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population

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n. 人口；[生物] 种群，[生物] 群体；全体居民

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It will recover as population grows.

In the last year alone, despite an increase in the UK population and a subsequent rise in the number of households, sales of toilet paper fell by 2%, with the average household reducing their toilet roll spending from £43 in 2014 to £41 in 2015.

Another trend that looks significant in 2015 is that America's largest population group, Millennials ( ' , 千禧一代), will continue to put off buying a house.

We must cut carbon emissions by 80% from their 2006 levels by 2020, stabilize the world's population at eight billion by 2040, completely remove poverty, and restore forests and soils.

For many years I have studied global agricultural, population, environmental and economic trends and their interactions.

It can also be exploitative, especially when used with vulnerable populations.

When Jonathan Swift proposed, in 1729, that the people of Ireland eat their children, he insisted it would solve three problems at once: feed the hungry masses, reduce the population during a severe depression, and stimulate the restaurant business.

It is in no one's interest to keep a large segment of the population on the margins of society.

As a society we might want to rethink the time and money spent on education, so that these resources can benefit a greater percentage of the population.

It benefits the great majority of the general population

A recent study suggests that doctors start to make more objective decisions about who will truly benefit from screening- especially considering the explosion of the elderly that will soon swell our population.

With the world's population estimated to grow from six to nine billion by 2050, researchers.

The report, to be released Friday, analyzed data and existing studies of health, disaster, population and economic trends.

Economic trends have to do with population and natural disasters

a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies disaster trends, said the Forum's report was "a methodological embarrassment" because there was no way to distinguish deaths or economic losses related to human-driven global warming amid the much larger losses resulting from the growth in populations and economic development in vulnerable (易受伤害的) regions.

The increasing emphasis for the growing population of old people is in quality rather than quantity of years.

Another trend that looks significant in 2015 is that America's largest population group, millennials, will continue to put off buying a house.

Between now and 2050, the urban population of Africa could triple.

given the increasing concern about health care costs for the aging population, Karraker believes policymakers should be aware of the relationship between disease and risk of divorce.

It is in no one's interest to keep a large segment of the population on the margins of society.

Some of the surveys included only college students; others were done with a mixed-age population.

The problem is growing as the population of the state continues to expand.

When a city's population grows by 5% a year, it is difficult to keep up.

Most people would love to get students from more underserved populations, but they just can't get them in the door.

You will face problems in the aging of the population that have never been faced before.

Then, abruptly, the cod population collapsed.

Only three states, with a combined population not much larger than that of Brooklyn, have unemployment rates below 5%.

So what other variables could be used if the racial concept is thrown out? Yudell said scientists need to get more specific with their language, perhaps using terms like ancestry or population that might more precisely reflect the relationship between humans and their genes, on both the individual and population level.

E.B.Du Bois was concerned that race was being used as a biological explanation for what he understood to be social and cultural differences between different populations of people.

But because this population is getting larger, the number of deaths in this group is also increasing.

Matt Rubinoff directs I'm First, a nonprofit organization launched last October to reach out to this specific population of students.

It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population, Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year colleges, and commuter state schools.

While fully 64% of all U.S. high school graduates attend college of some point in their life, just 30% of the comparable German population, 28% of the French, 20% of the British, and 37%of the Japanese proceed beyond high school.

"It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population," Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year col

"We're obligated to keep a pulse on the population for at least five years after the foxes are delisted," says Boser.

But in Bangladesh, a population 600 times greater, speaks only 41 languages.

Earlier this month a separate study found that a combination of climate change and industrial fishing is threatening the krill (磷虾) population in Antarctic waters, with a potentially disastrous impact on whales, seals and penguins.

I want to tell you about the past, present and future of the human population.

It's not only the study of human population, but the populations of non-human species, including viruses like influenza, the bacteria in your gut, plants that you eat, animals that you enjoy or that provide you with meat.

Matt Rubinoff directs I'm first, a nonprofit organization launched last October to reach out to this specific population of students.

wild pigs attracted golden eagles from the mainland, and those flying predators crashed the fox population.

Only a small fraction of the population was literate, but the production of books grew at an extraordinary speed.

Only three states, with a combined population not much larger than that of Brooklyn,have unemployment rates below 5%.

So those are examples of population problems.

The East African language of kiswahili was chosen as the official language of Kwanzaa, because it is a non-tribal language, spoken by a large portion of the African population.

The persistent haze over many of our cities is a reminder of the polluted air that we breathe, over 80% of the world's urban population is breathing air that fails to meet World Health Organisation guidelines.

Today's demographics show that the middle class is disappearing and now the richest one percent of the population has amassed more wealth than the bottom 90 percent.

Yudell said scientists need to get more specific with their language, perhaps using terms like "ancestry"or "population" that might more precisely reflect the relationship between humans and their genes, on both the individual and population level.

As a result it's likely to see a rise in the size of its working-age population and to witness strong economic growth over the longer term.

As for the USA, it is almost unique among developed nations in having a population that is expected to grow by 20% from 2010—2030.

As the average age of the population increases, there are more and more old people to care for.

At the start of this year, foreigners living in italy amounted to 4.56 million of a total population of 60.6 million, or 7.5 percent, with immigrants’ children accounting for an ever larger percentage of births in italy.

But before they can be assured, more efforts must be made, because the population of the crane in the wild is on the decline, and many other species appear headed toward extinction.

But gold was discovered there in 1897, and two years later, it was one of the largest cities in the west, with a population of 30, 000.

By last year, the Yellowstone wolf population had grown to more than 170 wolves.

Deer and elk populations — major food sources for the wolf – grew rapidly.

Elk, deer, and coyote populations are down, while beavers and red fores have made a comeback.

Furthermore, around 50% of the world's population live in regions where the figure is now below the replacement level.

Gin spent five months in early 2015 exploring the most remote corners of this area, which sits on the edge of the Amazon rainforest, with half its population of only 250, 000 living in its capital, Cayenne.

If current trends don't bend, Russia's population will be about the size of Yyemen's by the year 2050.

In recent years some Inuit people in Nunavut have reported increases in bear sightings around human settlements, leading to a belief that populations are increasing.

In the 18th and early 19teh centuries, passenger pigeons were the largest bird population in the US.

In the 1960s, scientists proposed that predators at the top of a food web had a surprising amount of control over the size of populations of other species - including species they did not directly attack.

In the absence of wolves, coyote populations also grew quickly.

In the north of india, the population is booming due to high birth rates, but in the south, where most economic development is taking place, birth rate is falling rapidly.

In total, 25% of india's working-age population has no education.

It is difficult to figure out a global population of polar bears as much of the range has been poorly studied; however, biologists calculate that there are about 20, 000-25, 000 polar bears worldwide.

It would be difficult for developed countries to maintain the of population.

Italy is the latest western European country trying to control a growing immigrant population by demanding language skills in exchange for work permits, or in some cases, citizenship.

Modem methods of/for tracking polar bear populations have been employed only since the mid-1980s, and are expensive to perform consistently over a large area.

Not a single day has been wasted, though I can never tell when knowing the population of Nepal might prove useful.

On the whole, our population is getting older.

Over 300 years its population grew gradually from 800 people to 8 million.

Over time, as/when the population grew, people began cutting food into small pieces so it would cook more quickly.

Russia is another country with population problems that could break its economic promise.

Scientists have responded by noting that hungry bears may be congregating聚集 around human settlements, leading to the illusion错觉 that populations are higher than they actually are.

The changes in our population will have lasting effects on our social development and our way of life.

The death of Russians may result in a shrinking population, which would damage its economic future.

The global population is expected to grow to 9.6 billion by 2050.

The human population would increase by one third.

The populations of other species will experience unexpected changes.

The usa will increase, from 2010-2030, its population by 20% through.

To guarantee its economic growth, China needs to deal with the population issue properly, as its workers are getting.

The researchers’ argument stems from a simple observation about social influence,with the exception of a few celebrities like Oprah Winfrey-whose outsize presence is primarily a function of media,not interpersonal,influence-even the most influential members of a population simply don’t interact with that many others.

Building on the basic truth about interpersonal influence,the researchers studied the dynamics of social influence by conducting thousands of computer simulations of populations manipulating a number of variables relating to people’s ability to influence others and their tendency to be influenced.

The resulting settlement maps show how the distribution and density of the rural population around the city changed dramatically between AD500 and 850, when Copán collapsed.

Against a backdrop of drastic changes in economy and population structure, younger Americans are drawing a new 21st-century road map to success, a latest poll has found.

Female participation on corporate boards may not currently mirror the percentage of women in the general population, but so what?

Now even the project's greatest cheerleaders talk of a continent facing a "Bermuda triangle" of debt, population decline and lower growth.

The number of adults doing weekly sport did rise, by nearly 2 million in the run-up to 2012—but the general population was growing faster.

The population would be fitter, healthier and produce more winners.

The researchers'argument stems from a simple observation about social influence: with the exception of a few celebrities like Oprah winfrey-whose outsize presence is primarily a function of media, not interpersonal, influence-even the most influential mem

Though all the subjects were drawn from a population of European extraction, care was taken to see that all subjects, friends and strangers, were taken from the same population.

To find out, the researches controlled for various factors that might make firms more likely to invest like size, industry, and sales -- and for indicators that a place was desirable to live in, like growth in wages or population.