Sentences with phrase «for improving these estimates»
The team notes that «many heavily populated regions contain thrust and strike - slip fault networks, so understanding the mechanisms by which faults in such networks interact is critical for improved estimates of seismic hazard and risk in those areas.»
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Shipping estimates for new orders placed on Apple's online store have now improved to just one to two weeks.
Though the gap has been slowly improving since the 1970s, experts estimate that equal pay for men and women won't be the norm until the year 2119.
Estimates have revealed improved access for people with disabilities would add $ 6 billion to Australia's gross domestic product
This adjustment has historically been important, as adjusting for that embedded profit margin significantly improves the relationship between the CAPE and actual subsequent market returns (something we can demonstrate both with algebraic return estimates and regression models — see Margins, Multiples, and the Iron Law of Valuation).
The President of the Treasury Board has recently released a four - pillar strategy (a 2015 election commitment) for Estimates Reform aimed at improving the ability of Parliament to properly scrutinize government spending.
Stanley Black & Decker not only recently beat first - quarter earnings estimates but also raised its fiscal year 2017 earnings per share guidance by about 4 % at the midpoint, citing «improved outlook for the company's industrial businesses.»
For example, the World Economic Forum estimates that improving efficiencies by half in transport - related documentation and communication will increase global trade by 9.4 % to 14.5 %.
For example, a recent study by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office used income tax data and other sources to improve on the census estimates.
The main findings were that Commonwealth environmental water extended the presence of Golden perch larvae through summer, decreased salinity levels in the Lower Lakes and the Coorong improving available habitat for native fish, and exported an estimated 600 000 tonnes of salt from the Basin through the Murray Mouth.
The Lancet's latest breastfeeding series was launched at the end of the month, suggesting that the lives of 823,000 babies could be saved around the world every year through improved breastfeeding rates (this estimate is for 75 low - income and middle - income countries countries in the Countdown to 2015 data project).
The findings of this study contribute accurate and reliable data to the global estimates, and have important implications for public health programmes to improve maternal and newborn survival.
Also, keep in mind that these are rates for babies born in 2014, so more recent work in improving support for breastfeeding will not be reflected in these new estimates.
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
Action and investment in improving complementary feeding or providing foods supplements seems to be taking place with little consideration for supporting or improving breastfeeding amongst 6 < 24 + month old children, despite estimates that 20 % of deaths in 12 < 24 month age group in developing countries are due to lack of breastfeeding.
Despite our successful efforts to slash spending and sharply improve the productivity and efficiency of county operations, our 2016 budget will include an estimated payment of $ 17 million to pay for «the sins of the past.»
When these improved waters were tested and compared with survey data about where people got most of their water, the estimates for the populations that have access to safe drinking water fell by 16 percent in Nicaragua, 15 percent in Nigeria, 11 percent in Ethiopia and 7 percent in Tajikistan.
«With the outcome of this study it would in principal be possible to improve the seismic hazard estimates for any transform fault near a population center, once its maturity can be quantified,» said Bohnhoff.
The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.
1.6 %: estimated proportion of marine fish species (for which trend data exist) with increasing populations, due to improved conditions including better fishing management and decreased eutrophication
With more data and better models pouring in, estimates for the Earth's hot and cold blazes will improve.
«By narrowing down how many species exist within the largest group — the insects and other arthropods — we are now in a position to try to improve estimates for all species, including plants, fungi and vertebrates.
This has great potential to improve our global data - driven estimates of photosynthesis and other fluxes between land and atmosphere that are relevant for the Earth System» says Martin Jung from MPI - BGC.
Improved population estimates could help resource managers to weigh up the economic benefits that forests provide in terms of water purification, soil conservation and other functions against those of harvesting or clearing trees for farmland, says ecosystems - services ecologist Becky Chaplin - Kramer of Stanford University in California.
The Nature study uses estimates for improving emission controls on power production to show that this is indeed the case.
The map has two components: an «environmental - values» layer that estimates that natural importance of ecosystems and a «road - benefits» layer that estimates the potential for increased agriculture production via new or improved roads.
The discovery also opens up the door to new research on how to amplify the brain's natural response in new ways — to improve depression treatment for the estimated 350 million people worldwide who have depression at any given time.
Study authors called for more research to assess the association between self - estimated BrACs and driving behavior in different contexts, and to investigate how altering drinking environments could improve individuals» ability to self - estimate their BrACs and avoid driving after drinking.
Beyond the obvious benefits of improved survival and quality of life for transplant patients, each living kidney donation is estimated to result in a net health care savings of $ 100,000.
In their «Editorial comment to the «NIA - AA Research Framework: Towards a Biological Definition of Alzheimer's Disease,»» Nina Silverberg, Ph.D., Cerise Elliott, Ph.D., Laurie Ryan, Ph.D., Eliezer Masliah, M.D., and Richard Hodes, M.D., of NIA point out that the Framework — in addition to improving early detection and the development of new therapies — could potentially «allow more precise estimates of how many people are at risk [for or living with] Alzheimer's disease, how best to monitor response to therapies, and how to distinguish the effects of Alzheimer's disease from other similar pathologies.»
The finding could improve models used for gas and oil exploration and for estimating groundwater supplies.
Improved treatments for childhood cancer have helped swell the ranks of survivors to an estimated 420,000 individuals nationwide.
Our new -LCB- \ em Spitzer -RCB- observations were taken two years after the original K2 discovery data and have a significantly higher cadence, allowing us to derive improved estimates for this planet's radius, semi-major axis, and orbital period, which greatly reduce the uncertainty in the prediction of near future transit times for the -LCB- \ em James Webb Space Telescope -RCB--LRB--LCB- \ em JWST -RCB--RRB- observations.
While there remain disparities among different tropospheric temperature trends estimated from satellite Microwave Sounding Unit (MSU and advanced MSU) measurements since 1979, and all likely still contain residual errors, estimates have been substantially improved (and data set differences reduced) through adjustments for issues of changing satellites, orbit decay and drift in local crossing time (i.e., diurnal cycle effects).
We identified 156 planet candidates, including one object that was not pre... ▽ More We present an improved estimate of the occurrence rate of small planets orbiting small stars by searching the full four - year Kepler data set for transiting planets using our own planet detection pipeline and conducting transit injection and recovery simulations to empirically measure the search completeness of our pipeline.
Abstract: We present an improved estimate of the occurrence rate of small planets orbiting small stars by searching the full four - year Kepler data set for transiting planets using our own planet detection pipeline and conducting transit injection and recovery simulations to empirically measure the search completeness of our pipeline.
The parameters she measured during her research provided a basis for estimating the age of our galaxy and for improving our understanding of its evolution.
«My fieldwork with the support of the InBev - Baillet Latour Fellowship will shed light on which processes are responsible for this ice shelf breakup, thereby improving the estimates how, when and where East Antarctica is most vulnerable to global warming.»
His project is expected to provide important insights into how surface melt affects ice shelves, and provide data for improving climate models in order to provide an estimate of present - day and future surface melt on the East Antarctic ice shelves.
We demonstrate that we will be able to improve our distance estimates for about one third of stars in spectroscopic surveys and to decrease log (age) uncertainties by about a factor of two for over 80 % of stars as compared to the uncertainties obtained without parallax priors using Gaia end - of - mission parallaxes consistently with spectrophotometry in isochrone fitting.
«My fieldwork with the support of the InBev - Baillet Latour Fellowship will shed light on which processes are responsible for this ice shelf breakup, thereby improving the estimates how, when and where East Antarctica is most vulnerable to global warming» said Lenaerts.
«These improved estimates have big implications for the climatic consequences of the impact, which could have been even more dramatic than what previous studies have found.»
New insights enable improved protection measures for the giraffe According to estimates by the World Conservation Organization IUCN, the world's giraffe population is about 100,000 individuals — showing a decreasing trend.
It will help accelerate the pace of developing improved rice varieties around the globe to feed a growing population, estimated to reach more than 9.6 billion by 2050, with half of humanity relying on rice for sustenance and livelihood.
Despite the improvements, we found that each improved library still has library - specific false negatives and, for the first time, estimated the false negative rates of CRISPR - KO screens, which are between 10 % and 20 %.
It was estimated that a sedentary individual who has a very low amount of daily steps but who had been able to modify behaviour over 5 years in order to meet the widely used guideline of 10,000 daily steps would improve insulin sensitivity by 3 times in comparison to a similar individual who increased their steps in order to meet the more recently recommended 3,000 steps for 5 days each week.
I can confirm that a strict fruitarian diet can certainly lead to low protein levels... as a strict fruitarian for a number of years (2 - 3 I estimate, but actually 5 if i count the time i ate minimal amounts of salad materials as well...), I had blood tests done at the end of this time and indeed my protein levels were low... Total protein was at 6.5 when the ideal is supposedly 7.5... And apart from this, my sports performance as judged by my teachers, was suffering (though I did not feel this in my own body — I was used to performing at that level and felt it as normal for me... and i was newer to the sport than a lot of them... i had great, better than most endurance... which was very satisfying... but apparently I just did not have the physical strength that others with less endurance may have had...) something which immediately improved as I added more protein to my diet....
Some researchers suggest looking for turmeric manufactured with phytosome technology, which combines phosphatidylcholine with curcumin for an estimated 29 times improved absorption rate over other standard curcumin extracts.
• When proclaiming the importance of their causal estimates of the impact of school spending, there are no qualifications: «Our findings provide compelling evidence that money does matter, and that additional school resources can meaningfully improve long - run outcomes for students.»
Leaving them within the analysis, however, does improve the precision of estimates for other covariates, which results in a more precise estimate of the treatment effect.