Sentences with phrase «than the population generally»

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FI / retirees are generally older than the median population and have seen some horrendous economic cycles.

Trump wants to eradicate the threat of terrorism as eagerly as he once said he wanted to eradicate the threat of sharks — even though, in a population of more than 320 million, neither generally results in a particularly large number of deaths in the United States.

The tenth largest county by population in Colorado, Pueblo County's property taxes are generally higher than the state average.

Generally, cities and towns with a population less than 20,000 qualify, but bigger cities are eligible if they are «rural in character» or don't have good access to mortgage credit.

Earlier studies have found that Catholics are generally more prone to take speculative risks than the average population, while Protestants are more risk - averse than the average population.

The survey of 1,600 people reveals young adults are disproportionately less inclined to attend a festive service than the UK population generally.

Even though over 60 percent of Americans are church members and more than half of them are Protestants and over 55 percent of the population generally say that religion is «very important» in their lives, very few people seem to think that religion is «very important» for higher education.

As has been noted in chapters 8 and 9, audience research indicates that the broadcasters consistently were watched by a significantly smaller audience than was generally believed; and that this smaller audience was not universally representative of the American population but was a highly segmented one in terms of demographic characteristics.

Flint and colleagues suggested that when midwives get to know the women for whom they provide care, interventions are minimised.22 The Albany midwifery practice, with an unselected population, has a rate for normal vaginal births of 77 %, with 35 % of women having a home birth.23 A review of care for women at low risk of complications has shown that continuity of midwifery care is generally associated with lower intervention rates than standard maternity care.24 Variation in normal birth rates between services (62 % -80 %), however, seems to be greater than outcome differences between «high continuity» and «traditional care» groups at the same unit.25 26 27 Use of epidural analgesia, for example, varies widely between Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, and the North Staffordshire NHS Trust.

The city's sentenced population is generally made up of people convicted on lesser offenses who are serving less than a year, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.

Evangelicals have lower science education and participation rates than the general population, suffer from a strain of anti-intellectualism within their ranks, are not always well served by a commitment to revelation over discovery, and possess undue trust in religious leaders — particularly in areas about which those leaders generally have little expertise, he said.

Their claim is that the appearance of new traits in a population, generally regarded as a first step toward the evolution of new species, can occur by means other than the accumulation of micromutations (i.e., small - scale or highly localized mutations), the classic mechanism by which new traits, and eventually new species, are thought to appear.

Potential new enrollees are also generally healthier than the current Medicaid population, with less prevalence of obesity and depression — but they are more likely to be smokers and heavy drinkers.

«Part of what was exciting about the design of this clinical trial is that we decided early on to accept women from a younger and generally sicker population than is typically enrolled in clinical trials,» says Dr. Cristofanilli, who is also a researcher at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University.

As a group, astronauts are highly educated and have access to top medical care, meaning their healthcare outcomes are generally better than the general population.

Bergmann's rule holds that populations of a species in colder climates — generally located at higher latitudes — have larger body sizes than populations in warmer climates, which are usually at lower latitudes.

Spending on the two programs for 2013 to 2023 is projected to increase at an average rate of 3.7 percent per year, which is slower than the projected growth for private health insurance, despite that Medicare and Medicaid generally serve populations with more illness and health problems.

Although this is not generally true for bacterial populations, for these particular hot spring bacteria, new combinations are also the rule, rather than the exception.

With rapid population growth and climate change, inland valleys are increasingly being considered as the continent's future food basket since they are generally more fertile than uplands and have higher water availability.

Furthermore, studies have demonstrated that modern human variation is generally continuous, rather than discrete or «racial,» and that most variation in modern humans is within, rather than between, populations [11], [17].

Furthermore, the bacterial populations from different time - periods within the same hospital were generally more similar to each other than contemporaneous bacterial populations from different hospitals.

«More diversity is probably better than less, because a diverse ecosystem is generally more resilient — and diversity in the Western gut is significantly lower than in other, less - industrialized populations,» writes Pollan.

Students generally perform significantly better in schools with strong middle - class populations than they do in high - poverty schools.

Generally, cities and towns with a population less than 20,000 qualify, but bigger cities are eligible if they are «rural in character» or don't have good access to mortgage credit.

It's an interesting parallel because the people who hold that belief are generally inclined to protect themselves and their family by any means necessary and believe themselves to be better informed than the general population at large.

Normal Insurance Quotes: Home Policy Coverage in Central Illinois Because there's quite a bit of population density in the Bloomington - Normal area, locals will generally pay a bit more for homeowner's insurance than some of their neighbors in more rural parts of the state.

Young professionals generally like to spend time with people their own age, so a high percentage of the population in the 45 + age bracket is less than ideal.

That's because their population is generally younger than North Americans, and more of them have the potential to advance into the middle class.

Studies show that the animals caught by predators are generally weaker and more diseased than those killed by manmade sources.6, 7 One study found that «birds killed by cats had significantly lower mass, fat scores, and pectoral muscle mass scores» than birds of the same species killed by cars or windows.8 These studies indicate that cats are catching what some biologists refer to as the «doomed surplus» 9 — animals who would not have lived, and so whose death does not affect overall population levels.

I think everyone here appreciates it because, apart from a dozen or so of us on this list who appear on the global lists, Australian bloggers generally rank very low in the global scheme of things (especially those based full - time in Australia), simply because the population and therefore the readership is so much lower than it is in other countries.

As a physical scientist rather than a biologist, I am generally reluctant to get involved in such topics as the influence of climate on polar - bear population, health and biology.

Even seemingly «straightforward» applications like the assessment of the impact of changes in the mean annual cycle of temperature on shifting butterfly populations did find more climate variables than just temperature to be of importance (see e.g. WallisDeVries et al, 2011; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3172409/), and this generally applies to many sectors and applications.

The greatest consumption is generally roughly proportional to the population of each state except for Queensland and Tasmania which consume more than the proportion expeced from their population.

I believe in general that US cities are generally less dense in population, and have more trees and parks than European, Asian, and South American cities.

Nebraska drivers are generally more responsible than other populations around the country — 12.6 % of U.S. drivers are uninsured — but many people still drive without auto coverage throughout the state.

Many of the scales demonstrated weak psychometrics in at least one of the following ways: (a) lack of psychometric data [i.e., reliability and / or validity; e.g., HFQ, MASC, PBS, Social Adjustment Scale - Self - Report (SAS - SR) and all perceived self - esteem and self - concept scales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high false positive and false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent, teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsivity).

Under SIHIP, the Australian Government has identified 73 significant Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory, being those communities which generally have a population of more than 100 people.

Previous research has shown that divorce rates are higher and marriage rates are lower among poorer populations in the United States, but the researchers found that generally poorer respondents hold more traditional views about marriage than respondents on higher incomes.

Due to the nature of these contacts being considered «cold,» it's no surprise that their no engagement rates are generally higher than the other two populations of leads.

Rental properties in areas that show prominent and steady job growth, population growth, and affordable cost of living are generally going to turn a bigger profit than a property in a high poverty area with little to no job growth.

The tenth largest county by population in Colorado, Pueblo County's property taxes are generally higher than the state average.