Sentences with phrase «urban populations which»

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Its positions in Southern California, the Chicago region, the Northeast, as well as Florida place it within large population centers, which, according to the DEA, gives it access to «potential high density drug markets that TCOs will look to exploit through the street - level drug distribution activities of urban organized crime groups / street gangs.»

This incredible journey was made possible by a massive population shift from rural to urban, which in turn was facilitated by the unprecedented expansion in manufacturing and international trade in China, a country that steadfastly ignored the entire MDG process.

This population will increasingly live in urban areas and have a rising middle class, both of which mean more meat consumption.

I would imagine in urban areas like Toronto, Vancouver or Montreal, which have significant populations of recent immigrants, there's probably a significant subset of people who fled from countries where governments do all sorts of nasty things with the information they collect about their citizens and who aren't all that keen to provide such information here (you might say, «sure, but Canada's not Iran», to which the answer would be «exactly»).

↵ 1 1Shelter was also considered a key emergency response action during the cold war in which analysts considered how to mitigate the impacts of multiple, high - yield (megaton class) detonations on urban populations.

China has two main goals: 1) to ensure strong domestic economic growth to provide enough jobs for its 1.2 billion population which continuously migrates to urban centers from the countryside, and 2) to be taken seriously by the world.

While population growth in urban counties has clearly recovered from the housing bubble, during which urban counties lagged for many years and even lost population in 2006, the rebound in urban population growth was brief.

BHP Billiton points out that, over the next 20 years, China's urban population is likely to increase by almost 250 - million people and the rising middle class will be looking to upgrade to «bigger and better apartments, sitting above more extensive underground car parks, which will demand steel - intensive building and renovation,» she asserts.

Glasgow and Dundee are also the principal centres of urban blight with only two - thirds of the working age populations in employment, and the highest Scottish levels of children living in poverty, to which can be added high levels of ill health and of alcohol and drug abuse.

An increasing urban population, changing food consumption pattern and trade globalization have rendered food supply chains extremely complex and lengthy, which calls for a change of mind - set from the traditional way of addressing the causes of food loss at each stage of the food supply chain to an integrated approach.

Next we heard from Mark Terry, who gave a compelling comparison of his old school district — a low SES urban district with a high ELL population, an 85 % free / reduced qualifying rate, and a high need for meal and nutrition education services — and his current district, which is more affluent with a much lower free / reduced qualification rate and a community of parents who have high expectations for student success and a healthy lifestyle.

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.

All 50 states use total population as their basis for drawing district lines, but the challengers said the rural state Senate districts in which they lived had vastly more eligible voters than urban districts, making their votes count for less, in violation of the Constitution.

«Recent studies found that scale insect populations increase on oak and maple trees in warmer urban areas, which raises the possibility that these pests may also increase with global warming,» says Dr. Elsa Youngsteadt, a research associate at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

The area from which the cases of cardiac arrests were drawn is a collection of urban, suburban and rural counties that account for approximately a quarter of North Carolina's population but included all EMS agencies.

The largest urban health systems, which serve as safety nets for large patient populations with lower socioeconomic status and greater likelihood to speak English as a second language, do worse on government patient satisfaction scores than smaller, non-urban hospitals likely to serve white customers with higher education levels, according to a new study by Mount Sinai researchers published this month in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.

Long before the magnitude 7.0 temblor in January, Haiti's land had been subject to intensive logging and urban sprawl, which diminished its agricultural ability to supply food to its fast - growing population

Most of the invasive populations are restricted to urban and suburban habitats, which may be selecting for some key traits that increase fitness of individuals in those environments,» said co-author Elizabeth Hobson, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, which helped support the research.

The population of cities in the studied region grew annually, on average, at 2.8 %, in contrast to the rates of change for urban land average, which grew 2.0 % annually.

A recent study has shown genetic differences between rural and urban great tit populations which suggests this may be the case.

Although many other developments and technologies have come along to help us reproduce almost like rabbits, Laland argues that «if it were the case that humans were adapted to environments in the Pleistocene [epoch ending more than 10,000 years ago] but not the Holocene [modern era, which followed], you would expect human populations would have shrunk when they moved into urban environments.»

In 2007, the United Nations predicted an explosion in urban populations, which it said could be as much as the three - quarters of the world population by 2050, mostly residing in developing countries.

There is a decrease in the percentage of the population exposed to NDGT60 > 25 days per year in Europe at both urban and non-urban stations between the year 2000 and the period 2010 — 2014 (Figure 7a) which is up to 30 or 40 % in several countries.

The Greater Bendigo municipality is home to around 100,000 while the city has a steadily growing urban population of about 80,000 people which places it as the fourth largest regional centre in Victoria after Ballarat, Geelong and Melbourne.

It represents an urban pastiche in which individuals struggle to come to terms with a sense of detachment and loneliness despite the territory's high - density population.

The NAEP scores they focus on do not correspond in most of the cases to the relevant years in which the court orders were actually implemented; they ignore the fact that, as in Kentucky, initial increases in funding are sometimes followed by substantial decreases in later years; and their use of NAEP scores makes no sense in a state like New Jersey, where the court orders covered only a subset of the state's students (i.e., students in 31 poor urban school districts) and not the full statewide populations represented by NAEP scores.

Their position is supported by mainline organizations like the NAACP, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the National Urban League, all of which have a long history of advocacy on behalf of disadvantaged populations.

Massachusetts» urban charter school students are drawn from a population in which middle school students generally score below the average on state - wide math and English tests.

Future social studies teachers who are committed to working in urban and suburban schools and with diverse student populations and who are seeking to fulfill academic requirements for an initial teacher license in Massachusetts, which has reciprocity with most other states.

Unlike many urban districts which have struggled with major declines in student enrollment, Wichita's student population increased by nearly 1,100 students since 2009 (up to 51,133 in 2015).

Attracting new students is an urgent priority for the nation's Catholic schools, which have suffered a steady enrollment decline in recent decades due to changing urban demographics and a declining church population, among other factors.

The company partners with several groups that serve populations of color, such as the National Society of Minorities in Hospitality, the National Association of Black Accountants, and the Black Executive Exchange Program, which is part of the National Urban League.73

In order to circumvent their difficulty in recruiting and retaining qualified teachers, the charter school sector proposed that their schools, which disproportionately operate in urban environments with largely minority student populations, be allowed to provide the barest minimal training, justifying it because they get high test scores, and call it «teacher certification.»

Many districts — especially urban, inner suburban and rural, serving very high - need student populations — continue to struggle from a lack of sufficient funding, which makes it impossible to provide all students with the opportunity for a high quality education.

Mercedes says the Vision Van is key in meeting the needs of the world's burgeoning urban areas, which it says will account for two - thirds of the global population by 2030.

The whole region has an increasingly urban population, a growing middle - class, and rising disposable incomes — all of which fuels fast - growing consumer markets.

The CPI - U is the CPI value for Urban Consumers, which excludes rural populations and represents approximately 80 % of the population.

Shelters that become over-crowded then have «sales» or give these unsuitable dogs away for free which is, in my opinion, more dangerous than releasing mosquitos with the zika virus into an urban population or sarin gas into a subway.

There is unfortunately an increase in sarcoptic mange in the urban coyote populations which has caused these normally noctural animals to become more active during the day.

We have a healthy feral cat and urban wildlife population, many of which carry fleas.

[11] As of 2014, the city had an estimated population of 91,196, [12] up from 88,410 in 2010, making it the second most populous city in the county after Santa Maria [13] while the contiguous urban area, which includes the cities of Goleta and Carpinteria, along with the unincorporated regions of Isla Vista, Montecito, Mission Canyon, Hope Ranch, Summerland, and others, has an approximate population of 220,000.

Self - sufficient compared other cities in the region (the latter of which were hopelessly dependent on its urban population), it managed to last almost a full century longer than other centers in the area after the Mayan collapse.

With a population of 1.3 billion of which tens of millions stream each year from the countryside into the cities; a hypercaffeinated growth rate of 10 percent which is necessary to create jobs for all those urban arrivals; and greenhouse gas emissions now surpassing those of the United States would it be unfair to say that as goes China, so goes the world?

The report notes that in 1990, there were ten «mega-cities» with 10 million inhabitants or more, which were home to 153 million people or slightly less than seven per cent of the global urban population at that time.

This decade, 2001 - 2010, is the first ever in which the urban population grows faster than the rural population in the LDCs.

During most of the 19th C life expectancy differed little between tribal and urban populations — unless the tribal population was in direct contact with an urban civilization, in which case disease lopped about 10 years off the tribal life expectancy.

My current work is on water - supply and food supply scarcity in the southwestern US and in Mexico due to the ongoing effects of record drought, record heat, declining annual runoff, and declining potable groundwater reserves, which together are threatening to render numerous large urban areas unable to support continuing growth, with some unable to continue to support current populations, such as those in Chihuahua, El Paso and Juarez, Las Vegas, Lubbock, Monterrey, Palm Springs, Phoenix, Tuscon, Yuma, among others.

In order of reduction, they call for controlling nitrogen oxide emissions from the burning of fossil fuels using «maximum feasible reductions,» which could reduce reactive nitrogen emissions by 55 billion pounds of a year; increasing the efficiency of fertilizing crops (33 billion pounds a year); improved animal management policies (33 billion pounds); and ensuring that at least half the world's urban population has sewage treatment (11 billion pounds).

And Zombie stations are infilled with neighboring living stations, which are becoming more urban as a population of the whole.

According to the act, the cheap food will be extended to 75 percent of rural dwellers and 50 percent of those living in urban areas, which amounts to roughly two thirds of the South Asian nation's population of over 1.2 billion people.