With the ever-growing aging population, deficits related to cognitive functioning will result in an increased problem posed by a significant proportion of the population at large.
— Jeff Gordinier NBC News: A video primer on the devastating decline in the nation's honeybee population, a deficit that is causing farmers to reserve bee-pollination services five years in advance.
Moody's has downgraded Japan's sovereign debt rating twice in the past two years because, even assuming Japan's economy grows at a moderate rate (an optimistic assumption given a shrinking population), the deficit would continue expanding at least until 2005, at which point gaps in Japan's pension system would start to emerge.
The reason: Even assuming that Japan's economy grows at a moderate rate (an optimistic assumption given its shrinking population), the deficit would continue to expand at least until 2005, at which point gaps in Japan's pension system would start to appear.
Hence, when the within-population heterozygote deficit FIS is positive, Ne = Ne'/(1+ FIS), where Ne' is the expected effective population size in the absence of inbreeding (Ne' is the reciprocal of the probability that two gametes contributing to random separate adults come from the same parent).
Moreover, the populations of deficit PCTs have grown at a much faster rate than the surplus PCTs in the last two decades.
Based upon the findings of this large population-based study, childhood cancer survivors report significantly higher levels of mental health dysfunction than those in the general population, where deficits were observed particularly among CNS and bone sarcoma survivors.
The model generates information in the form of maps, graphs and written reports identifying areas in relative need, with estimates of the proportion of the population in food deficit and the degree of that deficit.
Previous research has suggested the use of rhythmic structures (implemented in musical material) to improve linguistic structure processing (i.e., syntax processing), in particular for populations showing deficits in syntax and temporal processing (e.g., children with developmental language disorders).
