Sentences with phrase «reduced number of adult»

«If Zika breaks out here, we will have to do whatever we can to reduce the number of adult Aedes aegypti mosquitoes right away, and a single insecticide application isn't going to do it.»

Passing on half of the cost of the levy to consumers leading to an increase in the price of high and mid-sugar drinks of up to 20 % was estimated to reduce the number of adults and children with obesity by 81600, result in 10800 fewer cases of diabetes and 149,000 fewer decaying teeth per year.

One model proposes that genetic diversity was lost in two distinct bottlenecks, where groups of hundreds or thousands of migrating people were quickly decimated by disease, starvation, warfare, or some other cause, dramatically reducing the number of adults who bore children that survived.

Killing these immature parasites first also reduces the numbers of adults that later need to be treated.

«Any person or business entity... that must reduce the number of adult unsterilized dogs or cats in order to comply with this section shall spay or neuter the excess animals or sell, transfer, or relinquish the excess animals within 30 days....

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«Reducing the number of uninsured adults in Louisiana makes it easier to improve access to needed care, to limit costs for families and individuals with private insurance and to create greater stability in Louisiana's state budget,» Salles said.

There are many uses for such a questionnaire, such as: a) helping place at - risk children (e.g., abused, neglected, diagnosed) with safe and nurturing parents, b) potentially reducing the number of failed adoption placements, c) protecting children from at - risk adults, and d) screening foster / adoptive families to reduce the possibility of abuse and / or neglect.

Look at whether the plain packaging of tobacco products could be an effective way to reduce the number of young people who take up smoking and to support adult smokers who want to quit, and consult on options by the end of the year.

The Tobacco Action Coalition of Onondaga County says this would have a dramatic effect in reducing the number of teens and young adults that get addicted to nicotine.

In reviewing 13 studies, the task force saw evidence that screening can detect increased fluid pressure and early glaucoma in adults and that timely treatment for fluid pressure reduces the number of people who lose their vision from the disease.

The number of people who have food allergies has increased in recent decades with around 5 - 7 % of infants and 1 - 2 % of adults at risk and The University of Manchester is part of a project «Integrated Approaches to Food Allergen and Allergy Management» (iFAAM; http://www.inflammation-repair.manchester.ac.uk/iFAAM/), which aims to provide better advice for health workers and the public and, ultimately reduce the burden of allergy across Europe.

Based on the number of adults who get booster shots within the recommended 10 - year interval, they estimate that changing to a 30 - year schedule would reduce the costs of vaccination by two - thirds, a reduction of approximately $ 280 million per year in health care costs, and approximately $ 1 billion in cost savings within four years.

However, the number of proteins was reduced in the surviving adults.

One study in 60 adults showed that oil pulling with coconut oil for 10 minutes every day significantly reduced the number of S. mutans in saliva in as little as two weeks, compared to distilled water (2).

A systematic review of controlled yoga trials for adults with Type 2 diabetes (DM2) published in the Journal of Diabetes Research suggests that regular yoga practice may help to reduce a number of key risk factors and outcomes of the disease.

This is because of reduced water conservation by kidneys -LCB- reduction in Nephron numbers and reduced sensitivity of these nephrons to ADH -RCB- coupled with the reduced thirst sensitivity seen in older adults.

In a five - year placebo - controlled Swedish study of 443 healthy adults between the ages of 70 and 88, a combination of 200 mcg of the mineral selenium and 200 mg of CoQ10 improved heart function and quality of life, while reducing number of days in the hospital.

A number of programs are working to do that — to reduce exposure to violence, malnutrition, and poverty, or to enhance children's access to responsive, enriching interactions with caring adults, which play a critical role in a child's healthy development.

Increasing the fraction of non-white young adults who earn bachelor's degrees would increase the number of potential non-white teachers, and would likely reduce the racial and ethnic mismatch between students and teachers.

If all adults completed secondary education, 420 million could be lifted out of poverty, reducing the total number of poor people by more than half globally and by almost two - thirds in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.

And after a 2007 decision to raise the age that young people can be tried as adults, from 16 to 18, the state has also reduced the number of teenagers heading to adult prisons.

Data driven and research based, this book will help you reduce the number of young adults who leave school without completing a high...

The goals of this expanded foster program include decreasing the time spent in a shelter for adult dogs and cats, improving welfare, reducing the overall number of pets housed at PACC and providing a lifesaving pathway for pets who experience emotional decline due to the stress of living in the shelter environment.

Spay and Stay teaches trapping techniques and colony care to reduce the number of homeless kittens born and improve the lives of adult cats through sterilization and vaccination.

Reducing the recommended age by just one month would eliminate all those not - quite - adult kitties from producing «whoops» litters and would dramatically decrease the number of unwanted felines who end up in shelters or on the street.

Given the modest size of our dataset, it was necessary to reduce the total number of young adult behaviors that could be considered in a multivariate model (33).

If financial assistance were available to these families, many would get the adult animals spayed or neutered and the number of homeless animals in this country could be reduced.

Any indoor cat owner knows that hairballs can be a constant struggle and Royal Canin Indoor Adult 27 has significantly reduced the number of hairballs that my cats have (and that I have to clean - up).

When fertility declines quickly, reducing the number of young dependents relative to working - age adults, countries can experience what is known as the demographic bonus.

It will help reduce the number of children at risk of becoming adult offenders or prisoners.

The book offers a number of recommendations in terms of how to reduce a child's «peer orientations» and replace them with an active adult or «parent orientation» and it is for this reason that I would recommend it to my clients.

There are a number of ways for adults to reduce their own stress and maintain awareness so they continue to be effective when offering support to children who have experienced traumatic events.

Two options were explored for reaching parents with the program: Chapter I pilot schools (schools which qualify for federal funds based on economic and achievement criteria, e.g. those which serve a high number of free or reduced - price lunches and also have a large number of children under - achieving on group tests), and adult education programs.

While funding is always a challenge for pioneering programs in education, evidence suggests that investments in SECD pay for themselves, both in the near term, thanks to reductions in teacher dissatisfaction and turnover, and over the long term, due to cost - savings associated with reduced criminal activity and health costs as well as increased tax revenue generated by greater numbers of employable adults (Belfield et al., 2015; Heckman & Kautz, 2013).

Childhood mental health problems reduce the number of distinct continuous jobs held as an adult, so that respondents stay with the same job longer.