Sentences with phrase «than population changes»

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Perhaps most concerning is the study's findings that the smoking rate hasn't changed in poor populations; among the rich, it's fallen more than five percentage points.

In an analysis of the changing shape of the American middle class, Pew Research Center divided the population into three groups: Lower - income Americans made less than 2/3 of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 % of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.

According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, more than four in ten white seniors say that a growing population of immigrants is a «change for the worse;» half of white boomers believe immigration is «a threat to traditional American customs and values.»

First, he reacted to population changes, then he shifted his product category from furniture to toys, because families with more than one child often used the same crib and high chair, but they kept buying new toys for new kids.

In a country where more than 230 people have been killed by terrorist attacks since January 2015 and unemployment still stands at 10 % nine years after the financial crisis, a growing part of the population is ready for a radical change.

The demographics are also changing: more than 400 million millennials have emerged as a driving force in consumer spending, while the country's aging population — expected to double over the next two decades — will generate new product and services demands.

This seminar is designed for those who are sensitive to the changing makeup of their major donor population or would like to offer their donors more attractive options than they thought possible.

We've held a longstanding view that changing demographic trends and an aging population in the developed world mean that there will be a demand for income that is structurally higher than what we've seen in the past.

Seeing that the worlds population is now 7 billion and change, and of that number roughly 2 % are atheists, the statement» I suspect there are fewer angry atheists than there are angry Christians» is a stroke of mathematical genius.

The fall in the number of births to immigrant women is explained by behavior (falling birth rates), rather than population composition (change in the number of women of childbearing age), according to a Pew Research analysis.

The «market» for Christianity in America is undoubtedly changing for a significant part of the population, but there are many more «niches» out there than appear in usual discussions of baby boomers.

The environment in which most of the population today are living and thinking has changed its character in the space of little more than one generation.

Plato's account of the slavish / tyrannical soul - type cultivated in the population by a tyrant would suggest that a darker vision of human failure than Hobbes» nightmare is possible: perpetual tyranny, with only dynasty changes possible for a population utterly debased in soul.

Moreover, for all the uncertainties of long - term population forecasting, the likely change in size and composition of a national population can be predicted over the course of the coming calendar year with far greater certainty than can changes in the harvest, the gross national product, the unemployment rate, the foreign exchange rate, or the demand for any particular product.

The United Nations conferences on population have called for social changes, such as more education and opportunities for women, as well as birth control clinics rather than reliance on the demographic transition.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.

The population explosion is also changing the economic balances, for it is the nations that are already economically poor, and in many cases saddled with massive international debt, that will bear the burden of feeding between two and three times as many more mouths than they do at present.

Major responsibility for the change in Roxbury, Dorchester, and Mattapan, Levine and Harmon claim, rests largely on the political, banking, and real estate establishment of Boston that decided to channel Boston's growing black population into Jewish neighborhoods rather than to scatter them in Irish, Italian, and other ethnic enclaves.

The proportion of congregations in the 1960s and 1970s that actually responded as prescribed to their contexts was in fact very small.21 As neighborhood populations changed racially, some churches whose physical and financial resources lingered after their former membership fled introduced service programs to assist the poor, but the adjustment seems in most cases to have stemmed from necessity or default rather than from deliberate reorientation and restructuring by members who themselves stayed on to be transformed.

If we really stop and look at the dramatic changes going on all over the world and in the US (demographics, ethnic population shifts, a new era in how people under 50 look at the world, etc.) it points to a need to focus more than ever on the centrality of Christ Jesus.

4) Gradualism This is the understanding that changes take place through the gradual change of population rather than the sudden production of new individuals.

See for example complaints about the British NHS and understaffing in L&D due to population demographics changing faster than expected.

The increased socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding observed in the intervention group supports the argument that population intervention strategies could inadvertently exacerbate, rather than mitigate, socioeconomic inequalities, particularly when the intervention aims to change individual behaviours rather than targeting «upstream» structural changes.25 Our results are also compatible with an observational study from Brazil reporting that breastfeeding rates increased first among the socioeconomically better - off, followed by increases among the poor, over a 20 - year period of active breastfeeding promotion campaigns in Brazil.26

Even with all the techniques to spread the polling population among masses, it still does not change the fact that most people may have different opinion than those who are polled.

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.

However, it's extremely likely that Putin's winning margin will be more than the entire population of Crimea, in which case deleting all votes from Crimea couldn't possibly change the result.

This state law could be changed, but you would need more than the bare legislative majority you propose - you'd need enough votes to override the inevitable veto (the governor isn't on your side, since you don't have half the state's population.)

Under the changes — demanded by Cuomo in the wake of the arrest of former Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver — groups spending more than $ 5,000 lobbying municipalities with populations of more than 5,000 will have to register that activity; the previous cutoff had been populations of 50,000 or more.

As a result, the extent of the boundary changes that will be required is probably more extensive than would have been envisaged prior to the publication of the preliminary Census 2016 population figures back in July 2016.

An interesting stat from 2004, in a report by National Transfer Accounts, which studies populations and economic change and is based at Berkley University in California, said that Nigerians spent more than they earned until they were 32.

Barring a change in trends, this will be the city's seventh consecutive decade of population loss; it will have less than twice Amherst's population by 2018.

Its less than a generation and Andy's calculation suggests that over half the population of this constituency has changed during that time.

An accompanying statute will further restrict the legislature to making changes that affect not more than two percent of the population of any district.

Ida Kubiszewski and Robert Costanza at the Australian National University in Canberra and their colleagues gathered estimates of GPI for 17 countries — totalling more than half the world's population and GDP — and assembled them into the first - ever global picture of how GPI has changed over the years.

They found that the nasal cavities of cold, dry climate populations are relatively high and show a larger and more abrupt change in diameter in the upper part of the cavity than those of hot, humid climate populations.

In a world where more than one billion people do not have enough to eat, and our future food security is threatened by climate change and an ever - growing population, it is essential to improve the control of crop diseases like fusarium ear blight around the globe.

To truly see how neural activity changes during learning, we need to look bigger — at populations of neurons, rather than one neuron at a time, which has been the standard approach to date.

Today's frogs, comprising more than 6,700 known species, as well as many other animal and plant species are under severe stress around the world because of habitat destruction, human population explosion and climate change, possibly heralding a new period of mass extinction.

Mozambique is among the African countries most vulnerable to climate change, with over 1,550 miles of coastline, more than half of its population living along the ocean, and cities that function as the nation's economic hubs.

The models show that climate change is a less influential driver of global food security than income, population and productivity — but it could still pose a significant risk to the nutrition levels of people living in the world's poorest regions, Baldos said.

Monitoring hummingbird populations during the peak of fall migration in the Chiricahua Mountains helps scientists foresee how these primary pollinators of more than 150 U.S. flowering plant species respond to changes in climate

This mismatch between these numbers and 1880 estimates of at least three billion suggests that the passenger pigeon may have been what is known to ecologists as an «outbreak» species, like locusts, that boom and bust with changes in conditions, rather than a species that experiences a singular population explosion, as Homo sapiens has in the last 200 years.

Examples include changing policies to encourage older adults to remain part of the workforce for longer (e.g., removing tax disincentives to work past retirement age), emphasising low - cost disease prevention and early detection rather than treatment (eg, reducing salt intake and increasing uptake of vaccines), making better use of technology (eg, mobile clinics for rural populations), and training health - care staff in the management of multiple chronic conditions.

The plague has caused death and destruction in Europe at least since Roman times, launching at least three major pandemics that changed the course of history — the Plague of Justinian from 541 to 544, which weakened the Byzantine Empire; the Black Death, which killed almost half the population of Europe between 1347 and 1351; and the Great Plague of 1665, which lasted more than 30 years.

«Climatic changes are threatening highly prized native trout as introduced rainbow trout continue to expand their range and hybridize with native populations through climate - induced «windows of opportunity,» putting many populations and species at greater risk than previously thought,» said project leader and USGS scientist Clint Muhlfeld.

Although population is an important factor, demographic trends are more significant for climate change than total population, says the review.

A limitation of the study, noted by the authors, is that Audubon members and the MTurk population as a whole believe more strongly in the occurrence of climate change and its human causes than the average U.S. citizen.

Rather than look at the overall number of DNA changes, Harris focused on the frequency of changes in each kind of DNA base in the populations she studied.

The timing of this decline correlates with environmental changes associated with the onset of the last glacial cycle, the team reports, whereas archaeological evidence does not support the presence of large populations of humans in eastern Beringia until more than 15,000 years later.

Contrary to previous findings, the new results reveal that the rate of population change has grown much more rapidly than the expansion of urban land.