Sentence examples for tracking population from inspiring English sources

Between 1947 (when the government first started collecting data on the subject) and 2007, the number of households in the U.S. rose every year, closely tracking population growth.

And so, a contingent of private consultants and city officials like Ms. Winters have taken part in one of the deepest mile-by-mile analyses of Detroit in memory, tracking population densities, foreclosed homes, disease, parks, roads, water lines, sewer lines, bus routes, publicly owned lands, and on and on.

In tracking population growth, spikes in resource appetites, and explosive change in technologies that are sheathing the planet in human activity, it's not hard to find support for the contention by Stuart Hart of Cornell that our moment is unique, that we're not suffering from "chronocentrism," the tendency of each generation to see its time as special (in a good or bad way).

However, the data for tracking population migration are not often available, especially for large study area like the one examined in this research.

Available numerical methods, which are based on tracking population moments instead of the distribution, depend on quadrature methods that destroy the distribution itself.

With the ongoing Ebola outbreak, cellphone records could provide a valuable tool for tracking population movements, says co-author Andrew Tatem, a geographer at the University of Southampton in United Kingdom who leads the WorldPop project.

Mousseau says they hope to test that theory by tracking populations of birds and measuring their carotenoid levels.

With properly georeferenced raw proprietary call data, the results suggest that the method could be extended to also track population in less populous areas and at an even higher spatial resolution than available here.

Only around half of mammals are monitored in sufficient detail and scale to track population changes.

Holding information for four years allowed the ABS to track population flows and life expectancy trends for longer.

The collaboration between the two groups began about 20 years ago, when Erica Dunn, an ornithologist who started the Ontario Bird Feeder Survey in 1976, realized that a larger survey would be better able to track population and migration trends.