ONE reason for optimism among America's boosters is that the country boasts a younger, more vigorous population than other rich countries.
Nations attributed Spain's greatness to its almost limitless supply of precious metals, which were thought to increase commerce and provide the sinews of war, for, with a full treasury, armies could be bought and a vigorous population could flourish.
To make room for the vigorous population growth of the city, a new town, named Mirail (Miracle), was constructed to the southwest of the older neighbourhood of Saint-Cyprien.
Furthermore, because the soil used in our study was sampled from a bare uncultivated land low in fertility, analogous to Liebig's Law of minimum, the manure containing other limiting nutrients, and perhaps younger and more vigorous microbial populations as well as enough organic C, provided conditions needed to meet the minimum "energy threshold" required to colonize and mineralize SOC.
Prior to the attacks described in this book, which were incited by the poacher, Vladimir Markov, man-eating was virtually unknown in the Bikin valley, a large area with a vigorous tiger population.
Botswana is blessed with mineral wealth, a relatively small population, vigorous democracy and enlightened environmental policies.
Northern China has been facing severe water scarcity as a result of vigorous economic growth, population expansion and changing lifestyles.
In mixed splenocyte populations the vigorous immune cell survival promoting effects of KLK6 were shown to include both T and B lymphocytes, to occur with as little as 5 minutes of treatment, and to involve up regulation of the pro-survival protein B-cell lymphoma-extra large (Bcl-XL), and inhibition of the pro-apoptotic protein Bcl-2-interacting mediator of cell death (Bim).
Despite these differences, the proportion of adults estimated to engage in regular physical activity were similar in the two studies: in the 2002 Eurobarometer, only 3.5% of the survey population undertook vigorous activities more than 2 hours per week, whereas in our study, only 5% of the Greek female population undertook such vigorous activities.
