Sentences with phrase «reach larger populations»

However, federal policies can reach larger populations and fund programs that benefit populations at risk for obesity, and thus play an essential role in improving public health.

Victor also hopes to expand the program to other parts of the country and to reach a larger population, including African - American men with more moderate blood pressure levels.

More importantly, FOSS is adopted in 50 of the 100 largest urban school districts where FOSS reaches large populations of under - served students.

Gray whales of Baja California Sur, a tourist attraction in expansion Published March 14, 2015 EFE By Ana Lopez Barron After reaching its largest population in almost 20 years, the gray whale has definitely become an important tourist attraction for... Continue reading →

After reaching its largest population in almost 20 years, the gray whale has definitely become an important tourist attraction for the Mexican state of Baja California Sur, a frequent destination for visitors from the United States and Canada.

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Our museum has worked hard over the last several years to improve our reach into the African - American and Hispanic communities, since the region has a large population of the former and is experiencing rapid growth among the latter group.

This campaign, running from nine to 20 weeks in any given year, reached a large segment of the smoking population.

The global audience for e-sports is expected to reach nearly 400 million this year (larger than the population of the U.S.), split between enthusiasts and casual viewers, and is expected to grow by 50 percent over the next three years, according to data Dojo Madness cited from the research firm Newzoo.

fred The Bible said that at a time when the world's human population was only in the millions, and disease generally prevented about 30 % of all children from reaching adulthood, so having large families was a way of hedging your bet.

Reaching this group is key because they (and their younger brothers and sisters) are going to be making up an ever - larger fraction of our politically active population.

If political redistribution reaches a certain level, it must either send the economy into a downward spin (wealth being redistributed faster than it is produced) or dismantle democracy (to prevent those whose wealth is to be redistributed» a population which, as redistribution expands, will be very much larger than the richest group» from resisting).

Conservatives have to figure out how to use media to reach more people The center - right messaging system is completely broken when it comes to talking to a very large fraction of the American population.

Large - scale Protestant use of television dates from the late 1970s, when the medium already reached the vast majority of the population.

While progress has been promising in some SAARC countries, such as India, large population segments in other countries have not been reached in terms of both food and health services.»

Parenting programs have been successful at teaching positive parenting techniques and improving behaviour of children.5 Given that a large proportion of the population needs to be taught, education will need to reach beyond just families with overt problems.

If you need a workshop to reach a larger parent population this workshop will help touch on some of the topics relevant to all parents in your elementary learning community.

This can also lead to a spoiler effect, as in some elections, large parts of the population voted for parties that failed to reach the threshold and were thus not represented (both Russia 1995 and Turkey 2002 this was more than 40 %).

Beyond this, Sutton has the largest town council population in the country, currently dominated by highly partisan Tories, and Labour has reached an agreement with the other smaller parties not to fight each other.

The son of an immigrant fieldworker who went on to become the youngest mayor of Santa Maria, Maldonado has long been considered the Republicans» best chance to reach out to the state's growing Latino population, which is projected to become the state's largest «race or ethnic group» in March.

«It's reaching a place where people are truly troubled about what this means for the practice of science and the ability of science to bring its benefits to the population at large,» he added during a breakfast press briefing on 16 February.

James Kaper has discovered that when the bacterial population reaches a critical mass in the large intestine, the microbes secrete hormonelike compounds.

The size of the dialysis population increased 4 percent in 2013, reaching 466,607, and is now 63.2 percent larger than in 2000.

A House provision requiring NSF to spend $ 30 million on an initiative for institutions with large Hispanic enrollments was dropped; NSF officials say existing programs are already reaching that target population.

From their American bases in Greenland, Norway, Germany, Turkey, Britain, Italy, Morocco, Pakistan, Korea, Japan, and Alaska, B - 47s could reach just about any target in the Soviet Union, furthering LeMay's well - publicized goal of obliterating 118 of the 134 largest population and industrial centers in the USSR.

On top of the large waves of population change, there are regular, small ripples that reach a peak every 15 to 20 years.

These statements represent the contradictory conclusions that large population studies on pregnancy and alcohol can reach.

GC - biased gene conversion correlates with recombination rate (86), and new GC alleles reach fixation more easily in species with larger population sizes, which tend to also have smaller body sizes (87).

This research not only provides the first clear evidence that microorganisms were directly involved in the deposition of Earth's oldest iron formations; it also indicates that large populations of oxygen - producing cyanobacteria were at work in the shallow areas of the ancient oceans, while deeper water still reached by the light (the photic zone) tended to be populated by anoxyenic or micro-aerophilic iron - oxidizing bacteria which formed the iron deposits.

The largest launch facility in the world, its population reached as much as 150,000 in the 1980s.

In general we find that if the international community fails to reach the SDGs then world population growth will be higher, people will be poorer and in worse health, and this larger world population will be more vulnerable to environmental change.»

New and even beneficial mutations are diluted by the population's large size and are unable to reach fixation, due to such factors as constantly changing environments.

If a population is small, they can expect to reach the common ancestor relatively quickly; if it is larger, it takes longer.

Convinced of the transformative power of such a course, he envisioned the potential spreading of yoga and inner peace within the correctional facility in a sustainable way: Yoga teachers within would reach a larger inmate population and in turn benefit to the entire prison.

While there are no guarantees that the UK will not see a housing crash before 2050, with the national population expected to continue growing and to reach 77.5 m — the largest in Europe — by 2050 (ONS, 2015), demand will remain high.

These statistics also show that largest emerging countries such as China or India, according to World Bank data, have an average Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth over 10 years of a 10 % and 7.5 % respectively, and will not have reached the desirable result of equitable development of their populations that have a 18.7 and 70.2 % respectively of multidimensional poverty population.

A report by the Australian Council for Educational Research shows a promising outlook for employment growth over the coming years, with a spike in demand for secondary teachers expected from 2018 due to a large number of high - school teachers reaching retirement and a growing population of school students [1].

Fast - forward to today, and each state has a larger Latino / Hispanic student population, with Oregon and Washington each reaching over 22 percent — and we remain committed to ensuring all children and youth in our region have the opportunity to reach their full potential.

[3] On the other hand, it has been far from inclusive of the state's large population of nonnative English speakers and has a long way to go before reaching its goal of equal educational opportunity for all students.

While the H3 allowed the Hummer to reach a larger segment of the population, its addition to the line was not enough to save the brand, and the entire Hummer line was discontinued as of 2010.

Villages and towns primarily served as commercial centers that were reached by poorly maintained mud roads; the only large city was London with an estimated population of 35,000.

If you buy in an area where homes have been priced out of reach for a large segment of the population, the demand for houses will inevitably fall, and prices will stabilize or even decline.

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When I studied statistics, a large enough sample to reach certainty of over 90 - 95 % was 30 random subjects from the population.

Since its inception, the Low Cost Spay / Neuter Initiative has expanded exponentially to accommodate approximately 31 counties, enabling us to reach a larger segment of Georgia's population and make an even greater impact in the communities we serve.

«Partnering with community organizations leverages limited resources and multiplies manpower, and as a result, their efforts will reach a much larger segment of the population,» Dr. Weedon said.

Even though large numbers of cats are euthanized in shelters, the numbers do not come close to reaching a tipping point to decrease outdoor cat populations.

The idea of waking up each day to views of rolling green hills, the high - reaching Santa Ynez Mountains and the blue waters of the Pacific Ocean appeal to many retirees, which make up a large and growing segment of Santa Barbara's population.

Because a large part of its small population nests in such a small area, a single catastrophic oil spill could have far reaching implications.

The world's largest ever LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) research study, to be released by global gay marketing specialists, Out Now, at World Travel Market 2011, nearly doubles its global gay population reach with the inclusion of India.

However, there is a large part of our population for which even the price of $ 100 puts it out of our reach.