Sentences with phrase «present population at»
(The Vancouver - based ecologist William Rees points out that to support the world's present population at North American consumption levels «would require the equivalent of two more planet Earths.»
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At present, Puerto Rico is desperate for inputs — tools to fix generators so that electricity can be restored, supplies to purify water and avoid cholera, materials to buttress its damaged, crumbling infrastructure, and provisions to feed its population.
What reason, can ANYBODY offer, for the need to allocate more land for the Jews returning from Europe after WWII when the population density of Israel at that time was about 1 / 4th that of present day Luxembourg (200 / km ^ 2)?
Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.
Yet in view of its amazing growth in its first 150 years, it is not without interest to note that an LDS mathematician recently made a half - joking but statistically correct projection that «if Mormonism continues to grow in the United States at its present rate, and if the U.S. population continues to grow at its present rate, then in another 150 years when Mormonism celebrates its tricentennial, all the nation's citizens will be Mormons.»
Rapid population growth requires heavier investment in education, health and transport merely to maintain these services at their present levels.
It is hard to imagine how a population planner would have arrived at an accurate assessment of the present value of a birth in Korea in 1955, much less make confident assertions about the ways in which the present value of that birth would be changed through alterations in the contemporary Korean birthrate.
Rapid population growth is a pervasive fact of life in less - developed countries today — a form of social change so typical, and at the same time so profound, that it may spuriously be associated with almost any other social phenomenon of the present generation.
First, the planet simply can not support its present population, much less the much larger one anticipated in the future, using resources at the per capita rate now typical in the First World.
The population explosion is also changing the economic balances, for it is the nations that are already economically poor, and in many cases saddled with massive international debt, that will bear the burden of feeding between two and three times as many more mouths than they do at present.
The population of the world at present is a bit over 7 billion.
The only projection that does not lead to catastrophe is the quite impossible one of immediately stabilizing population and industry on a worldwide basis at present levels.
Everything that has happened since then, including the greenhouse effect and the hole in the ozone layer, makes it clear that a future world could not sustain a population of even the present number at a higher level of industrial development without reaching environmental limits.
The MIT projection is that if we continue on our way as at present, shortages of resources for industry will slow population growth within twenty years and stop it, early in the twenty - first century, at approximately six billion.
At present fertility rates, the Ukraine will lose half of its population by the middle of the present century; in two hundred years the population of Germany will decline by 98 percent.
She regularly presents at conferences and schools on topics related to curriculum, instruction, classroom organization, gifted students, and special needs populations.
The new study is consistent with studies in adult populations and a 2009 paper presented at the same conference which found that a delay of more than 12 weeks by athletes under the age of 14 in having ACL surgical reconstruction was linked to:
These are the main results of the research carried out on a sample of 350 young girls and boys representing the Italian population aged 9 - 17 years old «Smartphones, social network and instant messaging services: challenges for children, parents and teachers» presented today in Rome at the «Global Trends in Online Safety: Creating a National Framework» conference, an event developed and co-hosted by the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) and TIM.
Can an ever - shrinking population pay the bills for cities built for many more people than live there at present, even as they must pay the bills — financing, operating, maintaining — for all that new sprawled out suburban infrastructure?
Firstly, it's not always the case that we have an odd number of MPs - while in some states / territories the number of MPs is fixed by legislation, in the Commonwealth House of Representatives, the number of MPs depends on the distribution of the population - at present, it's 150, which is of course an even number.
At present the UK's overall employment rate is 74 per cent but is only 60 per cent for the ethnic minority population.
I'm not, at present, arguing that democracy is fundamentally flawed but I wouldn't trust 90 % of Britain's population to tell me the time, let alone have an informed understanding of international economics or diplomacy in Africa, or be able to choose one government over another based on performance, proposed policies or morality.
The chemical is present in the bloodstream of virtually the entire population, though typically at much lower levels than those in Hoosick Falls.
Finance Minister, Hon Seth Terkper who was also present at the function underscored the importance of a viable and sustainable scheme and drew a correlation between a healthy population and national development.
As such, gravitational waves present the best and only way to get a deep look at the population of stellar - mass binary black holes beyond our galaxy.
Society's increasingly pervasive use of digital technology may be causing ADHD - like symptoms even among the general population, according to a new study of college students presented this week in San Jose, California at the Human - Computer Interaction conference of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Grilled or well - done beef, chicken or fish may raise the risk of developing high blood pressure among people who regularly eat those foods, according to preliminary research presented at the American Heart Association's Epidemiology and Prevention Lifestyle and Cardiometabolic Health Scientific Sessions 2018, a premier global exchange of the latest advances in population based cardiovascular science for researchers and clinicians.
Although the populations are closely related at present, Melanie Culver, the USGS geneticist who directed the work, points out that bears live a relatively long time, so the distinctions between the groups may show up in future generations.
View a slide show of Honda's technology in action David Iida, a spokesperson for Honda present at the event, says the primary inspiration for the devices was the demographic shift in Japan, which has a shrinking population and the world's highest proportion of elderly people.
Results of research on the voles, presented at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution in Montreal last month, raises questions about the full effect of radiation on animal populations and on humans.
«The resistant individuals present in the population initially are at low levels and slowly dominate over the susceptible plants if selection with the same herbicide continues.»
«The older African American population is growing at a rapid pace, and the burden of aging - related cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease will continue to present a tremendous challenge,» said Lisa Barnes, PhD.
They might also come up with a way to select the right cells out of a mixed population; Anand Swaroop, an ophthalmology researcher at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, is working on a way to identify and weed out the photoreceptor cells by focusing on proteins present on cell surfaces.
While the model suggests that present - day Europeans received contributions from at least three ancestral populations, it also suggests that Early Near Eastern farmers carried genetic material that falls outside the typical non-African variation.
Even though early human - like species were present at the same time as the ancestors of some present day great apes, the researchers found that the evolutionary history of ancestral great ape populations was far more complex than that of humans.
It «presents a very clear and easy to understand up - to - date summary of the population trends and status of the birds in the U.S.,» says Stuart Butchart, a conservation scientist at BirdLife International in Cambridge, U.K. «Everyone ought to pay attention to what this report tells us.»
«We found that the relatively homogeneous population seen across western Eurasia today, including Europe and the Near East, used to be a highly substructured collection of people who were as different from one another as present - day Europeans are from East Asians,» said David Reich, professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School and co-senior author of the study.
«We do not have at the present time an analysis to tell us what would be an appropriate size of the population of chimpanzees that would need to be kept on hand should the need arise from some sort of new pandemic for their use,» said Collins.
Several researchers at the meeting presented computer modeling studies aimed at helping resource managers in the arid West, where population growth and climate change are putting increasing pressure on the region's water supply.
The results of a study involving more than 9,000 patients, presented today at the European League Against Rheumatism Annual Congress (EULAR 2016) showed that Type 1 diabetes occurs significantly more frequently in patients with Juvenile Inflammatory Arthritis (JIA) than in the general population.
Past exposure to closely related viruses may protect much of the population, according to a study presented here on 14 November at the 50th annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
At present, the original population of Linaria salzmanii has disappeared due to the construction of the Canales dam, and Linaria becerrae is now considered exclusive of the west of the province of Málaga, where it lives in areas bordering the protected natural area of the Desfiladero de los Gaitanes, a well - known tourist site.
Researchers from the ESRC Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton and Statistics New Zealand have published an article in the Routledge journal Population Studies arguing that Bayesian methodology, a statistical tool introduced by Rev. Thomas Bayes in the 18th Century, is vital in providing solutions to many difficult statistical problems, particularly those presented by 21st Century population studies.
When the exact same genetic block is present in at least 20 percent of a population, according to the scientists, it indicates that something about that block has conferred a survival advantage; otherwise, it would not have become so prevalent.
This genetic variant is not present in starlings living elsewhere in the country, so is likely to have arisen in this particular population at the invasion front.
At present rates of screening and treatment, the researchers predict that HIV prevalence will decline from 19 percent to 14 percent of the population in the next 10 years.
Co-author Julia C. Basso, PhD, post-doctoral research fellow, Center for Neural Science at New York University, commented, «The studies presented in this review clearly demonstrate that acute exercise has profound effects on brain chemistry and physiology, which has important implications for cognitive enhancements in healthy populations and symptom remediation in clinical populations.»
«At present, there is little direct evidence demonstrating that electronic alcohol screening and brief counseling intervention has a meaningful population - level effect on excessive alcohol consumption or related harms in any group, and therefore its utility as a stand - alone public health approach is in doubt.
The team also compared the response of flies in cages (which experienced the local temperature and humidity, but not interactions with other species) with the abundance of D. birchii in wild populations at the same sites along mountain gradients (where other species were also present), to test whether interactions among species affect responses to climate change.
In a study presented today at the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine's (SMFM) annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, researchers unveiled findings that suggest that induction of labor at 39 weeks of gestation among healthy, first - time mothers reduces the rate of cesarean birth as compared to expectant management among the same population.