Sentences with phrase «well during a famine»

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Experts note that elite talent has always been well fed and funded, even during years of famine in the late 1990s.

Cassava yields well in poor soils, is drought - resistant and the roots give food security during droughts and famine making it an ideal crop for poorer areas in the world.

The authors examined individuals born between February 1945 and March 1946 whose mothers were exposed to the famine during or immediately preceding pregnancy, individuals conceived between March and May 1945 at the time of extreme famine, and controls born in the same institutions whose mothers did not experience famine while pregnant as well as sibling controls who were also not exposed to famine in pregnancy.

This tendency has its roots in our evolutionary past: people who didn't fatten up during a good harvest died out in the subsequent famine, and we are the descendants of the survivors.

«Women survive crises better than men: Newborn girls are hardier than newborn boys during famines, epidemics.»

Students are then better equipped to understand and use the key concepts of mathematical modeling for everything from modeling bacterial growth in a colony to finding optimum food distribution methods during a famine, or planning a schedule for a tournament.