Sentences with phrase «use by this population»

Compression stockings (CS) have traditionally been designed for and used by populations suffering from venous return insufficiency (VI) secondary to a number of diseases or disabilities (20,22) or at risk for developing deep vein thrombosis (23).

The researchers provide a new mathematical model that can be used by population geneticists and ecologists to better predict how social groups will influence the way species maintain genetic diversity and evolve, and ultimately help in the conservation of species.

According to the UN, there are six billion mobile phone subscriptions in the world today, used by a population of seven billion and access to the internet is growing fast.

It also gathers data on the frequency of arts use by this population of teachers concluding that teachers in the study value the arts in education and see the potential benefits for themselves as teachers and their students yet they rarely implement arts in practice, citing many reasons including their own perception of lack of confidence to implement arts in a way that will lead to successful student learning.

It's true that the niqab historically was most popular among bedouin tribes, but it predates Islam and has been used by populations of other faiths (including Christianity and Judaism).

Not exact matches

Wide use of the death penalty against blacks would continue through the 19th century and into the 20th, pushed by Southern whites who saw capital punishment as necessary to restrain a dangerous black population.

Because social media is used by much of the U.S. population in most age groups and continues to grow in popularity globally, having an online presence is key.

Recent surveys of U.S. social media usage, such as the Pew Center's, find that Twitter is only used by 17 % of the U.S. population, and at BI Intelligence we've published data showing that Google + has overtaken Twitter in U.S. audience numbers.

Using this particular matrix, McQuaid's team quickly scans both the factual attributes (population, on the y - axis) and emotional attributes (accompanied by introspection, on the x-axis) of 16 potential customer segments for the health - and - wellness tool.

More than 80 percent of the Brazilian adult population now has a bank account, and last year the local payment method Boleto Bancário, which is regulated by the Brazilian Federation of Banks, was the second most used payment method.

He said that half of India's population is under the age of 26, and it's that generation «that will use these technologies» enabled by an Internet - connected society.

As noted by senior executives at Rodale, just having an organic landscape can improve the health of the whole employee population, through reduced use of chemicals from lawn maintenance, while creating a space that is more engaging, educational, and productive.

But evidence is mounting that who we «friend,» what we «like» and share, can be used by malevolent groups to target entire swaths of the population with a few keystrokes.

Thanks to those partnerships, 9 % of Japan's total population was using Evernote by the time Linda left in 2015.

The survey methodology used by Census is broadly considered to be the gold standard - the ACS surveys a broad representative sample of the population and is free of bias.

To achieve this goal, several approaches are envisaged: identifying small populations with severe disease where a medicine's benefit - risk balance could be favorable; making more use of real - world data where appropriate to support clinical trial data; and involving health technology assessment bodies early in development to increase the chance that medicines will be recommended for payment and ultimately covered by national healthcare systems.

By using the known rates of increase in the money supply and the population and a «guesstimate» of the rate of increase in labour productivity we can arrive at a theoretical rate of change for the purchasing power of money.

The efforts by 4G Capital, WISeKey, and Bitland are just further recent developments that will provide a better way of life for the African population and create opportunities for growth within the continent through the use of blockchain technology.

According to an informational booklet produced by the credit - reporting company TransUnion: «typically, a lender will use additional criteria and analytics beyond the credit score during the underwriting process and to further segment a population of consumers...»

Clearing this regulatory hurdle means that by early next year, Matternet partner Swiss Post plans to use the drones to deliver blood samples and other small parcels between hospitals in Lugano, a smaller city with a population of about 56,000.

(1) employment growth, sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Economic Summaries in August 2016, with the percentage representing the employment change from June 2015 to June 2016 in each city; (2) population growth, based on and sourced from the 2014 and 2015 Census, with the percentage representing the change in population from 2014 to 2015; (3) increase in home values, based on Zillow Home Value, with the percentage representing the change in median home values for single - family homes from June 2015 to June 2016, sourced August 2016; (4) years to pay off property, which was based using the median home value for July 2016 and the median rent for a single - family residence for July 2016, both sourced from Zillow; median rent was multiplied by 12 to obtain yearly rent and then home value was divided by yearly rent to determine how many years it would take for the home to be paid off from rental income using current home values and rent prices for each city.

Even when they had the White House (George W) and both Houses of Congress the GOP never even introduced, much less voted on, any bill banning abortion, allowing prayer in school, banning gay marriage or any other of the wedge issues they use to attract a certain mentally deranged segment of the population to their side by pretending to defend those things that are important to Christian conservatives.

(i) a woman's right to choose; (ii) teaching evolution in school; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (v) gay marriage; (vi) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» by theists (vii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (viii) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (xi) population control; (x) buying alcohol on a Sunday; (xi) use of condoms and other contraceptives (xii) stem cell research.

as with every other argument about christianity, if it really was only a belief it would be of no consequence, but unfortunately so many use their religious beliefs as an excuse to attempt to demand the rest of the population adhere to their beliefs by codifying them into civil law.

While we are not talking about a small population, please consider the original text (Quran) and don't use one man's opinion as a means to interpret the religion itself (this is what you tried to imply by quoting him).

Only 15 percent of the water supply was allocated to the Palestinians; the other 85 percent is used either by Jewish settlers, who constitute less than 10 percent of the population, or by Israel.

Indeed, the figure of the emperor was not necessarily treated with respect by the general population (piss pots used by fullers in Rome were nicknamed Vespasiani after the emperor who introduced an unpopular tax upon them).

And I seem to recall Chad talking about birth control methods and dismissing those that would be outlawed by this measure because they were used by only 1 % of the population.

We're so used to the default trope that China is «the world's most populous nation» that it will come as a shock to many that, by some demographers» estimates, China's current population, 1.4 billion, will shrink to 500 million by the turn of the next century.

Concentration camps, racism (and black racism is no more excusable than white racism), torture of enemies, extermination of whole populations — these are used by all regimes today, whether of the right or the left, whether capitalist or socialist.

You did per capita wrong even with using the wrong data is is the abortion number / population number not the other way around, then multiplied by 100k to get rid of the number.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

Paulâ $ ™ s most common self - description throughout his letters is: â $ œI am a slave who is sent by Jesus to non-Jews to communicate the good news that the Kingdom of God has come in Jesus.â $ English readers of the Bible find it easy to overlook this important aspect of Paulâ $ ™ s self - understanding, since the 190 different Greek terms used for slavery in the New Testament are sanitized to â $ œservant.â $ This is not a very appropriate translation, since in Paulâ $ ™ s day 1 / 3rd of the population of the Roman empire were masters who owned slaves, 1 / 3rd of the people were slaves, and 1 / 3rd were former slaves.

And we are all frightened at the prospect of the use of nuclear weapons by terrorists against innocent civilian populations.

Whether this was a reference to the United States in Iraq, or to the structural dominance of the Security Council in the U.N., or to the efforts of select nations to use the U.N. in imposing population and family policies opposed by the Holy See, Benedict did not say.

By contrast, the South African Council of Churches (SACC) which represents approximately 22.5 per cent of all South Africans, and the Roman Catholic Church, which claims 9.5 per cent of the population, have recently endorsed the use of violence as a «necessary evil» to «free» black South Africans.

However, he does recommend more reliance upon imaginative diplomacy than upon weaponry; and he also decries the use of terror bombing of civilian populations, as was sometimes employed by the United States in World War II, in even the fiercest of wars.

At least seven immense, interdependent threats to the quality of life on spaceship earth continue to escalate: the population explosion; the widening gulf between rich and poor nations; massive malnutrition (caused mainly by economic injustice, which produces maldistribution of available food); environmental pollution and degradation; the depletion of the irreplaceable resources of our finite planet; the growing threat of nuclear terrorism and eventual holocaust (with the equivalent of one and a half million Hiroshima - sized bombs in the arsenals of the world); and the worldwide tendency for the fruits of science and technology to be used without ethical responsibility.

According to a survey published in September 2010 by the Office for National Statistics, the proportion of the British population who self - identify (to use the questionable modern phrase) as homosexual is around 1 \ %.

Using their position within society as spokespersons for God to proclaim that all homosexual relations are disdained by God, thus knowingly contributing to the cruel persecution of a minority population.

But the largest contribution to restoring the carbon balance will be a reduction in world population since every person who lives makes a contribution to the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by his or her use of the products of industry or by burning wood for fuel.

By far the best proposal is that of Ehrlich, Ehrlich and Holdren (1977, p. 720), which was used as a basis for their later book on the population explosion (Ehrlich & Ehrlich 1990, p. 58).

A close parallel is observable between a comment by an early protagonist of the theory, Dorwin Cartwright, who in 1949 suggested that, «it is conceivable that one persuasive person could, through the use of mass media, bend the world's population to his will,» (3) and the 1979 affirmation by NRB Executive Secretary Ben Armstrong, «I believe that God has raised up this powerful technology of radio and television expressly to reach every man, woman, boy, and girl on earth with the even more powerful message of the gospel.»

I do not think that it's the inability to bridge the gap between science and religion — it's that more of us are educated, and see the Bible for what it truly is — a collection of stories, used throughout history, to ensure that populations were «kept in check» by a threat from a so - called higher power.

These particular characteristics also have deep roots in the traditional uses made of television by the American population.

Let's work through the ABCs of these classic controversies: Contraception: A. «The use of contraception in the West has led to a stabilising of the population... However, in less developed countries, the population is rising by as much as 3 \ % a year... This is placing great pressures on food supplies, health services and education».

Managers can benefit from using this principle by reviewing population data broken down by consumer segment in a given market.

Water entitlements are used by environmental water managers to improve water quality, increase native fish and bird populations and promote the growth of native vegetation, among other benefits.

Garza's work also fits into a growing trend in the food scene by focusing on foundational ingredients used by South and Central America's native populations.

Food makers need to scrutinise what is fed to the livestock used in their products in order to develop a more sustainable production system that will be able to feed the world's growing population, forecast to reach 9bn people by 2040, a new report by...