In addition, they used a "population dynamics" model describing the mating patterns and breeding success of emperor penguins.

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We use a field-tested methodology with our clients that is supported by a proprietary analytic model for forecasting population and income distribution annually through 2020 in urban and rural China.

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In a study published last year in Conservation Letters, a group of scientists led by Brian MacKenzie, of the Technical University of Denmark, describe how they ran a computer model of the bluefin tuna's population dynamics.

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And the modern population of people with disabilities simply does not fit that model.

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When a trap counts more than 10 flies in 30 minutes, or when the forecast model predicts a rapid surge in the fly population, it triggers an alert and sends a text message with the warning to farmers' mobile phones.

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France already has Europe's biggest Muslim population, and it is finding it hard to reconcile its model of integration, which relies on a strict separation of religion and state, with demands by French Muslims for religious expression within public institutions.

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If that is in place, and that model is in place, we can begin to cascade it down through the rest of the organization in such a way that this population will want to move over and help create this new model, and want to accelerate and make change happen for it.

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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg in July announced a pilot program to develop a new housing model for the city's growing small-household population.

CNN: Tiny homes hit the big city

The group's model is the Jewish American community, half the size of the Asian American population, but wielding considerable influence on U.S. domestic and foreign policy.

CNN

Education advocates are not only fighting for equal resources for students, but are also up against the Model Minority Myth, which claims that Asian American students achieve above and beyond the general population.

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