The management of genetic variation has also been circumscribed to crop/livestock diversity, the impact of GMOs, and the occasional assessment of genetic erosion in endangered species with small or fragmented populations (GBO Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity 2010).
Country-specific population data were obtained from the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, and hospital bed data were obtained from the World Health Organization (WHO) (7, 8 ).
*Source: Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat, World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision, http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/index.htm Thus, if we maintain our current admission policy, intensive care resources must be expanded rapidly or will be quickly overwhelmed [ 2].
The main study area (figure 1) comprises 162 Grama Niladari divisions (GN, the lowest administrative division) located in 6 divisional secretariats (DS, a government administrative region with population of about 40 000 people) of Thambuttegama, Thalawa, Nochchiyagama, Rajanganaya, Galnewa and Ipologama with a total population of 256 376 inhabitants (Census 2011).
We supplemented our review with case information from an additional WHO source (5 ); to allow for the age structure of reporting countries, we accessed age-specific population estimates for 2005 from the Population Division of the United Nations Secretariat (6 ).
We plan to recruit approximately 162 villages primarily from the Mahaweli H region, including the divisional secretariats of Thambuthegama, Talawa, Galnewa, Rajanganaya and Nochchiyagama, (total population about 200,000) in the South East area of the district.
We obtained estimated midyear population data of the city for the same period from the Kandy divisional secretariat office.
Sripura is a divisional secretariat of Trincomalee district of the Eastern province bordering to NCP with a population of 11,858.
We therefore examined the association between sleep duration and prostate cancer risk in a population of Japanese men, in whom the mortality of prostate cancer is increasing (Statistics and Information Department, Minister's Secretariat, Ministry of Health Labour and Welfare of Japan, 2007).
Instead, the sales will occur unless the convention's secretariat determines in 2004 that not enough information has been gathered on elephant populations and poaching to enable monitoring of the effect of sales.
Mr. Kidwa said the Palestinian leadership had never complained to the secretary general directly about his condemnations of suicide bombings but had conveyed its concerns over the Secretariat's failure to express "similar outrage to Israeli military assaults against the Palestinian civilian population".
