Sentences with phrase «populations by»

This winter biologists are hard at work monitoring the health of California red - legged frog populations by taking inventory of their egg masses.

International Wolf Project http://www.wolf.org The International Wolf Center advances the survival of wolf populations by teaching about wolves, their relationship to wild lands and the human role in their future.

[FN8] Second, free - roaming cats take a tremendous toll on native wildlife populations by direct predation and by competition.

A TNVR program will stabilize feral / free - roaming cat populations by ending reproduction.

At this point, she is strongly considering focusing on shelter medicine and addressing under - served populations by improving the welfare and lives of their pets.

We are the only organization in NYC whose sole mission is to reduce growth of shelter populations by preventing the births of unwanted dogs and cats.

To serve the pets and pet owners of the homeless community and other vulnerable and low - income populations by providing pet food, supplies, and medical care; to promote positive and responsible pet ownership (including spay and neuter); to identify and provide pet owners useful and low - cost information on pet resources.

supports raising and using animals humanely and responsibly for food, fiber, labor, and research; managing animal populations by hunting; keeping animals in zoos and other educational venues; and enjoying animal sports and animals in movies, circuses, and on stage.

Peter Marra and Chris Santella, in their book, Cat Wars, admit as much in their assessment of the lack of political support for rounding up and killing cats, concluding, «American authorities remain resistant (if not heartily opposed) to the idea of managing free - ranging populations by lethal means.»

The Clinic Services Department is working to help the community manage outdoor (feral, stray and barn) cat populations by practicing TNVR.

Counting Cats and Counting Birds In both studies, the authors quantified the impact of cat predation on bird populations by comparing different levels of predation with different bird densities.

Lufenuron controls flea populations by preventing the development of flea eggs and does not kill adult fleas.

TNR reduces homeless cat populations by sterilizing cats so they can not reproduce.

Trap - Neuter - Return quickly stabilizes feral cat populations by instantly ending reproduction and by removing socialized cats from the colony.

Pure breeds have been, for the most part, artificially created from random - bred populations by human selective breeding with the purpose of enhancing desired physical, behavioral, or temperamental characteristics.

Sentinel has no effect on adult fleas, but controls flea populations by breaking the flea life cycle at the egg stage.

The significance of the above calculations is that we can get an enormous bang for the buck and make a significant impact on shelter populations by intelligent targeting of spay / neuter services upstream of the shelter and before homeless pets clog those shelters and require heroic efforts on the part of shelter directors and the rescue community.

The real value of the gold would be as a hedge against governments and central banks that financially repress their populations by holding interest rates, making it difficult for savers to preserve value.

New York state law complicates the ability of charters to create diverse student populations by mandating that they offer preference to students residing in the community school district where the school is located.

Positive School Climates and Diverse Populations by Kristin Grayson, IDRA Newsletter http://www.idra.org/resource-center/positive-school-climates-diverse-populations/

Pedagogical Content Knowledge — What Matters Most in the Professional Learning of Content Teachers in Classrooms with Diverse Student Populations By Adela Solís, Ph.D., IDRA Newsletter http://www.idra.org/resource-center/pedagogical-content-knowledge/

In this video I am explained how we can make inference about two samples back in the two populations by looking at the median shift and overlap between the boxes of the two samples

Bial, an education strategist, addresses the challenges of college access for underrepresented populations by identifying and fostering latent talent and opening opportunities for them to pursue higher education.

Students can specialize in teaching yoga to specific populations by choosing from our listing of TTs and Therapeutic Yoga programs in the semi-annual Yogaville Program Guide.

We partner with organizations dedicated to saving bee populations by understanding and improving bee health.

Moreover, officials risk doing harm to populations by limiting saturated fats.

The scientific knowledge gleaned by the researchers may eventually help clinicians to better prevent gastric cancer among diverse world populations by using the ancestry of both an individual and the strain of H. pylori as risk factors for the development of the disease.

I propose that this gene could — even should - be tested in natural populations by inundation.

No significant differences in genetic diversity were observed among populations by microsatellite markers with HE ranging from 0.597 to 0.612 and low, but significant, genetic differentiation among populations (FST = 0.019, P = 0.001).

Our results suggest that gene dosage is an adaptive trait that confers phenotypic plasticity among natural Leishmania populations by rapid down - or upregulation of transporter proteins to limit the effects of environmental stresses, such as drug selection.

Here, we present a computational strategy for detecting «differentially abundant» populations by assigning cells to hyperspheres, testing for significant differences between conditions and controlling the spatial false discovery rate.

Together with Alfred Amambua - Ngwa and in collaboration with the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, he is working to characterise the diversity of the local Plasmodium populations by genome sequencing, and to devise suitable SNP markers for defining the spatial and temporal spread of malaria in The Gambia at the village level.

Included with the assay is specialized bioinformatics software that allows researchers and pharmaceutical companies conducting clinical trials, to identify and track clonal populations by performing minimal residual disease (MRD) testing of subsequent samples.

However, as demonstrated by a recent report from Stuelten and colleagues [13], the complexity of CSC markers continues to pose challenges for identifying and isolating the putative tumor stem cell populations by the cell - sorting approach.

Kevin Esvelt (Harvard University, Massachusetts) spoke about gene drives — types of genetic elements that drive themselves through populations by distorting inheritance in their favor.

Quick and reliable assessment of chronological life span in yeast cell populations by flow cytometry.

Lead author Winston Vickers, an associate veterinarian with the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, said fragmentation of mountain lion populations by highways is happening to a serious degree in the Santa Ana mountain range, as well as elsewhere in Southern California, such as the Santa Monica Mountains.

They found that ants actively manipulate morph populations by improving the reproduction rate of the inferior morph.

Several of those now discussed could be used to intentionally damage territories and populations by inciting droughts or floods, or by changing sea or air chemistry.

Recreational anglers can also have a big impact on fish populations by dint of their numbers: An estimated 11 million anglers took some 73 million saltwater fishing trips in the United States in 2010.

Gurcan notes that while there are a number of advantages to using drones, such as effectiveness at removing key targets and avoidance of friendly casualties, they may also increase the power of extremists amongst civilian populations by creating a siege mentality.

Our Health Counts fills this health information void by using respondent - driven sampling — a research method used to recruit hidden or stigmatized populations by relying on participants to identify the next wave of study recruits.

«Local politicians have sought to increase town centre populations by encouraging the supply of high density urban housing on almost every available plot of land.

There, seven years of natural - gas drilling in the Pinedale Anticline region have slashed mule deer populations by a third.

Maps in the study illustrate the combined felony populations by state as of 2010, because states vary in their criminal justice policies, especially in how law enforcement, incarceration and community supervision are emphasized.

Salmon farms were already known to weaken wild populations by exposing them to lice infestations, interbreeding with escaped farmed fish, and contaminants such as antibiotics, pesticides, and disinfectants.

The study compiles data from 20 years of field studies and suggests that if current trends continue, forests managed as short - rotation pine plantations will support the majority of Swainson's warbler breeding populations by the end of the 21st century.

It is a bulk method that sorts different cell populations by tuning their solubility.

A new international project will test the ability of robots to support our aging populations by assisting residents of care homes in three European countries.

Some of the variation the researchers found likely dates back to isolation of different Hermit Thrushes populations by ice sheets during the Pleistocene era, while differences between the two western groups may relate to body size, with larger birds producing lower - frequency songs.