Sentences with phrase «significant proportion of a population»

where does that leave the significant proportion of the population that naturally tends towards a darker frame of mind?

I'm not sure about Denmark but in the US a significant proportion of the population simply don't trust the media anymore.

Chris Huhne on the other hand is possibly going to get more sympathy as a significant proportion of the population have received speeding tickets at one time or another (and considered ways of getting out of them).

«But some figures show up to 50 per cent of people having interest in light spanking or bondage, so presumably a significant proportion of the population would look at that kind of pornography.

Anything that kills a significant proportion of a population has the potential to bring about very fast evolution.

This was accomplished by analyzing genotypic data from more than 11,000 adult volunteers — representing a significant proportion of the population suffering from severe obesity.

If going by either the low body temperature / low pulse diagnostic, and / or some kind of pattern on the serum tests (Anti-TG, TPO, TSH, free T - 3, free T4, total T3, total T4), we are talking a significant proportion of the population, especially women, being hypothyroid in some form....

A significant proportion of the population does not eat fruit or vegetables on a daily basis at all.

Today many Mayan people still live in these areas, making up significant proportions of the populations in some regions.

Unfortunately there is a significant proportion of the population that believes that the data that scientists use to do their work on climate change is kept secret from them and anyone that might question it.

has had a few unexpected consequences in terms of lower performance, pushing a significant proportion of the population into energy poverty and generally skewing energy planning.

The aforementioned 15 U.S.C. § 1129 from the other answer indeed looks somewhat applicable, but I highly doubt that anyone would agree that a random myfirstname individual, one who is not expressly famous or known by any significant proportion of the population under such name, is somehow intrinsically owned a myfirstname.com domain name, just because they're the first one to file a lawsuit against the present owner that's offering it on sale.

While these countries all have many families that function on the very highest level, a too - significant proportion of their populations desperately need healthy parenting and marriage education.

Not exact matches

In Asia - Pacific, SES Networks signed and implemented an important new network with mu Space, delivering reliable and affordable connectivity for a significant increase in mobile and WiFi coverage in Thailand, where only a small proportion of the population currently has broadband access, as well as extending and substantially expanding business with Palau Telecom on the O3b fleet as part of its 4G implementation plans.

The most significant deductions from these figures are, first, that more than half of the people of the United States are now members of religious bodies — in the neighborhood of 58 per cent — and second, that growth in church membership reveals a steady increase, not only numerically but in proportion to the general population.

A significant proportion of the country's Latino population — 57 million people and growing — have been grappling with their place in America under the new president, even though two - thirds were born here, according to Pew.

«These changes have occurred in the context of substantial increases in the proportion of adults reporting no leisure - time physical activity, but in the absence of any significant population - level changes in average daily caloric intake,» explains lead investigator Uri Ladabaum, MD, MS, Associate Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology and Hepatology), Stanford University School of Medicine.

For papers identifying locally adapted loci from SNP data in wild populations, the proportion of SNPs tested that were local adaptation candidates based on either (a) FST outlier status or (b) significant genotype - environment associations, in comparison to the log - scaled number of individuals sampled in the reported dataset.

In all of the following snapshot comparisons, I consider the group - to - group differences (i.e. margins or gaps) as significant if we can be 90 percent confident of the difference — based either on statistical t - tests for comparing means or statistical z - tests for comparing population proportions.

At the time of our study, a high proportion of its student population was black, and a significant proportion of the community lived below the poverty line.

Leon Ifayemi, CEO of SPCE, commented on the findings: «Students make up a significant proportion of the UK's rental population, yet their experience in unfairly losing their deposits is disproportionately high.

If Bitcoin crashed, it could wipe out billions in life savings of a significant proportion of the Korean population.

Although the level of awareness about Bitcoin among the general population has increased, only a small proportion of them hold significant amount of Bitcoins.

The graph indicates that the Indigenous population is considerably younger than the non-Indigenous population with a significant proportion of younger Indigenous people and relatively few aged over 65.

The proportion of these children who were in poor general health (9 %) was above the proportion in the whole population, but the difference was not statistically significant.

With a significant proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in younger age groups, there is an additional challenge to programs and services being able to keep up with the future demands of a burgeoning population.

Moreover, establishing contact with a significant proportion of parents through therapy and support centres for children with ASD probably skewed the composition of the group towards greater participation of individuals benefiting from professional support than in the general population of these families.

With a significant proportion of Indigenous peoples in younger age groups, there is an additional challenge to programs and services being able to keep up with the future demands of a burgeoning population.

Canada faces significant aging of its population as the proportion of seniors increases more rapidly than all other age groups.