Sentence examples for populations first from inspiring English sources

What is more, in the 1990s, America twice led NATO into conflicts on behalf of Muslim populations — first in Bosnia, then Kosovo.

Thanks to a combination of growing longevity and falling birth rates, the average age of populations, first in the world's rich countries and, after a time lag, in emerging nations too, has been rising inexorably.

Rehd., Toxicodendron vernicifluum (Stokes) F. A. Barkl., and Quercus wutaishanica Blume as the dominant tree populations (first 11 tree populations in Table 2) accounting for 85.5 % of the total overstory density (DBH ≥ 5 cm).

Most theories of evolutionary diversification are based on equilibrium assumptions: they are either based on optimality arguments involving static fitness landscapes, or they assume that populations first evolve to an equilibrium state before diversification occurs, as exemplified by the concept of evolutionary branching points in adaptive dynamics theory.

To determine the number of BrdU labelled cells for the XaXaY and XaXiY cell populations, first a microscope field was selected, containing one or more intact nuclei with an Xist cloud.

Furthermore the markedly different SNP pattern in the two ethnic groups highlights the importance of identifying SNPs present in different ethnic populations first, rather than utilising only published variants from case control studies, before drawing conclusions about disease association This study was conducted according to the principles expressed in the Declaration of Helsinki.

Many ornithologists maintain that collisions are a leading cause of decline in songbird populations, second only to habitat loss.

The current quasi-experimental design evaluated whether a brief, live, interactive, normative group (BLING) intervention produced immediate reductions in group-specific normative perceptions and whether the magnitude of these misperceptions differed among three at risk undergraduate populations: first-year students (N = 767), Greek-affiliated students (N = 555), and student-athletes (N = 524).

"Placing the health and economic [benefits] of climate policy on vulnerable populations second will stunt the state's prosperity".

To this end, we evaluate here the relative benefit of performing future genome studies in worldwide populations ("second phase"), preceded by an initial GWAS in a European population ("first phase").

First, overall clinical success analysis was performed on the ITT and CE populations; second, microbiological success was analysed for the microbiologically evaluable population; third, AEs were analysed for the ITT population.