Sentences with phrase «stable population of»

As a result, a stable population of ruminants need not increase the stock of atmospheric methane over time (or the associating forcing).

& Beyond Mnemba Island has a small yet stable population of these enormous crabs and recently hosted researchers from Sweden's Gothenburg University in Sweden, who conducted a study of the coconut crabs on Mnemba and nearby Chumbe Island (the first study of its kind conducted in Africa).

Adopting a BCAS feral cat will mean you're encouraging a healthy, stable population of nigh - unseen rodent hunters.

What was once a well - managed and stable population of feral cats now has an extremely uncertain future ahead of them.

This is not the case, the library is actually seeing a fairly stable population of kids, students, and older folk.

Researchers also provided new details of how the Nrp1 pathway functions, including evidence that along with bolstering the ability of regulatory T cells to suppress the immune response, the pathway also helps maintain a stable population of regulatory T cells.

Because humans are born with a stable population of RPE cells that stay put throughout life, the researchers expected that fixing the cells once would make a lasting impact — and indeed, the vision of patients who got the therapy improved after a single treatment.

«Finding this individual does not indicate that there is a functional, stable population of wild alligator snapping turtles in Southern Illinois,» Kessler said.

«I want a stable population of fishers and owls.

According to the researchers, the presence of Osedax at these latitudes could be related to the contact with the deeper and colder waters in Blanes» underwater canyon, an area where they think more abundant and stable populations of the new Osedax species could live.

Being able to isolate stable populations of totipotent cells in culture would therefore be highly valuable for research and have potential medical significance.

More particularly, we have developped a protocol to induce efficicent and synchronized differentiation of PSC into the neural lineage in order to capture stable populations of self - renewing neural stem cells (NSC).

This project will benefit communities that rely on healthy Boreal and Great Lakes St Lawrence Forest, where local ecotourism economies are dependent on stable populations of moose, deer, fish and the quality of forest cover.

Not exact matches

In choosing a community in which to open your store, you'll want to consider a number of location «whether» factors (this will serve as a review of our marketing chapter), including whether the community has a large enough population, whether its economy is stable enough for you to make money and whether the area's demographic characteristics are compatible with your target market.

Of the other MINTs: Indonesia is in a stable recovery, but the importance of commodities like coal and palm oil means it will not return to previous growth levels soon; Nigeria's economy remains overdependent on oil, though Phylaktis sees its «fast - growing population and labor force feeding faster economic growth over the medium term»; and while «Turkey has a lot of potential,» Lau says, «its political and economic management is questionable and casts a shadow over the economy.&raquOf the other MINTs: Indonesia is in a stable recovery, but the importance of commodities like coal and palm oil means it will not return to previous growth levels soon; Nigeria's economy remains overdependent on oil, though Phylaktis sees its «fast - growing population and labor force feeding faster economic growth over the medium term»; and while «Turkey has a lot of potential,» Lau says, «its political and economic management is questionable and casts a shadow over the economy.&raquof commodities like coal and palm oil means it will not return to previous growth levels soon; Nigeria's economy remains overdependent on oil, though Phylaktis sees its «fast - growing population and labor force feeding faster economic growth over the medium term»; and while «Turkey has a lot of potential,» Lau says, «its political and economic management is questionable and casts a shadow over the economy.&raquof potential,» Lau says, «its political and economic management is questionable and casts a shadow over the economy.»

I suspect that the Golden Rule (and the whole «give to Caesar what is Caesar's bit) is something added in by Roman Christian rulers to keep the population docile and stable even in the face of oppression.

The result is that the overall percentage of the population that identifies as Catholic has remained fairly stable.

Interestingly, since 1972 and according to the General Social Survey, the percentage of the final type of Christian in the U.S. population has remained generally stable.

Some success seems likely with population control, arms control, and some kind of moderately stable international security arrangements, though probably not a «world government.»

People who continue to use these terms «hold that homosexual behavior is a manifestation of some inner essence, perhaps biological or psychological, is relatively stable over time, and characteristic of a distinct minority of the population.»

Yet two surveys of community residents in the three - county archdiocese area (one in 1972 and one in 1996) reveal a very stable Roman Catholic population and a stable proportion of Catholics who say they attended church.

If the percentage of Americans attending church is stable, aggregate church membership should have increased as the American population grew.

With the global population rising continuously, urbanization rapidly reducing land for farming, and climate change threatening stable crop production, a significant improvement in genetic yield potential is one of the most crucial goals in rice research.

The project aimed to improve the quality of life for the population by creating more stable local economies, greater food security, improved gender relations and increased social capital.

Issues like chronic pain, insomnia, stomach problems, and fatigue are less problematic for stable fathers than for other male subsets of the population.

Employment statistics show that fewer residents are part of the work force in 2000, 40,866, as compared with 43,136 in 1990, during a period when the population remained relatively stable.

Although protein levels remain pretty stable across a wide range of diets, populations subsisting on very low - protein diets are associated with low protein breast milk.

One change — the scrapping of Indefinite Public Protection sentences — survived and many believe that this is one reason why the prison population is now stable rather than rising rapidly.

A future shortage of labor in Europe due to a declining and aging population means that the EU will need an influx of immigrants to keep the workforce stable as well as to finance living standards and rising costs for healthcare.

Iran is one of the more stable nations in the region; they have a well - educated population.

Nassau, more so than Suffolk, has become the focus of the debate over expanding the service beyond New York City, where it has been legal since 2013, due to its denser population and stable of well - established, politically connected cab companies.

While New York City, Long Island, and portions of the Hudson Valley are relatively stable, upstate areas like Buffalo and Niagara Falls have lost nearly one third of their population.

«It allows for predictions about extinction risk, and also gives us a systematic way of assessing how far populations are from their most stable states.»

They found that species of different sizes gravitate toward population states most stable against extinction.

While the disease remains a modest threat in rural, undeveloped areas, Green warns that our current stable relationship with plague in the developed world is only as good as our control of urban rodent populations.

In the summer of 2015, Cox showed me several hives that bore the standard signs: healthy brood; good stores of pollen and nectar, or «bee food,» and little else; a few straggling workers, maybe 10 percent of the population he had last week; and a big queen, running around her now - empty castle like a mom, knowing that without her stable of workers she'll be unable to feed her babies.

He started with 12 identical populations of Escherichia coli and over time has documented how evolution is roughly reproducible but also endless, even in a stable environment.

The species was on the brink of extinction late in the 20th century but has largely recovered and now has a stable population and is in the process of being removed from the U.S. federal government's list of endangered species.

Populations of this unique species, currently known as highly threatened, were previously considered to have remained relatively stable in the face of the disease that has ravaged many amphibian species worldwide, but the frogs may have been infected over a decade ago, with the impacts only recently observed.

Moa genetic diversity was nearly constant for 3000 years before their extinction, a sign of a stable population (PNAS, DOI: 10.1073 / pnas.1314972111).

Until recently, says ecologist Peter Walsh of Princeton University in New Jersey, experts have believed that ape populations in Gabon and Congo, home to 80 % of the world's gorillas and most common chimps, were stable because these countries retain much of their original forest cover.

Perez - Stable told Kaiser that he will spend the first 3 months or so learning, but he is ready to explore «the scientific questions that can be asked using this laboratory of the diverse population in the United States.»

Although aspirin reduces the risk of major cardiovascular events by 19 per cent, a more effective antithrombotic strategy could have major benefits for the large population of patients with stable cardiovascular disease.

This indicates that the levels of poaching in Tanzania no longer pose a threat to the country's elephant population and that populations in its parks are stable.

Put them all together into a system of equations that describe the growth of the three different groups — English speakers, Gaelic speakers, and bilinguals — and you can calculate what inputs are required for a stable bilingual population to emerge.

The picture for India is almost the opposite, with a growing population of students pursuing graduate degrees and a small, stable number obtaining undergraduate degrees.

The size of the breeding population has also become stable in the Helsinki, Espoo and Sipoo region, where some 1,300 pairs of barnacle geese have been nesting annually during the past three years.

Over the past 200,000 years, replacement - level fertility rates have ranged from 2.1 to 3.0 children per couple, he said, noting that global population remained remarkably stable until the beginning of the 19th century, when decreased mortality in newborns resulted in fertility rates exceeding replacement levels.

It now forms a special interest group of the British Ecological Society, and although its numbers fluctuate, the population sample size has been fairly stable over its entire history.

Although there was an increase in overall rates (crude prevalence) of diabetes in many countries in Western Europe, age - adjusted rates were relatively stable suggesting that most of the rise in diabetes in Western Europe between 1980 and 2014 was due to the aging population.