Sentences with phrase «approaches for estimating»

A comparison of bootstrap approaches for estimating uncertainty of parameters in linear mixed - effects models

Parties provided their views on approaches for estimating and accounting for emissions of CO2 from forest harvesting and wood products, taking into account the outcome of the IPCC expert meeting.

The IPCC Plenary then requested further technical work on approaches for estimating emissions from harvested wood products (HWP) and sought guidance from the SBSTA on policy implications.

He and his colleagues are the first to systematically compare different approaches for estimating a film's significance.

The President of the Treasury Board has recently released a four - pillar approach for Estimates reform to address issues raised by Parliamentarians concerning their inability to properly scrutinize government spending.

The only way to adequately gauge investment merit here is to have a valid and historically reliable approach for estimating prospective future market returns.

Performance of the modified poisson regression approach for estimating relative risks from clustered prospective data

ECO2 developed a generic approach for estimating consequences, probability and risk associated with sub-seabed CO2 storage based on the assessment of the environmental value of local organisms as indicated for example by the Natura 2000 network of nature protection areas or the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North - East Atlantic (OSPAR), the vulnerability of environmental resources and possible impacts on them as well as consequences and risks.

A maximum pseudo-likelihood approach for estimating species trees under the coalescent model

The U.S. government should tweak its approach for estimating the financial impacts of carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution, which it uses in drafting new regulations, according to a report released today by the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS).

However, given our current lack of understanding of the non-coding portion of the genome such an approach for estimating DNA turnover is likely to yield highly questionable results.

The only way to adequately gauge investment merit here is to have a valid and historically reliable approach for estimating prospective future market returns.

RegEM is an iterative approach for estimating the data covariance of an incomplete data set (and imputing missing values in the process) using what is sometimes referred to as «ridge regression».

An approach for estimating the net CO2 emissions from forest harvesting and wood products was forwarded to the IPCC Plenary in 1996, as part of the Revised 1996 Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.

Instead, the government will return to an earlier 2003 approach for estimating the potential costs of any regulations governing greenhouse gas emissions.

Here we introduce a geochemical approach for estimating the flux from a vent field based on radon (222Rn) measurements in the overlying effluent plume.

The association between trajectories of childhood poverty exposure and symptoms of mental health problems in adolescence was investigated using Mplus and the BCH approach for estimating the means of distal outcomes across latent classes.

Not exact matches

Perhaps not surprisingly, VC funding for ed - tech startups was estimated to approach $ 3 billion last year, according to CB Insights.

Although this approach aims for objectivity, its challenges lie in the choice of standards for calculating value and in estimating the actual worth of assets and liabilities.

You should describe your plans for hiring those people, and include them in your cost estimates, but you'll want to show that you're taking a conservative approach with your funding and not over-staffing your company beyond your current operating needs.

Once you begin approaching companies, many will ask you to fill out a licensing application, and all will ask for a business plan detailing how you propose to market the product, who your target audience is and what you estimate sales could be.

Another approach is to break your spending into buckets and estimate inflation for each one, said Katherine Roy, chief retirement strategist for JPMorgan Asset Management.

For those hard - charging types who are about as likely to embrace this zen approach as they are to grow flippers and take to the sea, there is more practical advice available which involves handicapping your time estimates and investing in some more clocks.

Freeman estimates that scaling up such active learning approaches could enable success for tens of thousands of students who might otherwise drop or fail STEM courses.

The Persian Gulf nation has estimated it could double its global crude sales within six months of international sanctions being lifted as a June 30 deadline for a nuclear deal with world powers approaches.

The research firm Forrester estimates that e-commerce is now approaching $ 200 billion in revenue in the United States alone and accounts for 9 % of total retail sales, up from 5 % five years ago.

Even with such differences in approach, these lenders ended up quoting fairly similar expenses for the common 30 - year fixed rate mortgage, indicating that you should ask for a formal estimate if you're truly interested in comparing the actual costs of borrowing from one lender or another.

This approach is consistent with our approach to estimating cost effectiveness for our top charities and seeks to deal with issues of «leverage» by treating all donor funds the same.

This time last year, Freddie Mac estimated that the average rate for a 30 - year mortgage would approach 5 % by the end of 2015.

For Renewable Energy Investments, avoided greenhouse gas emissions were estimated using the approach outlined in the WRI GHG Protocol's Project Protocol.

As we're approaching retirement age, we read that the «average» couple in the USA will need $ 230,000 to $ 400,000 (depending on whose estimate you read) to pay for uncovered medical costs in retirement.

Recent cost estimates for the room provided by the school district approached $ 800,000.

Although professional lactation support can improve the duration of overall breast feeding, its effect in improving exclusive breast feeding is unclear.11 18 22 Thus far, studies that report improvement of rates of exclusive breastfeeding have involved mainly community based peer counselling strategies.23 24 25 Even then, a randomised trial in the UK recently cast doubt on the efficacy of this approach.26 There are current recommendations from NICE for the UK - wide implementation of the baby friendly initiative.4 5 6 The 2006 NICE costing report on routine postnatal care of women and their babies estimates that efforts to improve rates of breast feeding will result in substantial cost savings for the NHS.6

In an approach consistent with that used to develop the estimated energy requirement for lactating women (35), we weighted full breastfeeding as twice partial breastfeeding during the first 12 mo postpartum in our score.

How this model works: As with my analyses of opinion poll figures in Ireland, constituency support estimates for different parties and groupings form the basis of the general approach taken with this analysis.

This rebate approach assures that the MTA gets the PMT money up front and there's no need for estimates.

Guard officials described the assessment as a «disciplined approach to identify major waterway safety hazards, estimate risk levels, evaluate potential mitigation measures and set the stage for implementation of selected measures to reduce risk.»

A statement issued by the Coast Guard late Wednesday said Poulin «has suspended future rulemaking decisions and directed a formal risk identification and evaluation of the Hudson River, known as a Ports and Waterways Safety Assessment (PAWSA)... a disciplined approach to identify major waterway safety hazards, estimate risk levels, evaluate potential mitigation measures and set the stage for implementation of selected measures to reduce risk.»

The approach also drops fuel needs for the overall journey by 25 percent, Belbruno says, in a rough estimate.

«Our results indicate that this simple intervention could be an effective and scalable approach to use the design of electronic health records to increase the rate of flu vaccinations, which are estimated to prevent millions of flu cases and tens of thousands of related hospitalizations every year,» said study lead author Mitesh S. Patel, MD, MBA, MS, an assistant professor of Medicine and Health Care Management in Penn's Perelman School of Medicine and The Wharton School, a staff physician at the Crescenz VA Medical Center, and director of the Penn Medicine Nudge Unit, whose work is supported by the Penn Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics.

This imploding shock wave can compress the interior of the bubble's contents even more; indeed, William C. Moss and his colleagues at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have obtained theoretical estimates of the temperatures achievable with an imploding shock wave, and these values approach those required for nuclear fusion.

Also, the model - based approach includes measures of uncertainty about our population estimates, which are not usually provided by more common approaches and are crucial for understanding the level of confidence we have about our estimates.»

With an estimated 1 billion people worldwide suffering from some form of brain disorder, he argues, there is a very real need for new approaches, including optogenetics, to reveal more precise targets in the brain.

The paper's model of the new funding approach calls for an outlay of $ 38.4 billion over 13 years for research; the costs of Medicare and Medicaid support for Alzheimer's patients in 2014 alone is estimated to be $ 150 billion.

The new estimate of mortality from windows, based on statistical analysis of 23 local studies, comes close to an old estimate (100 million to 1 billion) that had been derided for its simple, back - of - the - envelope approach.

Together, these different yet interrelated approaches to estimate the cholinergic suppression of inflammation demonstrate its value for assessing the consequent risk of infection.

For the first time, their study combines the strengths of simulations based on integrated energy - economy - climate models that estimate cost - optimal long - term strategies to meet climate targets with life cycle assessment approaches.

The researchers» approach to estimating how fast the infection spreads under different conditions is novel, he says, and could allow for better identification of long - distance jumps in infection.

Co-author Dr Eleanor Burke, from the Met Office Hadley Centre, said: «The advantage of our approach is that permafrost loss can be estimated for any policy - relevant global warming scenario.

When the normally distributed estimated PDF for lambda resulting from that approach is converted into a PDF for S, using the standard change of variables formula, that PDF implicitly uses a 1 / S ^ 2 prior for S. However, for presentation in the AR4 WG1 report (Fig. 9.20 and Table 3) the IPCC multiplied that PDF by S ^ 2, converting it to a uniform - in - S prior basis, which is highly informative.