Sentences with phrase «rather than the population»

The fall in the number of births to immigrant women is explained by behavior (falling birth rates), rather than population composition (change in the number of women of childbearing age), according to a Pew Research analysis.

However some technical challenges still need to be taken to make the technology more accessible and usable to its full potential: gaining selective and comprehensive genetic access to the neurons of interest, controlling variation in the expression of the optogenetic tools (when using viruses) and its precise localization (axon vs. presynaptic terminals), tailoring light - delivery system signals to individual cells in a population rather than the population as a whole, developing observation techniques which have the same spatial and temporal resolution as those tools... to cite only a few of them.

Most interestingly, it is clear that Machu Picchu was no ordinary Incan city - its layout and architecture suggests that it was utilized as a secret and exclusive ceremonial settlement rather than a population centre.

So maybe, at the next environmental event, you could ask the income inequality question rather than the population question.

In recent decades «environmentalists» have increasingly emphasized climate issues rather than population problems.

To date, governments have no firm estimates of the number of school - aged children across the Northern Territory who have no access to school education, and school staffing is allocated on the basis of school attendance rather than population estimates.

Not exact matches

He went on to talk about how important it is to have a diverse bench of leadership to ensure more sound decision - making, rather than having one person from the «diverse group» represent his or her entire population.

However, given the ageing of the population and the accompanying pressures on health care costs, it is important that such discussions begin much earlier and involve the public, rather than being held behind closed doors.

After 1980, Chile did indeed begin to break up its large landholdings, but in a way dictated by Chicago monetarists emphasizing export crops wine and vegetables rather than grain to feed its population by a policy of import displacement.

Rather than focus on damning the gay population, perhaps you need to be talking to your straight men and see how many hours a day they're logging on to a porn site.

YOU: Rather than focus on damning the gay population, perhaps you need to be talking to your straight men and see how many hours a day they're logging on to a porn site.

the black population should be more concerned with the 27 % unemployment rate in the black community rather than who wants to marry who?

The American economy will strain to support elderly dependents comprising a third of its population, but the Iranian economy will collapse — particularly given the projection, common among economists, that, by about 2020, Iran will be a net importer, rather than exporter, of oil, as its reserves dry up.

This belief can only be popularized when entire populations are taught to «feel» rather than to «think,» and when this happens, a desire to search the minds of intelligent forbearers fizzles out, and comprehension levels center only around what pleases them and their own unique worldview.

In the clearest possible case, the ANT - OAR cell would differ from a zygote on all of the parameters noted above: The ANT - OAR cell would have a pattern of gene expression that is clearly distinct from a zygote; it would generate a homogeneous population of cells rather than multiple cell types; it would undergo simple cleavage divisions and not produce any multicellular structures.

· Should new technologies empower broad populations rather than being controlled by gatekeepers?

Since the population of this region was chiefly of true Arab stock they received the Muslim forces as kinsmen rather than foreigners.

The United Nations conferences on population have called for social changes, such as more education and opportunities for women, as well as birth control clinics rather than reliance on the demographic transition.

That people were essentially a problem, even a pollutant, rather than a resource; that social, political, economic, and ecological catastrophe was right around the corner, unless drastic steps were taken to stabilize and then reverse world population trends - these were the themes, familiar to even the most casual student of the American anti-natalist lobby, that set the agenda for Budapest and Mexico City.

Many from the global South oppose the concern of the North about population on the grounds that it is the over consumption of the North rather than increasing population in the South that is the chief cause of global environmental deterioration.

The phenomenon shows fluctuations of populations rather than evolution, and even creationists have pointed this out (Kofahl and Segraves, The Creation Explanation, 1975).

But the point is that in addition to the obvious pressures of population growth, strategies of development that ignore existing injustice in patterns of wealth distribution enlarge the problems of severe poverty rather than mitigating them.

A large part of the difference between scientists and the general population may be due more to religious upbringing, rather than scientific training or university pressure to be irreligious, although these other possibilities should be further explored.»

It has been estimated that toward the close of the Middle Ages, England and Wales, with a population of about two and a half million, had 400 grammar schools - a rather better provision than in Victorian England.

Secularists, about 14 percent of the population, are likely to describe themselves as «irreligious,» rather than «antireligious,» and they frequently view religious adherents as dogmatists.

But to me it seems the timing of it - when we have a divided population more influenced by the ever - present, privately owned media rather than education - leaves the door is wide open for a crisis.

Major responsibility for the change in Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan, Levine and Harmon claim, rests largely on the political, banking, and real estate establishment of Boston that decided to channel Boston's growing black population into Jewish neighborhoods rather than to scatter them in Irish, Italian, and other ethnic enclaves.

The proportion of congregations in the 1960s and 1970s that actually responded as prescribed to their contexts was in fact very small.21 As neighborhood populations changed racially, some churches whose physical and financial resources lingered after their former membership fled introduced service programs to assist the poor, but the adjustment seems in most cases to have stemmed from necessity or default rather than from deliberate reorientation and restructuring by members who themselves stayed on to be transformed.

In his book The Nature Principle, Richard Louv says for the first time in history, more than half of the world's population lives in cities, rather than rural environments.

Gains have been made since the depression of the 1930s, and the serious victims in our society are about one - sixth of the population rather than one - third; but one - sixth represents many millions, and its presence indicates the need for a continuing revolution.

Not only do such actions represent a radical departure from past times in America, when government refused to legitimate ethnic - group rights and claims, but they also encourage a polarization rather than unification of our diverse population — a trend that can result only in the eventual creation of de jure ethnic and racial geographic enclaves and political parties, with the appointment and election of individuals mandated along racial, religious and ethnic lines.

So while it is all well and good to imagine that each of us has managers, exiles, and firefighters struggling to get along within ourselves, the transfer of those metaphors back again to the actual human population from which the metaphorical functions were borrowed in the first place only distorts reality rather than helping to explain it.

4) Gradualism This is the understanding that changes take place through the gradual change of population rather than the sudden production of new individuals.

If (when the economy improves even more) the construction and hospitality industries have trouble getting labor, they can hire from our current population (both the native and the foreign - born) rather than bring in guest workers.

They provided a channel for following what many regarded as the full Christian way of life rather than the nominal Christianity professed by the majority of the population.

When in a polemical rather than a romantic mood, Luther later referred to it as a «nest of priests»; they were one in ten of the population.

When you compare the percentage of inmates in prison who are Christian to the entire Christian population, and then compare the percentage of atheist / agnostic / non-deists with the entire atheist / agnostic / non-deist population, there are FAR more criminals who call themselves «Christian» rather than those who identify themselves as non-religious.

The obverse side of the prevalence of this kind of sentiment through out the population is that what anticlericalism there was in the United States was «sectarian» rather than «secular.»

«I think the packaging industry has got a chance to reach out not just to the general population, but to councils and also to businesses and give them good information and give them good leads because there is a serious danger of people looking abroad for a solution rather than looking within and the solutions are within Scotland.

Just because the past yielded profits does not mean the future will but I would rather lean on a strategy like this than just blindly pick favorites like most of the population does.

Much of the evidence against BPA comes from large population studies rather than controlled clinical trials.

In his statement yesterday, Roberts said he's «very disappointed that the bipartisan, bicameral Child Nutrition Reauthorization negotiations have come to an end for the 114th Congress» and he accused his colleagues in the House and minority members of the Senate of putting «certain parochial interests and the desire for issues rather than solutions... ahead of the wellbeing of vulnerable and at - risk populations and the need for reform.»

Factors that may have contributed to the success for women who exclusively breastfed were face - to - face contact (rather than contact by telephone), volunteer support, a specific schedule of four to eight contacts and high numbers of women who began breastfeeding in the community or population (background rates).

Breastfeeding rates vary from population group to group — the variation is usually due to social rather than biological factors.

The increased socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding observed in the intervention group supports the argument that population intervention strategies could inadvertently exacerbate, rather than mitigate, socioeconomic inequalities, particularly when the intervention aims to change individual behaviours rather than targeting «upstream» structural changes.25 Our results are also compatible with an observational study from Brazil reporting that breastfeeding rates increased first among the socioeconomically better - off, followed by increases among the poor, over a 20 - year period of active breastfeeding promotion campaigns in Brazil.26

A population - wide, rather than «high risk» - targeted, intervention strategy has been criticized for its inadvertent consequence of widening socioeconomic inequalities in health.

If we are experiencing a high rate of complication that creates an unsafe situation then we would be best off to address the overall health of our population rather than to assume that interventions at the end of pregnancy are the best course of action.

First of all, your last sentence was brilliant: «If we are experiencing a high rate of complication that creates an unsafe situation then we would be best off to address the overall health of our population rather than to assume that interventions at the end of pregnancy are the best course of action.»

3 — 6,10 Complete ascertainment of outcomes of all home births in a large population and the ability to attribute outcomes to place of birth rather than type of caregiver should extend this literature.

Kennedy: «I'm disappointed with the addition of the 63rd Senate seat, besides adding to the cost of government, it was put in a place that has no impact on western New York and quite frankly has no impact on the population shift in New York state and if there was going to be an additional seat added that despite the fact that I disagree with you that the Constitution was in fact violated and you say that it was not violated — the fact that this additional seat adding to the cost and size of government was added to a place in the Capital Region rather than a place where distinctly the population grew down in New York City I believe was based upon the fact that had an additional district been added in the city where the population shift had come from it would have included that seat being an additional minority seat and that is why it was put up in the Capital Region and rather than in the New York City area.