Sentence examples for human proximity from inspiring English sources
Macmillan; £25 This enthusiastic guide to the blessings of human proximity explains why half of humanity now lives in cities and why 5m more are moving there from the countryside every month.Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars.
For Montaigne, human proximity is at the heart of morality.
Human proximity in cities has been rising as a result of increases in world population, and rapid urbanisation – the World Health Organisation has said that, while 4 in 10 people were living in cities in 1970, by 2050 this proportion will be 7 in 10; during that 70-year period, the world population is projected to have grown from 3.7 billion to 9.3 billion.
| Addendum | After re-reading my published post, I changed the headline to "Colorado's Fire Losses" from "Colorado's Fires" because it's the losses that can be sharply cut through various policy shifts, not necessarily the fires themselves (although many such fires are the result of human proximity to combustible forests and grasslands).
From the mid-twentieth century on, pigeons moved towards urban areas and into human proximity.
The second experiment examined the effects of three different stressors (human proximity, tank cleaning and sampling) on self-feeding behaviour.
Despite the recent widespread CHIKV outbreak in humans and proximity of sampled macaques to humans in Malaysia, CHIKV neutralizing antibodies were detected in only 1 (0.7%) of 147 macaques.
Studies have demonstrated an increased risk of malaria in humans in proximity to bodies of water, which provide abundant mosquito breeding sites [26] [28].
Furthermore, earlier, Lysenko and Beljaev (1969) previously reported a close relationship between P. ovale prevalence in humans and proximity to great apes in Africa [12].
Indeed, cattle-to-human spatial proximity in Ontario is a risk factor for infection in a novel application of livestock density indicators and disease incidence (32 ).
We used a criterion based on human relationships (social proximity): the trusted networks [28, 29].
