• In Freedom in the World 2022 , which covers the events of 2021, gains in the US score were counterbalanced by declines and the total remained at 83. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Goshen, Zohar and Levit, Doron, Agents of Inequality: Common Ownership And The Decline Of The American Worker (April 22, 2021). (ssrn.com)
  • Curriculum Associates' analysis of winter 2021 assessment data reveals steep declines in student proficiency rates compared to historical trends. (curriculumassociates.com)
  • During the first week after the national COVID-19 emergency declaration in March 2020, weekly vaccination rates among Medicare beneficiaries aged ≥65 years declined by 25%-62%, compared with the corresponding period in 2019. (cdc.gov)
  • On March 13, 2020, the United States declared a national emergency concerning the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • While sociologist Richard Alba believes this decline is exaggerated by the racial classification system used in the United States Census, regarding the 2020 census, demographer William H. Frey has written: The Census Bureau was not projecting white population losses to occur until after 2024. (wikipedia.org)
  • It housed the world's most powerful weapons makers , was technologically light years ahead of any other state, and was continuing to develop future weaponry for 2020, 2040, 2060, even as it established a near monopoly on the global arms trade (and so, control over who would be well-armed and who wouldn't). (truthout.org)
  • In 2020, 159 new cases were reported in the United States. (msdmanuals.com)
  • The BRFSS six-question cogni- ous cognitive decline such as Alzheimer disease* or a related tive decline optional module ( 4 ) was administered to adults dementia (ADRD) ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Cognitive decline, however, varied widely. (springer.com)
  • Subjective Cognitive Decline (SCD) is the self-reported experience of worsening or more frequent confusion or memory loss. (cdc.gov)
  • 2 Because SCD is self-reported, it does not imply a diagnosis of cognitive decline by a health care professional. (cdc.gov)
  • 1 Cognitive decline can range from mild cognitive impairment to dementia, a form of decline in abilities severe enough to interfere with daily life. (cdc.gov)
  • Some cognitive decline can occur as adults age, but frequently forgetting how to perform routine tasks, for example, is not a normal part of aging and can affect a person's ability to live and function independently. (cdc.gov)
  • Some people with cognitive decline may be unable to care for themselves or perform activities of daily living, such as meal preparation, managing medical appointments, or managing their personal finances. (cdc.gov)
  • Subjective Cognitive Decline is self-reported confusion or memory problems that have been happening more often or getting worse in the past 12 months. (cdc.gov)
  • The prevalence of subjective cognitive decline (SCD) is 11.1%, or 1 in 9 adults. (cdc.gov)
  • The study subjects underwent a series of cognitive tests in which both groups scored within the normal range, indicating that none of the participants were displaying signs of dementia or other forms of cognitive decline. (joslin.org)
  • They hope that early detection of these neurophysiological abnormalities and decreased function will help with early identification of type 2 patients who are at the greatest risk for developing cognitive decline or possibly dementia. (joslin.org)
  • By starting cognitive training or some other therapy before the onset of cognitive decline, patients may be able to mitigate and possibly reverse cognitive deterioration. (joslin.org)
  • Musen emphasizes that it is important to study both the structural and functional aspects of the brain in cognitive decline, explaining that, "We look at the correlation between the two because if a correlation exists, then it might suggest a common set of mechanisms underlying brain structure and function raising the possibility that similar treatments may be useful for improving both. (joslin.org)
  • And all the while, the U.S. abortion rate continues to decline: According to a September report from the Guttmacher Institute, the abortion rate has reached a record low , with concurrent declines in birthrates suggesting that fewer people are becoming pregnant in the first place. (guttmacher.org)
  • Concurrent declines in body size and the probability of encountering mature individuals suggests that apex shark populations are more vulnerable to exploitation than previously thought. (nature.com)
  • 65 years in the United States live with Alzheimer disease, the most common dementia ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • Declining cognitive functioning and dementia are major Public Health challenges [ 1 ]. (springer.com)
  • The risk for a person to develop dementia over a lifetime is now 15% (95% confidence interval [CI] 7-9%) lower than it was in 2010 and incidence rates of dementia have declined over the past quarter century [ 2 ]. (springer.com)
  • with mental health conditions including dementia and autism, and people with gradual functional decline. (who.int)
  • Our findings highlight declining regeneration capacity across the West over the past four decades for the eight dominant conifer species studied. (cakex.org)
  • Limited research is available on the relationship between social stress and risk of declining cognition. (springer.com)
  • A global threats overview for Numeniini populations: synthesising expert knowledge for a group of declining migratory birds. (usgs.gov)
  • This study provides guidelines and tools to simulate and estimate N b for age structured populations ( https://github.com/popgengui/agestrucnb/ ), which should help biologists develop sensitive monitoring programmes for early detection of changes in N b and population declines. (usgs.gov)
  • Various national demographic analyses measured a demographic decline of white populations, as defined by their local nation-based censuses. (wikipedia.org)
  • Regarding white populations internationally, and particularly in the Western world, demographer Eric Kaufmann has suggested that "In an era of unprecedented white demographic decline it is absolutely vital for it to have a democratic outlet. (wikipedia.org)
  • As well as referencing ethno-cultural, linguistic, and religious demography, the term 'majority minority' has consistently been used in racial contexts in media and academia, and specifically to identify the demographic decline of white populations. (wikipedia.org)
  • Questions related to SCD were administered as part of the BRFSS in 49 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. (cdc.gov)
  • According to tracking by the New York Times , cases are rising in 20 states as well as Puerto Rico. (yahoo.com)
  • CHICAGO, July 20, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Family Office Exchange (FOX), a global membership community of enterprise families and their key advisors, will be offering a public webinar on The State of the Ultra-High Wealth Advisory Industry on August 3, 2017, at 1:00pm CDT. (globenewswire.com)
  • United States, 2017. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • At the 140th session of the Board in 2017, the Officers of the Board agreed to defer consideration of the item to the Board's session in January 2018.2 This updated version takes into account input from Member States following discussions at the Board. (who.int)
  • Controlling for education and income, age, and baseline episodic memory and executive functioning, lower subjective social status had additional adverse effects on declines in episodic memory in men and women. (springer.com)
  • for states that ity, obesity, diabetes, depression, current cigarette smoking, implemented the module in multiple years, the most recent and hearing loss ( 2 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The Guttmacher Institute's own state and national abortion data, updated every three years, only capture abortions that occur in clinical settings-hospitals, clinics and physicians' offices. (guttmacher.org)
  • Clifford Bennett, chief economist at ACY Securities, called the export data out of China "rather alarming," noting it was the sharpest decline in three years and reflected the situation with the global economy, not just in China. (ktar.com)
  • Although the number of smokers in the United States has declined slightly in recent years, still about 1 in 5 people smoke, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (livescience.com)
  • Researchers should watch for modern documents (for example, foreign works and works published in the United States less than 95 years ago, or unpublished if the author died less than 70 years ago) that may be copyrighted. (loc.gov)
  • For states administering the module during multiple years, and the most recent data were used for this brief. (cdc.gov)
  • Trump has called himself a nationalist, and in doing so was endeavoring to ride a wave of nationalist sentiment that in recent years has extended to many other countries besides the United States. (nationalinterest.org)
  • However, over the past three years during which overall fraud declined, the cost per consumer - the total out-of-pocket expense consumers incur when falling victim to ID fraud, not those costs borne by businesses - increased: The cost per consumer in 2007 averaged $691, an increase of 25% over the $554 recorded in 2006. (marketingcharts.com)
  • The report cites a " serious decline " in trust for governmental institutions for the decay of the United States' score, which fell low enough in 2015 to earn the title of "flawed democracy. (bigthink.com)
  • Though largely subliminal, the greater the sense and fear of imperial decay and decline, the greater the national hubris and arrogance of power which cuts across party lines. (counterpunch.org)
  • The Chinese challenge to the United States is more serious for both economic and demographic reasons. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • White demographic decline is a decrease in the self-identified White populace as a percentage of the total population in a city, state, subregion, or nation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Scholars have attempted to address subfactors and anticipated results of White demographic decline in relevant societies. (wikipedia.org)
  • Academic evidence indicates that immigration significantly contributes to the maintenance of economies, civic institutions, and population levels of places affected by White demographic decline, such as in the Southern United States. (wikipedia.org)
  • White demographic decline has been statistically observed by academics in relation to countries which conduct a national census and include a white racial or ethnic category. (wikipedia.org)
  • Social geographers such as Loughborough University's Marco Antonsich, and Syracuse University's Jamie Winders, and political scientists Elliot Jager, and Robert Pape, have studied white demographic decline as a measurable and observable process. (wikipedia.org)
  • The white demographic decline is largely attributable to its older age structure when compared to other race and ethnic groups. (wikipedia.org)
  • The bluntest way to describe this pattern is in terms of loyalties-of having primary loyalty not to the United States but rather to a party or to some demographic group-although speaking of someone's loyalties risks sounding like some kind of latter-day McCarthyism. (nationalinterest.org)
  • In a letter posted on Twitter on Monday, the philosopher and activist Cornel West announced his resignation from Harvard Divinity School, concluding a public dispute with the institution after it declined his bid for tenure. (chronicle.com)
  • While they suggest that the white population share is falling in the United States, sociologist Richard Alba and demographer Dowell Myers have stated that this decline is divisive and exaggerated somewhat by the census format. (wikipedia.org)
  • While some of the global decline is attributable to the gratuitous use of authoritarian tactics, such as the Spanish response to the ever-rebellious Catalonia or the crackdowns on dissent in Venezuela , some of it was due to much more subtle problems in the established democracies. (bigthink.com)
  • Overexploitation of large apex marine predators is widespread in the world's oceans, yet the timing and extent of declines are poorly understood. (nature.com)
  • In 2015, United Nations Member States endorsed the Sustainable Development Goals. (who.int)
  • In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. (lu.se)
  • We report substantial declines (74-92%) of catch per unit effort of hammerhead (Sphyrnidae), whaler (Carcharhinidae), tiger shark ( Galeocerdo cuvier ) and white sharks ( Carcharodon carcharias ). (nature.com)
  • The report used information from two surveys - one nationally representative survey of U.S. adults, and a state-based survey. (livescience.com)
  • Approximately 300,000 fewer adults in the United States fell victim to identity fraud in 2007 than in 2006. (marketingcharts.com)
  • Doctors in Georgia and other Southern states have seen since April an unusual surge of a common respiratory virus that affects children and older adults. (gpb.org)
  • However, amid a 16-year decline in global freedom, democracy in the United States has suffered serious erosion. (freedomhouse.org)
  • While US scores improved in two critical areas, transparency of government and freedom of assembly, these gains were offset by losses stemming from the rise in political violence and threats as well as a decline in academic freedom, a sign of growing illiberalism in the public square. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Freedom in the United States declined under the last administration for a variety of reasons, including its flouting of anticorruption safeguards and other oversight mechanisms, and its discriminatory and often arbitrary or abusive immigration policies. (freedomhouse.org)
  • The scores are then aggregated to create a single score for the state of freedom and democracy in that country. (bigthink.com)
  • Throughout our over one-hundred-year history, our work has directly led to policies that have produced greater freedom, democracy, and opportunity in the United States and the world. (hoover.org)
  • In 2010, it was reported by the BBC how "America's two largest states - California and Texas - became "majority-minority" states (with an overall minority population outnumbering the white majority)" between 1998 and 2004. (wikipedia.org)
  • Generally, states with dense metropolitan areas such as California are more likely to have higher fraud rates, due to higher income levels and commerce activity. (marketingcharts.com)
  • In California, meanwhile, Gov. Gavin Newsom has urged calm as the state deals with a surge in cases. (yahoo.com)
  • If implemented urgently, these measures in combination have the potential to alter the current population declines of many Numeniini species and provide a template for the conservation of other groups of threatened species. (usgs.gov)
  • Estimating the effective population size and effective number of breeders per year (N b ) can facilitate early detection of population declines. (usgs.gov)
  • States of course have complex internal structures, and the choices and decisions of the political leadership are heavily influenced by internal concentrations of power, while the general population is often marginalized. (salon.com)
  • Between 2005 and 2010, adult smokers declined from 20.9 percent to 19.3 percent of the population, the report said. (livescience.com)
  • The Japanese population is less than half that of the United States, which means that the average Japanese person would have to be more than twice as rich as the average American before Japan's economy surpassed America's. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • By contrast, China's population is more than four times that of the United States. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • This continues the year-over-year decrease since data was first collected by Javelin in 2004, when 4.25% of the overall adult population in the United States was victimized. (marketingcharts.com)
  • Vaccination declined sharply for all vaccines studied, overall and across all racial and ethnic groups. (cdc.gov)
  • Results Had there been no spending on tobacco products in the United States in 1993, the Southeast Tobacco region would have had 303 000 fewer jobs. (who.int)
  • That means there were about 3 million fewer smokers in 2010 than would have been expected if no decline had occurred. (livescience.com)
  • PCBs sold in the United States since 1970. (cdc.gov)
  • Some important because exposure to PCBs may harm you commercial PCB mixtures are known in the United and because these sites may be sources of exposure. (cdc.gov)
  • PCBs stopped in the United States in August 1977 water, and soil. (cdc.gov)
  • These seven kinds of PCB mixtures include 35% of all the PCBs commercially produced and 98% of PCBs sold in the United States since 1970. (cdc.gov)
  • The manufacture of PCBs stopped in the United States in August 1977 because there was evidence that PCBs build up in the environment and may cause harmful effects. (cdc.gov)
  • Before 1977, PCBs entered the air, water, and soil during their manufacture and use in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • TOKYO (AP) - Asian shares mostly fell Wednesday after worries about the U.S. banking system set off a decline on Wall Street and amid concerns closer to home about Chinese economic growth. (ktar.com)
  • However, the horizontal/directional rig count (encompassing new drilling technology with the ability to drill and extract gas from dense rock formations also known as shale formations) declined by seven units to 932. (nasdaq.com)
  • The international incidence of female breast cancer varies markedly, being highest in the United States and Northern Europe, intermediate in Southern and Eastern Europe and South America, and lowest in Asia. (medscape.com)
  • Incidence rates were also significantly higher in black women compared with white women in seven states, primarily located in the South. (medscape.com)
  • Ron Dermer sent emails to the ambassadors of Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates encouraging them to be on hand for the March 3 speech because of their "common interest" in thwarting a nuclear deal with Iran, Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic reported Wednesday. (jta.org)
  • ACHSP considered that the evidence was strong that early detection and treatment of other STDs is an effective strategy for preventing sexually transmitted HIV infection but was concerned that this strategy has not been clearly articulated or implemented as a core strategy for HIV prevention in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • Early detection and treatment of curable STDs should become a major, explicit component of comprehensive HIV prevention programs at national, state, and local levels. (cdc.gov)
  • Based on this review, ACHSP concluded that early detection and treatment of curable STDs should be implemented more widely as an HIV prevention strategy in the United States. (cdc.gov)
  • The news comes less than a day after Netanyahu wrote to decline an invitation from Sens. (jta.org)
  • Christopher Roush, veteran business journalist, author, and dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University, said during an OPC book night on Oct. 11 that the decline of local business news coverage across the U.S. has left consumers, small businesses owners and employees starved for reliable sources of information they need to make key decisions such as when to buy a house or where to expand a business. (opcofamerica.org)
  • While many countries are seeing a decline in COVID-19 cases, infections in the United States appear to be spiking, according to documents obtained by Yahoo News. (yahoo.com)
  • Member States have responded to the need for care and treatment by providing services for the management of opportunistic infections, counselling, testing, palliative care and ART. (who.int)
  • Though Castle had been leading Biden in the polls by a small margin, Biden was widely believed to be the only potential Democratic candidate who could knock off the 70-year-old congressman, just as Castle was widely thought to be the only Republican capable of winning the seat in the solidly Democratic state. (politico.com)
  • Overall, weekly administration rates of the four examined vaccines declined by up to 89% after the national emergency declaration in mid-March ( 1 ) compared with those during the corresponding period in 2019. (cdc.gov)
  • Declines in reading and math proficiency rates are steepest for students in schools in zip codes where the median household income is below $50,000 annually. (curriculumassociates.com)
  • Winter reading proficiency rates are down when compared to historical averages, with especially acute declines in early elementary grades (i.e. (curriculumassociates.com)
  • Title : Recent declines in teenage birth rates in the United States : variations by state, 1990-94 Personal Author(s) : Ventura, Stephanie J.;Clarke, Sally C.;Mathews, T. J. (cdc.gov)
  • In 1990, the relative frequency rate of TURPs in surgical patients with BPH in the United States was 97%, with similar rates in Denmark and Sweden. (medscape.com)
  • We sought to examine whether social stress has adverse effects on risk of declining episodic memory and executive functioning in aging individuals. (springer.com)
  • Lenient social distancing policies in some states combined with Memorial Day weekend gatherings could be responsible for the current rise in cases. (yahoo.com)
  • Her research centers on social policy, poverty, and urban politics in the United States and Europe. (lu.se)
  • Jan's research interests include social trust, welfare states, migration and public opinion. (lu.se)
  • Increasing fire severity and warmer, drier postfire conditions are making forests in the western United States (West) vulnerable to ecological transformation. (cakex.org)
  • Ongoing declines and lack of recovery of vulnerable and protected shark species are a cause for concern. (nature.com)
  • We used data from the MIDUS study, a national probability sample of non-institutionalized, English speaking respondents aged 25-74 living in the 48 contiguous states of the United States. (springer.com)
  • The decline in functionality almost inevitably leads to further erosion of confidence in public institutions. (bigthink.com)
  • In the United States, most leprosy cases occur in people who worked in or emigrated from countries where leprosy is common. (msdmanuals.com)
  • For decades the United States remained the largest market for vegetable oils, accounted for approximately 80% of volumetric share in North American vegetable oils market. (mpoc.org.my)
  • Nonetheless, research on this practice in the United States extends back several decades. (guttmacher.org)
  • Before and after Joe Biden became President-Elect of the United States, it seems that some so-called Progressives have disavowed all involvement in American politics and directed their efforts, not toward any political candidate, but toward the total destruction of. (carolynbaker.net)
  • This led to a drop in total rig count operating in the United States. (nasdaq.com)
  • Notably, Permian - the most prolific basin in the United States which employs roughly half of the nation's total rigs - has seen a decline in oil drilling rigs in the last six consecutive weeks. (nasdaq.com)
  • Assistive products are essential tools: to compensate for an impairment/a loss of intrinsic capacity, to reduce the consequences of gradual functional decline, to reduce the need for carers, for primary and secondary prevention, and to help to rationalize health and welfare costs. (who.int)
  • As foreign autocrats resort to increasingly brazen forms of repression to entrench themselves in office and support authoritarian influences around the world, undemocratic forces in the United States have engaged in their own efforts to undermine institutions that are designed to check their power and protect the rights of all Americans. (freedomhouse.org)
  • we commonly adopt the standard convention that the actors in world affairs are states, primarily the great powers, and we consider their decisions and the relations among them. (salon.com)
  • At a high-level meeting of the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly on disability and development (New York, 23 September 2013), stakeholders requested WHO to develop and coordinate a global initiative to support Member States in realizing their obligations in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities towards increasing access to assistive technology. (who.int)
  • Wildfires in the western United States are concerning in part because conifer forests may not regenerate under increasingly warm, dry climate conditions and severe burning. (cakex.org)
  • Those reactions reflect how many citizens of this country do not identify their interests with the United States of America but rather with a narrower, largely party-based, subset of America. (nationalinterest.org)
  • Identity fraud has been declining in most parts of the United States, even as the costs to those who are defrauded increase and fraudsters turn to unexpected channels to commit fraud, according to a Javelin Strategy & Research study released earlier this year, reports Retailer Daily. (marketingcharts.com)
  • Nonetheless, many academics, such as Nicholas Lemann, suggest the decline will affect national election results in the US. (wikipedia.org)
  • it is symbolic of the decline of democracy over the last decade. (bigthink.com)
  • JTA) - Israel's ambassador to the United States could not convince his counterparts from at least two Arab countries to attend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to Congress. (jta.org)
  • Those countries, both with Sunni Muslim majorities, and other Arab Gulf states view the Shiite-led Iran as an enemy, but would not allow themselves to be used as props in Netanyahu's address, Goldberg reported. (jta.org)
  • Since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic, researchers consistently have noted a strong epidemiologic association between HIV/AIDS and other STDs in developing and industrialized countries, including the United States (1,2). (cdc.gov)
  • The problems of democratic government are many , and the failure to resolve them can lead to a decline in the trust people have for public institutions, political apathy, tribalism, and worse. (bigthink.com)
  • The state-based survey did not include people who had only cellular phones. (livescience.com)
  • We don't want people to be in crisis mode, thinking that everything is all bad in Arizona with the cases," said Jessica Rigler, the state health department's assistant director . (yahoo.com)
  • Many of these cases occurred in people in southern states who had direct contact with nine-banded armadillos, which carry leprosy bacteria. (msdmanuals.com)
  • In addition, the smooth and impartial administration of future elections is threatened by the increasing politicization of key positions and processes at the state level, and by a surge in harassment of incumbent election officials that has already led an unprecedented number to resign. (freedomhouse.org)
  • Factors that contributed to this decline include greater consumer vigilance and awareness, improvements in systems and practices by companies that manage personal information, the increased frequency of viewing personal account information, and consumers' more frequently updating spyware and anti-virus software, Javelin said. (marketingcharts.com)
  • It is one of Edward Gibbon's insightful and challenging questions about the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that is of particular relevance today. (counterpunch.org)
  • Actually, Winston Churchill's position and rhetoric is emblematic of conservatives and their fellow travelers in the epoch of the West's imperial decline which overlapped with the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and Communism. (counterpunch.org)
  • Decline and Fall? (nybooks.com)