Sentences with phrase «stable populations as»

I asked Rob a question posed in comments here a couple of months ago by Steven Earl Salmony, a psychologist who is an impassioned champion of reining in population growth: Does the concept of the demographic transition, which takes societies from high birth and death rates in deep poverty to aging and stable populations as they advance, have the weight of scientific theory or is it far less established?

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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.

According to Yamaguchi, «There is pressure for tightening from both the demand and supply sides, as the aging population dampens labor supply, at the same time that it gives rise to labor demand for stable growth in healthcare and social welfare employment.»

As we describe in our 2014 report for the National Marriage Project, «Facilitating Forever,» community organizations receiving federal funding approved by both Democrat and Republican administrations have attempted to foster stable marriages and families in at - risk populations for over a decade.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

As people whose livelihood depends on healthy and stable fur - bearer populations, trappers have a vested interest in ensuring sustainable harvests.

Unique yellow is particularly interesting to scientists as it is stable across large populations — everyone agrees what unique yellow looks like despite the fact that people's eyes are often very different.

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.

They found that instead of populations consistently rising and falling, as predicted, factoring in the impact of mothers» appetites kept population size relatively stable.

«Methods such as the stable isotope assignment approach in this paper are extremely important because they give us a starting point for making these kinds of assignments, and pave the way for more effective and targeted management of Golden Eagle populations.»

Populations of big carnivores such as brown bears, Eurasian lynx, grey wolves and wolverines are stable or increasing in a substantial part of Europe.

The model projects that for the next 2 decades, populations will remain stable, and may even increase slightly as the penguins move to locations that are more habitable.

While estimates of the amount of small mammals snow leopards consume may have been overstated, the importance of large ungulate populations to the snow leopard's diets may have been understated, as this study suggests stable snow leopard populations are possibly more reliant upon large ungulate prey than previously understood.

Researchers have traditionally thought of Cahokia as a relatively homogeneous and stable population drawn from the immediate area, he said.

This models depicts the ES cell as a highly plastic but nevertheless discrete and stable cellular entity, one that in turn gives rise through a massive switch in gene expression to discrete progenitor populations with more limited developmental potential.

Just as investing money in multiple stocks can provide more stable returns than investing in one stock, having multiple sub-populations that act independently can lead to a more stable overall population in a natural system, a phenomenon known as the «portfolio effect».

Just as Nolan justified fascist ideas like decieving the population and breaking the rules to keep society stable in The Dark Knight, Villeneuve exalts secrecy by breaking of rules (torture, murder, deceit, etc.) to achieve goals — in the film's context the drug war.

Between 1984 and 2004, the percentage of the student population speaking English as a second language increased from 5 percent to 60 percent; the percentage of students receiving free or reduced - price lunch soared to 91 percent; and the once - stable neighborhood around the school turned into a community with a 60 percent mobility rate for families with school - age children.

Virtually all the characteristics and resources that educators talk about as desirable in a school — high standards and expectations, good teachers, involved parents, a safe and orderly environment, a stable student and teacher population — are more likely to be found in economically mixed schools than in high - poverty schools (Kahlenberg, 2001).

Over the last decade, the size of the teaching workforce remained relatively stable, ranging from 3.25 million to 3.4 million and growing at roughly the same pace as the student population.

With a population of about 9 million, a landmass about the same size as California and a stable population, most people enjoy a good quality of life (albeit cold at some times of the year).

Except in 1911, the Animal Rescue League and ASPCA numbers presented by Forbush in a table appeared to reflect relatively stable cat populations, which might even have been in decline as the advent of the automobile reduced the numbers of stables ---- and rodent and cat habitat ---- in their respective cities.

As well as providing clinics for much needed veterinary services, they teach community members how to create stable, healthy dog populationAs well as providing clinics for much needed veterinary services, they teach community members how to create stable, healthy dog populationas providing clinics for much needed veterinary services, they teach community members how to create stable, healthy dog populations.

In 2004, each of the island fox subspecies was federally listed as endangered, but a captive breeding programme combined with other measures saved this species from extinction, and populations are now more stable.

In 2004, each of the island fox subspecies was federally listed as endangered, but a captive breeding program combined with other measures saved this species from extinction, and populations are now more stable.

I recently explored whether it was sufficient to pursue an energy revolution as a means for smoothing the path toward a stable, prospering population.

Clearly, students at Ruthlawn Elementary School in South Charleston, W. Va., (near one of the first American experiments aimed at pumping carbon dioxide from a power plant into the ground) are part of Generation E, as I've taken to calling folks of all ages who are pursuing ways to smooth the path toward a stable prospering human population on a bountiful planet.

Nation states as Haves (stable / shrinking populations) and Have Nots (high birth / death rates).

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

If, as I have suggested, you have a small, stable, technological population, then why do you need energy growth?

«Our study clearly showed that European migratory bird species with declining breeding populations in Europe in the last decades (1990 — 2000) responded the least to recent climate change as reflected by the temporal trend in spring migration phenology, or even delayed their timing of spring migration, whereas species with stable or increasing populations advanced migration.»

And while the golden eagle population is stable in the West, any additional mortality to a long - lived species such as an eagle can be a «tipping point,» Millsap said.

«The question remains as to whether drought would have exacerbated the refugee situation in East Africa had there been slower expansion of population, positive economic growth and more stable political regimes in the region,» said Erin Owain, first author of the study.

Advanced industrial economies with stable populations, such as those in Europe and Japan, can rely primarily on the stock of materials already in the economy rather than using virgin raw materials.

As I note in Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization, some 43 countries around the world now have populations that are either essentially stable or declining slowly.

Achieving a stable human population will require a net increase in total consumption as all people move out of poverty and follow the common trajectory of investing more in smaller families, for which they have greater security.

As regards to the polar bear population, it seems to be stable at present.

This population, however, is roughly divided into two groups: «white picket fence» polyamorists, as one informant put it, who see their relationships as committed, stable family arrangements; and, polyamorists who shun monogamy, describe themselves as relationship anarchists or consensual non-monogamists, and engage in an evolving web of relationships of varying degrees of longevity and mutual obligation.

As can be expected, this stable population has created a diverse range of opportunities for people of every lifestyle.

As an OFA Responsible Fatherhood Ex-Prisoner Reentry grantee, Rubicon provides services to parents and children and works to link reentry populations to jobs and stable environments so that they can provide for themselves, their families and their children.

Validation for preschool MDD (based on meeting all DSM - IV symptom criteria) has been supported by the finding of a specific symptom constellation that was distinct from other psychiatric disorders and stable during a 6 - month period.22 Additionally, alterations in the hypothalamic - pituitary - adrenal axis reactivity similar to those known in adults with depression, greater family history of mood disorders, as well as observational evidence of depressive affects and behaviors were detected in preschoolers with depression, providing further validation.22,25,27 - 30 More recent findings from a larger independent sample (N = 306) ascertained from community sites (and serving as the population for this investigation) have replicated the findings described above and have also demonstrated that preschoolers with depression display significant functional impairment evident in multiple contexts rated by both parents and teachers.24

As a proportion of total State / Territory populations, the distribution of people who identified as Torres Strait Islander has remained stable in all of the States / Territories except for the Northern Territory, where the proportion has increased from 1.0 % to 1.1 As a proportion of total State / Territory populations, the distribution of people who identified as Torres Strait Islander has remained stable in all of the States / Territories except for the Northern Territory, where the proportion has increased from 1.0 % to 1.1 as Torres Strait Islander has remained stable in all of the States / Territories except for the Northern Territory, where the proportion has increased from 1.0 % to 1.1 %.

Meanwhile, population growth in outlying suburbs has produced stable labor pools in areas such as northern Kane County and McHenry County.