Sentences with phrase «help improve those estimates»

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The good news is that the major carriers» tracking information have significantly improved, helping recipients know where their package is on its route and the estimated delivery date.

The World Health Organization estimates 1 billion people across the world live with disabilities, and Google's philanthropy division, Google.org, just pledged $ 20 million to help improve their situations.

Having this information can help you prepare more professional invoices that reflect your brand image, better manage the time spent on projects, improve your overall efficiency, lower operational costs and provide more accurate data to use to accurately estimate new projects.

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.

Argo floats and satellites are now helping to plug Austral ocean data gaps, and improving the accuracy of Northern Hemisphere measurements and estimates.

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.

In a study, researchers said a computer program that analyzed the estimates of an agribusiness expert helped a business division at Dow AgroSciences improve the accuracy of its forecasts, leading to an increase in profits of 2 to 3 percent and a decrease in costs of 6 to 7 percent, said Saurabh Bansal, assistant professor of supply chain management in Penn State's Smeal College of Business.

Schizophrenia is estimated to cost # 13.1 billion per year in total in the UK, so even small improvements in cognitive functions could help patients make the transition to independent living and working and could therefore substantially reduce direct and indirect costs, besides improving the wellbeing and health of patients.

The data will also help improve overall estimates of wildfire emissions.

Understanding the role played by planet's electric winds will help astronomers improve estimates of the size and location of habitable zones around other stars.

Improved treatments for childhood cancer have helped swell the ranks of survivors to an estimated 420,000 individuals nationwide.

The team's results show that improved estimates of the masses of each planet can help determine whether each of the planets has a significant amount of water.

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.

[3] It's not for lack of spending to help teachers improve — TNTP estimated that large districts were spending more about $ 18,000 a year per teacher on professional development.

«Of course, many homebuyers are still surprised closing costs are even required — making it vital for our company to keep educating borrowers and helping lenders improve the accuracy of their loan estimates in order to eliminate any surprises.»

I suspect your method might be able to help to improve the central estimate and uncertainty for # 1, but would not not throw any light on # 2, # 3 or # 4.

Dr. Edward O. Wilson, an entomologist and ecologist at Harvard University who helped invent the current methods of estimating extinction rates, published an essay in Science last month calling for a large effort to improve mapping of biodiversity around the world.

• How can improved estimates of sea ice thickness help improve seasonal predictions of sea ice conditions?

The new studies will help refine the global estimates that do exist while improving national estimates.

According to the Ontario government, the purpose of the amendments is to improve efficiency of the employment standards complaints process, and to help reduce the significant backlog of complaints currently on file with the Ministry of Labour (estimated at over 14,000).

It will, however, help improve an otherwise competent e-discovery project manager's ability to understand and measure the work that needs to be done, to estimate the time and resource requirements needed to do the work, and to track the progress of the work to make sure the project requirements are met on time and within the budget.

It provides a mechanism to help reduce the under - reporting of deaths among indigenous peoples in official statistics, and allows adjustment of historical data to obtain improved estimates of the mortality experience of indigenous peoples.

Record linkage provides a mechanism to help reduce the under - reporting of deaths among indigenous peoples in official statistics, and allows adjustment of historical data to obtain improved estimates of the mortality experience of indigenous peoples.

The real estate website is offering a $ 1 million award to the «person or team» who can improve its Zestimate, an online tool meant to help people estimate the value of their property.