Sentences with phrase «used population averages»

They used population averages to estimate sexual partnerships, needle sharing and other risk behaviors.

Not exact matches

Researchers from Radboud University in the Netherlands found that in the two decades since Dutch farmers began using the pesticide on a variety of crops, the birds» population declined by an average of 3.5 percent annually in farmlands where local water levels contained high concentrations of the chemical.

Working with the Wilson - Cowan model, a widely - used model in computational neuroscience that describes the average activity of populations of interconnected neurons, Alonso has designed a new mathematical tool to help other neuroscientists explore the broad spectrum of responses possible from a simple neural circuit.

«We used information about historical hurricane tracks for the Eastern United States to identify the connection between the affected population, average per capital income and associated damages.,» Katja Frieler adds.

«The existing totality of evidence suggests an urgent need to increase the use of varenicline in the general population as well as in those with serious mental illness who on average die about 20 years earlier than the general population, in part, because their smoking rates may be as high as 75 percent,» said Hennekens.

They analyzed how shares of the U.S. population afflicted with different diseases and conditions and the costs and services used to treat them contributed to growth in average spending on health care, adjusting for inflation.

Testing for these variants combined with all 21 previously identified using genetic sequencing identified men with a 10-fold higher risk of testicular cancer than the population average.

We estimated the neutral mutation parameter (4Neμ for autosomal loci and 3Neμ for X-linked loci), where Ne is the effective population size and μ is the mutation rate per site per generation, using two estimators: Watterson's θw [67], the proportion of segregating sites in a sample, and π [68], the average number of pairwise differences per sequence in a sample.

In a study published today, scientists at deCODE genetics use genomic and genealogical data from across the population of Iceland over many decades to show that people who carry sequence variations linked to higher levels of education have fewer children than average...

The use of population - based statistically determined normal testing ranges is also limited by the fact that the average testosterone level in men today is less than the average level in men of the same age 15 years ago.

The mean (average) of the population used was 44 years old and 47.4 % were men.

You input your stats and your activity levels into a calculator, and through the use of highly - researched formulas and population averages, the calculator comes up with a fairly accurate intake for you.

Using previously collected information on the U.S. population and average U.S. dietary intake, these researchers determined that replacement of meat and dairy with soy would result in significantly improved intake of folate and vitamin K; larger amounts of calcium, magnesium and iron; and 4 additional grams of fiber per day.

Those measurements were then used to estimate the average body mass index (BMI) of various segments of the population.

When used to increase precision, understand group differences, measure intervention effects, or characterize populations, averaging across individual measurements can be extremely useful.

Notes from Characteristics of the UK includes population density, average rainfall and land use.

This tool can be used to document the average benchmark score of specific student populations.

Facing the challenges associated with an increase in student population from 3,600 in 2001 to over 13,000 in 2017, Vail has used the Beyond Textbooks approach to increase student achievement in math and reading from levels near or below state averages prior to the advent of the program to pass rates that are now consistently 20 % or more above state averages and greater than 90 % year after year at most grade levels.

The mean, the mode and the median are all averages used for data sets such as population, sales, voting etc..

For starters, despite having four more credit cards on average than the total population, the highest scorers keep lower balances and use significantly less of their available credit.

The use of the Hardy - Weinberg law to determine the average carrier risk of the population (based on the percentage of proven affected dogs) is not valid.

Sorting countries by the amount of resources their populations use on average drastically changes who comes out on top.

In the meantime, the world's poorest two or three billion people, emitting less than one ton of carbon dioxide per person per year (compared to the 20 tons per - capita average of the United States), could be propelled out of poverty with additional fossil fuel use without substantially interfering with efforts to rein in the richest populations» emissions.

However, average household electricity usage here is 11kWh / p / d using census figures for population and persons per dwelling.

1) The obvious thing that smaller population uses less resources and emits less pollution as a global average.

General Consideration of Mortality: Using a typical number for average mortality is two percent and the aforementioned population, one would estimate 45,000 fatalities over all, which agrees with the above more accurate estimates.

Energy prices (average gasoline and retail electricity price) and public infrastructure (share of working population commuting via public transportation) were important in explaining the interstate variation in the use of transportation fuels and residential electricity and are readily addressed by climate and energy policies.

«Climate science» as it is used by warmists implies adherence to a set of beliefs: (1) Increasing greenhouse gas concentrations will warm the Earth's surface and atmosphere; (2) Human production of CO2 is producing significant increases in CO2 concentration; (3) The rate of rise of temperature in the 20th and 21st centuries is unprecedented compared to the rates of change of temperature in the previous two millennia and this can only be due to rising greenhouse gas concentrations; (4) The climate of the 19th century was ideal and may be taken as a standard to compare against any current climate; (5) global climate models, while still not perfect, are good enough to indicate that continued use of fossil fuels at projected rates in the 21st century will cause the CO2 concentration to rise to a high level by 2100 (possibly 700 to 900 ppm); (6) The global average temperature under this condition will rise more than 3 °C from the late 19th century ideal; (7) The negative impact on humanity of such a rise will be enormous; (8) The only alternative to such a disaster is to immediately and sharply reduce CO2 emissions (reducing emissions in 2050 by 80 % compared to today's rate) and continue further reductions after 2050; (9) Even with such draconian CO2 reductions, the CO2 concentration is likely to reach at least 450 to 500 ppm by 2100 resulting in significant damage to humanity; (10) Such reductions in CO2 emissions are technically feasible and economically affordable while providing adequate energy to a growing world population that is increasingly industrializing.

He said energy use per person was on track to rise sixfold by 2050, which had dire implications for temperatures when combined with economic growth of 3.9 % a year (the six - decade average) and a world population of 9 billion.

Global Wind Energy Council, Global Wind 2008 Report (Brussels: 2009), pp. 3, 56; Erik Shuster, Tracking New Coal - Fired Power Plants (Pittsburgh, PA: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), National Energy Technology Laboratory, January 2009); «Nuclear Dips in 2008,» World Nuclear News, 29 May 2009; 1 megawatt of installed wind capacity produces enough electricity to supply 300 homes from American Wind Energy Association, «U.S. Wind Energy Installations Reach New Milestone,» press release (Washington, DC: 14 August 2006); number of homes calculated using average U.S. household size from U.S. Census Bureau, «2005 — 2007 American Community Survey 3 - Year Estimates — Data Profile Highlights,» at factfinder.census.gov / servlet / ACSSAFFFacts, viewed 9 April 2009, and population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & Country QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 February 2009.

Annual and seasonal average temperatures are weighted using the shares of each region's land area within each grid cell; estimates of days above 95F and below 32F are weighted using the shares of each region's population within each grid cell.

This would mean much longer average transmission distances to population centers and would result in much higher losses (My 50 % number is a speculative figure assuming power produced in Kansas being used in New England which is an extreme case).

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Energy Information Administration (EIA), Crude Oil Production, electronic database, at tonto.eia.doe.gov, updated 28 July 2008; American Wind Energy Association (AWEA), «Installed U.S. Wind Power Capacity Surged 45 % in 2007: American Wind Energy Association Market Report,» press release (Washington, DC: 17 January 2008); AWEA, U.S. Wind Energy Projects, electronic database, at www.awea.org/projects, updated 31 March 2009; future capacity calculated from Emerging Energy Research (EER), «US Wind Markets Surge to New Heights,» press release (Cambridge, MA: 14 August 2008); coal - fired power plant equivalents calculated by assuming that an average plant has a 500 - megawatt capacity and operates 72 percent of the time, generating 3.15 billion kilowatt - hours of electricity per year; residential consumption calculated using «Residential Sector Energy Consumption Estimates, 2005,» in DOE, EIA, Residential Energy Consumption Survey 2005 Status Report (Washington, DC: 2007), with capacity factor from DOE, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Power Technologies Energy Data Book (Golden, CO: August 2006); population from U.S. Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts, electronic database, at quickfacts.census.gov, updated 20 February 2009.

Further, 77 % of the U.S. Hispanic population have a mobile phone and use that phone significantly more than the average non-Hispanic American.

So with 86 % of the UK adult population now regularly using the internet, and over 22 million people having an average of 3.5 legal needs in the past 3 years (commonly over consumer goods or services), we believe this is a compelling segment for disruption.

This will result in an average 3 - digit zip code area population of 287,858 which should result in an average of about 4 % unique records using the 6 variables described above from the Census Short Form.

Jutta Treviranus, Director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre (IDRC) and Professor, OCAD University described problems with developing a norm or average, highlighting that the danger of creating artificial norms is accentuated with the use of technologies that aggregate averages in a population.

According to EY, 90 % of Swiss adult population use a smartphone and 80 % a portable laptop and on average, Swiss people spend 8.8 hours per day on digital devices, 1.9 hours on the smartphone.

The national average for SAAP use is 56 clients for every 10,000 population, however Northern Territory records indicate 191 people per 10,000 accessing SAAP services.

This model was fitted by using population - averaged Generalized Estimating Equation methods.

Limitations include the lack of a control group at the 6 - month postintervention follow - up, small sample size, concerns about the generalizability to other populations due to the largely college educated, married, above average income sample and the use of self - referred families, who may be more willing to complete self - directed work than others.

It should be noted that GEE analyses that we used reflect a marginal model, i.e. the average person's change within the population, which constitutes a backdrop against which more homogeneous groups of girls with multiple mental health problems can be compared.

This multilevel AR model enables researchers to estimate the average inertia in the population and to use observed person - level variables as predictors for the inertias, to see which person characteristics are related to regulatory weakness.

The mapping exercise, using geographical information systems, also modelled scenarios to describe optimal service locations, based on population spread and average travel times to services.

Nothing affected the number of sales in the past 30 or more years like the lowering of the average household population and the single largest contributor to the shrinkage, to use an old Seinfeld term, was divorce.

Naturally, Sellers have a much higher risk than the average population of having this new technology used against them by unscrupulous individuals who have access to a door key via keybox and / or property showings.