Sentences with phrase «small number of deaths»

«In the recent successful White Pines appeal, the Tribunal determined that because only five to ten percent of the original population of Little Brown Bat remains in Ontario, even a small number of deaths constitutes serious impact.

Muscle and workout enhancing supplements have been linked to countless health risks, and even a small number of deaths.

In recent years, we've become very used to tornadoes causing a relatively small number of deaths.

With such a limited breeding population, even a small number of deaths from disease can be the difference between the survival of a population or extinction.»

Does the risk of false positive results outweigh the benefit of preventing a small number of deaths from breast cancer?

As per my p.s. — I suspect the majority of deaths are in the over 65s — where higher protein intake is associated with lower mortality and the smaller number of deaths in the 50 - 65 group may explain some of the large confidence intervals and relative risks.

Due to the small numbers of deaths among Torres Strait Islander people in NSW, deaths among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples were considered as a group for the purpose of the analysis.

Not exact matches

But, given that crossing deserts brings a slow, miserable death to a number of these immigrants (and others will suffocate in the back of cargo trucks or be murdered by smugglers), a few more feet to climb is probably going to deter only a small number of potential immigrants.

The number of people repressed for their religion under Communism is far smaller (at least an order of magnitude) than the excess deaths caused by these regimes.

well, we certainly have contemporary accounts of Alexander the Great, so that would mean we should have contemporary accounts of Jesus, after all Jesus was a central figure in a small branch of Judaism numbering perhaps 1,000 people at His death.

The Pre-Workout Supplements world was thrown into the spotlight in 2013 and again in 2015 when hyperosmolar sports supplements were recognised to be contributing a small, but significant number of deaths during marathons.

The risk of SIDS is actually very small for the average baby (about one in almost 2,000) and getting smaller — especially thanks to the American Academy of Pediatrics» (AAP) «Back to Sleep» campaign, which has helped reduce the number of SIDS deaths by half since it was initiated in the early 1990s.

It seems to me that as long as the number of women choosing home births is small, then the absolute number of deaths / injuries will be small (though we know not as a % of attempts).

For example, in MANA Stats there are such a small number of early neonatal deaths that it wouldn't be impossible for a researcher to figure out who some of the mothers and babies are in the sample.

Although our perinatal death rate lies well within the rates described in other population - based studies, it deserves ongoing monitoring in view of the small numbers of births it is based on to date.

Since 2005, the deaths of Burundians, however small the number, have been tolerated because of the grander project — the war against Al Shabaab.

«One in 11 Americans has diabetes, and in the last 20 years, the number of adults diagnosed with diabetes has more than tripled,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. «Making small, healthy changes to our diets and lifestyle as we age can go a long way toward preventing the onset of this terrible disease, which is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.»

I think we should give justice to the small number of pedestrians killed each year by dangerous cycling by applying the same or similar penalties to that of causing death by dangerous driving and causing death by careless, or inconsiderate, driving.

A small group of parents, teachers and friends highlighted this fact by lighting 180 luminous bags in front of Old County Hall on Monday, roughly the number of opioid overdose deaths cases confirmed by the Health Department so far this year.

Despite the seemingly large number of tiny fish that fishermen and regulators thought were going to waste, the number was small compared to death by non-human predators and lack of plankton and other food sources.

In men ages 15 to 44 years, American Indians or Alaska Natives (whose numbers were small) had the highest rates of death from legal intervention, but blacks and African Americans, and white Hispanics or Latinos all had rates that were significantly higher than those experienced by non-Hispanic whites and Asians or Pacific Islanders.

According to the study, the number of these deaths that can be attributed to changes in the climate since the industrial era is, however, relatively small.

In 2013, India's National Vector Borne Diseases Control Program reported that the country had experienced an annual average of 20,474 dengue cases and 132 dengue - related deaths since 2007, but infectious disease experts believe those official numbers likely reflect only a small fraction of actual cases.

Compared with CIVCAS, they attribute nearly three times the number of civilian deaths caused by military forces, only a small portion of which are Afghan national rather than ISAF forces.

Dr. Ray said the very small number of overdoses and deaths suggests physicians may not need to be as cautious as they have been in prescribing codeine as a painkiller for adults, or among new mothers from East Africa.

Women were chanting and shouting in mourning around the small clinic; a number of deaths had recently occurred.

This trial also looked at the effects of corticosteroids on HIV - positive people, but the small number of included participants meant that the review authors were unsure if the benefits in terms of a reduction of death was preserved in this group of participants.

Instead, human bias seems to have led a small number of counties to become far more likely than others to follow through on a death sentence.

While there have been attempts to estimate real - time death risks during epidemics, such statistical models require data from large numbers of patients in the order of thousands and therefore could not be applied to the 2015 MERS epidemic in the Republic of Korea with small patient numbers.

This method will be useful when the death risk of a novel infectious disease has to be quantified using data from small numbers of patients during the course of an outbreak, providing information on which age groups to minimize exposure in hospitals, nursing homes and daycare facilities.

The battle scenes are appropriately spectacular, with Hogwarts under attack from an army of Death Eaters, Dementors, giants and beasties and defended by a small and dwindling number of students and teachers.

Players accept a mission, get dropped into an arena alongside a few of their buddies, and then take on a powerful boss enemy or bludgeon a number of smaller minions to death before being allowed to head home.

The acts of violence in «Timbuktu» are small in number but huge in impact, particularly in the scene where two transgressors, buried up to their necks, are stoned to death.

These «solution providers» have been the death of the once - vibrant and crazy Chinese marketplace... there's still a mind - boggling array of choice, but tear them down and you can group them into a much smaller number of reference designs.

I guess you could check if there's a hint of that kind of convergence in the existing data, but the number of annual deaths may be too small / random to necessarily allow you to draw much of a conclusion.

Or that by insisting on processes which take more time (home visits for example) or narrow the pool of potential adopters through rules (no small children, or no full time workers) we're actually causing the deaths of pets because we're holding our current rescue pets longer, or reducing the potential numbers of homes?

Safe Air Travel for Dogs While 122 deaths may seem like a lot, the DOT calls it an «extremely small percentage» of the total number of dogs that traveled by air in that five - year span, but the DOT does not record the number of dogs that fly successfully.

A small number of cats can suffer from feline aortic thromboembolism (FATE)-- a blood clot in the aorta that causes blockage of blood flow to the back legs (most commonly), leading to sudden paralysis, severe pain, and often, death.

Two frequently cited reports (3,4) provide limited guidance because: (1) longevity data are presented as combined mean age at death for a relatively small number of individuals of more than 50 breeds of different body size and life expectancy; and (2) ovarian status is reported as «intact» or «spayed», rather than as number of years of lifetime ovary exposure.

It's a percentage that allows for euthanasia and a small number of natural deaths, while being high enough to imply that pets aren't being killed for other reasons.

Dr. Janeczko adds that more severe reactions, including pneumonia and even death, may occur in a small number of cases.

Only a small number of people have survived rabies and this required extremely intensive medical care; if the disease develops in humans, death is almost certain.

It is possible to have a negative antigen test and still have a small number of worms that have escaped death in the treatment.

Although each flea only consumes a small drop of blood, fleas commonly attack in large numbers and an infestation can literally lead to anemia and even death.

[31] Even a very small number of additional annual female deaths will cause the subpopulation to decline.

Naturally, though, because a large number of smartphone gamers have no taste and seemingly hate up - front purchases but are happy to waste small fortunes on IAP, New New Super Mario Bros. hits number one on Google Play and makes it into the «most grossing» section of the iOS App Store, staying put until the heat death of the universe, occasionally troubled only by follow - up Nintendo hits Fruit - Swap Zelda, artillery game Angry Kirby, and one - thumb side - on iCopter knock - off F - Zero Mobile.

Even small changes in relative risk can be quite substantial for diseases like malaria that kills over 1,600 per million and diarrhea that kills over 1,000 / million population — and yes, mostly children; therefore in this case even a small or «marginal» risk translates to a potentially very large number of additional deaths over baseline; this is how confusion between «relative» vs. «attributable» risk can be misleading.

Scientific evidence says the number of deaths caused by nuclear power is overwhelmingly small.

But only a very small number of them, and scientists are hard at work to further improve technology that might prevent these deaths in the future.

Hardly anyone here wears one, and the number of deaths amongst cyclists because of accidents is very small, proving that the promotion of helmets is a ruse by politicians who lack the will to invest money in decent cycle - infrastructure.