Sentences with phrase «stable populations in»

Ms. Roberts is not alone in pressing the case for action on family planning, a greater focus by scientists on clarifying population trends and their implications and a lot more resources committed to facilitating a smooth transition toward stable populations in places now seeing explosive growth (the «population cluster bombs» I wrote about early in Dot Earth).

«I would try to aim for a stable population in Britain.

From its low point during the Depression to 1965, U.S. fertility never went below the replacement rate of 2.1, which is what a country needs in order to have a stable population in the long term.

Not exact matches

Jobs in the healthcare industry are expected to be fairly stable, given the pressure on governments to support Canada's large aging population.

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 markeIn 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 markein 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.»

In the long run, Brazil has several things working to its advantage: a young population, a large and growing middle class, stable democracy and abundant natural resources.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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.

An environmental watering program has been undertaken at two wetlands in the Mallee region, Cardross Lakes and Lake Koorlong, for over ten years to maintain stable Murray hardyhead populations.

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.

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.

But the most diverse and numerically stable population around is in fact the entire population.

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

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.

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

If populations drop significantly in the Gulf, brown pelicans could be relisted, even if populations along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts remain stable.

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.

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.

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.

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.»

Creel says the findings provide an «early warning» that the animals are stressed and the populations, which have been stable so far, could suffer in the future.

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.

But the sexual snail populations remained stable, results published in the journal American Naturalist.

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.

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.

The resulting improvement in soil fertility may have allowed the land to support a larger, more stable crop - based population, although studies of fossilized pollen have not yet revealed the specific plants they cultivated.

The changes in biomass are worrying, says Michael Hirshfield, chief scientist of the advocacy group Oceana, based in Washington, D.C. Populations of small fish tend to boom and bust — making ecosystems less stable — much more when the ranks of top predators have been gutted.

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

«My dream is in 20 years our population definitely will be increased, and by 10 years our population remains stable.»

Our political leaders fail to realize that other Islamic populations are far more stable economically, politically and socially — and that the root of the crisis in the dryland countries is not Islam but extreme poverty and environmental stress.

«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.»

The population continued to be stable at around 4,025 through 1998, and then declined with surveys in 2005 estimating 929 elephants.

There would be more variability in an African population because Africa has a less stable climate and environment.»

By focusing on the possibilities of aggregating offsets to create larger protected areas, a coherent and a more stable and genetically healthy population is likely in the long term, they suggest.

«Since 2004, lower income populations experienced a large decline in living donation, while living donation in higher income populations was more stable,» said Dr. Gill.

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

Developing therapeutic cell populations from human ES cells will be far more demanding: cells will have to be stable, predictable, pure, have proven functionality, be nontumor - forming, and be «scalable» — capable of growing in very large numbers.

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

In five populations the numbers were stable.

Lung cancer mortality rates among young women (30 - 49 years) were stable or declining in 47 of the 52 populations examined.

Due to the highest population growth worldwide, massive urbanization, and a stable economic growth, countries in southern West Africa currently are exposed to rapid change.