Sentences with phrase «urban and rural areas also»

Meanwhile, infected wildlife in both urban and rural areas also affects heartworm transmission rates.

Not exact matches

They also plan and direct policies and programs to promote industrial and commercial business development in urban and rural areas.

First, we used the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural - Urban scale (also called Beale Codes), from 1, for counties in metropolitan areas with 1 million or more in population through 9, for counties where there is no community larger than 2,500 and the county is not adjacent to a metropolitan area.

Other important considerations around fairness must also be addressed, such as whether to provide charge - free access options or routes to ensure accessibility and inclusivity, whether to charge individuals a congestion fee for driving where alternative modes of transportation are not available (e.g. the lack of public transit in rural areas), whether the charge for commercial and private vehicles differs or not, and whether individuals living further away from urban areas and thus travelling further distances should face a higher charge than individuals living in urban areas.

The statistics also show that traffic on rural A roads (94.3 Bn vehicle miles) and minor roads outside of urban areas (45.7 Bn vehicle miles) rose to record highs, each up around 2.4 % on last year.

«Up until this moment, it is not about the roofing materials alone which are unsuitable but also our buildings both in rural and urban areas have become a serious challenge.

It's also worth pointing out a deeper selfishness involved involved in the equation: Democratic states functionally subsidize Republican states, and as I found in my distant days in the Texas Legislature, (relatively) pro-tax urban areas typically subsidize low - tax rural counties (think of Michelle Bachmann's family farm subsidy payments as an example).

Also, crime rates are lower in rural areas than in urban city centers, and police response times are much slower in rural areas than in urban areas due to the lower population density which means long distances from a police station to the average crime scene.

Thus, not only do rural people have a greater democratic say in how their local governments are run, they also have a greater democratic say in how some of their key utilities and economic institutions are run, and are far more likely per capita to serve on the governing boards of such institutions, (even though, as in the case of governments, they have far less formal training and expertise in doing so than their urban counterparts running investor owned corporations that do the same things in urban areas).

Rennselaer County — a mix of urban, suburban and rural areas — also backed the amendment as well.

The influence of such socio - demographic factors on registration rates also renders under - registration a far bigger problem in disadvantaged inner - urban areas than in more affluent suburban and rural areas.

There is also # 7.5 million of funding for nature improvement areas (NIAs) which the government hopes will help transforming 12 rural and urban areas into bigger and connected sites for wildlife.

The survey, which also collected information on households» access to information and communication technology (ICT) and patterns of usage, found that about 89 per cent of Nigerians have access to a mobile phone, adding that access to the internet was more prevalent in urban areas than in rural areas — the most common uses being to send and receive emails.

Other achievements, according to the Organized Labour include, «payment of 13th Month salary as Christmas bonus to the state workers; elaborate infrastructural developments of both urban and rural areas of the state through unique fiscal management of the state's meager resources; transformation of the education, agriculture and health sectors, other areas of governance which have improved the quality of lives of the people of Enugu State; approval of payment of arrears of salaries of 731 former staff of some state parastatals and also, the regularization of 42 casual staff of the Enugu State University Teaching Hospital, Parklane Enugu, as permanent staff of the institution», among others.

«Location also mattered, as people living in rural areas had higher rates of diagnosed diabetes than those in urban areas, and the South had the highest rates of various regions in the United States,» Towne said.

The study also is the first to examine differences in air quality and pollution sources between urban and rural areas in the Midwest.

The foundation also runs nine primary health care clinics in the rural and urban regions served by its micro-insurance plan and holds three to four monthly health camps in more remote areas.

Yes, there are opportunities, most with decent pay, good benefits, and superb job security, and mostly in high - poverty urban areas (although rural areas are also underserved).

The study also identified two processes of urban growth: one of exploration, where new streets extend into rural areas, and one of densification, where new streets fill in gaps within the existing network.

They also examined patients from both rural and urban areas suspected of contracting the disease.

City schools also were twice as likely to report serious violent crime compared with rural and schools in towns; however, there was not much difference in the amount of serious crimes in schools located in urban fringe areas, according to the NCES Annual Report on School Safety — 1998.

In terms of reach, we know the number of schools involved in teaching school alliances is growing but that this varies quite significantly between local authorities, especially between rural and urban areas, and also by phase, with more than twice as many secondary schools involved as primary schools.

Deobandis are concentrated in the Pashtun belt from north Punjab to NWFP (KP), northern Baluchistan, urban Punjab and Sindh, Barelwis are concentrated in rural Punjab and Sindh with predominance of saint and shrine culture, the Ahl - e-Hadith are also located in Paunjab and the Shias are inhabited in Karachi, Southern Punjab and northern areas of Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK)(Bedi, 2006).

We also examine results separately for families with incomes below the poverty line (i.e., the poorest 19 percent of families), as compared to those at or above the poverty line, and families who live in rural areas (17 percent of all families), as compared to those in more urban areas.

Ultimately as rural areas get re-vitalized through locally appropriate development initiatives, rural - urban migration which today seems inexorable, would also slow down and may even get reversed... as has happened with dozens of villages in India.

Students living in rural districts also have performed more poorly than students living in urban and suburban areas.

REA also conducted a five - year evaluation of critical issues associated with the delivery of SES via online technologies in rural and urban areas.

«And while urban areas and high schools typically have the largest percentage of students missing school, the problem also exists in rural, town and suburban districts as well as in elementary and middle schools.&raqAnd while urban areas and high schools typically have the largest percentage of students missing school, the problem also exists in rural, town and suburban districts as well as in elementary and middle schools.&raqand high schools typically have the largest percentage of students missing school, the problem also exists in rural, town and suburban districts as well as in elementary and middle schools.&raqand suburban districts as well as in elementary and middle schools.&raqand middle schools.»

She is also keenly aware of the key role infrastructure plays in our nation's economic competitiveness, and in strengthening economic growth in both the urban and rural areas of our country.

Also known as a major hub of commercial activity, Pennsylvania is a prime spot to settle down, with newcomers attracted to busy urban areas (including Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, which didn't make our top 10 list) as well as smaller rural communities like Lancaster.

It is also our belief that small rural areas such as ours are in just as much need of these services as larger urban areas, especially in this region of north Florida and south Georgia.

While nature, relative proximity to the city, space, and affordability may be the most obvious appeals of the Catskills, what the area also offers is that complex dynamic between town and country — a chance to measure how urban notions of culture fit within the rural setting, and the kinds of esthetic, social, and political navigations that artists make in dealing with the land and its people.

Human induced trend has two components, namely (a) greenhouse effect [this includes global and local / regional component] and (b) non-greenhouse effect [local / regional component]-- according to IPCC (a) is more than half of global average temperature anomaly wherein it also includes component of volcanic activities, etc that comes under greenhouse effect; and (b) contribution is less than half — ecological changes component but this is biased positive side by urban - heat - island effect component as the met network are concentrated in urban areas and rural - cold - island effect is biased negative side as the met stations are sparsely distributed though rural area is more than double to urban area.

In addition to the chapters devoted to overarching regional breakdowns, there are also chapters devoted to other culturally or geographically regionally similar areas, such as, coastal areas, rural communities, and «urban systems» — all equally powerful ways of situating people in shared communities of interest facing similar challenges..

The green roof will also decrease the «heat island» effect, which is a term used to describe the temperature spike in urban areas compared to nearby rural areas due to environmental disturbances and pollution.

Around six to eight hours of daily loadshedding in the urban areas and a twelve to eighteen hours in rural areas, coupled with unemployment also caused by energy shortage in the industrial sector, has led to significant vulnerabilities that are [continue reading...]

You are also ignoring that rural stations show the same trend as urban — and that the greatest warming is observed in the far north — where there are no major urban areas.

The Motor Vehicle Act also requires those involved in the accident to report the accident to the local police force within 24 hours in urban areas and within 48 hours in rural areas.

It is true that electronic technology is invaluable in the large document cases, but it is also cost effective in smaller actions in urban and rural areas.

The campaign is also national because while there are some regional differences in attitudes towards different racial and cultural groups — as the Challenging Racism project has found — there is little variation in attitudes between urban and rural areas.

The effects of place may also vary with individual and households characteristics.2 This is reflected in an urban excess of CMD only among those who were economically inactive, 51 variation in suicide rates with area level and individual socioeconomic factors, particularly unemployment, 52,53 and interaction between ethnicity and urban / rural location in the association with depressive symptoms among those living in poverty in the USA.54 Thus, place may only affect those with specific vulnerabilities.13

We also recommend full implementation of Birthing On Country in urban, rural and remote areas, with dedicated funding for Indigenous organisations to establish their own Birth Centres and structural barriers to this (regarding insurance and regulation) removed by government.

It also has the potential to skew the findings of the report in favour of addressing needs in rural and remote regions, despite the fact that the majority of Indigenous Australians reside in urban areas.

The majority of our participants indicated they lived in a suburban area (54 %), but we also had people from urban (32 %) and rural (13 %) areas as well.

There was the immediate issue of soldiers returning home to liberated wives, but also broader social trends, such as people moving en masse from rural to urban areas, and an overall increase in life span — death waited much longer to break up an unhappy home.