Sentences with phrase «representatives of a national trend»
Ivy, Buddy, and Chase are local representatives of a national trend to control geese and other large birds with non-lethal means.
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Whether Newfoundland's recent switch back to automatic certification represents the beginning of a new national trend or not, there should be no illusions that card checks are somehow more representative of workers» interests than secret ballots.
Mr Ramon Marañon, small farmer representative to the National Organic Agriculture Board who is the policy making body of OA in the country, attended the conference and discussed updates and trends in organic agriculture policy.
But according to Anita Zaenker, national executive representative of the BC chapter of the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS), this is not enough to compete with the troubling trend of rising graduate student tuition fees.
Benjamin Lê Cook, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the Harvard Medical School / Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, Mass., and colleagues used nationally representative surveys of U.S. residents to compare trends in smoking rates between adults with and without mental illness and across multiple disorders (2004 - 2011 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey [MEPS]-RRB- and compared rates of smoking cessation among adults with mental illness who did and did not receive mental health treatment (2009 - 2011 National Survey of Drug Use and Health [NSDUH]-RRB-.
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES, 1988 - 1994 [III], 1999 - 2004, and 2005 - 2010 [n = 31147]-RRB- for the time trend analysis and NHANES III Linked Mortality cohort (1988 - 2006 [n = 11733]-RRB-, a prospective cohort of a nationally representative sample of US adults for the association study.
In the present study, we examined time trends of consumption of added sugar as percentage of total daily calories using a series of national representative samples.
Design, Setting, and Participants National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES, 1988 - 1994 [III], 1999 - 2004, and 2005 - 2010 [n = 31147]-RRB- for the time trend analysis and NHANES III Linked Mortality cohort (1988 - 2006 [n = 11733]-RRB-, a prospective cohort of a nationally representative sample of US adults for the association study.
I am not aware of any comprehensive national statistics, but the following snapshot from Ontario is presumably representative of gloomy trends across the country: