population density
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpopulationanddensity
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population
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk/ˌpɒp.jəˈleɪ.ʃən/us/ˌpɑː.pjəˈleɪ.ʃən/
all the people living in a particular country, area, ...
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density
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈden.sɪ.ti/us/ˈden.sə.t̬i/
the number of people or things in a place when compared with the size of ...
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(Definition ofpopulationanddensityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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However, there is inconclusive evidence that health is better, and social class rather thanpopulationdensityis likely to have more impact.
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In accordance with some epidemiological predictions, host population size, and notpopulationdensity, has proved most important.
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Thepopulationdensityis 314 persons/km2 and 42.4 % live in urban areas.
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It has a very highpopulationdensityand an exceptionally congested urban environment, and is the commercial and financial centre of the region.
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Crime was, and still is, related to environmental factors andpopulationdensity.
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The 14 partially rejected parishes had an intermediatepopulationdensity.
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Crickets might be living all over the village, but their distribution is not necessarily even: theirpopulationdensitydepends on location.
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Initially, 20 local authorities were selected according to type of authority, size,populationdensity, migration rate and socio-economic status.
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In areas of greater market access or highpopulationdensity, privateoriented approaches to resource management may be more effective.
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Whenpopulationdensityis high, more land will be converted to farm or urban use.
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The estimate of the coefficient forpopulationdensityis insignificant in the joint revenue efficiency regression and significant and negative in the agriculture-specific regression.
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Inclusion ofpopulationdensityas a variable in the second stage will isolate these effects, if present, from those attributed to titling policies.
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The parameter may depend on the type of species, itspopulationdensityand the biogeographic region.
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The role of the rate of economic growth andpopulationdensityis also explored.
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It is now accepted fairly generally that increasing ruralpopulationdensityleads to the intensification of production.
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Predictions of yield response topopulationdensityand water stress were generally good, but phenology predictions were poorer.
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At very highpopulationdensity, diseconomies of scale and moral hazard behavior may set in (ibid.).
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Besides ethnicity, the three regions differ in cultural background, resources, far ming systems,populationdensityand agro-ecology.
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Cropping systems are complex, with marked differences between the major soil types and between areas of high and lowpopulationdensity.
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One can specify a model of the churchgoing rate expressed as a function of log church density and logpopulationdensitysquared.
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In contrast, the strong positive association between church density and churchgoing persists oncepopulationdensityis controlled for.
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In addition, most of these communities are located in areas of lowpopulationdensityand are declining in population.
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Finally, the greaterpopulationdensityin these areas creates more possibility of mobilising local resources to finance maintenance costs.
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In the present study, home ranges were influenced by two factors that vary across time: reproductive status (at least for males) andpopulationdensity.
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Although large birds often have lowpopulationdensity, little is known about the actual density of these birds in primary forest.
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All non-dominated individuals are assigned rank 1, while dominated ones are penalized according to thepopulationdensityof the corresponding region of the trade-off surface.
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This result runs contrary to the view that higherpopulationdensitywill necessarily increase erosion.
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The greaterpopulationdensityalso changes the nature of possible host-parasite relationships and therefore patterns of infectious disease.
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In agreement with these hypotheses, our results suggest that an increase in partridgepopulationdensityamplified the positive interassemblage relationship between intensity and prevalence.
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The town would contain about 32,000 people and have a fairly highpopulationdensityof 70-100 persons per acre.
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It has a population of about 19 million, an annual population growth rate of 2.7% andpopulationdensityof 79 persons/km2 19.
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Because of the small geographical size and lowpopulationdensity, a simple random design was employed.
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Type of area, originally a trichotomous coding ofpopulationdensity, is broken into the two dummies, rural and urban, with city as the 'omitted category'.
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In general, urban districts are smaller than rural ones to account, in part, for their higherpopulationdensity.
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It is now clear how the rate coefficient and thepopulationdensityinfluence the radiation yield.
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In an averaged level model, the population densities of detailed levels are obtained distributing the averaged levelpopulationdensityaccording to the statistical weights.
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The estimated total effect ofpopulationdensityon environmental performance thus ranges from about 70 to 100 points, depending on which model is evaluated.
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Only biotic agents can respond topopulationdensityin this way, although not all such agents necessarily do so.
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However, the rise inpopulationdensitythat follows from technological progress adversely affects big types.
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