Still another segment of the student population consists of those who seek, in what they regard as religion, intellectual clarity, rational belief, and ethical guidance and reinforcement.

The population mainly consists of Malays, Banjar, Chinese and Dayak ethnic groups.

The territory consists of two atolls and 27 coral islands, of which two, West Island and Home Island, are inhabited with a total population of approximately 600.

The remaining 5 % of Djibouti's population primarily consists of Arabs, Ethiopians and Europeans ( French and Italians ).

The Quad Cities also consists of neighboring Bettendorf and the Illinois cities of Moline, East Moline, and Rock Island and has an population estimate of 381, 342.

The territory has no permanent population ; the population consists of military personnel, civilian officials, scientific researchers and support staff.

The indigenous population of the Federated States of Micronesia, which is predominantly Micronesian, consists of various ethnolinguistic groups.

The demographics of Hong Kong mainly consists of ethnic Chinese, making up more than 90 % of the population.

The rest of the foreign population mainly consists of Egyptians, Palestinians, Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Filipino and Sri Lankan residents.

According to National Geographic, the population consists of 45 % Tajiks, 25 % Hazaras, 25 % Pashtuns, 2 % Uzbeks, 1 % Baloch, 1 % Turkmen, and 1 % Hindu.

In most lasers this medium consists of population of atoms which have been excited into such a state by means of an outside light source, or an electrical field which supplies energy for atoms to absorb and be transformed into their excited states.

The population consists of mixed European stock and Gypsies, in whose welfare von Doom takes a particular interest.

The town consists of eight formerly autonomous Ortsteile, listed here by population.

The population of modern Mongolia consists of 94. 9 % Mongols, numbering approximately 2. 8 million.

Thus, Malaysia's population consists of 60. 4 % Muslims, 6. 4 % of Hindus and 9. 1 % of Christians ; the respective figures for Mauritius are 16. 6 %, 52 % and 30 %.

Its population consists of Christians, Muslims ( chiefly Riffians ), and small minorities of Jews.

The plasma population of the ring current may now grow substantially, and a notable part of the addition consists of O + oxygen ions extracted from the ionosphere as a by-product of the polar aurora.

* Armenia: The vast majority of Armenia's population consists of ethnic Armenians at about 98 % of the population, with the remainder consisting of a few small ethnic minorities.

* Egypt: The vast majority of Egypt's population consists of ethnic Egyptians at about 99 % of the population, with the remainder consisting of a few small ethnic minorities, as well as refugees or asylum seekers.

* Lesotho: Lesotho's ethno-linguistic structure consists almost entirely of the Basotho ( singular Mosotho ), a Bantu-speaking people ; about 99. 7 % of the population are Basotho.

Typically, the DNA transferred consists of the genes required to make and transfer pili ( often encoded on a plasmid ), and so is a kind of selfish DNA ; however, other pieces of DNA are often co-transferred and this can result in dissemination of genetic traits, such as antibiotic resistance, among a bacterial population.

On the one hand, the Public Health Service declared as recently as October 26 that present radiation levels resulting from the Soviet shots `` do not warrant undue public concern '' or any action to limit the intake of radioactive substances by individuals or large population groups anywhere in the Aj.

The discovery of 26 individuals at one site provides evidence of pack behaviour and allows studies of ontogeny and population biology which are impossible with lesser-known dinosaurs.

The low number of abnormalities compares favourably with the health condition of a Majungasaurus population of which it in 2007 was established that 19 % of individuals showed bone pathologies.

A population or species of organisms typically includes multiple alleles at each locus among various individuals.

The total population estimate in all of Norway, Sweden and Finland is a mere 120 adult individuals.

The biology of a population is greater than the collective biologies of its individuals.

26, 000 individuals remain, it began a sudden population decline from around 1980 and is now classified as vulnerable.

In North America, there are thought to be over 400 individuals, a population that probably exceeds that of the mountain bongo in the wild.

There is speculation as to whether this condition may occur with greater frequency in the general, untreated population ; successful social function of these potentially high-achieving individuals may lead to being labeled as normal, rather than as individuals suffering any substantial dysregulation.

Modern-day studies have revealed traces of Taíno DNA in individuals throughout Cuba, although the population was largely destroyed as a culture and civilization after 1550.

The label of " crime " and the accompanying social stigma normally confine their scope to those activities seen as injurious to the general population or to the State, including some that cause serious loss or damage to individuals.

The Scientific Authority of the exporting country must make a non-detriment finding, assuring that export of the individuals will not adversely affect the wild population.

Cultural imperialism can refer to either the forced acculturation of a subject population, or to the voluntary embracing of a foreign culture by individuals who do so of their own free will.

Although the census provides a useful way of obtaining statistical information about a population, such information can sometimes lead to abuses, political or otherwise, made possible by the linking of individuals ' identities to anonymous census data.

In the late 1990s, anthropologist Stanley Ambrose proposed that a volcanic winter induced by this eruption reduced the human population to about 2, 000-20, 000 individuals, resulting in a population bottleneck ( see Toba catastrophe theory ).

Throughout their recorded history, the plantations of the Chagos Archipelago had a population of approximately 1, 000 individuals, about two-thirds of whom lived on Diego Garcia.

Afars in Eritrea number about 460, 000 individuals, the smallest population out of the countries they reside in.

Habitat shifts provide important evidence of competition in nature where one population changes relative to the habitats that most other individuals of the species occupy.

A primary law of population ecology is the Malthusian growth model which states, " a population will grow ( or decline ) exponentially as long as the environment experienced by all individuals in the population remains constant.

where N is the total number of individuals in the population, B is the number of births, D is the number of deaths, b and d are the per capita rates of birth and death respectively, and r is the per capita rate of population change.