Sentences with phrase «population than loss»

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Following World War II, the city experienced a dramatic population loss and today is has fewer than 30,000 residents.

Baltimore suffered another loss in population last year as more than 5,300 people left the city, continuing a downward trend that accelerated after the 2015 unrest and ensuing spike in crime.

This team also discovered 3,200 genes that had fewer loss - of - function or missense mutations than would be expected suggesting that these are likely disease - causing variants that are rare or absent in the population because of their detrimental effect on human health.

Sets goals of reducing honeybee colony losses during the winter to no more than 15 % within ten years; increasing Eastern population of the monarch butterfly to 225 million occupying approximately 15 acres in Mexico by 2020; and restore or enhance 7 million acres of land for pollinators over the next five years

In 2017, The New York Times reported that the Bornean orangutan's population had declined by more than 80 percent in the last 75 years largely because of habitat loss.

In the U.S. population of children aged 0 - 6, replacing all rice and rice products with alternate foods containing no arsenic would result in additional annual earnings of approximately $ 12 to $ 18 billion by avoiding losses of more than 9 million IQ points per year;

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.

In absolute numbers we're going from 4.2 M to 3.1 M. Still a loss of well over a million, but much less than 3.2 M if we had forgotten to scale the population down to 1960 levels.

«Today, we are a state that is transformed and once again the progressive capital of the world,» Cuomo continued, failing to mention the convictions on corruption charges of the former leaders of the «progressive» capital's Legislature, the state's bottom - of - the - barrel rating as a place to do business, and the state's massive population losses — more than 500,000 people since he took office.

Barring a change in trends, this will be the city's seventh consecutive decade of population loss; it will have less than twice Amherst's population by 2018.

Hunting and habitat loss now threaten 87 % of large carnivores worldwide, the authors write, and conservationists should do more than keep track of population sizes.

Such habitat losses will likely increase, as the country's current population of about 22 million is projected to more than double by 2050.

In a study to be published in the July issue of the journal Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, Dr. Rourke noted that aging for people with HIV may be more challenging than for the general population because of HIV - related stigma, loss of friends and social networks, and the detrimental health effects of the virus and medications taken to combat the virus.

The big orange - and - black cats reach sexual maturity at an older age than cats such as leopards and cougars, and tiger populations take longer to recover from the loss of mature individuals.

They chose to study obese - er subjects (BMI 38, compared to 34 in the Hollander study) because obese subjects lose fat more readily than lean people, so if the study is designed to measure fat loss, then it is better to select a population of subjects where more fat loss is predicted.

Fenger experienced the sharpest population loss last year, enrolling 418 fewer students than projected.

All of this is to point out that reaching for massive returns on every trade is not worth the risk of losses when a steady options - based strategy can earn you a retirement that is likely to begin more than 10 years earlier than over 90 % of the population.

It is thought that the 2,000 or so adults estimated to exist back in the early 1990s have dwindled to less than half than the original number due to habitat loss and severely fragmented populations.

Over the last 10 years, wild populations have declined more than 30 percent due to habitat loss and illegal capture for the pet trade.

Previous analyses using mtDNA RFLP's identified more mtDNA haplotypes than detected by our whole mitogenome (WMG) sequencing analysis on San Miguel (2 RFLP: 1 WMG genotypes) and Santa Catalina (3 RFLP: 2 WMG genotypes), suggesting a possible loss of mtDNA diversity on these islands as a result of population bottlenecks over the past 25 years [15].

Clearly, the loss of biodiversity (estimated at thousands of times the natural backgroud rate), the number of well known species that are threatened (10 - 40 % depending on taxonomic group), the loss of 10,000 - 30,000 genetically distinct populations per day (see Hughes et al., 1997) massive declines of groundwater, soil productivity and fertility, etc. as well as the fact that human activities now impact biogeochemical cycles over huge spatial scales is sufficient evidence that our species is living off of natural capital, rather than income.

Global weather - related losses in recent years have been trending upward much faster than population, inflation, or insurance penetration, and faster than non-weather-related events

That paper, which was not peer - reviewed, argued that because polar bear numbers have remained relatively stable despite faster - than - expected sea ice loss over the past decade, scientists» predictions of future population declines are flawed.

The population is estimated at less than 10,000 mature individuals with a continuing decline of more than 10 % over the next 30 years, mostly due to habitat loss and poaching.

Just forty - four percent of Americans have renters insurance, which leaves more than half the population exposed to a variety of different types of losses.

Interestingly, the Fincon attendees we surveyed are gma bit less loss - averse than the general population.

These rate adjustments are used to offset increased loss costs across the population, inflation, and lower than expected return on investments So, if the cost of your policy goes up for no reason, this might be one of the reasons.

With a population of more than 230,000, Madison experiences loss of life every day.

Aboriginal Australians make up 3 % of the Australian population and have a life expectancy over 10 years less than that of non-Aboriginal Australians.3 The small amount of evidence available suggests that Australian Aboriginal children and adolescents experience higher levels of mental health - related harm than other young people4, 5 including suicide rates that are several times higher than that of non-Aboriginal Australian youth.4, 6 These high levels of harm are linked to greater exposure to many of the known risk factors for poor mental health and to the pervasive trauma and grief, which continues to be experienced by Aboriginal peoples due to the legacy of colonisation.7, 8 Loss of land and culture has played a major role in the high rates of premature mortality, incarceration and family separations currently experienced by Aboriginal peoples.

In some remote communities up to 40 % of children will have developed a chronic suppurative ear infection causing hearing loss by the age of ten.53 Total or partial hearing loss was more likely to be reported than by the non-Indigenous population in all age groups from infancy to 55 years of age.