Sentence examples for worker mortality from inspiring English sources

All wood extractives tested rapidly lowered protozoan numbers in the hindgut of termite workers, which was closely correlated with worker mortality.

"Chronic exposure... impairs natural foraging behavior and increases worker mortality, leading to significant reductions in brood development and colony success," the scientists wrote in the report in the journal Nature on Sunday.

Thus, it is common for the nest to be destroyed, for the queen to die prior to the end of the season, or for the nest to fail through other means, such as predation, parasitisation, or worker mortality, leading workers to help rear broods that are less related to them than are their sister wasps.

Based upon laboratory trials worker introductions to a different colony always result in worker mortality.

These findings suggest no appreciable effect of alachlor exposure on worker mortality or cancer incidence rates during the study period.

Worker mortality was not directly correlated with numbers of pupae raised from the small larvae and eggs provided.

Feedback loops may compensate for moderate stresses (e.g., earlier onset of foraging if food stores are low) or exacerbate other processes; for instance, less comprehensive care of brood as a result of high in-hive worker mortalities.

An article in Business Day yesterday about a House bill that would allow businesses with union workers to reduce their pension obligations because statistics show that most blue-collar workers do not live as long as other Americans misidentified the employer of Vincent Amoroso, an actuary who helped to prepare data on workers' mortality.

Cause-specific mortality among high-risk workers and all other workers is compared to determine the current impact of asbestos exposure on Belgian workers' mortality.

The lower levels of exposure in the British industry may therefore contribute to the lower observed risk compared to other epidemiological studies of coke workers' mortality.

Analyses of coke workers' mortality in the UK were based on over 6,600 subjects from coke plants operated by National Smokeless Fuels NSFF) and the British Steel Corporation BSCC) [ 4].