Sentences with phrase «relatively large population»

Boston's relatively large population and housing stock help mitigate some of the impacts on rent prices, but as one of the most expensive rental markets in the country, any rent increase will be noticeable to renters.

We've selected the secondary school level as an illustration because of the relatively large population of teachers represented by this area.

Bottom line is that few climate scientists are on twitter (a relatively large population in the UK tho).

The relatively large population means that Muk is unkempt in places, with garbage being burned or lying discarded around villages — unfortunately common on inhabited islands throughout the region.

Like all living museums in the sea, the Kidd shipwreck protects biological resources — most notably, relatively large populations of elkhorn and staghorn coral — as well as archaeological resources.

West Lothian, Falkirk, Dumfries and Dundee also have relatively large populations.

Not exact matches

For example, in addition to having higher levels of genetic diversity, populations in Africa tend to have lower amounts of linkage disequilibrium than do populations outside Africa, partly because of the larger size of human populations in Africa over the course of human history and partly because the number of modern humans who left Africa to colonize the rest of the world appears to have been relatively low (Gabriel et al. 2002).

Their large numbers (approximately two - fifths of the population in 1960), their relatively high levels of religious commitment and political activity, and their conservative opinions on most issues all combined to produce formidable support for the GOP up and down the ticket.

Perhaps the real advantage of the relatively large proportion of elderly, singles and young couples is the consequent reduction in the project's population density.

She says the treatment is still relatively unknown — in contrast to her home country of Denmark, where about a quarter of the population have experienced reflexology and many large businesses employ therapists.

Together these trends threaten to produce a society in which a relatively small section of the population comes to claim a larger share of national income through its (increasingly) concentrated ownership of (increasingly) inherited wealth.

In contrast, some languages with large populations of speakers, such as Mandarin, Hindi, and Arabic, are relatively isolated in these networks.

They found that the nasal cavities of cold, dry climate populations are relatively high and show a larger and more abrupt change in diameter in the upper part of the cavity than those of hot, humid climate populations.

A long - term study of life history and government records reveals a disproportionately large set of social costs devoted to a relatively small sector of the population.

The KRAS - variant mutation is also relatively common in the population at large; about 1 person in 20 carries it.

«It is exciting and striking how a relatively homogeneous population sweeps across large parts of Europe between 33,000 and 26,000 years ago, displacing the populations that were there before,» says Reich.

Bob Holmes writes that a small downward shift in the mean IQ of a population will cause a relatively large...

Bob Holmes writes that a small downward shift in the mean IQ of a population will cause a relatively large drop in the number of high IQ individuals (23 August, p 30).

The work also underscores a relatively new way to uncover a single factor's influence on disease: by isolating it genetically in a large population.

The exploding population has stoked the economy and created a relatively large, politically influential middle class, which has contributed to a recent improvement in political stability.

Firstly, for land - based volcanoes it is hard to carry out large - scale observations using artificial earthquakes because of the population density, and it is also difficult to detect giant magma buildups with precise visualization because they are often at relatively low depths (roughly 10 km).

Whereas 23 years in 40 countries provides a relatively large data set, it does not exclude other possible explanations, such as violent crime increasing with temperature rise, a drop in farm labor productivity or population growth.

Faced with these uncertainties, Levison and his group did choose somewhat conservatively from the available population estimates, picking a relatively small figure for the size of the Oort Cloud and a large one for the scattered disk.

Certainly possible in Australia where there are large areas of relatively undisturbed forest with plenty of potential prey... there have been consistent sightings in the Blue Mountains area west of Sydney over many decades which suggest that rather than just an isolated zoo escapee or over grown pet there may be a breeding population, which would be a bit of a worry for us bush walkers!

«It is [still] possible that a population of wolves remained relatively untamed but tracked human groups to a large degree, for a long time,» adds first author of the study Pontus Skoglund of Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute.

Even though cancers account for a relatively small share of all disease in developing countries, the actual number of cases is greater than in the industrialised world because of the larger populations, says Indraneel Mittra, an oncologist at the Tata Memorial Centre (TMC) in Bombay.

Additionally, Kepler has also reported a large population of relatively low mass planets, inside the snow line.

In large organisms with relatively small population sizes, such as humans, only in the order of 1 % of the genomic information is shaped by the environment via natural selection.

A much larger number of haplogroup H subjects, as well as large cohorts of individuals with other haplogroups, will be necessary to analyze to dissect out other possible correlations or to determine whether or not any of the correlations we detected with a relatively small population are spurious.

Notably, the West African cohort has been useful for refining the association signals found in European and Asian ancestry populations; it has provided some of the earliest evidence for how relatively diverse populations might facilitate fine - mapping of loci originally identified in more homogeneous populations characterized by larger regions of strong linkage disequilibrium.

But when a new mutation appears in a species with a relatively small population, as in large mammals and humans, selection against the error is slower and less efficient, allowing the mutation to spread through the population.

Bieringer said that satellites are now capable of providing clear images of relatively small objects on the ground, allowing researchers to employ sophisticated computer programs to scan these images and identify potential hotspots capable of harboring large populations of Aedes aegypti mosquitoes.

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

The researchers found that «1) ingestion of a large number of calories at one time (binge eating) impacts metabolic parameters even when total calories and macronutrients are appropriate for weight; 2) the timing of energy intake is an independent determinant of the diurnal rhythm of leptin secretion, indicating a relatively acute affect of energy balance on leptin dynamics; 3) the mechanism of exaggerated insulin secretion after a binge meal remains to be determined, but may be related to the altered diurnal pattern of leptin secretion; and 4) as most binge eating episodes in the population are associated with the ingestion of excess calories, it is hypothesized that binge eating behavior is associated with even greater metabolic dysfunction than that described herein.»

America is a relatively young and expansive country, and a major historical concern involved feeding a growing population while moving food large distances.

Average long - term weight gain in nonobese populations is gradual — in the cohorts we studied, about 0.8 lb per year — but accumulated over time, even modest increases in weight have implications for long - term adiposity - related metabolic dysfunction, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.21 - 24 Whereas weight changes associated with any single lifestyle factor were relatively modest in our three cohorts, in the aggregate, changes in diet and physical activity accounted for large differences in weight gain.

This is consistent with the notion that the apparent achievement gains associated with having a black teacher reflect in part the relatively low quality of white teachers who work in more disadvantaged schools and in schools with large populations of African - American students.

Thanks to relatively low unemployment, rising interest rates, a dearth of new construction, a large population of new metro residents, and tight housing inventory, Detroit, Michigan's housing market could be heading into a heated territory.

Tenants profit due to a strong area that is well trafficked and has a large population with relatively high incomes.

As such, the asset purchases of a large working age generation drives the price of assets up; when this population ages, and the subsequent generation is relatively small, asset prices decline.

Precise mapping of major loci responsible for trait variation has been accomplished with relatively small numbers of dogs as compared to the large numbers of individuals required for trait identification in genetically diverse human populations.

The previous year the sculptor's large, permanent outdoor work «Footfall» had been installed at Kunstmuseum Winterthur in the relatively small city of Winterthur — population 108,000 — located in the northern canton of Zürich, Switzerland.

In both cases, there is simply not enough food available locally to support large populations, although a relatively small number of semi-nomadic hunters and / or herders may eke out an existence.

There is an abundance of reports focusing on the energy needs of humanity and the sustainability of mass action, but relatively little acknowledgement of the upsides of present cities as a way for allowing large populations to live in some comfort.

Sea level rise near the end of the century that affects a tiny percentage of the land area of a country, even with a large percentage of population living there today, can be a relatively minor problem if it is managed appropriately.

... even with a large percentage of population living there today, can be a relatively minor problem if it is managed appropriately.

In Europe, for instance, there are almost no countries in which the rate of reproduction is high enough to sustain current population (and that includes France, whose higher rates of reproduction are among the large numbers of relatively low - carbon - emission Muslims).

While the plant's output is relatively small, Torresol Energy believes «that it, or a series of similar plants, can be scaled up to provide much larger populations with renewable energy.»

If one takes historical emissions into account, one could argue that an EU or U.S. individual exceeded a fair allocation of carbon emissions long ago, whereas Chinese individuals have not yet come close to using up their fair share (because their high emissions rates began relatively recently and because China is supporting a larger population).

India's large and relatively poor population meant the country only emitted 1.7 tonnes per person in 2013.