Sentences with phrase «quickly as the population»

More than 4 million people suffer from Alzheimer's disease (AD) in North America, and the numbers are growing quickly as the population ages.

Today the globe is home to 2 billion people over the age of 60, a group growing five times as quickly as the population as a whole.

Because whaling reduced the southern population to about 200 animals, the trait of lightness could spread quickly as the population recovers now that whaling has stopped.

Not exact matches

The world's population is projected to be at almost 8 billion people as quickly as 2020, and much of that population will have several smart devices in the home.

For example, when trying to decide how to feed the population, the group at first quickly gravitates to the obvious solution: distribute the large store of their own field rations, known as meals ready to eat, or MREs.

Opposition to Obamacare, instead of being mixed and uneven, would quickly become unanimous as a result of what would amount to a broad tax increase on the population with zero payoff for the vast majority of citizens (since they remain uninsured.)

The World Bank reckons that about 4 % of the world's population will still be poor in 2030 if economies continue to grow as quickly as they have in the past ten years and poor people's incomes grow at the same rate as everyone else's.

The U.S. population is not growing as quickly as it did, which could lead to fewer workers and reduce the amount of services and goods that companies can produce.

The stop in shelter openings came just as the homeless population was surging in early 2015, and the de Blasio administration was relying on optimistic estimates of how quickly new rental subsidy programs would slow the flow of people needing emergency shelter.

The increased risk of extinction occurred because at small population sizes, as the flies spent more time being vigilant and less time eating, populations that declined could not quickly rebound.

Then Westerners arrived and bird populations started to disappear more quickly due to a combination of threats, including habitat loss, introduction of invasive species and the arrival of diseases such as avian malaria.

It did not begin to seriously discuss the risks associated with using the approach to engineer genes that could quickly spread through wild populations — known as gene drives — until after experiments demonstrating the concept in fruit flies had been published in a peer - reviewed journal (V. M. Gantz & E. Bier Science 348,442 — 444; 2015).

Wild populations quickly declined as European settlers moved into the area.

For Helicobacter pylori, a pathogenic bacterium that colonizes over 40 percent of the world population and is associated with gastric cancer, the team discovered that epigenetic heterogeneity can quickly emerge as a single cell divides, and different subpopulations with distinct methylation patterns have distinct gene expressions patterns.

«Scientists are concerned that the dolphins will have difficulty adapting as quickly as necessary to find new feeding grounds to sustain their populations.»

Getting a new product, getting a new innovation to the patients and populations that need innovations as quickly as possible [is our goal].

One possible solution to quickly measure a population's exposure to radiation in the event of a nuclear disaster or some other large - scale leak of radioactive material — such as a so - called «dirty bomb» attack — would be to scan the body in places where that material is most readily absorbed.

Thus, as Americans have expanded their sexual repertoire, as an October study from The Journal of Sexual Medicine highlighted, prevalence of HPV can sweep quickly through a population — especially one that is unprotected by a vaccine or consistent condom use.

In aquaculture facilities, this exposure is a risk, as diseases can quickly tear through populations.

With the advent of new, more efficient, and targeted gene - editing techniques such as CRISPR / Cas9, gene modifications can, in principle, be spread throughout a population of living organisms intentionally and quickly via a gene drive, circumventing traditional rules of inheritance and greatly increasing the odds that an altered gene spreads throughout a population.

The insects vanish as the men open the car doors to unload their gear and carry it to the green one - story virology building, moving quickly past the resident population of bleating goats in the INRB's central courtyard.

These adaptive mutations can spread quickly (evolutionarily speaking) through a population in subsequent generations, a process known as a selective sweep.

«We recommend acting quickly, because pressure to over-exploit deep reefs will inevitably grow as shallow reefs become almost universally degraded due to growing human population pressures and climate change,» says co-author Dr. John Guinotte from the Marine Conservation Institute.

That can be dangerous, because it can leave populations unable to reproduce as quickly and may leave them less capable of adapting to new challenges.

When mildly negative mutations arise in a species with a large population, such as the trillions of bacterial organisms that can fill a small area, they are quickly cleared out by selective forces.

Unfortunately, the festivities don't last very long though and most of the partygoers are dispatched quickly as earthquakes, explosions, massive sinkholes and firestorms strike the Hollywood hills wiping out most of the population not suddenly taken to Heaven in radiant blue steaks of light.

As a growing population puts further strain on the demand for public services and school places, local authorities are turning to modular buildings to construct lower carbon buildings more quickly.

As the medical techniques and success rates continue to improve, organ transplants are quickly becoming a tremendous lifeline for some of the population.

Now those areas and their attendant shopping malls are declining quickly as lower income populations have moved into those suburbs and their diminished economic power can't sustain the large shopping malls.

The best way to reduce the homeless pet population in our community is to prevent pets from becoming lost, and to reunite owners and pets as quickly as possible if they do become separated.

As feral cats multiply quickly, it is difficult to control their populations.

I quickly run to the Malecón, the seawall upon which half of Havana's population seems to stroll — it has been referred to as «Havana's sofa.»

But morality goes out of the window quickly because Reigns is all about holding upright the four pillars of your kingdom; religion, population, military and money, as represented at the top of the screen.

The game's initial glorious population of 212 thousand concurrent players on Steam turned out to have been based on promises and, as a result, quickly plummeted to 8.2 per cent by next month.

However, human population are growing quickly and at first can coexist with other animals and plants, but as human population are growing more they take away other animals and plants habitate and overcusumpt them, let them exitinct one by one.

Only a miniscule amount of financing commitments — 1 percent, or $ 200 million a year — went to more - affordable decentralized energy solutions, such as household solar systems, which hold great promise to deliver basic electricity more quickly and more affordably to vast, hard - to - reach rural populations.

Scientific studies show extreme temperature variations end up causing fewer deaths in the long run in any particular location as the population quickly adapts.

When new quota levels for bluefin tuna were set last November, amid political wrangling, were described as being a «mockery of science», ignoring the evidence that the the East Atlantic bluefin tuna populations were falling so quickly that they could soon be listed as an endangered species.

Here's why the federal government can't enhance the CPP quickly: The feds need approval from two - thirds of the provinces — constituting two - thirds of the population as well — to make any amendments to the plan.

Whatever views we may entertain regarding the loyalty to this country of the citizens of Japanese ancestry, we can not reject as unfounded the judgment of the military authorities and of Congress that there were disloyal members of that population, whose number and strength could not be precisely and quickly ascertained.

We were founded by a group of volunteer lawyers and rabbis who saw a need in the community there, around Fairfax and aging population, folks who were getting evicted from their homes as the area redeveloped, stories like that, and very quickly after opening their doors for their first Wednesday night walk - in clinic realized that the need for legal services extended far beyond the community there and quickly decided that there needed to be a legal services provider for Los Angeles, for all of the neighborhoods of LA, for all of the people in LA who could not afford a lawyer, but needed one to ensure access to the basic necessities of life.

Both solutions will occur because the power of the news media and of the internet, interacting, will quickly make widely known these types of information, the cumulative effect of which will force governments and the courts to act: (1) the situations of the thousands of people whose lives have been ruined because they could not obtain the help of a lawyer; (2) the statistics as to the increasing percentages of litigants who are unrepresented and clogging the courts, causing judges to provide more public warnings; (3) the large fees that some lawyers charge; (4) increasing numbers of people being denied Legal Aid and court - appointed lawyers; (5) the many years that law societies have been unsuccessful in coping with this problem which continues to grow worse; (6) people prosecuted for «the unauthorized practice of law» because they tried to help others desperately in need of a lawyer whom they couldn't afford to hire; (7) that there is no truly effective advertising creating competition among law firms that could cause them to lower their fees; (8) that law societies are too comfortably protected by their monopoly over the provision of legal services, which is why they might block the expansion of the paralegal profession, and haven't effectively innovated with electronic technology and new infrastructure so as to be able to solve this problem; (9) that when members of the public access the law society website they don't see any reference to the problem that can assure them that something effective is being done and, (10) in order for the rule of law, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and the whole of Canada's constitution be able to operate effectively and command sufficient respect, the majority of the population must be able to obtain a lawyer at reasonable cost.

We all know there are a few places in America that act as population black holes, where people never leave, or to which they return quickly if they ever do leave.

This northern Texas city grew quickly as a result of heavy population growth in the Dallas metropolitan area.

The entrepreneurial work ethic in China (as praised recently by arguably the world's greatest investor, Michael Moritz), the speed of innovation and the ability to quickly scale and reach meaningful populations have caused Chinese companies to leapfrog the market cap of many of their U.S. counterparts.

That date marks the beginning of a three - year period in which the population of Windows 7 PCs will presumably shrink quickly as old PCs die and are replaced by newer models running Windows 10 (or aren't replaced at all).