Sentences with phrase «simple measure population»

Developing new and appropriate remote sensing indices of pertinent environmental factors is therefore important, if we are to do more than simple measure population change.

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When I was in medical school, I spent a summer in an Indian Reservation in the Upper Peninsula [of] Michigan and went to University of Michigan, and there we did a survey of nutrition and found that half of the population, adult population, was diabetic and that really fascinated me; and I wondered why, and we also used some dietary assessment methods and found that actually we could learn a lot about what people were eating were some fairly simple ways of measuring diet; and so in some ways I have spent the rest of my career trying to unravel some of those questions.

The researchers suggest that their blood test serves as a cheap and simple option to pre-select individuals from the general population for further testing by these more invasive and costly methods to exclude the falsely positive subjects.The blood test developed by Gerwert and colleagues uses a technology called immuno - infrared sensor to measure distribution of pathological and healthy structures of amyloid - beta.

«If you had something really simple like this, you could actually measure the overall reproductive health of a population in a pretty simple, low - cost way.»