Sentences with phrase «where urban populations»

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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»).

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.

Rural communities are much more likely than urban populations to talk about the desire to keep their communities rooted, for there to be opportunities for their children to live and work close to where their parents live.

The region is a mix of rural and urban areas, with the population higher in the east, where can be found the region's largest town, Wrexham, and the working - class conurbations of Deeside.

They tend to be seats with relatively small numbers of constituents in urban areas — that's right; they tend to be Labour seats, where the population has tended to shrink over the years as people sensibly flee areas represented by Labour MPs.

There are still many countries in Africa where infrastructure and development is limited to the capital and a few urban centres, while the rest of the population lives in squalor without adequate access to essential social services.

Its strategy seeks to suppress mosquito populations selectively, in and around urban areas, and so reduce disease where people live.

In rapidly urbanizing parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America, cities are still being built to accommodate motorists, even where they represent a fraction of the urban population.

(DeStefano and Stein shared a stage January 23 for a discussion of urban wildlife at the Harvard Museum of Natural History in Cambridge, Mass.) Where the wily things are At the forefront of this research into coyote behavior is Stanley Gehrt, a wildlife biologist at The Ohio State University, who has studied coyote populations in the Chicago area for more than a decade.

In Singapore, where dense urban structures result in the UHI phenomenon, rapid population growth and the expansion of city development are expected to further worsen the quality of urban life.

Of course, the Fon system is not likely to work except in urban areas where the population density is sufficient to sustain the network; outside those environments, top - down solutions will have to be employed to build the network out.

With more than half of the world's population now living in cities, urban sprawl is a growing problem — particularly in North America, where single - family homes and two - car garages are common.

«With the very survival of the planet at stake, we hope leaders will be inspired to act — especially in urban areas where an increasing majority of the world's population lives.

And in, population - dense urban areas - where enough suspended particles can be amassed - it contributes to the formation of the visible haze called smog.

The law might require that anyone entering an emoticon into a smartphone would be required to stand (very still) within a foot of the sidewalk's edge or cough up a $ 50 fine.Going on foot from the Canal Street stop of the A train in lower Manhattan to the door of the huge former printing factory building where Nature Publishing Group has its offices has increasingly become a series of patterned avoidance maneuvers to skirt erratically moving objects immersed in text - crazed oblivion.Mobile devices have succeeded in desensitizing a not insubstantial percentage of urban populations from their physical surroundings.

This translates into an average temperature rise of 4.3 C over land in the northern hemisphere where most of the world's population lives, and even more in urban areas.

While disease risk is lower in temperate regions where viral amplification can not build across years, there is significant potential for localized disease outbreaks in urban populations under certain conditions.

Californians are at particular risk from wildfire - related health impacts, because the state has the largest population in the U.S. living in wildland - urban interface (inhabited areas approaching wildland areas) where there is an elevated risk of being exposed to wildfires.14 More than 11 million people, about 30 percent of the California population, live in these wildland - urban interfaces.5

More importantly, FOSS is adopted in 50 of the 100 largest urban school districts where FOSS reaches large populations of under - served students.

Recent research from the World Health Organization (WHO) found that more than 80 % of the world's urban population lives in areas where air quality regularly fails health standards.

When Black Panther star Danai Gurira was five - years - old, her parents moved her from Grinnell, Iowa, population 9,218, to their homeland of Harare, Zimbabwe — a bustling, urban city over two - and - a-half-thousand times bigger than the rural former factory town where she was born.

In this period, in addition to Güzeltepe, working class neighborhoods such as Gülsuyu, Gazi, Armutlu, 1 Mayıs Mahallesi, Okmeydanı largely populated by an urban Alevi and leftist population also transformed into neighborhoods where there was constant police surveillance.

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.

In particular, the income of neighborhood residents and the amenities available near the school both affect teachers» decisions of where to teach, particularly in urban areas with high population - density.

A March 2012 report found that chronic early absenteeism is widespread in Kent County's urban areas, where the percentage of the population living at or below the poverty line is high, and is especially prevalent among African - American and Hispanic youth.

Of the three teachers initially selected, one taught in a suburban school whose students are almost exclusively European American, while the other two (one of whom is an ELL teacher) taught in urban settings where the student populations included native speakers of Arabic, Chinese, Creole (French), English, Karenni, Kurundi, Nepali, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, and Vietnamese.

So, the public schools in urban areas, where the increased population of test - takers is coming from, are doing good work in challenging students to learn.

Clustered around urban centers with larger populations and especially on the coasts (where more electric vehicles are sold), there are many chargers.

Heartworm disease (HWD), caused by the mosquito - borne nematode Dirofilaria immitis, is endemic in most areas of the United States, including urban areas where most of the U.S. population (about 80 %) lives.

Forty of these species are often present in urban or suburban landscapes, where impacts of high cat densities on bird populations have been demonstrated elsewhere.

The Institute's newest program aims to realize the potential of parks in urban areas to contribute to the livability of our cities and the sustainability of our planet by bringing park ideals and values directly to our urban centers, where the majority of the world's population now resides.

Shortly after World War I, the U.S. population became increasingly urban rather than rural, but where artists lived did not necessarily dictate where they worked.

On Tower Level 5, Wong Ping creates a multimedia installation centered on a colorful, racy animated tale that explores the tension between an aging population and the relentless pace of a digital economy; in her paintings and sculptures, Duan Jianyu depicts a surreal, transitory place where the rural meets the urban; and Lin Yilin constructs a virtual - reality simulation featuring a professional basketball star, testing the potential for using technology to inhabit the experience of another.

Growing populations and changing precipitation patterns will increase competition among urban, industrial, agricultural, and natural ecosystem water needs in regions where overall water supply declines.

If urban heat islands significantly biased the temperature record, then you'd expect a global map of temperature change to have red spots where the population is concentrated.

That means two things where home insurance is concerned: 1) there are a lot of new arrivals in Arizona looking for homeowners insurance, and 2) with that level of population growth, the wildland - urban interface is expanding at an alarming rate.

«However it would be beneficial for similar programs to be offered to more people in those communities most at risk — such as families, elders and clinicians and then rolled out to other urban and regional areas where we also see a high prevalence of poor mental health in the Aboriginal population.

Our resources address areas where there continues to be incomplete data and information, including Métis - specific and urban Aboriginal health and well - being, and the overall absence and inconsistency of health data coverage for First Nations, Inuit and Métis populations.

And he thinks much of the population will congregate in urban neighborhoods, where, consequently, shopping demand will be strongest.

Yes, the EPA intends to focus compliance monitoring and enforcement efforts on certain geographic areas, especially large urban population centers where lead - based paint hazards are more likely to be present.

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