Collocations withpopulation
These are words often used in combination withpopulation.
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aboriginal population
The area also has a significant and relatively young aboriginal population.
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adolescent population
Measuring life events in an adolescent population : methodological issues and related findings.
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adult population
And 39 per cent of the adult population, as many as 225 million people, remains illiterate.
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affected population
Most research has historically been conducted without input from the affected population, and has often not been particularly useful to those communities.
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ageing population
Stepfamilies and older people : evaluating the implications of family change for an ageing population.
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ancestral population
On crossing, therefore, the viability and the number of lethal equivalents due to them return to the original values of the ancestral population.
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at-risk population
Only the original survival lottery can, through consent of the at-risk population, partially mitigate the claim that their interests in life are thereby violated.
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bacterial population
The task is not simple, as the production of the lubricant requires collective action of the dense bacterial population that the food-depleted substrate cannot sustain.
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breeding population
The biological definition is based on the concept of a breeding population.
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bulk population
To maintain yield stability, the bulk population must remain genetically diverse2.
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burgeoning population
In the interests of equity of access, we need to determine why this burgeoning population does not make more use of psychology services.
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captive population
The rationale behind the new list is that for a species to be placed thereon a self-sufficient captive population be demonstrated.
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changing population
A changing population is perceptively described and related to changing doctor-patient relationships.
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civilian population
The counter-insurgent responds with even greater force that does not spare the civilian population, thereby alienating it.
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combined population
It would be very difficult to collect this information across two jurisdictions with a combined population of 2.6 million.
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current population
Theoretically, population growth rate could be positively or negatively related to current population size or also be independent of it.
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declining population
Given that energy requirements are greater for bigger agents this can lead to declining population of the whole species, and even its extinction.
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deer population
The total deer population today probably exceeds 100,000, but here again no reliable information is available.
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disadvantaged population
We see that the average life expectancy of disadvantaged population groups is shorter than that of privileged groups.
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displaced population
The problem was compounded by the delegation of responsibility to private charities and the random resettlement of the displaced population.
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diverse population
Molecular analysis of selected strains showed a highly diverse population suggestive of widespread dissemination of an almost limitless number of strains.
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elderly population
Clinical parameters associated with falls in the elderly population.
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elephant population
The return of the giants: ecological effects of an increasing elephant population.
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elk population
As the wolf population in the park has grown, the elk population, their favored prey, has declined.
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entire population
Clearly the age distribution of the kin of people aged 55- 64 years is not the same as the age distribution of the entire population.
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estimated population
There were 5,619 deaths out of an estimated population of 104,937.
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expanding population
In an expanding population there is an excess of singular mutations, indicated by mutation-drift disequilibrium.
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foreign-born population
In addition, the foreign-born population is also above the state average.
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general population
It is of course possible that the more favourable validity criteria coefficients reported here may not generalize to the general population setting.
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global population
Human consumption and global population are increasing, and experts warn that natural resources are finite and that current levels of resource exploitation cannot be maintained.
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growing population
The large and growing population imposes great pressure on available natural resources.
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hare population
Robustness of capture- recapture estimators to sample biases in a cyclic snowshoe hare population.
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healthy population
Moreover, the healthy population presumably shows strengths and weaknesses in different cognitive domains.
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heterogeneous population
The basal layer of mammalian skin is a heterogeneous population of proliferating and differentiating cells.
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high-risk population
Fetal weight gain in a serially scanned high-risk population.
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homeless population
Finally, although this case study demonstrated effective interdisciplinary working, formalized multidisciplinary teams for the homeless population are probably required.
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human population
Together they created a practice of environmental management that took little account of the growing human population of the area.
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immigrant population
In what follows, the immigrant population has been treated as a homogeneous group and projected as such.
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indigenous population
The indigenous population created their own image of the state, and brought this to bear in their struggles to keep control of their land.
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isolated population
This reproductively isolated population will constitute a new species.
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large population
It describes the dynamics of a wild-type allele and its variants, derived by mutation, for an infinitely large population.
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local population
Furthermore, it had a stifling effect on the local population.
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majority population
The study has highlighted several issues about inequalities between ethnic groups and between them and the majority population that require further investigation.
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male population
The final class, labeled low antisocial (low), was the largest of the male population (45.6%) and was characterized by low levels of antisocial conduct problems.
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microbial population
It is natural to think that microbial population structure is associated with the structure of contacts of their hosts.
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minority population
Across the minority population generally, lack of understanding of pension arrangements, including state pensions, is widespread.
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mixed population
The mixed population on this frontier offered several opportunities for balancing different ethnic forces against each other.
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moose population
In the late 1940s, the management of the reserve encountered the problem of the unsustainable growth of the moose population.
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mosquito population
This part is then mechanically transported to the left bank, with its initial mosquito population.
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overall population
However, in non-outbreak years, the overall population dynamics of grasshoppers appears to be influenced significantly by a suite of natural enemies attacking successive developmental stages.
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paediatric population
It attends the paediatric population and is also the referral hospital for the entire province.
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patient population
Hope goals are individually defined and are unique to the patient population, influenced by the phase of the illness and developmental stage of the individual.
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population centre
It is very likely that the second-tier authority will aways have as the core the population centre in that area.
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population density
However, there is inconclusive evidence that health is better, and social class rather than population density is likely to have more impact.
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population explosion
The population explosion also means people have less time, must work more and be more interrupted, so they can't meditate on the old culture.
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population geneticist
He is a theoretical population geneticist and evolutionary biologist.
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population growth
The population growth decreased in time, expressed in day degrees, as density increased.
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population study
In particular, the results of the population study can be (and were) used to calibrate these probabilities.
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prison population
An additional effect of this vaccination scenario is the 100 % vaccinated status of the prison population.
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projected population
Estimated time to extinction refers to the time in which projected population size was below five individuals.
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proportion of population
From 1900 to 1990, the proportion of population living on a farm dropped from nearly 40 to < 2%5.
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rapid population
Rapid population growth has resulted in a marked reduction in the fallow period and the partitioning of farmlands into smallholdings.
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remnant population
Later a remnant population that escaped the hunt was left alone and it began to increase.
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resident population
Perhaps this is due to the presence there of a resident population, making them unique among southerly island groups.
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rodent population
Our numerical results suggest that it is economically beneficial to control the rodent population.
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sizeable population
There is a sizeable population of albinos in the world.
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sparse population
The source of water and of organic nutrients for the sparse population of heterotrophic bacteria present in the soil is still unknown.
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substantial population
These complexities not only reveal substantial population growth over the course of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, they also help explain the peculiar arrangements to which the chief inhabitants resorted.
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target population
This alleged information, however, seems to be largely unobtainable by those who need it, namely, the target population.
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targeted population
In 1997 and 1998, vaccine coverage reached 85 % of the targeted population (those aged less than 30 years in the affected provinces).
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total population
This is due to the fact that this household makes up a small share of total population as well as the labor force.
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transient population
A new terminal is a small, new town with a population of its own: a population of employees and a transient population of passengers.
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tribal population
Furthermore, the fertility component exceeds the mortality component by fairly large margins in all six tribal population groups.
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turtle population
Additionally, the turtle population could decline due to the consumption of their eggs by humans or other predators.
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undergraduate population
But the experimental strategy has produced calibrated insights regarding trustee competence relative to an undergraduate population.
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underserved population
This could meet a largely unmet need for a very vulnerable and underserved population.
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viable population
Assessing minimum viable population size : demography meets population genetics.
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voting population
The effect of population growth on the voting population also has imponderables.
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vulnerable population
The crucial link between a hazard - or external threat - and a disaster was found in the notion of a vulnerable population.
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wild population
We expected the wild population size to be positively correlated with exposure because crowding may lead to more contacts and more infection.
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wildlife population
On the contrary, it is also clear that a permanently higher rate of discount results in a smaller wildlife population.
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working population
A decrease in the working population would then worsen the budget constraint problem by shrinking the economy and the tax base.
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working-age population
At the same time, the working-age population will shrink or grow only very slowly due to the low fertility rates of the past decades.
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zero population growth
Eventually zero population growth 'must and inevitably will be reestablished' (p. 16).
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