Sentences with phrase «so in that given population»

You have a huge number of individuals that must be measured and so in that given population, we know what a standard bell curve distribution is.

Not exact matches

There is hope, however, that warnings might be realistically developed so that populations in danger of the «big one» can be given some sort of reasonable information about probabilities.

The population that summer was 307,006,550... so in simple terms that would mean that the 24 % equates out to be approximately 73, 681, 572... I think there are more than enough... the difference between an Atheist baseball team and a christian ball team is that we'd walk away, have a beer and pat each other on the back for a job well done, a christian ball team would give credit to their god.

When AAFRC announces charitable giving according to its «use» categories, it does so in aggregate form, without acknowledging changes in population or the amount of taxes paid.

I hadn't thought population and growth rate would be a huge factor in these attitudes, so this piece is giving me a few things to think about.

The absolute numbers of women choosing home birth are so low, and the total of anomalies in the total population of women giving birth is low enough that I would expect that we would be thinking in fractions of one percent for homebirths in which the baby has a previously undiagnosed anomaly which is fatal.

Proponents of this idea argue that raising the threshold would keep free meals from going to kids who aren't actually economically distressed, while critics charge that doing so would harm children legitimately in need of assistance because the 40 percent threshold doesn't come close to capturing all the impoverished kids in a given population.

I only have two sources to hand: that one (which only measures by developed / undeveloped, so it includes some very homogenous populations, i.e. in Scandinavia) and another that looks at data from Missouri between 1986 and 1997 that puts the rate at 0.5 for whites and 1.1 for African - Americans, but I'm sure there are others that are better and might give you a better idea.

So in sum, if you take EVERYONE who gives birth late preterm or beyond in the hospital, and compare them to voluntary reporting of a highly self - selected, generally healthier and more advantaged homebirth population, then EXCLUDE half of the homebirth deaths, then the homebirth numbers for infant death are ALMOST as good.

Heather, I live in Spain, I am a childbirth educator and gave birth at home here 3 years ago and just wanted to say that home - birth in this country is absolutely a tiny minority of the population, with the same kind of societal attitudes as North America, so this ad has created a big stir as you can imagine!!!

When did the population of the Fulani herdsmen grow so much to the point of scampering for space to graze Cattle, given the huge expanse of grass land in Nigeria.

So what do these population figures mean in terms of which constituencies may, or may not, be likely to have their election boundaries changed following on the upcoming Consituency Commission report, especially given that this body effectively will have eight different options in terms of total Dail seat numbers to choose from?

Even with such a low % of the population affected, taxes like this are hard to enforce and not so hard to legally avoid or reduce - for example, wealthy French people keeping wealth in neighbouring Belgium is common, as well as buying exempted assets, giving «temporary gifts» and other such techniques.

The success of any given vaccine depends on so - called herd immunity, in which a high rate of immunization in a population helps to protect those individuals who are not immune.

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Along with the dozen or so animals to be released next week along the Aragón, Põdra and his colleagues plan to free another seven or eight animals, also bred in captivity, along the river Leizarán, some 140 kilometers to the northwest, to give a small existing population there a boost.

If we take as the reference the values relating to men in order to compare both genders, as men are faster and have more stamina, we might be led to believe that women «don't give all they've got,» but «we are in no doubt that women do give the maximum; so if this is relativized to the actual values of the population being studied, the results would be different with respect to the physical demands involved in women's soccer,» points out Castellano.

The fact that the findings aligned so closely with those of previous, smaller studies in other populations was surprising even to the scientists, given the subjects» unique genetic background and living environments.

Maria Carrillo, vice president of medical and scientific relations at the Alzheimer's Association, an advocacy group, applauds NIH's giving the trial a green light: Targeting the APOE4 population will «increase the possibility that participants in the trial will become symptomatic during the period of the study so that the scientists can assess whether the drug intervention is having an impact on delaying or preventing Alzheimer's symptoms, without having to wait 10 or 15 years or more,» she says.

Individuals of retirement age are the fastest - growing sector of the U.S. population, so there is great interest in preserving their cognitive and physical abilities, especially given the societal cost of the alternative.

«The biggest challenge is how to manage the oceans given that most of the world's population will be using and living next to an ocean in the next 50 years or so.

The outcome of a given division is unpredictable, but in homeostasis the probabilities of producing two progenitor and two differentiating daughters are the same, so that on average, equal numbers of progenitors and differentiating cells are produced across whole population of progenitors.

And so this all implies that given the pressing climate change issue and Paris targets set at 2050, smaller population and reduced consumption will have very limited impact, so we are mainly going to be reliant on renewable energy and carbon taxes and so on in the shorter term over the next 20 — 30 years or so.

However, the most recent Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) removed dietary cholesterol as a nutrient of concern, given that there is «no appreciable relationship between dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol or clinical cardiovascular events in general populations,» so cholesterol content should not deter you from consumption of saturated fat (Mozaffarian & Ludwig, 2015, p. 2421).

The actors — especially the lead, Jennifer Lawrence, so good in films like Winter's Bone and Silver Linings Playbook — gave lackluster performances, and looked too well - fed and healthy to convincingly portray members of a population existing at a bare subsistence level.

We're developing resources [now] for kids operating around the reading age of five or six years of age, in order to be able to more adequately cater for our student population... I guess the next step as well is working with teachers in more of a coaching and mentoring focus as well, so that we'll work with them around their pedagogy to make sure that they're supporting each other through that teams approach and through that mentoring approach, but also through a more managed process so that we can give them that support that they need to develop their teaching expertise as teachers, but also as teachers within a detention centre context.

Given our partnership with the Instituto Latinoamericano para la Comunicacion Educativa in Mexico, we decided to reach out to this population so that American ELLs could engage in meaningful forum discussions with students abroad.

«Our school population has a majority of its students coming from challenged social and environmental backgrounds, so they need much more than what the average public school can provide for them given the legal mandates of what must be taught in these schools,» Johnson explains.

So she is relocated — under the brand new Julia Kalas identity — to Azula, Texas, population in the range of 5k, give or take.

There have been minimal and generally insignificant protests against the treatment of the animals involved, and most often those protesting have been brought in from out of town for that specific purpose so they're given very little credence by most of the population.

November is Adopt a Senior Pet Month so we're giving some much - needed spotlight to the aging animal populations in shelters across the country.

So the current focus on migratory fish is, in essence, giving a pretty darn good break to the near - shore populations,» Semmens said.

«Again, so it's clearly a mode of play that the global FPS population interested in and given that we have some of the best shooters in the marketplace, you might expect that we are also thinking about new and innovative ways to play.

There are also a bevy of multiplayer modes, but they are rather barren given the fact that the general population aren't in there to play against, so that will likely require a secondary review once the game releases.

I see a compelling argument that, wherever it happens, «Earth - centric» science (as per Walker / Navarro) needs to be given emphasis, particularly as humanity goes through a period of peak population (~ 9 billion) and resource appetites in the next generation or so.

And so this all implies that given the pressing climate change issue and Paris targets set at 2050, smaller population and reduced consumption will have very limited impact, so we are mainly going to be reliant on renewable energy and carbon taxes and so on in the shorter term over the next 20 — 30 years or so.

The seal population off New England has recovered dramatically in the last 10 years or so, and that's probably helped give the white sharks a little extra boost with reliable high quality prey source.

The vulnerability in any given year is increasing because of our increasing population at risk (suburban «sprawl» and increasing recreational use of some areas), but it seems that this has been mostly offset by better forecasts and warnings, improved methods of communication of the threat when it develops, and infrastructure enhancements promoting natural hazard preparation (at least until the past decade or so).

So, what, purge half of all scientists who identify as Democrats (the 55 % in the PEW poll, vs. the upper 20s in the general population), give a little affirmative action for the independents and whopping great amounts for that 6 % who identify as Republican.

So given the 50 year track record which I have personally observed, THIS time I am supposed to believe that Climate Science is in fact reporting reality when it tells me that anthropogenic CO2 will toast and / or drown the entire biosphere, except for possible small regions around the poles, unless we cease the use of fossil fuels and reduce the human population to somewhere around 1 + / - 0.5 e9?

In a speech, Rousseff said the country's goals were «just as ambitious, if not more so, than those set by developed countries,» given its 200 million population.

Polar bears are one of the most sensitive Arctic marine mammals to climate warming because they spend most of their lives on sea ice.35 Declining sea ice in northern Alaska is associated with smaller bears, probably because of less successful hunting of seals, which are themselves ice - dependent and so are projected to decline with diminishing ice and snow cover.36, 37,38,39 Although bears can give birth to cubs on sea ice, increasing numbers of female bears now come ashore in Alaska in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.in northern Alaska is associated with smaller bears, probably because of less successful hunting of seals, which are themselves ice - dependent and so are projected to decline with diminishing ice and snow cover.36, 37,38,39 Although bears can give birth to cubs on sea ice, increasing numbers of female bears now come ashore in Alaska in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.in Alaska in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.45

Given the population growth and so on, a reasonably good outcome would be to hold emissions at present levels in the agriculture sector for the next decade or two until we are able to start reducing them.

Steven: Good news, the globe hasn't warmed in 15 years or so, and the population is predicted to top out around 11 billion, give or take.

Faulty logic there... just because a culture has a given population density in an area that they exist (which, as you say, is esitmated anyway), doesn't mean that they existed everywhere that it was possible to exist so that you can extrapolate to total population.

And Ted Turner may not meet that pledge to the UN, you can only give away so much money before you have nothing left... and he does have a point though a bit hypocritical since he has 5 of his own children, the population is a bit out of control in this world.

The Earth can not sustain a relentlessly growing human population, so a family planning clinic is needed in every neighborhood in every town and city around the World, and each woman must be given the legally protected right to decide if and when to birth her children.

Looking at SustainLane's very thorough overview of its methodology gave us a better sense of how and why some cities fared as well as they did.First, the only criteria for inclusion in the survey was the size of a city's population, so while the folks at SustainLane chose urban areas that represent a large proportion of the US» overall population, they immediately ruled out smaller cities, like Burlington, VT, and Durham, NC, that are doing wonderful things but didn't make the cut because of their size.

That this was so is somewhat surprising given the increased population of Ontario and the resulting increase in supply and demand.

There have been minimal and generally insignificant protests against the treatment of the animals involved, and most often those protesting have been brought in from out of town for that specific purpose so they're given very little credence by most of the population.