes of any Republican in NY, or a Democrat in Utah, don't matter at all in terms of Presidential election.

Census is the procedure of acquiring and compiling information about the population of a given area.

Not exact matches

Many of these areas consist of fewer than 200 households or populations with less than 500 people to give us the most precise glimpse possible of what life is like in each of these communities.

«Given the size of its economy, population, and given its political clout, Nigeria's stance towards the African Continental Free Trade Area is key,» Imad Mesdoua, senior consultant for Africa at Control Risks, a global risk consultancy with offices in Lagos, told CNBC via eGiven the size of its economy, population, and given its political clout, Nigeria's stance towards the African Continental Free Trade Area is key,» Imad Mesdoua, senior consultant for Africa at Control Risks, a global risk consultancy with offices in Lagos, told CNBC via egiven its political clout, Nigeria's stance towards the African Continental Free Trade Area is key,» Imad Mesdoua, senior consultant for Africa at Control Risks, a global risk consultancy with offices in Lagos, told CNBC via email.

Redevelopment efforts are giving overlooked areas of the city new life and Detroit's population has begun increasing again, particularly within the downtown and midtown neighborhoods.

To find out which cities were poised to give investors a solid return, Local Market Monitor analyzed the 100 largest metropolitan statistical areas in the U.S. (all with populations of 600,000 or higher).

It's a flash game (to be played in browser) that tasks you with redistricting given populations to achieve specific goals, for example depriving a surefire opposition candidate of votes, consolidating opposition in one area leaving one opposition candidate with almost all their voters and all the rest with less than enough to win, or just assuring status quo between the two parties by marginalizing uncertainty coming from undecided voters.

The new law is intended for purposes of reapportionment only — it doesn't give inmates a vote, it merely means that the Upstate areas won't get «extra» population for the purposes of redistricting.

The first, Damuth's law, is an inverse relationship between body size and population density: the bigger the species, the fewer of individuals cohabitate in a given area.

He and a group of collaborators discovered that simply knowing the population of any given urban area allowed them to accurately predict the nuanced details of its infrastructure and its socioeconomic state.

Given such variation, as well as the expense and logistical challenges of conducting population surveys, indigenous communities will be important partners in developing workable conservation strategies, such as the creation of new protected areas or harvest quotas, the study suggests.

A protected area of 1.6 hectares at the park's southern edge is given over to the Hallett Nature Sanctuary, home to raccoons and squirrels, an array of beetles and slugs, rich plant life including Norway maple and American elm trees, as well as a surprisingly beguiling population of curling, crawling millipedes.

The project's data show a continuing drop in the «carcass ratio», which relates the number of carcasses found in a given area to the size of the local elephant population.

The area sits at the meeting point of two tectonic plates — giving it scientific importance — but it is considered a recreation hot spot for the populations of nearby San Francisco and Sacramento.

The total area is 123.18 km, giving a population density of 142 inhabitants per km.

It covers 5041.9 km and has a population of 1,183,361 giving it the largest area and population of the three counties.

Stronghold is a unique take on capture the flag, giving players an infinite amount of resources but limited unit population until they capture other areas, defending their team's territories while preventing the enemy from getting points.

Coverage of areas specially conserved for biodiversity and ecosystem functions should be increased (at least to the Aichi Target 11 of 17 % terrestrial and 10 % marine area), with systems of conservation being democratized and based on integration of rights and responsibilities; in all kinds of land / water uses, activities that are ecologically damaging need to be modified or replaced; high priority should also be given to the regeneration and restoration of degraded ecosystems and the revival of populations of threatened species; equitable access (including through territorial and resource tenure) must be accorded to natural resources, with special focus on populations with high and direct dependence on such resources for their survival and livelihoods.

That is, bias (a highly controversial issue covered in the research literature and also on this blog; see recent posts about bias here, here, and here), does also appear to exist in this state and particularly at the school - level for (1) subject areas less traditionally tested and, hence, not often consecutively tested (e.g., from one consecutive grade level to the next), and given (2) the state is combining growth measures with proficiency (i.e., «snapshot») measures to evaluate schools, the latter being significantly negatively correlated with the populations of the students in the schools being evaluated.

Having a feature event at 11:15 am on Sunday is kind of a joke, given that MRLS is at least 90 minutes from most of the Bay Area's population.

It's a HUGE investment opportunity, though, given how far behind their infrastructure is compared to how close they are to the US (making us a natural trade partner with low transportation costs for trade), their population, their education level (relatively high), and the areas in which they need development (agriculture and construction — both of which Caterpillar could help with).

We then aggregated census tracts up to the metropolitan area and national level, requiring that a given racial community make up at least 1 % of the population in the metro.

What appears to have happened is a small group of heartworm populations in areas along the Mississippi river basin (perhaps including the MP3 strain) have become somewhat resistant to at least one of the medications given to dogs to protect them.

Because of this biological certainty, trapping and removing cats from any given area does little more than ensure that the cat population will rebound to the same level as before, necessitating additional trapping and killing.

These rotations will give the student multiple hands on experiences in areas such as high volume spay and neuter, population medicine, shelter emergency medicine, public health and many other aspects working with diverse types of animal shelters and rescue groups within the animal welfare community in the Phoenix metro area and throughout the state of Arizona.

Because of this biological certainty, trapping and removing cats from a given area does little more than ensure that the cat population will rebound to its original level, necessitating additional trapping and killing.

Every habitat has a carrying capacity, the maximum population size of a given species that can be sustained in a particular area.

The Impact: As stated above, in counties with a population of one million or more, this bill gives county commissioners the ability to limit the number of dogs that an individual may keep at a residence located in a residential subdivision in the unincorporated area of the county.

Extreme Nature Tours conducts these tours in areas in which the population of turtles is highest to give visitors the opportunity to watch these graceful creatures get their young ready to embark on their challenge - filled lives in the ocean.

A relatively recent (1999) census showed the district to have a population of 19,585 but also the provider of 61,672 jobs giving this area by far the densest concentration of people and business activity in the whole city.

StreetPassing also increases the population of your town, giving you more workers to rebuild shops and thus more items to buy from the roving Adventurer in each area.

As his works reflect the area and population where he exhibits, Tibaldi sees his meticulously thought - through exhibitions as postprojects, which are only made possible by a historical view of a given locality.

But to the point of the post, given the calls by some to limit population growth, it seems the rates of carnage and degradation visited upon the people of these areas is a small price to pay for the preservation of «wild» spaces.

Although only a paltry 1 percent of Turkey's power is currently provided by renewable sources, the country's sunny and strategic location, large surface area, and young population give it great potential as a «leading green power nation,» Levent Bas writes this week on business blog CleanTechies.

The vulnerability in any given year is increasing because of our increasing population at risk (suburban «sprawl» and increasing recreational use of some areas), but it seems that this has been mostly offset by better forecasts and warnings, improved methods of communication of the threat when it develops, and infrastructure enhancements promoting natural hazard preparation (at least until the past decade or so).

By studying the DNA differences between these populations of corals and doing various experiments, transplanting cooler - water corals into the warm - water area and in special stress - testing equipment that can very precisely monitor water temps, the researchers are looking for the holy grail: A way to save corals by giving them more heat resistance.

This is hardly surprising given that the area of CE is only about 0.01 % of that of the planet while its population - technology product must be at least 0.1 % of that of the planet if not 1 % during the 19th century.

Given the increasing population of the region and need for food security, improving the scientific understanding in these areas is of utmost importance.

Looking at SustainLane's very thorough overview of its methodology gave us a better sense of how and why some cities fared as well as they did.First, the only criteria for inclusion in the survey was the size of a city's population, so while the folks at SustainLane chose urban areas that represent a large proportion of the US» overall population, they immediately ruled out smaller cities, like Burlington, VT, and Durham, NC, that are doing wonderful things but didn't make the cut because of their size.

The plan focuses on rural areas to facilitate inclusion of the non-urban population into mainstream insurance and gives them the benefit of a life insurance policy.

Current UK government policies recognise the need for universal parenting support to complement targeted and indicated approaches29 — 33 and the English Department for Education is currently piloting the offer of free vouchers for parenting classes (the CANParent initiative) to all parents in three areas of the country.34 Such recommendations derive from observations relating to the prevalence of suboptimal parenting, 35 the inefficiency of targeting on the basis of identifiable risk factors36, 37 and the potential for realising change in high risk as well as whole population groups by reducing the stigma which may be attached to targeted parenting support.36 — 38 Given the range and prevalence of health and social outcomes on which parent — child relationships have an influence, 2, 3, 5 — 16 universal approaches are appealing.

Given that Indigenous Australians make up 2.3 % of the population, many of these areas have far greater than average Indigenous populations.

After you've had a chance to scan your area for clues, visit census.gov to find foreign - born population statistics as well as information pertaining to languages spoken in homes, which will give you a strong indication of who already lives in your local market.