Sentences with phrase «estimates suggest the number»

The devastation caused by the event is difficult to exaggerate — estimates suggest the number of fatalities could top 10,000.

Estimates suggest the number will reach 70 million people by the year 2030.

Not exact matches

(At least one estimate suggests the TPP will lower the number of unemployed people by 2 % to 5 % in Canada, Japan, New Zealand and Mexico.)

To get a sense of what's happening in the bawdy houses of the nation, the OECD suggests statisticians begin with an estimate of the total number of prostitutes.

First, the number of Jews who can be thought of as threatening non-Jewish control of U.S. industry is not so large as the Jewish population estimate of 1933 would suggest: the great mass of the 4,500,000 American Jews, like the great mass of American non-Jews, is made up of workers, employed or unemployed, to whom the control of U.S. industry is a purely academic matter.

The numbers are in line with analyst estimates, but according to the Financial Times, stock had climbed 14 percent over the past month, suggesting that investors were hoping for more.

Current numbers suggest the Eagle Ford also is growing, though the Fed reports that estimates may be revised downward on the effects of Harvey as more data becomes available.

But the Bank also has something at its disposal to get around this if the numbers don't seem to add up — namely, reducing its estimate of potential growth in order to make the output gap smaller than the current baseline would suggest.

In 20 years their number will have increased by 44 %, estimates suggest.

Although this is a much lower figure than the number who fled in Syria, most estimates suggest there are only around a quarter of a million Christians left in Iraq, making the impact of the recent displacement there so much greater.

New research suggests there may be far more pediatric concussions in the U.S. than previously estimated in the number of children under age 12.

Calculation to determine the necessary number of resident participants used estimations of knowledge from previous studies of pediatric residents, which suggested a baseline knowledge about breastfeeding of 60 percentage points.8, 9,15 To detect an improvement in knowledge score of 20 percentage points with an estimated standard deviation of 20 points, a 2 - tailed α error of 0.05 and a power of 0.80, sample size was calculated at a minimum of 16 resident participants.

Estimates of the numbers of women booked for home birth but delivering in hospital were even more difficult to obtain because hospital records do not always specify this information accurately and no national estimate exists.1 4 Data collected in this region in 1983 suggested that 35 % of these women changed to hospital based care either before or during labour, and a more detailed prospective study of all planned home births in 1993 found a total transfer rate of 43 %.8 Women were classified as having booked for a home birth when a community midwife had accepted a woman for home delivery and had this arrangement accepted by her manager and supervisor of midwives at any stage in pregnancy, irrespective of any later change of plan.

Williams suggested a number of new taxes or fees targeting the state's wealthiest residents to generate an estimated $ 20 billion in new revenue to fund education, transportation, environmental remediation, public housing and health care.

Estimated force data suggests that the police workforce in England and Wales will reduce as shown in the following table (numbers have been rounded).

DiNapoli and others have urged the state to take a conservative approach to revenue estimates; these latest numbers suggest why that is a prudent approach.

The campaign's poll, however, isn't without its own red flags: A whopping 24 percent of the Democrats it deemed likely to show up to the polls didn't lean one way or another in the presidential primary held the same day as the Senate election (the comparable number in most recent polls has been below ten), suggesting it might have been overly generous in estimating Democratic turnout on April 19.

Recent studies suggested that vehicles in southern California produce only 61 milligrams of ammonia per kilogram of exhaust, a number that would make the cumulative effect of southern California's cars only half that estimated to come from livestock.

Although none of the counts were that far off — for example, clocking just 1,200 steps instead of 1,500 — the findings suggest that it's probably a good idea to take the numbers as a loose estimate.

A wise investment, it seems: Estimates suggest that the number of jobs in the biotechnology will increase five-fold over the next 7 to 10 years.

For example, the simulated social information revealed that peer advice more strongly influenced an individual if the knowledge suggested the actual number of items was higher than the guesser's initial estimate.

Estimates suggest that almost 66 million people around the globe will have dementia by 2030, with the numbers predicted to top 115 million by 2050.

This mismatch between these numbers and 1880 estimates of at least three billion suggests that the passenger pigeon may have been what is known to ecologists as an «outbreak» species, like locusts, that boom and bust with changes in conditions, rather than a species that experiences a singular population explosion, as Homo sapiens has in the last 200 years.

As the update report notes, an increasing number of people now receive anti-HIV drugs: low - and middle - income countries have seen a 10-fold jump in treatment since 2003, which estimates suggest have averted more than 1 million deaths in sub-Saharan Africa alone.

In October the number of people who showed up to protest at the telescope's groundbreaking ceremony — protesters estimate around 500 — took telescope supporters by surprise, and suggests there may be resilience to the opposition.

«With estimates converging in this way, this suggests we are closer to finding the real numbers than before.

«The estimates generated by our analysis suggest that deaths from Alzheimer's disease far exceed the numbers reported by the CDC and those listed on death certificates,» said James.

Given the number of genomes studied and the sophisticated analysis used, the date for when the species diverges is «the best estimate of what we've gotten so far, and it makes sense,» says Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist at UC Santa Cruz, whose earlier work also suggested these bears split less than a million years ago.

A new estimate, based on mathematical modeling and a major bug - counting effort in New Guinea, puts the number of arthropod species in the tropics — which account for most of the animal species in the world — at about 3.7 million, way below the 30 million once suggested.

But new research led by University of Pennsylvania scientists suggests that mutations in an X chromosome gene called TEX11 are responsible for a significant number of cases of infertility — an estimated 1 percent of cases of non-obstructive azoospermia.

Methods routinely used to estimate the number of species on land suggest that there are many tens of millions of marine species, and up to 100 million nematodes alone, he says.

Estimates suggest that «a substantial number» of people will remain uninsured despite Medicaid expansion, and some states do not plan to expand Medicaid coverage.

Admittedly, this was not the most sophisticated calculation ever, but individual analyses based on various approaches have not generally been able to improve substantially on this rough estimate, and indeed, have often suggested that quite high numbers (> 6ºC) were difficult to completely rule out.

Their gene densities of approximately 1 gene per 1.1 kb, suggest that bacterial gene numbers will vary from the 473 identified genes in Mycoplasma genitalium (Fraser et al., 1995), to an estimated 8000 or so in Myxococcus xanthus (Table 1).

A group of researchers publishing in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine have used a modelling study to estimate the risk of Zika infection to those traveling to the Olympics in Brazil and suggest the number of infected travelers returning to all countries to be between 3 and 37.

The presence of «Oumuamua in the Solar System suggests that previous estimates of the number density of interstellar objects, based on the assumption that all such objects were cometary, were pessimistically low.

Older estimates have long suggested that 100 billion was the magic number, but some more recent research suggests that the brain actually contains fewer neurons than previously believed.

However, the point estimates suggest that prebiotic consumption, especially GOSs, might be associated with a lower risk of depression; therefore, it would be of great interest to replicate these analyses in a cohort with a larger number of incident cases of depression to increase the statistical power.

Though no hard numbers are available yet on how many K — 12 classrooms are using virtual or augmented reality, new estimates suggest the technology could reach 15 million students by 2025.

The Institute of Fiscal Studies estimates that schools in the UK will face up to 12 per cent real term cuts over the next Parliament while forecasts suggest pupil numbers will increase by seven per cent, a result of rising immigration and higher birth rates over the next five years.

Amazon doesn't disclose total subscribers but they did announce they have «tens of millions» suggesting at least 20 million, a number higher than analysts had previously estimated.

The data shows that the e-book market for traditionally published digital books is much bigger than previously thought, with estimates suggesting that a total number of 65 million e-books were sold in 2012, representing a value of about # 200m — at least double what it was in 2011 in volume terms more than double.

Even with these omissions, this estimate is 100 - 1000 times higher than our estimates for the numbers of animals affected by advocacy for companion or lab animals, suggesting that farm animal advocacy is the most important cause of the three — at least in terms of the number of animals involved.

Barratt has suggested that «median numbers of prey estimated or observed to be caught per year are approximately half the mean values, and are a better representation of the average predation by house cats based on these data.»

National estimates suggest relatively high numbers, at least thousands in a community the size of Anchorage.

While it never sold in large numbers — unofficial estimates suggest that the entire Neo Geo console range shifted less than a million units worldwide — the fanbase which grew up around the console kept it alive for much longer than expected.

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«Suggested for Grades 6 and 7» See Table 1 in the PDF file «The numbers in the table above are actual population estimates for Attwater's Chickens for the years shown.

I suggested doing such a study a number of years ago, but my colleague Kevin Trenberth questioned the ability of climate models to deal well enough with moisture, so that the estimates of buoyant energy would be seriously questioned.

Specifically, the study suggests many common estimates exaggerate the likely number of species and presume greater extinction rates than can be verified.