The World Health Organization has categorized the bacteria responsible for plague, Yersinia pestis, as a re-emerging pathogen because of
the rising number of human plague cases globally.
Not exact matches
On a somber
human note, the storm is already being cited for some 20 fatalities — 10
of them in New York City — and officials fear that
number may
rise.
Consider a partial list
of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the
number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization
of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation
of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic
rise in the percentage
of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the
rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost
of higher education, the development
of a more litigious society, the legal end
of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in
human knowledge, and so on.
From the early days
of human history we have seen one ideological movement after another
rise, inspire, become corrupted by political and other power brokers, attract huge
numbers of mindless followers who are trying to fill the empty hole in their pointless lives, and then ultimately disappear in a corrupt mess.
For its part, the Moroccan Association
of Human Rights (AMDH) said it had identified 50 people detained and that «the
number of arrests continues to
rise» and had passed 70 across the whole province.
Indeed, according to a 2009 study published in
Human Reproduction, the
number of ART procedures is on the
rise and so - called test - tube babies account for an estimated 250,000 births every year worldwide.
Since then, the
number of ancient
humans whose DNA Reich has analyzed has
risen exponentially.
These differences suggest that the ancestral population
of apes that gave
rise to
humans, chimps, and bonobos was quite large and diverse genetically —
numbering about 27,000 breeding individuals.
They found that
human needs, such as employment, utility consumption and housing, correspond directly with the population: As the
number of people doubles so does the need for housing, jobs and electricity infrastructure, which encompasses the
number of roads, gasoline stations and the like already in place and does not necessarily keep pace with individual growth — the ratio
of user to facility simply
rises.
The study stops short
of linking the
rise in
number and size
of fires directly to
human - caused climate change.
The
number of reported
human cases in Argentina is
rising rapidly, and now stands at 1391, with 22 deaths.
The study for the first time estimates the minimum
number of locations in the
human genome — 250 to 300 — where gene copy
number variation (CNV) can give
rise to autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
«It might be difficult to imagine why the large
number of gene variants that together give
rise to traits like [autism spectrum disorder] are retained in
human populations,» co-author and genetics and neuroscience professor Joel Gelernter said in a statement from Yale University.
Human tissues exposed to either drug for one week in a dish had reduced
numbers of cells that give
rise to sperm and eggs, called germ cells, the study found.
As the
number of sequences
rises, the sterile and rehearsed
human interactions become a noticeable trend.
Tamer Khweis, a Jordanian
human rights lawyer, does not believe in a direct correlation between the increased
number of Westerners in the country and the
rise in prostitution.
The upper portion
of the card contains conditions that can increase the threat level based on the current state
of New Angeles, such as the threat
rising due to outages or the
number of Human First supporters currently residing in the city.
These were laid over oil - based visual abstractions created by
Rose herself — extremely lo - fi iterations
of the images
of space she used as inspiration — and interspersed with music as diverse as warped Aretha Franklin
numbers and EDM, to create «a work that goes beyond its constituent parts to address ideas
of human perception through direct experience and an emotive sensibility», says the gallery.
Wilke has also participated in a large
number of significant group exhibitions including the forthcoming exhibition Virginia Woolf: an exhibition based on her writing, Tate St Ives (2018); Delirious: Art at the Limits
of Reason, 1950 - 1980, Met Breuer, New York (2017); Body Talk,
Rose Art Museum, Waltham (2017); Feminist Avant - Garde
of the 1970s, ZKM, Karlsruhe (2017), travelling to Stavanger Art Museum, Norway and The Brno House
of Arts, Brno (2018); I Remember Not Remembering, Scottsdale Museum
of Contemporary Art (2017); The Beguiling Siren is Thy Crest, Museum
of Modern Art in Warsaw (2017); Performing for the Camera, Tate Modern, London (2016); Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 - 2016, Hauser & Wirth & Schimmel, Los Angeles (2016); Americana: Formalizing Craft, Perez Art Museum, Miami (2013); Aquatopia: The Imaginary
of the Ocean Deep, Nottingham Contemporary (2013);
Human Nature, Los Angeles County Museum
of Art (2012); Naked Before the Camera, Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York (2012); Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Seattle Art Museum (2012); The Body as Protest, Albertina Museum, Vienna (2012); Ourselves, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2012); The Original Copy: Photography
of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, MoMA, New York and elles@centrepompidou, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2010).
All Too
Human might be rather a mixed bag with a
number of glaring omissions — whither Gwen John, David Hockney, Chris Ofili,
Rose Wylie, to name but a few?
Since increasing the amount
of obtainable food gives
rise to increasing
human numbers, that there are options becomes clear.
Obviously, rates
of consumption
of fossil energy and forests per person matter more than the
rise in
human numbers.
Unless a string
of catastrophic events lie ahead, this is the one thing we can say for sure:
human numbers are going to keep
rising in the next forty years or so, and the end result will be an ageing population reaching 9 billion people in the year 2050: this is what we need to be planning for.
A recent study, for example, used paintings to investigate evolving eating habits —
of interest to Dot Earth because consumption patterns contribute to the challenges facing a world with
rising human numbers and appetites.
The impact
of global warming on temperature - induced
human mortality has long been a concern, where it has been hypothesized that
rising temperatures will lead to an increase in the
number of deaths due to an increase in the frequency and intensity
of heat waves.
I noted (as I have previously in this blog) the large
number of states that are either divided on or hostile about claims
of human - caused global warming that are nonetheless hotbeds
of collective activity focused on counteracting the adverse impacts
of climate change, including sea level
rise.
If
humans make no attempts whatsoever to adapt — a curious assumption that the report inexplicably relies on almost throughout — the total
number of heat - related deaths will
rise.
This would be driven by increasing
numbers of humans and a
rise in the standard
of living around the world.
There are now a
number of studies about tobacco and alcohol increasing spontaneous abortions but one must be careful to distinguish studies whose patient population has a confirmed pregnancy (seven weeks after last menses) from those «early pregnancy loss» studies using daily urine samples tested for
human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) to detect pregnancy via hCG
rise in the second week after ovulation.
There's about 40 percent more
of it in the atmosphere today than there was in the millennia
of human history before the Industrial Revolution, and that
number is
rising fast, since we just can't seem to curb our thirst for fossil fuels.
Under the continued pressure
of human - forced warming on global ocean levels, a good
number (5 - 10 percent)
of these cities may begin to succumb to
rising tides in as little as a 10 - 30 years.
While some may argue that these are «natural» disasters, there is increasing consensus that
rising temperatures, caused by
human activity, are contributing to the
number and intensity
of these events.
To give the impacts
of sea level
rise a
human scale, Hummel and her team recorded the
number of people served by each vulnerable treatment facility.
[1] Climate change creates new risks for
human exposure to vector - borne diseases such as Zika, particularly in the United States where
rising heat and humidity are increasing the
number of days annually in which disease vectors thrive.
The
number of reported cases where businesses used the
Human Rights Act to bolster their argument
rose by 15 % last year, from 39 cases in 2011 to 45 cases in 2012, according to figures provided by Sweet & Maxwell.
The US Department
of Health and
Human Services projects that the
number will
rise to almost 22 percent by 2040.
From a
human rights perspective the extinguishment
of native title as it occurs in the Australian legal system gives
rise to a
number of concerns.
Parental separation may also expose children to loss
of social, economic and
human capital.4, 14 Other explanatory factors may derive from characteristics typical
of separating parents such as lower relationship satisfaction and higher conflict levels also before the separation.4 The
rising numbers of children with JPC have concerned child clinicians as well as researchers on the subject.20, 21 Child experts have worried about children's potential feelings
of alienation from living in two separate worlds, 20 — 22 increased exposure to parental conflict12, 22 and other stressors that JPC may impose on a child.22 Such daily stressors may be long distances to school, friends and leisure activities, lack
of stability in parenting and home environment and a need to adjust to the demands
of two different family lives.12, 22 The logistics
of travelling between their homes and keeping in contact with friends has been stated as a drawback
of JPC in interview studies with children.23 — 25 Older adolescents, in particular, indicated that they preferred to be in one place.23