Knowledge goes a long way with golf, and suddenly you have something in common with a large population.
Smoking rates of 40% or more of the population are common in these regions, making for an extra-tough health hazard when medical services are as limited as filterless, hand rolled smokes are plentiful.
Dos Santos' attorney filed a motion to revoke the arrests, saying that they had been made to help calm the sentiments of the population, a common practice in Brazil, according to a statement by the Court of Rio Grande do Sul.
How common is it in the general population, beyond the population of studied athletes?
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These conditions are more common in certain subgroups of the population.
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If people in this population meet and breed at random, it turns out that you only need to go back an average of 20 generations before you find an individual who is a common ancestor of everyone in the population.
The carnival unites the whole population of Imst in a common goal: organizing the Fasnacht in accordance with long-standing tradition.
This is linked to Scotland's ageing population, as cancer is relatively common among older people.
Lesson Number Two: QE 1 and QE 2 boosted the wealth of upper income groups because the stock market rose and the wealthiest benefited since 75% of all common stocks are held by 10% of the population.
If you go back on average 1.77 times further again (35 generations) everyone in the population will have exactly the same set of common ancestors (although they will be related, of course, through different routes in all the different family trees).
And he should leverage America's huge Latino population to link the two sides and highlight a common history.
At issue is whether a heart-plug procedure to repair a birth defect that is common in about a quarter of the U.S. population can prevent strokes in young people.
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Anxiety disorders and depression are the most common mental illnesses: 28.8% of the general population will have an anxiety disorder in their lifetime and 20.8% will have a mood disorder, according to a 2005 study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
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Similar stories are common in South America and Europe, exacerbated by an aging global population, among which 65, 000 people reach retirement age daily.
This means there are relatively few genetic combinations amongst them, and this makes them an ideal population for finding genes that cause a whole host of common disorders.
In the last half century, the domesticated honeybee population has declined by about 50 percent, with incidents common well before the introduction of neonics, which was hailed by environmentalists because of their comparatively modest environmental footprint.
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An explosion of wealth and population in early 19th-century New York prompted the Common (later City) Council to ask the State Legislature to establish a commission to "develop and choose a master plan to channel and direct" the city's future expansion.
It might seem paradoxical, but "rare" diseases are common: More than 25 million Americans--almost 8% of the population--suffer from "rare" diseases, defined as those that affect fewer than 200, 000 persons.
Binge-eating is a more common form of eating disorder, with about 2.8% of the population experiencing it in their lives (twice as many women as men suffer from this form).
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The common theme is a recognition that Britain will have to do something about the swelling population of its prisons (see chart).
It's more common in Sub-Saharan Africans, African-Americans and Native Americans than in other population groups.
Far from intending to threaten the religious or civil liberties of the majority Christian population (which remains vastly superior in numbers), the goal was to create a common framework of laws but otherwise leave everyone to their own devices.
Brenner replied that there are several studies of the exposure following Fukushima that show the local population received low doses that amount to less risk, for the individual, than other hazards common in life.
The legal system of the Maldives, an Islamic archipelago with a population of some 400, 000, has elements of Islamic law (Sharia) as well as English common law.
In the end, though, it seems to me that the threads common to successful cities (and I would define both Houston and San Francisco as successful) are a well educated population and an openness to new ideas that lead to entrepreneurial spirit.
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