• I hope Doerr continues to surprise us in the years to come with his writing, as this was by far the best book of 2021. (boston.com)
  • The most popular books of 2021 from readers spanned novels published in years past, contemporary fiction, and nonfiction titles that provide a new way to look at the world. (boston.com)
  • To assess recent national estimates of commercial tobacco use among U.S. persons aged ≥18 years, CDC, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the National Cancer Institute analyzed 2021 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data. (cdc.gov)
  • Over 86 percent of the harmful protein-coding mutations of this type arose in humans just during the past 5,000 to 10,000 years. (washington.edu)
  • In this region we estimated more than one premature mortality each year per 10,000 population," Spracklen said. (mongabay.com)
  • Over a decade, 31 states revamped their corrections and sentencing policies, with many major changes taking effect in the past year. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Brazil's rate of deforestation has declined dramatically over the past decade, an undeniable boon for wildlife, forest-dependent communities and the global climate. (mongabay.com)
  • Reduced deforestation in Brazil has been an amazing environmental success story of the past decade - improved air quality and improved public health is an important co-benefit that should be recognized (and celebrated). (mongabay.com)
  • Over the past decade we have seen an increasing level of civil unrest, leading to the rise of a populism movement. (advisorperspectives.com)
  • Concerned about the slow progress made in improving reproductive and sexual health over the past decade, and knowing that the international development goals would not be achieved without renewed commitment by the international community, the Fifty-fifth World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA55.19 requesting WHO to develop a strategy for accelerating progress towards attainment of international development goals and targets related to reproductive health. (who.int)
  • Though the economy grew 9% over the past decade, it has slowed down the last 4 years. (who.int)
  • In October this year, governments from around the world are due to adopt a new global agreement to stop the loss of nature on land and in the ocean, at the most important biodiversity conference in a decade - COP15 . (lu.se)
  • Researchers with Chapin Hall, a youth policy center at the University of Chicago, surveyed in 2016 and 2017 more than 26,000 young people and their families across the country to gauge how many of them had been homeless during some period of the previous year. (chicagotribune.com)
  • In 2017, the governments of Guinea and China signed a USD 20 billion framework agreement giving Guinea potentially USD 1 billion per year in infrastructure projects in exchange for increased access to mineral wealth. (state.gov)
  • Despite Ottawa's strenuous efforts, 2017 was not a year of coast-to-coast euphoria. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • It largely avoided the first wave of the pandemic with early and widespread masking, border closures, and a strict lockdown, seeing daily cases in the dozens even as the virus ravaged Western Europe. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • The lockdown measures in China will prevent it from recovering to the average levels seen in the past, as they are contributing to lower consumer demand there. (fxstreet.com)
  • During the Out of Africa migration of some early humans into Europe and beyond some 50,000 years past, a population bottleneck occurred: The number of humans plummeted, and the shrinking remnant became more genetically similar. (washington.edu)
  • Older single- nucleotide variants - first appearing longer than 50,000 years ago - were more frequent in African samples. (washington.edu)
  • Now, it appears the members will gather around $50,000 each per year, and they'll soak up $3.4 million a year to continue operating. (nzherald.co.nz)
  • As we head toward the end of another pandemic year, many of us found an escape through books. (boston.com)
  • It turns out that managing a pandemic is a marathon, not a sprint, just as Sweden's controversial state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell quipped last year. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • And based on estimates from statistical models, 7,000 to 26,000 related hospitalizations occurred per season in just children aged less than five years during the nine seasons before the COVID-19 pandemic. (cdc.gov)
  • In addition, 37 to 199 flu -related deaths have been reported per season in children less than 18 years of age during the most recent five pre-COVID pandemic influenza seasons. (cdc.gov)
  • Yet thirty-two years later in 2004 the third edition reported that: "[The second edition of Limits to Growth] was published in 1992, the year of the global summit on environment and development in Rio de Janeiro. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 1992, more than 40 years since the introduction of penicillin, congenital syphilis (CS) should have been a disease of the past. (cdc.gov)
  • Since about 1950, life expectancy for Alaska Natives has actually increased by more than 20 years to about 69, and we've done a good job in decreasing the number of deaths due to infections. (cdc.gov)
  • We have been active in greyhound adoption since 1995 and with only a very few exceptions have NEVER seen dogs mistreated over the last 26 years. (casino.org)
  • To place this discovery in the context of the prehistory and ancient history of people, humans have been around for roughly 100,000 years. (washington.edu)
  • Against the background of international applause last spring, Slovakia largely missed that opportunity. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Then-Gov. Jerry Brown, the Democratic legislature, and most of the state's leading corporations and largest employers came out against its passage, all noting how disruptive it would be to what was at that time a largely thriving state. (prospect.org)
  • The conversation turns to the time of his father's death and that moment 27 years later at Moriah College. (afr.com)
  • Two years on from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the United States has begun easing rules that could allow commercial airlines to fly over the country in routes that cuts time and burned fuel for East-West travel. (wate.com)
  • In the time since, airlines largely curve around Afghanistan's borders. (wate.com)
  • Multivariate logistic regression indicates that a shorter duration of horse farm employment (≤5 versus >5 years) and a shorter time living in the US (≤10 versus >10 years) increases the odds of abnormal pulmonary function. (cdc.gov)
  • In 1991, more cases of CS among infants less than 1 year of age were reported than at any time since surveillance of CS in this age group began in 1951 (4). (cdc.gov)
  • At the same time, many communities that for years have been isolated are now really just a plane ride away from major cities. (cdc.gov)
  • By the conclusion of year one, it is anticipated that the research project will be well underway. (utsouthwestern.edu)
  • Expectations associated with the commodity-chemical cycle have traditionally driven valuations in the sector, but they have become more muted over the past three years. (mckinsey.com)
  • Over the past few years, the Government of Guinea (GoG) has implemented reforms to improve various aspects of the investment climate. (state.gov)
  • The drop in the overall incarceration rate is largely due to state prison reforms. (christianitytoday.com)
  • In the three years, specialty chemicals have been the best-performing chemical segment in TRS performance (Exhibit 3). (mckinsey.com)
  • Specialty-chemical companies' continuing ability to improve ROIC has spurred improvement in these companies' valuation over the past three years. (mckinsey.com)
  • The number of mutations thereby increases with accelerated population growth, such as the population explosion that began 5,115 years ago. (washington.edu)
  • Denver and New York both had 3.2 percent wage increases in the past year (tying for eighth place). (dice.com)
  • But the tree rings, spanning 1,112 years from 900 to 2011, also exhibit an ominous modern trend. (eurekalert.org)
  • Indeed, as the Baby Boomer generation ages and continues their exit from the workforce in the years ahead, the Millennial and Gen Z demographic will continue to gain voting share and positional power, such policies are likely to become increasingly mainstream. (advisorperspectives.com)
  • Demographic and occupational factors-such as years living in the US, years employed on current farm , hours of barn/dust exposure, and use of dust masks-were assessed for associations with respiratory outcomes. (cdc.gov)
  • In a 2-year prospective study, we documented the prevalence of extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs) in E. coli that were responsible for CA-UTIs in Phnom-Penh, Cambodia. (cdc.gov)
  • It's more common than people expect and it's largely hidden. (chicagotribune.com)
  • Your gift helps us provide medical humanitarian aid for hundreds of thousands of people each year. (doctorswithoutborders.org)
  • For two years, the Government paid people to sit at home, and borrowed money to pay for it all. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • This is, largely, the product of three factors -- the free play of initiative of a vigorous people under democracy, the heritage of great national wealth, and the advance of science and its application. (nsf.gov)
  • Charlotte Gray is a historian and author of The Promise of Canada: 150 Years - People and Ideas That Shaped Our Country. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Those festivities took place in a country with a population of little more than 20 million, where Indigenous people were largely ignored and in which most citizens were of British or French origin, spoke one of the two official languages and were predominantly churchgoers. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • In his speech, he acknowledged that Canada's past was 'far from perfect,' and that Canadians must act to reconcile with Indigenous people. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • Fast-forward 50 years to a country of more than 36 million people of diverse origins, languages and faiths. (theglobeandmail.com)
  • In recent years, this percentage is only surpassed by the 71% reporting depression in a survey taken just days the Sept. 11 attacks. (pewresearch.org)
  • The study examines year-over-year (YoY) wage growth, represented as a percentage. (dice.com)
  • Total Health Expenditure as a percentage of 9.5 to US$70.9 per capita per year. (who.int)
  • Particulate matter pollution from deforestation fires is linked to thousands of deaths per year. (mongabay.com)
  • The researchers then combined that satellite data with a global computer model to show that particulate matter concentrations declined by roughly 30 percent during the dry season as a result of the reduction in fires associated with deforestation, which led them to conclude that the cleaner air resulted in 400 and 1,700 prevented deaths every year across South America. (mongabay.com)
  • They concluded that nearly 3.5 million young adults and 660,000 adolescents had been homeless within the previous year. (chicagotribune.com)
  • 1%]) being diagnosed in adolescents and young adults, aged 15-39 years. (medscape.com)
  • This is largely the result of strong improvements in return on invested capital (ROIC). (mckinsey.com)
  • Alan Parkinson] Well, we've seen some improvements in the past decades. (cdc.gov)
  • The measure cut property taxes to 1 percent of the 1978 valuation of all properties, corporate and residential, and largely froze it there unless the ownership changed hands. (prospect.org)
  • The latest ecological footprint data shows the world's footprint increased from about 50% undershoot in 1961 to 50% overshoot in 2007, the last year data is available. (wikipedia.org)
  • That was true in Washington, where officials counted more homeless children and parents than homeless single men last year. (chicagotribune.com)
  • More than 51 per cent of startup teams were made up of mostly men, the organization found, a slight increase from last year (50 per cent). (itbusiness.ca)
  • There was virtually no difference from last year in the number of board of directors comprised of only men, as nearly 60 per cent of respondents said their boards were all-male. (itbusiness.ca)
  • Seventeen per cent of startups claimed to have formal policies in place to promote diversity and inclusion, a three per cent increase from last year, but more than 15 per cent of respondents reported not having one and not planning on developing one. (itbusiness.ca)
  • It provoked a sudden swell of public outrage and the biggest climbdown in the Coalition Government's first year - the proposal to sell off the 18 per cent of the woodlands of England that are state-owned and maintained by the Forestry Commission. (independent.co.uk)
  • In just a matter of years, he united the tribes into an efficient horse-borne military state that rapidly invaded its neighbors and expanded outward in all directions. (eurekalert.org)
  • Dan's wealth of knowledge in operations stems from years of experience working with various levels of government, not-for-profit, and private sector entities by providing advice on strategic planning and organizational management. (innovativeresearch.ca)
  • Positioning himself for what was to be his short-lived primary challenge to President Jimmy Carter in 1980, Brown went so far as to endorse another malignant Jarvis idea: enacting an amendment to the U.S. Constitution requiring the federal government to balance its budget every year. (prospect.org)
  • They lived in government housing for six years, and with her limited English, his mother worked odd jobs to scrape together a living. (shopify.com)
  • Connection between public health and deforestation still largely ignored by Brazilian government. (mongabay.com)
  • The widely influential book predicted that: "If the present trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years. (wikipedia.org)
  • More than 35 per cent said it's going to take 11 or more years for the tech industry to become representative of the general population. (itbusiness.ca)
  • Several respondents told First Capital they did not believe the industry was on track to eventually represent the general population at all - an option the organization promised to include next year. (itbusiness.ca)
  • even after slight drops in recent years, it's still the highest known prison population in the world. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Over the past eleven years, we have beaten the odds, and the obstructionists, over and over again, not just here in Brooklyn, but in neighborhoods all across the city. (nyc.gov)
  • Since the mid-20th century, the region has warmed rapidly, and the rings show that recent drought years were the most extreme in the record-possibly a side effect of global warming. (eurekalert.org)
  • Guided by experimental tests of theory and practice, science has advanced rapidly in the past 500 years. (carleton.edu)
  • Greg Lyle, president of polling firm Innovative Research Group, said voters he surveyed recently about Brown "are saying the same things they were saying two years ago, which is, 'We don't really know the guy. (innovativeresearch.ca)
  • With 13 years of market research operating experience, Dan has deep expertise in research deployment, business development, and operational strategy. (innovativeresearch.ca)
  • Again it was painstaking scientific research over many years that made radar possible. (nsf.gov)
  • Research is carried out during both the first and second years. (utsouthwestern.edu)
  • The direction of the research is largely dictated by the fellow's interest. (utsouthwestern.edu)
  • Past research projects have been of both basic science and clinical research types. (utsouthwestern.edu)
  • For example, past bench research projects have focused on detrusor smooth muscle responses to bladder outlet obstruction in spinal cord injury. (utsouthwestern.edu)
  • The fellow is tasked with identifying a research question in their area of interest during the first year, developing an IRB-approved study, carrying out the study, and ultimately presenting their findings to the group and research mentor prior to graduating. (utsouthwestern.edu)
  • Instead, Cronos has invested its capital largely in research and development. (investorplace.com)
  • Peter Rossing, MD, DMSc, head of complications research at Steno Diabetes Center in Copenhagen, began the EASD session with a call to action, acknowledging that CKD in T1D has largely been forgotten. (medscape.com)
  • The presentation covers the main analysis results of a five-year research project designed for connecting civil society organizations, citizens and local governments through online communication via social media for promoting higher levels of citizen engagement in Japan. (lu.se)
  • Overall, the researchers predicted that about 81 percent of the single-nucleotide variants in their European samples, and 58 percent in their African samples, arose in the past 5,000 years. (washington.edu)
  • Now researchers at the University of Leeds have concluded that Brazil's efforts to reduce deforestation have also saved lives - as many as 1,700 every year, attributable to improved air quality. (mongabay.com)
  • Researchers studying the rings of ancient trees in mountainous central Mongolia think they may have gotten at the mystery of how small bands of nomadic Mongol horsemen united to conquer much of the world within a span of decades, 800 years ago. (eurekalert.org)
  • First, the cost of traditional compute and storage equipment has fallen a great deal in the past five years or so. (infoworld.com)
  • But it also mandated that Caesars provide Iowa Greyhound Park with an annual subsidy of $4.6 million for five years. (casino.org)
  • That is a wider partisan gap than in George W. Bush's job approval rating eight years ago (60% of Republicans approved, just 6% of Democrats) or Clinton's in January 2001 (85% of Democrats approved, as did 35% of Republicans). (pewresearch.org)
  • Democrats have largely avoided discussions of the radicalism of the past eight years, and even more so personal attacks on John McCain. (salon.com)
  • But even while acknowledging those realities, the Democrats, as a result of these omissions, are largely guilty of doing what they typically do: appearing listless and amorphous by standing for nothing other than safe and uncontroversial platitudes. (salon.com)
  • China, Guinea's largest trading partner, has dramatically increased its role in the past few years with a variety of infrastructure investments. (state.gov)
  • He's been the leader for two years and hasn't made a mistake that has defined him. (innovativeresearch.ca)
  • Elections don't usually reverse decisions made 42 years earlier, but that's just what might happen in California next week. (prospect.org)
  • Over the past 12 years, British Conservatives have made a number of policy blunders, the consequences of which are catching up with the country. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • This is really largely due to better living conditions, safe water, childhood vaccination programs in particular, and access to health care, of course, has really made a big difference. (cdc.gov)
  • Over the past few months, MSF has developed significant activities to provide water and acceptable hygiene conditions in camps in Maiduguri, where it operates and continues to conduct epidemiological surveillance. (doctorswithoutborders.org)
  • Significant progress over the last 15 years, translated recent birth) (%) in substantial decline in IMR, CMR and MMR. (who.int)
  • A significant proportion of participants (79%) reported experiencing upper and/ or lower respiratory symptoms in the past 12 months. (cdc.gov)
  • Practicing evangelicals" refers to Christians with evangelical beliefs who have attended church in the past month. (christianitytoday.com)
  • The overriding impression one has is that the only things really wrong during the last eight years in this country are that gas prices are high and not everyone has health insurance. (salon.com)
  • Over the past 12 months, health care employment grew by 323,000. (bls.gov)
  • Besides pressure from the agribusiness industry, a big reason for the recent policy changes, Spracken told mongabay, is that the connections between human health and deforestation are largely ignored in Brazil. (mongabay.com)
  • Diseases, which was devoted to Arctic Health and the International Polar Year. (cdc.gov)
  • 1.5 Earth scientists use their understanding of the past to forecast Earth's future. (carleton.edu)
  • Energy prices jumped 30.0 percent, largely the result of an increase in the price of gasoline. (bls.gov)
  • Some Boston.com readers also shared the books they are most looking forward to reading next year. (boston.com)
  • Additional books mentioned that are set to release next year include "The Book of Living Secrets" by Madeleine Roux, "The Books of Jacob" by Olga Tokarczuk, and "Sea of Tranquility" by Emily St. John Mandel. (boston.com)
  • Greyhound racing in Iowa is set to conclude next year. (casino.org)
  • In recent years, though, the sounds of the synthesizer are just as frequently used to evoke nostalgia as futuristic visions. (synthtopia.com)
  • To aid with this, the first-year fellow audits a course on clinical trial design taught at UT Southwestern. (utsouthwestern.edu)
  • and Had not had a diagnosis of prostate cancer in the past. (cdc.gov)
  • Prices for food at home rose 3.2 percent since a year ago, and prices for food away from home jumped 11.3 percent. (bls.gov)
  • Prices for food away from home advanced 5.2 percent since a year ago and food at home decreased 0.3 percent. (bls.gov)
  • Kelly-who spent years on parole for the murder and additional robbery charges and still has a few years left on his probation term-knows the scope and stigma of the problem firsthand. (christianitytoday.com)
  • During this year, there are additional core rotations in colorectal surgery and pelvic floor physical therapy with UTSW physiatrists. (utsouthwestern.edu)
  • Over the past 40 years, additional territory has been annexed into the Village. (newmexico.org)
  • During this first year, the fellow gains vast experience performing and interpreting urodynamics, learning indications and techniques for the use of neuromodulation and botulinum treatments, and performing surgical repair for other more common pelvic floor disorders (midurethral slings, vaginal, and abdominal approaches to pelvic prolapse). (utsouthwestern.edu)
  • At three years old, Bodog migrated to Sydney, Australia as a Hungarian refugee with his mother. (shopify.com)
  • The data shows high first-quarter gold demand thanks to strong investment demand, which is set to remain in place for the rest of the year, economists at Commerzbank report. (fxstreet.com)
  • The continuing global economic expansion -albeit tepid-has been helping much of the chemical industry to report favorable sales and earnings over the past year. (mckinsey.com)
  • Reporting Period Covered: This report covers CS surveillance in the United States for the years 1983-1991. (cdc.gov)
  • Greenhouse gas emissions are rising much faster than IPCC models expected: "The growth rate of [fossil fuel] emissions was 3.5% per year for 2000-2007, an almost four fold increase from 0.9% per year in 1990-1999. (wikipedia.org)
  • For those who don't want to deal with the rainy Pacific Northwest, Phoenix is fifth on PayScale's list, with a 3.6 percent year-over-year wage increase. (dice.com)
  • New investment by SMB and CBG, in addition to new market entrants, are expected to significantly increase Guinea's bauxite output over the next five to ten years. (state.gov)
  • Dr. Reddington and team examined satellite data and determined that as deforestation in Brazil declined over the past 10 years, the amount of smoke haze hanging over the southern part of the country has also declined. (mongabay.com)
  • Satellite data released earlier this year suggest Brazilian Amazon deforestation may have reached a 7-year high . (mongabay.com)
  • One piece of wood they found had rings going back to about 650 B.C. These yearly rings change with temperature and rainfall, so they could read past weather by calibrating ring widths of living trees with instrumental data from 1959-2009, then comparing these with the innards of much older trees. (eurekalert.org)
  • Like their counterparts elsewhere, Indonesia's tech-pol nerds have been actively engaged in digital rights and data activism (or 'speaking data to power') for some years. (lu.se)
  • Over the year, food prices rose 6.8 percent. (bls.gov)
  • Yet these and earlier targets have largely come and gone. (lu.se)
  • For as long as the geopolitical uncertainties and the high inflation environment continue, the WGC envisages robust investment demand this year. (fxstreet.com)
  • And for most, early retirement is largely a thing of the past. (cdc.gov)
  • The infection is largely preventable if pregnant women are tested for syphilis and, if found to be infected, treated with penicillin early in pregnancy (1,2). (cdc.gov)
  • The character of the community was largely homogeneous, rural and agricultural. (newmexico.org)
  • Commodities and specialties have jockeyed for leadership in TRS performance over the past 15 years, depending on the period analyzed. (mckinsey.com)
  • The critique is aimed at the traditional way of measuring economic growth through gross domestic product (GDP), i.e. the value of all the goods and services produced in the country over one year. (lu.se)
  • Gold price is trading close to the five-week lows of $1,899 set on Tuesday, as the United States Dollar (USD) bulls take a breather amid a minor correction in the US Treasury bond yields from sixteen-year highs. (fxstreet.com)
  • What they've favored for the past 30 years or so is a "split roll," repealing Proposition 13 only for commercial and industrial properties, while leaving it in place for homes and apartments. (prospect.org)
  • The split has been largely geographic. (investorplace.com)
  • STZ.B ) had invested almost $200 million in Canopy the year before in a bid to create cannabis-infused beverages. (investorplace.com)
  • Advances in science when put to practical use mean more jobs, higher wages, shorter hours, more abundant crops, more leisure for recreation, for study, for learning how to live without the deadening drudgery which has been the burden of the common man for ages past. (nsf.gov)
  • Within all the screening constraints, volunteers were recruited to reflect a range of ages (over 50 years), ethnicities, and education levels. (cdc.gov)
  • It would emphasize a freeze or even reduction in most tax rates while drawing attention away from an overall growth in tax revenues, thanks largely to eliminating loopholes and subsidies. (spokesman.com)
  • The Program, an accredited ACGME fellowship, offers a single two-year position each year. (utsouthwestern.edu)
  • 2.6 Life on Earth began more than 3.5 billion years ago. (carleton.edu)
  • Risk factors for CTX-M carriage in the community are largely unknown. (cdc.gov)