Sentences with phrase «reflect changes in the population»

That's why the nation has had a census — it's a way to count the number of people in the nation and then to allocate Congressional districts to reflect changes in the population.

Rises may also reflect changes in the population of students tested more than particular school improvement strategies.

They're used all the time and updated every year to accurately reflect any changes in population.

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This post has been updated to reflect the change in percentage of black employees in overall global employee population, and the month from which data was pulled.

And since changes in GDP reflect inflation, population increase and real economic growth, GDP also captures the costs of providing a given level of public services.

We estimated the variability of differences in the population prevalence of maternal cancers, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, MI, and premature mortality when women breastfed at current compared with optimal rates and the proportion of current disease burden that this change would reflect.

Every 10 years, districts for state Senate, state Assembly and congressional lines are redrawn to reflect population changes recorded in the census.

But the state's political districts must be redrawn this year to reflect population changes identified in the 2010 census, and a proposal under consideration by the Legislature would put Mr. Grisanti in an all - Erie County district.

Our first objective is to get the state Senate and the Assembly to enact appropriate legislation in response to constitutional requirement that political lines for the legislature and Congress be redrawn every 10 years to reflect the changing population, as shown in the decennial federal census.

The increase appears to reflect both changes in behavior and a booming stork population in general.

* Correction, 22 November, 12:19 p.m.: The story has been changed to reflect that the population estimate of whale sharks corresponded to individuals in one genetically similar group.

«This analysis of data from the new National Seismic Hazard Maps reveals that significantly more Americans are exposed to earthquake shaking, reflecting both the movement of the population to higher risk areas on the west coast and a change in hazard assessments,» said co-author Bill Leith, senior science advisor at USGS.

One caveat to the study is that because helicopter transports brought a greater number of patients to Cleveland Clinic from surrounding rural areas during the course of the study period, it is possible that the observed trends reflect changes in the hospital's patient population.

Turchin and Scheidel combined numbers of coin hoards from 250 B.C.E. to 100 B.C.E. with data from the Roman Republic censuses to understand how spikes in stashes reflected population changes.

Shennan tested whether changes in climate hit the farmers hard by comparing the patterns of population growth and decline with regional fluctuations in climate, as reflected in Greenland ice core samples.

This diversity complicates the tasks of identifying which bacteria are present, and determining whether differences in bacterial populations reflect shifts among redundant species, or disease - related changes.

Such models focus on changes in the distribution or extent of species» «climate space», but the broad range of climate - change - related stresses that affect population ecology and physiology and that may have consequences at ecosystem and community levels [12] are not fully reflected.

Today's decision - makers tend to reflect the population at large in their dislike of change.

You would repeat this cycle with the new population of students making adjustments to reflect the change in your student population.

Posted on September 25, 2016 · As the population of Texas grows more diverse, some education leaders want to see that change better reflected in the leadership of schools.

Their language reflects changing populations in the neighbourhood: black, Hispanic, Korean.

Population growth is a factor, but the largest plausible changes in population expected this century make little difference to the total; we have two far more urgent problems reflected in these numbers:

The fires, which have increased 350 % over the same period in 2009, have devastated large areas of some Cerrado national parks, threaten to cause large scale changes to vegetation cover and are being reflected in a marked rise in respiratory complaints in the human population.

«Our study clearly showed that European migratory bird species with declining breeding populations in Europe in the last decades (1990 — 2000) responded the least to recent climate change as reflected by the temporal trend in spring migration phenology, or even delayed their timing of spring migration, whereas species with stable or increasing populations advanced migration.»

«This uncertainty must be reflected in micro-scale analyses of local and regional water management issues, particularly in «hot spots» that can now be identified by overlaying significant changes in drought frequencies over geographically explicit distributions of water - sensitive sectors and population centres.»

Computation of the KLoSA weight involved a sequence of three steps: (1) calculation of the design weight based on a two - stage sampling probability; (2) calculation of the non-response — adjusted weight to reduce the impact of non-responses; and (3) calculation of the benchmark weight to reflect changes in the general distribution of the population using demographic changes in census data, residence registration records, or other large - scale surveys.