Something that increases an animal's survival will often also include its reproductive rate ; however, sometimes there is a trade-off between survival and current reproduction.

All nations pledged to follow the Hague rules on fair treatment of prisoners of war, and in general the POWs had a much higher survival rate than their peers who were not captured.

This theory argues that by fruiting at the same time, a population increases the survival rate of their seeds by flooding the area with fruit so even if predators eat their fill, seeds will still be left over.

It is often found in residential areas, attracted to bird feeders which increase its survival rate in these areas.

Evidence from the Condaghi of San Pietro di Silki, in Sassari, and Santa Maria di Bonarcado concerning the children of slaves has been adduced to show that differences in agricultural lifestyles between regions may affect the survival rate of females, hypothetically through increased infanticide of baby girls.

The survival rate of the uterine fetus of an ectopic pregnancy is around 70 %.

Chicks fathered by more ornamented males weighed more than those fathered by less ornamented males, and attribute generally associated with better survival rate in birds.

Conservative Judaism has issued an emergency takanah ( rabbinical edict ) temporarily suspending the application of the rules in their entirety, on the grounds that the high intermarriage rate threatens the survival of Judaism, and hence that any marriage between Jews is welcomed.

This paper presented data showing that soldiers who were seriously wounded on the battlefields during the Vietnam War had a better survival rate than individuals who were seriously injured in motor vehicle accidents on California's freeways.

These two factors in combination suggest that the survival rate of hagfish is quite high.

The tree has a mast crop every 11 years and is very easy to plant and cultivate with a survival rate of 30 %.

According to a recent large scale study, asymptomatic HIV positive patients who started on medication with T-cell counts 350 to 500 had a 70 percent higher survival rate than those who waited.

The overall survival rate for conjoined twins is approximately 25 %.

This high survival rate is attributed to three members of the Jewish Council of Enschede, Sig Menko, Gerard Sanders and Isidoor Van Dam who took the initiative, against the advice of the Jewish Council of Amsterdam, of urging their community to go into hiding and not to answer the call-up of the Germans for " labour in the East ".

" Schadewald said that local sources stated that the New Town program, a federally funded program, had a " low survival rate " and questioned whether The Woodlands would succeed.

The 2005 guidelines acknowledged that high quality chest compressions and early defibrillation are the key to positive outcomes while other " typical ACLS therapies ... " have not been shown to increase rate of survival to hospital discharge ".

Between 1830 and 1855, more than 350 tracheotomies were performed in Paris, most of them at the Hôpital des Enfants Malades, a public hospital, with an overall survival rate of only 20 – 25 %.

When provided with appropriate field settings, brush and forage the pigs do not have problems with heat stress or sunburn, manure is naturally spread over larger areas returning the nutrients to the soil and morbidity levels are far lower providing for a higher survival rate as well as better profits for small farms.

Out of eight skulls with trepanations from the 6th to 8th centuries found in southwestern Germany, seven skulls show clear evidence of healing and survival after trepanation suggesting that the survival rate of the operations was high and the infection rate was low.

The intensity of the human sexual instinct is shaped more by sexual competition than maintaining a birth rate adequate to survival of the species.

the outer life of congregations -- the suitability of the environment to their survival -- will be propitious so long as the people in the area are of the same social and economic level as the membership.

The uncertainty of daily survival has been seen as creating a general mood of morbidity, influencing people to " live for the moment ", as illustrated by Giovanni Boccaccio in The Decameron ( 1353 ).

Because Judaism focuses on this life, many questions to do with survival and conflict ( such as the classic moral dilemma of two people in a desert with only enough water for one to survive ) were analysed in great depth by the rabbis within the Talmud, in the attempt to understand the principles a godly person should draw upon in such a circumstance.

Subsequent clinical trials found that patients receiving two-drug combinations had up to 50 percent improvements in time to progression to AIDS and in survival when compared to people receiving single-drug therapy.

All people have an instinctual response to potential danger, which is in fact important to the survival of all species.

Beginning with the now-iconic phrase " Four score and seven years ago ," referring to the Declaration of Independence during the American Revolution in 1776, Lincoln examined the founding principles of the United States in the context of the Civil War, and memorialized the sacrifices of those who gave their lives at Gettysburg and extolled virtues for the listeners ( and the nation ) to ensure the survival of America's representative democracy, that the " government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

" Social production " involves a complicated and interconnected division of labor of a wide variety of people who depend on each other for their survival and prosperity.

Dawkins noted that as various ideas pass from one generation to the next, they may either enhance or detract from the survival of the people who obtain those ideas, or influence the survival of the ideas themselves.

This is followed by several lyric prayers that expound upon God's mercy and kindness, and give thanks for the survival of the Jewish people through a history of exile and hardship.

Leisure has increased with increased longevity and, for many, with decreased hours spent for physical and economic survival, yet others argue that time pressure has increased for modern people, as they are committed to too many tasks.

During this time Amundsen learned from the local Netsilik people about Arctic survival skills that would later prove useful.

Although some concerned Mohawk citizens have contested the racially-exclusive membership policy, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that the Mohawk government may adopt policies it deems necessary to ensure the survival of its people.

" If people are voting tigers as their favourite animal, it means they recognise their importance, and hopefully the need to ensure their survival ," he said.

They are the most important dietary predictor of survival in older people of different ethnicities, and in the Seven Countries Study, legume consumption was highly correlated with a reduced mortality from coronary heart disease.

By the beginning of the Gorbachev era, concern over the cultural survival of the Estonian people had reached a critical point.

For the indigenous people the most desirable European goods were those things that aided their survival in the landscape, but which they did not have the technology to manufacture themselves.

CABI promotes economic growth and survival of the Izoceno people while discouraging the rapid destruction of habitat within Bolivia's Gran Chaco.

) Abarbanel relates the cups to the four historical redemptions of the Jewish people: the choosing of Abraham, the Exodus from Egypt, the survival of the Jewish people throughout the exile, and the fourth which will happen at the end of days.

The popular Welsh folk song Yma o Hyd, recorded by Dafydd Iwan in 1981, recalls Macsen Wledig and celebrates the continued survival of the Welsh people since his days.

Inappropriate traditional agricultural methods cause soil to erode and soil quality to decline, and the basis of survival for Madagascar ’ s people is under serious threat.

Today, more than ever before, the survival of our free society depends upon the citizen who is both informed and concerned.

David Fontana however on the subject of parapsychology has said that " the evidence for survival is so strong that anyone who cares to study it is likely to end up convinced ".

Many who lived in cities had lost the skills necessary for survival in an agrarian environment.

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was appealing to some economists, sociologists and political scientists ( most notably Walter Bagehot and William Graham Sumner ) who adapted and rationalized the invisible hand by incorporating the popular idea of the survival of the fittest.

For example, the Securing Your Home Forum was moderated by survival retreat expert Joel Skousen, and the Inventory and Barter Items Forum was moderated by the survivalist novelist James Wesley Rawles, who later went on to be a survivalist blogger and preparedness guru.

Only the Bene Gesserit perceive the Golden Path and are therefore faced with a choice: keep to their traditional role of hidden manipulators who quietly ease tensions and guide human progress while struggling for their own survival, or embrace the Golden Path and push humanity onward into a new future where humans are free from the threat of extinction.

The " father of Wicca ", Gerald Gardner, who adopted Margaret Murray's thesis, claimed Wicca was a modern survival of an ancient pan-European pagan religion.

Stalin pushed for reparations from Germany without regard to the base minimum supply for German citizens ' survival, which worried Truman and Churchill who thought that Germany would become a financial burden for Western powers.

They wanted to cast me in the role of spokesman for my generation, especially for those who had survived the war ; but for me survival was an individual action that earned the survivor the right to speak only for himself.

Entertaining Mr Sloane lost money in its three-week run, but critical praise from playwright Terence Rattigan, who invested £ 3, 000 in it, ensured its survival.

Prawer argued further that the kingdom was an early attempt at colonization, in which the crusaders were a small ruling class, who were dependent on the native population for survival but made no attempt to integrate with them.

From corals, to dugongs, Persian Gulf is a diverse cradle for many species who depend on each other for survival.

AIDS patients who start HAART after being diagnosed with PML tend to have a slightly longer survival time than patients who were already on HAART and then develop PML.

Her first, My Place, involves her quest to uncover her Aboriginal heritage which had previously been denied by her family, who insisted " as a survival mechanism " that they were of Indian extraction.

Several characters who are former SCA members attribute their survival to their SCA experience.

On one hand, the so-called " Social Darwinians " ( roughly, those who would use the " survival of the fittest " of Darwinian evolution to justify the cutthroat competitiveness of laissez-faire capitalism )

Such anxiety is ironic to the reader, who knows of the narrator's implicit survival: the text refers to the black-robed judges having lips " whiter than the sheet upon which I trace these words ", showing that he himself is writing the story after the events have happened.

These five human empires, along with various non-human allies who are descended from other star faring races, vie to control resources, including other planar " magical powers " and ancient technology, as they vie for survival and supremacy among themselves as well as hostile and other non-human races.

It is used to divert scarce resources away from patients with little chance of survival in order to increase the chances of survival of others who are more likely to survive.