Sentences with phrase «studying this population since»

But her research assistant Rodrigo Hamede Ross has been studying this population since before the disease hit the area in 2006.

Not exact matches

The study notes that a 99 % population increase since 1950 combined with a 127 % increase in water use has further decreased water availability, making it increasingly difficult to replenish water supplies after a drought.

While we have come a long way since Johnson made that historic speech, in 2011, the U.S Bureau of Labor conducted a study and found that 46.2 million Americans (roughly 15 % of the population) lived at or below the poverty line.

Of course, since they are studies of populations, they show tendencies and don't show the same difference exists in every individual.

Have you tried dropping Christianity personally, or studied a sizeable population of atheists, or did you reach this conclusion based simply on your belief that since all that is good is Christian, therefore rejecting that must be evil?

Frankly, I'm not sure these studies are accurate, since up until the last one hundred years or so, the majority of the population of the world was unable to read or write.

Since 2010, more than 130,000 university graduates have left Greece to look for work, making up approximately 75 % of the total immigrant population, a 2015 study from researchers at the University of Macedonia reports.

The study also suggested that about 4 percent of local populations have already gone extinct since 1975.

In 2011, he published a study on how populations of fishes that live just above the OMZs off the southern coast of California had changed since the middle of the 20th century.

Since the last American Cancer Society (ACS) breast cancer screening update for average - risk women was published in 2003, new evidence has accumulated from long - term follow - up of randomized controlled trials and observational studies of organized, population - based screening programs.

Research has been limited since the previous definition excluded overweight patients, leaving them out of study populations.

Since breast cancer treatment in older patients is mostly not evidence - based due to poor inclusion of older patients in clinical trials, we propose that studies investigating breast cancer treatment are much more important than breast cancer screening in this population and should be prioritised.

To test the hypothesis that the web is a primary driver of rising polarization, Shapiro and his coauthors used data from the American National Election Study (ANES), a nationally representative, face - to - face survey of the voting - age population that has been conducted both pre - and post-election since 1948.

The study was prompted by the research of Curators» Professor Ray Semlitsch, who has been studying salamander populations in the Appalachian Mountains since 2005.

In addition, since the NHS is predominantly made up middle - aged to elderly white women, further studies will be needed to determine if these patterns are also seen in men and in racially and socioeconomically diverse populations.

«For the first time, our study points to a risk difference between drinking daily and drinking five or six days a week in the general male population, since earlier studies were conducted on alcohol misusers and patients referred for liver disease and compared daily drinking to «binge pattern» or «episodic» drinking,» observed lead investigator Gro Askgaard, MD, of the Department of Hepatology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, and the National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Since that time, the Gorongosa Restoration Project has managed and studied existing wildlife populations and has begun to restock species struggling to recover on their own.

Wolf populations on the island, once numbering about 50, are at their lowest level since the study began in 1958.

For example, the frogs of La Selva Biological Station in Braulio Carrillo National Park in Costa Rica's Caribbean lowlands have endured a 75 percent drop in population since 1970, perhaps due to climate change, according to a study by biologist Steven Whitfield of Florida International University in Miami, who was not affiliated with this study.

The study includes the first estimates of the felony conviction population and maps their distribution in the states, documenting the dramatic growth since 1980.

The groups were chosen because they have remained fairly isolated since their founding and their genetics are therefore simpler for scientists to study than those of general populations.

«Now we need to investigate whether specific lifestyle factors have stronger impacts and conduct studies in more diverse populations, since most of the participants in these studies are white.»

James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies argues that China and India will make this decision out of pure self - interest, since rising sea levels could place large portions of their coastal populations at risk.

«In large populations brothers don't need to compete so much with each other for female attention since their genes will get passed on if their sibling mates successfully anyway,» said Dr Tommaso Pizzari of Oxford University's Department of Zoology, who led the study.

Studies they have led since their initial discovery show that Bsal — probably introduced from Asia by the pet trade — has the potential to wipe out salamander populations across Europe.

«This type of selection experiment, which we propose has been going on in all bass lakes since the inception of angling, has the potential to alter, perhaps quite significantly, the behavior and even the life history of individual fish in those populations,» the study said.

Since the study was conducted specifically on EDM partygoers, the researchers note that the results may not apply to the general population, but, rather, highlight the need for prevention efforts in this high - risk group.

The scientists have been studying a population of snow voles (Chionomys nivalis) in their alpine habitat above Churwalden (Graubünden, Switzerland) at an altitude of around 2,000 meters since 2006.

The Gutenberg Health Study (GHS) is an interdisciplinary, population - based, prospective, monocenter cohort study, which has been conducted at the Mainz University Medical Center since Study (GHS) is an interdisciplinary, population - based, prospective, monocenter cohort study, which has been conducted at the Mainz University Medical Center since study, which has been conducted at the Mainz University Medical Center since 2007.

This population has been continuously monitored since 1972, and data collected on more than 3000 elephants since the study began.

It's not the biggest or the longest; but its high retention rate — about 95 % of the original cohort has stayed with the study since it launched — and the intimacy of the data - gathering process make the group one of the most closely examined populations on Earth.

To determine whether scientific studies since 2002 found additional evidence on the usefulness of omega - 3 fish oil supplements, the authors focused on studies related to preventing a first heart attack in the general population, or in patients who were at high risk for heart disease, and preventing recurrent events and death in patients who had a prior heart attack, congestive heart failure, stroke, or atrial fibrillation.

Since Christophe Boesch began studying wild chimpanzees in the Taï forest in Côte d'Ivoire in 1979, the animals» populations have declined by more than two - thirds.

Since the average age of this study population was 61 years, these results might not be generalizable to other study populations.

Barbosa and colleagues ruled out research activity as the cause for the loss since both studied populations and those used as controls showed similar patterns of decline.

Since 2004, she has studied the Hadza people of Tanzania — one of the world's last remaining hunter - gatherer populations — conducting groundbreaking research that has attracted worldwide academic and media attention.

Although this study was limited by a particularly homogenous and relatively low - risk population for gastric cancer, the conclusion was consistent with the association between blood group A and gastric cancer that has been observed since the 1950s across the world.49 - 51

Since very few studies have demonstrated the formation of macro-metastasis from low numbers of sorted CSCs and currently proposed CSC markers might not be sufficient to identify all stem cell populations [13], we believe that our study presents a promising approach to isolate stem - like and metastatic breast CSCs as opposed to the cell - sorting strategy based on putative stem cell surface markers.

Cre - DOG is also suitable for optogenetic studies, and since cells infected with AAV - Cre - DOG retain normal neuronal function, this system may make optogenetics in specific cell populations even easier.

A new study from The Auk: Ornithological Advances uses European House Sparrows, which have spread into a variety of climates in Australia and New Zealand since their introduction in the mid-19th century, to show that this trend in birds might actually be due to the effects of high temperatures during development — raising new alarms about how populations might be affected by global warming.

Don't put the word omnivore in the search... general population studies suffice since most people are (at this point in history) omnivores.

Committed to the widespread adoption of yoga as a population health strategy, Kristine Kaoverii Weber, MA, C - IAYT, eRYT500, YACEP has been studying yoga and holistic healing for nearly 30 years, advocating, speaking and teaching about yoga since 1995, and training educators since 2003.

Studies of populations who consume high fiber diets since birth show almost no diverticuli, appendicitis, and colon cancer.

It is at present unknown whether an optimal balance between safety and efficacy can be achieved with the combination therapy of GH and IGF - I, since this combination has been evaluated in only a small number of patient populations and in studies of a relatively short duration.

Effectively there were only three cohorts, since the highest HbA1c cohort had only 2 % of the sample; the other three cohorts contained 27 %, 36 %, and 36 % of the study population respectively.

And more than 90 percent of American soy crops are GM.5 Since the introduction of GM foods in 1996, we've had an upsurge in low birth weight babies, infertility, and other problems in the U.S. population, and animal studies thus far have shown devastating effects from consuming GM soy.

That research brought a lot of attention to the subject and since that time, there has been more epidemiological studies and observational studies that have taken place to look at what's happening on a population level.

However, since these studies are not done in «healthy» children, with an already healthy microbiota, it's hard to extrapolate the findings to the healthy adult population.

Since the WCRF report, Luo et al [59] studied the association between the drinking coffee and the risk of pancreatic cancer in a large population - based cohort study in Japan and concluded there was no increased risk of pancreatic cancer with coffee intake.

In the time that has elapsed since this quote was brought to life all those years ago we have gone on to study, research, and label the differing generations of the working population, associating age groups to the era's in which they grew up and their perceived traits.