Sentences with phrase «size of a population»

The downside: No matter the size of the population, startups will have to contend with family caregivers who may be reluctant to pass off responsibility for their loved ones to a stranger.

That is roughly twice the size of the population of the United States.

Economic growth depends largely on the size of the population in the labor force, making the steady wave of baby boomer retirees cause for concern.

«We lost some momentum toward the end of 2013 from disappointing job growth and limited inventory, but we ended with a year that was close to normal given the size of our population,» said Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist.

The measurement dependent on the size of the population.

Edmund Burke, who believed in the principle of «virtual representation» in other contexts, denied that it applied to the American colonies; he cited their distance, the size of their populations, and his trust in their own legislatures to take action on taxation necessary for the well - being of the empire.

Consequently, it makes no sense to use the immigration system to increase the size of this population.

The concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is tightly tied to the size of the population.

@Bobson I think the alternative would be devolution of most powers to smaller sized cities or states where fewer people are voting, since this question only examines the size of the population.

Each state is allotted a portion of these seats based on the size of its population relative to the other states.

Scientists exposed varying sizes of populations of fruit flies to the scent of praying mantises during breeding and non-breeding seasons.

Closer to home, when carrying out ecological surveying in London, I had been required to liaise with the local authorities — for example, to get permission to trap rodents (alive) in public parks, in order to assess the size of their populations.

Deaths from war have also been on a steady slide relative to the size of the population: War killed about 2 percent of people in the 17th century, but only 0.7 percent in the 20th century.

It can be anything in nature that moves up or down in effectiveness with the size of the population.

«Until now, it has been unclear as to how precise drone technology might be when monitoring the size of populations of wildlife.

Increased human fishing pressure has reduced the size of the population of scalloped hammerhead populations to a negligible size in the Gulf of California, with the species becoming extremely rare in the Mexican Pacific.

The quality of nesting and brooding areas is already restricting the size of the population.

The size of a geological survey, said McFadden, tends to be dictated by the size of the population, not the size of the country; therefore, GA is a much smaller organization than the U.S. Geological Survey.

This pattern is to be expected if the aim is to reduce the size of a population by increasing the level of hunting, the experts explained.

«We do not have at the present time an analysis to tell us what would be an appropriate size of the population of chimpanzees that would need to be kept on hand should the need arise from some sort of new pandemic for their use,» said Collins.

«In mutualism, we see that first, the abundances of each species become equal, 50 - 50, and then the overall size of the populations reach equilibrium, whereas in the competitive regime it's the other way around,» Gore explains.

To this end, they observe various facets of biodiversity, such as the size of populations, the characteristics of species or the functioning of ecosystems and analyse how they change.

The time taken to reach this mix would depend on the size of the populations.

The result: phytoplankton concentrations above oil seeps are as much as twice the size of populations only a few kilometers away.

The proposal would phase out licenses for deep - sea trawling 2 years after the regulation is approved, require strict quotas for deep - sea species that lack solid scientific data on the size of populations, and require impact assessments for opening new areas to deep - sea bottom fishing.

«Although we did not find the overall traffic - related fatality rate to predict policy adoption, the size of the population ages 15 to 24 years — the group most at risk for death and injury from impaired driving — was associated with first time policy adoption, suggesting that states might be initially more receptive to regulation when it involves protecting younger populations,» said study author Diana Silver, associate professor of public health at NYU Steinhardt and NYU College of Global Public Health.

China has many times more people who have strokes every year than the United States because of the size of the population and higher stroke rates, which allowed investigators to screen 41,561 patients in just three years at the 114 clinical sites, and enroll 5,170 patients in the trial.

The key insight is that the total size of population that can be supported depends on the proportion of cooperators: more cooperation means more food for all and a larger population.

Generally, I'd look for the size of the population and a site with a certain degree of searching capability.

Still no matter the size of the population, all gifted children are worthy of understanding and support.

Even compared to the AU market, we still beat them considering our prices and the size of our population.

When asked if they impose any limit on public libraries in consortia by size of population served, each responded that it does not.

Hachette says it evaluates each consortium on a case - by - case basis «using criteria including number of libraries, size of population, and circulation numbers.»

Working as a shelter veterinarian, I will use high quality, high volume spay / neuter techniques to reduce the size of this population.

If you know the size of the population served by your shelter, you can estimate the number of un-owned cats out and about on a given day by dividing the population by the mid-point number or either end of the range that makes sense to you.

Dogs are correlated with different forms of leukemia disease, i.e. acute and chronic.The size of the population of white blood cells in the bone marrow represents the acuteness of disease.

When the size of the population starts to decrease, other members of the species move in or reproduction rates increase so that the population goes right back to where it started.

Keeping the population of stray cats in check requires a systematic approach, animal advocates say: To ensure that every cat in a colony has been sterilized, caretakers get to know their wards so that they can better monitor the size of the population.

This survey should provide an updated list of breeding sites, a good estimate of the size of the population, and data about survival rate of different age classes: together with the high resolution data from our intensive study of Sea Lion Island this new information should provide the parameters needed to determine the current status of the population and forecast its future.

Using rejection - based Approximate Bayesian Computation, we estimate the size of the population bottleneck at its minimum abundance and the pre-bottleneck abundance.

The IWC Bowhead, Right and Gray Whale subcommittee in 2011 reiterated the conservation risk to western gray whales is large because of the small size of the population and the potential anthropogenic impacts.

Many of the conclusions depend also on attitudes on the size of population.

Adaptation to climate change that involves infrastructural works generally require large up - front overhead costs, which in the case of small islands can not be easily downscaled in proportion to the size of the population or territory.

Considering the size of its population, and the size of its land, Bangladesh will no doubt experience difficulty in making sure everybody is fed.

According to a NOAA report, the size of the population living in U.S. coastal shoreline counties jumped by 35 million between 1970 to 2010.

In fact, warm incubation temperatures may have a short - term conservation benefit on the turtles, increasing the number of breeding females and hence the total size of the population

In part, this is because of the average younger age of the GTA as compared to the rest of Canada, but also the sheer size of the population.

«Sweden is one of the world's most innovative countries with leading businesses within for example the gaming industry, music industry, which is one of the largest in the world in terms of the size of the population, and a favourable environment comparable to Silicon Valley's for ICT», says Elisabeth.

It's unfortunate that crime rates are affected by the size of the population, however, it's also inevitable because the more populated an area is, the more likely that crime will occur.

When performing head - to - head comparisons across origins, it is important to account and control for the population differences: segment by provided dimensions, such as device type and connection type, and consider external factors such as size of the population, countries from which the origin is accessed, and so on.