Sentences with phrase «possibilities in a given population»

International education also became a priority of Ylvisaker's administration: The Project for Human Potential helped educational policymakers find the means of achieving a full range of development possibilities in a given population, and the Office of International Education was created.

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Accordingly, there is some validity to pessimism as one contemplates the real capacity of the human race to do evil and the possibility that mankind may precipitate incalculably tragic evil and suffering by its wrong decisions regarding destructive warfare and the population explosion.53 Given creative becoming as an everlastingly continuous process, Hartshorne declares that there will always be some evil in the world; but the amount of evil will always be at least partially determined by creative choices.

Another possibility is that the recovery of seal and sea lion populations off the coast of California, thanks again to successful marine protection policies, are giving the sharks more reason to stay in these waters.

Maria Carrillo, vice president of medical and scientific relations at the Alzheimer's Association, an advocacy group, applauds NIH's giving the trial a green light: Targeting the APOE4 population will «increase the possibility that participants in the trial will become symptomatic during the period of the study so that the scientists can assess whether the drug intervention is having an impact on delaying or preventing Alzheimer's symptoms, without having to wait 10 or 15 years or more,» she says.

On page 25 Andrews also discusses the possibility that Homo sapiens evolved only once in Africa and spread into Europe twice, once giving rise to the Neanderthals, and later via Skühl and Qafzeh populations, to Homo sapiens in Europe.

And if human population is down to 1 billion, or even lower, in 300 years, a very real possibility given current fertility trends, what is the value of existing real estate in such a world?