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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"population shift"”.
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Losing Status and Entitativity: How Population Shifts Affect Attitudes Toward Immigrants via Social Identity Threats
<p>Many Western countries’ populations have been diversifying due to the decline of ethnic majority groups coupled with an increase in ethnic minority populations. Previous studies established that such demographic changes can result in negative attitudes toward immigrants via elevated status …
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Modulation of Kras Structure and Dynamics By Kras Ubiquitination and Membrane Depolarization
… selection of certain conformations and population shift towards those conformations can help overcome the deleterious effects from monoubiquitination.</p> <p>Proliferating cells have a depolarized membrane, which was recently shown to increase phosphatidylserine(PS)-associated KRAS …
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Applying a Spatio-Temporal Approach to the Study of Urban Social Landscapes in Tianjin, China
… and spatial approaches. Due to increasing population mobility caused by the economic reforms, the urban social landscape of Tianjin has become increasingly multifaceted, characterized by a “one axis, two nuclei” urban morphology. The rise of the Binhai New Area (TBNA) in the southeast is …
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Organizational responses to urban migration in Ho Chi Minh City : adapting to the challenges of a highly regulated environment
… facing Ho Chi Minh City's increasing migrant population. After Vietnam introduced sweeping economic reforms in 1986, the country began to experience rapid industrialization and urbanization. Ho Chi Minh City has since emerged as the country's financial hub, and it finds itself at the epicenter …
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Socio-Economic Structural Conditions and Hate Crimes
… the communities where incoming Black demographic shifts are visible. A similar outcome was expected but did not support the Latino in-migration demographic population shift. The findings also demonstrate that the Black race is the most targeted victim group of hate crimes, followed by White and …
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Motivating urban cycling through a blockchain-based financial incentives system
… public health issues that will arise with this population shift. The overwhelming use of single occupancy vehicles in the United States - they account for 76% of all trips - is a major contributor to pollution, traffic, and sedentary lifestyles. However, 50% of trips in the U.S. are less than 3 …
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Study of population dynamics in a biological phosphorous removal wastewater treatment system
… may have been responsible for the bacteria population shift. The purpose of this study was to examine population shifts of polyphosphorous-removing (PP) bacteria and the unknown bacteria (G bacteria) in a bench-scale sequencing batch reactor (SBR), with emphasis on the effects of feed …
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Wage employment, traditional subsistence, and aspirations among Inupiat and Yup'ik in the mixed economy of Northwest Alaska
… work (both traditional and modern), culture, and population shift within indigenous, Arctic populations.</p><p>The Survey of Living Conditions in the Arctic (SLiCA) is used in conjunction with aggregate demographic data from the Arctic Observation Network Social Indicators Project (AON-SIP) and …
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Generation and optimisation of real-world static and dynamic location-allocation problems with application to the telecommunications industry.
… the quality of service. Due to changes in population shift, market size, and the economic and labour markets - which often cause demand to be stochastic - a reasonable LA problem formulation should consider some aspect of future uncertainties. Almost all LA problem formulations in the …
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Tails through time: leopard population dynamics in the Little Karoo
… their global distribution and impacts their population numbers. Protected areas can offer refuge for large carnivores, however leopards (Panthera pardus), can persist outside of these areas and often occupy mixed-use landscapes. Our understanding of how leopards persist over time in mixed-use …
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Tails through time: leopard population dynamics in the Little Karoo
… their global distribution and impacts their population numbers. Protected areas can offer refuge for large carnivores, however leopards (Panthera pardus), can persist outside of these areas and often occupy mixed-use landscapes. Our understanding of how leopards persist over time in mixed-use …
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Community building in transitioning neighborhoods
As of 2011, the population of the United States had become roughly 83% urban, but by the year 2050, 90% of the country will be living in urban areas. The residents that are already in these places, as well as those coming into the city, will have to adjust to each other in profound ways that …
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A Population Perspective on Physical Activity and Health
… that is used to characterise the effects of a population ‘shift’ in physical activity on the burden of six major diseases at the population-level. Specifically, it seeks to better describe the effect of increases in physical activity on healthcare need considering not just the effect of …
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Evolution and assembly of the ribosome
… partner, and provide insight into the role of population shift and the induced fit in the protein:RNA recognition process. The methodology developed therein will facilitate future studies of the ribosomal assembly on increasingly larger scale.
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The Effects of Temperatures on System Performance and Bacterial Community Structure in a Biological Phosphorus Removal System
… the non-oxic zones that results in an increased population of phosphate accumulating organisms (PAOs) relative to non-PAOs and, therefore, greater EBPR efficiency even though the reaction rates are slower. The proliferation of PAOs relative to non-PAOs at cold temperature indicates that some of …