James Vaupel, director of Duke University's Population Research Institute, is sceptical of the argument that obesity may reverse future progress in life expectancy.
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Abraham is currently on leave from the University of Maryland, where she is a faculty associate in the Maryland Population Research Center and a professor in the Joint Program in Survey Methodology.
The paper, written by researchers at Loma Linda University in Loma Linda, California, is larger and includes a more diverse population than previous research, says lead author Michael Orlich, director of the preventive medicine residency program there.
The study has been commissioned and undertaken by the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research and Policy (SCPHRP) at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Stirling's Centre for Population Health and Public Health Research.
The TDD-LTE ecosystem continues to grow with commercial or planned deployments in major population centers, and ABI Research recently estimated that continued rollouts of TDD-LTE networks would reach as many as 4.4 billion people worldwide by 2015.
Liu Zhi, director of the municipal commission for population and family planning, told China Daily on Saturday that the city plans to start extensive research into the characteristics of the urban population.
It has no indigenous population but is home to UK research bases and those of other nations.
In Wake County, the heart of the Research Triangle, the population has jumped by nearly 100, 000 over the same four-year span.
So when research is performed internationally, it is important that the local population from which subjects are drawn have at least the potential to benefit from the research.
Oddly enough, demographic research suggests that consumption and population growth in advanced economies plateau or fall.
The research suggests that as the population ages, new cut-off points are being drawn.
Prof Liker said that he hoped the team's findings would lead to further research on the significance of population sex ratios.
Studies into the gel by the American Population Council's centre for Biological Research are being funded by the foundation set up by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
Central to this plan is a call for further research into the sharks' population structure and migratory movements, and how ecotourist activities might affect their behaviour.
The academic research has in turn spawned a population of venture-capital-funded work in life science.
The Cancer Research UK team analysed disease and population data from organisations such as the Office for National Statistics.
The Deer Initiative (DI), which is dedicated to a sustainable, managed deer population in England and Wales, has carried out research into how a cull might be carried out.
In some places, "the wolf is coming back, nature is taking over, so to speak, and it's really literally only old people" left, says Harald Wilkoszewski, a political scientist with Population Europe, a collaborative network of European demographic research centers.
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Projections by Asian Demographics, a research organisation, show China's total population, which hit 1.3 billion in January, inching up to 1.31 billion in 2019 and declining rapidly thereafter.
"Given the increase in sweet beverage consumption in Europe, clear messages on its deleterious effect on health should be given to the population, " Dr Romaguera and colleagues conclude in their research paper.
Anthony Wells is a pollster for YouGov and has conducted research on voting patterns among the black and Asian population.
Fiscal imbalances rise with the share of population over 65 and with partisan gridlock, according to other research by Mr Eschker.
Research published in the March issue of the journal Population and Development Review found the more children that parents over age 40 have, the happier they are.
The new series of reforms that India is looking to make in higher education would do well to unleash the drive for research, innovation and entrepreneurship among its abundant young population.
While a study is currently in progress at this point in time with the same research group linked below, specific to those with autism spectrum disorders, the linked research suggests that language development delays in the general population are associated with high levels of prenatal testosterone among males but high levels of prenatal testosterone among females provides a protective effect for language development.
Research firm Genesus Genetics estimates China's total pig population at more than 470 million.
Research has already found a big difference between the bacteria population in the guts of fat and thin people.
According to research by Ann Berrington, at the ESRC Centre for Population Change at the University of Southampton, young people with degrees are much more likely to live with their parents.
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Much of the research has been conducted in obese people -- a population that can actually benefit from these extreme diets -- and in most studies the health of the participants is carefully monitored.
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