Sentence examples for demographic unit from inspiring English sources

A demographic unit mapped where Muslims ate, bathed, bought meat, got haircuts and prayed.

In an era when the nuclear two-parent family was the key demographic unit, it made sense to think of America as a suburban economy with common needs.

Rather, as Jitka Rychtarikova of the Charles University in Prague argues, it no longer makes sense to talk about Europe as a single demographic unit at all.

They found that undercover officers, known as rakers, infiltrated hundreds of mosques; that a secret demographic unit compiled extensive dossiers on where Muslim New Yorkers eat, work, type on computers and transfer money to relatives; and that even imams who worked closely and courageously with the police have found themselves spied on and listed as "suspects".

Last year, The Associated Press published articles about the surveillance of Muslim communities in New York that it said was done under the supervision of a police demographic unit; the department denied the existence of such a unit, but The A.P. published documents with that very name in the title.

Last week, The A.P. reported that plainclothes officers from the department's euphemistically named Demographic Unit fanned out across Newark in 2007, snapping pictures of mosques and Muslim-owned businesses, listening to conversations, and gathering information about the makeup of mosque worshipers for an eerie 60-page internal police report stamped "NYPD Secret".

Settlement of larval urchins appears to be ubiquitous; however, after settlement patches of urchins operate as nearly independent demographic units.

His target is not simply the apparent aim of global capitalism to shape communities into homogenized, malleable demographic units deprived of any significant power to choose or modify individual destinies.

We did not know the mutation rates of the microsatellites employed in our analysis, so we did not make any attempt to convert our parameter estimates into quantities expressed in demographic units.

Abundant historical, mark-recapture, and genetic data indicate that nesting populations will rise and fall as independent demographic units.

The output parameters (θ1, θ2, θA, m1, m2, t) were expressed in demographic units as follow: effective population size, NE = θ/4μkg; number of migrants per generation, M = 2NE×(m×2μk) = θ×m/2g; divergence time in years, T = tg/2μk; where μ, k and g are as above.