Sentences with phrase «source of mortality»

«Humans are consistently indicated as the major source of mortality... largely because the [hyena] is loathed as a grave robber, and because of incidents of damage to agriculture... and livestock,» reports the IUCN.

Despite increased national and international protection of marine turtles, direct legal take remains a major source of mortality.

«Consumption in the ocean is also a significant source of mortality, but has been largely unmeasured until now,» said Chasco, a National Marine Fisheries Service - Sea Grant Population Dynamics Fellow in the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife in OSU's College of Agricultural Sciences.

«Humans are the most significant source of mortality for pumas in this population even though [the cats are] not [legally] hunted» for food or sport, Smith says.

By turning out the lights, we can remove one source of mortality from already stressed bird populations.

There is no American Sepsis Society — no society that is trying to raise money to fund these diseases despite the fact that they rank right up there in terms of sources of mortality.

Sources of Mortality Butler claims that domestic cats («officially considered an invasive species») top the list of mortality sources, killing perhaps one billion birds annually in the U.S. (Her tabulated comparison of seven mortality sources bears the familiar title «Apocalypse Meow.»)

Not exact matches

It might seem fitting, then, that the oratorio is bound together by a shared source material and a few shared themes (identified as «mortality, identity, the hunt»), but not by a shared understanding of Moby Dick as such.

The categorisation of a country as developing or developed is subject to objective criteria, such as infant mortality rate, adult literacy rate, Gross National Income per capita, percentage of infants with low birth weight, percentage of population using improved water sources and percentage of population urbanised.

Breast milk is a critical source of energy and nutrients during illness and reduces mortality among children who are malnourished.3 It reduces the risk of a number of acute and chronic diseases in early childhood and has long - term benefits for cardio - vascular health.4 In the context of HIV, early cessation of breastfeeding after six months is associated with increased serious morbidity, growth faltering, and increased mortality.5

Substitution of other healthy protein sources for red meat is associated with a lower mortality risk.»

Breast - milk is also a critical source of energy and nutrients during illness, and reduces mortality among children who are malnourished.

Breast milk is also a critical source of energy and nutrients during illness, and reduces mortality among children who are malnourished.

The best source of historic information on this subject is a book called Death in Childbirth: An International Study of Maternal Care and Maternal Mortality 1800 - 1950, by Irvine Loudon.

General News of Friday, 11 May 2018 Source: Jubilee House Second Lady, Hajia Samira Bawumia speaking at the launch of «The Safe Delivery Project» The second lady, Mrs. Samira Bawumia, through the Samira Empowerment and Humanitarian Projects (SEHP) has launched «The Safe Delivery Project» aimed at reducing maternal and neo-natal mortality drastically in deprived communities of Ghana.

«The biggest source of morbidity and mortality in young people in industrialized countries isn't medical disease but problems with behavior and emotion,» says Ronald Dahl, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley's School of Public Health.

Since no direct information on fish stock size or fishing mortality rates is available, any conclusions are based on indirect information and the combination of various information sources.

Agriculture is the leading source of outdoor pollution — related premature mortality in the eastern United States, Europe, and in countries such as Russia, Japan, and Turkey, the researchers found.

Although the number of seabird mortalities from the spill likely centers around 700,000, sources of uncertainty in the estimates indicate the number of deaths could actually lie anywhere between 300,000 and 2 million.

This is one of the most important human sources of avian mortality.

«Instead of drastic avoidance of animal - based foods, substituting some of the meat in your diet with plant - based sources may be a very simple, useful way to lower cardiovascular mortality,» said Lassale.

In order to examine the relationship between prejudice and mortality, the researchers constructed a measure capturing the average level of anti-gay prejudice in the communities where LGB individuals lived, beginning in 1988, using data on prejudicial attitudes from the General Social Survey, one of the primary sources of social indicator data in the social sciences.

These types of fractures are a persistent and major source of functional impairment, pain and mortality in cancer survivors.

A new study finds that long - term exposure to fine - particle air pollution — formed by the gasses of cars, power plants, and other sources — is associated with much higher mortality rates from cancers of the breast, upper digestive tract, and other organs.

Sources: Too Much Sitting: The Population - Health Science of Sedentary Behavior Sedentary behaviors increase risk of cardiovascular disease mortality in men.

While saturated fat gets the bad rap, there is a noticeable lack of studies showing a clear link between saturated fats (from real, unaltered sources) and heart disease or increased mortality.

The New York Times has been a strong advocate for lowfat diets, even for children, yet a recent NYT article noted that vitamin - A-rich foods like liver, egg yolk, cream and shellfish confer resistance to infectious diseases in children and prevent cancer in adults.13 A Washington Post article hailed vitamin A as «cheap and effective, with wonders still being (re) discovered,» noting that recent studies have found that vitamin - A supplements help prevent infant mortality in Third World countries, protect measles victims from severe complications and prevent mother - to - child transmission of HIV virus.14 The article lists butter, egg yolk and liver as important sources of vitamin A, but claims, unfortunately, that carotenes from vegetables are «equally important.»

While the intake of alpha linoleic acid (ALA) was associated with lower mortality in the study period, they didn't distinguish the source of the ALA..

Sunflower seeds, almonds, hazelnuts are good sources of vitamin E. 2 servings or fish per week (8 ounces total) may reduce the risk of mortality from coronary heart disease, according to studies.

The substitution of other healthy protein sources is associated with lower mortality risk.

Indeed, unlike animal protein, plant protein has not been associated with increased insulinlike growth factor 1 levels28, 29 and has been linked to lower blood pressure,30 - 32 reduced low - density lipoprotein levels,32 - 34 and improved insulin sensitivity.35 Substitution of plant protein for animal protein has been related to a lower incidence of CVD36 - 39 and type 2 diabetes.40 - 42 Moreover, although a high intake of red meat, particularly processed red meat, has been associated with increased mortality in a recent meta - analysis of 13 cohort studies, 43 high consumption of nuts, a major contributor to plant protein, has been associated lower CVD and all - cause mortality.44 These results underscore the importance of protein sources for risk assessment and suggest that other components in protein - rich foods (eg, sodium, 45 nitrates, and nitrites46 in processed red meat), in addition to protein per se, may have a critical health effect.

Seafood is the major dietary source of an essential fatty acid for fetal and infant development, and the omega - 3 long - chain PUFAs found in fish are associated with significant reductions in the risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality.

Moreover, we observed that substitution of plant protein for animal protein from a variety of food sources, particularly processed red meat, was associated with a lower risk for mortality, suggesting that the protein source is important for long - term health.

The Figure presents the HRs for mortality with substitution of 3 % energy from plant protein for the same amount of animal protein from different food sources.

Risk for Mortality Associated With Replacement of 3 % Energy From Various Animal Protein Sources With Plant Protein

Prevalent and incident type 2 diabetes was identified using multiple sources of evidence including self - report, linkage to primary care registers and secondary care registers, medication use (drug registers), hospital admissions, and mortality data.

It is the source not only of great wealth but also, perhaps, freedom from mortality.

Florida Panthers «Genetic analysis of the FeLV virus associated with mortality in five Florida panthers,» explain Gerhold and Jessup, «indicated that the virus envelope sequence was nearly identical indicating the source or [sic] the infection was likely from a single domestic cat.»

Birds and Cats FWS claims that «free - roaming cats kill at least one billion birds every year in the U.S., representing one of the largest single sources of human - influenced mortality for small native wildlife,» [1] supporting the assertion with just three sources, one of which is Rich Stallcup's 1991 article from the Observer, a publication of the Point Reyes Bird Observatory.

«Our findings suggest that free - ranging cats cause substantially greater wildlife mortality than previously thought and are likely the single greatest source of anthropogenic mortality for U.S. birds and mammals,» Marra and his co-authors conclude.

The end result is that community cats are by far the greatest source of kitten births and of cat admissions to animal shelters, even when the higher mortality rate for community kittens is factored in.

Steve Klett, Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge Manager I first ran across Klett's name in the Florida Keys National Wildlife Refuges Complex Integrated Predator Management Plan / Draft Environmental Assessment, where he was cited as the source for the claim that «cats accounted for 77 percent of the mortality during a recent re-introduction of the Key Largo woodrat.»

When the 2013 meta - study demonstrated that cats are a greater source of bird mortality than all other human causes combined, Robinson called it «part of a continuing propaganda campaign to vilify cats.»

Tune in Sunday to Animal Wise Radio, when I'll be on with hosts Mike Fry and Beth Nelson discussing a recently published paper declaring that «predation by house cats is probably the largest human - related source of bird mortality in Canada.»

While I disagree with some of Sallinger's claims (e.g., that all mortality sources, including cats, add to declining bird populations), I have to give him (and Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon executive director Karen Krauss) credit for taking some rather extraordinary steps in, to use Lynn's words, merging horizons of understanding.

(Interestingly, neither USFWS nor ABC mentions the most direct human - caused source of bird mortality — hunting — which may account for 120 million avian deaths annually in the U.S. [5]-RRB-

By using this biological influence and a number of different visual sources, Taylor invokes his infatuation with mortality and the prevalence of accelerated life processes in modern society.

Using both scripted and found source material, Leventhal creates complex layers of meaning through montage, rendering micro-narratives of mortality and desire.

I think that there is some case history in the pollution field, actually: when multiple sources produce a particular pollutant that has been fingered as «at cause» in a sickness or mortality incident, the blame gets apportioned between the sources as some function of their contribution to the exposure.

Lelieveld, J., J. S. Evans, M. Fnais, D. Giannadakii, and A. Pozzer, 2015: The contribution of outdoor air pollution sources to premature mortality on a global scale.